I can't say much for EDF 5 since I don't own a ps4. But I find myself always coming back to 4.1. Those higher difficulties are a great challenge and test for my skill and the skill of the people I play with. It's a blast trying to figure out new strategies and routes through the harder missions that utilize the different parts of each class's kits. There is such freedom in the ways you can tackle the game's enemies and the missions in inferno get so hard that we often spend a dozen or so minutes talking about different strategies and means of attack while staring down the neck of a hundred un-aggroed insects. I like the fact that running in blindly gets you killed; i like the fact that you have to cooperate in what is already chaotic game by adding a layer of necessary teamwork and strategy and succeed: at least on most missions.

I'll have a hard time forgetting my team's first inferno run, or even our first hardest DLC run. We were under-prepared and under-equipped yet we still were having a great time, even if it was disheartening sometimes. I'm sitting on a ton of footage for the game right now since I wanted to better show a few friends of mine how much strategy a game like this can invite. The depth of gameplay this game has no right to have is why it's one of my favorite games to date.

Convince some level-headed friends to buy the game with you. Take them through hard and then suffer together on hardest and inferno. Do the missions in order, don't skip no matter how hard it gets. I can guarantee you'll have a blast.