I played Mass Effect long time ago and I gave up some where in

the beginning of the game. I didn't find it interesting, it is more like

a shooter (altought as I remember you can costomise your characters)

and does not allow you to control your allies. Or is it? Maybe some one

can refresh my memory...

Button line, I remember Mass Effect as a shooter (I still have the disc

some where in my shelf).

I tried some of the games that were suggested here and I had fun

with each of them. But still I want to give my impressions on

these games so I will list them here from top to bottom according

to how much fun I have with each.

Kotor : Fantastic game with great story and characters. The combat

is not as challenging as in Dragon Age and can be very easy even

on hard mode, but it still fun. I like this game as much as I liked

Dragon Age.

NWN2 : This was the most similar game to Dragon Age that I tried.

I liked the characters (especially Qara and Casivir) but I felt that

the story was flat and uninspired. The combat system is more deep

and complex than in Dragon Age, but still I felt that the game was

very easy (I played on normal), much more easy than Dragon Age.

The most irritating thing about this game, like almost every game

that is being made by Obsidian, is the bugs. I can't defeat the last

boss because of a bug. Despite all of these cons I still had a great time

with it.

Mass Effect : I have mixed feelings about this game. It has a great story

and characters, and it is very polished. But I can't embrace it as much

as Dragon Age or Kotor because it doesn't have the tactical combat of

these games. I didn't feel during the whole game that my teammates

were important because I didn't have direct control on them.Overall this

game feels more like a console video game rather than a pc,I guess that

Bioware aimed this game primarily to console gamers somaking this

game with tactical combat will be extremely hard to implement on a gamepad.

Icewind Dale II : This game has the best combat system in my opinion compare

to all the other games I played and the it is very challenging. Unfortunately

until now this is the only positive thing I can say about this game, the story is very

linear and the gameplay itself is linear. The characters have no personality (you create

them after all), so because I can't get into the story the game becomes more and more

repetitive and the combat is the only thing that saves the game for me right now. But I

only finished half of the game so maybe the story it is getting better later.