All I want to say is this: difficulty levels in a RPG DON'T work. It's all about using potions and everything, which sucks like hell (especially turn-based RPGs, which depend on luck).

No not really I rather kick a games ass then the other way around.

NEVER! i actually like to see past the first lvl of games! im not very skilled at them so u can thank people like me for making it eaiser! :)

I don't use potions in RPGs.  Never have never will... just didn't use items in general.

Ever since Final Fantasy 1 and Dragon Warrior all I ever used was white magic for healing.

Same here. That's why I said ''and everything.'' Or maybe it should have been ''anything'', I dunno! o_O

Worst abuse is in Kingdom Hearts in my opinion.

Ever play Motorstorm? You might not have lives but it's still hard as hell.

Ah neat, finally someone like me.   I don't know why i don't use items either.... just feels like "cheating" somehow.

Have any of you played Survivor mode in Bioshock with the Vitachambers turned off?!?! Fighting a big Daddy is one of the hardest things I've had to do in a game and cleverly using the environment is essential to beating them. There just isn't enough resources to take one of them head on unless you a freaking ninja at using telekenisis. Either way you have to be good at it to win, there is no eventually beat it unless you have the patients. Just like the old 8 bit games you have to have skill and/or brains to beat it.

EDIT: I should add that I know that most 8 bit games were much harder just by game design alone and not having saves, however, they were also short and repeatative you could memorize a level and beat it in a week or so depending on difficulty (Ninja Gaiden took me 3 weeks to master playing it a couple hours a day on average) In that same 3 weeks I might beat a modern game on normal difficulty. It's really the same amount of time I just get to see more gameplay and less memorization is necessary.

I do the same thing, but it's not that i don't want to use them, but since they're not regenerating, I don't want to use them unless it's important, so i never get around to using them. Still, that lets me sell off those items and dump them into things like better armor and weapons and spells that I can use over and over.

There are some beginnings in a few RPGs that require you to use Potions in order to survive until you get a Cure spell (Lost Odyssey for example), but other than that, only good items to use are either Ethers or those STR +1, MP +1, etc. enhancement ones.