I'm playing through Baldurs Gate II for the first time and finding the game evily addictive and amusing. It seems much better than the first game which I remember as a slug fest usualy solved by using a thief to backstab everything which had a back.
The second installment rocks though, it still has Minsc who is one of my favorite computer games characters ever. I've had much fun corrupting Anomen, the goody two shoes paladin wannabe, so he's been tossed from the order. I did this mostly in the hope it would shut up his constant high horse malarky about the order. The actual result was that when Aerie commented on Amonen being a "bit pissed off" he started attacking her. Good thing Minsc adopted Aerie as his witch and therefore stepped in with his two large +3 weapons to beat Amonen to death.
Probably the wort thing I've found about the game so far is having your main character as a mage, so they die very quickly forcing you to reload. Of course if any of my characters die ever I always reload just because it pisses the ("PRETTY FLOWER" - Ed) out of me having to equip them all again. Scratch that the thing that pisses me off most about the game is almost all my characters have constantly full inventories so it's a pisser to try picking up new shit. I just don't want to throw anything away in case it's useful later, or if the new character I'm about to get needs it. Why can't we have a chest of holding somewhere in the game where objects could be left until needed later?
In this game I heartily look forward to pissing many more people off.
