Yeah the original BG is by far the best in my opinion.
Patched to the full extent that is, the original version is far too unbalanced.
Otherwise Baldur's Gate II just has your party uber at the end which is no fun, especially in a D&D game, I killed Jon Irenicus with a freaking level three summon skeleton spell while my fighters just hacked away at him, he was too focused on the skeletons which had like insane resistances to his attacks to do anything. He killed one of them before he died.
That's just ridiculous, these games are no fun without the challenge, and don't even get me started with Throne of Baal, Demigorgon was a total freaking pushover, and so was practically everything else.
First 8/10ths of Baldur's Gate II = great, but otherwise it slacks because your party starts peeling the later monsters apart.
Icewind Dale is my second favorite, good balance, fun combat, and very open to different party mixtures.
The second game was also nice, but a bit too much of the same.
As for Torment, yeesh, don't get me started. Masterful writing, but it's only for the people who want a story and not much else, the gameplay is utterly pathetic compared to other Infinity games.
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