I didn't vote as I haven't actually started the game yet, but when I do, I'll either play on Easy or Action, whichever one gives me the best feel for the action in fights.
Speaking for myself, I won't be choosing this difficulty because I dislike challenge or I want an easy game or anything like that, but mainly because I don't *want* to have to pause 50 times during a combat to carefully pick and choose what weapons, spells, potions me and my 100 party members are going to use to kill the orc or whatever.
I want to feel like I'm actually *in* the combat, like in DD, or Diablo 2, or even Sacred. I don't want each and every fight to last 30 minutes because I'm setting up the tactics or whatever as the fights are the things to get through to get to the *real* part of the game, as in the story and solving problems and character interactions.
Tactical fights in an RPG tend to ruin my immersion as if I'm having to think things like "Party member 1 is a warrior and needs to draw her ice sword for the fire demon *click a bunch of buttons*, party member 2 is a mage and needs to use his fireball on the center goblin surrounding the demon *click another bunch of buttons*, party member 3 needs.... I never forget that I'm sitting at a computer directing a combat like it's an animated chessboard rather than feeling like I'm a part of the action.
I know this tactical sort of thing is fun for some people, but my preferences are for deep storylines (see Planescape: Torment), problems to solve and challenges to overcome which are not always based on combat, and action-packed combat when combat must happen. These are the reasons I'll be choosing either Easy or Action difficulty mode when I do begin playing BD. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
