Well, Mass Effect was overrated I'd say - particularly if you'd actually played other games like it. But the story was okay and it was solid if not exceptional in execution bar the glaring faults of cut & paste levels and the poor shooting (oh and the driving).
Actually, now that I think about it, apart from all the dialogue ME should have taken about 6 months to make the number of levels and content was so small.
Anyway, ME2 is much better and for me is what everyone rated ME as and got all excited about, even if they were wrong as the big improvement of ME2 shows.
Try to be reasonable... its easier than you think...







