I’m a huge fan of turn based combat, but I do really enjoy combat in XB2 and XB3. The issue is that the combat isn’t very fun at the beginning, but gets progressively better as you progress through the game and unlock more combat systems. 2 is especially guilty of this, it takes most of the game to become good, but then becomes literally my favorite combat system of any game. It’s one of those combat systems where I want the enemies to have as much HP as possible so that I can fight them for as long as possible.

The DLC’s for 2 & 3 have a modified combat system that comes online much quicker, and is almost immediately fun. XB2 Torna is a good choice IMO as a title that can be played out of sequence, while offering good combat that gets going much faster than the other games.