Anaximander

The last game I actually purchased was Mass Effect, although I have rented quite a few since then. I suppose I could have rented the XBox 360 version of ME as well, but when I know a game will be ported to PC I prefer to have the PC version. The 360 is a nice system and all, but my PC's hardware blows it out of the water.

I will probably get Dragon Age when it comes out, but I may wait to see what reviewers have to say about it. I find that as I get older I'm becoming much more particular about the games I play, and much more critical of them as well.

KOTOR and Mass Effect are good, although there are certain aspects of Mass Effect that I feel could have been done better or not at all.

I found Jade Empire enjoyable, but it focuses more on the story and the action than on character development. There were a couple of characters I liked, but in my opinion most of them are simply not worth speaking to.

I'm going to cast another vote for Bloodlines as well. That is one of the best games I have ever played. There are no NPC followers, and no romances per se, but there are a few. . . romantic? encounters. Bloodlines was just an all around great game. Good graphics, great characters, interesting story, the most phenomenal voice acting I've ever heard, and very unique gameplay. The worst thing about the game is that was developed on a beta version of Valve's Source engine, and it was rushed to release by the producers. The developers then went out of business. As a result, the game as released was pretty buggy, making player made unofficial patches a must. If you download the one linked in a previous post, I strongly recommend you install the "basic" version. The full version changes a lot of things that, quite frankly, were not broken and did not need to be tampered with. Well, that's my opinion anyway.