@@bzqp2 it's funny and you're actually right. From the developer diaries: Casey Hudson on Shep’s Prothean vision from the beacon: “It was hard to imagine how we would do this. CG was - and is - really expensive. Instead I wanted to try doing it through photography and video editing. So I went to a local grocery store and bought a few packages of the weirdest looking meat that I could find. Then I set up a little photoshoot in my basement, complete with some electronics parts and some red wine for juicyness.” He used these props to create a video sequence where the photos were rapidly cycled and blurred, along with production paintings, to create the scary vision an organic/machine experiment on the Protheans. These mashups were also used as inspiration for concept artists and level designers who were working on these themes.
Agreed. it is so frantic,mysterious and disturbing image wise. I feel like many of the images are so abstract/weird because it is just the agony,rage and suffering of the protheans meant to convey it to whoever finds it
dude i passed out after i had some routine blood work done and i swear to god i had a protheian vision. that shit as a vision is fucking terrifying. (perhaps ive been playing legendary edition too much)
Can't take your blood being taken, huh? That's okay, I feel ya. There's only two things that I've ever been scared of in my entire life. Like, I know people who believe in ghosts and stuff and are terrified of them. I on the other hand, also believe in ghosts, had visions and encounters in the past, but I'm not afraid. Whenever I hear a sound or something, I go to investigate. But let me tell you, visiting a dentist, getting an anesthetic, having my teeth possibly pulled or my tooth nerves removed? I feel light headed when just thinking about it. And it's not that I can't take pain. I've had a very deep would(accident at work - a very deep and messy cut) cleaned, and I didn't even flinch. It hurt like hell, but it is what it is. But having my blood taken? I never really fainted, but there's something about the needles and tiny bottles and stuff... Every time they sting me with it, and then they put that small bottle on the needly and I see it filling with blood - my blood - I have a small panic attack that makes me light-headed and like I'm about to faint. Think about it, I mean, it's your life force being drained out of you into some stupid plastic bottle.
I believe you, the brain is the funniest shit sometimes. I once was high on mushrooms and heard the sky scream at me, thinking 100% that the cycle was absolute - until a friend told me three years later that apparently a plane flew over us and it drove me fucking crazy. 😅
jeez.. like the feaking borg. Flesh melded with metal forcefully. The hum of the machines fusing and cutting through bone, and grafting part by part. Agony roars of pain mixing with machine. need i say more? this shit is stuff of nightmares lol
This was back when Mass Effect was a cosmic horror about an existential threat beyond our comprehension. Then Mass Effect 3 rolls in, and reveals to us that it's all just about robots killing people to save them from being killed by other robots or something.
@@MrChickennugget360 You don't...take a look a Dead Space 3 for example, people like to shit on it but you have to give Visceral credit for having the balls for throwing such a dreadfull and bleak ending on Awakening, for me it's a fitting way to end a series where the enemy is an Lovecraftian entity. But i think Bioware shot themselves in the foot by adding such concept and then turning Shepard into some kind of super hero and making it worse by showing you that the worst threat in the galaxy can be killed even by an environmental hazard. Don't get me wrong, i love the Mass Effect series, but if you start to think too much about the plot it turns into something stupid at the end of the series.
@@azkar65 Nah I like that we get an explanation. It would be more disappointing if they kept the Reaper's motivation ambiguous. At least for me. Like imagine for the first game on Virmire you don't get that Sovereign dialogue scene. Would the game be as good? Now imagine playing through hundreds of hours of the trilogy only to end it without any explanation whatsoever. What's the point? The problem with coming up with this kind of threats and villains, is that you're screwed either way if you give motivation or don't explain it. People are gonna be disappointed either way. And yeah, the plot and the reasoning for Reaper's cycles don't make sense at all and are nonsense, but I'm still satisfied with it cause I can't see any other way this could've gone without being disappointing or as plot-holy as this one.
@@azkar65i would have ended it by Always having a bad ending. Reapers always win. But at least you add more to the crucible research for the next cycle, the only silver lining. And then it's more about the journey than the destination
"We were one empire composed of many subjects. all eventually came to call themselves 'Prothean'."-- a quote from Javik. perhaps these were one of the diffrent races?
@@spacejesus6581 Those statues were the original prothean design; they were later retconned into being the inusannon (prothean precursors) by the time Mass Effect 3 came around. Even though the picture Bioware used for the prothean entries in the (ME1 and?) ME2 codex was of the statues. It sort of still works, though. The codex in-game is supposed to reflect the knowledge of the galactic species, and at that point they believed those statues to be protheans. When in reality the protheans simply settled on an ancient inusannon world. The visions are impossible to retcon though (they're 100% meant to be "the" protheans), so Bioware didn't try. Which is fair enough imo, it's only a few brief glimpses anyway.
@@lenyo6371 now that you put it like that, I guess the visions could be the Protheans discovering what happened to the other species around the time of the invasion. The visions are "a warning sent too late across the empire" so they could potentially use the other species? Idk, plot holes are hard to fix
@@spacejesus6581 also javik does help to try and fix this plot hole by saying that ilos was a planet that was originally inhabited by the previous cycle prior to the protheans
In the end I like that Inusannon are separate species. Love the mystery part about them and how they contributed to the Prothean technology and eventual Reapers defeat.
The statues were retconned to be representative of the Inusannon, but as for the figures in the vision, they could represent other species. The Protheans were not alone. They had an empire made up of multiple species, and they considered all members of this empire to be Prothean.
a few weeks ago I did LSD with some friends, we went out to the park and as hours passed nighttime fell upon us who had no notion of time whatsoever, we eventually got mugged at gunpoint and we all had a really BAD trip afterwards This video right here is literally how I felt the subsequent hours afterwards
I remember having fever dreams that felt a bit like that, complete with the red and orange tint, and the feeling of pure dread persisted for a little while after I woke up drenched in sweat. I remember this feeling of everything being wrong and being disoriented and having this terrifying feeling that if I stared at once spot too long I'd start splitting the atoms and destroy the Earth.
@@amko6358 Expanse didn't literally steal it in the sense that Picard did. Picard was all about Synthethics vs Organics totally like in the Mass effect Game series but if you factor in the original Mass effect Dark Matter ending then the story becomes more in depth & Bone chilling. The ending which way we fans speculate Expanse is aiming for.
Yeah, I'm watching ST: Picard Season 1 now and I'm getting strong Mass Effect vibes. I don't like them stealing ideas like this, without giving any credits to the original creators (at the same time they sue Star Trek non-profit fan movies/series for copyright claims...), but at least these ME vibes are making me liking ST: Picard more. Except for these ME parts, old Star Trek TNG crew appearance and amazing Patrick Stewart (J.L. Picard) performance, it's hard to find something truly unique and really well done on their own in the first Season of ST: Picard. Btw. I love old Star Trek series, especially TOS and TNG. Discovery is hard to watch though, doesn't feel like Star Trek at all. I recommend you guys to check out the Orville (essentialy good Star Trek TNG clone, that managed to not get sued). There are some ME/BSG vibes there too (Kaylons - ME Geth/ BSG Cylon?), really good series. First season is a bit to much comedic, but it get's better with time. Would love to see Star Trek/Orville game similar in style and gameplay to the Mass Effect one day...
The whole sequence looks like mechanical body horror it awful The realistic parts with slimy bits of flesh and circuits inside them It’s really feels out of place in the game making it scarier
I'd love to see some behind the scenes stuff that talks about exactly what we're looking at here. Clearly some mechanical parts, an image of the Protheans before their appearance was changed, and the planet you need to go to. But that 'mouth', and what I assume is supposed to be flesh, and whatever's going on as the vision progresses? I'd love to know more.
@@DrProfScience1 No, I meant how this was made. I think I recall someone mentioning them using raw chicken and some scrapped mechanical parts from an old TV or computer to make certain shots. I was wondering as to how the creative process of this went.
Canon states the beacon message was a distress/warning sent by the protheans. Protheans communicated by sharing memories/feelings as demonstrated by Javik. I feel like the vision was from a prothean witnessing the horror of one of the first Reaper invasions during prothean times, so a prothean, utterly terrified after witnessing reaper ships firing on him, reaper drones/husks and reaper molded protheans/other alien species at the time, hooked up to a beacon, and due to his emotional state, pooled his memories, emotions, terror, and horror into his message to absolutely insure it would be heard and heeded.
The thing with its mouth open? I thought it was a Prothean being turned into a Collector. It also seems like a sequence of different living organisms becoming synthetic. Like the opening to ME2 when it shows the machine using technology to bring Shepard back to life.
Doing a frame-by frame, it looks like they just used an old CD/DVD player that they took the motherboard out of and threw some sort of fat and meat on and put on a red filter. Shots of that interrupted by some really terrifying, but neat, art cards with the same red filter.
I know this is a really old reply, but no, both of the other people that commented are wrong; the images of the aliens we see are the same we see on Ilos. These are called the Inusannon, and they're believed to be the alien race that predated the Protheans, roughly 127,000 years before, and are what mass effect technology is based off of. The Inusannon are to the Protheans what the Protheans are to the galaxy in it's current state, and very very little, unfortunately, is known about them.
What the actual fuck is that, I almost thought it's a mouth being forced open after it's sewn shut, or a neck being stretched to breaking, but it doesn't look quite right
Is this the vision Shepherd has in the begging of ME1? I’m playing the remaster/legendary edition and it just skipped the vision on me. I played through that part twice to test some things and the vision never happened.
no its not, im also playing legendary and i didnt skip that scene, but he does not see this in its entirety then. Im not sure when he does but im pretty sure its through the help of a different character that he sees the full vision
@@johndims5098 It seems like that’s the scene from where he communicates with Harbinger. After the Thorian and Rachni missions. Also playing Legendary,
A Lovecraftian old "gods" that seek to "correct" our galaxy, with a human trying to stop them. I miss when games exited me to play it. But at least I am about to replay the trilogy, yet again.
They knew this cutscene was raw af because they show it to you at least 4 seperate times over the course of the whole series.
Let's face it, this was the scariest thing in the entire series.
It must have been fun being the guy responsible for the animation.
*Jake, what the hell are you doing with these pig hearts and arduinos???*
@@bzqp2, Jake: I’m making the Lovecraft squids extra spooky.
@@bzqp2 it's funny and you're actually right. From the developer diaries:
Casey Hudson on Shep’s Prothean vision from the beacon: “It was hard to imagine how we would do this. CG was - and is - really expensive. Instead I wanted to try doing it through photography and video editing. So I went to a local grocery store and bought a few packages of the weirdest looking meat that I could find. Then I set up a little photoshoot in my basement, complete with some electronics parts and some red wine for juicyness.” He used these props to create a video sequence where the photos were rapidly cycled and blurred, along with production paintings, to create the scary vision an organic/machine experiment on the Protheans. These mashups were also used as inspiration for concept artists and level designers who were working on these themes.
@@adamzilizi7501 Whoa, great find!
Agreed. it is so frantic,mysterious and disturbing image wise.
I feel like many of the images are so abstract/weird because it is just the agony,rage and suffering of the protheans meant to convey it to whoever finds it
dude i passed out after i had some routine blood work done and i swear to god i had a protheian vision. that shit as a vision is fucking terrifying. (perhaps ive been playing legendary edition too much)
Can't take your blood being taken, huh?
That's okay, I feel ya.
There's only two things that I've ever been scared of in my entire life. Like, I know people who believe in ghosts and stuff and are terrified of them. I on the other hand, also believe in ghosts, had visions and encounters in the past, but I'm not afraid. Whenever I hear a sound or something, I go to investigate.
But let me tell you, visiting a dentist, getting an anesthetic, having my teeth possibly pulled or my tooth nerves removed? I feel light headed when just thinking about it. And it's not that I can't take pain. I've had a very deep would(accident at work - a very deep and messy cut) cleaned, and I didn't even flinch. It hurt like hell, but it is what it is.
But having my blood taken? I never really fainted, but there's something about the needles and tiny bottles and stuff... Every time they sting me with it, and then they put that small bottle on the needly and I see it filling with blood - my blood - I have a small panic attack that makes me light-headed and like I'm about to faint. Think about it, I mean, it's your life force being drained out of you into some stupid plastic bottle.
I believe you, the brain is the funniest shit sometimes.
I once was high on mushrooms and heard the sky scream at me, thinking 100% that the cycle was absolute - until a friend told me three years later that apparently a plane flew over us and it drove me fucking crazy. 😅
Are we allowing dreams into evidence now?
jeez.. like the feaking borg. Flesh melded with metal forcefully. The hum of the machines fusing and cutting through bone, and grafting part by part. Agony roars of pain mixing with machine. need i say more? this shit is stuff of nightmares lol
This was back when Mass Effect was a cosmic horror about an existential threat beyond our comprehension. Then Mass Effect 3 rolls in, and reveals to us that it's all just about robots killing people to save them from being killed by other robots or something.
ya. i mean it makes sense that they would not be able to land the franchise. how do you resolve such existential horror?
@@MrChickennugget360 You don't...take a look a Dead Space 3 for example, people like to shit on it but you have to give Visceral credit for having the balls for throwing such a dreadfull and bleak ending on Awakening, for me it's a fitting way to end a series where the enemy is an Lovecraftian entity. But i think Bioware shot themselves in the foot by adding such concept and then turning Shepard into some kind of super hero and making it worse by showing you that the worst threat in the galaxy can be killed even by an environmental hazard. Don't get me wrong, i love the Mass Effect series, but if you start to think too much about the plot it turns into something stupid at the end of the series.
@@azkar65 Nah I like that we get an explanation. It would be more disappointing if they kept the Reaper's motivation ambiguous. At least for me.
Like imagine for the first game on Virmire you don't get that Sovereign dialogue scene. Would the game be as good?
Now imagine playing through hundreds of hours of the trilogy only to end it without any explanation whatsoever. What's the point?
The problem with coming up with this kind of threats and villains, is that you're screwed either way if you give motivation or don't explain it. People are gonna be disappointed either way.
And yeah, the plot and the reasoning for Reaper's cycles don't make sense at all and are nonsense, but I'm still satisfied with it cause I can't see any other way this could've gone without being disappointing or as plot-holy as this one.
@@azkar65i would have ended it by
Always having a bad ending. Reapers always win. But at least you add more to the crucible research for the next cycle, the only silver lining. And then it's more about the journey than the destination
this creeped me out when i first saw it all those years ago... and it still does.
"2020 can't get worse"
July:
"2020's can't get worse"
2022:
2024:
"We were one empire composed of many subjects. all eventually came to call themselves 'Prothean'."-- a quote from Javik. perhaps these were one of the diffrent races?
Would explain why everything in this vision and all the "statues" on Ilos look nothing like the Collectors/Javik
@@spacejesus6581 Those statues were the original prothean design; they were later retconned into being the inusannon (prothean precursors) by the time Mass Effect 3 came around. Even though the picture Bioware used for the prothean entries in the (ME1 and?) ME2 codex was of the statues.
It sort of still works, though. The codex in-game is supposed to reflect the knowledge of the galactic species, and at that point they believed those statues to be protheans. When in reality the protheans simply settled on an ancient inusannon world.
The visions are impossible to retcon though (they're 100% meant to be "the" protheans), so Bioware didn't try. Which is fair enough imo, it's only a few brief glimpses anyway.
@@lenyo6371 now that you put it like that, I guess the visions could be the Protheans discovering what happened to the other species around the time of the invasion. The visions are "a warning sent too late across the empire" so they could potentially use the other species?
Idk, plot holes are hard to fix
@@spacejesus6581 also javik does help to try and fix this plot hole by saying that ilos was a planet that was originally inhabited by the previous cycle prior to the protheans
@@spacejesus6581 retcon
Back when the Protheans were supposed to look like the Inusannon.
In the end I like that Inusannon are separate species. Love the mystery part about them and how they contributed to the Prothean technology and eventual Reapers defeat.
The statues were retconned to be representative of the Inusannon, but as for the figures in the vision, they could represent other species. The Protheans were not alone. They had an empire made up of multiple species, and they considered all members of this empire to be Prothean.
I have a incredibly strong urge to get someone to see this with absolutely no context
Just did…
lmao casey hudson really worked wonders with his weird meat and wine
That reaper still sends chills up my spine!
..... HOLY FUCK! THAT RIGHT THERE IS FUCKIN' NIGHTMARE FUEL!
Playback on: 0.25%. Is a really bad, yet fascinating trip.
a few weeks ago I did LSD with some friends, we went out to the park and as hours passed nighttime fell upon us who had no notion of time whatsoever, we eventually got mugged at gunpoint and we all had a really BAD trip afterwards
This video right here is literally how I felt the subsequent hours afterwards
dude that must have been nightmarish
I remember having fever dreams that felt a bit like that, complete with the red and orange tint, and the feeling of pure dread persisted for a little while after I woke up drenched in sweat. I remember this feeling of everything being wrong and being disoriented and having this terrifying feeling that if I stared at once spot too long I'd start splitting the atoms and destroy the Earth.
Star Trek Picard totally stole this
Absolutely. Was thinking just that as I watched it .
Link?
Also The Expanse.
@@amko6358 Expanse didn't literally steal it in the sense that Picard did.
Picard was all about Synthethics vs Organics totally like in the Mass effect Game series but if you factor in the original Mass effect Dark Matter ending then the story becomes more in depth & Bone chilling.
The ending which way we fans speculate Expanse is aiming for.
Yeah, I'm watching ST: Picard Season 1 now and I'm getting strong Mass Effect vibes.
I don't like them stealing ideas like this, without giving any credits to the original creators (at the same time they sue Star Trek non-profit fan movies/series for copyright claims...), but at least these ME vibes are making me liking ST: Picard more.
Except for these ME parts, old Star Trek TNG crew appearance and amazing Patrick Stewart (J.L. Picard) performance, it's hard to find something truly unique and really well done on their own in the first Season of ST: Picard.
Btw. I love old Star Trek series, especially TOS and TNG. Discovery is hard to watch though, doesn't feel like Star Trek at all.
I recommend you guys to check out the Orville (essentialy good Star Trek TNG clone, that managed to not get sued). There are some ME/BSG vibes there too (Kaylons - ME Geth/ BSG Cylon?), really good series. First season is a bit to much comedic, but it get's better with time.
Would love to see Star Trek/Orville game similar in style and gameplay to the Mass Effect one day...
The whole sequence looks like mechanical body horror it awful
The realistic parts with slimy bits of flesh and circuits inside them
It’s really feels out of place in the game making it scarier
0:21 Sentry gun down!
Lmfao now I can't unhear it.
Spy: *kills engineer*
"(Laughs on French)"
It sounds more scary if you watch it at 0.25x spead
I think this is the process of making collectors...
I'd love to see some behind the scenes stuff that talks about exactly what we're looking at here. Clearly some mechanical parts, an image of the Protheans before their appearance was changed, and the planet you need to go to. But that 'mouth', and what I assume is supposed to be flesh, and whatever's going on as the vision progresses? I'd love to know more.
I assume its showing the process of reapers turning them into husks.
@@DrProfScience1 No, I meant how this was made. I think I recall someone mentioning them using raw chicken and some scrapped mechanical parts from an old TV or computer to make certain shots. I was wondering as to how the creative process of this went.
Based on the comments on this video
Looks like a mix of wierd meats,wine and some electronic parts.
Canon states the beacon message was a distress/warning sent by the protheans. Protheans communicated by sharing memories/feelings as demonstrated by Javik. I feel like the vision was from a prothean witnessing the horror of one of the first Reaper invasions during prothean times, so a prothean, utterly terrified after witnessing reaper ships firing on him, reaper drones/husks and reaper molded protheans/other alien species at the time, hooked up to a beacon, and due to his emotional state, pooled his memories, emotions, terror, and horror into his message to absolutely insure it would be heard and heeded.
Holy crap! Some of those images were in one of the comics. It's about the Protheans dying.
Which comic?
Which comic?
Which comic?
@@amko6358 9 years and we still be wondering the answer to that question
@@americanpride8441 Which comic? I will keep the Legend alive.
What if I was your trip sitter while you were off 6 tabs and told you I was gonna put on something relaxing then played this
I watch this every time I'm tripping balls
Why would you do that to yourself
I think I put this into an asmr playlist
THE PROPHECY IS TRUE
0:07 what is that?
The thing with its mouth open? I thought it was a Prothean being turned into a Collector. It also seems like a sequence of different living organisms becoming synthetic. Like the opening to ME2 when it shows the machine using technology to bring Shepard back to life.
Seven days!
Samara, The Ring.
@@osmarneto8368 Nah, Sadako, Ringu.
@@Lucas-iw5xo Thanks!!! Kkkkkkkk
The expanse...
"What a sad end..."
Baby don't fear the reaper....
Doing a frame-by frame, it looks like they just used an old CD/DVD player that they took the motherboard out of and threw some sort of fat and meat on and put on a red filter.
Shots of that interrupted by some really terrifying, but neat, art cards with the same red filter.
This shit was fucking dark man.
When I first played mass effect I was like: Who the fuck is this? The flood or something?
Basically the last five years of my life
Yep pretty much. The Reapers are here
This is Synthesis...
[ME3 spoilers]
I.. what? This is the Reaper harvest. Synthesis is an alternative.
@@Foofoothegoon synthesis is a sham, it's a downgrade to organic life
@@franswaafranswaa5026 Each of the endings of ME3 were a sham.
@@punished7030 It's been several years and I am no longer as passionate about this, so okay.
@@Foofoothegoon time to get passionate about it with the Legendary edition boy
@FellFather thats what we're hoping bioware explains to us
Is this images of the Proethians being turned into the collectors??
its the reapers harvesting the Proethians
Yea it is.
Stfu
I know this is a really old reply, but no, both of the other people that commented are wrong; the images of the aliens we see are the same we see on Ilos. These are called the Inusannon, and they're believed to be the alien race that predated the Protheans, roughly 127,000 years before, and are what mass effect technology is based off of. The Inusannon are to the Protheans what the Protheans are to the galaxy in it's current state, and very very little, unfortunately, is known about them.
lol the vision in starfield is soooo boring compared to this
StarCraft looks different than i remember
Did anyone else feel like that sound at 0:12 sounds like an old Nidoran sound from the pokemon games?
When you run too many tabs on Chrome
These images are about the leviathan being covered to the first reaper.
0:05-0:06 scares the crap out of me. I mean the whole thing is scary by holy shit.
What makes it funny is that it's also Bowser's roar from SSBM 😂
What the actual fuck is that, I almost thought it's a mouth being forced open after it's sewn shut, or a neck being stretched to breaking, but it doesn't look quite right
Reaper indoctrine them so hard that they turned into Xenomorph
@GodzillaMaster322 the vision isn't meant for the human mind
The original Protheans looked MUCH different and were biomechanical not jamaican 4 eyes
Prothean vision from Starcraft 1998
yes D:
When you drink a grimace shake
Back when video games were good
So what is that Screaming thing?
Who knows, possibly some poor life form that’s being tortured or mutated by the Reapers.
A Collector
Is this the vision Shepherd has in the begging of ME1? I’m playing the remaster/legendary edition and it just skipped the vision on me. I played through that part twice to test some things and the vision never happened.
no its not, im also playing legendary and i didnt skip that scene, but he does not see this in its entirety then. Im not sure when he does but im pretty sure its through the help of a different character that he sees the full vision
Yes and no. Keep playing and you'll see the full version eventually
At the beacon on Eden Prime, you get only a few flashing images
You'll see this a couple times. After the Thorin, and then with T'Soni
@@johndims5098 It seems like that’s the scene from where he communicates with Harbinger. After the Thorian and Rachni missions. Also playing Legendary,
@@mistersippi2945 I don’t think Harbinger is in ME1 Is he?
They didn't survive the cycle, but at least they had some good video editors.
… Seven days?
did the reapers wipe out the music too?
this was the shit btw
OMFG, JIGSAWS BACK ALIVE AND HE'S BROUGHT NEW TRAPS, NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
A Lovecraftian old "gods" that seek to "correct" our galaxy, with a human trying to stop them.
I miss when games exited me to play it. But at least I am about to replay the trilogy, yet again.