For me it would be enough to simply drop the '3' in the title and call it something like "Baldur's Gate: Inspiring Title".
I do have the same concerns, and that the narrative will succumb to Larian's unyielding tongue-in-cheek narrative style, but all in all I do think I will be buying this. A fun D&D game is still a fun D&D game, and there hasn't been a good one since Neverwinter Nights 2 (granted that's solely based on my own preferences, not fact).
Drop the '3' and most (if not all) of those concerns go away (again, for me). That '3' implicitly and inherently implies a strong connection to what came before, which thus far...is mightily not the case regarding combat, visual style, narrative style or characters (knowing that this is ENTIRELY subject to my own interpretation and is by no means factual...though I do not think I'm unique in this view).
