what difficulty do you start on?

[krzywica]

I usually start on the Compound Hemroid difficulty level and if I can't beat it I hang up the gloves...

[Patrick_Wolf]

Easy is too easy, hard is too frustrating, so I go Normal, or medium. It's usually how the developers meant the game to be played and that's good enough for me (unless the game is designed to be stupid hard). I think the only game I've beaten on all difficulties was Halo because of that little ranking they give you.

I wasted a lot of time on WoW, missed out on a lot of good games. Can't be wasting even more time on harder difficulties and multiple run throughs. Ironically I'm almost done with the two Warcraft III games... which are pretty damn good. Curse you Blizzard!!!

[DrFunk]

Normal at first, but for games like L4D, I move up to Expert for a better experience.

[Moutee]

I start on the hardest difficulty and play through as much of it as I can.

[mike c]

easy. i'm not actually for the challenge, i just want to finish the game and see the story.

if there are cheats available, i usually use them if i can't get past a mission.