#4
Dark Souls
Previous Year: #4
It took me a fairly long time to actually truly grasp what made Dark Souls great when I first tried to play it. In fact, I stopped playing the game after a while because I simply couldn't get into it no matter how hard I tried. Then, maybe about two years later I decided to give it one more chance, as I wanted to understand why so many people absolutely loved the game, and then something happened. The game clicked and opened up to me. Things I hadn't grasped during my first attempt suddenly made sense, and the difficulties with the gameplay were no longer insurmountable as they had been before.
Within a game I had dismissed just a few years earlier I now found one of the most interesting and intricate worlds and stories I had ever experienced. The gameplay had a depth to it I had completely missed before, and the challenge no longer felt unfair once I realized that everything in the game happened for a reason. Dark Souls is to me quite possibly the most important game I've played in the last 10 years, and the best game in the second best game series of all time.
Hint for #3:
The best space-combat simulator ever made. Takes place 32 years after the first game, and depicts the return of an alien race that almost drove humans and their allies to extinction all those years ago.
