The Official Platinum Difficulty Discussion Thread

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This thread is first and foremost a discussion thread, but it also has a poll. Please do not vote in the poll until you have earned the platinum trophy for this game. That being said, we invite you to post below and discuss the difficult aspects of the game, even if you do not yet have the platinum trophy in your collection.

When you post, give more than just a number. Give reasons why you feel the game is easy or hard. What parts of the game are easy or hard? Were there collectibles? Were they a pain? Is there a required online component? How easy or hard is the online portion? What is the most frustrating part about the game?

Once you have obtained the platinum trophy, feel free to return to this thread and post your official vote. Say something to the effect of "I give this a 2 because there was only one tough spot and the collectibles were easy to find". At this point, you may also add your vote to the poll.

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[PowerPyx]

I voted for Moderate.
I did my first run on Apocalyptic difficulty which required some retries here and there. The fact that you can buy health potions makes it a lot easier! The crucible isn't that big of a deal because you can switch to easy difficulty at any time.

Collectibles and side quests just required some time and dedication. Platinum took me about 45 hours.

[Yoo_Hoo_Sniper]

voted easy: Nothing hard or time consuming in the game i started apocalyptic as well and only died one 1 boss but took awhile to kill all the boss's…

[Sactravas]

I voted moderate because of the semi time consuming factors for the plat

I have not plat this game yet only because of the reason I have not received the strength card on 2 play throughs

Sactravas

[MrFranchise]

Moderate due to the exhausting collectibles.

[Enviouswrath]

I voted moderate, if it weren't for the glitches i would give it an easy rating... i almost gave up due to this.

[Sactravas]

still cant get the strength card *sigh* doing yet again another play through this time on easy I hope this works

[alaomightyduck]

I voted moderate because it was.

[hammershave]

Moderate - Great game shame about the freeze issues, I also started on Apocalyptic which was not to bad at all, done the crucible and the arbitors maze on easy though.

[RaveNScythE18]

Easy. I dunno if it's just me but I found Apocalyptic difficulty to be easy. The final boss is also a joke. The battle didn't even last for 5 minutes. The Crucible wasn't very hard. Too bad the reward is kinda useless now. I think the only time I died was when I fought the Deposed King accidentally and I was still around level 12 lol, one swing = dead. Another thing I hated here is that there are a lot of collectibles specially those stones.

[Reiner]

Moderate: Same as the first Darksiders in that it was easy overall but there was still a crazy amount of collectibles.

[john3007]

I voted easy on this. Didn't mind doing 2 playthroughs as the game was great. Loved the rpg element to it and picking out your own equipment. Death had some great moves, and fantastic weapons. Upgrading your own weapons was a great idea but I never got to a health steal weapon. I'm kind of glad I didn't because that would have made the game a bit easier. Just wasn't keen on collecting all of them bloody stones.

[hierophant777]

Moderate, collectibles, arbiters maze and crucible were probably hardest parts. Very cool game, i liked it.