I've acquired my laptop but lack a vehicle with which to drive to a store and buy a game, thus, I'm resorting to using steam.
Steam is quite awesome for my current situation, despite the lack of free/public wifi for me to use with said laptop. currently I am tethered into my blackberry using a 7 day trial of tetherberry for my internet connection. It's nice that I don't have to leave my room to get onto the web, but it's slow as hell and downloading games on steam is quite painful. But that is besides the point.
Back on topic.
I believe Anski made mention that Dragon Age is a decent choice of RPG.
I'm looking for something that will be both time consuming and have a high replay value.
Steam is important because I don't need to carry disks with me wherever I go/get deployed and I have access to all of my games in a few hours if I don't already have one installed.
Dragon Age for suuuure