I deeply hate Fallout series, Arcanum, and PoRII for this. I don't care how good the rest of the game is; if I have to suffer sucky combat and have no way to avoid it, the game's off my harddrive.
I cannot pass by and see my N01 game ever trashed ;0).
In Arcanum you can press "spacebar" to toggle turnbased and real time...
As for you, Mandrake,
look here. Average ratio of 80%. That's pretty high with 50+ reviewers.