10 Video Games That Totally Ruined Gaming For Everyone

3. Dark Souls

Although Demon's Souls was first, there was something about FromSoftware's second iteration on the formula that struck a far more potent chord, elevating the franchise into the modern greats category and proving that newer graphics, world-building and character designs could marry up perfectly with old school insta-death game design and unforgiving difficulty. What they happened across was the perfect gamer's game, a title that inadvertently puts everyone on a level playing field thanks to some truly strange controls, restricted movement in comparison to other third-person action adventures and a checkpoint system that'll have your sanity for breakfast if you can't keep your aggression at bay. As such, people who get sucked into the Dark Souls void go way deep, so much so that upon emerging on the other side of a 70-hour stint, thousands of players remarked on the forums of the world that nothing would ever come close again. From the astoundingly rewarding feeling of beating a boss to conquering the world one agonising defeat at a time and learning the lore of the world around you at your own pace, Dark Souls isn't just a challenge, it's a gamer's mark of pride if you emerge on the other side in one piece.