Gears of War: Your level of difficulty?

I'm on casual and I totally suck at it so far. Hardcore is going to be a bit of a stretch for me and I can't even imagine finishing insane. What are the differences? More shots to kill? Less ammo? Better AI?
 
[quote name='cdeener']Damn, is the single player that short people were able to complete it in a day on the easiest difficulty? This really makes me think this will have a lot of replay value when I get it soon.[/QUOTE]

Well if you are going for achievements you have to beat the game twice as Dom in co-op.
 
[quote name='Corvin']Well if you are going for achievements you have to beat the game twice as Dom in co-op.[/QUOTE]
No you don't.
 
I played it on Casual the first time through. I'm working on Hardcore right now, whenever I get a chance to play.

I don't know if I'll have the patience for Insane or not.

There's nothing fun about dying 100 times a chapter. It's also lame how, as with most games like this on the higher difficulty settings, enemies bullets simply do more damage and nothing more.

Different, smarter tactics, plus more enemies to deal with each encounter would have been much better on higher difficulties, instead of the simple 'bullets do more damage' crap.
 
[quote name='javeryh']I'm on casual and I totally suck at it so far. Hardcore is going to be a bit of a stretch for me and I can't even imagine finishing insane.[/quote]

Same here. I'll be trying Hardcore to see how far I get, but I can't see myself running through the Insane difficulty.
 
I finished hardcore, so now I'm ready to try some insane. From what I hear insane is stupid hard on single player (because of the suicidal AI) but fairly manageable with coop.
 
finished casual by mysef and beat insane in one night, from 9pm - 730am, give or take an hour for mp, and breaks
 
Hardcore all the way baby. Casual is way too easy, especially co-op.

Many single battles have taken over an hour of replaying to get through, but it never really gets old, and I keep at it. Great stuff.

For those of you suck too much for hardcore, you'd be surprised how fast you get a lot better on hardcore.
 
[quote name='jwg']I played it on Casual the first time through. I'm working on Hardcore right now, whenever I get a chance to play.

I don't know if I'll have the patience for Insane or not.

There's nothing fun about dying 100 times a chapter. It's also lame how, as with most games like this on the higher difficulty settings, enemies bullets simply do more damage and nothing more.

Different, smarter tactics, plus more enemies to deal with each encounter would have been much better on higher difficulties, instead of the simple 'bullets do more damage' crap.[/quote]

i'd rather they make bullets do more damage for higher difficulties than lowering the AI for lower difficulties...it makes it so that you have to be more careful
 
I started on Casual and was getting killed a LOT at first, now I'm starting to get the hang of it. Not sure if I'll go back and play through on Hardcore....I just like knowing I finished a game for once. Been a while since I have.

I'm on ACT 4 right now.
 
My startegy on most games is this:

A few minutes on the easiest setting to get a feel for the controls.

Then restart on the 2nd highest difficulty and finish.

Then maybe, if it was fun, highest difficulty.

With Gears, I am almost finished on hardcore, and will definitely be attempting it on insane, although I seriously doubt I'll be able to do it. But I hope to try it insane on co-op.
 
Just finished hardcore a day ago. I was starting an online co-op game on insane and beat the first act. Then midway through act II we kind of got bored so we called it quits.
 
I started out on Hardcore. So far I've been breezing through the game. I've had my share of hiccups during certain parts, but nothing that's taken me 4+ times to replay. Usually I get it within 1-2 tries. Can't wait for Insane over Live.
 
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