You can just hear the pain in his voice when he says "I'm sorry, it's the only way." Just the way he says it just breaks my heart. You can tell he is sad to leave his friends behind, and probably a little bit afraid to die.
But late to comment but I completed this gor the first time recently and this hit me hard too - was the first time legion referred to itself as "I" as well
Souls do experience fear. The Geth never truly understood it - until they gained true intelligence. In his final movments, Legion was truly alive. He died to give all of his people full sentience. Or as some call it, 'human' intelligence.
Stellar writing and voice acting... "Direct personality dissemination required." - Realisation "I must go to them." - Conviction "I'm sorry." - Regret "It's the only way." - Comfort "But thank you." - Gratitude
One of the saddest things i came upon about the geth and the quarians in me2 was this. I guess in 6th conversation with Legion, he says that they are the caretakers of Rannoch. They don't live on it(they live in space stations), they look after it, they clear the rubble and clear the radiation from the war. when shepard asks about it, he likens it to Arlington and Auschwitz, they basically see the whole world as a giant cemetery. they honor the dead quarians by looking after their lost homeworld. these games are something man...
And then they comment on how they can use geth programs to help envirosuits to get Quarians back to being able to live suitless on their world again. The geth really are the case of, "we don't want to fight AT ALL, but if you attack us we WILL END YOU, because we have no choice."
@LRK20 because they didnt wanted to destroy the quarian-creators. they wanted to just.. live, and the quarians attacked. they had no choice. once they left, they didn`t had any reason to figth them because... destroying the quarians was not their target.
Spartan3101200 well remember, it does take jumping through a few hoops to get peace. you need high paragon/renegade points to get talis loyalty and make sure she becomes admiral, as well as defusing the fight between her and legion. then you need to save korris and go through the geth network, then you need to have high enough points to use the options. most perfect won't figure that out on their first playthrough
steve johnson The Geth initially wanted peace before they even knew of the Reapers, and Shepard forced the Quarians and the Geth to make peace, not the Reapers. That seems clear, considering that there are other paths where they don't make peace, despite the Reapers still being a threat.
+Hans Tang That feels like bullshit. Destroy ending seems to be the most reasonable one, followed by Control, but Synergy? You change all creatures in the whole universe to be...somewhere between organic and synthetic? By a simple wave of green energy-like thingy? That's space magic alright. Sure, even I liked the outcome of prosperity and shit, but the choice itself is simply retarded and without reason.
Hans Tang Sure, and the FTL drives, the Thorian, mass effect, mass relays, the whole game was filled with space magic. That doesn't mean all were bad, just because it was science *fiction*. But there was plenty of bullshit, even for a fiction. The ghost boy was, too. Still, since we have that idiocy as some sort of a hive mind, control made some sense, replacing the puppeteer with another. Destroy? Not sure how that'd work, but there could be an acceptable explanation for that still, similar to that of the FTL drives and mass relays. ...Of course EA didn't provide such an explanation, because why would they? And synergy comes dead last. I would've liked a regular weapon of mass-destruction, a regular war instead of these "quick endings", where I could enjoy the results of me trying to get them idiot aliens to stop killing each other, and start killing the reapers instead, for three games. Not a 30 seconds long cutscene in the end of the third game.
What they should have done is added a 5th option, u know the option were you tell the guy to fuck off, there should be an option were if you had a perfect play through, everyone who could be alive is alive, and you have every fleet, you tell him ghost boy to fuck off and you beat the reapers through conventional warfare.
_This_ scene is what made me choose synthesis. I did not work that fucking hard to bring peace to the Quarians and Geth, just to have some kid tell me one of them had to die!!!
"I must go to them." Legion didn't even hesitate to sacrifice itself for the betterment of all Geth. You could hear the pain and sadness and FEAR in its voice as it tried to offer Shepard some sort of comfort, despite the fact that it itself was about to die. Such great writing and acting.
It's also the first time Legion reffers to themselves as "i" normally reffering to themselves as "we", which to me had the implication that Legions personallity had actually finalized in those moments and they truly became their own ''person''.
@@Oremir That's what makes it so heartbreaking. It's in the process of experiencing true sentience for the first time and it has to give it all away so that everyone else can experience this amazing new reality, the one they'd been searching for all along and finally found.
When I starts saying “I” and the emotion he genuinely expresses in his voice during his last moments is heart wrenching. And that almost imperceptible “good” from Shepard is so sad as well, the Shepard that ended this considered Legion a friend.
It was this scene (As well as Mordin's sacrifice to cure the Genophage, and Tali and Shepard's goodbye on the Conduit run) that convinced me that Mass Effect had finally surpassed Star Wars as the greatest fictional franchise/series of all time. I never thought I would cry at a video game because I was so invested in the characters, but ME proved me wrong. I could care less about the ending; the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts. Thank you BioWare, good luck with future projects and Keelah'Selai.
That's a huge fame to claim even though both two "Sci-Fi" are more like fantasy drama than anything...but I have to admit, even I cried when it comes to this scene and the ones with Tali's goodbye (plus Anderson's scene) because of how so emotionally strong it was...some people think scars can last longer and stronger, but atleast tears comes straight out of your heart as a reminder as to how fragile the human's feeling is when it's emotional investment are devastated.
Right up there with, "Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong." Seriously, even the background NPC deaths in this game kept gut-punching me. The reporter Emily Wong, the Blue Rose of Illum Krogan, etc, etc.
I would like it if they didn't put a perfect good ending in it, but that is seriously... there's the good ending, then there's the skeptical ending (green always seems like mind control rather then synergy), then there's the best ending but you wipe out a race which only wants sentience. The endings weren't bad, they did leave closure, but very little fulfillment
warhawk9566 The only good ending where shepard makes it out alive is the red one. Read up on the indoctrination theory, and realize that the color shift at the end was a side effect. You've been trained the entire series to think red=renegade blue=paragon, but in this case they are reversed. RED is the paragon ending, where every race except the geth survive. Red is firing the crucible and saving all life.
Jesse Galloway Maybe, but indoctrination theory was a better ending than what they gave us. As is, how is it that the Crucible can't differentiate between the Reapers and the Geth if I use the destroy option, but if I take the control option the Crucible only affects the Reapers? Why does the space child seem to think that the best option is to rape all life in the galaxy?
Legion's approach to address us as "Shepard-Commander" instead of saying the title first, makes me cry everytime. He's the cutest ^^ and, was the only companion I really felt an emotion for :''''''''')
Ending the genophage, ending a nearly 300 year conflict between organics and synthetics, saving the councils ass for a second time and Uniting the galaxy against a single threat. All of this for... red... green... or blue.
This was definitely one of my favorite moments in the game. Legion was one of the best characters in the series. I really liked how at the end he felt like a person and began saying 'I' instead of 'we' like he always did.
This is going to seem dumb to note but... I wish at 3:15 he just stayed like that. Would've been more epic and Legion is a machine anyway. Wish he didn't fall to the ground. Plus the image of a dead Legion looking to the sunset would be great.
I would have gone with when Tali told him yes, she hugged him. He hugs back, says "Thank you! Keelah Sa'lai!" and dies and drops to his knees in her arms. Symbolically showing unification and peace! End of episode!
***** Same here. Obviously I would save both if possible. But if only one was possible, I'm going to side with the Geth. The Quarians put themselves in that situation and then perpetuated it for 300 years. I like the renegade option that makes peace better best because that's basically how I felt.
People say that the synthesis choice is stupid, that you force them together or something, however I believe that it is the best choice of all. Instead of picking a side, and letting the other go under, why not pick both?
+Alex Rednax also the fact that I was even able to do it in the first place completely nullified the starchild's argument that artificial brings and organics could never get along. Man, fuck the endings.
That is the main reason why the ending is completely bullshit. Despite their claims of "artistic integrity" the entire final 10 minutes of the game screams that it was scrapped and rewritten in a few weeks time. The Quarian/Geth conflict shows that it is perfectly viable for both races to live in harmony once they reach understanding. And if you point this out to the Starchild he just waves his hand and ignores you.
"The Quarian/Geth conflict shows that it is perfectly viable for both races to live in harmony once they reach understanding." The Intelligence/Reapers' point isn't that you can't achieve peace, their point is that a war between organic and synthetic life that will lead to all life being wiped out (or being severely affected) is inevitable. Those are two different situations. I mean sure, we got the Geth and the Quarians to make peace (well, 1/3 of the time according to Bioware's statistics), but that was after 300 years of war and millions of deaths. And for how long that peace will actually last? A year? A century? A millennium? Hell, even if that peace lasts "forever", who's to say a new AI/synthetic race created 100,000 years in the future won't declare a war which could wipe out all life? Or a new one after that? Or a new one after that? The problem here is trust. You either trust the Reapers, a highly advanced, super intelligent, unbiased collective life form that has lived for billions of years and has observed thousands of galactic life cycles, that war is inevitable or you choose to believe that we achieving peace between 2 races for a week or so after a 300-years war a 1/3 of the time is undeniable proof that it isn't. It's reason vs. emotion. You are free to choose either one of them to justify your decision at the end, but what you can't do is try to use reason to justify the emotional one, because just like I showed, it doesn't really work.
FufuhBR Why even do anything if you are going to use that long a timescale then. After all, whats the point if the Heat Death of the Universe is coming to kill us all anyway. The Reapers do not represent "reason", they seem to represent Nihilism. In that they claim nothing you do will matter since we are all going to die anyway.
I was SO glad I got this right on my first playthrough. I *knew* there was gonna be trouble between the geth and the quarians, so I made sure to get as many paragon points as I possibly could at that point in the game. I could not bear the thought of having to choose one or the other!
and then come the three cupcakes. thank GAWD for the "happy ending" mod they made where no, your actions actually DO matter and the largest fleet the Galaxy has ever seen(and built by your efforts) is actually able to BEAT them.
i knew from the start i was always gonna side with tali, but this scene... i still stared and darted between the choices, wondering what i should do. that's what makes you know that legion was a brilliant character
With the exception of Garrus (obviously), Legion is my favourite companion in the trilogy There was a purity to it. The bridge between organic and inorganic Every line was...beautiful
I'm almost through with Andromeda, and I got to say, the heartfelt drama like this is not there, at least not yet... I know this is ME3, perhaps in Andromeda 3 we will have such high tension/dramatic moments, because I want them bad. ME 1-3 was so heart touching.
Man, I really wish I could've done this the first time around... But of course I didn't know how to get the Paragon option then, and I apparently wasn't very observant in that scene... ...So much for that house we were gonna build, Tali...
God damn, I just noticed. Legion is literally only a person for a few seconds here. it's only at 2:51 that he says "I" for the first time. And he calls "Tali" just "Tali". God damn...
As perfect as this scene is, I would've loved for Legion to display fear and doubt when facing his mortality in the end and then ask the question With Tali reassuring him that he does indeed have a soul But because it's technically not the only possible ending they needed the possibility of failure so I understand
The fact that you can essentially doom five differences races is the main reason I love this series so much. Rachni, Krogan, Collectors, Quarians, and Geth. And Batarians. If ya wanna be generous and acknowledge their existence. The option to make big choices that feel impactful is something that was greatly lacking in Andromeda.
What? How come I never get these options? This whole time I didn't even know I had an option. At least in Mass Effect 1 you could see the possibility only grayed out.
Walsh2571 Actually it turned out you don't get the option if you rewrite the heretics (geth). Went back and blew them up and that did, the peace option is available.
This always cracks me up, bringing peace after all this time... which is waymore then Quarians deserved tbh... Hah, Legion, still my favorite ME Character... well, maybe together with Garrus
We all hated the ending, because the game had quite a few amazing moments like this that you were so invested in by the time you'd made it to this point from the first game. ME3 was great, imo.
I absolutely adore this sequence, one of the greatest gaming moments in my opinion. The stakes are so high, the fighting as been so intense For Shepard, it's about ending a 300 years war, uniting two species, saving both from extinction, and getting a major fleet to save the galaxy And the dialog is just superb, the music is magnificent, everything is perfect. 10/10 mission
What got me was Legion's sudden apparent Desperation when asking suddenly asking "Do we deserve death?" God it hit me hard, so hard in fact I spent almost an hour debating it with myself, ultimately i went with the quarians the first time but GOD I felt like shit for it.
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2:54, "I must go to them." Finally said "I".
He evolved, his many programs came together and formed a single mind. Legion was no longer many, but was one. At the end, a man at last.
He developed true sentience and a soul inhabited the platform he was in.
It's sad that he had to die.
Wish he lived😢.
He also apologised and was thankful, when before he said he could not feel guilt because it's organic
I love this scene
Damn I never even realized that. Crazy
Of course it had a soul. The question was the answer.
+RXdash78 True. :')
it took me a year to get the comment
well played!
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Ah, Cole.
Hm. Well said!
"Does this unit have a soul"
One of the greatest quotes ever,
I miss legion
*dies*
we all cry
To answer this question yes
I hate that they got it wrong.
"Do *these* units have a soul?"
@@duffelpuffelmcduff1181it completely ruins the geth. The whole point of them is that they are cant possibly fathom being alone.
When he started say "I" instead of "We"...I couldn't help myself *sniff*
Yeah. :(
This was so emotional for me, the realization of this: The war began when the question was asked and ended when it was answered.
300 years in the making
However, for Legion words had meaning.
This and Mordin sacrificing himself to cure the Krogan both hit hard.
This unit IS have a soul.
I love this ending as the creator and creation became one
When Tali told legion that the answer was "yes" and legion......that asshole how dare he hit me with a "Keelah se'lai".
Gets me in tears everytime.
Geths you in tears everytime?
@@victorwagner2423 i both hate and love this comment
@@Pixel0429I geth you do!
You can just hear the pain in his voice when he says "I'm sorry, it's the only way." Just the way he says it just breaks my heart. You can tell he is sad to leave his friends behind, and probably a little bit afraid to die.
"Fear is an experience reserved for organics."
Yes Leigon
@@kristobaz2474 He wasn’t organic but he had a soul. Souls experience fear.
But late to comment but I completed this gor the first time recently and this hit me hard too - was the first time legion referred to itself as "I" as well
Souls do experience fear. The Geth never truly understood it - until they gained true intelligence. In his final movments, Legion was truly alive. He died to give all of his people full sentience. Or as some call it, 'human' intelligence.
Stellar writing and voice acting...
"Direct personality dissemination required." - Realisation
"I must go to them." - Conviction
"I'm sorry." - Regret
"It's the only way." - Comfort
"But thank you." - Gratitude
@zotic I just noticed that when he says I'm sorry he pauses for a millisecond as if he really does feel sorry he has to go and now I'm double sad
One of the saddest things i came upon about the geth and the quarians in me2 was this. I guess in 6th conversation with Legion, he says that they are the caretakers of Rannoch. They don't live on it(they live in space stations), they look after it, they clear the rubble and clear the radiation from the war. when shepard asks about it, he likens it to Arlington and Auschwitz, they basically see the whole world as a giant cemetery. they honor the dead quarians by looking after their lost homeworld. these games are something man...
And then they comment on how they can use geth programs to help envirosuits to get Quarians back to being able to live suitless on their world again. The geth really are the case of, "we don't want to fight AT ALL, but if you attack us we WILL END YOU, because we have no choice."
@LRK20 because they didnt wanted to destroy the quarian-creators. they wanted to just.. live, and the quarians attacked. they had no choice. once they left, they didn`t had any reason to figth them because... destroying the quarians was not their target.
@@ThePurificator69420 that is true
fun fact: making peace between the geth and the quarians invalidates the star brats ENTIRE argument
indeed
Spartan3101200 but long will the peace last once the reapers are gone?
Spartan3101200 well remember, it does take jumping through a few hoops to get peace. you need high paragon/renegade points to get talis loyalty and make sure she becomes admiral, as well as defusing the fight between her and legion. then you need to save korris and go through the geth network, then you need to have high enough points to use the options. most perfect won't figure that out on their first playthrough
steve johnson The Geth initially wanted peace before they even knew of the Reapers, and Shepard forced the Quarians and the Geth to make peace, not the Reapers. That seems clear, considering that there are other paths where they don't make peace, despite the Reapers still being a threat.
Trying to save both Tali and the Geth made me dump saves in that game more than any game before or since.
If you ask Alexa this question she will say keelah se'lai
Please tell me that's true
Sultan Suleman it’s real you can try it for your self if you download amazon Alexa app
Oh my god thank you for this
Whoever programmed that deserves a bonus.
@@sultansuleman1046 It is definitely true
Fun fact: this is the only part of the game where Legion refers to itself as "I," due to being independent. This just makes it even more depressing.
This game has made me cry more times than any movie, any book, any other game. I love this franchise, I love the Mass Effect universe.
Legion..... Mordin..... Thane..... We lost too many good friends in this war.....
Legion terminated its runtimes for your errors.
"I delete data like you on the way to real errors."
Legion is the Geth Jesus. He went offline for your sins.
And then of course the endings basically said it didn't matter, and that pissed me off a ton.
You can always choose synergy. Nothing wrong with that.
+Hans Tang That feels like bullshit. Destroy ending seems to be the most reasonable one, followed by Control, but Synergy? You change all creatures in the whole universe to be...somewhere between organic and synthetic?
By a simple wave of green energy-like thingy?
That's space magic alright.
Sure, even I liked the outcome of prosperity and shit, but the choice itself is simply retarded and without reason.
Björn Mätal All the endings were space magic. Bioware/EA done fucked up the almost-greatest game ever
Hans Tang
Sure, and the FTL drives, the Thorian, mass effect, mass relays, the whole game was filled with space magic. That doesn't mean all were bad, just because it was science *fiction*.
But there was plenty of bullshit, even for a fiction.
The ghost boy was, too.
Still, since we have that idiocy as some sort of a hive mind, control made some sense, replacing the puppeteer with another.
Destroy? Not sure how that'd work, but there could be an acceptable explanation for that still, similar to that of the FTL drives and mass relays.
...Of course EA didn't provide such an explanation, because why would they?
And synergy comes dead last.
I would've liked a regular weapon of mass-destruction, a regular war instead of these "quick endings", where I could enjoy the results of me trying to get them idiot aliens to stop killing each other, and start killing the reapers instead, for three games.
Not a 30 seconds long cutscene in the end of the third game.
What they should have done is added a 5th option, u know the option were you tell the guy to fuck off, there should be an option were if you had a perfect play through, everyone who could be alive is alive, and you have every fleet, you tell him ghost boy to fuck off and you beat the reapers through conventional warfare.
_This_ scene is what made me choose synthesis. I did not work that fucking hard to bring peace to the Quarians and Geth, just to have some kid tell me one of them had to die!!!
MSmart19 That theory has been completely debunked by both the developers and the uncut extended ending
Recovey0 I thought the devs didn't wanna talk about it.
Synthesis is a lie
I love the Geth, not the reapers, they can fuck themselves.
The galaxy vs Reapers is just a larger scale version of the Quarians vs Geth. Synthesis is the only answer.
"I must go to them."
Legion didn't even hesitate to sacrifice itself for the betterment of all Geth. You could hear the pain and sadness and FEAR in its voice as it tried to offer Shepard some sort of comfort, despite the fact that it itself was about to die. Such great writing and acting.
It's also the first time Legion reffers to themselves as "i" normally reffering to themselves as "we", which to me had the implication that Legions personallity had actually finalized in those moments and they truly became their own ''person''.
@@Oremir That's what makes it so heartbreaking. It's in the process of experiencing true sentience for the first time and it has to give it all away so that everyone else can experience this amazing new reality, the one they'd been searching for all along and finally found.
Legion hesitated at the speed of light
@@blueshit199 F U C K lmaooo
95% of this game was so amazing...
+David Rathaus If only they would make the ending as good and epic as the rest of the series...
+foxman105 It was good... it had to end somehow and this one was good enough.
+David Rathaus for me was 100%
It would've been 100% if you had Extended Cut
well only 95% because of the endings.
Despite the problems with the endings, moments like this made Mass Effect 3 a true work of art.
Besides... There are mods for a better ending.
I've always considered the Mass Effect Trilogy to be one of the few great modern day odyssey's.
Mass Effect 3 is a real gem, is a incredible game, specially with the DLC
I wonder how many people noticed that legion refered to himself as "I" the first time
I realized it and had to cry :(
Also I believe it's the only time he refers to Tali by her name.
When I starts saying “I” and the emotion he genuinely expresses in his voice during his last moments is heart wrenching.
And that almost imperceptible “good” from Shepard is so sad as well, the Shepard that ended this considered Legion a friend.
Oh FFS, years later and I'm still crying over the fictional death of a faceless robot.
I always cry like a bitch, LEGION!
It was this scene (As well as Mordin's sacrifice to cure the Genophage, and Tali and Shepard's goodbye on the Conduit run) that convinced me that Mass Effect had finally surpassed Star Wars as the greatest fictional franchise/series of all time. I never thought I would cry at a video game because I was so invested in the characters, but ME proved me wrong. I could care less about the ending; the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts. Thank you BioWare, good luck with future projects and Keelah'Selai.
That's a huge fame to claim even though both two "Sci-Fi" are more like fantasy drama than anything...but I have to admit, even I cried when it comes to this scene and the ones with Tali's goodbye (plus Anderson's scene) because of how so emotionally strong it was...some people think scars can last longer and stronger, but atleast tears comes straight out of your heart as a reminder as to how fragile the human's feeling is when it's emotional investment are devastated.
Mass Effect is my favorite fictional universe of all time. It's my favorite work of fiction. Nothing else comes close. And Andromeda did not happen.
The only cool things branded Star Wars were third party.
Star Wars never had as much depth and thought put into it as Mass Effect
...neither can possibly be ‘greatest’
The saddest line in all of video game sci-fi?
"I must go to them."
Right up there with, "Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong." Seriously, even the background NPC deaths in this game kept gut-punching me. The reporter Emily Wong, the Blue Rose of Illum Krogan, etc, etc.
Tali: "Legion... the answer to your question was 'yes'."
Me: 😭
Keelah se’lai
I teared up so much when I was first playing it. Oh my god.
+Peter Louis Same here, you are not alone. :'(
"No. Nobody else dies today. Legion, keep going." T_T
well...this is thrue sci fi greatness.
That's why this makes the best scifi stuff I have ever experienced so far. And probably ever.
Then Andromeda happened which said fuck it and took a dump on the lore. Fuck that game.
After all the trouble I went to broker peace between two warring races... the best possible ending kills one of them off.
That's what makes picking Destroy hard... but it is necessary - the Geth died to stop the Reapers.
I would like it if they didn't put a perfect good ending in it, but that is seriously... there's the good ending, then there's the skeptical ending (green always seems like mind control rather then synergy), then there's the best ending but you wipe out a race which only wants sentience. The endings weren't bad, they did leave closure, but very little fulfillment
and even if there was a perfect ending it should be really difficult to achieve
warhawk9566 The only good ending where shepard makes it out alive is the red one. Read up on the indoctrination theory, and realize that the color shift at the end was a side effect. You've been trained the entire series to think red=renegade blue=paragon, but in this case they are reversed. RED is the paragon ending, where every race except the geth survive. Red is firing the crucible and saving all life.
Jesse Galloway Maybe, but indoctrination theory was a better ending than what they gave us. As is, how is it that the Crucible can't differentiate between the Reapers and the Geth if I use the destroy option, but if I take the control option the Crucible only affects the Reapers? Why does the space child seem to think that the best option is to rape all life in the galaxy?
Legion's approach to address us as "Shepard-Commander" instead of saying the title first, makes me cry everytime. He's the cutest ^^ and, was the only companion I really felt an emotion for :''''''''')
I hate to necro but what about Mordin
We will never ever ever be treated to such a special experience ever again in this industry.
absolutely. playing this for the first time 12 years ago was a gift
Ending the genophage, ending a nearly 300 year conflict between organics and synthetics, saving the councils ass for a second time and Uniting the galaxy against a single threat.
All of this for... red... green... or blue.
This was definitely one of my favorite moments in the game. Legion was one of the best characters in the series. I really liked how at the end he felt like a person and began saying 'I' instead of 'we' like he always did.
This is going to seem dumb to note but... I wish at 3:15 he just stayed like that. Would've been more epic and Legion is a machine anyway. Wish he didn't fall to the ground. Plus the image of a dead Legion looking to the sunset would be great.
I would have gone with when Tali told him yes, she hugged him. He hugs back, says "Thank you! Keelah Sa'lai!" and dies and drops to his knees in her arms. Symbolically showing unification and peace! End of episode!
Legion didn’t just have a soul...
He had more facial expression than all of Andromeda.
absolutely, he was a masterpiece
2:41 that smile is kinda funny for some reason
I just realized voice actor of Admiral Shala'Raan is Avasarala from The Expanse
and Commodore Paris in Star Trek Beyond, as well as Grayson in Arcane
I fuckin' cry every time I see this scene
Step 1: Try not to cry.
Step 2: Cry uncontrollably.
you have to start from ME2 to get this option, both must survive the mission and be loyal, and have renegade/paragon high enough by then.
never has a game made me think so hard on life
I almost cry every time I watch this
same here
I was bawling.
Estrogen is a helluva drug.
Dat Shepard smile...
Stared at nearly each one of those selection menus for like an hour....
An hour ? Holy shit, that's pretty short.
I didn't even think, the Quarrians were assholes, I would always side with the Geth.. though losing Legion really hurt, I loved that bot.
***** Same here. Obviously I would save both if possible. But if only one was possible, I'm going to side with the Geth. The Quarians put themselves in that situation and then perpetuated it for 300 years. I like the renegade option that makes peace better best because that's basically how I felt.
@@XthTerrorOfDeath idiot
Legion: Shepard-Commander, good luck!
Shepard: Acknowledged!
i still cry a little when i think of this scene
After unifying the Geth with the Quarians I couldn't destroy that. That's why I chose synthesis.
People say that the synthesis choice is stupid, that you force them together or something, however I believe that it is the best choice of all. Instead of picking a side, and letting the other go under, why not pick both?
+Alex Rednax also the fact that I was even able to do it in the first place completely nullified the starchild's argument that artificial brings and organics could never get along. Man, fuck the endings.
That is the main reason why the ending is completely bullshit. Despite their claims of "artistic integrity" the entire final 10 minutes of the game screams that it was scrapped and rewritten in a few weeks time. The Quarian/Geth conflict shows that it is perfectly viable for both races to live in harmony once they reach understanding.
And if you point this out to the Starchild he just waves his hand and ignores you.
"The Quarian/Geth conflict shows that it is perfectly viable for both races to live in harmony once they reach understanding."
The Intelligence/Reapers' point isn't that you can't achieve peace, their point is that a war between organic and synthetic life that will lead to all life being wiped out (or being severely affected) is inevitable. Those are two different situations.
I mean sure, we got the Geth and the Quarians to make peace (well, 1/3 of the time according to Bioware's statistics), but that was after 300 years of war and millions of deaths. And for how long that peace will actually last? A year? A century? A millennium?
Hell, even if that peace lasts "forever", who's to say a new AI/synthetic race created 100,000 years in the future won't declare a war which could wipe out all life? Or a new one after that? Or a new one after that?
The problem here is trust. You either trust the Reapers, a highly advanced, super intelligent, unbiased collective life form that has lived for billions of years and has observed thousands of galactic life cycles, that war is inevitable or you choose to believe that we achieving peace between 2 races for a week or so after a 300-years war a 1/3 of the time is undeniable proof that it isn't.
It's reason vs. emotion. You are free to choose either one of them to justify your decision at the end, but what you can't do is try to use reason to justify the emotional one, because just like I showed, it doesn't really work.
FufuhBR
Why even do anything if you are going to use that long a timescale then. After all, whats the point if the Heat Death of the Universe is coming to kill us all anyway.
The Reapers do not represent "reason", they seem to represent Nihilism. In that they claim nothing you do will matter since we are all going to die anyway.
I was SO glad I got this right on my first playthrough. I *knew* there was gonna be trouble between the geth and the quarians, so I made sure to get as many paragon points as I possibly could at that point in the game. I could not bear the thought of having to choose one or the other!
When the writing is so good it makes you cry when a robot dies...I miss the real Bioware, not the husk currently shambling around wearing the name.
Anytime you throw Vigil in a ME scene I get all emotional. It's a really beautiful song that always captured the feeling of space travel to me.
This was the only choice tree i sat at contemplating for several minutes and then used a guide to ensure i was making the right choice.
and then come the three cupcakes. thank GAWD for the "happy ending" mod they made where no, your actions actually DO matter and the largest fleet the Galaxy has ever seen(and built by your efforts) is actually able to BEAT them.
That ME track at 3:02 always means some emotional stuff is about to go down.
Thats the second saddest scene in whole trilogy the first is the ending
BEST GAME EVER!!!
Shepard's smile at 2:40 is so silly lol
Thank you. Keelah Se'lai.
8 YEARS LATER YOU STILL MAKE ME CRY! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?
i knew from the start i was always gonna side with tali, but this scene... i still stared and darted between the choices, wondering what i should do. that's what makes you know that legion was a brilliant character
Years later, this will always bring tears to my organic eyes.
Legion saying I instead of we... EDI says that before his death, he wasn't the manifestation of a consensus, but a fully developed person.
With the exception of Garrus (obviously), Legion is my favourite companion in the trilogy
There was a purity to it. The bridge between organic and inorganic
Every line was...beautiful
"It always had a soul. The Question was the Answer."
I'm almost through with Andromeda, and I got to say, the heartfelt drama like this is not there, at least not yet... I know this is ME3, perhaps in Andromeda 3 we will have such high tension/dramatic moments, because I want them bad. ME 1-3 was so heart touching.
2:41 When your food is done
Man, I really wish I could've done this the first time around... But of course I didn't know how to get the Paragon option then, and I apparently wasn't very observant in that scene...
...So much for that house we were gonna build, Tali...
I'm sorry. I must go to them. I know. I. -- No more we, no more us. The Geth ceased being one individual and became many thanks to Legion
Best scene in the game!
“The question was the answer. This unit always had a soul”
And now that soul is at peace.
Fuck! I really cried when Legion died! You do have a soul!
"I know, Tali"
He was alive at the end.
God damn, I just noticed. Legion is literally only a person for a few seconds here. it's only at 2:51 that he says "I" for the first time. And he calls "Tali" just "Tali". God damn...
All of these years later and I still cry when legion dies.. because he alone made the decision
The music shift at 3:00 hits me every time
For the very little time we got with legion compared to all other sqaudmates he found a place in many of our hearts.
I love this robotic bastard.
I just realized. Imagine if before Legion bid his farewell, he gave Tali a friendly hug.
As perfect as this scene is, I would've loved for Legion to display fear and doubt when facing his mortality in the end and then ask the question
With Tali reassuring him that he does indeed have a soul
But because it's technically not the only possible ending they needed the possibility of failure so I understand
Last time I met commander Shepard I cried although their was no music then again he had just shot me in the foot, ah good times.
Legion is just amazing i love his character so much
"I know, Tali. But thank you. Keelah se'lai."
To this day, brings a tear to my eye.
Me at 03:00: 'Fu** you Vigil, don't make this scene harder for me than it already is!'
The fact that you can essentially doom five differences races is the main reason I love this series so much. Rachni, Krogan, Collectors, Quarians, and Geth. And Batarians. If ya wanna be generous and acknowledge their existence. The option to make big choices that feel impactful is something that was greatly lacking in Andromeda.
What? How come I never get these options? This whole time I didn't even know I had an option. At least in Mass Effect 1 you could see the possibility only grayed out.
You are not RENEGADE enough :P
maybe you didnt the side quest?, you must do both sidequest before doing this quest, or you will get screw
maybe you are in the shitty shooter mode
Walsh2571 Actually it turned out you don't get the option if you rewrite the heretics (geth). Went back and blew them up and that did, the peace option is available.
Oh I love the Geth
I can't think of a game with better main menu music that's also perfect for an emotional scene like this, and yet so simple. Jack Wall is amazing.
This always cracks me up, bringing peace after all this time... which is waymore then Quarians deserved tbh...
Hah, Legion, still my favorite ME Character... well, maybe together with Garrus
I remember crying so hard as a teen playing this!!!
Legion didn't sacrifice itself for nothing..It was a good person..
I can imagine the Xbox One asking the same question soon.
The most beautiful and emotional scene ever in gaming.
2:42 The Paragon Smirk
I love you Legion 😭 this game was about the adventure, and ever characters ending was so satisfying. I can’t wait to replay it.
So many onions with this scene.
We all hated the ending, because the game had quite a few amazing moments like this that you were so invested in by the time you'd made it to this point from the first game. ME3 was great, imo.
I always choose the Geth over the Quarians if genocide can't be helped.
Legion saying "Keelah se'lai" to Tali right before he sacrifices himself gets me every time
I absolutely adore this sequence, one of the greatest gaming moments in my opinion. The stakes are so high, the fighting as been so intense
For Shepard, it's about ending a 300 years war, uniting two species, saving both from extinction, and getting a major fleet to save the galaxy
And the dialog is just superb, the music is magnificent, everything is perfect. 10/10 mission
I only wish there was a paragon option where Shepherd and Tali hug legion as he sacrifices himself.
I just played this and I am ugly crying *sobs* KEELAH SE'LAIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii *sobs more* *never stops sobbing*
What got me was Legion's sudden apparent Desperation when asking suddenly asking "Do we deserve death?"
God it hit me hard, so hard in fact I spent almost an hour debating it with myself, ultimately i went with the quarians the first time but GOD I felt like shit for it.