Okay, so first things first.  I liked Mass Effect 3 up until the ending.  The shortened roster of squadmates and tedious scanning sidequests aside, the game, up until literally the last five or six minutes was great!  Combat was just as intuitive (moreso, now that grenades are hotmapped to your skill wheel) and challenging, characters are still just as likable/respectable from the previous games, and a few archs can be laid to rest in a very competent way, depending on your choices in the…

So in order to immerse myself fully into a community (ie attempt to make myself look NOT like a random toolbox joining for the sake of joining) I figure what better way to introduce myself than to do a preliminary review.

Since video games seem to be my forte (I used to have a "podcast' in which I reviewed them, and yes those are massive sarcasm quotes), what better place to start than that?  Specifically, the latest thing to cross my XMB, Assassin's Creed: Revelations.  Pre-warning:…