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What's the basic story of Mass Effect? I'm currently playing Oblivion (45 Hours) and I love it. I'm not sure I would like Mass Effect though...

you're the commander of a space ship, you visit different plannets trying to figure out a vision that you have experienced that potentially leads to the end of the universe.

100+ hours on oblivion here.

I beat all of the main quest, and allof the faction quests except the fighters guild. I got half way through the fighters guild quests before I had to take a break.

^ This is why I have avoided video games in the past dozen years. I'm afraid that's all I will do!

Kinda like Don Cheadle's character in Reign Over Me. He tells Adam Sandler that he's not into video games, he's not an obssssive person....then he becomes totally obsessed with beating this creature - stays up all night playing the game!

Charles, are monster trucks available in Mass Effect?

You do get to drive some type of tracked vehicle with machine guns and missles when exploring some of the planets. The controls are not that great though.

Yeah I've clocked in almost 200 hours with Oblivion, one hell of an addicting game.

It can be pretty fun driving the Mako in Mass Effect as you ramp uncontrollably over hills and what not, but as far as maneuverability is concerned, the controls are pretty horrible. You could almost consider it a monster truck with its 6 huge tires.

Anyone here looking forward to Fallout 3?

Into Oblivion on PC right now too... 72 game hours. Great game!

Well, I finished the main storyline of Mass Effect. Pretty cool. I wanted to spend more time building up my character, but I got drawn in and wanted to see the conclusion. Or, a conclusion, anyway. I missed out on the love scene, though. I'll have to go back to an old save and try to get more of the achievements.

But before that, I should really put Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare in. I haven't even played it once yet.

I haven't played call of duty in a while myself. I rented burnout paradise and played that for a week or two.
I just rented enternal sonota for something different. Only about an hour and a half in so far.. but seems pretty good...

Off to go play it now.

Also, I just saw that in march some downloadable content will be available for mass effect. I guess they are expanding the universe, adding some new planets and side quests.