The animations are not all done in the pre-alpha builds shown during the kickstarter (most of the death animations were not done and the henchmen running animation looked bad until late in the kickstarter, etc). By the time the game is released characters should take a fighting stance, react to hits, etc.
Ok, I honestly never played a game of turn-based combat, I think that only the GBA Pokemons. : D
But in this case, I will give my vote of confidence, and so far, all titles that launched are great!
For example, consider Divine Divinity amused me more than Diablo 2.
And Divine 2 is one of the best 3D ARPG games I've played.
So for me, I'll buy Dragon Commander and Original Sin.
I realized that Larian Studios develops its thinking about the fun games, so hopefully I surprised, and they say, out there do me a fan of turn-based RPG hehe
