Cactus Cats? Are those anything like the ones in Piers Anthony's Xanth? Heheh. (I'm guessing not, but that's what came to my mind)
I had to look up a description, but actually yes! They're one and the same.
My favorite inventory system was always the Diablo-style inventory. A grid where every item had a different shape, taking up a certain amount of boxes. The Dungeon Siege inventory picture above seems like the same sorta deal.
Ooh it would be cool to have a classic RPG where your characters interact with the environment in uncommon ways.
I always feel with these games that the plane is too flat, too solid; like a diorama for an action figure.
I watched the anime Michiko to Hatchin a while back (made by the same guys that did Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo), and the villain was straight out of City of God. This gangster guy was tracking the main characters, and while he was a very real threat he was never really in control of the situation. He wasn't the big bad boss guy sitting in his lair waiting for the hero to arrive so he could give some expository speech, he was just this guy that came from a bad childhood and became a gang leader.
I hate it when you get party members who only represent one class or gender of their race. Like you'll only get the one elven partner who is a male rogue and the one dwarf warrior. I want variety of every race and class to join me.