palaceman01

It's official, after (finally) turning the difficulty down from hard to medium I can tell you the difference. On medium, you might actually find your SELF aiming at the enemy. On hard you are peeking your head up only to find they all know exactly where you are all the time from the beginning to the end and are concentrating their fire...kind of like...bots. It actually feels inorganic and kind of cheap to me personally. If me and Elizabeth are making our way to a large group of armed guards who are not really hiding their locations but rather walking a beat, it stands to reason that we would be every once in a while catch a guard looking the wrong way and get a free shot or two. On hard, AI feels like bots in Bioshock Infinite. On medium, they feel like guards. IMHO.

[face palm]. Turns out I AM still playing on hard. I didn't know that. I thought I turned it down to medium. I know this because I was going to give up on medium to get through Lady Comstock and dag-burn it, if it wasn't jacked up to hard this whole time up to Lady Comstock! [/face palm]

I found this post while googling "Bioshock Infinite is hard." I'm not new to gaming so I'm glad some others agreed with me. Good for Irrational Games though for not making it kiddy-friendly on the difficulty side. There's a time for hard and there's a time for medium and they are:

Bioshock Infinite -- MEDIUM. I turned down the difficulty to medium after a while. The AI is just very bullet-spongey and the thought of spamming a shield-boost through the whole game doesn't sound as fun as murder of crows, possessions, and devils kisses mixed in with whatever guns at the time.

Dead Space 1 -- HARD. The only way to go. Felt more balanced, fun and thought provoking rather than frustrating. On hard, you couldn't waste ammo or play stupid but it didn't feel like I was mindlessly emptying clips into bulletsponges either. Very nice.

EyE Divine Cybermancy -- MEDIUM. The mingun and sniper combo can get you through the game on hard, but again? What If I want to revolver, katana and spastically jump all over the place as my playstyle?

Witcher 2 -- HARD. Just grind monsters at night and upgrade your gear. Your a monster hunter any way right? So grinding didn't ruin the immersion, it added to it.

Crysis 2 -- HARD 1st playthrough but going through Crysis 2 on medium with just my pistol and armor abilities (with machine gun single shot for sniping and auto for sticky situations) really helped me live out my ol' marvel-comics fantasies.

Any hoo...that's my two cents.I liked all my above medium experiences, though I tend to initially gravitate toward Hard.