Playing Mass Effect for the first time

And it owned my life on Sunday. There's... a lot of talking in that game XD. I dig the world design so far although it couldn't hurt to add even more cultural detail. I hate having to go into the damn codex to read every little thing about something that could've taken 5 seconds to explain if I'm talking to some random person on the street - which you can't do for every person amusingly enough.

Speaking of the people, I like some of the characters in the roster so far like Wrex, Garrus, Liana or Tali. Ok. Fine. They're aliens. I seem to find the aliens more interesting than the people in this game LOL.

Gameplay-wise I've yet to get used to the WASD keys, sometimes if I'm crouching or I need to run I accidentally hit the Taskbar/START button and immediately I'm taken back into windows and the game freezes as soon as I switch back. One thing I'm thankful for is that the mouse sensitivity isn't as twitch sensitive as Unreal Tournament so I didn't get dizzy while I'm trying to aim.

Texture work and lighting is pretty a-freaking-mazing [blue blinging light lens flare thing in every level is starting to burn my eyes], although I can't say I'm too crazy about some of the facial modelling and lip-syncing animation.

I'm already pretty excited about Mass Effect 2 coming out at the end of January, here's hoping I'll be able to spend some quality time with it then.