30 Greatest RPG Video Games Of All Time

12. Dark Souls II

Dark Souls 2 II first level
FromSoftware

Do you like seeing a 'You Died' screen an awful lot? Then you'll love Dark Souls 2. The series is the hardest of the hardcore genre, straddling the line where 'hard but fair' becomes 'stupidly impossible'. Some masochists claim it's not as challenging as its predecessor, but really the game's just as difficult in other ways.

While the feeling of reward once you get past that section you've died on 50 times is truly immense. The multiplayer is still one of the game's most praised features: help out fellow players or just troll them mercilessly. It's a bleak, cruel world in Dark Souls 2, so get used to it.

 
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