I never play on easy, but I will very rarely play a game a second time on a harder difficulty, unless there is specific newgame+ integration or something.

I usually play on normal. I hate frustration, but I think games get boring when they're not a little challenging.

Ha, I expect a lot of people wagging their E-peen here saying this is a travesty and they NEVER play on easy.  You know what? If that's what works for you, good. 
 
Honestly, I've done it too, though I try to stay medium/regular ,which you could even argue is too girly but, yeah, I agree that I get frustrated redoing parts over and over again and I'm not going to want to do that just to save face by saying I played it on Hard.

I play games to escape and don't really have a problem with what you're saying. I don't want to sit their and rage at a screen, it's not why I play games. I'm currently playing Just Cause 2 on Casual. And I'm still having a motherfucking blast. I've done something like 22 Hours of gameplay and only completed 19 Percent of the game, you know what though? It still fucking owns, if I was to do this on a harder difficulty I'd of probably rage quit and sold it by now.
 
I don't know if I'm shit but even on casual this game can be very hard.

I remember it took me about a year and a half to go from Easy to Normal on the first Halo. And I played the hell out of the first Halo. Lots of Easy. 

Who cares?(beside basement dwellers who lock themselfs inside their room for a week because of a videogame)
 
As long as you're having fun, you win at playing video games

no need for shame, alot of games are alot less fun on more difficult settings, they just make it more annoying instead of more challenging, like red faction guerilla and just cause 2. I usually play on normal myself and just flip the bird to the harder difficulties.

Now a days I usually start a game of on normal, although I do sometimes like to start on hard for more of a challenge or I'll juts leave it for a second play through if I even have a second play through. 
And there's no shame in playing on the easiest difficulty, I sometimes when I just want to enjoy a game story wise or just because I don't wanna have to spend an 1 hour in one part of the game using 'elite tactics'.

Battlefield Bad Company 2 is the first game in YEARS I have had to play on easy. I don't know what it is, because I found the first one easy even on hard, but I die so fucking much in that game.

Dude, you are so not hardcore!
 
Really... it's not that big of a deal. There's nothing wrong with playing on easy. You don't need to feel ashamed or less manly or anything. Generally I play on normal the first time, and I'm actually quite awesome at video games. However... 
@nail1080 said:

" @ztiworoh said:

 I want to experience a game and get as much out of it as I can.

Well then you should play games on harder difficulties. You never experience the game as it should be played on easy. You may as well just remove the game and piss on it because the people who make the game generally don't put all those gruelling hours into making it so you can come along and run through sections of the game with no thought or skill what so ever. I think you need a new hobby.  and examples of games of the top of my head (games if you play them on easy you are not seeing the true game as it is)  Any of the Ninja Gaiden games this gen and last Perfect Dark and PD Zero Prototype Mega Man 10 Mass Effect 2 also any sports game "

There's nothing wrong with playing on easy, it's there, then you can use it.

As long as you don't judge the game by that mode and calling it shitty and boring after you've beaten it, which some people do. 

I play a lot of games on easy too.  I don't really play for a challenge, so I utilize FAQs and that other jazz also.  I play on harder levels for achievements and such from time to time.

I  love achievements and would rather be patient, and beat it on hard the first time through. Its good to get used to that difficulty level and be ready for the competitive multiplayer.

I'm actually playing Blood on easy right now, because I was one difficulty level higher, and kept dying for dumb reasons. Now I'm doing better, thanks to easy mode.

" For me it's like Medium: If it's for the story because the gameplay is almost on the wrong side of bad. Hard: what I normally play on since stuff harder than that normally isn't unlocked untill you beat the game on Hard anyway. Above Hard: For those times where they actually put that in and you don't have to unlock it, that's the thing I'm playing on "

Sometimes I do if I just want to take screenshots and not get fustrated. I don't care playing games easy, however most of the time I play normal. I rarely play the game on hard unless I like the game. Playing vetertan in mass effect 2 is like sprinting uphill for example, it's not really effective and it's unnecessarily challenging. Then again most ppl likes a challenge, I understand.

My rule of thumb is to play on the default choice. It's usually normal.

awww man. i usually play on normal difficultly. sometimes i find it hard to play on that. 
 
i have a confusion: 
 
i play forza 3 and i don't like r1 races. i usually put it on easy because like i said i don't like that class. i usually play on medium on any other race.

The only game I've ever played on easy (in recent memory, of course) was Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. The gunplay was just too frustrating and was detracting from an otherwise excellent game.

I usually play games on easy if they're "scary", it's already bad enough I've got creeps crawling around me, don't want to have to watch health as well. 

I always play hardest first to grasp concepts that would otherwise be overlooked in easier difficulties. I usually never go back to said difficulty after beating it cause more likely then not it's a 360 game so it comes with the achievement.
 
After that I play on easy or normal for shits and giggles. Being a level 30 Infiltrator and chucking up Collectors is the closest I'll ever get to playing around with my enemies imminent doom.