I'll not only catch them, I'll even eat them to see what effect is has.
It does make me giggle when I eat a load of ingredients to find out what their effect is, but nothing really happens until I've left the menu and my character exclaims just how disgusting eating all those things were.
I started following this thread with only a passing interest, but you bastards have got me wanting this game.
However, I'm fairly naive when it comes to RPGs. The last one I played was Baldur's Gate Shadows of Amn, which was awesome, but would seem to pale in comparison to this new offering.
So, has the RPG genre moved on massively from then? I remember character creation, exploring, fighting, fiddling with inventories, sleeping in inns, collecting swords, choices between good and evil, hamsters and using magic.
From what people are saying it sounds similar and because of that it appeals to me.