belshamharothJul 31, 2023

Divinity Original Sins 2: An unbelievably awesome game

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Divinity Original Sins 2: An unbelievably awesome game - Lemmy.world

Recently I’ve discovered the joy of CRPGs, having previously only dabbled in them without spending any significant time on the genre. With Baldur’s Gate 2 just around the corner, which I’m sure many of us are hyped for, I wanted to try a similar CRPG to get a feel for whether I’m going to want to play it. Enter DOS2; this game is made by Larian Studios, the same studio making BG2, and is an absolutely incredible game. From the graphics, which are stunning even 6 years on from release, to the combat which makes you think about your moves in a manner similar to how you might do in a game like chess, and best of all stories which are for the most part genuinely interesting. I frequently found myself surprised at events / characters / quests I found throughout the world, even small things like hearing someone screaming nearby then discovering they had been torn to pieces by voidwoken. I recently just finished Act I and just started Act II but wanted to share a bit of love for this game as it is an absolute masterpiece with a well deserved 95% positive rating with 144k reviews on steam [https://store.steampowered.com/app/435150/Divinity_Original_Sin_2__Definitive_Edition/]. gameplay [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8dfb64bd-cfa5-41e3-b4f3-f51d09c03dad.jpeg]

Show threadclaycleJul 31, 2023

A friend and I tried this game and enjoyed it up to a point, a particular fight we could not get past.

Finally looking online for a guide, we discovered that every guide we could find suggested cheesing the fight in various ways.

We both decided that any game that required the player to both know a fight was about to happen (when it was impossible from context to predict) and cheese the fight to win was a bad game. Even if this was only one fight, it was a fight that blocked all progress. We quit and neither of us have wanted to play the game again.

Note: We have, either together or on our own, completed other games - like BG 1-2, NWN, PoE, DOS1 - without resorting to guides, cheats, foreknowledge, or cheese.

We were, and remain, very disappointed with DOS2 because of this, and we’re “suspicious” of BG3 (charitably, perhaps Larian made a mistake in DOS2 and won’t repeat it in BG3).

Show threadNacktmullJul 31, 2023
You are wrong, you can cheese in DoS2 but you don´t have to. It is an option, not a requirement. Source: I (as probably many others did too) finished the game without using any cheese.
Show threadclaycleJul 31, 2023

I suspect you reflexively cheesed the game, mainly because I absolutely recall that when we gave-in and looked up guides for this fight, every single one of them that we found at the time advised us to cheese the fight. Not one simply presented a strategy or alternative. They were all like, “Oh, yeah, that fight. You gotta cheese it.” We both found the idea of having to cheese a fight to win distasteful, so we just quit with a shrug.

That was our experience. It was a bad game for us because of that, and I thought I had made that clear.

Show threadNacktmull
I respect your individual experience but please believe me that cheesing is not necessary to beat DoS2.
Jul 31, 2023 at 3:03pmWeb