i dont care about the difficulty in games at all, if its too hard then it can be frustrating, but an average and easy level difficulty game is fine with me. I play video games for their stories. You don't get narratives and plots in movies and novels like you do in video games, you don't get the characters or locations or connection either, that is what i want from my entertainment to feel a part of it, which is why im a nintendo fangirl and dont own an xbox360 or ps3.
Zelda is wonderful because it has amazing characters and wonderfully epic stories, i don't care that TP was stupidly easy (as was SS but for some reason people don't complain about that) i got what i wanted out of TP; interaction and an enjoyable story. yes, the game was easy, as are others but for me that just meant the narrative flowed better without massive gaps used up with getting frustrated or scratching my head, i love games that i can breeze through, it does make it a little better if they require skill, but that is just a bonus effect, I'm in it for the story and i don't want it to be interrupted by the inability to progress, some games are just too damn hard. For me i enjoy the resident evil games but i can't complete RE4, which burns me because i want to see more of ada because she's gorgeous and very interesting.
So yeah, difficulty for me, isn't important but i'm sure i'm a minority.