I never played this series and I’m mad I never did I’m playing it now cuz legendary edition and I just can’t believe I never touched it it’s incredible
Played ME2 about a year or two after it came out and I wanted to play the other two games but wasn't able to get them. Then the legendary edition gave me a chance to experience those games for the first and I was not disappointed. "Had to be me. Someone else might've gotten it wrong."
I’d forgotten Javik saying that line so I looked it up after reading your comment. The amount of truth and depth put into the characters of this game is probably the most I’ve ever seen in a video game. From their mannerisms to their personalities. The dialogue writers should have won awards for this game...they sure knew how to make you think, with their words of wisdom.
I can't help, but make a military salute each time I hear that song. And then, the little boy gets killed and I can't supress a few tears. This amazing Javik quote just make that feeling even stronger. ME 3 was a rollercoaster of emotions from the begining to the end.
but also the most there's a glimmer of hope in there. every jump the normandy makes through the relays is another one of the high notes on the piano. all it takes is a spark.
This song just fits so well in game. You're scared. You're helpless. You're running from behemoth beyond your reckoning. You don't even need the visuals, this song alone tells you how terrifying the reapers are.
@@AugustoXRock the sound of the reapers has been the same since 2008, it's actually something being thrown into an empty metal trashcan according to an interview I read.
Agreed. The ending is good since there isn't happy ending. Reapers fucked shit up, almost beyond repair. You have to sacrifice something to gain something.
never played mass effect series, but i do love that "you cant save them all" mentality in games. Sad reality of the way things are. i remember in killzone series, no matter how hard you try, the random ISA around you all die by the end. the feels on the bus go round and round
now u have to buy this serie, less than 15$ for the trilogy honestly do it, when i bought them, i played something average 80 hours for the 1+2+3 with only sleeping ~15hours, how much this game and the story are attractives
91Metalhead i agree as well it was actually voted as one of if not the most hardest moral choice/choices in video games as you have to find out how your going to finish the entire series
91Metalhead the ending made me truly sad. i had a male shep/kaiden relationship and seeing kaiden put up shepards name on that wall just made me cry. kaiden deserved for shepard to be alive and make him happy ... since i just couldn't get over the fact that kaiden would truly loose shepard i got a mod for it. shepard lived and even gave kaiden a hug in the end. i was beyond relieved
91Metalhead The emotion of the rest of the game was phenomenal, I'm not even ashamed of how often this game made me cry. But that ending was atrocious. Deserves all the hate it got.
91Metalhead I always break down near the end when u get to talk to your team for the very last time, and just the bonds that were formed especially with Garrus (best friend) and Tali (love interest) since they have been with shepard throughout everything when everyone else had other things or gave up on him, just being taken down that road chokes me up. Mass effect has done something no other game could, it got the players emotionally invested in the characters, gave them hope of a better outcome until they were placed at an innevitable point that shepard would need to sacrifice himself. Long live the Feels Train and the river of manly tears it has wrought.
I'll never forget about a week after it was out my brother and I were talking about all the complaints about the ending and laughing at the idiots, and saying it couldn't possibly be that bad. I was in my room and he walked in, tossed the disk on my bed (we shared it), and just walked off shaking his head saying "shocking". Then i finished it, and even though I recommend the series to anyone and my bro still plays them every now and then, it sticks in my head and killed ME for me. Wish I could ignore it but it broke my passion for playing, although I force myself to play 2 hehe
The way I see it is.. the Gamer play's the Character.. to watch his story unfold. Commander Sheppard was a great man, better then most.. better then some who exist. But his story, was devoted to protecting everyone he loved, cared about.. he was a Hero. And he might have fallen.. but that should be a sign for inspiration. The ultimate sacrifice one.. Paragon or Renegade was willing to do. He was willing to accept his role in the story, because he truly is.. a Hero.
I actually liked the ending in that it drew a final conclusion which was that Shepard had to die. He was the key in this whole series of events. The reapers started with him and ended with him. I think what they tried to do was to make it look like you had the illusion of choice for an ending that really had only 1 reasonable conclusion. If Shepard didn't die, then the impact of his sacrifice would not have been as heavy as it was. People wanted more choice in the ending but honestly, how much of a choice do you think is reasonable here? People say that your choices didn't matter in the end, but if you believe in the story, then the choices mattered for those who lived. How Shepard brought the galaxy together did not die with him. His actions had repercussions for generations.
+Bre Fujimoto Yeah, same thing happened to me on my first play through. I cranked the sound up because everything else was fading out ... then BOOOOOM. Scared me and my dog hid under the bed for the rest of the night.
Reaper 1: "You know what would be awesome?" Reaper 2: "No, what?" Reaper 1: "If we had our own badass soundeffect when we're coming for the mortals so they know they're in deep shit." Reaper 3: [walks by] 0:24
@@gabenewell3955 To be fair thats cause kotor was released in the wrong console era. If it was released on the ps3/xbox360 with the graphics and gameplay capabilities at the time it could of been a legendary game. But its good to remember that kotor set the foundation for a game to have a good interactive story that was the basis for the mass effect, and dragon age series.
ME 1 was like "hey, this is a new, well-done universe that is waiting for you" ME 2 was like "hello again my friend, you will have a fu****g great time" ME 3 was like "so my friend, this is the last time that we meet. say goodbye because it's over" And because of ME 3 I can't play trilogy anymore. This is not a game. This is a memory. Memory of a great time that you had over a few years with your friend. And now you don't have a contact with this friend. He's gone or something. This is how I feel about ME. It's really something more than a game.
I feel the same. I planned on making a few playthroughs, but part 3 hit so hard, and I felt my original trilogy playthrough was so perfect I couldnt get myself sit through it all again. it's the best video game franchise, but I'll never play it again
@@ajanthony1356 i agree with you, i tried to play again and got halfway through the 2nd and i stopped. i think its funny, a game with such good replay value will never be touched again.
Yeah, me too. I planned on playing it through at least twice. Ended up with exactly one play through. Best Game(s) I've ever played in terms of memories kept.
I'll never forget this experience. I played it for the first time during the Covid-19 pandemic and it gave me friends and love when I couldn't see any of my real friends. I really liked the first game, I loved the second, and the third is the most legendary game I ever played. I'll never forget that trilogy. Never.
I felt like that too.The only game that did satisfy me like the Mass Effect trilogy was Witcher 3.But other than Witcher 3, I haven't found a game which could compete with ME
*In some random bar* Bartender: What'll be your poison? Shepard: Nothing at the moment, waiting on a friend. Bartender: You sure? It might take awhile before he comes. Shepard: I have the time, someone's gotta look after him and remind him to duck every now and then. Bartender: Suit yourself, but you want to hear a joke to pass the time? Shepard: Sure, why not? Bartender: So a Salarian, a Geth and a Drell walk into a bar, what do they have in common? Shepard: I don't know, what? Bartender: A commander who can't dance to save his life. They're over at that corner, they've been waiting for you. Shepard: Thank you, we've got some catching up to do. Bartender: You're welcome, I'll let you know when your friend gets here. Need anything else, commander? Shepard: Nothing, that's all for now.
Its ending may be not as expected, but Mass Effect 3 succeeded in reflecting a dreadful and hopeless war in galactic scale. That's what I love about this game. It makes you feel like there is no hope against the Reapers at all.
A lovely reminder, however beautifully and tragically represented, the hopeless ending of Halo Reach, was in fact not the end. Great sacrifices were made, and because of those sacrifices, the master chief, humanity's best hope, escaped Reach to save us all another day. And now with the mass effect series, we will push forward in Andromeda, never forgetting the sacrifices of those before us. I'm so ready for this game.
It was never to be a happy ending and you always felt it throughout the journey. It's hard to pull off a story like this and that's why Mass Effect is unique
Many games out-do this one with more memorable characters such as Price, Soap, and many more but none beat the soundtrack. (I know it was off topic but I just wanted to say) Its more likely people heard of CoD more than Mass Effect.
The one to hit me the hardest was the Elcor mission. Although it's only a probe mission it still hits hard. The fact the elcor councilor doesn't say his mood when you ask how many were saved hits so hard. Just the ".......... not.... enough......." gave me chills.
Note that the Elcor translator doesn't give an emotion for that. The Elcor is doing their equivalent of breaking down sobbing, so much so that even a human can tell what they're feeling.
Whille gentle pianno sound carry you away......Reaper horns pull you back reality. That really added greatly to atmosphere of game. Soundtrack was awesome.
+Cyphi It may seem minor but the way they tied the music into the scene was phenomenal. The discordant bwahh when the Reaper stomped into view, the drums joining in just as the soldier pounded on the transport to signal it, and especially the somber music still having an "upward" quality to it while the Normandy fled into space, as if to say, "things are bad, but as long as that ship is flying, there's hope." Hope this made sense lol
Makes total sense. The ME series was always good at this. That particular scene was more worthy of an award than most films that get them these days. The whole thing truly makes you feel like the soldier that is fighting a hopeless war but has no other choice than to keep fighting and hoping for the best outcome they can get, all the while knowing the cost will be enormous.
The reaper sound is one of the things I love about this song. The perfect it follows the key dissonance ratio which on it's own allows it to completely stand out and intimidate along with the loud brass to reinforce it.
***** agreed... it's like having a girlfriend, then getting married, then helping humanity, then they ditch you to a Siberian prison for being a good guy
John Smith tell that to a guy who gets mauled by bears at the end of his story. he'd be all "what it don't matter what I do I always get da bears that sucks" hehe , jokes aside though I was fine with the ending. got the girl, saved the galaxy, and then that short scene where he (or she respectfully)gasps for breath When the credits rolled I thought "yep I saved everyone and survived there can be no question".
The whole cutscene was the closest I'd ever come to crying while playing a video game. Not just the scene where the kid dies but Shepard's reaction, the music, leaving Anderson behind, seeing how human forces were powerless against the Reapers.
The Scene in the first mission where the Alliance Cruiser just takes one hit by the reaper... when it appeared i thought: "Yeah, come on, give em' hell." Then it was blown up with only one shot :-/
spagetti001 it's so damn good. Replaying the entire series and I just finished ME2. Good luck to you bro. In the immortal words of Shepard, "I should go."
bahah, I just replayed the trilogy (and ME3 for the 6th time now) a few weeks ago. I just need 1 week for each game, so a month for the trilogy... it feels like an amazing TV shows that I keep telling "one more episode" and finish the entire season in 1 day
Dr.Heist Dunno, the extended cut ending was great. Sure, there is no happy ever after in all regards and everything comes at a price, but without it it wouldn't had the effect it had. : )
***** Personally, I think the vanilla endings were okay. Probably because I've seen so many bad endings over the years that my expectations are cynically low. Not playing a half-finished game also helped (I guess the almighty EA is to thank for shitty DLC practices). I imagine I would be more disappointed if I had played it at release. Putting that aside though, I do think everyone should experience MEHEM at the very least. Extended Anderson conversation is pretty nice too.
Everyone is here bitching about how terrible the ending was and I'm sitting here crying like a baby. Granted my first playthrough was after the extended cuts and with leviathan/citadel DLC so I had a better first impression. First time a video game ever brought tears to my eyes.
+ijirving It makes a *huge* difference. My first playthrough had the original endings: the mass relays all explode (which means everyone in a system containing a relay dies, according to the game's own lore), Joker crashes the Normandy on the jungle planet (which means Garrus and Tali die of starvation, since they have unique biologies, and the destruction of the relays means small hope of rescue), and that's it. No epilogue, no explanation; it just looks like everything Shepard ever did was invalidated. Downer Ending. Seeing the Extended DLC endings made all the difference to me, and now I, too, cry manly tears when I hear this music.
Minecraft, despite all of it's hate, actually brought a tear to my eye with it's music, it cause nostalgia.... Also Half-Life 2: Episode 2, I cried of hype.
The single most beautiful soundtrack I have ever heard. The gentle, sad melody intertwined with the reaper horn is spine tingling. I will never get over how amazing this music is. This tops every soundtrack I have ever heard.
This song, along with An End Once and For All, almost make me want to cry. Mass Effect is one of the best series I've ever played, and I can't wait for the next one, even if Shepard doesn't return :(
Yeah I know what you mean. I going to really miss the old crew apart from Jacob. I think I'll miss Tali the most but i'm sure the new bunch will be just as good and maybe even better.
Do you know anything about Mass effect 4 ? we will play another hero and another team mates I dont like this. And I am agree Garrus Vakarian is a perfect companion he can die for him friends like others.
+Aygün AtLı It is called ME: Andromeda and comes in 2016. The action happens not in the Milky Way, AFAIK. For sure, playing another hero may be absolutely different feeling. But still, we can't save the galaxy all the times playing Shepard with his friends. It had to end anyway. :( I do really hope that we will have somebody or something that makes us re-feel all cool things from previous parts somehow. At least it is always cool to see some krogans, turians, salarians, etc.
Leaving earth made anyone with a soul hate reapers like they had killed your family even if it was just a random little boy in a video game that died in that scene. It was a perfect opening to probably my favorite game of the 3 since I played it first after all the dlc had come out.
Despite the ending Mass Effect 3 is still one of the greatest games of all time. The characters, the atmosphere, the fighting, etc. All of it cannot possibly be replicated.
It is. I have unfortunately become very picky with my games as I have gotten older. ME was the first game/game series in 6 years that was on my mind all the time and I was experiencing similar stuff as you would do as a kid playing games. Hell, ME series, Dragon Age, Fallout and Mario Galaxy are the only games in my adult live I have bothered to play all the way.
hoodfigga33 I can easily understand why people don't like it, but I don't quite get being mad at the game and makers. It just feels very much like the "gamer crowd" and teenager reaction to it all. I got a feeling it also depends on how you play these games. I play these games very much for the story and maybe even more for the atmosphere. The wrap-up isn't as important as the road to it imo. I was way more sad about the game ending, than I was about the ending. It wasn't about the ending why I played the game.
***** Here's my problem: when I played this game on the EU release date, I was fully immersed in the universe, I had timed it all perfectly and just finished ME2 again when I could finally play ME3. I played the game in full exploration mode and took it all in, enjoyed every second of the gameplay and story and then I come up to the end, once the starchild finished talking I'm just standing there thinking: "What the hell now?". Eventually I went ahead and chose synthesis because I couldn't imagine a world where Jeff and EDI couldn't be together and after the end credits I was simply sad. Not "so impressed by the story that I can't believe its over" sad but plain old dissappointed and depressed. The only thing I could do was go to bed. I've replayed the game since then, with the ending dlc but since I kinda knew how it ends, I was ready for it and I didn't care anymore and just chose to blow the reapers up. Bioware made us care and I applaud them for that, but I don't trust them anymore.
Havok0159 By "Starchild" you mean an AI.The inaccessible Citadel control core is referenced in ME1 by Avina, and if you visit Klencory in ME1 or ME3 you'll see reference to Beings of Light, created at the dawn of time (hint: by the leviathans), to stop the machine devils. And no machine devils does not mean reapers. The reapers are a LESSER evil. ME3 does not explain what the greater evil really is, but by breaking the cycle, the ending is left open for it. The reapers employed crop rotation (reaper, collector, harvester, even shepard are all farming metaphors), destroying a part of the population infrequently to protect the rest most of the time. People say this is bad logic. To a human it is. To an AI, it's simply the result of a poor application of Asimov's laws.
It's three years later and I'm still getting emotional when I hear this one. And I don't know what is still going on with this ending hate, when I saw the Extended Cut "red" ending I loved it. Maybe there was a little deus ex machina bullshit going on but I liked it anyway. Manly tears shed.
+Abuyin ibn Djadir Yeah, I don't get the hate, either. I thought it was an amazing conclusion to the series. It was strong, emotional, and you got to speak to and say goodbye to everyone, which really made me tear up toward the end. It was much better than the ending to Inquisition, where it felt like I knew I would walk away just fine and everything would be okay. I loved the thought that Shepard was in real danger. The strong reaction to what happened to him only shows how much people loved him. And if you get your military strength high enough to get the perfect rating, it's so, so worth it. Especially if Shepard has a LI. My god, it was beautiful. Definitely must play Extended Cut, though.
+Abuyin ibn Djadir Screw the ending, did you see shep's face when that kid had died from the reaper? That was THE MOST heartbreaking emotional face ive ever seen in a fictional character.
+Mel Thorn Yes, I don't know why the hate either, in my opinion it was a better ending than DA: Inquisition, yes, in ME3 it felt like Shepard was in real danger, the planet, there was a lot at stake, and the connection with the characters felt more emotional. You could feel the desperation of the characters, I think that DA: Origins felt like some of that way too, I'll never forget Leliana saying at the Battle of Denerim: "You are my Grey Warden and our saviour, win this war for us my love and... come home".
+ArcaneTuber Well DA:I introduced tons of new characters, in ME:3 you had spent the majority of 2 full l length games with some of the characters more time to get invested.
Any game you play you think to yourself “the good guys will overcome the evil” this is the only franchise where the hope for a good ending diminishes the further you go
Even when playing Halo, you usually think the Spartans wins Then Halo Reach just comes and slaps you in the face the same way Mass Effect digresses into an ending you won’t reach happiness in
This scene when the reaper destroys both ships along with the child makes you realise how evil and brutal the reapers are. “ No matter how hard you try. You can’t save them all.” 😢
I recommend reading about Emily Wong last text messages, she reports on earth in california about the reaper coming, and gets to see some chilling sight, amongst them a school with husk spikes in the basketball field
Few days ago I saw a theory where that kid id just Shepard's imagination and it could be something common with it. Look at the moment when he's getting on the shuttle. No one notice he's there and how he disappeard in that air conduct in just blink of an eye
@@ArcelloV andromeda, anthem, BioWare is no more. None of the original members of the trilogy remains. Inquisitions success gave BioWare the wrong idea that they will make it work regardless of the circumstances
"I'll be back for you... and I'll bring every fleet I can......... good luck" "You too Shepard" *theme kicks in* Damn you BioWare. Why can't you make games great again like you did with Mass Effect and Dragon Age? Instead, the rEApers came and took my favorite gaming franchise.
James Hetfield BioWare were strong, if you look at old gaming titans I’d say only bungie or ID have better internal culture to them, BioWare was showing cracks as far back as mass effect 2 with the ridiculous drm that still makes it a nightmare to get all the dlc even today
You can say whatever you want about the game or the endings but this song brought me to tears. That scene of the Reapers coming from the sky and annihilating everything and everyone while you were deciding to leave the battle...
xRazorBleedx I think the Inception BWAAAAHHS in the beginning ruins the song a bit. This is a song about loss, not about a tentacle-robot firing it's bass cannon at space ships. I mean it technically is, but you get my point.
Cookiesaurus Rex The song is a literal interpretation of the events unfolding on earth. The beginning is the serene feeling of being at home. A calming comfort that you never want to let go of. Then the drums kick in and you are pulled from your paradise forced to see the real world. Even if you close your eyes, the ear shattering truth of what has fallen upon your life is unavoidable. This piece hits this note perfectly. Extremely well done.
Да, таких произведений больше не встретишь в игровой индустрии, но концовка скребет по моему мозгу словно наждачка, не дает успокоится, разум отторгает еë, заставляет думать что еë и вовсе не было. Для меня история осталась без финала и это ужасно грустно(
@@samfelina ну ты погоди, вон Андрюха Карпишин что-то там готовит, может еще будет нам счастье, там вроде как раз сейчас клпают экшен рпг в космосе, правда с анонса уже вроде как 2-3 прошло, но надеемся что скоро через годик да будет анонс)
0:25 That sound never fails at giving me chills; it's truly something else. The best way to describe it is that I literally feel it (the sound) down in my bones. Even hearing it imitated on instruments fills me with the same sense of dread.
This war's brought us pain, and suffering, and loss. But it's also brought us together, as soldiers, allies... friends. This bond that ties us together is something that the Reapers will never understand. It's more powerful than any weapon, stronger than any ship. It can't be taken or destroyed. The next few hours will decide the fate of everyone in the galaxy. Every mother. Every son. Every unborn child. They're trusting you. Depending on you to win them their future. A future free from the threat of the Reapers! But take heart! Look around you! You're not in this fight alone. We face our enemy together, and together, we will defeat them!
Yes, all these are sad's endings, I'd like to add: Red Dead Redemption (very sad) no words to describe the ending. Of sure it is a masterpiece and the GTA IV final(Roman). Final Fantasy VII (Aerith dead) and Metal gears solid (3 and 4) especially the 3's end. And Half life two: episode two - P.S I love the last of us, amazing game, one of the best of this generation!!
Its amazing how wide this song has become. I was just watching Game of Thrones behind the scenes of Season 8 episode 3 and this song came on...just first hit on the piano and i knew
@@Calvin_Coolage Yup, at the end of the 'inside the episode' for Episode 3/'The Long Night', talking about Jorah's final scene. Instantly recognized it. Also seemed quite fitting. ruclips.net/video/_3M0Xt97aFI/видео.html
When I heared that a voice in my head whispered "Shepard!" :D
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That was foreshadowing, it was the sign, that the murder of the series is so close. Like ME3, S08E03 has the most infuriating scene in the last couple of minutes, which even the most epic of music can't save.
This song showed that Mass Effect 3's OST was on a whole new level compared to 1 and 2. I remember playing the introduction and hearing this song, and I was like "damn, I'm already getting the feels 15 minutes in!"
@@opticmidnight2629 Finished my first play through recently. I mostly played paragon with a bit renegade usually I just act how I feel in my first play throughs but I did want to be the hero and win. Tho I did kill counselor udina just cause I felt like it lmao but I ended up picking control ending and used the reapers to help further the galaxy. I definitely was happy about it 60-80 hours well spent.
11 years later and I still can't get over the fact, how... simple this melody is. Only 3 instruments - piano, violin and horns later on. The composition of notes is [imo?] simple, something that you can learn as a beginner. Put together, they create something beautiful but also truly haunting, something that makes you feel hopeless. And the cherry on top - the reaper horn. It adds an aditional layer of fear, it brings out the Reapers true nature, how dangerous and ruthless they are and how much of a danger they can be. That sound is probably one of the most terrifying things ever created. Clint Mansell is a bloody genius.
Fun fact the Reaper noise as I recall from an article/interview I saw years ago, was actually made by throwing objects into a metal trashcan and engineered out of that recording.
raladin3dd You will only hear this single trumpet playing in the background, as no one ever thought of bringing a radio in the middle of the funeral, when their faces were covered in tears and minds flooded with millions of emotions.
My favourite thing about ME3's opening sequence is how it acts as a kind of reality check for the player. Like, we spent the entirity of 1 and 2 hyping ourselves up like "YEAH, WE GOT THIS, WE'RE GONNA KICK THE REAPERS' ASSES!" only for 3 to come in and immediately replace all of that hype with utter hopelessness within the first 10 minutes like "Oh...oh, no, we were NOT prepared for this..."
If they ever do make a Mass Effect movie trilogy i believe it would be amazing and if done right could be up there with some of the greatest trilogy's of all time like The Lord Of The Rings, Star Wars and The Dark Knight. Each movie should be around 3 hours long and I want Peter Jackson to director because Mass Effect has so many characters and Jackson is good at making each character (even miner ones) in his movies shine. Also because he could make it epic and really standout from the rest of these kind of sci fi movies and be original like how Guardians Of The Galaxy stood out and was quite original.
I actually don't feel it would work as a movie without cutting everything other than the primary plot, but would work wonders as a high-level television series ala Game of Thrones or, maybe more accurately, Battlestar Galactica. If you had five or six ten episode seasons to play with, you could stretch out the character development, incorporate loyalty missions and all the characters, and really do a job.
In Loving Memory Of: Thane Krios, Legion, Mordin Solus, and most importantly, Commander Shepard, if I left out any other team mates/best friends who's death is inevitable, please sign (Comment) their name below... Keelah Se'Lai
I love you, Garrus. You were always in my Squad throughout all 3 games. You and Commander Shepard was and will always be bros. He still needs to meet you in a bar... 😞
If you kill Wrex in the first game and destroy Maleon's data in the second you can convince Mordin that Wreav will restart the Krogan rebellions via paragon and Mordin will walk away without curing the genophage
I can still remember exactly where I was, and the emotions I felt, the pain in my throat and tears welling up in my eyes, when I heard this song play during a Key and Peele sketch.
Actually an epic thing happened during FTL on the last part of the final boss. I was listening to this track in the background and I was one hit away from dying. But in five tries my ship dodged every hit from the bosses super weapon. I picked away at his shields with a burst laser then fried a pike beam. I had two crew men teleported on the boss ship and their was no time to beam them back because of the cool down time for the teleporter and the boss was about to fire the super weapon soon. His shields were down so I made a choice and took the boss down with a pike beam while two of my crewmen were still in the ship. I won, the battle ended and I was in shock.
TicTacPilgrim The worst part about that is the fact those crew members didn't even willingly sacrifice themselves, that blood is on your hands man. Pixelated digital blood, but blood nonetheless.
The ending may of been suck-ish, and controversial; But, Mass Effect- is, and forever will be, one of the most magnificent game franchises I've ever played. ME, ME2, and ME3 are three of the best games I've ever played. Bring on Mass Effect 4, I'm ready!
100% Agree. Best game series of all time for me, no other game gave me that much of personnal attachment to caracters. I'd agree for a ME4, but it has to be perfect. Something like thousands of years before the events of the first 3 I dont know.
Is it for sure a prequel? just curious, and I kind of hope that in the character creation it gives you the option to choose specific races like human turian etc. which would alter dialogue choices, but that probably won't happen
Str8y No, its just my wish ^^ Doing a sequel would be weird to me, but its still possible. I just meant that I dont want them to use the same timeline.. like just before or just after.
I agree with you that Mass Effect is probably the best video game franchise ever created. But the ending? I kinda liked it. In my first try I got over 3600 EMS and I chose the Destroy ending because the Indoctrination Theory was running a little before ME3 came out. Not sure about ME4, but let's hope Bioware makes us proud.
Mass Effect, BioShock, The Elder Scrolls, Halo, Dishonored,... duh, there are some masterpieces out there, you know. Not just things someone can refer like "are you playing these videogames again? duh". I'm sad that some people don't get that there are not only games to spend time online with your friends shooting each other (which can be cool, but..), there are games just as there can be movies, series, anime, books,... A lot of people don't get that games sometimes are just a module to tell a story.
I agree mass Effect isn t just a game..its an wonderful story. Honor,courage,bravery, loyalty,self sacrifice, friendship. lost and above all, respect for the others. It was the only game that made me live the characters. It was a book
***** You may say that if you don't know the lore. You can't say that about Morrowind though. TES was NEVER about the story. Never. Thus, in Oblivion and Skyrim it's mainstream like (if you aren't into the lore). I don't love TES because of their big quests, but because of the lore, which is one of the biggest and most complicated fictional universes there is. A lot of people don't realize that though, because the lore, well, it's great, it's masterly done, but how they tell about the lore most of the time - books. Most of them aren't really thrilling. That sucks. Because eof mainstream shit. But the universe itself is still great, and the world as well. If you play TES for the story of the games, you don't get the series. Besides, I also like F4. The quests are most of the time rather "ok", but the world is magnificent and I love it just to walk in this great done destroyed world. But that's a way of seeing this game which is not very common.
***** Everyone thinks he knows the lore, but that's most of the time only the lore of the games. If you know what are the Daedra, fine, if you even know that Meridia once was an Aedra or if you know about Anu, Sithis and so on, cool. But that's only the lore told in the books and stuff. TES is in its own way realistic. The folk doesn't really understand their own Gods. Do you know CHIM? Ever read the 36 Lessons of Vivec and understood one bit of it? Do you know that Lorkhan is like the most important character of the whole game? Do you know that the Dwemer are now the divine skin of the Numidium and thus, "Gods"? What about kalpas, what about C0DA, what about the fact that everything which could be happen happened because Akatosh ate his own tail so the time is ... well. Do you know about Dragon breaks, when time's not a word anymore and things happen without chronological order which is why there are so many mysteries out there? The Elder Scrolls is way more than it is on the surface which is made for mainstream. TES is one of the greatest fantasy worlds there is. Even if you don't like it, you still have to admit that it's giant und absolutely well-thought. So to say it's shit ... is rather strange, because there's so much passion behind it. TL;DR: I know there's sth called opinion, but calling sth "shittiest stories" while knowing how much thought there's into it is just ... nah.
For a month I have been playing this trilogy, it has touched me on a deep level. When I play I really feel that I am the one who fires the trigger that kills a being or who finds the medal of a deceased husband and returns it to its enduring owner. I have left the ME1 with some incomplete secondary missions, and although I barely go in ME2, I cannot and do not want to go back because in "real life" it cannot be done, but neither to go forward and avoid the loss of a friend. I feel more "me" in this series than in any other, perhaps almost as "me" as in real life. I LOVE this saga.
ME is too good and I can`t play it anymore. Just... it`s too painful and sad being Shepard, loving Tali, having fun with Garrus and Rex because you know the end. You know how it ends... Shit, idk how i will be playing another games....
The fact that Mass Effect Andromeda was underwhelming makes this song even sadder. It just shows how far Bioware has fallen from grace. RIP Mass Effect.
I like ME:Andromeda, but I respect your opinion. I think the fact that Bioware cutted out from trilogy with Andromeda made me think that I should not play this game and see Shepard in mind. It helped me enjoy the game.
Seeing this scene for the first time and seeing the remains of the fleet defending Earth, I couldn't help but quote General of the Army Douglas MacArthur: "I shall return."
When I saw Shepard's expression witnessing what could have been a safe departure for many people he's sworn to protect, that hits me, so hard. This soundtrack is always emotional. God, I can't wait to experience such feeling again in the next ME.
In time, you will know what it's like to lose. To feel so desperately that you're right. Yet to fail all the same. Dread it. Run from it. Destiny still arrives.
Everyone shits on the ending of this game But people forget the whole purpose of the games and the choices we made in them was leading up to the ending it was leading US the PLAYER to the realization of 1)”we cannot save them all” No matter how hard you try no matter what you do you can never save everyone and therefore you can only save as many as you can when you can AND 2) “NO victory comes without sacrifice” Each ending no matter which one you chose at the end of the games resembles one of these meanings..........
Each soundtrack fits each game perfectly. ME1 is the first in the series and has really spacey tracks that reflect our first foray into this universe. It introduces this beautiful galaxy to us and fills us with a sense of wonder. ME2 is much darker and fast-paced, and a lot more gritty. ME3 is a mix of epic (the Reapers coming) and emotional (saying goodbye to old friends, having to make sacrifices). The way the three games are so different and yet they balance each other perfectly, it's magica.
this game takes the spot at the top of my favorite games list. emotional soundtrack, strong characters, good story... the ending had me in tears. first game to ever make me cry.
I member my first playthrough and this music played... it did not matter whether London or some other city got attacked. It was Earth - us... no borders or nations or races - all of us were attacked. It hit hard. Really powerful scene!
Playing the legendary edition is like meeting an old friend
Agreed
For real. I legit cried when I bought my copy. It took me six weeks to complete the three games and God, I felt emotional.
I never played this series and I’m mad I never did I’m playing it now cuz legendary edition and I just can’t believe I never touched it it’s incredible
Played ME2 about a year or two after it came out and I wanted to play the other two games but wasn't able to get them. Then the legendary edition gave me a chance to experience those games for the first and I was not disappointed.
"Had to be me. Someone else might've gotten it wrong."
That old friend is ya boy Garrus
"Stand in the ashes of trillions and ask the ghosts if honor matters! The silence is your answer."
EA's motto
@@zegreatpumpkinani9161 Bwahahaha +1
Best line in the game, besides "I'm Garrus Vakarian, and this is my favorite spot on the Citadel"
I’d forgotten Javik saying that line so I looked it up after reading your comment. The amount of truth and depth put into the characters of this game is probably the most I’ve ever seen in a video game. From their mannerisms to their personalities. The dialogue writers should have won awards for this game...they sure knew how to make you think, with their words of wisdom.
I can't help, but make a military salute each time I hear that song. And then, the little boy gets killed and I can't supress a few tears. This amazing Javik quote just make that feeling even stronger. ME 3 was a rollercoaster of emotions from the begining to the end.
This music is the most “we’ve already lost” sounding music of all time
Made me go: I want to kill every fucking reaper there is. So spoilers: I did
@ Same
@@antonhallergren588 destroy
Always destroy
Return to tali
Eliminate those ship fishes from existence
No matter the cost...
We finish the mission. *at any cost*
but also the most there's a glimmer of hope in there. every jump the normandy makes through the relays is another one of the high notes on the piano. all it takes is a spark.
This song just fits so well in game. You're scared. You're helpless. You're running from behemoth beyond your reckoning. You don't even need the visuals, this song alone tells you how terrifying the reapers are.
Ah yes, the "reapers".
We have dismissed that claim.
This theme was made when the Inception movie was lauched, those early sounds are very familiar.
@@AugustoXRock the sound of the reapers has been the same since 2008, it's actually something being thrown into an empty metal trashcan according to an interview I read.
@@sorrenblitz805 That's interesting, oddly enough has a very similar sound to those big ship horns.
Time to hold the line until Shepard returns.
AYY AYY
Admiral Anderson Yes, Sir!
God damn you, the manliest of tears
JAHurley41 Don't cry for me, cry for Mordin, Legion and Thane. The best brothers in arms a marine could hope for.
Admiral Anderson you did a good job, Keith David
*MASS EFFECT 3*:
You can't save them all.
Agreed. The ending is good since there isn't happy ending. Reapers fucked shit up, almost beyond repair. You have to sacrifice something to gain something.
never played mass effect series, but i do love that "you cant save them all" mentality in games. Sad reality of the way things are. i remember in killzone series, no matter how hard you try, the random ISA around you all die by the end. the feels on the bus go round and round
I feel like you invented your own games, becuase there is no such things in ME trilogy
now u have to buy this serie, less than 15$ for the trilogy honestly do it, when i bought them, i played something average 80 hours for the 1+2+3 with only sleeping ~15hours, how much this game and the story are attractives
where in the world did you get that price for the mass effect series? on steam 1 and 2 are 20 bucks each
Mass Effect 3 got a lot of hate for the ending, but for me it's the most emotional of the series and a great game to boot.
Agreed, with the extended cut free dlc it makes the endings alot better in my opinion
91Metalhead i agree as well it was actually voted as one of if not the most hardest moral choice/choices in video games as you have to find out how your going to finish the entire series
91Metalhead the ending made me truly sad. i had a male shep/kaiden relationship and seeing kaiden put up shepards name on that wall just made me cry. kaiden deserved for shepard to be alive and make him happy ... since i just couldn't get over the fact that kaiden would truly loose shepard i got a mod for it. shepard lived and even gave kaiden a hug in the end. i was beyond relieved
91Metalhead The emotion of the rest of the game was phenomenal, I'm not even ashamed of how often this game made me cry. But that ending was atrocious. Deserves all the hate it got.
91Metalhead I always break down near the end when u get to talk to your team for the very last time, and just the bonds that were formed especially with Garrus (best friend) and Tali (love interest) since they have been with shepard throughout everything when everyone else had other things or gave up on him, just being taken down that road chokes me up. Mass effect has done something no other game could, it got the players emotionally invested in the characters, gave them hope of a better outcome until they were placed at an innevitable point that shepard would need to sacrifice himself. Long live the Feels Train and the river of manly tears it has wrought.
*A lot of games have a sad ending, but not all have a sad intro...*
This game doesn't have to have a sad ending. If you choose right, you end up breaking a millennia long cycle and give intelligent species hope again.
@@enomisv9830 i say about intro in ME3, not ending.
@@rj_man_ that's fair, I misread your comment.
For me, it not a sad intro, more a melancholic one, announcing the end of the trilogy
Literally every single fucking AAA game has a sad intro
Goodbye Mordin.... Your death broke my heart with emotion in a good way. it could only be you.
Because someone else might have gotten it wrong.......
+Max Alvarado ... Would have liked to have run tests on the seashells.
Zombiewithabowtie hahahah lol
+Max Alvarado That scene was one of the first times a video game has brought me to tears, I'm not even ashamed.
+Max Alvarado well at least he sacrificed himself for the greater good
+Max Alvarado the death of Legion and Tali removing her mask on Rannoch brought me to tears
I hate when people disregard mass effect 3 just from the ending....yeah it could have been better but the game itself is brilliant
That's true, though I don't even bother with the final mad dash. Just load up a new save for me.
It is not the destination, but the journey which matters.
I'll never forget about a week after it was out my brother and I were talking about all the complaints about the ending and laughing at the idiots, and saying it couldn't possibly be that bad. I was in my room and he walked in, tossed the disk on my bed (we shared it), and just walked off shaking his head saying "shocking". Then i finished it, and even though I recommend the series to anyone and my bro still plays them every now and then, it sticks in my head and killed ME for me. Wish I could ignore it but it broke my passion for playing, although I force myself to play 2 hehe
The way I see it is.. the Gamer play's the Character.. to watch his story unfold. Commander Sheppard was a great man, better then most.. better then some who exist. But his story, was devoted to protecting everyone he loved, cared about.. he was a Hero. And he might have fallen.. but that should be a sign for inspiration. The ultimate sacrifice one.. Paragon or Renegade was willing to do. He was willing to accept his role in the story, because he truly is.. a Hero.
I actually liked the ending in that it drew a final conclusion which was that Shepard had to die. He was the key in this whole series of events. The reapers started with him and ended with him. I think what they tried to do was to make it look like you had the illusion of choice for an ending that really had only 1 reasonable conclusion. If Shepard didn't die, then the impact of his sacrifice would not have been as heavy as it was. People wanted more choice in the ending but honestly, how much of a choice do you think is reasonable here? People say that your choices didn't matter in the end, but if you believe in the story, then the choices mattered for those who lived. How Shepard brought the galaxy together did not die with him. His actions had repercussions for generations.
"Go back and build yourself a home", "I have a home" 😭
oh damn, that scene was sad indeed, we needed mass effect 4, not andromeda
@@MothXia mass effect will continue!
@@lucjazz6507 i saw that, FINALLY AFTER WAITING FOR YEARS
@@lucjazz6507 Happiest day of my fookin life mate. Mass Effect will bless our souls.
I fucking bawled so hard
I'm so fucking mad that my Shepard and Tali won't have a happy ever after
This is 2020 and this game is still masterpiece to this day
AGREED!!!
Na the ending made everything redundant
@@gilgamesh8334 nope not with the extended cut
Austhir Alif agreed. I just started playing it and I add the Citadal DLC and it make it even better
@@TheRatedTruth Get all the dlc if possible.. It gets better every time
dang i forgot about the reaper part, had my speakers on full blast and it scared the hell out of me
+Bre Fujimoto Yeah, same thing happened to me on my first play through. I cranked the sound up because everything else was fading out ... then BOOOOOM. Scared me and my dog hid under the bed for the rest of the night.
+Shark Bait Your dog had reason to fear the Reapers. It is beyond his comprehension.
I'd say that's exactly the effect the composer and game designers wanted.
It's supposed to.
Shark Bait- If this happened in real life, your dog would be frightened to death
Sometimes the most powerful songs have the fewest words
***** kind of like the Prothean beacons, no words, just imagery.
BluelightTV that is the deepest shit I have hear in a while thank you
Your comment move me
Very Deep
or none at all
Reaper 1: "You know what would be awesome?"
Reaper 2: "No, what?"
Reaper 1: "If we had our own badass soundeffect when we're coming for the mortals so they know they're in deep shit."
Reaper 3: [walks by] 0:24
Damm, That Give Me Chills Every Time I Heard.
In the key of G
that sound woke me up from drunken stupor when i was 19.
LOL yeah
Reminds me of the tripods from war of the world's
This is the best video game trilogy ever created... EVER. Fight me.
Only cuz Kotor didn't get a trilogy
MaadHats this is still better even tho kotor is amazing
@@gabenewell3955 To be fair thats cause kotor was released in the wrong console era. If it was released on the ps3/xbox360 with the graphics and gameplay capabilities at the time it could of been a legendary game. But its good to remember that kotor set the foundation for a game to have a good interactive story that was the basis for the mass effect, and dragon age series.
@@Taladays37 that’s true
I wont fight you i will back you up!
This is the manly tears national anthem
Have an upvote, sir.
EdSkywalker and one from me as well.
EdSkywalker Mine will be useful as well.
EdSkywalker AND MY AXE ...oh wait
Mr. Ontological was waitinh for that :D
This game is worth it just for this song alone. Always tears me up.
:'(
+TBrian Me too man, me too :')
Me too!!! So much emotions
ikr when the kid dies
hey +Commander Shepard how has the rebuilding of the relays going with the reapers?
The emotion this piece invokes is unmatched
I Agree
As I finished the game, my eyes reddened!
I dunno, "And Ever We Fight On - Killzone 3" is simply equal to me.
I was bawling at the end. The scene and this score sent chills down my spine.
ME 1 was like "hey, this is a new, well-done universe that is waiting for you"
ME 2 was like "hello again my friend, you will have a fu****g great time"
ME 3 was like "so my friend, this is the last time that we meet. say goodbye because it's over"
And because of ME 3 I can't play trilogy anymore. This is not a game. This is a memory. Memory of a great time that you had over a few years with your friend. And now you don't have a contact with this friend. He's gone or something. This is how I feel about ME. It's really something more than a game.
I feel the same. I planned on making a few playthroughs, but part 3 hit so hard, and I felt my original trilogy playthrough was so perfect I couldnt get myself sit through it all again. it's the best video game franchise, but I'll never play it again
@@ajanthony1356 i agree with you, i tried to play again and got halfway through the 2nd and i stopped. i think its funny, a game with such good replay value will never be touched again.
Yeah, me too. I planned on playing it through at least twice. Ended up with exactly one play through. Best Game(s) I've ever played in terms of memories kept.
I'll never forget this experience. I played it for the first time during the Covid-19 pandemic and it gave me friends and love when I couldn't see any of my real friends. I really liked the first game, I loved the second, and the third is the most legendary game I ever played. I'll never forget that trilogy. Never.
I felt like that too.The only game that did satisfy me like the Mass Effect trilogy was Witcher 3.But other than Witcher 3, I haven't found a game which could compete with ME
*In some random bar*
Bartender: What'll be your poison?
Shepard: Nothing at the moment, waiting on a friend.
Bartender: You sure? It might take awhile before he comes.
Shepard: I have the time, someone's gotta look after him and remind him to duck every now and then.
Bartender: Suit yourself, but you want to hear a joke to pass the time?
Shepard: Sure, why not?
Bartender: So a Salarian, a Geth and a Drell walk into a bar, what do they have in common?
Shepard: I don't know, what?
Bartender: A commander who can't dance to save his life. They're over at that corner, they've been waiting for you.
Shepard: Thank you, we've got some catching up to do.
Bartender: You're welcome, I'll let you know when your friend gets here. Need anything else, commander?
Shepard: Nothing, that's all for now.
Why the fuck did you have to do this to me, man?
Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope
IIC7 this deserves more likes
I'm not crying. I'm not crying....fuck it if anyone needs me I'll be in the corner.
But what about Kaidan/Ashley and Anderson?
Its ending may be not as expected, but Mass Effect 3 succeeded in reflecting a dreadful and hopeless war in galactic scale. That's what I love about this game. It makes you feel like there is no hope against the Reapers at all.
Vatian So true. Mass Effect 3 and Halo:Reach were the only games where you really felt that this is it... the end of everything we know and love.
A lovely reminder, however beautifully and tragically represented, the hopeless ending of Halo Reach, was in fact not the end. Great sacrifices were made, and because of those sacrifices, the master chief, humanity's best hope, escaped Reach to save us all another day. And now with the mass effect series, we will push forward in Andromeda, never forgetting the sacrifices of those before us. I'm so ready for this game.
...Oof at the last comment
Its not war. Its a struggle
It was never to be a happy ending and you always felt it throughout the journey. It's hard to pull off a story like this and that's why Mass Effect is unique
One of the most epic songs in the history of videogames.
Many games out-do this one with more memorable characters such as Price, Soap, and many more but none beat the soundtrack. (I know it was off topic but I just wanted to say) Its more likely people heard of CoD more than Mass Effect.
@@DevCav nobody cares what you have to say...
RULES OF NATURE!!!!!! and wait a minute... you should Pull my devil trigger!
Halo - Never Forget is unbeatable.
for me its no1
The one to hit me the hardest was the Elcor mission. Although it's only a probe mission it still hits hard. The fact the elcor councilor doesn't say his mood when you ask how many were saved hits so hard. Just the ".......... not.... enough......." gave me chills.
Note that the Elcor translator doesn't give an emotion for that. The Elcor is doing their equivalent of breaking down sobbing, so much so that even a human can tell what they're feeling.
@@melissamiranti4858that’s horribly depressing.
@@SusanaCanales1 I guess we'll see how the Elcor are doing in the next game.
Dakunna burns :(
O:25
*has speakers on full volume*
"Hey this is a pretty good song. I should go back and play mass effect 3 aga-"
*massive reaper noise*
"OH SHITE!"
But that's not a bad thing!
Whille gentle pianno sound carry you away......Reaper horns pull you back reality. That really added greatly to atmosphere of game.
Soundtrack was awesome.
+Cyphi It may seem minor but the way they tied the music into the scene was phenomenal. The discordant bwahh when the Reaper stomped into view, the drums joining in just as the soldier pounded on the transport to signal it, and especially the somber music still having an "upward" quality to it while the Normandy fled into space, as if to say, "things are bad, but as long as that ship is flying, there's hope." Hope this made sense lol
R.I.P headphone users like me
Makes total sense. The ME series was always good at this. That particular scene was more worthy of an award than most films that get them these days. The whole thing truly makes you feel like the soldier that is fighting a hopeless war but has no other choice than to keep fighting and hoping for the best outcome they can get, all the while knowing the cost will be enormous.
That Reaper sound is so horrifying in a primal way, imaging actually hearing that as loud as it would be and shaking the ground with it.
It would be incomprehensible...
Collegeboi3132481 "There's a realm so far beyond your own, you cannot even imagine it!" /Sovereign/ :)
The reaper sound is one of the things I love about this song. The perfect it follows the key dissonance ratio which on it's own allows it to completely stand out and intimidate along with the loud brass to reinforce it.
oobietime8 lol it's a trash can in a forest
that was a damn good ride :(
+Will Mace The best.
+Evil_Shepard Yes it was...
now we are in line for the next one my friend
Reifwalker play the trilogy again... hehe
Anybody here after the Mass Effect continuation announcement?
We never left
😭yes
GANG GANG🥶🥶
@@knght97 I haven’t agreed so wholeheartedly with a statement like that in a long time dude
@@salamsundipsingh4613 GANG GANG NIGGA
To all the people still complaining about the ending. Its about the journey not the destination. Same is true for life.
I don't know about you, but anything ending with a fucking Starchild completely shits over every goddamn journey.
***** Then you are a fucking moron with no appreciation for artistry. :)
***** agreed... it's like having a girlfriend, then getting married, then helping humanity, then they ditch you to a Siberian prison for being a good guy
Matt Salema
2001/2010 did have unsatisfying endings imo, ME3 while a bit lacking, was still alright.
John Smith tell that to a guy who gets mauled by bears at the end of his story. he'd be all "what it don't matter what I do I always get da bears that sucks" hehe , jokes aside though I was fine with the ending. got the girl, saved the galaxy, and then that short scene where he (or she respectfully)gasps for breath When the credits rolled I thought "yep I saved everyone and survived there can be no question".
Most emotional game series ever and I don't care what you say I like the endings.
you know, I might've agreed with you. if i hadn't played katawa shoujo. you will fall in love with the characters of that game.
Jerrod Downey So do I.
I agree with you, ME3 had some of the saddest death scenes, most epic battles (space), and three awesome endings. (my honest opinions)
got all emotional did you? got a bit worked up? had a little cry? awwwww... na tho. . . chill out then.
I know its just a game, but I'm sure I'm not the only one that felt it when that kid got blasted by the reapers.
i was like meh , cuz i just had finished ME 2 , and thane died ...
Oh well there goes Timmy
The whole cutscene was the closest I'd ever come to crying while playing a video game. Not just the scene where the kid dies but Shepard's reaction, the music, leaving Anderson behind, seeing how human forces were powerless against the Reapers.
The Scene in the first mission where the Alliance Cruiser just takes one hit by the reaper... when it appeared i thought: "Yeah, come on, give em' hell." Then it was blown up with only one shot :-/
BigJamez21 i was like he could survive when came with us its was so sad to see that the ship explode my heard stopt for a sec :c
This quote is from Halo Reach but damn it fits here:
"I know we're losing, I want to know if we've lost." - Kat
Yooo, I ❤️ halo and mass effect
came here like "hey let's listen to that mass effect song again"
leaving like "I'M FUCKING REINSTALLING THIS SHIT"
spagetti001 it's so damn good. Replaying the entire series and I just finished ME2.
Good luck to you bro.
In the immortal words of Shepard,
"I should go."
am gonna be renegade ass this time fk it
bahah, I just replayed the trilogy (and ME3 for the 6th time now) a few weeks ago. I just need 1 week for each game, so a month for the trilogy... it feels like an amazing TV shows that I keep telling "one more episode" and finish the entire season in 1 day
Literally me rn
spagetti001 Going to replay the trilogy for the 8th time now
His name was....
Marauder Shields
Dr.Heist A hero. He died trying to save us from the ending
Dr.Heist Dunno, the extended cut ending was great. Sure, there is no happy ever after in all regards and everything comes at a price, but without it it wouldn't had the effect it had. : )
***** Amen. It's been so long and I'm still not over this shit.
***** Personally, I think the vanilla endings were okay. Probably because I've seen so many bad endings over the years that my expectations are cynically low. Not playing a half-finished game also helped (I guess the almighty EA is to thank for shitty DLC practices). I imagine I would be more disappointed if I had played it at release.
Putting that aside though, I do think everyone should experience MEHEM at the very least. Extended Anderson conversation is pretty nice too.
Dr.Heist His name was....
JOHN CENA!!! OOOOOOOOGH
Everyone is here bitching about how terrible the ending was and I'm sitting here crying like a baby. Granted my first playthrough was after the extended cuts and with leviathan/citadel DLC so I had a better first impression. First time a video game ever brought tears to my eyes.
+ijirving Same here, only when Mordin died though ... he was so awesome!
+ijirving It makes a *huge* difference. My first playthrough had the original endings: the mass relays all explode (which means everyone in a system containing a relay dies, according to the game's own lore), Joker crashes the Normandy on the jungle planet (which means Garrus and Tali die of starvation, since they have unique biologies, and the destruction of the relays means small hope of rescue), and that's it. No epilogue, no explanation; it just looks like everything Shepard ever did was invalidated. Downer Ending. Seeing the Extended DLC endings made all the difference to me, and now I, too, cry manly tears when I hear this music.
Minecraft, despite all of it's hate, actually brought a tear to my eye with it's music, it cause nostalgia....
Also Half-Life 2: Episode 2, I cried of hype.
+ijirving ME3 ending is awesome. People love bitching about everything.
+ijirving I know how you feel man i hate sad endings :(
The single most beautiful soundtrack I have ever heard. The gentle, sad melody intertwined with the reaper horn is spine tingling. I will never get over how amazing this music is. This tops every soundtrack I have ever heard.
Да, согласен, очень мало композиций, которые, хоть как-то, могли б сравнятся, с этим шедевром ...
You ever heard silent hill 2 soundtrack ore the heavy rain soundtrack? It is also brilliant 😉
Half a decade has gone by. And still I come back to this.
Almost a decade, still true
same shit mate
Almost a decade, still I am here
Are you still around for this my guy? Hope all is well for you homie
@@fabo821 I'm still here and I'm alright my dude 👊🏻
Can't wait for the Legendary Edition to come out and forget my worries for a while
This song, along with An End Once and For All, almost make me want to cry. Mass Effect is one of the best series I've ever played, and I can't wait for the next one, even if Shepard doesn't return :(
Yeah I know what you mean. I going to really miss the old crew apart from Jacob. I think I'll miss Tali the most but i'm sure the new bunch will be just as good and maybe even better.
i dont really mind though, shepards story is over :) it was good as fuck. i'm curious what new idea's and storylines they got.
Boy do I got bad news about the new one lol
I miss Garrus so much...
+Ramzan308 | World of Tanks Who's care Garrus We lose Commander Shepard !!! Saver of the world What do we do now without him ?
For sure, Shepard is really charismatic hero, but I do really miss Garrus' voice and phrases, his personality.
The good thing is that at least both Garrus and Shepard are alive. There is no Shepard without Vakarian ©
Do you know anything about Mass effect 4 ? we will play another hero and another team mates I dont like this.
And I am agree Garrus Vakarian is a perfect companion he can die for him friends like others.
+Aygün AtLı It is called ME: Andromeda and comes in 2016. The action happens not in the Milky Way, AFAIK. For sure, playing another hero may be absolutely different feeling. But still, we can't save the galaxy all the times playing Shepard with his friends. It had to end anyway. :(
I do really hope that we will have somebody or something that makes us re-feel all cool things from previous parts somehow. At least it is always cool to see some krogans, turians, salarians, etc.
+Ramzan308 | World of Tanks I miss Tali too...I miss both my Turian's bud and my dear Tali...
John: There was a kid on earth and i had to watch die.
Liara: you can't save everyone.
Leaving earth made anyone with a soul hate reapers like they had killed your family even if it was just a random little boy in a video game that died in that scene. It was a perfect opening to probably my favorite game of the 3 since I played it first after all the dlc had come out.
💔
I remember Shepard telling that to Garrus not Liara. And I wasn't romancing neither of them idk if that has something to do with it.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
What!!! I can't hear you over the epic soundtrack!!!!!
Key & peele brought me here
@@choicetaco44 Which video?
If Hank Hill saw the Reapers he would Scream this and say that's it Reapers I'm gonna kick your metal ass!!
The Moment I Opened The Comment Box And Saw Your Comment......This Music Goes Bruhhhhhhhhhh
Despite the ending Mass Effect 3 is still one of the greatest games of all time. The characters, the atmosphere, the fighting, etc. All of it cannot possibly be replicated.
It is. I have unfortunately become very picky with my games as I have gotten older.
ME was the first game/game series in 6 years that was on my mind all the time and I was experiencing similar stuff as you would do as a kid playing games.
Hell, ME series, Dragon Age, Fallout and Mario Galaxy are the only games in my adult live I have bothered to play all the way.
hoodfigga33 I can easily understand why people don't like it, but I don't quite get being mad at the game and makers. It just feels very much like the "gamer crowd" and teenager reaction to it all. I got a feeling it also depends on how you play these games.
I play these games very much for the story and maybe even more for the atmosphere. The wrap-up isn't as important as the road to it imo.
I was way more sad about the game ending, than I was about the ending. It wasn't about the ending why I played the game.
***** Here's my problem: when I played this game on the EU release date, I was fully immersed in the universe, I had timed it all perfectly and just finished ME2 again when I could finally play ME3. I played the game in full exploration mode and took it all in, enjoyed every second of the gameplay and story and then I come up to the end, once the starchild finished talking I'm just standing there thinking: "What the hell now?". Eventually I went ahead and chose synthesis because I couldn't imagine a world where Jeff and EDI couldn't be together and after the end credits I was simply sad. Not "so impressed by the story that I can't believe its over" sad but plain old dissappointed and depressed. The only thing I could do was go to bed. I've replayed the game since then, with the ending dlc but since I kinda knew how it ends, I was ready for it and I didn't care anymore and just chose to blow the reapers up. Bioware made us care and I applaud them for that, but I don't trust them anymore.
Havok0159 By "Starchild" you mean an AI.The inaccessible Citadel control core is referenced in ME1 by Avina, and if you visit Klencory in ME1 or ME3 you'll see reference to Beings of Light, created at the dawn of time (hint: by the leviathans), to stop the machine devils. And no machine devils does not mean reapers. The reapers are a LESSER evil. ME3 does not explain what the greater evil really is, but by breaking the cycle, the ending is left open for it. The reapers employed crop rotation (reaper, collector, harvester, even shepard are all farming metaphors), destroying a part of the population infrequently to protect the rest most of the time. People say this is bad logic. To a human it is. To an AI, it's simply the result of a poor application of Asimov's laws.
I miss this universe... i miss everything about this MASTERPIECE
Me too. :(
I am excited to see what they will do with the 4th one though.
Man... you had to remember me of that *sobs* damn nostalgia..
Augusto Vieira I'm waiting for ME4....
Mezio Fufezio
Nah, Mass Effect without Shepard and his Crew is not Mass Effect. It will never be the same again :´(
It’s been over a decade since I’ve played this game. Hearing this made me realize, it’s time to go back and play through it again. Now I’m excited.
It's three years later and I'm still getting emotional when I hear this one. And I don't know what is still going on with this ending hate, when I saw the Extended Cut "red" ending I loved it. Maybe there was a little deus ex machina bullshit going on but I liked it anyway. Manly tears shed.
+Abuyin ibn Djadir Yeah, I don't get the hate, either. I thought it was an amazing conclusion to the series. It was strong, emotional, and you got to speak to and say goodbye to everyone, which really made me tear up toward the end. It was much better than the ending to Inquisition, where it felt like I knew I would walk away just fine and everything would be okay. I loved the thought that Shepard was in real danger. The strong reaction to what happened to him only shows how much people loved him.
And if you get your military strength high enough to get the perfect rating, it's so, so worth it. Especially if Shepard has a LI. My god, it was beautiful. Definitely must play Extended Cut, though.
+Abuyin ibn Djadir Screw the ending, did you see shep's face when that kid had died from the reaper? That was THE MOST heartbreaking emotional face ive ever seen in a fictional character.
+Mel Thorn Yes, I don't know why the hate either, in my opinion it was a better ending than DA: Inquisition, yes, in ME3 it felt like Shepard was in real danger, the planet, there was a lot at stake, and the connection with the characters felt more emotional. You could feel the desperation of the characters, I think that DA: Origins felt like some of that way too, I'll never forget Leliana saying at the Battle of Denerim: "You are my Grey Warden and our saviour, win this war for us my love and... come home".
+Abuyin ibn Djadir it is disappointment not hate, the game was 99.9% perfection
+ArcaneTuber Well DA:I introduced tons of new characters, in ME:3 you had spent the majority of 2 full l length games with some of the characters more time to get invested.
I remember the first time I played this game, the sounds the reapers make still send shivers down my spine.
Sounds like a Cargo ship horn lol.
@@SagaciousNihilist Probably is
Any game you play you think to yourself “the good guys will overcome the evil” this is the only franchise where the hope for a good ending diminishes the further you go
The mission to Thessia showed that perfectly.
Shadow of war too
Even when playing Halo, you usually think the Spartans wins
Then Halo Reach just comes and slaps you in the face the same way Mass Effect digresses into an ending you won’t reach happiness in
no it isnt, and you're evil for pretending it is
This scene when the reaper destroys both ships along with the child makes you realise how evil and brutal the reapers are.
“ No matter how hard you try. You can’t save them all.” 😢
Machines can't be evil. Brutal... definitely, but evil? No at all.
I recommend reading about Emily Wong last text messages, she reports on earth in california about the reaper coming, and gets to see some chilling sight, amongst them a school with husk spikes in the basketball field
@@GuilhermeAModesti Machines? Reapers are Cyborgs, they are part biological so morality is a concept they understand.
Replaying it but doing a renegade play through. Though Iove edi I can’t bring myself to not destroy the reapers they’re evil sob’s
Few days ago I saw a theory where that kid id just Shepard's imagination and it could be something common with it.
Look at the moment when he's getting on the shuttle. No one notice he's there and how he disappeard in that air conduct in just blink of an eye
IM JUST SWEATING OUT OF MY EYES
This is poetry for my skin ... goosebumps all over.
Goodbye Garrus... I'll be waiting for that drink...
+Joshua Kapusinski Ok
+Joshua Kapusinski Hes still working on his calibrations at the moment.
+Garrus Vakarian I'll be there, at the bar. Save a spot for ya.
Thank you
🍻
Just finished the trilogy yesterday and I can't stop crying! What an incredible game! Can't wait for The Next Mass Effect!
Just finished it this weekend.
Shook to my core man.
@@guapocat203 I'm on the third game now and loving it.
There will be no such good Mass Effect. I don’t believe in today’s Bioware anymore.
@@ArcelloV andromeda, anthem, BioWare is no more. None of the original members of the trilogy remains. Inquisitions success gave BioWare the wrong idea that they will make it work regardless of the circumstances
Finished it yesterday. I was bawling at the end. This game is just so good.
"I'll be back for you... and I'll bring every fleet I can......... good luck"
"You too Shepard"
*theme kicks in*
Damn you BioWare. Why can't you make games great again like you did with Mass Effect and Dragon Age? Instead, the rEApers came and took my favorite gaming franchise.
EA are the true reapers
Ea is destroying our BioWare like the other companies they destroyed. surprised BioWare lasted this long
James Hetfield
BioWare were strong, if you look at old gaming titans I’d say only bungie or ID have better internal culture to them, BioWare was showing cracks as far back as mass effect 2 with the ridiculous drm that still makes it a nightmare to get all the dlc even today
i think bioware was trying to warn us about these rEApers thats why mass effect 3 came out they wanted to send their game off with a bang
@@mxntalduck GASP
THE CONSPIRACY...Is it true???
😱😱😱
SHEEEPPPPAAARRRRDDD 😭😭😭
You can say whatever you want about the game or the endings but this song brought me to tears. That scene of the Reapers coming from the sky and annihilating everything and everyone while you were deciding to leave the battle...
The kid dying is what got to me.
xRazorBleedx I think the Inception BWAAAAHHS in the beginning ruins the song a bit. This is a song about loss, not about a tentacle-robot firing it's bass cannon at space ships. I mean it technically is, but you get my point.
Cookiesaurus Rex The song is a literal interpretation of the events unfolding on earth. The beginning is the serene feeling of being at home. A calming comfort that you never want to let go of. Then the drums kick in and you are pulled from your paradise forced to see the real world. Even if you close your eyes, the ear shattering truth of what has fallen upon your life is unavoidable. This piece hits this note perfectly. Extremely well done.
На слезу пробивает.. Шикарная трилогия. Шикарная музыка 3й части. 🥺
Да, таких произведений больше не встретишь в игровой индустрии, но концовка скребет по моему мозгу словно наждачка, не дает успокоится, разум отторгает еë, заставляет думать что еë и вовсе не было. Для меня история осталась без финала и это ужасно грустно(
@@samfelina ну ты погоди, вон Андрюха Карпишин что-то там готовит, может еще будет нам счастье, там вроде как раз сейчас клпают экшен рпг в космосе, правда с анонса уже вроде как 2-3 прошло, но надеемся что скоро через годик да будет анонс)
0:25 That sound never fails at giving me chills; it's truly something else. The best way to describe it is that I literally feel it (the sound) down in my bones. Even hearing it imitated on instruments fills me with the same sense of dread.
When i was a kid THIS sound scared me,now i have 14 year old and finally not scare me🤣(Sorry for the grammatic,im not english)
If I remember correctly it was a bear proof trash can lid
ME3 had such an incredible soundtrack. Even the DLC soundtracks were excellent.
Goodbye Tali... I will always love you, wherever you may be...
Keelah Se'Lai...
*closes eyes, destroy....*
+Whoami691 Alright, man, you got me on Keelah Se'Lai.
BUT, in my case, closes eyes, jumps into the synthesis
+Max Khomenko Agreed, my friend. Totaly agreed.
+Whoami691 she's too adorable to hate, even that time she said i reminded her of a vorcha when i 'aaaah' at her.
+Commander Shepard Tali has been like a little sister throughout
+Whoami691 Uses happy ending mod...romance lives, shepard lives, galaxy lives, all in all good day to be shepard.
Wait a little more Shepard, soon I will save the galaxy with you again, in the best quality.
"Our numbers will darken the sky of every world." - Sovereign
"Then we will fight in the shade." 😉
@@Sahib0120 Not all planets in the universe have suns 🧐. Go rewatch 300.
This song gives me faith in humanity.
This song make's me loose all my hope in everything.
but i still hear it, because i'ts awesome!
This war's brought us pain, and suffering, and loss. But it's also
brought us together, as soldiers, allies... friends. This bond that ties us together is something that the Reapers will never understand.
It's more powerful than any weapon,
stronger than any ship. It can't be taken or destroyed.
The next few hours will decide the fate of everyone in the galaxy.
Every mother. Every son. Every unborn child.
They're trusting you. Depending on you to win them their future.
A future free from the threat of the Reapers!
But take heart! Look around you! You're not in this fight alone.
We face our enemy together, and together, we will defeat them!
Shepard, this is cheesy and weak. You should come up with something better.
Tell that to the Reapers. Oh wait you can't because they're dead.
Commander Shepard
Yeah, but you didnt killed them. Deus Ex Machina did.
I don't give a Vorcha's ass about Dues Ex Machina...
Commander Shepard
Then why you built it?
This song deeply touched my heart, and make me feel sad! One of the most emotional series ever.
***** Yes, i agree. That scene is sad and epic at the same time. Anyway It's a masterpiece.
Yes, all these are sad's endings, I'd like to add:
Red Dead Redemption (very sad) no words to describe the ending. Of sure it is a masterpiece and the GTA IV final(Roman). Final Fantasy VII (Aerith dead) and Metal gears solid (3 and 4) especially the 3's end. And Half life two: episode two -
P.S I love the last of us, amazing game, one of the best of this generation!!
***** What? No Red Dead Redemption?
Its amazing how wide this song has become. I was just watching Game of Thrones behind the scenes of Season 8 episode 3 and this song came on...just first hit on the piano and i knew
Wait, this song was used as background music for something Game of Thrones related?
@@Calvin_Coolage Yup, at the end of the 'inside the episode' for Episode 3/'The Long Night', talking about Jorah's final scene. Instantly recognized it. Also seemed quite fitting.
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When I heared that a voice in my head whispered "Shepard!" :D
That was foreshadowing, it was the sign, that the murder of the series is so close. Like ME3, S08E03 has the most infuriating scene in the last couple of minutes, which even the most epic of music can't save.
@ Difference is ME3 was great until the ending..GoT S8 (and even S7) was shit throughout
Kaiden... Mordin... Thane... Legion... Anderson... And Commander Shepard... Rest in peace, you are missed
Shepard still lives. But I regret the fact that Joker lost EDI for it to happen.
I don't miss Kaidan. And I don't miss Ashley either. The rest I cri everytim
This song showed that Mass Effect 3's OST was on a whole new level compared to 1 and 2. I remember playing the introduction and hearing this song, and I was like "damn, I'm already getting the feels 15 minutes in!"
Same here. I HOPE ME4 will be as good as 1-3
Suicide Mission track from ME2 is one of the best in the trilogy.
Viktor Stagnetti me3 an end once and for all extended is best. but to each his own
12 years later... Still gives me chills... Thank you for the memories of an easier time
This scene will always make me tear up.. along with the music..
A satisfying end for a great trilogy at least my end was good
I always play Paragon, can't seem to play the renegade
@@opticmidnight2629 Finished my first play through recently. I mostly played paragon with a bit renegade usually I just act how I feel in my first play throughs but I did want to be the hero and win. Tho I did kill counselor udina just cause I felt like it lmao but I ended up picking control ending and used the reapers to help further the galaxy. I definitely was happy about it 60-80 hours well spent.
You know if you overlay this with any sad part of a video game it works about every time.
True
I was too young to play this when it came out, but the legendary edition is like a friend I never met
so many memories...
;D
***** A vos también te agarro la nostalgia? jaja
***** Exactly xD
***** jajaja
11 years later and I still can't get over the fact, how... simple this melody is.
Only 3 instruments - piano, violin and horns later on. The composition of notes is [imo?] simple, something that you can learn as a beginner. Put together, they create something beautiful but also truly haunting, something that makes you feel hopeless.
And the cherry on top - the reaper horn. It adds an aditional layer of fear, it brings out the Reapers true nature, how dangerous and ruthless they are and how much of a danger they can be. That sound is probably one of the most terrifying things ever created.
Clint Mansell is a bloody genius.
Fun fact the Reaper noise as I recall from an article/interview I saw years ago, was actually made by throwing objects into a metal trashcan and engineered out of that recording.
Someday i will buy a commercial space flight, and guess what will i listen to on my headphones...
+Dwimerytguy headphones? just use intercom to broadcast that music inside ship :)
That may be out of your timeline though... Even may be out of mine.
probably a bad omen
the earth is flat, space is but fantasy
@@totenmaarhaim5369 the earth is round. Don't reply, it makes you look dumb
I want this to be played at my funeral when am dead
Me to
Me also
raladin3dd I want it played at my funeral when I'm alive.
raladin3dd You will only hear this single trumpet playing in the background, as no one ever thought of bringing a radio in the middle of the funeral, when their faces were covered in tears and minds flooded with millions of emotions.
raladin3dd I want the Hitman version of Ave Maria to play in mine :(
Almost 4 fucking years by now, can you believe it?
+In Depth Gaming I remember being psyched out of my mind for it before release.
Yeah, do you remember that PR-thing, with them shooting a copy of from space Pre-Release?
My favourite thing about ME3's opening sequence is how it acts as a kind of reality check for the player.
Like, we spent the entirity of 1 and 2 hyping ourselves up like "YEAH, WE GOT THIS, WE'RE GONNA KICK THE REAPERS' ASSES!" only for 3 to come in and immediately replace all of that hype with utter hopelessness within the first 10 minutes like "Oh...oh, no, we were NOT prepared for this..."
If they ever do make a Mass Effect movie trilogy i believe it would be amazing and if done right could be up there with some of the greatest trilogy's of all time like The Lord Of The Rings, Star Wars and The Dark Knight. Each movie should be around 3 hours long and I want Peter Jackson to director because Mass Effect has so many characters and Jackson is good at making each character (even miner ones) in his movies shine. Also because he could make it epic and really standout from the rest of these kind of sci fi movies and be original like how Guardians Of The Galaxy stood out and was quite original.
see I would be okay wit that if it was a prequel, but if it was based off the games, it would do nothing but piss people off
Middlefingerstudios1 Set in the time of the first contact wars perhaps...
***** exactly
***** or maybe even in when anderson was trying to become a spectre and it ultimately ending with him failing
I actually don't feel it would work as a movie without cutting everything other than the primary plot, but would work wonders as a high-level television series ala Game of Thrones or, maybe more accurately, Battlestar Galactica. If you had five or six ten episode seasons to play with, you could stretch out the character development, incorporate loyalty missions and all the characters, and really do a job.
In Loving Memory Of: Thane Krios, Legion, Mordin Solus, and most importantly, Commander Shepard, if I left out any other team mates/best friends who's death is inevitable, please sign (Comment) their name below... Keelah Se'Lai
And Anderson, Kaiden/Ashley, depending on which one you chose to save...
I love you, Garrus. You were always in my Squad throughout all 3 games. You and Commander Shepard was and will always be bros. He still needs to meet you in a bar... 😞
If you kill Wrex in the first game and destroy Maleon's data in the second you can convince Mordin that Wreav will restart the Krogan rebellions via paragon and Mordin will walk away without curing the genophage
I don't understand why people would do that...
+Garrus Vakarian well I didn't say you SHOULD I'm just saying you CAN
what a beautiful song... that and the "relationship" that bioware got with the player are the things that makes me love them :D
I can still remember exactly where I was, and the emotions I felt, the pain in my throat and tears welling up in my eyes, when I heard this song play during a Key and Peele sketch.
Best track to listen to when your ship in FTL is about to explode
What is FTL?
Oh. Ok. I knew it was a game but did not know the title. Thanks Tomáš Unavailable !
Actually an epic thing happened during FTL on the last part of the final boss. I was listening to this track in the background and I was one hit away from dying. But in five tries my ship dodged every hit from the bosses super weapon. I picked away at his shields with a burst laser then fried a pike beam. I had two crew men teleported on the boss ship and their was no time to beam them back because of the cool down time for the teleporter and the boss was about to fire the super weapon soon. His shields were down so I made a choice and took the boss down with a pike beam while two of my crewmen were still in the ship. I won, the battle ended and I was in shock.
TicTacPilgrim The worst part about that is the fact those crew members didn't even willingly sacrifice themselves, that blood is on your hands man. Pixelated digital blood, but blood nonetheless.
The ending may of been suck-ish, and controversial;
But, Mass Effect- is, and forever will be, one of the most magnificent game franchises I've ever played. ME, ME2, and ME3 are three of the best games I've ever played.
Bring on Mass Effect 4, I'm ready!
100% Agree. Best game series of all time for me, no other game gave me that much of personnal attachment to caracters.
I'd agree for a ME4, but it has to be perfect. Something like thousands of years before the events of the first 3 I dont know.
Is it for sure a prequel? just curious, and I kind of hope that in the character creation it gives you the option to choose specific races like human turian etc. which would alter dialogue choices, but that probably won't happen
Str8y No, its just my wish ^^ Doing a sequel would be weird to me, but its still possible. I just meant that I dont want them to use the same timeline.. like just before or just after.
Aoewin08 yeah I see what you're saying,
I agree with you that Mass Effect is probably the best video game franchise ever created. But the ending? I kinda liked it. In my first try I got over 3600 EMS and I chose the Destroy ending because the Indoctrination Theory was running a little before ME3 came out.
Not sure about ME4, but let's hope Bioware makes us proud.
Mass Effect, BioShock, The Elder Scrolls, Halo, Dishonored,... duh, there are some masterpieces out there, you know. Not just things someone can refer like "are you playing these videogames again? duh". I'm sad that some people don't get that there are not only games to spend time online with your friends shooting each other (which can be cool, but..), there are games just as there can be movies, series, anime, books,...
A lot of people don't get that games sometimes are just a module to tell a story.
I agree mass Effect isn t just a game..its an wonderful story. Honor,courage,bravery, loyalty,self sacrifice, friendship. lost and above all, respect for the others.
It was the only game that made me live the characters. It was a book
***** You may say that if you don't know the lore. You can't say that about Morrowind though.
TES was NEVER about the story. Never. Thus, in Oblivion and Skyrim it's mainstream like (if you aren't into the lore). I don't love TES because of their big quests, but because of the lore, which is one of the biggest and most complicated fictional universes there is. A lot of people don't realize that though, because the lore, well, it's great, it's masterly done, but how they tell about the lore most of the time - books. Most of them aren't really thrilling. That sucks.
Because eof mainstream shit. But the universe itself is still great, and the world as well. If you play TES for the story of the games, you don't get the series.
Besides, I also like F4. The quests are most of the time rather "ok", but the world is magnificent and I love it just to walk in this great done destroyed world. But that's a way of seeing this game which is not very common.
***** Everyone thinks he knows the lore, but that's most of the time only the lore of the games. If you know what are the Daedra, fine, if you even know that Meridia once was an Aedra or if you know about Anu, Sithis and so on, cool.
But that's only the lore told in the books and stuff. TES is in its own way realistic. The folk doesn't really understand their own Gods. Do you know CHIM? Ever read the 36 Lessons of Vivec and understood one bit of it?
Do you know that Lorkhan is like the most important character of the whole game? Do you know that the Dwemer are now the divine skin of the Numidium and thus, "Gods"?
What about kalpas, what about C0DA, what about the fact that everything which could be happen happened because Akatosh ate his own tail so the time is ... well. Do you know about Dragon breaks, when time's not a word anymore and things happen without chronological order which is why there are so many mysteries out there?
The Elder Scrolls is way more than it is on the surface which is made for mainstream. TES is one of the greatest fantasy worlds there is. Even if you don't like it, you still have to admit that it's giant und absolutely well-thought. So to say it's shit ... is rather strange, because there's so much passion behind it.
TL;DR: I know there's sth called opinion, but calling sth "shittiest stories" while knowing how much thought there's into it is just ... nah.
findusuli
Migster yeah, my name's ultra premium, eh? xD
For a month I have been playing this trilogy, it has touched me on a deep level. When I play I really feel that I am the one who fires the trigger that kills a being or who finds the medal of a deceased husband and returns it to its enduring owner. I have left the ME1 with some incomplete secondary missions, and although I barely go in ME2, I cannot and do not want to go back because in "real life" it cannot be done, but neither to go forward and avoid the loss of a friend. I feel more "me" in this series than in any other, perhaps almost as "me" as in real life. I LOVE this saga.
yeah..Shepard story its like..being part of a movie..you live it. You are Shepard
ME is too good and I can`t play it anymore. Just... it`s too painful and sad being Shepard, loving Tali, having fun with Garrus and Rex because you know the end. You know how it ends... Shit, idk how i will be playing another games....
The fact that Mass Effect Andromeda was underwhelming makes this song even sadder. It just shows how far Bioware has fallen from grace.
RIP Mass Effect.
I like ME:Andromeda, but I respect your opinion. I think the fact that Bioware cutted out from trilogy with Andromeda made me think that I should not play this game and see Shepard in mind. It helped me enjoy the game.
Mass Effect is not dead. It still lives on, within our hearts. So does Shepard and the Normandy's crew.
Matthew Ackerman
Yes
When EAshit buy a company the games they produce become crap...
When u reach the peak and only way forward is down to the ground and if your with EA not only are u going down but through it and into hell
Anybody here after the Remastered Legendary Edition announcement??
Here we are bro
Can't wait to experience it all over again.
can't wait to see Jenkins die in 4k
Yes, brother
Hell yeah just done a play through of 2 and 3 still really enjoyed it ..
These three piano notes at 0:13 still haunt me.
Seeing this scene for the first time and seeing the remains of the fleet defending Earth, I couldn't help but quote General of the Army Douglas MacArthur: "I shall return."
This is so atmospheric, it gives me shivers every time.
When I saw Shepard's expression witnessing what could have been a safe departure for many people he's sworn to protect, that hits me, so hard. This soundtrack is always emotional. God, I can't wait to experience such feeling again in the next ME.
In time, you will know what it's like to lose. To feel so desperately that you're right. Yet to fail all the same. Dread it. Run from it. Destiny still arrives.
"Are you asking if we're losing?"
"I know we're losing....., I want to know if we've already lost....."
Everyone shits on the ending of this game
But people forget the whole purpose of the games and the choices we made in them was leading up to the ending it was leading US the PLAYER to the realization of
1)”we cannot save them all”
No matter how hard you try no matter what you do you can never save everyone and therefore you can only save as many as you can when you can
AND
2) “NO victory comes without sacrifice”
Each ending no matter which one you chose at the end of the games resembles one of these meanings..........
This ^. This is what I love about the game. No matter how much good you do for the world, it doesn’t always repay you in kind
One of the best on game sound pieces I’ve ever heard
All these years and it still hits.
The sound of loss and grief.
Each soundtrack fits each game perfectly. ME1 is the first in the series and has really spacey tracks that reflect our first foray into this universe. It introduces this beautiful galaxy to us and fills us with a sense of wonder. ME2 is much darker and fast-paced, and a lot more gritty. ME3 is a mix of epic (the Reapers coming) and emotional (saying goodbye to old friends, having to make sacrifices). The way the three games are so different and yet they balance each other perfectly, it's magica.
Mass Effect 1 - A New Hope
Mass Effect 2 - The Empire Strikes Back
Mass Effect 3 - Revenge of the Sith
Revenge of the Sith was good though haha?
ShaDO118k Didn't say it wasn't. Mass Effect 3 is good as well, but not as good as the other two.
Yah i know you didnt, Mass Effect 3 hater here haha. Its more like the god father 3.
Mass effect 4 - The Force Awakens
Mass effect 5 - Return Of The Jedi (hopefully :P)
You're selling dreams to me.
this game takes the spot at the top of my favorite games list. emotional soundtrack, strong characters, good story... the ending had me in tears. first game to ever make me cry.
I member my first playthrough and this music played... it did not matter whether London or some other city got attacked. It was Earth - us... no borders or nations or races - all of us were attacked. It hit hard.
Really powerful scene!