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I usually played games on hard only, but then i realized that playing on normal can be beaten faster.
Sure one can have more fun playing on hard, but really i preffer beating more games than playing one game too long just because of difficulty.

Who would've guessed! :P

I prefer greentea.

It's light but refreshing and also very healthy.

That's not always the case. I can't think of any examples off hand, but there are cases where harder settings might not be harder in some respects. One example is if a game gives you more points on harder difficulties, and then awards you extra lives based on score. (One of the minigames in Hodj and Podj (ever heard of that game?) has this quirk.) Another example is if harder difficulties make more enemies spawn, and the game awards experience based on enemies killed, leading to more level ups (Wizardry 7 comes to mind here). Then there are just wierd cases, like Cirno's first card in Touhou 6; it is, to my understanding, easier on Hard than on Normal (note that this spell card is famous for being trivial on Easy).

Oh yeah touhou 6 found that Cirno on hard was rather easier and some other bosses but those small enemies felt kinda harder so i never beat it properly. Never did play wizardry 7 or heard of Hodj and Podj.
Sure i do play some games on hard if they have something to reward you for it.
Like different endings, one is in vampires dawn 2 which you get the best ending i believe if you play evil on hard,each ending depends on difficulty and being good or evil.
Also beating the first halo on legendary gave you some extra ending i believe.

Easy to start with, for the first few hours or so.
Once i know the game, start a new game next difficulty up, continue if need be.

Normal unless I learn that there are specific reasons to go easy (such as : more atmospheric without respawns or bullet sponges, or less AI cheating) or to go hard (too casual, normal AI being too unrealistically dumb, etc).

But I generally go normal for the same reason I avoid mods. I like to discover games the most "neutral", intended-by-default, way. That's where my curiosity lies.

Once normal was indeed the intended experience.
Now -in a post-Wii era- I find most new games absurdely easy even on hard, so I often have to maximize the difficulty to enjoy them.
*If* the hardest difficulty is balanced, of course, something that is definitely not a given.

Maybe. Difficulty is often poorly defined, if at all documented.

this is true

I love RTS because I find them easier. but a lot of people find them too hard and thus prefer TBS. I find TBS way too difficult and can't for the life of me understand how someone who likes them could find RTS difficult. I guess It comes down to the individual gamer and in the end is an ambiguous subject at best.

I'm just a normal guy who tries hard to get the impossible but it just ain't easy.

I usually play normal, I find it annoying if a game is too easy or too hard on the standard difficulty.
If I think harder difficulties are possible, I might go for it once I've played a bit on the standard difficulty (e.g. I did that in some missions of the Thief games).

I play only on nightmare. But I also cry a lot.

Overwatch is your best friend in a TBS game. Lure the enemies into a trap and just sit back and let your OW teammates demolish 'em. Nothing could be easier. :)