[Angelousss]

something i like about Bioware, is they set a goal, they reach that goal and reach it well.
the Bg series was designed to be and epic party adventure.
Icewind dale was designed to be a hack and slash, dungeon crawl.
Pst was designed to be a playable story
NwN was designed for the online gamer, hopefully giving him the tools to recreate closer to ad&d online then he ever had before.

You can't penalize a devolper for achieving their goal, or a game for being what's it's suppose to be. You can say it doesn't appeal to you but then you shouldn't be buying that game.
as for first person in rpgs any old skool gamer will tell you that's a throwback not an attempt to introduce a new idea into a genre.
3d is different, i think devolpers wanting to make use of the technology are struggling to find out how to use it.
I hope both lionheart and troika's new game which has already been brought up could be classic games in a few years. Toee could be exactly what your looking for.