How Do You Like Your Games? Easy? Hard? Somewhere In Between?

[Manlytears]

I like difficult games that force me to come up with a strategy to make them easier.

That strategy also needs to be "classy" and genuinely interesting. If the game's strategy boils down to "don't get one-shotted > pause the game to chug endless healing items > brute-force your way through > repeat..." then the game has failed monumentally at creating a good challenge.