In regards to the OP original question.
Quite frankly it depends what kind of player you are, and it's easy to say if you clearly fall into one category of player.

You prefer story driven CRPGs.You play RPGs primarily to experience a story and shape it with your actions.
Example: Planescape:Torment

You prefer game mechanics driven CRPGs. You want combat, fight monser, have tactics, min/max your character and make elaborate plans of your character progression.
Example: Diablo 3

If you're a story player Wasteland 2 will be a great game. If you're game mechanics guy Wasteland 2 will be mediocre at best but more likely a below the average game for you.

If you fall in between these categories. Example games would Witcher, Baldur's Gate then it depends how appealing a post-nuclear apocalyptic story line is to you. Do you enjoy or are fascinated by nukes, radiation, lawless frontier experience and Mad Max movies? Or think about the Walking Dead TV-Series and ignore for a moment the zombies. Instead think how interesting this scenario sounds to you. Our civilization has fall apart. Law and order is replaced by the rule of the strongest. Marauding gangs scavenging the land for supplies. People pointing guns as each other, ready to engulf in violence at any moment notice. Do this appeal to you? Then you're good to go for buying Wasteland 2.

So glad you decided to get it! I'm finding it to be a deep RPG experience. The more I immerse myself into being into the mind of the players and world, the more rewarding it is, so I think you'll love it. I've restarted the game numerous times to tweak my characters and have found that it all works well and so the best way to enjoy it is to just play characters that make sense as actual characters that you want to create rather than trying to "find a build that works best." I think as long as you're not extremely stupid and have a balanced group, the game works to play towards roleplaying rather than trying to figure out how to manipulate the system. Yes, it is combat-focused roleplaying, but I feel it is intended to be RPed deeply. I'm also playing in ranger difficulty which I'm finding highly rewarding.

I at first was trying to get all 3 conversation skills in 1 character, then tried to do 2 and 1, but personality/role-playing wise that doesn't make sense, and since I already had a sense of my characters personalities, I chose the conversation skill that went with the correct character (after restarted to tweak them for about the 5th time), and I still have plenty of room for all the other skills needed (with some careful planning.)

My smart ass is my super charismatic and good leader; he uses energy weapons and is into toasters.
My hard ass is a giant asian woman who uses blunt weapons and shotguns, brute force, and perception.
My kiss ass is an older russian assault rifle guy who is extremely intelligent and knows a lot of skills: demolitions, lockpicking, safecracking, disarming.
My 4th character is a more quiet, petite sniper woman who is into mechanical repair and weaponsmithing.

You've probably bought the game by now, but an other alternative is to buy both Wasteland 2 and Torment Numenera from inXile for $65. This is what I picked during the Kickstarter campaign, and it cost $45 then. It doesn't include soundtracks or the art book, however, so if you want those, then you need to fork out more.
https://torment.inxile-entertainment.com/pledge

By buying it there you get keys for the games, which can be redeemed here on GOG.

I've uninstalled it. More than halfway through the game, it's still about opening boxes, boring combat, and a story which lets me in a total un-gripped-ness state between me and my avatars. If you like a huge, bland game, this is for you.

This comment describe how gamers feel about blizzard entertainment games accurately.

Uhhh, don't open the boxes if you don't want to, they're not a crucial part to the game by any means. Maybe invest a little creativity into your characters rather than have it hand-fed to you by the narrative, because that's what this game is about and if you don't care about your characters, then yes, why would you care about your characters?

Did that. Even written some story in the character sheet.
This game is so tedious to play in the later half (no auto-resolve for example) I can't even begin to explain. No recognizable dialogue trees also doesen't help. Seems it's just a list you click through with some options greyed out because you didn't increase some stat.
You can't fill a 3-digit playtime game about you being help sheriffs for somebody who wants to hook up radios without giving you serious character feedback (yes, I know the npc boy does meet his father for 10 seconds, but that's not enough).
If you like what you're seeing the first hours so much that you can do that for the whole game, more power to you. But for me that whole thing fell apart.
I DID let the trapped trashbags and whatnot lie there in hollywood, because I didn't care anymore, I also didn't care anymore that each and every damn door had a trap and was locked and just opened it, exploding the trap. but If one also doesen't care about the story anymore... (what story?) I think you have a problem.
It's also not particularly my fault because I otherwise like that kind of games. I adored Shadowrun Returns.
Basically, If you give your game no direction, the gameplay itself HAS to be spot on. Here: Hey, watch this bar for 10 sedoncs while your character opens something instead of presenting a minigame. BO-RING.

Are there RPGs with auto-resolve combat? I can't remember any (though my memory is notoriously bad).

I agree with you on the progress-bar skill resolution. It is a pretty common way to do things in games like this, though (many rpgs do this, most of the mmorpgs, certainly).

I don't agree with you on much else, though.

I didn't buy it yet. I'm waiting for the Christmas time and some kind of a promo, because I won't be spending $50 on ANY computer game ever. No matter how awesome it is. :)
Many thanks for your tip Pangaea666, but I prefer DRM-free games and I'm not sure if InXile offer is DRM-free. Plus, I'd rather keep my games in one, easily accessible place - GOG.
But, hold on a second...
...
There's a new Planescape coming?! Holy shit! :D
That's some really awesome news, man!

Yep, a new Planescape, sort of. That's the reason I supported inXile actually, but since they had a package with both games for a reasonable price, that is what I went for. They offer it DRM-Free too btw. I pledged during the Kickstarter, and maybe a week ago discovered that Wasteland 2 was out, so went onto inXile's site, found a passcode for both Steam and GOG. Obviously Steam was out of the question, they could drop dead for all I care, so I got the passcode for GOG, and here I am. Hopefully it works as flawlessly when Tides of Numenera comes out too.

$50 for one game is a lot, more than I'm willing to pay too, but $65 for two is less obscene. I'm sure it will come on offer at some point, but it could be a good while yet as the game has just been released. More patches will come out too, though, so waiting probably isn't the worst idea in the world. Up to you of course :)

Let me add to that new-Torment-thing.
Torment: Tides of Numenera is a 'spiritual successor' of Planescape: Torment, this means that the game applies the same concepts, but it does not directly refer to PS:T. InXile does not hold any rights on PS:T.
The setting will not be one of the Dungeons and Dragons settings and we will not know what happened to The Nameless One and his friends after the happenings of PS:T.
But: many people who participated in the making of PS:T are also part of the T:ToN team, the same person will compose the soundtrack plus, the whole setting seems to be well worthy to walk in the footsteps of PS:T so far.
Simply have yourself a look at the 'first glimpse' video, it's well worth your time.
Concerning the soundtrack, you can have it for 8 extra $s which is a fair price as I see it.

Back to the WL2 thing, I actually wanted to buy it but become more and more skeptical as I read through the forums, especially since 40€s is quite an amount for me...
Is someone who is unsatisfied with the game maybe willing to let me have a spare key or something?

Best regards, JD