I love the entire trilogy but God was it much better when the Reapers were Lovecraftian monstrosities. Nothing was known about them, they were ominous and unknowable, their goals and origin were beyond us. Then Leviathan/ME3 happened.
I don't think ME3 gave too much away. I would have been disappointed if the trilogy ended and we never learned *anything* about what the Reapers were. The problem is ME3 rushes through it. Basically all of the backstory on the Reapers is dropped on you in the last five minutes, instead of being appropriately paced out throughout the game (or even throughout the trilogy... since ME2 kinda forgot the Reapers existed and spent an entire game setting up Cerberus).
@@Jack-sy6di couldn’t agree more. IMO, Mass Effect 1 had the best story because its biggest moments (much like a good detective story) were slowly drip fed and built up to before the big reveals at the end of game. ME2 and 3 just kinda said “eff it” and dumped reveals without build up, making it fall flat and feel like a rushed exposition dump.
I'll be honest, given the ghost boy conversation already explaining the brief gist of what Leviathan goes into detail, I liked that Leviathan gave purpose to them; its a tragedy, a race of ancient and powerful beings thought themselves god like and attempted to tighten their subjugation of the galaxy and were humbled, even as the Reapers themselves believe themselves godlike and one way or another are obliterated, taught the truth of synthesis or controlled by you in the end. The actual endings are dumb, I get the idea they were going for. However, I would have preferred never understanding them, or that if the invasion is stopped in the hypothetical better ME3, that the threat of them lingers- or that they were a race that evolved into AI/godlike things and that eventually through the concept of synthesis any and all races face the potential existential endpoint of becoming something Lovecraftian
This. The moment Sovereign uttered those words put things into perspective of just how small we organics and all of our "great achievements" and advances are in the face of the Reapers. Definitely my favorite line.
Can't even describe how awesome what just happened is; the second he said "This exchange, is over" my PC overheated and shut down, literally the exact second.
0:00 - 0:10 There is a realm of existence so far beyond your own you cannot even imagine it. I am beyond your comprehension. I am Sovereign. 0:10 - 0:22 Rudimentary creatures of blood and flesh, you touch my mind, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding. 0:22 - 0:37 Reaper? A label created by the Protheans to give voice to their destruction. In the end, what they chose to call us is irrelevant. We simply... are. 0:37 - 1:06 Organic life is nothing but a genetic mutation, an accident. Your lives are measured in years and decades. You wither and die. We are eternal, the pinnacle of evolution and existence. Before us, you are nothing. Your extinction is inevitable. We are the end of everything. 1:06 - 1:13 Confidence born of ignorance. The cycle cannot be broken. 1:13 - 1:27 The pattern has repeated itself more times than you can fathom. Organic civilizations rise, evolve, advance, and at the apex of their glory they are extinguished. 1:27 - 1:42 My kind transcends your very understanding. We are each a nation - independent, free of all weakness. You cannot grasp the nature of our existence. 1:42 - 1:57 We have no beginning. We have no end. We are infinite. Millions of years after your civilization has been eradicated and forgotten, we will endure. 1:75 - 2:07 We are legion. The time of our return is coming. Our numbers will darken the sky of every world. 2:07 - 2:10 You cannot escape your doom. 2:10 - 2:21 We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it. 2:21 - 2:31 Your words are as empty as your future. I am the Vanguard of your destruction. This exchange is over... For people who want to use the quotes of Sovereign and where in the video he says what. Please like this, so everyone can see this.
TheEreder It means you are not intimidated by the threat. The original quote "Our arrows will darken the sky" coming from the Persian who was trying to intimidate the Spartans with their vast numbers. the Spartans of course were not intimidated thus replying with "Then we shall fight in the shade"
TheEreder theereder: [the comment] was meant to be more of an easter egg in a sea of easter eggs that is mass effect. A 'kid answer' or a 'threat' does not matter to a reaper. the battle of rannoch showed that a dieing reaper still thinks he is all that, just like how shepard saying he will fight in the shade shows that he thinks the reapers are for shit.
When you think of a sentient mechanical race that's been wiping out species every 50,000 for countless generations, this is definitely the voice that confirms that statement.
A. nearly all reaper take a shape of the leviathan before that harbinger was only a A.I made by the leviathan race until he took over making more AI who took the form of the race who created them
Leviathan: Blasted machine tribute doesn't flow from dead tributaries... What about that does it not comprehend. Harbinger/citadel/star kid: That was not part of my programming creator
Andrey Osipov Rudimentary peasants of pad and wires, you touch my PC, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding. There is a realm of playing so far beyond your own. You cannot even imagine it. I am beyond your comprehension. I am PC master race.
"organic life is nothing but a genetic mutation... An accident... Your lives are measured in decades and years... You wither and die... We... Are internal" my favourite line
It should have stayed like this. Just hints and snippets about the Reapers. The mysteries are preserved, and they are all the more terrifying, like something out of HP Lovecraft.
Totally! Even if Mass Effect 3 gave a great explanation to the Reapers' existence, (Except the stupid god child ending they created) it kind of degrades their terrifyingly unknown status. Some things are better left a mystery. (The Combine from Half-Life 2 is a great example)
@@rebel1717 I disagree, its fun to have the lovecrafting stuff up front, but if you don't get any answers in the end its just gonna feel like lazy writing and you will be left unsatisfied, yes the mysteriousness dissapears at the end, but only at the end. Writing a believable motive and origin for an apocalyptic threat is not easy, but they did it well enough.
No matter how many times I play this trilogy, it’s always the conversation with Sovereign and Harbinger that legit gives me chills every time and every time I get that genuine uncomfortable feeling when talking to them. BioWare knocked these two out of the park with voice actors and writing. Only villains in 15 years of gaming that legit scare the crap out of me!
Organic life is nothing but a genetic mutation, an accident. Your lives are measured in years and decades. You wither, and die. We are eternal, the pinnacle of evolution and existence. Before us, you are nothing. Your extinction is inevitable. We are the end of everything. - Sovereign
+RyanBrooksby i honestly don't consider the catalyst canon and just think that the reapers and ancient and lovcraftian. They are so much better that way. If you don't agree that's fine and if you do HOOOORAAAY !!!!
Even before ME3, it's weird to look back at Sovereign's dialogue dialogue in this game given ME2 revealed Reapers create more of their kind using organics. Sovereign doesn't even seem to care about that goal and just wants to exterminate organics out of spite against beings he considers inferior.
Sovereign probably also just liked to stir shit. He was out to confuse people and hide the his real plans. Also reapers are the pinacle of evolution, a form of existence that organics can not comprehend: they are organic constructs, hybrid machines and organics. The machine intelligence created the reapers as a solution to the organics vs synthetics question. In that sense Sovereign sees organics and synthetics as both inferior and flawed lifeforms that do need to be destroyed. I haven't personally found anything that red cons what sovereign says in the trilogy, except for the no beginning part, but that is easily chalked up to sovereign just not wanting to divulge that kind of interformation.
@@nevermore7285 That sounds plausible. In universe it is speculated that Sovereign isn't as confident as he makes himself out to be given the monkey wrench thrown into his plans. We also saw with Harbinger that the Reapers do not like it when their control over events is disrupted.
Powerful, threatening, visceral, and commanding, yet aloof--reflecting a vast intelligence. The voice effects and lines for Sovereign were genius. As well as the voice actor. I wish I knew who voiced Sovereign. >
“We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it” I literally have goosebumps and a chill went down my spine
Wow! Hard to believe one of the most imposing and memorable villains in all of gaming has so few lines of dialogue. I still hold that brief conversation as probably in the top 3 moments of the series, which is quite the accomplishment.
2:15 Reminds me of a line spoken in The Animatrix, The Second Renaissance. "Your flesh is a relic; a mere vessel. Hand over your flesh, and a new world awaits you. We demand it."
Harbinger Reaper Writting in Mass Effect 3 wasn't very good. There were a lot of cheesy lines and the only very good moments were the fan-service parts. It wasn't bad, but when you compare it to the first Mass Effect or a game like the Witcher, it felt pretty shallow.
I imagine my cat's inner voice being this when she's thinking about us rudimentary human creatures, clearly incapable of understanding. I'm very much touching my cats mind, fumbling in ignorance doing so.. They are after all the pinnacle of evolution and existence. Yes, I've been indoctrinated by my cat, no resistance necessary.
Hearing the phrase, "There is a realm of existence so far beyond your own you cannot even imagine it. I am beyond your comprehension." Made me feel fear because I thought I will never know who they truly are. That they came from alternate reality or some hellish dimension. One point I thought they were just ships of a very old alien race but possessed by some kind of powerful evil ghosts. But now, ME3 through all that out the window. Sometimes to have the greatest villains you should never give them an origin story. Lack of understand = unknown = fearing the unknown.
+Death Knight Ebonshield Yup, that's what made the Borg in Star Trek such a great enemy. No origin story, only vague motivations, and a relentless attitude. Funny that the Reapers were based on the Borg so heavily but then they botched it by giving them a homeworld, creators, a convoluted motivation, etc...
I interpret it as this. The Leviathans built the bodies, but only because the Reapers whispers to them from their unknown realms. Influencing them so that they may have vessels to allow hem to enter our plain of existence. To use to impose "order" on the "mad" galaxy they had watched for so long.
I never thought it was some supernatural thing or the like but I asked my self a lot "What happened that was so bad that drove some one to create the reapers to create a cycle of destruction to harvest all advanced life in the galaxy, what was so bad that drove them to madness in that why." but I always came to the conclusion that what ever it must have been I would be unable to understand with out experiencing it my self. But ME3 happened, and don't get me wrong, I am not a ME3 hater. I love ME3 right up until the end but the end did not spoil the fun I had with it.
This voice would be pretty sick for a future iteration of Soundwave. EDIT: Turns out Peter Jessop HAS been Soundwave before, namely in the Revenge Of The Fallen tie-in game and he did a pretty good job iirc. He was also the OG voice for Wesker in the original Resident Evil game.
I love the reveal of Sovereign. You expect to finally get an explanation to the entire game up to this point, and instead you get an incomprehensible, condescending warning of the upcoming apocalypse.
You can't especially remember any moment of Harbinger's talk (with exception of those annoying "Assuming direct control" etc), that's the only conversation with Sovereign, and... well... that is one of the most memorable moments of the whole ME1. When you talked with him and when you finally fought with him you were just scared about the whole invasion. It was like "Omfg! If he's one and he's so epic and powerful then how the #!@$%!@$^& we will fight with thousands or even millions of them?"
I remember my dad had one of those oversized tvs and his audio was messed up so when I was playing this scene on it Sovereign's voice was nothing But bass and I couldn't even understand him
We are infinite.We are eternal.Our numbers will darken the sky of every world.You exist because we allow it and you will end because we demand it. chills
For five years, I feared the Reapers. They were malevolent, omnipotent, incomprehensible, and awe-inspiring. Now we know that they are supposedly the playthings of a god-child...I have a difficult time buying that.
@bvolcano723 Harbinger was obsessed with Shepard besause he destroyed Sovereign. Also, it wanted to use Shepard for the human Reaper. Also, all reapers look slightly different from each other. If you notice the reaper behind Harbinger in this picture, it sort of resembles a scarab beetle. As well as that, Sovereign was meant play a huge part in the reaper invasion, even though it failed. This is probably why it looks more powerful and is royal purple.
Sovereign, definitely Harbinger wasn't bad But Sovereign was more like a hurricane or a tornado. An unstoppable force of nature as opposed to an angry creature
IF the extended ending does its job and makes the 3 choices feel different with little details,then it did a good job and itll make me WANT to go back and play again and again and again.
based on what i got....every reaper has freedom of expression but adhere to the purpose put forth by the intelligence...but the transition of destruction for destruction to salvation through destruction was as early as me2. me3 continued that trend with the reaper on rannoch...then the intelligence talks to you and explains....dont mind having the answers but not having them wouldnt have made a difference imo.
@Nightshade13666 I assume that the first reaper was really just a race of some sort that eventually found out how to harness life essence from their selves and download it into a machine. After of which they began the cycle of birth, advancement, indoctrination, death, and again birth.
Personally Sovereign is one of the best villains of all time. There was no negotiating, begging, threatening or pleading with him. He was the type of villain that didn't care what your gripe was, he had made it his job to clear the board and getting in his way just meant that you got to go first.
plus....if we can get an ending that a) fills plotholes b)gives closure and c)creates the desire to replay the game, then overall we should be okay. i think there are some little things fans should be aware of. things that have been expressed in this convo
I love the entire trilogy but God was it much better when the Reapers were Lovecraftian monstrosities.
Nothing was known about them, they were ominous and unknowable, their goals and origin were beyond us. Then Leviathan/ME3 happened.
I don't think ME3 gave too much away. I would have been disappointed if the trilogy ended and we never learned *anything* about what the Reapers were. The problem is ME3 rushes through it. Basically all of the backstory on the Reapers is dropped on you in the last five minutes, instead of being appropriately paced out throughout the game (or even throughout the trilogy... since ME2 kinda forgot the Reapers existed and spent an entire game setting up Cerberus).
I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who didn’t care for Leviathan.
@@Jack-sy6di couldn’t agree more. IMO, Mass Effect 1 had the best story because its biggest moments (much like a good detective story) were slowly drip fed and built up to before the big reveals at the end of game. ME2 and 3 just kinda said “eff it” and dumped reveals without build up, making it fall flat and feel like a rushed exposition dump.
I'll be honest, given the ghost boy conversation already explaining the brief gist of what Leviathan goes into detail, I liked that Leviathan gave purpose to them; its a tragedy, a race of ancient and powerful beings thought themselves god like and attempted to tighten their subjugation of the galaxy and were humbled, even as the Reapers themselves believe themselves godlike and one way or another are obliterated, taught the truth of synthesis or controlled by you in the end. The actual endings are dumb, I get the idea they were going for. However, I would have preferred never understanding them, or that if the invasion is stopped in the hypothetical better ME3, that the threat of them lingers- or that they were a race that evolved into AI/godlike things and that eventually through the concept of synthesis any and all races face the potential existential endpoint of becoming something Lovecraftian
I did like the leviathan idea, but they are basically just another huge threat to the galaxy and will just take over after the reapers anyways imo
"You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it"
Favorite quote
This. The moment Sovereign uttered those words put things into perspective of just how small we organics and all of our "great achievements" and advances are in the face of the Reapers. Definitely my favorite line.
Can't even describe how awesome what just happened is; the second he said "This exchange, is over" my PC overheated and shut down, literally the exact second.
He meant it.
He was speaking to YOU.
He knows.
Sovereign knows.
He is the Harbinger of your existence.
This exchange is over.
Uh oh your are cuqqed
Your pc is not ok
R/thathappened
Me: “Hey Siri!”
Siri: “Rudimentary creatures of blood and flesh you touch my mind, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding”
HAHHAHAHHAHA!!! I Laughed out sooo hard and got in trouble in class! XD
0:00 - 0:10 There is a realm of existence so far beyond your own you cannot even imagine it. I am beyond your comprehension. I am Sovereign.
0:10 - 0:22 Rudimentary creatures of blood and flesh, you touch my mind, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding.
0:22 - 0:37 Reaper? A label created by the Protheans to give voice to their destruction. In the end, what they chose to call us is irrelevant. We simply... are.
0:37 - 1:06 Organic life is nothing but a genetic mutation, an accident. Your lives are measured in years and decades. You wither and die. We are eternal, the pinnacle of evolution and existence. Before us, you are nothing. Your extinction is inevitable. We are the end of everything.
1:06 - 1:13 Confidence born of ignorance. The cycle cannot be broken.
1:13 - 1:27 The pattern has repeated itself more times than you can fathom. Organic civilizations rise, evolve, advance, and at the apex of their glory they are extinguished.
1:27 - 1:42 My kind transcends your very understanding. We are each a nation - independent, free of all weakness. You cannot grasp the nature of our existence.
1:42 - 1:57 We have no beginning. We have no end. We are infinite. Millions of years after your civilization has been eradicated and forgotten, we will endure.
1:75 - 2:07 We are legion. The time of our return is coming. Our numbers will darken the sky of every world.
2:07 - 2:10 You cannot escape your doom.
2:10 - 2:21 We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it.
2:21 - 2:31 Your words are as empty as your future. I am the Vanguard of your destruction. This exchange is over...
For people who want to use the quotes of Sovereign and where in the video he says what.
Please like this, so everyone can see this.
+Wolfbane_41 *_This exchange... is ogre._*
+Wolfbane_41 thanks so much. im going to use this in a video where i sample some unedited voice acting.
Dare you to wear gaming headphones at full volume on headphones and system.
"Confidence born of ignorance. The cycle cannot be broken."
B O O M R E L A Y G R E E N T H I N G D E D I N S T A N T L Y
your a few numbers above Wolfbane 22
“Your words are as empty as your future.”
Damn.
I am the vanguard of your destruction. This exchange... is over.
@@brianwalters7855 Sovereign.. The vanguard of our destruction. How's that working out for you big guy?
when replying to a customer complaint.
Says the synthetic with a hollow robotic voice. XD
when sovereign says "our numbers will darken the sky" - if only shepard could have responded "then we will fight in the shade".
TheEreder It means you are not intimidated by the threat. The original quote "Our arrows will darken the sky" coming from the Persian who was trying to intimidate the Spartans with their vast numbers. the Spartans of course were not intimidated thus replying with "Then we shall fight in the shade"
TheEreder theereder: [the comment] was meant to be more of an easter egg in a sea of easter eggs that is mass effect. A 'kid answer' or a 'threat' does not matter to a reaper. the battle of rannoch showed that a dieing reaper still thinks he is all that, just like how shepard saying he will fight in the shade shows that he thinks the reapers are for shit.
Goddamn whoever wrote this dialogue should be given a nobel prize
Eh, why not. If Obama can get one, so can the voice actor for Sovereign.
@@CherryPauper Trump supporter
@@CherryPauper Peter Jessop.
@@halo3boy1brainrot, Obama drone striking innocent civilians is somehow linked to Trump...
The trilogy has some of the best lines in gaming
>Sovereign quotes
>picture of Harbinger
>what
In the grim darkness of the future, there is only greentext.
@KonicavaBR theyre not. "we are each a nation". hes just saying we to represent his kind
@KonicavaBR reapers have many programes inside just one "ship" if im not wrong, while geth are all (units) conected
Good god, I love that deep, mechanical whisper. Spooky.
It's like listening to metal strings and beams rattle and vibrate some simulacrum of a voice.
When you think of a sentient mechanical race that's been wiping out species every 50,000 for countless generations, this is definitely the voice that confirms that statement.
imagine an argument between leviathan and sovereign
solodweller That would be fun to watch.
A. nearly all reaper take a shape of the leviathan before that harbinger was only a A.I made by the leviathan race until he took over making more AI who took the form of the race who created them
KonicavaBR in short harbinger was a A.I who didn’t have a physical form
I think it would pretty much boil down to “I’m better than you” “No, I’m better than you” “No, I am” and so forth.
Leviathan: Blasted machine tribute doesn't flow from dead tributaries... What about that does it not comprehend.
Harbinger/citadel/star kid: That was not part of my programming creator
This still sends shivers down my spine! *.*
I wish Ultron sounded like this
Spader was ok.
HiddenTalent77 I didn't think he was bad, just wasn't as menacing as the trailers led me to believe.
And fanboys say a robotic voice can't sound terrifying.
I wish apocalypse sounds like this
Damn, it would've been really amazing now that you say it
sounds like PC users talking to console users
Andrey Osipov
Rudimentary peasants of pad and wires, you touch my PC, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding.
There is a realm of playing so far beyond your own.
You cannot even imagine it. I am beyond your comprehension. I am PC master race.
+Hyper We impost order on the chaos of console evolution. You play because we allow it, and you will upgrade because we demand it.
I'm neutral because I play console and pc
Grant McDowell
You aren't neutral. You're Cerberus.
"Your consoles' lives are measured by months before they wither and die. Our Systems are Infinite"
I for one welcome our new reaper overlords.
Amen brother.
I'd like to sound like sovereign, but I'd still fight them.
"organic life is nothing but a genetic mutation... An accident... Your lives are measured in decades and years... You wither and die... We... Are internal" my favourite line
Eternal
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It should have stayed like this. Just hints and snippets about the Reapers. The mysteries are preserved, and they are all the more terrifying, like something out of HP Lovecraft.
Totally! Even if Mass Effect 3 gave a great explanation to the Reapers' existence, (Except the stupid god child ending they created) it kind of degrades their terrifyingly unknown status. Some things are better left a mystery. (The Combine from Half-Life 2 is a great example)
@@rebel1717 I disagree, its fun to have the lovecrafting stuff up front, but if you don't get any answers in the end its just gonna feel like lazy writing and you will be left unsatisfied, yes the mysteriousness dissapears at the end, but only at the end. Writing a believable motive and origin for an apocalyptic threat is not easy, but they did it well enough.
No matter how many times I play this trilogy, it’s always the conversation with Sovereign and Harbinger that legit gives me chills every time and every time I get that genuine uncomfortable feeling when talking to them. BioWare knocked these two out of the park with voice actors and writing. Only villains in 15 years of gaming that legit scare the crap out of me!
The one and only true Reaper. Harbinger sounded like a cartoon villain. Sovereign sounds like he knows something that we don't.
Organic life is nothing but a genetic mutation, an accident. Your lives are measured in years and decades. You wither, and die. We are eternal, the pinnacle of evolution and existence. Before us, you are nothing. Your extinction is inevitable. We are the end of everything. - Sovereign
***** made my day xD
***** Not quite dude haha
*****
The Leviathan did. Not the Catalyst.
+RyanBrooksby i honestly don't consider the catalyst canon and just think that the reapers and ancient and lovcraftian. They are so much better that way. If you don't agree that's fine and if you do HOOOORAAAY !!!!
Even before ME3, it's weird to look back at Sovereign's dialogue dialogue in this game given ME2 revealed Reapers create more of their kind using organics. Sovereign doesn't even seem to care about that goal and just wants to exterminate organics out of spite against beings he considers inferior.
Sovereign probably also just liked to stir shit. He was out to confuse people and hide the his real plans. Also reapers are the pinacle of evolution, a form of existence that organics can not comprehend: they are organic constructs, hybrid machines and organics. The machine intelligence created the reapers as a solution to the organics vs synthetics question. In that sense Sovereign sees organics and synthetics as both inferior and flawed lifeforms that do need to be destroyed. I haven't personally found anything that red cons what sovereign says in the trilogy, except for the no beginning part, but that is easily chalked up to sovereign just not wanting to divulge that kind of interformation.
Soverign was angry with the Keepers being messed up and having to lower himself to work with the Geth and Saren. He is extremely pissed off
@@nevermore7285 That sounds plausible. In universe it is speculated that Sovereign isn't as confident as he makes himself out to be given the monkey wrench thrown into his plans.
We also saw with Harbinger that the Reapers do not like it when their control over events is disrupted.
I'm making something from this my graduation quote
Galacta1310 "Your words are as empty as your future", or "Confidence born of ignorance, the cycle cannot be broken"?
+Hyper Nah i'd say "CYA CUNTS! THIS EXCHANGE IS OVA!"
"These words are as empty as my future"
Perfect graduation quote
Powerful, threatening, visceral, and commanding, yet aloof--reflecting a vast intelligence. The voice effects and lines for Sovereign were genius. As well as the voice actor. I wish I knew who voiced Sovereign. >
Voiced by Peter Jessop
“We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it” I literally have goosebumps and a chill went down my spine
An awesome moment in gaming.. quite possibly one of the best game convos I've ever had
GPS Sovereign: Your destination exists because we allow it. Turn right because we demand it.
Wow! Hard to believe one of the most imposing and memorable villains in all of gaming has so few lines of dialogue. I still hold that brief conversation as probably in the top 3 moments of the series, which is quite the accomplishment.
I've already memorized the whole “conversation” 😂
"You exist because we allow it and you will end because we demand it"
Bets line ever
By far the best and most terrifying reaper.
2:15 Reminds me of a line spoken in The Animatrix, The Second Renaissance. "Your flesh is a relic; a mere vessel. Hand over your flesh, and a new world awaits you. We demand it."
Indeed!
I love that. "You exist because we allow it... and you will because we demand it." So awesome.
This would be such a cool voice for Soundwave!!
Check out his voice in robots in disguise. I don’t really enjoy the series much, but sovereign sounds similar to the remade sound wave
@@kaydenkuah3844 I've watched RID already.
I want that voice for my GPS
I love how the wallpaper is of practically every Reaper except Sovereign.
Thank you for this.. I want to use some of these into music that I'm working on!
This is THE most powerful voice in Sci-Fi :)
This moment was one of the best in the whole Trilogy. I plan to use some of this phrases in my D&D campaigns, if there are villains worthy of them.
Imagine a conversation between sovereign and the grave mind from halo 2. I wonder what that would be like.
"The worst she can say is no"
She:
Beyond helpful Raymond. Thanks so much.
You're welcome.
Remember when Mass Effect's writing was pretty good ?
So... every moment in the series save for that abomination of an ending in ME3?
***** Not really, it wasn't.
***** That could just be called bad execution, though I didn't mind it.
Harbinger Reaper Writting in Mass Effect 3 wasn't very good. There were a lot of cheesy lines and the only very good moments were the fan-service parts. It wasn't bad, but when you compare it to the first Mass Effect or a game like the Witcher, it felt pretty shallow.
HDixThisisCaboose I actually think that ME1 had far cheesier lines that either 2 or 3.
This is the BEST sound quality I have ever heard on youtube! UBER props to you!!! You win the internet!!!
Hm, same voice actor as Miraak in Skyrim and Harlan in WOW
This would be the kind of shit I'd say if I was talking to ants and they could understand me
Such a powerful, motivational speaker
"You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it"
If that doesn't legit terrify you when you hear it, then something is wrong with you.
I imagine my cat's inner voice being this when she's thinking about us rudimentary human creatures, clearly incapable of understanding. I'm very much touching my cats mind, fumbling in ignorance doing so.. They are after all the pinnacle of evolution and existence.
Yes, I've been indoctrinated by my cat, no resistance necessary.
This is what Soundwave needs to sound like.
I love sovereign's voice
that's the point
Damn, that gave me goosebumps.
a masterpiece of words
Hearing the phrase, "There is a realm of existence so far beyond your own you cannot even imagine it. I am beyond your comprehension." Made me feel fear because I thought I will never know who they truly are. That they came from alternate reality or some hellish dimension. One point I thought they were just ships of a very old alien race but possessed by some kind of powerful evil ghosts. But now, ME3 through all that out the window. Sometimes to have the greatest villains you should never give them an origin story. Lack of understand = unknown = fearing the unknown.
+Death Knight Ebonshield Yup, that's what made the Borg in Star Trek such a great enemy. No origin story, only vague motivations, and a relentless attitude. Funny that the Reapers were based on the Borg so heavily but then they botched it by giving them a homeworld, creators, a convoluted motivation, etc...
reapers are just real big roombas
What if hellish dimension is ours?
I interpret it as this.
The Leviathans built the bodies, but only because the Reapers whispers to them from their unknown realms.
Influencing them so that they may have vessels to allow hem to enter our plain of existence. To use to impose "order" on the "mad" galaxy they had watched for so long.
I never thought it was some supernatural thing or the like but I asked my self a lot "What happened that was so bad that drove some one to create the reapers to create a cycle of destruction to harvest all advanced life in the galaxy, what was so bad that drove them to madness in that why." but I always came to the conclusion that what ever it must have been I would be unable to understand with out experiencing it my self. But ME3 happened, and don't get me wrong, I am not a ME3 hater. I love ME3 right up until the end but the end did not spoil the fun I had with it.
Ultron? Is that you
This voice would be pretty sick for a future iteration of Soundwave.
EDIT: Turns out Peter Jessop HAS been Soundwave before, namely in the Revenge Of The Fallen tie-in game and he did a pretty good job iirc.
He was also the OG voice for Wesker in the original Resident Evil game.
I love the reveal of Sovereign. You expect to finally get an explanation to the entire game up to this point, and instead you get an incomprehensible, condescending warning of the upcoming apocalypse.
You're a machine! And machines can be broken!
You can't especially remember any moment of Harbinger's talk (with exception of those annoying "Assuming direct control" etc), that's the only conversation with Sovereign, and... well... that is one of the most memorable moments of the whole ME1. When you talked with him and when you finally fought with him you were just scared about the whole invasion. It was like "Omfg! If he's one and he's so epic and powerful then how the #!@$%!@$^& we will fight with thousands or even millions of them?"
Future Siri Conversation
why do the really evil guys always have a relaxing voice>
Brr, this sends shivers down my back.
I like how the sovereign quotes video has a picture of harbinger
I remember my dad had one of those oversized tvs and his audio was messed up so when I was playing this scene on it Sovereign's voice was nothing But bass and I couldn't even understand him
Naturally, the giant megalomaniacal devouring squid machine obsessed with invincibility is named “Sovereign”
We are infinite.We are eternal.Our numbers will darken the sky of every world.You exist because we allow it and you will end because we demand it.
chills
I don't even play Mass Effect 3, but this voice is absolutely amazing. This alone may convince me to play.
Did you play it tho?
Yeah, did you?
@@onepumpchump1238 I never did. apparently the voice wasn't enough to convince me🥲
I listen to this at least once a day.
jesus christ man i got goosebumps :P that was amazeing
not all humans are like andromedian humans
For five years, I feared the Reapers. They were malevolent, omnipotent, incomprehensible, and awe-inspiring.
Now we know that they are supposedly the playthings of a god-child...I have a difficult time buying that.
@bvolcano723 Harbinger was obsessed with Shepard besause he destroyed Sovereign. Also, it wanted to use Shepard for the human Reaper. Also, all reapers look slightly different from each other. If you notice the reaper behind Harbinger in this picture, it sort of resembles a scarab beetle. As well as that, Sovereign was meant play a huge part in the reaper invasion, even though it failed. This is probably why it looks more powerful and is royal purple.
2 people can't imagine a realm of existence beyond there own
His voice is too much for my headphones, its awesomeness is at capacity.
had my bass a little too high my cat was sleeping on it and she jumped so high she hit the roof when sovereigns voice came out of it
"fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding." Ah, the first time, and all the following.The memories...
Oh damn :D I listened it through multiple times and still didn't notice it.
Well maybe my focus wasn't on it's greatest peak at 3 AM.
This gives me goosebumps
Sovereign, definitely
Harbinger wasn't bad
But Sovereign was more like a hurricane or a tornado. An unstoppable force of nature as opposed to an angry creature
I think a central problem in the mass effect games is that no plot could EVER live up to Sovregins words.
Your utility will be realized to it's fullest extent.
Yay! this is from when the series was wonderful! :D
Yeah, sovereign's in an existence so far beyond he can smell his own colon
If I ever have to get a Tracheotomy, I want my voice box to sound this this.
Red Mist, An Arbiter, and Silent Eyes's voicelines on midnight horrors
It makes Sovereign's words about the coming of the Reapers and how "our numbers will darken the sky of every world" have much more effect.
@MofoCheesy OMG, that was epic! You just made my day. Thx a lot.
IF the extended ending does its job and makes the 3 choices feel different with little details,then it did a good job and itll make me WANT to go back and play again and again and again.
For me and many other fans the lack of closure is the main CAUSE of the disappoint.
I want my GPS to have this voice 🥰😊
based on what i got....every reaper has freedom of expression but adhere to the purpose put forth by the intelligence...but the transition of destruction for destruction to salvation through destruction was as early as me2. me3 continued that trend with the reaper on rannoch...then the intelligence talks to you and explains....dont mind having the answers but not having them wouldnt have made a difference imo.
I hope Sovereign's voice actor comes back in the Mass Effect movie.
going downstairs here are some measure ten years under dan's newsroom
This was Sovereign from ME1. This is when you are on vermire talking to his hologram.
Peter Jessop is the name... Other voices he did:
Valandrian in DA:O and some aditional voice work in Jade Empire
thank you mass Effect Wikia and IMDb!
@Nightshade13666 I assume that the first reaper was really just a race of some sort that eventually found out how to harness life essence from their selves and download it into a machine. After of which they began the cycle of birth, advancement, indoctrination, death, and again birth.
Personally Sovereign is one of the best villains of all time. There was no negotiating, begging, threatening or pleading with him. He was the type of villain that didn't care what your gripe was, he had made it his job to clear the board and getting in his way just meant that you got to go first.
That voice is badass!
Javik: WTf are u guys doing here? .....Oh shit, Sovereign?But,u didn't died?
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plus....if we can get an ending that a) fills plotholes b)gives closure and c)creates the desire to replay the game, then overall we should be okay. i think there are some little things fans should be aware of. things that have been expressed in this convo
This is precisely how I'd imagine Lucifer would sound like