I'm personally all in favor of tactical turn-based combat.
I would take any other alternative as a disappointment, not to mention I would frankly have some reservation about Larian's ability to pull it off. Not because I think particularly poorly of them, but because very few seem to be able to (CDPR with the Witcher series has yet to come up with a genuinely good combat system, for instance).
I wouldn't be surprised, on the other hand, if their next step in ramping up the production value would result in having exploration in a more cinematic third person camera (think of Mass Effect, Gothic, Tomb Raider, Witcher and a million other) only to swap to tactical combat when it comes to manage fights.
