What is your breaking point for difficulty even if you're having fun?

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Kristof81 said:

Nowadays I simply don't want to spend tonnes of time on mastering few skills just to progress the game, like I used to. 1-2 hours TOP! With the emphasis on 1h. Anything above that and even if I have time, I start feeling guilty for wasting it.
However, if the game is good, I'm more than happy to replay it with much higher difficulty. For example, Witcher 3, which I started on "story and sword" and replayed it on "death march", which complete transformed the game for me, in a good way.
Either way, if the game doesn't respect my time, I don't respect the game.

Exactly. TW3's base difficulty should be the one below Death March and Death March as normal with a harder difficulty on top of that. Death March entirely changes the game and makes you have to engage with the brilliant systems under the hood like prepping for monsters and forces you to do the master weapons and armour grind and the vast majority of side content. A higher difficulty could be balance to make you complete every little map marker for any EXP you can get and it would avoid that easing of difficulty in the latter half of the game. Alas.