At the risk of sounding despondent, I also was expecting a turn based game and I'm surprised so many were not.
Me too, because why change a working system? Larian has earned good money with turnbased gameplay and I wanted it too, because I had the most fun with it, especially in the combat encounters. And now we get systems that work, more story, more cinematics, set in my favorite city of the Forgotten Realms and get a really cool threat with the mindflayers (and probably some Bhaal-Action too, if I interpret the information in
Descent into Avernus correctly), so yeah, I'm happy.
I recently played
Baldu'rs Gate 2 on original rules and the combat was never as tactical as in the
D:OS-games. And the writing is still fine and the graphics look good, but it isn't as strong as
D:OS for me, because I can't interacte as much as in those games. I'm limited... and let's be honest the whole Bhaalspawn-thing was never really good implemented in the mainstory. Neither was the final battle.
