I can never bring myself to play on the harder levels and go through the whole game again.

I will, if I like the game. But I do always start at the medium difficulty.

Some harder difficulty settings are just impossible.

i play the normal down to very easy levels because i really suk at the hard things

Depending on the game. I like to think of myself as an old school gamer - the kind of guy who stays up all night just so that he can beat Tetris and the kind of guy who goes on ebay and buys a Super Nintendo for $400 just so he can play Super Mario World.

depends what game it's on. A lot of the newer games i have to have on easy or normal but stuff like Dance Factory i put on hard since it's not very difficult.

This isn't really a fair question. I'm a HUGE fan or getting all the bang for my buck that I can, so I play every difficulty of a game I own or like.

It depends on the game. I've worked myself up to very hard on Super Smash Brothers. I am insanely proud about that.

first i play in normal, then i try in hard, etc

I thinjk the only game where I actually played back through all the level settings was ummm errrr oh bloody hell. What was th name of that...

Oh yeah! The first Diablo.

It depends what game it is.

Normal then if it's worth playing again, I'll play it on hard.

I like a challenge.

i satart on normal and depending how bad i suck at the game, i'll move up or down. usualy up.

except 4 guitar hero! EXPERT!

every game man especially guitar hero im half way through expert

Usually normal, unless I'm not in a very confident mood, in which case I go one step down.

I did God of War:Chains of Olympus on Normal then went straight up to Very Hard and beat it.

It really does depend on the game... Sometimes very easy, sometimes very hard. On average, usually on normal.

Depends on the game. Zone of the Enders is pretty hard, so I usually start on easy, but when you figured out the gameplay, etc...

Alot of games are just way too difficult if you play them in Hard. Take Alien Hominid for example.

it's true

It depends on the game, but I hardly ever play on easy.

i dont like it to hard or too easy

Well a few settings for some games I play

Rachet:Gladiator:
Very Hard(I can't remember what they call it in the game itself seeing its been years since I last played it)

Gun:
Normal
Come on in hard mode 2 hits and your dead!

Naruto Ultimate Ninja:
Hard
So easy but the odd thing is in Naruto Ultimate Ninja 2 I cannot even complete it in easy.

Sonic Heroes:
I mainly play as Team Dark so I dunno because I cannot get all A's for Super Hard mode but if I can do everything except get the chaos emerald at Bingo Highway but apart from that GREAT!

Well thats all I gotta say as I am stupid enough to forget the difficulty of some(meaning,alot of) games.

Initial playthrough is usually on normal for me, unless it's really too easy. Then, on the following playthroughs I'll switch up the difficulty to have more challenge and keep up the replay value.

Acheivements are why i start on very easy XD

And then I keep working my way up.

Or easy, then I do Very hard or whatever the hardest difficulty is.

On my first playthrough of a game I usually play it on its normal setting. But on any following playthrough I'll play it on the hardest difficulty since I'm used to the game.

But I sometimes play on Hard.

I Always try normal level first and if I don't do well I'd revert to "easy" and when I get the hang of the game then I'll turn it to hard.

Because it's usually the one below the hardest :)

I master normal mode; then on hard and extra-hard mode...... Just to say I did it......

On average, I'd say normal. But I'm a bit different (not to mention a bit extreme!) when it comes to Amiga games. When I played them as a kid, I would normally choose easy, but when I revived all my old Amiga games once I was in college and replayed them, I generally went for the hardest difficulty. I still have some Amiga games I have never played on the normal setting, only the easiest and hardest ones.

I usually and always play games on normal difficulty to make them slightly challenging, which I always like.
Speaking of challenge, as much as I enjoy Wario Land II & 3, I really don't like how both of them have no health meter system with or without a remaining lives system. Why not? Because it makes both of them less challenging, even the third one is slightly less challenging. It would've been cool if the second and third Wario Land games have a health meter system where it decreases by 1 if struck by an enemy or any hazards, and should your health meter system drop to 0, you either lose a life or (right after after your health meter system drops to 0 or you lose your last life) get a game over where you're asked whether you want to continue or save the game and quit. A health meter system with or without a remaining lives system and WITH a game over (instantly after your health meter system drops to 0 or you lose your last life) are what Wario Land II & 3 should've had. Other than that, they still deserve the critical acclaim they have received.