After waiting for the steam preorder snafu to get straightened out, I fired up LoG. Create my first party; Lizard F, Minotaur F, Insect R, and Human M, then proceed to the start. Everything is completely black except for torches, so I am thinking, "Wow they weren't kidding this is old school." So I muddle around in the dark for a bit, and actually make it past like 3 doors. The pressure plate one I dropped an extra torch on to get past.
So then I decide that I better check the forums to make sure that the darkness at the beginning was intentional. Sure enough it was a bug with forcing AA on. Once I got that straightened out, things went much easier.