The Mass Effect games are good story based RPG's, I played the first game on the PC and enjoyed it but the mining on planets and searching for minerals was a tedious pain. They have improved this with the planet scanning in ME2 but this is starting to do my head in. I think I'm about a quarter into ME2 and liking it so far. The story in both games is well written with betrayals, plot twists etc and I like the idea of multiple endings which can be imported into the next game.
Cinco, yes the bioware forums are filled with idiots. I didn't even bother to sign up on them.