Originally Posted by JDR13
I don't think BG was a lot less fun than BG2, in fact, many people even preferred the first game. As far interesting combat is concerned, BG, IWD, and TOEE all had very good combat imo.

To someone that was unfamiliar to D&D system, BG felt more tedious. This is not to say that it wasn't a great game, since I was commenting only on the combat system.