Even though it most embodies the spirit of the low stakes beginning of a D&D campaign, Baldur's Gate is undeniably a classic and still very worth your time, so long as you're willing to be patient with it. The feeling of successfully navigating your way through AD&D2E's danger-filled ruleset, rendered very nicely through the lens of the Infinity Engine, feels fantastic and thrilling to this day, and conjures up what was so beloved about that particular era of D&D quite nicely.