/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3535654
Is there any point of playing Baldur's Gate games if I didn't grow up playing AD&D and have very little experience with the system and Forgotte Realms? From everything I know about it seems like the first prioirty in the design above all else is to make the games feel authentically like a real campaign. And you're expected to know the lore and to know the systems in an out. And that's fucking beautiful in its own way, but I think I'll just be lost and frustrated. But I also hear it constantly called the greatest rpg series of all time and something you have to invest hundreds of hours into and play before you die.

Do I need to try to do some AD&D campaigns and try to read as many of the novels as possible so I can appreciate the game several years down the road? Is the game worth that much investment?

Or should I just consider this as something outside of my time? Just that I was too late for it and there's other CRPGs that are better for me to sink time into? Like I'm into table top rpgs, but I got into with stuff like Call of Cthulhu and World of Dakrness. Not D&D.