While I like interactions with the environment in general, I think D:OS2 went way too far.
In every fight the whole area gets filled with fire, poison or electricity.
In D:OS1 I tried to avoid this by focussing on abilities that hit a character, not the environment.
But in D:OS2 most abilities also change the environment around the target.
This is one reason why I quit D:OS2: After the first round (each char acted once) sometimes it was impossible to walk around.
I think Dragon Age Origins was a good middle ground: There were some spell combos (oil+fire, freeze+shatter, . . .) but it did not fill the whole map with crazy effects.
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