What drew me into the Mass Effect universe is the realness of the universe. No race or nation was 'good' or 'evil' they were all gray and fuzzy. While some races took themselves to be 'higher' than others, none were at complete opposite ends of the spectrum. Which is more real than we usually get in space epics. I mean shit, even the Reapers weren't exactly evil, twisted unfeeling idealogues, but not evil.
This is so true! Mass Effect is one of the most grounded space operas of all time! There is no absolute right or wrong, everyone is just working towards their own ideals. The Reapers aren't evil, they are just working towards their own goal. Fun theory I heared, the Reapers original motivation was going to be that biotics generate dark matter that speeds up the end of the universe, therefore as a race that will essentially live forever they have a vested intrest in destroying any race that advances that far. That would explain the accelerated breakdown of the sun in Tali's mission in the second game. Either way, the Reapers still gave the impression that while they didn't empathize with the 'lesser beings' they didn't want to kill everything but still viewed it as necessary. Not to mention their weapons and tech are far more grounded in real science and practicality than say Halo, Star Wars, Warhammer. I won't say Battletech because other than the mechwarrior games, I don't know much about that universe
Silver Crescent halo is very grounded (at least bungle era) but yea I love how ALL of mass effects weopons are preaty much normal guns you’d find today
Mini Hunter That's right let it all let out. Let all that burning up anger, humiliation and frustration come out, sure it makes you look insecure and immature but at least better out than in right. ;)
@@YggdraGaming lmao me too, and my other bloody gutteral scream was when you're fighting that reaper-human larva Terminator thing and Garrus slipped and started going off the platform, I screamed out his name and reached my hand out...
What do you mean? It was obvious once you saw a BLUE ARMORED TURIAN sniping at the Omega gangs... There was literally no big reveal. Just oh... Its Garrus
Alexander McKee so sad, Garrus talking about that bar in heaven and Grunt acting like a little kid. Garrus is Shep's bff and both of them knowing their lives are gonna be wrapping up pretty shortly made it so sad. I also had the final goodbye with Garrus in front of the beam and he didn't want to leave me but he had to.
1:58 "But nowadays, he's got hair and a beard, and looks nothing like Shepard." No, no, actually he looks *exactly* like Shepard... Just with longer hair and a beard.
Maybe that's what Shepard would look like if choosing Destroy and surviving. Perhaps with just some more white hairs, because having a lot of little blue children who require decades to get past adolescence may be a little hard even for one like him ^^.
my favorite part of the series was getting to know my crew and learning their trust in mass effect 2, all to pay off in the end during the final suicide mission. Here, if you knew your crew well enough, and they out their trust in you after doing missions fleshing out their backstory, you could successfully save the day and not lose a single life. It was amazing.
Coolest thing? Seeing Jack in ME3 as a teacher and giving a &hit about something/someone other then herself. She overcame A LOT of emotional baggage to achieve that goal!
Wrex in the Citadel chasing clone Shepard "That's why I love hanging out with you guys. Why shoot something once when you can shoot it 46 more times?" Oh man... I laughed my ass off on that!! The writers were freakin' great coming up with some of those lines.
I don't think I can point exactly to one thing about Mass Effect that has made me love it so much. There's so many. The way relationships and bonds form between you and your crew is pretty remarkable. Great writing with both heart and humor. And they handled better as they came out. Gah. Love those games. Hope Andromeda will be good.
Bioware likes to use the same voice actors in their games Jen Hale is also female trooper in SWTOR and Krem in DAI, Alix Wilton Regan is Sam Traynor in ME3 and femQuisitor in DAI, Freddie Prinze Jr. is Vega in ME and Bull in DAI, Ali Hillis is Liara and Scout Harding... And most likely others I can't think of :D
I think Ali Hillis is in FF as well. Never played so don't know for sure. Never really got into Dragon Age. Ive heard Iron Bull is a great character, but i fucking hate Vega more than anyone...well maybe not Udina, but maybe i hate em both equally. Traynor is awesome for sure. oh yeah and Steve Blum (i think is his name) who plays Grunt, is also Galak Fyyar in Jedi Outcast.
Mass Effect is a great game but it´s RPG system was always laughable compared to any real RPG,just look up proper RPGs like Vampire The Masquerade,Fallout New Vegas,Deus Ex ( the first one ) and you´ll see what i´m talking about.
Well from the gameplay it does seem a lot more combat oriented and...and there is also the fact that it's a whole new galaxy and for once we don't have to deal with the whole Reaper bullshit x.x...but yeah...it seems a lot more wild wild space kind of thing XD
I still don't see it. In one of my playthrough since everyone was saying this, I brought Garrus with me everywhere during the whole trilogy, still don't see it. He's cool, but heh...
Jennifer Hale's voice acting is the best. My favorite part is how funny she was in ME3 with the hamster (go for the eye!) compare to how male shep was just bland
Sorry but Shepard was not the first man in space. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space when he orbited the Earth in a Vostok spacecraft on April 12, 1961.
I absolutely love the dialogue of the reapers, and their unified consciousness at the end of mass effect three. It hits something deep about the efforts of the most ideological evil. The desire to bring order at any cost, and not necessarily 'just' to rule. Philosophy props us the efforts of the most good and the most evil. If the two terms even really exist.
The thing that sold me was way back in the first mass effect. The story was just awesome, the friendships and relationships you build with your teammates just hooked me. Then mass effect 2 and all your choices, even tiny ones, were reflected and carried over to the next game. If I wasn't a diehard fan before, that last feature won me over.
for some random reason i always remembered this one woman on Mass Effect 1 that needed help with an Orphanage, and she crops up in 3 and just says thanks again for helping her. I know there was a lot that carried through but she was such an out of the way tiny side quest thing on 1 it was impressive to see her in 3
The way ME:2 starts is what really really sold me on the series.. I think the beginning oh ME:2 is the best intro into a game i have ever seen.. it was amazing.. as soon as you are walking through the ship that has had the side blown out, with the utterly perfect music playing and everything was slowed down i KNEW this was going to be a good game..
I do enjoy making him most likely wet his pants in ME1 when I put a gun in his face :D The interaction in 2 wasn't as funny, but if you keep talking to him in 3, after asking about the medigel despensers, he makes a few funny comments making you question his intelligence lvl.
What ended up selling me on the game was a split between 2 things: 1. Character creation and 2. Carrying my character over between games. I love experiences like that and the Mass Effect series really delivered for me in that regard.
The thing that sold me on the series was the huge scope of the threat you faced, I mean from the moment sovereign popped on screen, telling of his race "The Reapers" to the final battle against an army of God-Like machines, it all seemed like an epic movie trilogy, only cemented in place by the masterful characterization and addition of romance options, so you can have a character you get closer to than all the rest, Mass Effect to me is the greatest collection of games ever made, here's to hoping Andromeda doesn't screw it up! 👍🏼
I was completely sold when you speak to Sovereign on Virmire. The mystery surrounding the reapers aswell as the great voice for him saying "YOU CAN NOT EVEN GRASP THE NATURE OF OUR EXISTANCE". Mega-cool.
I think my personal favorite aspect of the Mass Effect series is right at the beginning, the beginning of the original game. When you are learning all about the galaxy and these other species of sentient life. Particularly, that your fellow humans also have mixed feelings about being involved with them, though almost no one says, we should go back to Earth, and pretend we don't know about this now. Its a fresh frontier, and the game feels that way to, but there is a great continuity to a storyline that is trying to give you a tutorial to the game, simultaneous to the Mass Effect Universe.
+Josh cramer You're probably the coolest kid at your school. Mostly because you're not a bitch who cries, but I'm sure that haircut has a lot to do with it as well.
Funny this is a Mass Effect video, but I just learned something about Gundam lol. So that's where the design idea of Gundam's space colonies came from XD. Good on ya Gerard k o'neill. Rest in peace.
IKR?! I can see where they got the Citadel from with that but my exact first thought was the Zeon and the Federation fighting at Side 7 and other colonies.
"FemShep all the way." -- That killed me. 😂 Anyway, I loved everything about the series, even the endings in the third game. I think the somewhat sad ending made the series almost more fun to replay because it gave it a lot of emotional value.
The best part of ME for me was the multiple endings that are a product of the dozens of decisions you made throughout all three games and the hard work you put into making the largest army possible to fight the Reapers. *laughs... then cries*
Thing I love most about the Mass Effect games is the scale of the story and the relationships/bonds you form with your squad mates. BioWare did an excellent job at making the characters, and the dynamic between them, feel organic and natural. Also, the way they paced the galactic destruction story made it feel more epic in scope than the simple, "Do this or we all die." Fantastically written and directed series. I'm sad that it's over; I really wish there was more of the Shepard/Normandy story to experience.
I'm a huge fan of creating your characters, but for some reason I played as the default Shepard ( the male, sole surviver, earth born, soldier class John Shepard) in the entire trilogy. Maybe because I have seen him in so many mass effect marketings that changing him would break the canon. Does that make sense? ( Also, I am not implying that Female Shepard is not canon)
Minose The Cat as Mass Effect is an RPG where player decisions affect the world there is no definitive canon. Whatever you decide to do during your playthrough is the canon of that playthrough.
I'm the opposite, I almost can't imagine Shep being anything other than female. Tis the beauty if it though, everyone gets their own Canon, regardless of what bioware marketed or intended.
My favorite thing that really reinforced my love for the series, was all the dialogue between you and your team, it brought all of them to life sooooo much more than any other game had at that point, particularly in ME2. I couldn't wait to get back to the Normandy at the end of each mission, haul ass to the Tech Lab, and see what new, fast paced, hyper intelligent facts and opinions Mordin had to offer. Just thinking about that makes me want to replay the series again, right now, so I'm going to.
knew most of these things, but couple were still news to me :D on femshep vs maleshep. in a first game, you don't even know femshep exists until you select "create custom profile" option. as most people tend to play as default (another interesting statistic that backs it up is that majority of players chose soldier as their class... which is another default) - his explains why there is so many more maleshep players. they fixed character selection in game 2 and especially 3 where femshep was actualy featured in advertising, but as importing saves is a big selling feature of the sequels - I would imagine those who played default in 1.. just imported their default ME1 shep into 2 and then 3.
The best part of all the games (in my humble opinion) is the conversation you have with Sovereign on Virmire!! What excellent writing. Blew my mind and sold me on the entire series
In the citadel DLC in 3 with the clone. Seriously I'd love to know what they're reaction were when they made that DLC. Because it was the most hilarious stuff I'd ever seen for me. I feel like they handed the disgners, play writes, ect a piece of paper stating "Shepherd on vacation in the citadel prior to invading earth. Go nuts." and just left the room.
swertyman Wait a week after release,because from the looks of it,it has subpar writing,but amazing gameplay and graphics and writing is what ME is about.
swertyman If it interests you then get it, don't ask random people on the internet if it's good or not (I mean, it is a well known franchise so that alone is your answer). Try forming your own opinions on the series.
swertyman I highly recommend the original trilogy if you can. Either on an older console or PC. Shouldn't be too much now? Plus if you like them you then know all the background stuff etc.
I was introduced to the series with Mass Effect 2 ... and the thing that drew me and kept me invested in the series is the oh-so impactfull yet believable story and the characters ...... In most games where you usually skip the dialogues because it gets bored after a few seconds, here you actively listen to what the major characters and even the minor NPCs are saying ..... coz the events, the history, the missions - they all felt genuine with all their emotional effects ..... and your actions have actual consequences that makes you think how to progress the story .... even the ending felt justified for me ..... This is what gaming should achieve .....
I played both Male and Female Shepard, Female Shepard is definitely my favourite. The voice acting is a lot better but not only that the story itself and the interactions with the crew and characters just feel more real and have a better dynamic as Femshep. I love the music in the whole Mass Effect series and true sci-fi feel it creates from the first to the last scene. The first time arriving at citadel was when I knew this was an epic game series I had lucked onto, so much to love but three main things struck me. 1. The dialog options and true sense of choice provided with every interaction that effected the character and story was incredible. 2. The epic background and detail put into every aspect of story, races, people, places etc... was mind blowing and so appreciated, you wanted to explore to find out more and I actually really enjoyed reading about history and backstory of places and peoples. 3. The worlds, locations and races, three things I know but I'm grouping them together because all three were given equal time, effort and love to make them superb in appearance, feel, scope, immersion and intrigue. The games benefited so much in giving each its ability to improve the experience of the others, you truly felt you were going across the galaxy to new worlds, exploring epic places and meeting wonderfully interesting, compelling races and peoples. So much more to rave about the Mass Effect games but would take too long to go through them all, suffice to say they were the best games I have ever played and I can not wait to play Mass Effect Andromeda!!!
Hey Falcon, there's a mod for Battlefront 2 called 'Mass Effect Unity' which sounds like exactly what you want. It's not just a simple skin swap but with the sounds, music, abilities, weapons, pretty much everything Mass Effect, but with the gameplay of Battlefront 2. It even includes its own maps and heroes such as Shepard and Harbinger. I suggest giving it a look because it's one of the best mods I've ever played
I'm ashamed to say that I've never played the mass effect games but the new one looks great and I feel like i really need to experience the trilogy. I'll prolly pick them up as my next game
My favorite moment in ALL of the Mass Effect universe (so far), is in Mass Effect 3, where you help Grunt in the Rachni system, and Shepard says "good luck" to Grunt, and he replies; "I don't need luck, I got ammo".... That is soooo nice :-)
The whole dynamic of the game drew me in. The storyline was great and it was like a giant web you got to navigate. The world was amazingly developed from the races to cultures to the gameplay to just....ooof, I started playing one when I was young. Picked it up again, bought number 2 and 3 and played the whole trilogy in a row. Watching past choices matter, even in small ways, from the previous games was amazingly awesome.
What sold me on the series was the fan made trailers for Mass Effect 3. I didn't realize they weren't official trailers until I accidently found a real one. The first game was too tedious so I never finished it. I saw ME2 for $20 and picked it up. Found a bunch of preorder bonuses inside the box and got some cool DLC. I managed to finish 2 a week before ME3 came out.
What? Why would someone preferring a female character be a SJW? Usually people play as their own gender or it's guys that don't want to stare at male!Shep's ass for 60 hours.
Well the developers of Mass Effect basically revealed on Tweeter that the original Shepard was a woman (she was the first to be modelled and animated), sooooooo... Not SJW, just canon. :p
The fact that Elon musk is a fan of a cool video game series( Mass Efect) doesn't really surprise me because he had developed a game of his own during his teens
That ominous noise the reapers make is actually the sound of creaky dumpster. The Developers went camping to record audio sounds for the game, but couldn't find anything that worked for the reapers until someone was frightened by the sound of the campsite dumpster being opened one night and realized it was perfect
What sold me...Normandy,space,lore,story,all those aliens...I just marathoned them all,have two missions in me3 to finish it and them I'm going back to me1 and starting all over again,even Witcher didn't do that to me
The best thing ever about Mass effect is the fact that you litraly continue where you left of. If you kill of the counsil it is mentioned in the next game. I know it's a small thing but THAT really sold the game for me
Oddly enough, I found the multiplayer in MassEffect3 to be incredible. Was more fun than the main game. I loved smacking people around with that Krogan gun.
Fun fact, I am apparently one of the only people that liked the ending of mass effect 3. I thought it was epic, emotional and all round satisfying and was not at all what I expected going into it. Idk I think people were just caught off guard that it was strictly "happy", obviously to what extent depends on Shepard choice.
What pulled me in was just the perfect mix of combat and rpg elements, I felt like my choices matter and the games overall felt always interesting. I also played the games on the hardest diffculty at one point, that alone was like a new journey
@@chunkymonkey8624 I'm really late with this but in the Shadow broker dlc when your reading through the cerberus dossiers in the lair its mentioned that Pope Clement XVI was assassinated through poisoned rosary beads
Character development, such good. much nice. very praise. wow. Actually, I'm being serious, it's one hell of a trip, and throughout all three games, its so cool to see returning characters, and them making call backs to earlier set pieces. and they themselves grow as characters too, like if ME was a superb space opera... oh wait.
Meeting Sovereign and finally learning what is really going on. I have played Mass Effect through at least a dozen times, and that moment still gives me goosebumps. Second, is also from the first game, I cry when I talk to Vigil on Ilos. To think of all those Protheans dying in their sleep while the Harvest goes on and on. Then, they finally get to do their thing, at least a few of them, only to die of starvation on the Citadel. Those are two of my favorite moments.
I might be the weird one here, but I haven't seen any footage from the new game, and I avoid knowing stuff about it as much as I can. I shouldn't even buy it but I can't keep myself from it. I won't pre-order, I won't buy DLC nor spend money in micro transactions as that goes against my beliefs, but I will buy the game day 1, without knowing anything about it, because I want the best possible experience, this is like flipping a coin when we're dealing with EA. but I'm giving them one last chance, if they fuck up Mass Effect Andromeda I refuse to give them another cent, regardless of what they come up with afterwards.
The council- "reapers don't exist"
Shepard- "this room is shaped like a reaper"
XD
Fr tho
*a brief flash of yellow in the councillors' eyes *ᵃˢˢᵘᵐᶦⁿᵍ ᵈᶦʳᵉᶜᵗ ᶜᵒⁿᵗʳᵒˡ Harbinger: "No it isn't."
you would think that someone would notice, but i guess no one is really cleaning the place or anything. They let the keepers do everything
What drew me into the Mass Effect universe is the realness of the universe. No race or nation was 'good' or 'evil' they were all gray and fuzzy. While some races took themselves to be 'higher' than others, none were at complete opposite ends of the spectrum. Which is more real than we usually get in space epics. I mean shit, even the Reapers weren't exactly evil, twisted unfeeling idealogues, but not evil.
Harbinger did nothing wrong
THISS
This is so true! Mass Effect is one of the most grounded space operas of all time! There is no absolute right or wrong, everyone is just working towards their own ideals. The Reapers aren't evil, they are just working towards their own goal. Fun theory I heared, the Reapers original motivation was going to be that biotics generate dark matter that speeds up the end of the universe, therefore as a race that will essentially live forever they have a vested intrest in destroying any race that advances that far. That would explain the accelerated breakdown of the sun in Tali's mission in the second game. Either way, the Reapers still gave the impression that while they didn't empathize with the 'lesser beings' they didn't want to kill everything but still viewed it as necessary. Not to mention their weapons and tech are far more grounded in real science and practicality than say Halo, Star Wars, Warhammer. I won't say Battletech because other than the mechwarrior games, I don't know much about that universe
Silver Crescent halo is very grounded (at least bungle era) but yea I love how ALL of mass effects weopons are preaty much normal guns you’d find today
Yes, even the “benevolent” Asari have a dark side.
I'm commander Shepard, and this is my favorite top 10 list on the citadel
No you're not.
Commander Shepard you made this account just for this video
this "real" commander shepard sounds like a renegade to me.... wont let a mass effect joke slide :/ please use a whole thermal clip on yourself.
The guy just tries to make reference to the shops in ME2 and gets all this crap. Niqqa
Mini Hunter That's right let it all let out. Let all that burning up anger, humiliation and frustration come out, sure it makes you look insecure and immature but at least better out than in right. ;)
Playing as Joker while the ship was being raided in Mass Effect 2, was the best part of the series imo. I loved it.
I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.....that was a joke.
Also Edi's joke was great "I enjoy watching people on knees"
Bruce Alrighty especially the joke that EDI makes about "Enjoying the sight of humans on their knees"
What the shiiit
Going through the omega 4 relay was my personal favorite . Me2 is probably my fav mass effect game overall
Best moment in all of Mass Effect? When Archangel's real identity is revealed. That was so damn cool!
Hell Yeah. I almost shit my pants and Scare my little dog for the high pitch scream that I made lololol
@@YggdraGaming lmao me too, and my other bloody gutteral scream was when you're fighting that reaper-human larva Terminator thing and Garrus slipped and started going off the platform, I screamed out his name and reached my hand out...
What do you mean? It was obvious once you saw a BLUE ARMORED TURIAN sniping at the Omega gangs... There was literally no big reveal. Just oh... Its Garrus
I first played Mass effect 2 before Mass effect 1, And I still had a great moment. Later played ME1 and got the whole picture.
when i read that comment i literally relived that moment
The bro moment you have with Garrus in ME3. As well as Grunts moment in the citadel dlc. Those moments made ME3 for me.
Garrus best man
Alexander McKee so sad, Garrus talking about that bar in heaven and Grunt acting like a little kid. Garrus is Shep's bff and both of them knowing their lives are gonna be wrapping up pretty shortly made it so sad. I also had the final goodbye with Garrus in front of the beam and he didn't want to leave me but he had to.
Because I was on fire...
I guess you could call this video... 10 Mass Effacts!
I'll go now...
Brian Tang bye
Brian Tang You made me laugh, I'll give you that ;)
+707 :D
no...just no..
1:58 "But nowadays, he's got hair and a beard, and looks nothing like Shepard."
No, no, actually he looks *exactly* like Shepard... Just with longer hair and a beard.
Maybe that's what Shepard would look like if choosing Destroy and surviving. Perhaps with just some more white hairs, because having a lot of little blue children who require decades to get past adolescence may be a little hard even for one like him ^^.
I think the best thing about Mass Effect is that the iconic Reaper sound is a trashcan lid opening.
The thing that hooked me into Mass Effect was hearing the galaxy map music for the first time :)
Yes mate! Gave me goos bumps of my life... Looking forward to Remake in 2021!!!
Mine was the main menu music for ME 1. Which is also Virgil's theme.
The thing that sold me on Mass Effect..... oh! I know!
"I'm Garrus Vakarian and this is my rectum".
yeah the one with the broom up it
MANSLAYER!!!
my favorite part of the series was getting to know my crew and learning their trust in mass effect 2, all to pay off in the end during the final suicide mission. Here, if you knew your crew well enough, and they out their trust in you after doing missions fleshing out their backstory, you could successfully save the day and not lose a single life. It was amazing.
“What’s the coolest thing you can remember about mass effect?”
Me: Tali
Truth level: 1,000
Miranda
Liara T'soni
Liara taking over the Shadow Broker's operation before his body's even cold.
Coolest thing? Seeing Jack in ME3 as a teacher and giving a &hit about something/someone other then herself. She overcame A LOT of emotional baggage to achieve that goal!
I would've played as fem shep, but Tali.
Shiina Nightfire I used save editor to romance with Tali as FemShep :d
@@cezmark1420 huh? How? I need to do this lol
I was femshep since ME1 and goddamn it was ME2 when I realized Tali was best girl but I didn't wanna abandon my save and hundreds of hours
Shiina Nightfire SAME, SAME
Not to mention femshep has the better voice acting. In my opinion Miranda and Liara are best girls
"Sheppard."
"Wrex."
"Sheppard."
I fell in love with the thrilling dialogue
Nick Grilliot You love the game so much you can’t even spell Shepard properly.
grammar nazi johnson is upset. oh dear
Wrex in the Citadel chasing clone Shepard "That's why I love hanging out with you guys. Why shoot something once when you can shoot it 46 more times?"
Oh man... I laughed my ass off on that!! The writers were freakin' great coming up with some of those lines.
I don't think I can point exactly to one thing about Mass Effect that has made me love it so much. There's so many. The way relationships and bonds form between you and your crew is pretty remarkable. Great writing with both heart and humor. And they handled better as they came out. Gah. Love those games. Hope Andromeda will be good.
Jennifer Hale was also Bastila Shan from KOTOR.
And Courtney Taylor (Jack in ME) does Juhani's voice in KOTOR.
Bioware likes to use the same voice actors in their games
Jen Hale is also female trooper in SWTOR and Krem in DAI, Alix Wilton Regan is Sam Traynor in ME3 and femQuisitor in DAI, Freddie Prinze Jr. is Vega in ME and Bull in DAI, Ali Hillis is Liara and Scout Harding...
And most likely others I can't think of :D
I think Ali Hillis is in FF as well. Never played so don't know for sure.
Never really got into Dragon Age. Ive heard Iron Bull is a great character, but i fucking hate Vega more than anyone...well maybe not Udina, but maybe i hate em both equally. Traynor is awesome for sure.
oh yeah and Steve Blum (i think is his name) who plays Grunt, is also Galak Fyyar in Jedi Outcast.
Kaiden is also Carth Onasi in KOTOR
Raphael Sbarge, who voiced the character of Kaiden Alenko, was also in KOTOR, he did the voice for Carth Onassi
Courtney Taylor also did Nora's voice in Fallout 4, which is a nice touch on those Raider playthroughs.
Mass Effect Hype! Can't wait to get my hands on this game! The RPG System looks so freaking amazing! :D
OMG THIS GAME IS GOING TO BE FREAKING CRAZY!
Mass Effect is a great game but it´s RPG system was always laughable compared to any real RPG,just look up proper RPGs like Vampire The Masquerade,Fallout New Vegas,Deus Ex ( the first one ) and you´ll see what i´m talking about.
I've played all of them except the vampire one - I enjoyed all of them and now looking forward to the new Mass Effect :D
And can't wait to watch youtube playthroughs! (The life of a shit-PC user)
^ We need to setup a Gofundme page for Doctor so he can play this game on a new PC ;)
I'm a huge Mass Effect fan but something seems seriously off about Andromeda.
DeadlyTwists I agree, I don't know why but it reminds me more about Dragon Age Inquisition than Mass Effect.
It's probably gonna be okay in the end.
Well from the gameplay it does seem a lot more combat oriented and...and there is also the fact that it's a whole new galaxy and for once we don't have to deal with the whole Reaper bullshit x.x...but yeah...it seems a lot more wild wild space kind of thing XD
Yeah, it doesn't have Commander Sherpard; the greatest, bravest and most badass hero of all time.
apparently many of the original devs of the trilogy don't even work for bioware anymore so....
the face animation...
Oh the fucking face animation
The moment I met garrus, I fell in love with mass effect.
same
Why Garus?
"Best bro since Chewbacca"
I still don't see it. In one of my playthrough since everyone was saying this, I brought Garrus with me everywhere during the whole trilogy, still don't see it. He's cool, but heh...
Omg sameeee
Jennifer Hale's voice acting is the best. My favorite part is how funny she was in ME3 with the hamster (go for the eye!) compare to how male shep was just bland
Hestia Femshep was the best Shep and anyone who went Maleshep seriously missed out.
@@Krystalmyth They were both playing completely different kinds of Shepard.
Considering how that reference would be somewhat important for laughs, you'd think they'd have him use more emotion XD
She was fine. I just didn't like her tone through most of it.
Yes, her voice is just Shep's voice to me.
Sorry but Shepard was not the first man in space. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space when he orbited the Earth in a Vostok spacecraft on April 12, 1961.
Peter Laurent
He said The first American...
Then he said "he made the first manned space flight"
0:33 "He made the first manned spaceflight..."
Peter Laurent ok he made a mistake what are you going on with this?
He said first American.
Fact: Every Mako mission should've been a loyalty mission.
best moment for me was first speaking to sovereign that conversation blew my mind. i was invested 100% from that moment.
PixelGlitch Exactly. That was quite the ‘oh... shit’ moment.
'I'm Garrus Vakarian and this is my favorite spot on the Citadel!
That's it. That line made me love Mass Effect. End of story.
I absolutely love the dialogue of the reapers, and their unified consciousness at the end of mass effect three. It hits something deep about the efforts of the most ideological evil. The desire to bring order at any cost, and not necessarily 'just' to rule. Philosophy props us the efforts of the most good and the most evil. If the two terms even really exist.
Back then: I can't wait for Andromeda
Now: We don't talk about Andromeda
The thing that sold me was way back in the first mass effect. The story was just awesome, the friendships and relationships you build with your teammates just hooked me. Then mass effect 2 and all your choices, even tiny ones, were reflected and carried over to the next game. If I wasn't a diehard fan before, that last feature won me over.
for some random reason i always remembered this one woman on Mass Effect 1 that needed help with an Orphanage, and she crops up in 3 and just says thanks again for helping her. I know there was a lot that carried through but she was such an out of the way tiny side quest thing on 1 it was impressive to see her in 3
I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favorite store on the Citadel
The way ME:2 starts is what really really sold me on the series.. I think the beginning oh ME:2 is the best intro into a game i have ever seen.. it was amazing.. as soon as you are walking through the ship that has had the side blown out, with the utterly perfect music playing and everything was slowed down i KNEW this was going to be a good game..
I love the way the game draws you in and when character dies you almost feel the pain. Very feel games get you vested like that.
The conversation with sovereign hooked me. I was like "these mofo's are not messing around!"
Hmm...the best thing? ...Conrad Verner.
The character redeems himself so much in ME 3.
I do enjoy making him most likely wet his pants in ME1 when I put a gun in his face :D The interaction in 2 wasn't as funny, but if you keep talking to him in 3, after asking about the medigel despensers, he makes a few funny comments making you question his intelligence lvl.
I always hated him 😂 in fact my last like 10 playthroughs I never even talked to him
It would have been golden if Conrad Verner pushed Shepard out of the way and sacrificed himself to save the universe at the last second.
What ended up selling me on the game was a split between 2 things: 1. Character creation and 2. Carrying my character over between games. I love experiences like that and the Mass Effect series really delivered for me in that regard.
The thing that sold me on the series was the huge scope of the threat you faced, I mean from the moment sovereign popped on screen, telling of his race "The Reapers" to the final battle against an army of God-Like machines, it all seemed like an epic movie trilogy, only cemented in place by the masterful characterization and addition of romance options, so you can have a character you get closer to than all the rest, Mass Effect to me is the greatest collection of games ever made, here's to hoping Andromeda doesn't screw it up! 👍🏼
I was completely sold when you speak to Sovereign on Virmire. The mystery surrounding the reapers aswell as the great voice for him saying "YOU CAN NOT EVEN GRASP THE NATURE OF OUR EXISTANCE". Mega-cool.
I think my personal favorite aspect of the Mass Effect series is right at the beginning, the beginning of the original game. When you are learning all about the galaxy and these other species of sentient life. Particularly, that your fellow humans also have mixed feelings about being involved with them, though almost no one says, we should go back to Earth, and pretend we don't know about this now. Its a fresh frontier, and the game feels that way to, but there is a great continuity to a storyline that is trying to give you a tutorial to the game, simultaneous to the Mass Effect Universe.
KOTOR sold me on Mass Effect. The first Mass Effect felt like a spiritual successor to one of my favorite games. Been hooked since.
Best thing about Mass Effect? Seth Green as Joker, duh!
If I were a sissy, I'd have a tear in my eye remembering all about the Trilogy.....but I'm not, so I don't..........definitely not.
Those were the good days, weren't they?
Kronos Vietnam flashbacks...
Kronos then why were you crying like a bitch then?
+JoshCramer Hark who's talking!
+Josh cramer You're probably the coolest kid at your school. Mostly because you're not a bitch who cries, but I'm sure that haircut has a lot to do with it as well.
Funny this is a Mass Effect video, but I just learned something about Gundam lol. So that's where the design idea of Gundam's space colonies came from XD. Good on ya Gerard k o'neill. Rest in peace.
IKR?! I can see where they got the Citadel from with that but my exact first thought was the Zeon and the Federation fighting at Side 7 and other colonies.
going for the "destroy" finale and leaving my crippled friend without his synthetic girlfriend
Mass effect does not suck.. welcome back falcon
yea Dake sucks, just like gambit
What sold me on the series. SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCEEEEE!!!!!!!
"FemShep all the way." -- That killed me. 😂 Anyway, I loved everything about the series, even the endings in the third game. I think the somewhat sad ending made the series almost more fun to replay because it gave it a lot of emotional value.
The best part of ME for me was the multiple endings that are a product of the dozens of decisions you made throughout all three games and the hard work you put into making the largest army possible to fight the Reapers. *laughs... then cries*
You mean Mass Ef-Facts?
go higher please
no just no.....
Someone else already made that joke, and it still sucks.
an airlock*
Greystorm 301 god damnit why the puns
That's a really good Shepard impersonation!
The story as it unfolded really kept me immerse especially the ending of ME1.
Thing I love most about the Mass Effect games is the scale of the story and the relationships/bonds you form with your squad mates. BioWare did an excellent job at making the characters, and the dynamic between them, feel organic and natural. Also, the way they paced the galactic destruction story made it feel more epic in scope than the simple, "Do this or we all die." Fantastically written and directed series. I'm sad that it's over; I really wish there was more of the Shepard/Normandy story to experience.
I'm a huge fan of creating your characters, but for some reason I played as the default Shepard ( the male, sole surviver, earth born, soldier class John Shepard) in the entire trilogy. Maybe because I have seen him in so many mass effect marketings that changing him would break the canon. Does that make sense? ( Also, I am not implying that Female Shepard is not canon)
Minose The Cat as Mass Effect is an RPG where player decisions affect the world there is no definitive canon. Whatever you decide to do during your playthrough is the canon of that playthrough.
Yea I did the same thing
And default MShep looked good enough to not really need to customise him
For me it's just because I tried making a custom character and they always turned out ugly
I'm the opposite, I almost can't imagine Shep being anything other than female. Tis the beauty if it though, everyone gets their own Canon, regardless of what bioware marketed or intended.
My favorite thing that really reinforced my love for the series, was all the dialogue between you and your team, it brought all of them to life sooooo much more than any other game had at that point, particularly in ME2. I couldn't wait to get back to the Normandy at the end of each mission, haul ass to the Tech Lab, and see what new, fast paced, hyper intelligent facts and opinions Mordin had to offer. Just thinking about that makes me want to replay the series again, right now, so I'm going to.
knew most of these things, but couple were still news to me :D on femshep vs maleshep. in a first game, you don't even know femshep exists until you select "create custom profile" option. as most people tend to play as default (another interesting statistic that backs it up is that majority of players chose soldier as their class... which is another default) - his explains why there is so many more maleshep players. they fixed character selection in game 2 and especially 3 where femshep was actualy featured in advertising, but as importing saves is a big selling feature of the sequels - I would imagine those who played default in 1.. just imported their default ME1 shep into 2 and then 3.
Meetng Sovereign for the first time, I will never forget it. Chilled me to the bone.
lol the soundtrack in the afterlife was actually from Need for Speed High Stakes in 1999
The best part of all the games (in my humble opinion) is the conversation you have with Sovereign on Virmire!! What excellent writing. Blew my mind and sold me on the entire series
Coolest thing? Characters looked like the models they're based on.
FEM SHEP was the best way for me to fell in love with the story.. :)
The music from the afterlife club is from Need For Speed High Stacks
Nicklas E stakes*
No music from NFS High Stakes is from Afterlife Club.
Nicklas E Was that a threat?
lmao
Maybe he's talking about the lower after life music?
BTW upper after life music composer Saki Kaska died couple of months ago :(
In the citadel DLC in 3 with the clone. Seriously I'd love to know what they're reaction were when they made that DLC. Because it was the most hilarious stuff I'd ever seen for me. I feel like they handed the disgners, play writes, ect a piece of paper stating "Shepherd on vacation in the citadel prior to invading earth. Go nuts." and just left the room.
I never played Mass Effect before, but I am looking forward to Mass Effect Andromeda. Is it worth buying?
swertyman Wait a week after release,because from the looks of it,it has subpar writing,but amazing gameplay and graphics and writing is what ME is about.
swertyman If it interests you then get it, don't ask random people on the internet if it's good or not (I mean, it is a well known franchise so that alone is your answer). Try forming your own opinions on the series.
swertyman I highly recommend the original trilogy if you can. Either on an older console or PC. Shouldn't be too much now? Plus if you like them you then know all the background stuff etc.
I'd suggest playing the trilogy while you wait for Andromeda to be released.
That first 3 games were extremely preachy too.
Can't believe Andromeda is almost here! This Horizon gonna have to take a backseat for real
you know most ppl upload fem shepherd videos mostly for lesbian shipping. but then again my search engine isn't the cleanest on RUclips but still.
Rule 34 is everywhere.
Vert Green Heart ベール グリーンハート But who tf didn't romance Garrus?
Inconsolable Peasant
Me.
Inconsolable Peasant me, my beautiful tali will be my masseffect wifu for ever.
Willow4526 I'm talking about fem shep
I was introduced to the series with Mass Effect 2 ... and the thing that drew me and kept me invested in the series is the oh-so impactfull yet believable story and the characters ...... In most games where you usually skip the dialogues because it gets bored after a few seconds, here you actively listen to what the major characters and even the minor NPCs are saying ..... coz the events, the history, the missions - they all felt genuine
with all their emotional effects ..... and your actions have actual consequences that makes you think how to progress the story .... even the ending felt justified for me ..... This is what gaming should achieve .....
I want that mass effect first person game!
I played both Male and Female Shepard, Female Shepard is definitely my favourite. The voice acting is a lot better but not only that the story itself and the interactions with the crew and characters just feel more real and have a better dynamic as Femshep.
I love the music in the whole Mass Effect series and true sci-fi feel it creates from the first to the last scene. The first time arriving at citadel was when I knew this was an epic game series I had lucked onto, so much to love but three main things struck me. 1. The dialog options and true sense of choice provided with every interaction that effected the character and story was incredible. 2. The epic background and detail put into every aspect of story, races, people, places etc... was mind blowing and so appreciated, you wanted to explore to find out more and I actually really enjoyed reading about history and backstory of places and peoples.
3. The worlds, locations and races, three things I know but I'm grouping them together because all three were given equal time, effort and love to make them superb in appearance, feel, scope, immersion and intrigue. The games benefited so much in giving each its ability to improve the experience of the others, you truly felt you were going across the galaxy to new worlds, exploring epic places and meeting wonderfully interesting, compelling races and peoples.
So much more to rave about the Mass Effect games but would take too long to go through them all, suffice to say they were the best games I have ever played and I can not wait to play Mass Effect Andromeda!!!
The music that you mentioned from the Afterlife club was used in Need For Speed High Stakes, long before '06
Hey Falcon, there's a mod for Battlefront 2 called 'Mass Effect Unity' which sounds like exactly what you want. It's not just a simple skin swap but with the sounds, music, abilities, weapons, pretty much everything Mass Effect, but with the gameplay of Battlefront 2. It even includes its own maps and heroes such as Shepard and Harbinger. I suggest giving it a look because it's one of the best mods I've ever played
I'm ashamed to say that I've never played the mass effect games but the new one looks great and I feel like i really need to experience the trilogy. I'll prolly pick them up as my next game
My favorite moment in ALL of the Mass Effect universe (so far), is in Mass Effect 3, where you help Grunt in the Rachni system, and Shepard says "good luck" to Grunt, and he replies; "I don't need luck, I got ammo".... That is soooo nice :-)
"Hey everyone, this shop discriminates against the poor!"
The whole dynamic of the game drew me in. The storyline was great and it was like a giant web you got to navigate. The world was amazingly developed from the races to cultures to the gameplay to just....ooof, I started playing one when I was young. Picked it up again, bought number 2 and 3 and played the whole trilogy in a row. Watching past choices matter, even in small ways, from the previous games was amazingly awesome.
I have yet to play as male Shep. I've played this series several times.
What sold me on the series was the fan made trailers for Mass Effect 3. I didn't realize they weren't official trailers until I accidently found a real one. The first game was too tedious so I never finished it. I saw ME2 for $20 and picked it up. Found a bunch of preorder bonuses inside the box and got some cool DLC. I managed to finish 2 a week before ME3 came out.
I've always played as femshep and it looks weird when I see gameplay with male Shepard. When I think Mass Effect, I think of the female Shepard.
#OOC I'm basically the opposite. XD
Rafael same here xD hhh
What? Why would someone preferring a female character be a SJW? Usually people play as their own gender or it's guys that don't want to stare at male!Shep's ass for 60 hours.
Well the developers of Mass Effect basically revealed on Tweeter that the original Shepard was a woman (she was the first to be modelled and animated), sooooooo... Not SJW, just canon. :p
tenchuayame there is no canon gender for Shepard you fucking idiot
What sold me to begin with was character customization and class selection in me1. What kept me around was the story and conversation choices.
The fact that Elon musk is a fan of a cool video game series( Mass Efect) doesn't really surprise me because he had developed a game of his own during his teens
What sold me? The similarities to the Hugo Gernsback works. The fact that they had a ship called the Hugo Gernsback was pretty awesome.
You have to play as male and female Shep so you can romance...EVERYONE! (but mainly just Liara)
That ominous noise the reapers make is actually the sound of creaky dumpster. The Developers went camping to record audio sounds for the game, but couldn't find anything that worked for the reapers until someone was frightened by the sound of the campsite dumpster being opened one night and realized it was perfect
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What sold me...Normandy,space,lore,story,all those aliens...I just marathoned them all,have two missions in me3 to finish it and them I'm going back to me1 and starting all over again,even Witcher didn't do that to me
Remember when pepole thout mass effect andromeda was going to be a good game?
The best thing ever about Mass effect is the fact that you litraly continue where you left of. If you kill of the counsil it is mentioned in the next game. I know it's a small thing but THAT really sold the game for me
Oddly enough, I found the multiplayer in MassEffect3 to be incredible. Was more fun than the main game. I loved smacking people around with that Krogan gun.
Kaidan’s real life model is also exactly like the character and super hot
Fun fact, I am apparently one of the only people that liked the ending of mass effect 3. I thought it was epic, emotional and all round satisfying and was not at all what I expected going into it. Idk I think people were just caught off guard that it was strictly "happy", obviously to what extent depends on Shepard choice.
What pulled me in was just the perfect mix of combat and rpg elements, I felt like my choices matter and the games overall felt always interesting. I also played the games on the hardest diffculty at one point, that alone was like a new journey
cerberus kills the pope with poisoned rosary beads
What?
@@chunkymonkey8624 I'm really late with this but in the Shadow broker dlc when your reading through the cerberus dossiers in the lair its mentioned that Pope Clement XVI was assassinated through poisoned rosary beads
I played 2 and 3 and for me it was the soundtrack. From the actual score to sound effects (Voice acting, not so much). And the Illusive Man.
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Character development, such good. much nice. very praise.
wow.
Actually, I'm being serious, it's one hell of a trip, and throughout all three games, its so cool to see returning characters, and them making call backs to earlier set pieces. and they themselves grow as characters too, like if ME was a superb space opera... oh wait.
I love Liara.... Man... She's cute plus she's hot... And not to mention one of the smartest species in the galaxy...
Meeting Sovereign and finally learning what is really going on. I have played Mass Effect through at least a dozen times, and that moment still gives me goosebumps.
Second, is also from the first game, I cry when I talk to Vigil on Ilos. To think of all those Protheans dying in their sleep while the Harvest goes on and on. Then, they finally get to do their thing, at least a few of them, only to die of starvation on the Citadel.
Those are two of my favorite moments.
of course Elon Musk loves Mass Effect. it contains probably the ultimate portrayal of AI gone wrong, and he's terrified of AI.
"You can fight like a kroger, run like a leopard, but you'll never be better than Commander Sheppard!"
I might be the weird one here, but I haven't seen any footage from the new game, and I avoid knowing stuff about it as much as I can. I shouldn't even buy it but I can't keep myself from it. I won't pre-order, I won't buy DLC nor spend money in micro transactions as that goes against my beliefs, but I will buy the game day 1, without knowing anything about it, because I want the best possible experience, this is like flipping a coin when we're dealing with EA. but I'm giving them one last chance, if they fuck up Mass Effect Andromeda I refuse to give them another cent, regardless of what they come up with afterwards.
"mass effect andromeda is coming and i cant wait". if only you knew...