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Awesome! I can't wait to pick it up. 

I read the first Mass Effect book. It gives you the story of the mission that got Capt. Anderson removed from the Spectres. It's recapped by Anderson if you talk to him in the game. I just thought it was neat they linked up the stories of both novel and game so closely. I should probably read the other books too. I've read all the comics which are excellent. The first one deals with Liara and her dealings with the Shadow Broker and Cerebus.

After one  and 1/4 playthroughs, I'm still not comfortable with the combat, but I think if I play again not as an engineer, I'll have access to more weapons and can do more. I've got to figure out the special skills too. I think I managed to hack one robot that was attacking me the other day. Aim and hit "X" I think.

I tried the other day to talk up Liara, but it was getting nowhere. I don't know if its possible to romance other characters in the game. I think maybe that was a feature in Mass Effect 2 and 3, but not 1, because I remember people talking about it alot when 2 came out.

Dragon Age Origins is another one I recently bought. I have been wanting to play it for years. 

I think next time I go back to Mass Effect I will choose to be a soldier and use Wrex and Liara. 

Yea, it's amazing. I love the way you can play it as easy or hard as you want and that the character's responses can be different depending on what you say to them. I've only replayed the very beginning of the game up until you become a Spectre, but I've already noticed new things in the dialog.

Direct answer: Of course not. 

I think with the growing ability to render facial expressions acurately we'll get deeper more meaningful games. I mean, shooting things is like the simpliest thing you can do in a game. Conveying emotions, now that's hard.

Yea, totally too small. Instead of adding pages, they just made the text smaller. Probably to save on printing. I noticed this right around the time they started to move to digital. I could only read the thing in really strong light so I just gave up on it. I wasn't interested in the online version so I haven't read GI since they went digital.

Puzzle Quest has you doing a match-three puzzle game in the battles... but I guess that's still combat. 

I thought that about the Tom Clancy games and then they did one in Tom Clancy Ghost Recon Shadow Wars for 3DS. Man, I have to pick that up soon. It's by the guys who did the original X-Com.

I played the demo for Full Auto when it came out and for some reason didn't get into it. The same thing happend with Burnout Paradise, but I've been watching a friend of mine play it and I'm beginning to wonder what I was thinking. It looks great. I hope Full Auto is at least decent too.