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If you asj me, BG1 is a better game than its sequel. Perhaps its the fact that it was the first RPG I ever played but it really made an impression on me. Playing it again now, I still believe find it immensely enjoyable. Baldur's Gate is just more atmospheric. You feel like your in a real world, visiting the villages and Beregost, finding abandoned caves and old dungeons in the wilderness, going intop inns, and spending countless hours in the wilderness. You could just spend days in towns, going from inn to inn, hearing rumors, breaking into houses etc. And even though many will disagree with me, I loved the wilderness areas. Who doesn't remember the attack on the xvart village? Or the gnoll stronghold? Or that mage's apprentie who got turned into a chicken? Or that dead cat in the waterfall? Or Rufie the "dog" and his master? Or the bandit encounters? The destroyed caravans? Bassilus the necromancer? Or the days spend strolling into the beatiful wilderness areas under the heavy rain, so beautifully and atmospherically implemented. So what if the most powerfull enemy you face is an Ogre-Magi (actually it isn't), it only makes the game more realistic.
Play it and then come back and tell us what you think. I'm really interested to know what somebody who's played BG2 first thinks of the original.
BTW there's an unoficial expansion to Baldur's Gate 1 that you can download, although I'm not so sure where to get it.
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