The Dragon Knight Saga rebalanced things a bit so difficulty isn't so frustrating and you don't have so much trouble running into XP bottlenecks. I play on easy by default because after a hard day at work I just want to relax, and the original game took me to the woodshed a number of times in ways that left me staring at the screen in disbelief.
I suggest reading reviews of the game on PC and Xbox before deciding. I read in one such review that the console controls were very well done, but reading more than one review is generally a good idea.
