Another tolkien inspired fantasy game? Ergh, I'm so bored of those. I don't know, maybe the characters and story will be interesting enough to compensate, but can we please get more RPGs with some new settings? It feels like those sorts of games are just buried under all the generic fantasy RPGs that come out. It's not like they don't do well either. Mass Effect and Fallout 3 were nice changes of pace. And there was Jade Empire; fantasy with a Chinese angle. The Shin Megami Tensei series usually goes for a modern setting or a cyber punk feel. I don't know, anything besides the same dungeons and dragons stuff over and over?
Dragon Age, Dragon Age 2, the Two Worlds games, the Fable games, all the Elder Scrolls games, Lord of the Rings, World of Warcraft. I'm generalizing some of these titles, but I feel so saturated with this genre at this point. Can't we at least shake things up a bit? Like add some steam punk (and I'm not talking about just making one zone kind of steam punk, I mean the whole game), or instead of the hyper realistic look, maybe give us something stylized? It doesn't have to look like anime; since it seems like Capcom wants to aim more for the western market with this game, they could hire western artists, or at least artists that could replicate a western art style.
Oh well, it is only screenshots so far. Maybe they've got something up their sleeves to give the game a different twist.