This was a great moment. But I really love when they reprized it in ME 3 when you meet David at Grissom Academy. "I've been counting." "Anything in particular?" "The number of days you've lengthened my life."
I loved that about Mass Effect in general. Everything could come full circle at you when you didn't expect it to. No game to rush but to listen, think and then act and still your choice could be dead wrong and you wouldn't know until it stabs you in the back hours later, sometimes so bad that you wanna go "PLEASE. MAKE IT STOP!" ;-)
@@ApoJake13 me neither one of the most heartbreaking moments for me is that PTSD asari in Huerta memorial hospital when I realised that she was talking about killing joker's sister Hillary and an indoctrinated asari killed his family in their farm on Tiptree she wanted to be a pilot like her brother
Here’s some dialogue for the squad members I came up with: Jacob: How the hell can you sleep at night, knowing what you were planning to do? Miranda: I knew Cerberus was researching the Geth heavily, but this is….far beyond anything I had expected. Mordin: Too many people like you. Always justifying. Always rationalizing. Always hurting. Garrus: I can’t even imagine doing this to my sister. I would die before letting that happen, let alone be the one to do it to her. Zaeed: You messed with something you didn’t understand, and now your god damned brother has to pay for it. Grunt: Strapping your own kin to some torture machine for a science experiment? If you were a Krogan, I would rip you apart. Tali: Some Quarians say they would do anything to see their home-world, but if they could see this, I hope they would reconsider that statement. Thane: A painful life has taught me that family is one of the most important things a person could have, and you threw it away like it was nothing. Samara: I hunted my daughter for centuries, but even in my darkest moments, I would never condemn her to this. Jack: Good old Cerberus. Always willing to sacrifice others “for the greater good”. Take a good look, this is exactly what happens when you do something “for the greater good.” Kasumi: This experiment was horrendous enough already, but your own brother? Can you even look yourself in the mirror? Legion: You have forced your brother to uplink into a world he could not possibly hope to comprehend. Probability of permanent mental damage: 97.76%
This line fits with the genophage. The genophage is really unethical, but the salarians had to do it to maintain order in the galaxy. They would've been open to peace. Like mordin once said "genophage or genocide"
Square root of 912.04 is 30.2 it all seemed harmless square root of 912.04 is 30.2 it all seemed harmless square root of 912.04 is 30.2 it all seemed harmless
"So you'll put your own brother's happiness at risk for your own ambitions?" "What I did to David is unethical. If he dies, unforgivable. Let me take care of him, please!" "I'm going, and I'm taking him with me" "NO! You must leave him!" *smacks* "If you even think of coming after him, this bullet will be waiting for you. Then we'll see who's valuable."
The Evil Taco what is absolutly incredible is that the Parangon interrupt is pistol whipping that dude! Let me repeat that: A PARAGON INTERRUPT MAKE YOU KICK THE HEAD OF A GUY!
I think the saddest thing is hearing David throughout the mission, but at first it scares you, catches you by surprise as his voice sounds so garbled and inhuman, only to realize at the end, he was crying out for help the whole time, that’s what really got to me.
+GamingAddict777 (Hoodiedude) When you go into Grissom Academy in ME3. If you chose the Paragon option during the ending of Overlord (and let's face it, only a total and utter sociopath wouldn't) then you run into David and he helps you out a bit. During which time he comes up with that line.
+bigmacrmuk I often choose the renegade option there. David's life could possibly save many lives in future provided that Cerberus wouldn't start a damn war.
I did not expect Overlord to be as good as it was. Playing through it, I was like "yeah it's fun", didn't really pay much mind to the story or characters. And then... when it shows you the full extent of the horror of Overlord... goddamn. Easily became one my favorite moments in the story. Watching Shepherd's shock and outrage and what he saw in front of him... goddamn.
Michaelle Green I’ve known people with autism with hearts of gold and thinking of them being taken advantage pisses me off but when I played overload and seeing David BROTHER take advantage of him to this length I was beyond shocked or even livid I just had to save David (I’m usually renegade)
Or Her. But yeah. @Hey Joji I have Aspergers, which is a form of Autism and I have to play through this damn DLC. Because the alternative is worse. The place gets nuked. I'd rather go through it than not have a chance for him to be saved.
My one criticism of this great mission is that your squad mates say nothing throughout it. I’d love to hear Mordin’s horror at the nature of the experiment. Tali’s struggle to condemn it while knowing its information is valuable. Most of all I’d love to hear Legion’s perspective. ‘Archer Doctor was not interested in understanding Geth Units only controlling them. The Rouge VI destroyed them but latched onto final command.’ ‘Final command.’ ‘Their archived data remains. ‘Protect David’. Consensus reached in .0002 seconds of standard time...these units died trying to save him.’
Mordin: ‘Whole experiment illogical! Human facility! Cerberus Organization profess ‘human advancement’! Hippcratic Oath HUMAN concept! Maximum benefit for minimum harm. Staff casualties: catastrophic! Consent of Subject: Dubious! Physical injury: severe dehydration from days in machine! Mental injury:...perhaps irreparable. Benefit: Doubtful. Do not deserve title of Doctor. Do not deserve title of ‘brother’!’
‘I shouldn’t be surprised. I shouldn’t be. See? See how they take it a step too far and get people killed every time? The biotic kids. The people on that station they rebuilt you, Shep. How many of these corpses even knew what was happening down here? What you were doing. I shouldn’t be surprised…but goddamn it, Archer…he’s your fucking brother. He trusted you. Even I never had to get screwed over by my family.’
I absolutely love this and would have paid for a whole fresh copy of the game again just to see their reactions and nothing else, this dlc hit me very hard when I first played and it's the first time in my memory where i physically was stunned and had to stop playing for a good five minutes just to process what I had just seen. The sheer terror and fear and desperation in david's eyes and his one and only desire which resonates with me greatly being autistic myself, he just wanted it to be quiet again, he wanted the loud bombardment of noise and information to stop and the one defense that we normally have in our regular lives of being able to simply shut the world out was made impossible as he was plugged into the machines, the information and noise would never ever stop.
I went renegade only a few times in my paragon playthrough. 1. Killed the Krogan who talked about eating the unborn children of Salarians once they found a cure. 2. I shot the robot on Archangel's mission. 3. I punched General Gerral.
@R Mass Effect 2: Mordin's Personal Mission to save an old friend of his. A krogan talks about the pain they've endured and how they plan to make all the races (especially the Salarian) pay for what they have done to them.
This is unquestionably one of the best dlc Bioware made and one of the best dlc in general. Man, the feels... I still get teary eyed when I think about it...
It's one of the worst, but not because it sucks. It's the worst, because it's a horrible story. What David went through is hell. But the alternative is worse, the place gets Nuked if you don't go do it.
+LazorHD Me too, I have silent tears running down my face right now. Even when you meet David in Grissom Academy, and this music plays in the background, I started getting choked up. I'm Renegade!Shepard most of the way, but not with David, I had to help him, there was never another option.
+The Overlord Autism varies dramatically from person to person. Every case is unique. I have the ability to basically shut off my emotions when I want to, but they can still function normally.
+The Overlord I'll survive, like I always have. Just remember, autism does give you a unique perspective on the world. Try and use it to your advantage.
It took me a while to get this DLC, but once I got it it was amazing. Gives you chills when David tries to talk to you saying "make it stop". And the ending totally chokes you up. If Mass Effect is ever made into a movie, I'd say make it a series on HBO. Because if you make a movie all these extras wouldn't be included. It's all the small side stories that make it an amazing story.
If they did pick up Mass Effect as a television show, I'm sure HBO's policy of hoarding shows and not making the maximum dollar will go away in a short time. Either that or hoards of ME fans will descend on HBO like the Reapers.
@@gdw3112 It was, and man has that request to have HBO make a ME series not aged well. Same for Netflix or Amazon or any of them, they’d ruin it in a heartbeat.
If you save David in ME2, then do the Grissom Academy mission in ME3, you'll meet him there. He's recovering well, and he tells you that he's been "counting". Shepard asks what he's been counting, and he says: "The number of days you lengthened my life."
I've been replaying through the series in preparation for Andromeda, and just got to this part in ME3, had my man Garrus with me this time. David says "I remember you! Normandy crew! ... Sorry." and Garrus, all soft spoken too, tells him. "None of it was ever your fault." I cried ... again.
The first time you play this, when the shield shatters and you see the state of David for the first time. When this theme fades in as Shepard looks at David in abject horror and shock. Absolutely haunting.
Just played this mission for the first time (been a Mass Effect fan for years). Ending really caught me by surprise. Suddenly realized a lot of stuff throughout the mission I hadn't understood at the time were actually building to it. Genuinely made me cry.
I never experienced this masterpiece in the original mass effect 2. I could never afford it. I got a decent job and they shortly after announced the legendary edition and knew I could finally experience some of the best Bioware has to offer. I had heard that this was a notoriously messed up DLC but I never understood why until I finally got to play it in legendary edition. I'm still emotionally recovering from this and his cameo in ME3. I was so excited to see what all the hype was about, it all seemed harmless...
"I was desperate. The Illusive Man wasn't a broker of failure! Any war we would fight the Geth would have been bloody. I was asked to find a way to avoid that."
@@Sqlfox "People, who were too afraid to make difficult choices themselves. When they pray for a miracle, they're really praying for for men like me to make the tough choices. If my work spares, a million mother's mourning the loss of a million sons, my conscience will rest easy."
That moment when you realize the VI screaming stuff at you throughout the facility wasn't an AI gone mad, it was David leading you to him so you could release him from his pain. There have been great DLCs for Mass Effect, but Overlord stays with you long after it's over.
The original was horrorfying. But legendary edition is nightmarish. Those eyes. Poor bastard. I was so happy when i saw him alive and well in mass effect 3.
This got me thinking, as an asperger person, Our mind is something nobody can’t understand, we don’t think the same way people do, we know everything sometimes, but we are speechless, we can’t stand for ourselves, we can’t talk, but not because we don’t want to, but because we don’t know how to, people think they should pity on us, feel bad, but we don’t need that, we just want to be accepted, we don’t want to be understanded, we want to be free from our silence.. David is an example, he is not being abused because of hate, but by love a love with pity from his own brother, who believe he is doing something greater for him, that his condition as autistic will not stop him from achieving his full potential.. he sees him as an asset, not as a human or person, something that happens even today
"By necessity. If I would have told you the truth, you would have shut me down and not him. This isn't how we planned this. It was an accident. Seeing David communicate with the Geth. It all seemed harmless."
@@nightwingzero8905 I've had no choice! The demands were incredible! The Illusive Man wasn't a broker of failure! Any war we fight with the Geth, would have been bloody. I was asked to find a way to avoid that.
@@nightwingzero8905 More souls than they ever forgive me. But I won't apologize for radical ideas. If my work spares a million mother mourning the loss of million son, my conscious will rest easy.
Finished this mission for the first time lastnight. Hit me right in the feels. I came so close to crying with my organic self, but I just had my Shepard go to the port observation area and drink himself silly. Then EDI came over the intercom to tell me the men's restroom is on the Port side of the ship. Damnit EDI, I am having a moment!
This theme makes me think, how the lines blur to what we use in the name of progress, be it our sanity, our co workers or even the people we love. How long, how long before its enough, how long will it be before they are able to look at themselves in the mirror, and once again see the face hiding behind the facade. How long will it be before the actions of whom we hurt come into our minds, will it remain as regret or boil down to justifiable sacrifice
This DLC messed me up so bad. It shows so much pain and so many beautiful moments. David, being heavily autistic with his almost machine-like mind, is seen as a burden by his brother.... then used for experiements that do so much damage to someone who doesn't understand it all. Then, when you free him and he goes to Grissom Academy, he is actually doing fine. I'd like to believe that after the Reaper War, if you pick the destroy ending, he helps rebuild the Citadel and improves so much. He will be seen as a hero. I'd like to believe that after you saved Grissom Academy he helps building the Crucible and is instrumental in finishing it. You keep counting, David (*tears*) You keep counting......
When I came to this scene, seeing David hooked up to all those tubes, suffering, crying out for silence, being exploited for his brilliance. It made me cry. The music coupled with that harrowing scene hurts you, it reminds you how quick we are to degrade others, how eager we are to hurt them for some purported gain or selfish need. At the same time you bear witness to Shepard's compassion and you smile, knowing there is still some good left in the galaxy Thank you for uploading this piece :)
"......What I've done to David is unethical... if he dies, it's unforgivable." *turns to Shepard* "Let me take care of him, please." This song always brings me to tears in the cutscene DX
The feels's theme of ME2 ! Back then, found the dlc fun gameplay wise (a lot of variety in 1 mission). The character/backstory was fine. Then the feels come in your face like a train. It shows how far cerberus can go "to save the many". That OST was perfect for the final scene.
Always love this DLC, the first time I tried it my only goal was to destroy the AI, since it kept trying to kill me. Then when you get to the point where you discover what is really happening and that he is just trying to ask for help, sad but beautiful DLC.
I literally played this missiom for the first time just a week ago with the Legendary edition... I thought that Legions sacrifice was the most influential game moment I haf ever come across, but never played this gem for a DLC. I was so wrong, the storytelling and reveal of the conclusion is second to none. So glad I did a second play through, this mission alone was worth it.
The horror and disgust from Shepard is something that seems unique to this moment in particular. Shepard expects this level of cruelty from the Reapers, since they are literally machines designed to harvest humans, so that's why he/she doesn't have this kind of reaction when he sees it. But this shakes him/her, because it's not coming from a machine designed to kill, or some sort of space monster. This suffering was caused entirely by another person, who was readily willing to hurt his own family to satisfy his ambition. Shepard didn't expect that amount of willing cruelty from another person.
just makes me think, David's innocence was destroyed, and in turn became part of the most horrific kind of torture.... Humanitarian deletion, the process that takes away everything within you and replaces it with a lifeless personality.. the only true fate worse than death. Save David every time, because while the world can take steps to be more secure, a single life cannot be left to that hell...
This moment turned what felt like a boring DLC, just going from place to place completing objectives, into something I will never forgot. It just catches you off guard, thr horror of it all, what Cerberus is willing to do to advance humanity, and from what I have seen even the most, if not all, hard-core Renegade Players saved David. As it should be.
As someone who's dealt with Autism for his entire life, this DLC got to me. When David was screaming for the noise to stop. Screaming to be let go. Screaming to just be somewhere else, somewhere quiet. I just saw too much of myself there.
I made a full renegade shepherd on a recent play through but despite this I just couldn't leave David with Cerberus, it was one of the rare paragon options I did.
What made the Overlord DLC so gut wrenching to me, aside from the pain that David was forced to endure, is that Gavin didn’t care about David’s wellbeing at all and was willing to put him through so much pain and anguish by forcibly connecting him to the VI just to boost his own ambitions. He only cared about getting results and was willing to harm his own brother to obtain those results.
Still gets me every time I hear this one. :'( This game, and this DLC in particular, are the last works from Bioware that I consider masterfully done. Lair of the Shadow Broker was also par excellence.
I’m physics major, and whenever I give a math exam, I remember that the square root of 912.04 is 30.2! I’m just so attached to this game, the first time I played this DLC, it was 4 years ago....
The first time I started this mission and talked to that asshole doctor saying that he was using his own brother for experiments, I felt disgusted. I've seen horrors but when I first saw David strapped up like some sort of sick puppet, just because he spoke to geth, I really wanted to beat the shit out of that scientist. When I heard the music and seeing David Suffer, I just felt great sadness seeing him like that. Thanks for the upload. :)
For some unknown reason this soundtrack struck something in my soul. This whole mission makes me tear up and rescueing David in Archer academy gets me. Every. Damn. Time.
This was a great moment. But I really love when they reprized it in ME 3 when you meet David at Grissom Academy. "I've been counting." "Anything in particular?" "The number of days you've lengthened my life."
I loved that about Mass Effect in general. Everything could come full circle at you when you didn't expect it to. No game to rush but to listen, think and then act and still your choice could be dead wrong and you wouldn't know until it stabs you in the back hours later, sometimes so bad that you wanna go "PLEASE. MAKE IT STOP!" ;-)
I legit had a tear come to my eye when I met him at Grissom Academy. I've never had a video game make me feel the way the Mass Effect series has.
.... it WAS all harmless I suppose, just not at the time.
@@ApoJake13 me neither one of the most heartbreaking moments for me is that PTSD asari in Huerta memorial hospital when I realised that she was talking about killing joker's sister Hillary and an indoctrinated asari killed his family in their farm on Tiptree she wanted to be a pilot like her brother
I guess he is still in a cerberus lab for me loool
Here’s some dialogue for the squad members I came up with:
Jacob: How the hell can you sleep at night, knowing what you were planning to do?
Miranda: I knew Cerberus was researching the Geth heavily, but this is….far beyond anything I had expected.
Mordin: Too many people like you. Always justifying. Always rationalizing. Always hurting.
Garrus: I can’t even imagine doing this to my sister. I would die before letting that happen, let alone be the one to do it to her.
Zaeed: You messed with something you didn’t understand, and now your god damned brother has to pay for it.
Grunt: Strapping your own kin to some torture machine for a science experiment? If you were a Krogan, I would rip you apart.
Tali: Some Quarians say they would do anything to see their home-world, but if they could see this, I hope they would reconsider that statement.
Thane: A painful life has taught me that family is one of the most important things a person could have, and you threw it away like it was nothing.
Samara: I hunted my daughter for centuries, but even in my darkest moments, I would never condemn her to this.
Jack: Good old Cerberus. Always willing to sacrifice others “for the greater good”. Take a good look, this is exactly what happens when you do something “for the greater good.”
Kasumi: This experiment was horrendous enough already, but your own brother? Can you even look yourself in the mirror?
Legion: You have forced your brother to uplink into a world he could not possibly hope to comprehend. Probability of permanent mental damage: 97.76%
Ur dialogue are SO CHARACTER ACCURATE! But I don't get the Samara one 😅
That is so spot on, well done!
Now I wanna know what Kaiden, Ashley, Wrex, and Liara would have said to this.
Modders, get on it.
Javik: Your crimes are beyond any form of redemption. In my time, we would have thrown you out of the airlock.
"Some of the *worst* things imaginable were done with the *best intentions* " no line fits this DLC better than this one.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Project Overlord... the Spartan programs... all in the name of the greater good.
"Sometimes you have to be the villain in order to change the world"
- A friend of mine justifying the reason he plays as renegade Shepard
Jurassic Park III aye nice.
This line fits with the genophage.
The genophage is really unethical, but the salarians had to do it to maintain order in the galaxy. They would've been open to peace.
Like mordin once said "genophage or genocide"
Square root of 912.04 is 30.2 it all seemed harmless square root of 912.04 is 30.2 it all seemed harmless square root of 912.04 is 30.2 it all seemed harmless
He said square root of 906.01 equal 30.1 in the game
@@darkpheonix3066 He said both
@@nickcalderon2637 it dont matter our child needs us to free him
"So you'll put your own brother's happiness at risk for your own ambitions?" "What I did to David is unethical. If he dies, unforgivable. Let me take care of him, please!" "I'm going, and I'm taking him with me" "NO! You must leave him!" *smacks* "If you even think of coming after him, this bullet will be waiting for you. Then we'll see who's valuable."
The Evil Taco one of the most emotional moment in Mass Effect trilogy. It's quite hard to find a DLC which worth to be buy.
The Evil Taco what is absolutly incredible is that the Parangon interrupt is pistol whipping that dude! Let me repeat that: A PARAGON INTERRUPT MAKE YOU KICK THE HEAD OF A GUY!
+Kuro Nyra one of the most satisfying paragon option in mass effect
+Kuro Nyra It would have been better if the paragon interrupt stopped you from shooting him.
feedmeyourcows plz
Nah, the fact the Paragon is to smash him is much more powerful and show how pissed shepard was.
I think the saddest thing is hearing David throughout the mission, but at first it scares you, catches you by surprise as his voice sounds so garbled and inhuman, only to realize at the end, he was crying out for help the whole time, that’s what really got to me.
"it all seem harmless, harmless harmless"
Funny how you start to notice that is all Autistic individuals have ever been doing. 💔
"I've been counting."
"Anything in particular?"
"The number of days you've lengthened my life."
Sorry...is someone cutting onions in here?
+bigmacrmuk "Normandy crew, I remember you....sorry."
"It was *never* your fault."
+bigmacrmuk
Where did that line come in again?
I feel kinda bad for forgetting....
+GamingAddict777 (Hoodiedude) When you go into Grissom Academy in ME3. If you chose the Paragon option during the ending of Overlord (and let's face it, only a total and utter sociopath wouldn't) then you run into David and he helps you out a bit. During which time he comes up with that line.
bigmacrmuk Ah yes.... I remember.
Thanks. :)
+bigmacrmuk I often choose the renegade option there. David's life could possibly save many lives in future provided that Cerberus wouldn't start a damn war.
I did not expect Overlord to be as good as it was. Playing through it, I was like "yeah it's fun", didn't really pay much mind to the story or characters. And then... when it shows you the full extent of the horror of Overlord... goddamn. Easily became one my favorite moments in the story. Watching Shepherd's shock and outrage and what he saw in front of him... goddamn.
You know something is unspeakably horrific that PARAGON Shepard's response is to pistol whip Archer
Michaelle Green I’ve known people with autism with hearts of gold and thinking of them being taken advantage pisses me off but when I played overload and seeing David BROTHER take advantage of him to this length I was beyond shocked or even livid I just had to save David (I’m usually renegade)
Or Her. But yeah.
@Hey Joji I have Aspergers, which is a form of Autism and I have to play through this damn DLC. Because the alternative is worse. The place gets nuked. I'd rather go through it than not have a chance for him to be saved.
@@Quillever and even threaten to shoot a bullet in his head
@@kadindarklord most people pick Maleshep, let him live
My one criticism of this great mission is that your squad mates say nothing throughout it. I’d love to hear Mordin’s horror at the nature of the experiment. Tali’s struggle to condemn it while knowing its information is valuable. Most of all I’d love to hear Legion’s perspective.
‘Archer Doctor was not interested in understanding Geth Units only controlling them. The Rouge VI destroyed them but latched onto final command.’
‘Final command.’
‘Their archived data remains. ‘Protect David’. Consensus reached in .0002 seconds of standard time...these units died trying to save him.’
Mordin:
‘Whole experiment illogical! Human facility! Cerberus Organization profess ‘human advancement’! Hippcratic Oath HUMAN concept!
Maximum benefit for minimum harm.
Staff casualties: catastrophic! Consent of Subject: Dubious!
Physical injury: severe dehydration from days in machine!
Mental injury:...perhaps irreparable.
Benefit: Doubtful.
Do not deserve title of Doctor. Do not deserve title of ‘brother’!’
I would be curious to hear what Jack would say considering she was going through that kind of shit
‘I shouldn’t be surprised. I shouldn’t be. See? See how they take it a step too far and get people killed every time? The biotic kids. The people on that station they rebuilt you, Shep.
How many of these corpses even knew what was happening down here? What you were doing.
I shouldn’t be surprised…but goddamn it, Archer…he’s your fucking brother. He trusted you.
Even I never had to get screwed over by my family.’
Jack would kill Gavin herself….
I absolutely love this and would have paid for a whole fresh copy of the game again just to see their reactions and nothing else, this dlc hit me very hard when I first played and it's the first time in my memory where i physically was stunned and had to stop playing for a good five minutes just to process what I had just seen.
The sheer terror and fear and desperation in david's eyes and his one and only desire which resonates with me greatly being autistic myself, he just wanted it to be quiet again, he wanted the loud bombardment of noise and information to stop and the one defense that we normally have in our regular lives of being able to simply shut the world out was made impossible as he was plugged into the machines, the information and noise would never ever stop.
In the end, this mission wasn't a mission about defeating a rogue AI, it was about rescuing someone.
*echo* it all seem harmless harmless harmless
*_"QUIET, PLEASE! MAKE IT STOP!"_*
Poor David...
I'm sorry but the chances are slim. Have fun being locked up in here with your brother
@@elock1277😂😂 damn
its ok david dad will make it stop
Dr Gavin Archer: Only person to be able to get hit in the face by a paragon Shep.
I went renegade only a few times in my paragon playthrough.
1. Killed the Krogan who talked about eating the unborn children of Salarians once they found a cure.
2. I shot the robot on Archangel's mission.
3. I punched General Gerral.
@@Dan-qy6zv The best renegade choice is breaking Kai Leng's sword without looking just to show how much of a little bitch he is
@@Vinnini yeah that too
and zaeed :D
@R Mass Effect 2: Mordin's Personal Mission to save an old friend of his. A krogan talks about the pain they've endured and how they plan to make all the races (especially the Salarian) pay for what they have done to them.
This is unquestionably one of the best dlc Bioware made and one of the best dlc in general. Man, the feels... I still get teary eyed when I think about it...
Ikr :')
Razvan Constantin Now if only the new team could pull something like this off in ME: Andromeda
Jake Moore This new team should never be allowed to write anything anymore on any form of a computer
It's one of the worst, but not because it sucks. It's the worst, because it's a horrible story. What David went through is hell. But the alternative is worse, the place gets Nuked if you don't go do it.
"The square root of 906.01 is..."
"30.1".
Hello Commander Shepard.
It all seemed harmless.
I remember you from normmady
"sorry"
David: "I've been counting."
Shepard: "Anything in particular?"
David: "The number of days you lengthened my life..."
when you reunite with David in ME3 and this song comes back, that hits so hard
Saddest Mass Effect theme.
+AOProductions1000
It's between this and leaving earth yes.
Except in Mass Effect 3, when you see David in Grissom Academy, alright and healthy. Then it's tearjerking and heartwarming.
Or when the Quarian fleet gets destroyed, but at least that's avoidable.
This made me cry like a girl. Still does now
+LazorHD I know you feel this.
+LazorHD Me too, I have silent tears running down my face right now. Even when you meet David in Grissom Academy, and this music plays in the background, I started getting choked up. I'm Renegade!Shepard most of the way, but not with David, I had to help him, there was never another option.
Even if people picked renegade.... David never deserved to be a test subject in the first place.
same thing happened with me..I lost my breath and had to hold back tears!
We in the Gurren Lagann fandom call them "Manly Tears."
As someone with a form of autism, this DLC really affected me emotionally as I could relate to how he felt.
+The Overlord Autism varies dramatically from person to person. Every case is unique. I have the ability to basically shut off my emotions when I want to, but they can still function normally.
+The Overlord Oh, I've payed for it in other areas, believe me. But I've learned to control certain things.
+The Overlord Not really. I'm proud of how far I've come with controlling my condition and don't want to remind myself of what it was like before
+The Overlord I'll survive, like I always have. Just remember, autism does give you a unique perspective on the world. Try and use it to your advantage.
+Lone Wolf Same here dude. As someone with Autism and seeing what happened to David, I almost cried, which is difficult for me.
It took me a while to get this DLC, but once I got it it was amazing. Gives you chills when David tries to talk to you saying "make it stop". And the ending totally chokes you up. If Mass Effect is ever made into a movie, I'd say make it a series on HBO. Because if you make a movie all these extras wouldn't be included. It's all the small side stories that make it an amazing story.
God, hopefully not HBO, with them not allowing shows on sites like Netflix & Amazon Video.
EnforcerX71 BBC? Just saying that so I don't have to put up with the ads, subscription or exccesive nudity
If they did pick up Mass Effect as a television show, I'm sure HBO's policy of hoarding shows and not making the maximum dollar will go away in a short time. Either that or hoards of ME fans will descend on HBO like the Reapers.
@@callumwilson8500 wasn't Game of Thrones on HBO?
@@gdw3112 It was, and man has that request to have HBO make a ME series not aged well. Same for Netflix or Amazon or any of them, they’d ruin it in a heartbeat.
If you save David in ME2, then do the Grissom Academy mission in ME3, you'll meet him there. He's recovering well, and he tells you that he's been "counting". Shepard asks what he's been counting, and he says: "The number of days you lengthened my life."
+raf7550 It's so heartwarming..... that moment..... :,)
raf7550 these little connections they put in. So much detail. Most I’ve cried for any gaming series
this scene makes me smile
No matter how many times I play the Overlord DLC, I will always do the paragon path of setting him free. David did not deserve this!
If you even think of coming after him, this bullet will be waiting for you. Then we'll see who's valuable.
it all seemed harmless harmless harmless *echo as his arm reaches*
when you play through the dlc again, listen carefully to when David AI is shouting, and you can barely make out the "Quiet, Please Make it Stop".
Barely? The first time I played this dlc I already knew what that AI face was shouting and english is not even my first language.
@@janmedeus3070 Me too. wtf this dude is talking about?
That ending was one of the darkest, most twisted things in the series.
almost 6 years later this song still tears me up... it all seemed harmless.
Imagine not saving David... you have to be a special kind of person.
"I have been counting"
"Something in particular?"
"The number of days you lengthend my life"
EDI: You look much healthier
David: I recognize you !! You are the Normandy's computer. I am..sorry
EDI: No Apologies necessery :)
I've been replaying through the series in preparation for Andromeda, and just got to this part in ME3, had my man Garrus with me this time. David says "I remember you! Normandy crew! ... Sorry." and Garrus, all soft spoken too, tells him. "None of it was ever your fault." I cried ... again.
it all seemed harmless
And then the fire nation attacked
The first time you play this, when the shield shatters and you see the state of David for the first time. When this theme fades in as Shepard looks at David in abject horror and shock. Absolutely haunting.
Just played this mission for the first time (been a Mass Effect fan for years). Ending really caught me by surprise. Suddenly realized a lot of stuff throughout the mission I hadn't understood at the time were actually building to it. Genuinely made me cry.
I am with you on that one.
Lord Vaars the reveal at the end...that poor man...it’s heartwretching
The square root of 906.01 is...
30.1... :(
It's all seemed harmless...
Please.... Make it stop. :(
+Frederik Frandsen When David says "Please, make it stop" I just start crying... everytime :(
Helionova15 "what I've done to David is unethical. If he dies it'll be unforgivable. Please let me take care of him"
I never experienced this masterpiece in the original mass effect 2. I could never afford it. I got a decent job and they shortly after announced the legendary edition and knew I could finally experience some of the best Bioware has to offer. I had heard that this was a notoriously messed up DLC but I never understood why until I finally got to play it in legendary edition. I'm still emotionally recovering from this and his cameo in ME3. I was so excited to see what all the hype was about, it all seemed harmless...
The square root of 906.01?
@@thesamejackalsniperthatkil11730.1
@@thesamejackalsniperthatkil117 Thirty-point-one...
Love this theme... it is by far the saddest in Mass Effect... its invokes lots of emotions... get teary eyed every time.
"I saw his memories -- he begged you not to do this!"
"I was desperate. The Illusive Man wasn't a broker of failure! Any war we would fight the Geth would have been bloody. I was asked to find a way to avoid that."
@@KritoSkywaker "Who gave you the right to play God?"
@@Sqlfox
"People, who were too afraid to make difficult choices themselves. When they pray for a miracle, they're really praying for for men like me to make the tough choices. If my work spares, a million mother's mourning the loss of a million sons, my conscience will rest easy."
@@KritoSkywaker "Look at him, your brother will never be the same again."
@@lucasfraczek4320
"The damage might not be permanent. He should recover some semblance of his mind."
That moment when you realize the VI screaming stuff at you throughout the facility wasn't an AI gone mad, it was David leading you to him so you could release him from his pain.
There have been great DLCs for Mass Effect, but Overlord stays with you long after it's over.
The original was horrorfying. But legendary edition is nightmarish. Those eyes. Poor bastard. I was so happy when i saw him alive and well in mass effect 3.
“Hello commander… I’ve been counting.”
“Anything in particular?”
“The number of days you extended my life.”
This music made me cry square roots TT
This got me thinking, as an asperger person, Our mind is something nobody can’t understand, we don’t think the same way people do, we know everything sometimes, but we are speechless, we can’t stand for ourselves, we can’t talk, but not because we don’t want to, but because we don’t know how to, people think they should pity on us, feel bad, but we don’t need that, we just want to be accepted, we don’t want to be understanded, we want to be free from our silence.. David is an example, he is not being abused because of hate, but by love a love with pity from his own brother, who believe he is doing something greater for him, that his condition as autistic will not stop him from achieving his full potential.. he sees him as an asset, not as a human or person, something that happens even today
When i met him in Grissom i was so happy for him.
That was also topped off by getting to splatter the assholes who did it to him beforehand, and saving him again.
“You told me David volunteered!!!!”
"By necessity. If I would have told you the truth, you would have shut me down and not him. This isn't how we planned this. It was an accident. Seeing David communicate with the Geth. It all seemed harmless."
And before you knew it, you build your own private hell.
@@nightwingzero8905
I've had no choice! The demands were incredible! The Illusive Man wasn't a broker of failure! Any war we fight with the Geth, would have been bloody. I was asked to find a way to avoid that.
@@KritoSkywaker
And how many have already died because of this project?
@@nightwingzero8905
More souls than they ever forgive me. But I won't apologize for radical ideas. If my work spares a million mother mourning the loss of million son, my conscious will rest easy.
Back here to enjoy this piece before the Legendary Edition releases. I cannot wait for another excuse to play through this trilogy again.
Finished this mission for the first time lastnight. Hit me right in the feels. I came so close to crying with my organic self, but I just had my Shepard go to the port observation area and drink himself silly. Then EDI came over the intercom to tell me the men's restroom is on the Port side of the ship. Damnit EDI, I am having a moment!
Gavin was the only person David had in the world. The only one he knew he could trust. Gavin broke that trust.
This deserves the recognition.
"I've been counting."
"Anything in particular?"
The number of un-original comments in the comment section of this video
Bro....I just played through this dlc in the legendary edition. My god it's emotional
The emotion I still feel when I hear this is why I love Mass Effect so much.
it all seems harmless harmless harmless *fades to black as player reaches helplessly crying* player: d david
This theme makes me think, how the lines blur to what we use in the name of progress, be it our sanity, our co workers or even the people we love. How long, how long before its enough, how long will it be before they are able to look at themselves in the mirror, and once again see the face hiding behind the facade. How long will it be before the actions of whom we hurt come into our minds, will it remain as regret or boil down to justifiable sacrifice
Omg... that was beautiful... bravo!!! I literally started crying while I was reading that... :')
maybe the real price was the friends we made along the way.
Wasn't expecting much when I played this DLC. I was greatly mistaken
God mass effect has it's moments in the main story arch but I was tearing up the moment David was saying "Make it stop" ;.;
Got so close to crying but just felt empty by the end of this DLC
This DLC messed me up so bad. It shows so much pain and so many beautiful moments.
David, being heavily autistic with his almost machine-like mind, is seen as a burden by his brother.... then used for experiements that do so much damage to someone who doesn't understand it all.
Then, when you free him and he goes to Grissom Academy, he is actually doing fine.
I'd like to believe that after the Reaper War, if you pick the destroy ending, he helps rebuild the Citadel and improves so much. He will be seen as a hero. I'd like to believe that after you saved Grissom Academy he helps building the Crucible and is instrumental in finishing it.
You keep counting, David (*tears*) You keep counting......
*hug* There, there. No need to cry...even though I’m crying while reading this and listening to the music.
If you think about it, the robots with green infections attacking are basically david lashing out onto others in excruciating pain. Fucked up dlc
''I've been counting.''
''Anything in particular?''
''The number of days you've lengthened my life.''
When I came to this scene, seeing David hooked up to all those tubes, suffering, crying out for silence, being exploited for his brilliance. It made me cry.
The music coupled with that harrowing scene hurts you, it reminds you how quick we are to degrade others, how eager we are to hurt them for some purported gain or selfish need. At the same time you bear witness to Shepard's compassion and you smile, knowing there is still some good left in the galaxy
Thank you for uploading this piece :)
*Tries not to cry. Curls into a ball. Cries a lot* Every single time. :**(
"......What I've done to David is unethical... if he dies, it's unforgivable." *turns to Shepard* "Let me take care of him, please."
This song always brings me to tears in the cutscene DX
VeryClassyNerd
"I've seen enough of your cruelity to know he'll never be free here. I'm taking him away."
"Square root of 912.04 is 30.2...it all seemed harmless..."
"It all seemed harmless"
-David Archer
😢😢
haven't played this dlc but just listening to this theme makes me wanna cry. damn i know who's going to replay ME trilogy once again.
"You even think about coming after your brother, and this bullet will be waiting for you!"
My favorite line ever
The sheer emotion from these games is amazing
First time I actually choked up. Poor David.
There is a personal place in hell for people who give David to Cerberus in ME2
The square root of 906.01 equals…
30.1
The final scene of Overlord gets me every time. Best DLC of all time as far as I'm concerned.
The feels's theme of ME2 !
Back then, found the dlc fun gameplay wise (a lot of variety in 1 mission). The character/backstory was fine. Then the feels come in your face like a train. It shows how far cerberus can go "to save the many".
That OST was perfect for the final scene.
Always love this DLC, the first time I tried it my only goal was to destroy the AI, since it kept trying to kill me.
Then when you get to the point where you discover what is really happening and that he is just trying to ask for help, sad but beautiful DLC.
I literally played this missiom for the first time just a week ago with the Legendary edition... I thought that Legions sacrifice was the most influential game moment I haf ever come across, but never played this gem for a DLC. I was so wrong, the storytelling and reveal of the conclusion is second to none. So glad I did a second play through, this mission alone was worth it.
The horror and disgust from Shepard is something that seems unique to this moment in particular. Shepard expects this level of cruelty from the Reapers, since they are literally machines designed to harvest humans, so that's why he/she doesn't have this kind of reaction when he sees it. But this shakes him/her, because it's not coming from a machine designed to kill, or some sort of space monster. This suffering was caused entirely by another person, who was readily willing to hurt his own family to satisfy his ambition. Shepard didn't expect that amount of willing cruelty from another person.
heart breaking really , they could have extended the drama at the end a little more and it would have been more amazing , this side quest was awesome.
just makes me think, David's innocence was destroyed, and in turn became part of the most horrific kind of torture.... Humanitarian deletion, the process that takes away everything within you and replaces it with a lifeless personality.. the only true fate worse than death. Save David every time, because while the world can take steps to be more secure, a single life cannot be left to that hell...
Another reason why a full renegade run is impossible to me.
This moment turned what felt like a boring DLC, just going from place to place completing objectives, into something I will never forgot. It just catches you off guard, thr horror of it all, what Cerberus is willing to do to advance humanity, and from what I have seen even the most, if not all, hard-core Renegade Players saved David. As it should be.
Even after all these years this hits me right in the feels. : )
_And before you know it, you were running your own private hell._
As someone who's dealt with Autism for his entire life, this DLC got to me. When David was screaming for the noise to stop. Screaming to be let go. Screaming to just be somewhere else, somewhere quiet. I just saw too much of myself there.
Square root of 906.01 equals.....
+Cheburashka207 ...30,1 :'(
+Andrés Pétur Axelsson (Adventure Man) "What I've done to David is unethical. If he dies. It's unforgivable."
The square root of 906.1 is 30.1…
The square root of 912.04 is 20.2…
*It all seemed so harmless*
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30.1
Sounds quite like Schindlers List theme.. beautiful nontheless
I made a full renegade shepherd on a recent play through but despite this I just couldn't leave David with Cerberus, it was one of the rare paragon options I did.
Beautiful. Thanks for making an extended version! Oh man, I think someone's chopping onions in here...
Some of humanity are far worse than the reapers.
We must be better.
What made the Overlord DLC so gut wrenching to me, aside from the pain that David was forced to endure, is that Gavin didn’t care about David’s wellbeing at all and was willing to put him through so much pain and anguish by forcibly connecting him to the VI just to boost his own ambitions.
He only cared about getting results and was willing to harm his own brother to obtain those results.
The moment i heard it in 3 along with scuare root ... i don't easly get close to tears but damn.
Featured in the trailer for God of War III Remastered.
I didn't realize it was the same music till I watched and compared the ME2 PO ending music to the GOW3R trailer.
I was racking my brain trying to think where it was from love this theme.
When you save him whilst talking to his brother is so bloody emotional. First time I played it - Hell, every time I play it - I cry like a baby. 😂 😢
Still gets me every time I hear this one. :'(
This game, and this DLC in particular, are the last works from Bioware that I consider masterfully done. Lair of the Shadow Broker was also par excellence.
I’m physics major, and whenever I give a math exam, I remember that the square root of 912.04 is 30.2! I’m just so attached to this game, the first time I played this DLC, it was 4 years ago....
I hope Andromeda can come up with stories like this to pull at my heart strings..it's phenomenal..this music..
Boy if only this 5 year old comment knew what Andromeda would become 💀
Not gonna lie even as a renegade I still couldn't choose the renegade option. This also made me have a different view on humanity
This fucking track... I always tear up when I hear it.
OH my god your comment is exactly how I felt! ;) You are very good at explaining a feeling! :D
The first time I started this mission and talked to that asshole doctor saying that he was using his own brother for experiments, I felt disgusted. I've seen horrors but when I first saw David strapped up like some sort of sick puppet, just because he spoke to geth, I really wanted to beat the shit out of that scientist. When I heard the music and seeing David Suffer, I just felt great sadness seeing him like that. Thanks for the upload. :)
I would like that very much, every time the sound gets better, the "feeling" this lovely music will give us will also improve
you are awesome thank you it was a really touching ending this one and the music was awesome thank you for making an extended one.
I never got to go through Overlord on the original game. I'm glad the Legendary Edition included it so I could witness this amazing side story
An okay dlc (gameplay wise) concluded with an absolutely gut wrenching tear jerker of an ending.
The square root of 906.01 is 30.1
For some unknown reason this soundtrack struck something in my soul. This whole mission makes me tear up and rescueing David in Archer academy gets me. Every. Damn. Time.
Anytime I hear this music it gives me chills, such a hauntingly beautiful tune to such a emotional moment in series.