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I am with Vortex on the "key" issue that most of the puzzles have. I really liked buildings that were designed with a purpose, but buildings and mega-structures designed as puzzles was lame. Design the puzzles around the structure, not devise a puzzle and give it a setting. The puzzles need to have a reason behind them. Ruins should be falling apart, but there should be some thing about the Reaver that lets you get through without activating special features that only exist for the reaver. If there is a temple, that temple should be organized like a temple, not some goofy maze that you need to switch between different elemental forms of the Reaver. Also, while the Reaver is imbued with an element, it should take on various properties of that element. And the font's was a goofy idea to start with: here are all these fountains scattered across the land for the sole benefit of lighting up the Reaver? nah, imbue like you had to in SR1, go to the element and immerse the Reaver in it. That can be a decent puzzle in itself, if they tailor to puzzles to the specific structures.
And the Mega-structures are a little curious to me. The Sarafan keep was it's own little city/fortress. It had a good lay-out to redeem it, but it was still so expansive. I could understand the immensity of a place like the Cathedral in SR because of its function, but all these mega-structures are just mind boggling. I think we need less giant architecture, and more of land-scapes. Forests, plains. They don't want Raziel to fall off the edge of the game board, make a fence or hedge-row. More out-doors stuff. (hell, if it takes me several minutes to drive across an ATV Off-Road map, and there are several maps on the CD, give me something comparable in SR. Let's see some more of Nosgoth.
Also, I like CD define the Elder at some point, that might be nice too. What/who it is and what exactly its motivations are. Relate it back to Mortanious, or whatever (I'm beginging to wonder if the elder-god killed the original vampire gaurdian, and used a human puppet, morty, to take it's place, just a theory). Also, Janos can't be as nice as they are making him; yeah I know, he was demonized by the humans and the Sarafan, but he needs some hidden agenda (one place where I wouldn't mind making the plot more complicated).
Defining the Hylden might be a nice stroke too. They are the freaky counterparts to the Ancients. Big whoop. They need a fleshed out background, not some mysterious murals or Janos' vague description. If theay are a force with some importance, they neeed more details. If they need to tie in to the EG and circle, OK, but I hope the connections isn't as lame as some of the other partial explanations.
A little diveristy in the combat system and general exploration might be nice too. Maybe if they had a real purpose for crawling, tie that in with the environments. Make stealth more an issue. I thought BO2 was going to be something like Tenchu when I heard stealth; my expectation was not the same as the real product. Have some good thick fog in real places, might make the combat more interesting if you don't know where the enemies are. Fog, traps (nothing fatal, but enough to really add a chalenge), maybe something that will make certain reaver enchantments worth something (you wouldn't want to be holding a torch in a place to attract enemies. And a chance to run-away and hide. Kill everything is boring, but is a nice option.
And though I like having seamless load times and being able to walk all over the map, changing the way regions are divided could make for more interesting gameplay. Bring back warp-gates. Warp from one macro-region to another to get around walking across the face of a supposedly good size chunk of land. While I liked being able to explore everything in SR1, it was intellecually pesky that you could cross the map in less than half an hour. If you warp from area to area, and are allowed to thouroghly explore/re-explore within those areas, then there may be some more interesting little things one can interact with and find. Also, I figure making these regions might ease up some programming constrictions to have all the areas integrated.
that's my short list of hopefuls