After 55+ hours and 4 attempts at playing BG2EE, I give up. Here are some of the highlights of bad things:
1. The game doesn’t tell you that you should actually only make your main character and start playing, building your party as you go. If you start with a full custom-made party, and ignore the “story mode pre-made characters”, then you will never know a huge portion of the story.
2. Lame main characters, especially Irenicus. He sounds so bored and disinteresed in everything. So, why should I take him or this game seriously? Minsc sounds like a stereotypical fool. Of course he drops lame one-liners. Again, am I supposed to take this game seriously? Why do you have grisly quests and explicit descriptions of murders and such on one hand, and on the other you have a joke character like Minsc?
3. Bad voice acting overall. It even cuts off at some parts, and the volume seems way down for some sentences.
4. Kidnapping of your party members. And then you have to do a whole quest(line) to get them back...
5. Some infuriating quests, where it turns out you were used by some NPCs to do what they wanted, and not what you thought you were doing.
6. You have to have a balanced party or you’re playing with a huge disadvantage.
7. The game is intentionally unfair to you.
8. There is nothing likeable in the game. It is a dirty, aggressive, deceiving, and bad world.
9. Knowing D&D rules is a huge plus.
10. Supposedly you have a choice, but actually you don’t: You can choose to do some things the other way, but most of the time it will be 10 times harder and not worth the effort. Because it comes down to the same thing.
11. Backtracking and constant back and forth: Especially running back to the inn to rest, so your spells can reset and you can heal your party.