I hear you. If you don't have a lot of time to play, there is no way you want to play on hard. It will take forever. If I want really hard battles, I go with less characters. I can't stand getting lousy hit points, it annoyed me when I played 20 years ago, heh. My dad used to let me have any roll that was 1/2 or more, he let me re-roll low numbers.
In BG1, I must have reloaded 150 times due to HPs, 10 due to deaths. In IWD, I died about 50 times where I needed to reload, Planescape maybe 40, BG2 about 100 in the first half and 10 after I got that cloak of reflection.
I got a wife and kids, plus I play RTS games, so I don't have enough time (or patience) to spend 10 hours on each quest in an RPG.
*gad, I think of how many hours I WASTED on D2 - what a lousy excuse for an RPG*
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