One thing I myself had to get used to, and still am, is that this game is all about telling stories from different perspectives. You CAN'T fully understand everything unless you replay the game again and again. You need to take different paths to learn more things from different perspectives and then piece it all together. ... But again, this is good for non-essential elements. However, the game currently suffers from a few things not being more clearly explained, leaving players lost and therefore disengaged.
I had exactly the same feeling when I played BG2 for the first time. I didn't know the context, I didn't play BG1 before that, and my English was atrocious back then. Yet somehow it worked out.
So, maybe it's not really a problem? Time will tell, anyway.
Except they had a really nice manual that (tried to) explain at least the basics. If i remember correctly it was a two part thing with volo and elemeninster taking turns in explaining stuff.
