Obsidian is consumed by the Microsoft tadpole, too late. They also blew it with combat in PoE. I didn't enjoy it in either of the games. BG3 so far is the most promising game for me combat-wise since XCOM. And I think Elder Scrolls pretty much show us that you must have some funny exploitable stuff in a blockbuster game.
Replaying BG1 and 2 now and i'm pretty sure the combat in PoE, 1 at least, is a direct evolution of that. Maybe a bit too reliant on choke points on higher difficulties, but even then it's not that the originals/EE don't have them, it's just that they're not well implemented.
Having said that, i think Bioware would have higher chances of getting BG3 than Obsidian, if they just hadn't blown Andromeda and Anthem (granted, the former has a worse reputation than it deserves, even if it's Mass Effect in the same way the new ACs are Assassin's Creed).
