Damn right, this is on another level of genius and Ilos a whole other level of game experience. I feel they did not use it in the right places in 2 and 3 - tried too much to put it in places with emotional relationships which ruined the flavour for me - instead of for example during the end sequence of 3 which it would have suited perfectly. It is far too grand and vast to be limited to scenes like the VS on horizon which doesn't do this theme justice.
Curunen Exactly my thought in its use. Too used. Let this show what it means to have brought our worlds to peace. Not in every relationship scene. It's meant to show us JUST how vast and awe inspiring the cosmos are. That despite saving, or dooming all life in the universe, it will carry on as it always has. Uncaring for all beings, synthetic or otherwise. No star-child, no reapers, no humans, no asari, no quarians, no turians, no volus, no geth, no elcor, nothing but stars and worlds. Whether the Reapers saw that or not...Well, they never told. In the end, we realise that nothing can beat the pure power of the universe. No matter how perfect the Reapers are, no matter how many the Krogan, all would simply perish if they even tried to fight what the universe is. This is how it should have ended. The Reapers, high and mighty, begin to see just how the universe truly works. As the races seek to understand their purpose, the universe already knows its purpose. To simply be.
"I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments, will be lost in time... like tears in rain." RIP Rutger Hauer 1944 - 2019
For anyone who has played ALL of the Mass Effect games, listening to this song just brings back an indescribable feeling in your chest, makes you feel so much pain, but also at the same time make you feel so at peace... Beautiful
True. This song makes me think about how vast our galaxy is let alone the whole universe it's like thinking out of the box. But this song also reminds me a lot about Liara (never romanced anyone except her in all of my countless playthroughs). Shit they better bring her and Shepard and the gang back for the next Mass Effect title, man.. I just.. Shit the Mass Effect Trilogy really got me feeling some type of way haha I just really wish this ain't the end for Shepard
Louis Gonzales Indeed, in regards to thinking about the galaxy. As Arthur C. Clarke said "'Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying". Really does make you wonder what if any other 'race' is out there. In regards to race, it has me wondering if there are other 'races' out there if they have the same sorts of stupid petty wars we have relating to race or religion.
Louis Gonzales i think that too,except for Liara,i've never romanced her,instead i opted for Tali,and the music reminds me of her since it plays many times in ME3,i hope they do Tali Shepard justice in the next mass effect. (always referred to that song as Tali's theme) and when in ME2 when i reunited with Wrex i nearly cried. i hoped too that Shepard wouldn't end,but we knew that eventually it would have ended TheKirk15 yeah,i feel nostalgia for ME1,it was simply unique and amazing and sadness because the beatiful concept has been ruined in ME3
TheKirk15 When I heard this for the first time, it gave me the image of a great space opera. And when it came and played during the vigil sequence in game, with the guys awesome voice explaining what happened, it was chilling. Now when I listen to it, I get shivers down my spine, it brings great happiness to me, and hope, but also a sad emptyness, since it plays during some of the most touching moments in the later games. "It's funny shepard, I just landed on my homeworld for the first time." Hands Tali a rock from Rannoch "Well, you best start carrying it with you too."
@@RobertoBeto64 well most boss fights can be cheesed on insanity what's hard is when you have a timer or have to keep someone alive like garrus on maas effect 2 and kasumi goto mission due to gunship plot armor trashmobs like harbinger also are harder to kill than most bosses in game
Listening to Vigil, in a tomb filled with some of the last and most brilliant of its people patiently explaining the end of their civilisation is one of the saddest moments in gaming for me.
+TriangularFilms 100% agree. I would also recommend playing UFO Aftershock (a bit dated RTS), it gives me same chills with its soundtrack after having played it.
When Mordin gave his life to save the krogan and the galaxy, and this played in the aftermath... with Wrex talking about how his people had hope for the first time after being reduced almost to animals... and then this theme, an old friend, kicked in... I set the controller down and couldn't pick it up for a long, long time.
Meeting Vigil on Ilos is so terrifying. The music is serene and calm, but also sad. Vigil describes the last days of a civilization, and the final mission to try to save future civilizations. At this point we had met Sovereign and seen his influence, but the Reapers were still very much unknown. There’s a lot of fear at this point since we know what Sovereign and Saren are trying to do, but we don’t know the magnitude of it until we speak to Vigil and hear the account of the dying civilization. “It is a quiet thing, to fall. But far more terrible is to admit it.” - Kreia
I thank the older gentleman at the Walmart that told me to play mass effect 2, he was probably in his 50’s or 60’s, I was in my late 20’s looking for a game to play. He simply said play this game, you will not find a better game. Other than part 1. I put trust in his advice and as soon as I finished 2 I had to get Mass effect….damn thank you sir. Walmart employee led me to the best gaming trilogy of all time….
"Shepard-Commander... I must go to them. I... I'm sorry. It's the only way." "Legion... the answer to your question... was 'yes'." "I know, Tali... but thank you. Keelah se'lai."
"I look at all this - this picture of hope and peace - and all I see... is everyone I've lost. My team on Haestrom, my father, even Legion! I'm mourning a Geth, how crazy is that?!" "It's not crazy at all..." "It is beautiful, though..." "Yeah. It is..."
***** It was great, it gave a context for the song, but it still didn't match up with the first time your hear it. The song was used in that scene though. One of my favorite Mass Effect moments.
This song and the Normandy theme is what gives me instant nostalgia. EVERY TIME. Even now when I'm currently having my 3rd playthrough it gives me nostalgia.
I loved all Mass Effects, especially the 2nd, but remembering what the first felt like and meant... the first time playing the game, the plot, the characters, and the omnipresent feeling of the immense, vast space, all bound by this soundtrack... still gives me chills and shivers.
same i played all ME games in 2015 and god damn i could back of the game the world the story and companions i love all 3 games and i wish i could erase memories of playing them so could experience it all over again
I remember when I first played Mass Effect and came across Vigil on Ilos, the music and atmosphere as vigil explained what happened with the protheans really effected me emotionally, mass effect is one of the only few games that really knows how to tug at your heart strings.
@Chris Butrim I know exactly what you mean. The storytelling was brilliant. (ME was my first exposure to RPGs because I'd never seen one set in a world where I'd actually want to live, and thus never cared enough to try one.) But as I realised what had happened to the Protheans, especially those on Ilos, I wept openly. Having this piece play as the opening for the story was utter genius, because when heard it again in context, it suddenly tied the whole story together. Not just brilliant: BUH-rilliant. It was as if I could feel the whole galaxy at once, and it was beautiful and tragic and somehow still so full of potential. It may be as close as I've come to a "religious experience." A remaster is a good step. Have you tried any of the mods? There's a very well-developed community of ME-PC modders who have done some really wonderful things in terms of adding depth and even expanding the story (slightly). Well worth your time to investigate...assuming you have it on PC. Here's a 15-minute intro: ruclips.net/video/jf9JcQMMSls/видео.html But what I think will make me fall in love with it all over again is a rebuild. Procedurally-driven NPCs that you can have extended conversations with, decisions that are actually decisions instead of "pick one of these three paths." (Have you ever had a conversation with the ticketing AI for British Airways? Or heard Google make a call to a hair salon to schedule an appointment for you? (If you haven't...prepare to have your Mind. Blown. Because this is from 2018: ruclips.net/video/JvbHu_bVa_g/видео.html) If nothing else, the Andromeda protocol of actually telling you what your interrupt options are in the moment (along with a three-to-five-second window during which it can be implemented) may be one of the best things to add that doesn't require creating AGI characters. Can you imagine this as a game for Oculus Go 3, or even full-immersion BMI? I'd never want to come out. Still, the story could have used a little more work; work that I'm sure Bioware had neither time nor budget for. So I'm writing some of it as a guide for the AGI/MLA that I hope to task with building it in a decade or so: www.fanfiction.net/s/10792259/1/Mass-Effect-All-in-the-Details
Two weeks ago, I just finished the entire Mass Effect trilogy in a three-week binge. And now, coming back to this track? I'm in tears. There are few games that can distil such a sense of nostalgia in me so short after, and that sure as hell says a lot about Mass Effect. These games changed my life, and I'd say I would have wanted to play it sooner. But I don't think I would be able to appreciate it back in the day. Some things just get better with age, and for Mass Effect, that goes both ways.
Played them for the first time once the first came out when I was 17. I was a sophomore in high school back then. I appreciated and loved the remaster so bad that I finished it four times and I felt exactly the same feelings as yours. This trilogy had, has and will forever have a profound impact on me as a person and there's so many videogames that sent me spinning but this series became one of my favorites and might be for years to come.
I'm late to the game of mass effect also, after hearing about it for years and thinking nah I won't be into it, here I am, absolutely obsessed, crying over robots and aliens, and feeling sad that no other game will quite make me feel so attached to the characters.
Go to the countryside at night, lay down on the soft grass and stare at the night sky. While this song plays. A memory that will be imprinted for life.
I live out in the country, once in a while I’ll put any version of this song on and stare up into the stars at night. I’ve seen shooting stars penetrating the atmosphere while listening to this. One of those pieces of music that you love and know why you love it. It creates an awesome scope of everything that isn’t pessimistic.
Our galaxy has billions of stars, each of those stars can have many worlds, and every world can be home to different forms of life, and every life has its special story of its own
Bioware is the only video game company that ever made me wish I could selectively forget things. So I could experience the joy, wonder and feeling of adventure that Mass Effect brought me all over again. No other game made me feel like I was exploring a universe, the great unknown, like this series.
TES IV: Oblivion and TES V: Skyrim are also ones that I would love to play again for the first time. I was not lucky enough to play Morrowind back in the days, but I've heard great things about it.
I didn't cry, but I felt a great heaviness in my chest when I heard all that. It's so bleak and hopeless for that to have happened, and you wish there was something you could do, but the fact is, you're too late. The only thing to do is to hope you can do what the Protheans couldn't.
@Chicken Mike I know *exactly* what you mean. Mass Effect was my first exposure to RPGs because I'd never seen one set in a world where I'd actually want to live, and thus never cared enough to try one. But as I realised what had happened to the Protheans, especially those on Ilos, I wept openly. Having this piece play as the opening for the story was utter genius, because when heard it again in context, it suddenly tied the whole story together. Not just brilliant: BUH-rilliant. It was as if I could feel the whole galaxy at once, and it was beautiful and tragic and somehow still so full of potential. It may be as close as I've come to a "religious experience." A remaster is a good step. Have you tried any of the mods? There's a very well-developed community of ME-PC modders who have done some really wonderful things in terms of adding depth and even expanding the story (slightly). Well worth your time to investigate...assuming you have it on PC. Here's a 15-minute intro: ruclips.net/video/jf9JcQMMSls/видео.html But what I think will make me fall in love with it all over again is a rebuild. Procedurally-driven NPCs that you can have extended conversations with, decisions that are actually decisions instead of "pick one of these three paths." (Have you ever had a conversation with the ticketing AI for British Airways? Or heard Google make a call to a hair salon to schedule an appointment for you? (If you haven't...prepare to have your Mind. Blown. Because this is from 2018: ruclips.net/video/JvbHu_bVa_g/видео.html) If nothing else, the Andromeda protocol of actually telling you what your interrupt options are in the moment (along with a three-to-five-second window during which it can be implemented) may be one of the best things to add that doesn't require creating AGI characters. Can you imagine this as a game for Oculus Go 3, or even full-immersion BMI? I'd never want to come out. Still, the story could have used a little more work; work that I'm sure Bioware had neither time nor budget for. So I'm writing some of it as a guide for the AGI/MLA that I hope to task with building it in a decade or so: www.fanfiction.net/s/10792259/1/Mass-Effect-All-in-the-Details
The eradication of an entire civilisation witnessed here. The very last of their people held within these pods. Switched off one by one. The very last hope eventually made it to the citadel through the relay and there they starved and died of thirst and hunger. The most saddening end to a species ever.
+The Unknown javik lives! and as long as 1 stands up the prothean shall endure and his voice screaming VENGEANCE will be the last thing the reapers will hear before their ultimate downfall
After exploring countless worlds, jumping from cluster to cluster, fighting Geth here and there, and finally, you reach the VI unit on the Prothean homeworld; here, you meet Vigil and he explains a situation of desperation and sorrow regarding the slow eradication of their species by the Reapers. The sheer amount of emotional impact of knowing that all organic life was exterminated and to hear the last ditch efforts of the most powerful species, is humbling. While standing there, I wanted to know more: the why, the how, and I HAVE to find a way to stop this from happening during this cycle. Very powerful, ethereal, and is the core to what Mass Effect is about: the excitement of space exploration, the eventual clarity of the unknown, and the power of friendship between you and the crew of the Normandy. I don't know what part gets you guys when the starting menu comes up, but what gets me,....is the slow fading images of the crew on the Normandy. It brings tears. I am glad I was able to make the journey with this franchise.
To think how big space is. Listening to this song makes me want to go out there and keep going. All the stars, planets, nebula's, clusters. Whatever you call it, it is all beautiful.
Played this in memory of my brother who died 3 months ago, and was as big a fan of this game as me. He wanted to be sent off the stars to this. May you find peace, bud. I will stand vigil for you.
Its funny that Mass Effect is simply reffered to as a video game. There is something about ME that makes it more than just a game. Something unique about it that differenciates it from most other video games. And after finishing the ME series a while ago now, Ive come to the conclusion that its the aspects of the game Bioware prioritized that made ME so wonderful. As oppose to virtually all other video games, Bioware focused on creating an engrossing sci-fi galaxy with very real characters, an intriging storyline, beautiful visuals and a hypnotic soundtrack. And sure the gameplay and combat are a little annoying at times, but thats okay; gameplay and combat dont define a video game, and that is what many 'gamers' are missing. Mass Effect is more than a video game, its a piece of art.
Fanboy much? I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite game on the Citadel. Seriously, I couldn't agree more. I have this idea for an immersive VR reboot circa 2030. If you want a look at specific ways in which I intend to expand the story (at least with a Paragon Engineer for now,) have a look at www.fanfiction.net/s/10792259/1/Mass-Effect-All-in-the-Details
I'll always consider the gameplay of the 1st game to be the best, since it contributes best to the comfy and laid back nature of the game's style. The next ones are fine, but 1 will always be the pinnacle of the games for me in every aspect.
Sitting in front of the TV with my dad, hearing this song as the game started... God. Nothing compares. Nothing to this day compares to the original Mass Effect.
Never forget this...such a huge range of emotions...even before the game started, lol. It meant a lot, for me, at the time. I can't explain it, but it just saw me through a tough time, a time when I never felt more alone, this was therapy...the music, the game, everything. When I was playing through Mass Effect, everytime I started the game, I would let this music play.
Thats video games from 2006 to 2011 for me.. Unbelievable tough shit was happening.. And games like this.. Halo 3... Oblivion.. Gears.. Fable..Etc..etc.. But its just crazy how real the emotions are.. How visual they are for something that doesn't even exist..
This is exactly how I felt. I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I first began, but it was a buffer and really pulled those raw emotions from my gut. There is no sense of dread in this, Just a miasma of lonely feelings, but still somehow managing to be uplifting and tranquil.
In my 30s and i finally got to play Mass Effect for the first time. At my age, its hard to feel an emotional attachment to new video games to the same degree i have felt as a child (Zelda: The Ocarina of Time is MY childhood game that will always hold a special place in my heart). I felt the same level of childlike excitement to the vigil scene at ilos with this music playing in the background. The exchange filled my head with imageries of Protheans final days and the dispair that echoed through my heart. For brief moments, i felt completely immersed in vigils memories and empathized with a video game fictional race. This is a magical track.
I just finished the trilogy yesterday. Hearing this again...it brings a tightness to my chest and a lump to my throat in a way no other piece from a game has. From starting with one these games were the only thing I'd play in my free time, I became one with the world, connecting to the people, the characters, and their struggles. I never got emotional in 1 and 2. I rarely do with any game at all. But this...when I touched down on Earth. When I had those final talks with Garrus, and Liara, and she gave me her gift, with this slowly, faintly, shortly playing in the background. I couldn't take it anymore. I cried like a fucking baby at my desk in the middle of the night. All of the emotion I'd felt over the trilogy flowing out in that moment because I knew it was all coming to an end. It was coming to an end and I didn't want it to. I wanted to keep going, I wanted to keep having hijinx with the crew, saving the galaxy. I wanted to see those little blue children. But at that point a part of me knew Shepherd wouldn't make it, and all of this would end. Then at the very end. After the Reapers were destroyed and everyone was safe, after the credits. I cried possibly the hardest I think I have in a long time during the Stargazer scene. But a part of me doesn't know why. I've seen more compelling films, more artistic works of art, and pieces of music. Yet. This. This series of three games broke me in the end. It's something I'll never forget. Something I'll always remember. Something I will always love. Keelah Se'lai
You guys want that full Mass Effect high? The end credits song is M4 part 2 (faunts). Two and Three were good games in their own right, but Mass Effect was a perfect story, and had a perfect end. We all know you stayed for the credits.
Actually, my favourite is the third game because it made me feel more things than any video game or movie made me ever feel. But the three of them are awesome, powerful, meaningful, and legendary. Without one of the three game, this trilogy wouldn't be the same.
This is perhaps the single greatest piece of music that I have ever heard. When I heard in the mass effect series, I only thought of the free empty void and just being a part of this massive universe. That everything is connected. And I feel more at home when I look up at the stars than any other time in the universe.
This.Exactly This. It's weird because this isn't the song that's really well known when you hear Mass Effect. Most people know this game by The "Mass Effect theme" and "Uncharted World" songs , though also brilliant songs, this song IS Mass Effect to me. It truly captured the soul of the game.
Hoze24 "I don't know exactly what's out there. I don't know why it's so interesting, but what I do know is that it must be pretty damn important. Why else would humanity have left it all alone for so long?"
This song is the best song in the series, narrowly beating out suicide misson from ME2. This song makes me feel at peace with the world, and I will hear this song when I'm in a grave, in an eternal slumber.
If I hear this on the start screen of ME Andromeda, there will be a river of tears from my eyes. Post ME:A release edit: MEA appeared to be a pile of shit. But I still cry, for now - out of anger and impotent rage. Mass Effect Trilogy will be forever in my heart.
I remember booting this game up on my xbox360 for the first time back in 2007 or 2008. I had gotten the game as a birthday present, a used copy, but I didn't mind. The game loaded, the starting screen appeared, with this broody and mystical musical ambience, and a prompt appeared telling me to press start. I did. I will never forget the sound that push of that button made, this unbelievable synth sound that sounded like it came out from a cybernetic brains dream of a forgotten world. And then the music, and the slow fading in and out of mysterious characters in the menu, and then the creation of your character. Man, what a great game, not flawless, but unquestionably great. For me, this song will always be Mass Effects true theme.
N7 won't be the same for me just lost my best friend that just past away, he was my Garus Vakarian to my cmd Shepard... and this soundtrack hits more now
You know that phrase people keep using on the internet: "What has been seen...", well, it works both ways. The game makes you think about life. You only have a single time for everything, no matter how hard you try to stop it. You die and you live in memory of others. Then they die and you get one step closer to nothingness. Humanity, our planet, our star, the Universe... everything dies. Some men would turn to gods out of fear, but not me. It gives me a reason to both live my life and not fear death, because you cannot stop it.
TheLordboki Not all men turn to gods out of "fear"; some either know they will never have the answers and use "God" as a proxy for those answers, or they *want* those answers and try to find all of them with any given religion. The fear for most is the manner of death, not death itself. Most people willingly fall asleep every night without the fear of the state of non-existence we enter... if death is one long sleep then i'm fine with that, no more work. :)
Mryo mismo There is no real consensus on what will happen with the universe as time passes. The most likely explination, imo: thermal death. Look it up.
Roy Batty Heat death is a simple process. Stars form, vomit radiation (energy) and cool, explode, new smaller stars and other bodies form and process goes again up untill there is not enough material and energy to form. In the end, only cold rocks, black holes and radiation remain. How the universe itself ends is a different story: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_fate_of_the_universe
I started playing mass effect when I 8 back in 2007. Mass effect helped me get through so many things in life. at 18 now I decided to back and replay the series for 15th time. I have been going through many rough things in my life such as college,social anexity, and addiction to porn. I hadn't played the game in years but when I finished playing a few months ago It brought me back to piano. It brought me back to art. Finally it also got me off my ass to go and find a girlfriend and quit watching some virtual girlfriend. Mass effect has changed my life in a way I can't imagine. When ever I hear this soundtrack I break down into tears. Nobody can tell someone that a video game can't change someone's lives. I will cherish this game forever
The very first and the very last song you hear in the Mass Effect Trilogy- people may hate 3's ending, but hearing this song at the end brought the series full circle. It needs to be in subsequent ME games in some form.
I still remember to this day, 17 years later, booting up Mass Effect for the first time and hearing this music. I knew at that moment that I was going to experience something special, that would stick with me for many years to come. Still my favorite game trilogy of all time.
This music has all. The spleen, the beauty, the memories and the hopes. This music is emotion, a bittersweet taint of serenity and melancholia. When my mom passed away I ran away from the hospital, went back in my childhood bedroom where I saved the galaxy so many times and put this music into my ears not to feel the tears. For hours long just to make the moment easier, and it did. Thank you Mass Effect team. Thank you who posted this video and thanks everyone with whom I enjoyed speaking of those games for years.
ME1 has always been my favorite. I appreciate the high stakes later on, but there was something indisputable about the feeling of walking across the stars, exploring places no human had ver set foot before that I can't forget.
The fact that this song plays on ME2 when you meet some important people, from the first game, literally gave me chills. (I don't if it's specific to the Legendary edition) This song is just filled to the brim with nostalgia, and I'm all up for it. One hell of a journey, and I am glad to have participated in it.
Listening to this floods me with so much emotion and nostalgia it almost hurts. This series used to be my life, I haven't played through the trilogy in a few years so it all feels like an old dream.
"Our galaxy has billions of stars. Each of those stars could have many worlds. Every world could be home to a different form of life. And every life is a special story of its own."
I never played ME when I was little, and I thought that now as an adult I’d never get to experience it in the eyes of innocence but when I played and this theme started, I was amazed at it’s originality and beauty, in a way, I think it was better for me to play it now than then. I would never give away that experience. Ever…😁
Why is this so calming yet so chilling? And why is it that every time I hear this I think of Shep and Tali sitting on that ledge on Rannoch after the Reaper is killed and the cooperation between the geth and Quarians instead of the ME startup screen?
Aurora Not the only actually. It was played in the end of the mission on Tuchanka, when the cure for the genophage was distributed through the Shroud, and then the tower explodes.
one of the most brilliant moments in gaming history. you fight like hell through ME and into ilos at a rapid pace and then they lock you in this long hallway and begin this music. then you learn the struggle and ultimate failure of the previous civilization who's secrets you have been trying to unlock in order to save your own. i can't hear this music without feeling both hope and despair at the same time. congrats to the writers and music director for that.
2:20 I love this game so much. I remember my friend let me borrow this game back in 2008 and I was blown away. The characters and story is just so so good.❤
Thank you for posting this. My Grandma, who I took care of, passed away recently. I don't know why, but this song somehow helped me get things out and deal with that a little bit. Thank you so much for that.
I will always remember the first time I heard this song. I was in a blockbuster store, looking to rent a game for the weekend. The manager had just brought a new tv to put in the corner to Play new film & game trailers. And then that icon image of the sunlight slowly lighting up earth and then the words MASS EFFECT faded into view, with this song playing. Must have stood there a rewatched the trailer on loop for 15mins. Fuck !! I need to go play these games again
This almost isn't even music, it's more like ambiance so how does it elicit such an emotional response in me like it does? It's practically as iconic as the trilogy itself so maybe that's it.
Completed the Mass effect series on insanity mode and it was a glorious expierence of sweaty palms, joy and rage. This music will always be what defines mass effect for me.
Speaking with Vigil and having this melody play was almost heartbreaking to me. His explanation of what happened to his creators hurt and had a serene sense of loneliness to it. This "lullaby" will forever be embedded into my brain as it carries both a sense of sadness and tranquility. :') Even hearing it at the menu screen envelops me with emotion.
This song really captures the "organics vs synthetics" theme. With the ambient melody representing the organics and their emotions and individuality while the industrial sounding bits pop up in the background occasionally represent the synthetics.
curing the genophage, making peace with the geth and quarians, connecting with your love interest, the stargazer scene. this track makes those moments several times more emotional than they are alone.
I love Mass Effect so much. Its near and dear to my heart. I feel like every few years that pass... I'll start obsessing over it again. Thinking about the good times I had with my friends in the game. A feeling that I need to go back and see them all again. No other game has made me feel this way.
I just can't simply describe the FEEL when you discover vigil and the protheans fate, about the reapers and all, when you say "Mass Effect" that scene comes to my head, a beatiful and memorable moment. When you re-encounter old pals, and also when you say goodbye the last time this music starts playing, it gives an accomplishment and peaceful feel, but also gives a feel of strenght, hope. It also plays when you achieve great things, making them even more memorable, i can easily say this is the best music from every single OST
This song touches on all the emotions present in the games: discovery of the unknown, despair, sadness, desolation, curiosity, grandiosity, hope, love...and life, that even in the dark, emptiness of space, grows. It sounds like a baby being brought into this world, rubbing its eyes and being enraptured by the sublime nature of the universe before it.
Whenever I boot up Mass Effect, I'm always tempted to just sit there and listen to this beautiful piece for as long as I can. It's too good to be passed up.
I remember sitting down on November 20th, 2007. I remember turning on my Xbox to hear this music for the first time, and my mind was instantly flooded with images of what this game could possibly be. Space travel? Exploring unknown expanses of the Universe? Finding the root of my own humanity while saving not only a single world, but entire galaxies from an almost Omni-potent evil? It's over half way through 2015, and I'm impatiently waiting the arrival of Mass Effect: Andromeda (Holiday 2016). Needless to say, every time I play this game over and over again, I get more attached to it. But I have to say, it's not always a good thing. You play it enough and you know every line, every scenario and every possible outcome. Never again will I get that initial feeling, in November of '07, where I first shot Wrex because my Paragon wasn't high enough. Never again will I be able to recreate the raw feeling of every mission, every dialogue option, and every surprise that assaulted you right in the feels. "Leaving Earth" might still tug at my heartstrings, but not in the way it did when I watched/heard it for the very first time. I wish I could do it all over again. Mass Effect is an integral part of my gaming history, and will always be my favorite series of all time.
Fallout 1 and 2 and Baldurs Gate 1 and 2 were the pinnacle of 2D narrative heavy rpgs. Mass Effect and Dragon Age : Origins are the pinnacle of 3D. None of them have been surpassed. The culmination of atmosphere, writing, character building, lore, combat balancing, progression, visuals, and then just perfect thematic scores like this - modern games haven't come close.
When I first heard this song in the title menu I knew this game would affect me like no other. As an aspiring science fiction author Mass Effect has greatly influenced my writing. The grandeur of the setting, the depth of the story, the charm of the characters - everything I look for in a good Space Opera. It was practically love at first sight. Thank you Bioware for letting me experience Mass Effect in my lifetime.
Good luck on your writing ambition! ME1 is an excellent example of how to write a good science-fiction setting. I had a fun experience with that, actually. I was halfway through writing my first novel (with much of the action taking place aboard a starship named 'Normandy') when I first came across the ME series. Needless to say, I had to rename the ship in my story...
The first time I heard this song in the main menu of the game, I stopped and said to myself: "This is going to be an experience you will never forget" And this is my second comment on this video but OMFG this song inspires me
I pity the poor souls who never experienced Mass Effect, they missed something on a magnitude that occurs only one or two times a decade, and carved itself in my memory and heart for life. I chose this music to be played at my wedding during the vows, it was so magical
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THIS is the true theme of Mass Effect.
Damn right, this is on another level of genius and Ilos a whole other level of game experience.
I feel they did not use it in the right places in 2 and 3 - tried too much to put it in places with emotional relationships which ruined the flavour for me - instead of for example during the end sequence of 3 which it would have suited perfectly. It is far too grand and vast to be limited to scenes like the VS on horizon which doesn't do this theme justice.
Curunen Exactly my thought in its use. Too used. Let this show what it means to have brought our worlds to peace. Not in every relationship scene. It's meant to show us JUST how vast and awe inspiring the cosmos are. That despite saving, or dooming all life in the universe, it will carry on as it always has. Uncaring for all beings, synthetic or otherwise. No star-child, no reapers, no humans, no asari, no quarians, no turians, no volus, no geth, no elcor, nothing but stars and worlds. Whether the Reapers saw that or not...Well, they never told. In the end, we realise that nothing can beat the pure power of the universe. No matter how perfect the Reapers are, no matter how many the Krogan, all would simply perish if they even tried to fight what the universe is. This is how it should have ended. The Reapers, high and mighty, begin to see just how the universe truly works. As the races seek to understand their purpose, the universe already knows its purpose.
To simply be.
+71tofu Truer words were never written.
That's right, man
calkhi Spoken like a true Philosopher well done 👏🏾
This is Mass Effect's rendition of tears in rain.
ΓΚΕΪΚ, είσαι και εσύ εδώ 😂
"I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.
All those moments, will be lost in time... like tears in rain."
RIP Rutger Hauer 1944 - 2019
exactly right
Perfection
Well Said 😄😄
For anyone who has played ALL of the Mass Effect games, listening to this song just brings back an indescribable feeling in your chest, makes you feel so much pain, but also at the same time make you feel so at peace... Beautiful
True. This song makes me think about how vast our galaxy is let alone the whole universe it's like thinking out of the box. But this song also reminds me a lot about Liara (never romanced anyone except her in all of my countless playthroughs). Shit they better bring her and Shepard and the gang back for the next Mass Effect title, man.. I just.. Shit the Mass Effect Trilogy really got me feeling some type of way haha I just really wish this ain't the end for Shepard
Louis Gonzales Indeed, in regards to thinking about the galaxy. As Arthur C. Clarke said "'Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying". Really does make you wonder what if any other 'race' is out there. In regards to race, it has me wondering if there are other 'races' out there if they have the same sorts of stupid petty wars we have relating to race or religion.
Louis Gonzales i think that too,except for Liara,i've never romanced her,instead i opted for Tali,and the music reminds me of her since it plays many times in ME3,i hope they do Tali Shepard justice in the next mass effect.
(always referred to that song as Tali's theme)
and when in ME2 when i reunited with Wrex i nearly cried.
i hoped too that Shepard wouldn't end,but we knew that eventually it would have ended
TheKirk15 yeah,i feel nostalgia for ME1,it was simply unique and amazing and sadness because the beatiful concept has been ruined in ME3
TheKirk15 I think it's a bit of pain but hope. Great track. It's the penultimate theme for Mass Effect.
TheKirk15 When I heard this for the first time, it gave me the image of a great space opera. And when it came and played during the vigil sequence in game, with the guys awesome voice explaining what happened, it was chilling.
Now when I listen to it, I get shivers down my spine, it brings great happiness to me, and hope, but also a sad emptyness, since it plays during some of the most touching moments in the later games. "It's funny shepard, I just landed on my homeworld for the first time." Hands Tali a rock from Rannoch "Well, you best start carrying it with you too."
“You are not Prothean, but you are not machine either. This was one of many eventualities that was anticipated. Perhaps there is still hope.”
There is still hope that you will beat this game on Insanity
I did😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉@@RobertoBeto64
@@RobertoBeto64 well most boss fights can be cheesed on insanity what's hard is when you have a timer or have to keep someone alive like garrus on maas effect 2 and kasumi goto mission due to gunship plot armor trashmobs like harbinger also are harder to kill than most bosses in game
@@AMaidenlessRunt you can skip Saren's first stage with Renegade/Paragon points
Even just playing me1 when it first came out and then listening to it now just floods back the nostalgia, simpler times
Listening to Vigil, in a tomb filled with some of the last and most brilliant of its people patiently explaining the end of their civilisation is one of the saddest moments in gaming for me.
Tuberuser187 Agreed - it's poignant sci-fi. It's moments like this that make Mass Effect heads and tails above most of its competition in the genre.
kitredKitredson "World by world, system by system..." Just gives me the shivers.
Tuberuser187 Ya pretty bone chilling. Very eerie.
Nonarei same its one of the only game that made my heart actually feel heavy
Then EA in ME3:
Yo ma nigga, you wanna have one of them Promethean-ian... Whatever, cats? Set your boy up with some dollar. Cheeeeaaahhhh.
For me, this will always be the Mass Effect main theme.
I think for most people, it feels more like the main theme since it's the first music you hear when you play the game.
and it's also the last one in mass effect 3
jason daniel barry
Yeah, you can hear some glimps in the trailers.
this track better be in andromeda
Well, there's a reason why I cried when Liara played this on piano.
Nothing beats the memory of firing up mass effect the first time, and hearing vigil playing in the menu.
No other game has ever given me that feeling.
+TriangularFilms I wish i never played the game. So i could play it for the first time.
+TriangularFilms True as well.
+TriangularFilms 100% agree. I would also recommend playing UFO Aftershock (a bit dated RTS), it gives me same chills with its soundtrack after having played it.
Truth man. nothing since. so magical.
zelda ocarina of time is right up there with this.
Every time I hear this track it is like ME is giving me a hug and saying 'everything will be ok'
to me it tells me "We'll bang okay?"
I needed that so much right now.
One of those “we’ll always be here for you” type things, especially in today’s world.
Pretty much. Lol
@@whathappenswhen4767 you ruined this track lol
When Mordin gave his life to save the krogan and the galaxy, and this played in the aftermath... with Wrex talking about how his people had hope for the first time after being reduced almost to animals... and then this theme, an old friend, kicked in...
I set the controller down and couldn't pick it up for a long, long time.
There really wasn't any other crew who could have planned out that scene as well. Someone else would have gotten it wrong.
Meeting Vigil on Ilos is so terrifying. The music is serene and calm, but also sad. Vigil describes the last days of a civilization, and the final mission to try to save future civilizations.
At this point we had met Sovereign and seen his influence, but the Reapers were still very much unknown. There’s a lot of fear at this point since we know what Sovereign and Saren are trying to do, but we don’t know the magnitude of it until we speak to Vigil and hear the account of the dying civilization.
“It is a quiet thing, to fall. But far more terrible is to admit it.” - Kreia
That Kreia quote is more applicable to Saren (particularly if you talk him down) than to Vigil. But I see what you're saying, agreed
I thank the older gentleman at the Walmart that told me to play mass effect 2, he was probably in his 50’s or 60’s, I was in my late 20’s looking for a game to play.
He simply said play this game, you will not find a better game. Other than part 1.
I put trust in his advice and as soon as I finished 2 I had to get Mass effect….damn thank you sir.
Walmart employee led me to the best gaming trilogy of all time….
"Shepard-Commander... I must go to them. I... I'm sorry. It's the only way."
"Legion... the answer to your question... was 'yes'."
"I know, Tali... but thank you. Keelah se'lai."
I just hits even harder when you hear him say I instead of “We”
"I look at all this - this picture of hope and peace - and all I see... is everyone I've lost. My team on Haestrom, my father, even Legion! I'm mourning a Geth, how crazy is that?!"
"It's not crazy at all..."
"It is beautiful, though..."
"Yeah. It is..."
this moment and the genophage cure by mordin absolutely destroyed me emotionally
Nothing will ever quite match hearing this play for the first time (or any other time) on the Mass Effect menu screen. What nostalgia this gives me...
***** Same here. This is the most amazing main menu track I've ever listened to.
galactic map + this = 10/10
and what about when you listened in front of Vigil, telling about the end of the Protheans.
***** It was great, it gave a context for the song, but it still didn't match up with the first time your hear it. The song was used in that scene though. One of my favorite Mass Effect moments.
This song and the Normandy theme is what gives me instant nostalgia. EVERY TIME. Even now when I'm currently having my 3rd playthrough it gives me nostalgia.
I loved all Mass Effects, especially the 2nd, but remembering what the first felt like and meant... the first time playing the game, the plot, the characters, and the omnipresent feeling of the immense, vast space, all bound by this soundtrack... still gives me chills and shivers.
I played ME1 for the first time in my life in 2016 and the game felt huge.
how was it?
same i played all ME games in 2015 and god damn i could back of the game the world the story and companions i love all 3 games and i wish i could erase memories of playing them so could experience it all over again
ME2 sjw bullshit and pointless mini games
@@Romano2018 what
That moment when you give Jenkins the best armor you have and he dies anyway
underratet i buyed for him Collosus armor "10" and he dies anyway -.-
@@christinaromanova4357 Because plot!
RIP Jenkins. You're missed, buddy. :(
@@gp75motorsports What's the opposite of plot armor? Plot target?
Dammit, Leroy!
@@Agent1W Haaaa! Brilliant!
I remember when I first played Mass Effect and came across Vigil on Ilos, the music and atmosphere as vigil explained what happened with the protheans really effected me emotionally, mass effect is one of the only few games that really knows how to tug at your heart strings.
@Chris Butrim I know exactly what you mean. The storytelling was brilliant. (ME was my first exposure to RPGs because I'd never seen one set in a world where I'd actually want to live, and thus never cared enough to try one.) But as I realised what had happened to the Protheans, especially those on Ilos, I wept openly.
Having this piece play as the opening for the story was utter genius, because when heard it again in context, it suddenly tied the whole story together. Not just brilliant: BUH-rilliant. It was as if I could feel the whole galaxy at once, and it was beautiful and tragic and somehow still so full of potential. It may be as close as I've come to a "religious experience."
A remaster is a good step. Have you tried any of the mods? There's a very well-developed community of ME-PC modders who have done some really wonderful things in terms of adding depth and even expanding the story (slightly). Well worth your time to investigate...assuming you have it on PC. Here's a 15-minute intro: ruclips.net/video/jf9JcQMMSls/видео.html
But what I think will make me fall in love with it all over again is a rebuild. Procedurally-driven NPCs that you can have extended conversations with, decisions that are actually decisions instead of "pick one of these three paths." (Have you ever had a conversation with the ticketing AI for British Airways? Or heard Google make a call to a hair salon to schedule an appointment for you? (If you haven't...prepare to have your Mind.
Blown.
Because this is from 2018: ruclips.net/video/JvbHu_bVa_g/видео.html)
If nothing else, the Andromeda protocol of actually telling you what your interrupt options are in the moment (along with a three-to-five-second window during which it can be implemented) may be one of the best things to add that doesn't require creating AGI characters.
Can you imagine this as a game for Oculus Go 3, or even full-immersion BMI? I'd never want to come out.
Still, the story could have used a little more work; work that I'm sure Bioware had neither time nor budget for. So I'm writing some of it as a guide for the AGI/MLA that I hope to task with building it in a decade or so: www.fanfiction.net/s/10792259/1/Mass-Effect-All-in-the-Details
@@stevejordan7275 lmaoo I'm not reading all that.....but I'm sure it's good
@@nautikient2151 Lmfao I was like "come on man it's 4 lines" and then I saw read more and I was also like "Yeah lmao I'm not reading all that"
Two weeks ago, I just finished the entire Mass Effect trilogy in a three-week binge. And now, coming back to this track? I'm in tears. There are few games that can distil such a sense of nostalgia in me so short after, and that sure as hell says a lot about Mass Effect. These games changed my life, and I'd say I would have wanted to play it sooner. But I don't think I would be able to appreciate it back in the day.
Some things just get better with age, and for Mass Effect, that goes both ways.
This music always makes me cry because it's so beautiful and makes me feel nostalgic 😭... Mass Effect trilogy is such a special journey 💙.
Played them for the first time once the first came out when I was 17. I was a sophomore in high school back then. I appreciated and loved the remaster so bad that I finished it four times and I felt exactly the same feelings as yours. This trilogy had, has and will forever have a profound impact on me as a person and there's so many videogames that sent me spinning but this series became one of my favorites and might be for years to come.
Played mass effect first when i was 14 now iam 22 and this shit still makes me teary... no game will ever come like it.
I'm late to the game of mass effect also, after hearing about it for years and thinking nah I won't be into it, here I am, absolutely obsessed, crying over robots and aliens, and feeling sad that no other game will quite make me feel so attached to the characters.
You played 8h a day for 3 weeks straight?
Go to the countryside at night, lay down on the soft grass and stare at the night sky. While this song plays.
A memory that will be imprinted for life.
lovely
One day, i'll take my son stargazing and tell him stories about The Shepard.
I did this with my cousins, my brother and my fiancée. It's a memory for life, yes
I live out in the country, once in a while I’ll put any version of this song on and stare up into the stars at night. I’ve seen shooting stars penetrating the atmosphere while listening to this.
One of those pieces of music that you love and know why you love it. It creates an awesome scope of everything that isn’t pessimistic.
Our galaxy has billions of stars, each of those stars can have many worlds, and every world can be home to different forms of life, and every life has its special story of its own
Bioware is the only video game company that ever made me wish I could selectively forget things. So I could experience the joy, wonder and feeling of adventure that Mass Effect brought me all over again. No other game made me feel like I was exploring a universe, the great unknown, like this series.
Joshlander I don't think you'll find a ME player who doesn't share your view on being able to forget an start fresh with the series.
Hope you got your fresh start with the Legendary Edition, homie !
TES IV: Oblivion and TES V: Skyrim are also ones that I would love to play again for the first time. I was not lucky enough to play Morrowind back in the days, but I've heard great things about it.
too bad that 8 years later bioware is just a trash woke studio
Back in the day they made KotOR, too. Maybe you wanna try Gothic 1 and Gothic 2 (and night of the Raven). They're similar in intensity.
This theme allways reminds me about my friend which died from cancer some time ago, he loved the Mass Effect universe. Rest in Piece Hubert
❤
Maybe he's there now, walking down the streets of the Citadel, watching the stars ❤
@@victorgann4869 so poetic
May your friend rest in peace among the stars.
May your friend rest in peace, I'm sure he's waiting for you at the bar
Nostalgia level infinity achieved.
Do you ever just start Mass Effect for the very first time and you hear this and you immediately realize this is going to be a very special game?
I cried manly tears when hearing Vigil revealed the fate of the protheans trapped inside their stasis pods, with this soundtrack playing.
I didn't cry, but I felt a great heaviness in my chest when I heard all that. It's so bleak and hopeless for that to have happened, and you wish there was something you could do, but the fact is, you're too late. The only thing to do is to hope you can do what the Protheans couldn't.
@Chicken Mike I know *exactly* what you mean. Mass Effect was my first exposure to RPGs because I'd never seen one set in a world where I'd actually want to live, and thus never cared enough to try one. But as I realised what had happened to the Protheans, especially those on Ilos, I wept openly.
Having this piece play as the opening for the story was utter genius, because when heard it again in context, it suddenly tied the whole story together. Not just brilliant: BUH-rilliant. It was as if I could feel the whole galaxy at once, and it was beautiful and tragic and somehow still so full of potential. It may be as close as I've come to a "religious experience."
A remaster is a good step. Have you tried any of the mods? There's a very well-developed community of ME-PC modders who have done some really wonderful things in terms of adding depth and even expanding the story (slightly). Well worth your time to investigate...assuming you have it on PC. Here's a 15-minute intro: ruclips.net/video/jf9JcQMMSls/видео.html
But what I think will make me fall in love with it all over again is a rebuild. Procedurally-driven NPCs that you can have extended conversations with, decisions that are actually decisions instead of "pick one of these three paths." (Have you ever had a conversation with the ticketing AI for British Airways? Or heard Google make a call to a hair salon to schedule an appointment for you? (If you haven't...prepare to have your Mind.
Blown.
Because this is from 2018: ruclips.net/video/JvbHu_bVa_g/видео.html)
If nothing else, the Andromeda protocol of actually telling you what your interrupt options are in the moment (along with a three-to-five-second window during which it can be implemented) may be one of the best things to add that doesn't require creating AGI characters.
Can you imagine this as a game for Oculus Go 3, or even full-immersion BMI? I'd never want to come out.
Still, the story could have used a little more work; work that I'm sure Bioware had neither time nor budget for. So I'm writing some of it as a guide for the AGI/MLA that I hope to task with building it in a decade or so: www.fanfiction.net/s/10792259/1/Mass-Effect-All-in-the-Details
If you hear this music...Two things.
-You chosen the right choice
-but in return you lose someone important/they make the ultimate sacrifice for you.
"Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong."
Or you just met with Wrex and the Virmire survivor
The eradication of an entire civilisation witnessed here. The very last of their people held within these pods. Switched off one by one. The very last hope eventually made it to the citadel through the relay and there they starved and died of thirst and hunger. The most saddening end to a species ever.
+The Unknown What about Javik?
+shotmeonsightplease well he was Apart of a special unit weren't he he wasnt the last on illos after everyone had been harvested. lucky bastard
+The Unknown Well, fair enough, I'll give you that.
+The Unknown javik lives! and as long as 1 stands up the prothean shall endure and his voice screaming VENGEANCE will be the last thing the reapers will hear before their ultimate downfall
+WIlliam Blaylock Wreav said that, not Wrex.
After exploring countless worlds, jumping from cluster to cluster, fighting Geth here and there, and finally, you reach the VI unit on the Prothean homeworld; here, you meet Vigil and he explains a situation of desperation and sorrow regarding the slow eradication of their species by the Reapers. The sheer amount of emotional impact of knowing that all organic life was exterminated and to hear the last ditch efforts of the most powerful species, is humbling. While standing there, I wanted to know more: the why, the how, and I HAVE to find a way to stop this from happening during this cycle. Very powerful, ethereal, and is the core to what Mass Effect is about: the excitement of space exploration, the eventual clarity of the unknown, and the power of friendship between you and the crew of the Normandy. I don't know what part gets you guys when the starting menu comes up, but what gets me,....is the slow fading images of the crew on the Normandy. It brings tears. I am glad I was able to make the journey with this franchise.
well said bro
+seanlamar29 Thank you.😆
Its even sadder when that *one* crew member that never made it to the end fades in and slowly back out. D':
To think how big space is. Listening to this song makes me want to go out there and keep going. All the stars, planets, nebula's, clusters. Whatever you call it, it is all beautiful.
@@PrimesNewExperiment it’s bizarre that I’m just about complete the whole series for the first time after all these years 😖
Honestly, Vigil's scene still gives me chills years later.
Played this in memory of my brother who died 3 months ago, and was as big a fan of this game as me. He wanted to be sent off the stars to this. May you find peace, bud. I will stand vigil for you.
Im so sorry
🙏🏿👑
So much nostalgia, chills every fucking time, easily the best song of an excellent soundtrack
After Rannoch, I think this is the most emotional track in the entire trilogy. Hits me right in the feels.
amen to that.
Its funny that Mass Effect is simply reffered to as a video game. There is something about ME that makes it more than just a game. Something unique about it that differenciates it from most other video games. And after finishing the ME series a while ago now, Ive come to the conclusion that its the aspects of the game Bioware prioritized that made ME so wonderful. As oppose to virtually all other video games, Bioware focused on creating an engrossing sci-fi galaxy with very real characters, an intriging storyline, beautiful visuals and a hypnotic soundtrack. And sure the gameplay and combat are a little annoying at times, but thats okay; gameplay and combat dont define a video game, and that is what many 'gamers' are missing. Mass Effect is more than a video game, its a piece of art.
couldn't agree more. Perfectly sums up how I feel about the ME series
Fanboy much?
I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite game on the Citadel.
Seriously, I couldn't agree more. I have this idea for an immersive VR reboot circa 2030. If you want a look at specific ways in which I intend to expand the story (at least with a Paragon Engineer for now,) have a look at www.fanfiction.net/s/10792259/1/Mass-Effect-All-in-the-Details
They were lucky to have Drew Karpyshyn when he wrote the story that started it all.
just got three words for you.....HERE..FUCKING...HERE....:-)
I'll always consider the gameplay of the 1st game to be the best, since it contributes best to the comfy and laid back nature of the game's style. The next ones are fine, but 1 will always be the pinnacle of the games for me in every aspect.
best title theme ever
i like your profile pic
Cerberus Haha
The irony in this comment with his PFP.
Sitting in front of the TV with my dad, hearing this song as the game started... God. Nothing compares. Nothing to this day compares to the original Mass Effect.
Never forget this...such a huge range of emotions...even before the game started, lol. It meant a lot, for me, at the time. I can't explain it, but it just saw me through a tough time, a time when I never felt more alone, this was therapy...the music, the game, everything. When I was playing through Mass Effect, everytime I started the game, I would let this music play.
Thats video games from 2006 to 2011 for me.. Unbelievable tough shit was happening.. And games like this.. Halo 3... Oblivion.. Gears.. Fable..Etc..etc.. But its just crazy how real the emotions are.. How visual they are for something that doesn't even exist..
This is exactly how I felt. I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I first began, but it was a buffer and really pulled those raw emotions from my gut. There is no sense of dread in this, Just a miasma of lonely feelings, but still somehow managing to be uplifting and tranquil.
In my 30s and i finally got to play Mass Effect for the first time. At my age, its hard to feel an emotional attachment to new video games to the same degree i have felt as a child (Zelda: The Ocarina of Time is MY childhood game that will always hold a special place in my heart). I felt the same level of childlike excitement to the vigil scene at ilos with this music playing in the background. The exchange filled my head with imageries of Protheans final days and the dispair that echoed through my heart. For brief moments, i felt completely immersed in vigils memories and empathized with a video game fictional race. This is a magical track.
I just finished the trilogy yesterday. Hearing this again...it brings a tightness to my chest and a lump to my throat in a way no other piece from a game has. From starting with one these games were the only thing I'd play in my free time, I became one with the world, connecting to the people, the characters, and their struggles. I never got emotional in 1 and 2. I rarely do with any game at all. But this...when I touched down on Earth. When I had those final talks with Garrus, and Liara, and she gave me her gift, with this slowly, faintly, shortly playing in the background. I couldn't take it anymore. I cried like a fucking baby at my desk in the middle of the night. All of the emotion I'd felt over the trilogy flowing out in that moment because I knew it was all coming to an end. It was coming to an end and I didn't want it to. I wanted to keep going, I wanted to keep having hijinx with the crew, saving the galaxy. I wanted to see those little blue children. But at that point a part of me knew Shepherd wouldn't make it, and all of this would end. Then at the very end. After the Reapers were destroyed and everyone was safe, after the credits. I cried possibly the hardest I think I have in a long time during the Stargazer scene. But a part of me doesn't know why. I've seen more compelling films, more artistic works of art, and pieces of music. Yet. This. This series of three games broke me in the end. It's something I'll never forget. Something I'll always remember. Something I will always love.
Keelah Se'lai
I'm jealous of those that will get to travel the galaxy some day. Mass Effect really got to me 👍
You guys want that full Mass Effect high? The end credits song is M4 part 2 (faunts). Two and Three were good games in their own right, but Mass Effect was a perfect story, and had a perfect end. We all know you stayed for the credits.
agree, it was like the ending of (your own) epic movie.
Actually, my favourite is the third game because it made me feel more things than any video game or movie made me ever feel. But the three of them are awesome, powerful, meaningful, and legendary. Without one of the three game, this trilogy wouldn't be the same.
Why call one better than the other? The true mass effect experience is playing all three games together and enjoying one true “trilogy”
@@vedantdesai1 7 years ago, dude
@@TitaniteHydra yet you replied
The conversation with Vigil, surrounded by what had essentially become a graveyard is one of my favorite moments in gaming.
This is perhaps the single greatest piece of music that I have ever heard. When I heard in the mass effect series, I only thought of the free empty void and just being a part of this massive universe. That everything is connected. And I feel more at home when I look up at the stars than any other time in the universe.
This.Exactly This. It's weird because this isn't the song that's really well known when you hear Mass Effect. Most people know this game by The "Mass Effect theme" and "Uncharted World" songs , though also brilliant songs, this song IS Mass Effect to me. It truly captured the soul of the game.
Hoze24 "I don't know exactly what's out there. I don't know why it's so interesting, but what I do know is that it must be pretty damn important. Why else would humanity have left it all alone for so long?"
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
:Carl Sagan-The Pale Blue Dot.
Damn.. Your comment hit me! I feel the exact same way man
+BatterySonic My god... that is my exact reaction. Well put friend.
This song is the best song in the series, narrowly beating out suicide misson from ME2. This song makes me feel at peace with the world, and I will hear this song when I'm in a grave, in an eternal slumber.
If I hear this on the start screen of ME Andromeda, there will be a river of tears from my eyes.
Post ME:A release edit: MEA appeared to be a pile of shit. But I still cry, for now - out of anger and impotent rage. Mass Effect Trilogy will be forever in my heart.
+Melodeath by Countries same
same here. we will all lay the controller on the floor, sit back, close our eyes..and soak up the nostalgia
if i get to see the start screen of ME Andromeda there will be a river of tears from my eyes
not a single trailer ever since the e3 reveal in 2015
i agree
me too
unforgettable. i'll always cherish this game.
This song...the only thing I can imagine when I hear it is... the sunrise.
+CegeRoles I thought of my Grandmother when I first heard this in Mass Effect 3.
+Tory Crow This song was in ME1, m8
I have only played ME3, m8.rocritz
+Tory Crow It sucks to be you
+Tory Crow well you're missing out. ME3 is the worst of the three
I remember booting this game up on my xbox360 for the first time back in 2007 or 2008. I had gotten the game as a birthday present, a used copy, but I didn't mind. The game loaded, the starting screen appeared, with this broody and mystical musical ambience, and a prompt appeared telling me to press start. I did. I will never forget the sound that push of that button made, this unbelievable synth sound that sounded like it came out from a cybernetic brains dream of a forgotten world. And then the music, and the slow fading in and out of mysterious characters in the menu, and then the creation of your character. Man, what a great game, not flawless, but unquestionably great. For me, this song will always be Mass Effects true theme.
Remember boys, Shepard did make it out, and they built that house on Rannoch.
All these years and I come home to this in times of trouble
Truly a masterpiece. I can't describe the feeling I get each time I boot up the first Mass Effect.
The entire series holds a special place in my heart
The goosebumps are real.
it always took me some time to get to the main menu of mass effect. had to listen to this at least twice before playing
N7 won't be the same for me just lost my best friend that just past away, he was my Garus Vakarian to my cmd Shepard... and this soundtrack hits more now
You know that phrase people keep using on the internet: "What has been seen...", well, it works both ways. The game makes you think about life. You only have a single time for everything, no matter how hard you try to stop it. You die and you live in memory of others. Then they die and you get one step closer to nothingness. Humanity, our planet, our star, the Universe... everything dies.
Some men would turn to gods out of fear, but not me. It gives me a reason to both live my life and not fear death, because you cannot stop it.
That's true bro,that's true:D but we all still siting in our chairs and do nothing but fap:)
TheLordboki Not all men turn to gods out of "fear"; some either know they will never have the answers and use "God" as a proxy for those answers, or they *want* those answers and try to find all of them with any given religion.
The fear for most is the manner of death, not death itself. Most people willingly fall asleep every night without the fear of the state of non-existence we enter... if death is one long sleep then i'm fine with that, no more work. :)
Mryo mismo There is no real consensus on what will happen with the universe as time passes. The most likely explination, imo: thermal death. Look it up.
TheLordboki Then it'll just be reborn and probably vomit out other sentient species, right?
Roy Batty Heat death is a simple process. Stars form, vomit radiation (energy) and cool, explode, new smaller stars and other bodies form and process goes again up untill there is not enough material and energy to form. In the end, only cold rocks, black holes and radiation remain.
How the universe itself ends is a different story: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_fate_of_the_universe
I started playing mass effect when I 8 back in 2007. Mass effect helped me get through so many things in life. at 18 now I decided to back and replay the series for 15th time. I have been going through many rough things in my life such as college,social anexity, and addiction to porn. I hadn't played the game in years but when I finished playing a few months ago It brought me back to piano. It brought me back to art. Finally it also got me off my ass to go and find a girlfriend and quit watching some virtual girlfriend. Mass effect has changed my life in a way I can't imagine. When ever I hear this soundtrack I break down into tears. Nobody can tell someone that a video game can't change someone's lives. I will cherish this game forever
The very first and the very last song you hear in the Mass Effect Trilogy- people may hate 3's ending, but hearing this song at the end brought the series full circle. It needs to be in subsequent ME games in some form.
When Vigil went off-line, I said it here in the real world "go with the stars my friend'' and a tear dropped. Immersion was golden.
Хочется сесть на поляну под покрывалом млечного пути. Глядеть на звёзды и мечтать о далёком холодном,но от этого не менее прекрасном космосе.
I still remember to this day, 17 years later, booting up Mass Effect for the first time and hearing this music. I knew at that moment that I was going to experience something special, that would stick with me for many years to come. Still my favorite game trilogy of all time.
This music has all. The spleen, the beauty, the memories and the hopes. This music is emotion, a bittersweet taint of serenity and melancholia.
When my mom passed away I ran away from the hospital, went back in my childhood bedroom where I saved the galaxy so many times and put this music into my ears not to feel the tears. For hours long just to make the moment easier, and it did.
Thank you Mass Effect team. Thank you who posted this video and thanks everyone with whom I enjoyed speaking of those games for years.
May both of our mothers RIP. I sincerely hope you found some peace, healing and closure.
ME1 has always been my favorite. I appreciate the high stakes later on, but there was something indisputable about the feeling of walking across the stars, exploring places no human had ver set foot before that I can't forget.
The fact that this song plays on ME2 when you meet some important people, from the first game, literally gave me chills. (I don't if it's specific to the Legendary edition)
This song is just filled to the brim with nostalgia, and I'm all up for it. One hell of a journey, and I am glad to have participated in it.
I believe it also plays after Mordin sacrifices himself in the third game with the cure to save all Krogans.
Listening to this floods me with so much emotion and nostalgia it almost hurts. This series used to be my life, I haven't played through the trilogy in a few years so it all feels like an old dream.
"Our galaxy has billions of stars. Each of those stars could have many worlds. Every world could be home to a different form of life. And every life is a special story of its own."
"I know, Tali. But thank you. Keelah Se'lai."
So many memories... Makes me wonder what lies beyond the stars.
MORE STARS!
(slowly begins applause).
this holds a special place in my heart :3
I never played ME when I was little, and I thought that now as an adult I’d never get to experience it in the eyes of innocence but when I played and this theme started, I was amazed at it’s originality and beauty, in a way, I think it was better for me to play it now than then. I would never give away that experience. Ever…😁
Why is this so calming yet so chilling? And why is it that every time I hear this I think of Shep and Tali sitting on that ledge on Rannoch after the Reaper is killed and the cooperation between the geth and Quarians instead of the ME startup screen?
Because this is the most chilling and peaceful picture you can see in the whole Universe.
Well this song played in ME3 on Rannoch in that scene of Talk and Shepard. I think it's the only scene in that game where this was played.
Aurora Not the only actually. It was played in the end of the mission on Tuchanka, when the cure for the genophage was distributed through the Shroud, and then the tower explodes.
It was actually played three times, that I could count. The third is at the Stargazer scene, playing very faintly in the background.
How can one little song bring to life so many complex emotions?
"Your survival depends on stopping them, not in understanding them."
one of the most brilliant moments in gaming history. you fight like hell through ME and into ilos at a rapid pace and then they lock you in this long hallway and begin this music. then you learn the struggle and ultimate failure of the previous civilization who's secrets you have been trying to unlock in order to save your own.
i can't hear this music without feeling both hope and despair at the same time. congrats to the writers and music director for that.
One of the few scores that gives me chills everytime
This is most unique and beautiful soundtrack from all Mass Effect series.
2:20 I love this game so much. I remember my friend let me borrow this game back in 2008 and I was blown away. The characters and story is just so so good.❤
Thank you for posting this. My Grandma, who I took care of, passed away recently. I don't know why, but this song somehow helped me get things out and deal with that a little bit. Thank you so much for that.
This songs helped me with my anxiety attacks in a way that no medicine could... It's incredible how peaceful it is to me. All those memories...
I will always remember the first time I heard this song. I was in a blockbuster store, looking to rent a game for the weekend. The manager had just brought a new tv to put in the corner to Play new film & game trailers. And then that icon image of the sunlight slowly lighting up earth and then the words MASS EFFECT faded into view, with this song playing. Must have stood there a rewatched the trailer on loop for 15mins. Fuck !! I need to go play these games again
This almost isn't even music, it's more like ambiance so how does it elicit such an emotional response in me like it does? It's practically as iconic as the trilogy itself so maybe that's it.
madcapper6 there's such a thing as ambient music...
Completed the Mass effect series on insanity mode and it was a glorious expierence of sweaty palms, joy and rage. This music will always be what defines mass effect for me.
Speaking with Vigil and having this melody play was almost heartbreaking to me. His explanation of what happened to his creators hurt and had a serene sense of loneliness to it. This "lullaby" will forever be embedded into my brain as it carries both a sense of sadness and tranquility. :') Even hearing it at the menu screen envelops me with emotion.
This song really captures the "organics vs synthetics" theme. With the ambient melody representing the organics and their emotions and individuality while the industrial sounding bits pop up in the background occasionally represent the synthetics.
It's not necessarily "versus".
Don't remind us of that complete retcon that Bioware made in the ME3 ending...
Holy crap got goose bumps just remembered so many years from this song
Tries not to cry *floods room*
curing the genophage, making peace with the geth and quarians, connecting with your love interest, the stargazer scene. this track makes those moments several times more emotional than they are alone.
I love Mass Effect so much. Its near and dear to my heart. I feel like every few years that pass... I'll start obsessing over it again. Thinking about the good times I had with my friends in the game. A feeling that I need to go back and see them all again. No other game has made me feel this way.
I just can't simply describe the FEEL when you discover vigil and the protheans fate, about the reapers and all, when you say "Mass Effect" that scene comes to my head, a beatiful and memorable moment. When you re-encounter old pals, and also when you say goodbye the last time this music starts playing, it gives an accomplishment and peaceful feel, but also gives a feel of strenght, hope. It also plays when you achieve great things, making them even more memorable, i can easily say this is the best music from every single OST
This has been played over 13 MILLION times on Spotify... WOW! Shows how much people love Mass Effect and especially this track!
20 million now god damn
This song touches on all the emotions present in the games: discovery of the unknown, despair, sadness, desolation, curiosity, grandiosity, hope, love...and life, that even in the dark, emptiness of space, grows. It sounds like a baby being brought into this world, rubbing its eyes and being enraptured by the sublime nature of the universe before it.
Whenever I boot up Mass Effect, I'm always tempted to just sit there and listen to this beautiful piece for as long as I can. It's too good to be passed up.
I remember sitting down on November 20th, 2007. I remember turning on my Xbox to hear this music for the first time, and my mind was instantly flooded with images of what this game could possibly be. Space travel? Exploring unknown expanses of the Universe? Finding the root of my own humanity while saving not only a single world, but entire galaxies from an almost Omni-potent evil? It's over half way through 2015, and I'm impatiently waiting the arrival of Mass Effect: Andromeda (Holiday 2016). Needless to say, every time I play this game over and over again, I get more attached to it. But I have to say, it's not always a good thing. You play it enough and you know every line, every scenario and every possible outcome. Never again will I get that initial feeling, in November of '07, where I first shot Wrex because my Paragon wasn't high enough. Never again will I be able to recreate the raw feeling of every mission, every dialogue option, and every surprise that assaulted you right in the feels. "Leaving Earth" might still tug at my heartstrings, but not in the way it did when I watched/heard it for the very first time. I wish I could do it all over again. Mass Effect is an integral part of my gaming history, and will always be my favorite series of all time.
Playing Mass effect remastered and hearing this again... its just... beautiful
This is even more heartbreaking when you get the refusal ending in ME3 and you see Liara generations later playing the part of Vigil
Fallout 1 and 2 and Baldurs Gate 1 and 2 were the pinnacle of 2D narrative heavy rpgs.
Mass Effect and Dragon Age : Origins are the pinnacle of 3D.
None of them have been surpassed. The culmination of atmosphere, writing, character building, lore, combat balancing, progression, visuals, and then just perfect thematic scores like this - modern games haven't come close.
Even after 10 years of mass effect i can't find a game more epic and emotional than this .
When I first heard this song in the title menu I knew this game would affect me like no other.
As an aspiring science fiction author Mass Effect has greatly influenced my writing. The grandeur of the setting, the depth of the story, the charm of the characters - everything I look for in a good Space Opera. It was practically love at first sight.
Thank you Bioware for letting me experience Mass Effect in my lifetime.
Good luck on your writing ambition! ME1 is an excellent example of how to write a good science-fiction setting.
I had a fun experience with that, actually. I was halfway through writing my first novel (with much of the action taking place aboard a starship named 'Normandy') when I first came across the ME series. Needless to say, I had to rename the ship in my story...
This theme INSTANTLY gets goosebumps and the chills
This song is the heart beat of the mass effect universe ❤
When I think of mass effect I think of this beautiful emotional song.
Love it so much it makes me tear up.
Best game ever !!! ❤❤❤
The first time I heard this song in the main menu of the game, I stopped and said to myself: "This is going to be an experience you will never forget"
And this is my second comment on this video but OMFG this song inspires me
I pity the poor souls who never experienced Mass Effect, they missed something on a magnitude that occurs only one or two times a decade, and carved itself in my memory and heart for life. I chose this music to be played at my wedding during the vows, it was so magical