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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by belshamharoth@lemmy.world to c/games@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.

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Please share your experience with DOS2 and whether or not you have fully completed the game!

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[-] Nacktmull@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 once.

[-] claycle@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Nacktmull@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I respect your individual experience but please believe me that cheesing is not necessary to beat DoS2.

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