You didn't notice 1) Getting to pick where you start? 2) A quest more indepth than "I have been meaning to get a letter sent to Lord Name, please take it there", and that guy giving you a quest to kill "Name the Adjective" in "Town"?
Those were the first things I noticed in the 15 minutes I played it (That and getting stuck on rocks at the bandit hideout, and by not accepting the next quest from the merchant killing the chain, as it sent me back to the first part, only the bandits weren't around anymore, but that's beside the point).