I've had those games for years, but I only actually started playing them recently. I finished the first one over Christmas break, and now I'm starting to make my way through the second.

I agree with you - so far they are very good games. I do recommend them. But I also had some issues with them (which are actually common to other Bioware games). I wrote a post about them here:

http://rairun.tumblr.com/post/70298041994/sexual-politics-in-mass-effect-1

- Matheus