I have yet to play Mass Effect actually, but yeah I always liked how you had to go through the dialogue to advance the plot in KOTOR. I like action and all as much as the next person but without dialogue and/or character development it gets very...2D? I find that I enjoy the games that have a decent mix of dialogue and fighting/questing a heck of a lot more than the ones that are just "let's blow stuff up and kill people", definitely agree with ya there lol