I originally wrote a review, praising this game and giving it a 10/10, but in just 30 more hours it waned so far down to about a 7/10, this game is legendary!!! The writing and amount of options are just stunning, everything is so immaculately done! And yet, at the center of it all, there's this rat poison of a battle system, in which starting at the normal difficulty, every fight in the first act felt like it might as well have been the final boss, lowering the difficulty 20 hours in did little to improve the sickly feeling I was getting every fight. At the easiest difficulty, Baldurs Gate forces me to watch my party die and spend turns reviving them multiple times, even at my most prepared, I had to set up cheese strategies to have a chance at winning most fights in the game, and even with those strategies, it'd take me 5-10 tries. Not to mention it seems like no matter what I did, hit % chances were always below 70 for ANYTHING RANGED, including all magic and arrows. It's absolutely infuriating to have a run of bad luck and have to redo an entire fight 30 minutes in. And yet, this game is still amazing!!!! I don't get it, however i do know that i still can't get into most CRPGS, even when probably the best one of all time is staring me in the face.