Originally Posted by roqua
Am I alone? Please say someone else is with me on this.

You're not alone. I hated the real time combat in IE games. If they'd had decent turnbased combat they would have been, in my humble estimation, much better games. I gave up on Icewind Dale after the storyline got crushed under the weight of combat, but if said combat had been TB I would have stuck with it to the end.