Originally Posted by zahratustra 
Are mere promises of "an immense open-ended living-breathing world where the player is free to go anywhere and do anything" and "deep tactical turn-based combat system" enough to get you going?
Yes and yes.
I will take that any day over walking down corridors of beautiful graphics mashing buttons at everything that moves.
The market is full of linear, shallow,button mashing, graphicfests.