For myself, I say real-time with pause was good enough for Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 ... Pillars of Eternity did get a separate beefy update today that makes a number of fixes and tweaks to gameplay.

Instead, both the first title and Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire utilized real-time with pause, which still worked perfectly well, but left those players who preferred the turn-based approach ...

series director Josh Sawyer said in 2024 that Pillars of Eternity 2, which released in 2018, was met with poor sales that were "very demoralizing." It's possible that, now, Baldur's Gate 3 ...