The combat looks the same as any other Fantasy RPG nothing special about it at all, what draws me to an RPG is an interesting world to explore, with a great story and characters, i have not seen any of that in this game yet, hence my lack of excitement for it.

No it doesn't.

Yes it dose, oh right you can climb on things my mistake :/

Still nothing special..

Combat looks the same as any other fantasy RPG? LMAO

Got to agree, there is nothing getting me excited for this game at all, the demo will have to really impress me before i part with my money.

* Data on the name, sex, class, level and skills of your Pawn are all automatically added to any photos of it that you take - and photos can be taken at any time you can pause the game. As the photos are all saved on Capcom servers they can be used to search for the Pawns they they show in action.

* All quests are ongong simultaneously, and there seems to be no limit on the number you can take. E.g. there is a quest to kill 45 rabbits, or collect 30 of an certain item; but as you can just have them running in the background, killing a rabbit whenever you see one, gardually collecting the items, eventually you get there without it feeling like so much of a focused grind.

* As (al?)l items carry over to the 2nd playthrough you may finally clear a quest on your second time through the game!

* Quests also have an inter-connected relationship between them. E.g. there is a quest to collect 60 skulls, which are really hard to find, but then another quest shows up with a reward of 50 skulls. There's lots of this kind of thing, apparently.

* They talk about it being best to play through your first time without looking at any guides or sites - you are safe to get anything you miss on the second time. Even the development staff try to avoid playing it with materials etc. as much as possible; the director(?) says he "made exactly the kind of game I want ot play myself" and "I wish I could wipe my memory of everything about this game and play it from scratch after it comes out!"

* You can also search for the Pawns of people who have borrowed your own Pawn. So if they send you a nice item, comment or do a lot for your Pawn in terms of knowledge, you can easily borrow their's in return and pay them back in kind.

* Most things smaller than a person (chairs, crates, bushes) that can't be destroyed don't have hit detection at all - so if you attack them, you don't get a "thunk" or whatever, you're weapon just goes through them.

* One reason given is "it's just annoying if you hit everything around you." A more important reason is "The game hardly ever slows down. We've done all we can to remove unnessecary processing, and this means you can have 2 or 3 or even 4 major spells all going off at the same time." (Someone better get a photo or two of that in action!)

* On character growth - "when you change Class your parameters don't change. Whichever class you are when you level up influences which stats will grow - so fighters will get more strength, wizards more magic. Therefore, an Assassin who was formly a Warrior and an Assassin who was formerly a Strider will have very different stats from each other. If a character with no experience with magic becomes a Sorcerer, to start with their magic will be very weak. If you stick with them, however, their magic will grow quickly and you'll be okay.

* Asks the Director which class he likes - "I like the Magic Archer. The Magic Archer is the strongest character when inside a dungeon! At least, he is for me! He has some moves that are much stronger when inside a dungeon.

* They then say that trying to pick a class is a lot like trying to pick a weapon when Monster Hunter first came out (indeed it is!)

* Everything that should be handled like a game, is handled like a game. All the quests you have taken are listed and managed for you, and you can set a marker that directs you to your next objective.

* In every build of the game up until quite recently, when knocked over from being hit you couldn't use a potion. This meant you died all the time. That wasn't much fun, and so it was changed. It isn't about being overly hard, just challenging in a fun way.

* No friendly damage. Explosive barrels etc. don't hurt you or your allies.

* "It isn't that hard to make great AI. You just need to deal with a lot more factors. We have a wide range of Pawns, and some of them are very stupid. If a Pawn doesn't know how to fight a certain monster, it will fight really badly. If you just see that, you may well think "This game sucks!" Please don't! A Pawn with the correct knowledge will act totally dfferently. My request to the AI Supervisor was "make AI that lets the player have the most fun!" The first priority in making the game has always been "THE AI MUST BE INCREDIBLE!"

* This must have been mentioned before, but - you can borrow Pawns from people on your friends list for free. "Some people thought it might break the balance of the game, but we wanted to give people playing it for the first time a leg-up. I think that's one of the reasons Monster Hunter Portable got its big break - people more advanced in the game can help their beginner friends to do quests and get into it. With DD, you can say "If you need some help, just borrow my Pawn!", and you don't even have to be online to do it! (I can see people with high Lv. Pawns getting lots of friend requests!)

* It's very much a "game" when it comes to defeating monsters. "Monsters can seem really tough and kill you quickly to start with, but once you know the correct way to defeat them, you can take them down really quickly."

Kinda like the billions of other RPG's where you have a party and they're not multiplayer? Note: Maybe exaggeration.

And are there really that many "samey fantasy RPG's?"