No quest-markers... this is obviously a design decision, and a good one, going against the modern trend of pointing out everything (to the solution of puzzles to boot!)
If you want to gather may I suggest Drakensang. It has it. It's also extremely super-dull.
And the rest you can't honestly say it's easy to implement

And again with the 'fanboys'... I think you still haven't grasped how I don't even OWN the game yet? Again?