Mass Effect Lore: Geth And The Quarians
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- This week our Mass Effect lore series takes a look at the Geth, once a subservient race of AI, forced to rebel, and their creators, the nomadic Quarians.
Mass Effect: Legendary Edition is tantalisingly close, and whether it's your first time with the trilogy or you're a diehard fan, there's a lot of lore to digest. We've put together a series to catch you up to speed on the biggest and most important stories in the Mass Effect universe that happen before the first game, so you can jump into the Legendary Edition knowing all the whos, whats, and wheres in the Milky Way.
In the video above, Lucy takes you through the conflict between the Geth and the Quarians. At the start of Mass Effect, the Quarians are a nomadic tribe living on board a flotilla of ships, drifting from one place to the next, with no home. The Geth are threatening the peace of the galaxy, and are formidable foes for Shepard and their squad. But it wasn't always that way. What lead the Geth to turn on their creators, and what outcome does the Geth War have on the galaxy? Lucy delves into all this and more.
We have weekly Mass Effect lore videos up on the channel right now, so subscribe at / gamespot to get up to speed. Mass Effect: Legendary Edition launches on May 14 on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
That's why I brought Legion with me to the flotilla when Tali had a trial there in ME2. It just made it 10x funnier and less serious.
Probably didn't help proving her innocence though 😂
I really wish we had more time with Legion. By the time we actually get Legion as a companion, we are at end game and playing anymore than a couple of missions will result in a worse ending.
😂
The Geth are my favorite race in Mass Effect, and Legion is my favorite character! I cannot wait to see him again in Legendary Edition. :)
That music bringing back sooo many memories man! Mass effect makes me believe what if our own universe is like this minus the reapers of course.
what is that track called
@@metrinui Uncharted Worlds.
I Pre-ordered the legendary edition.. can't wait.
ahh the Secret Space Program
Never played a Mass Effect game, so I’m pretty stoked being able to play the original trilogy.
same here
You are about to play one of the greatest RPG sagas of all time. I envy you. 😉
Damn. I wish I could reply Mass Effect again for the first time. Here's a tip: Do everything. Not only does doing everything give you more insight into your companions, the world, and other things, some things you do also play a part in the second and third installments, either huge or small, and you might miss something crucial. Granted, you will not find EVERYthing in your first playthrough, although I do recommend you get as much done as possible so by the time you finish all three games, you'll see just how much everything played together.
Bruh I am jealous of you.
experiencing that game for the first time is just magic.
@@EchoObserver9
It is. First and only series I've played throughout repeatedly just to find all the different endings, cutscenes, and interactions. The rest I just didn't feel as immersed and dedicated. But in the end after all those playthroughs all those hours to find my choices were just,.........
By far, the best arc of the second and third games. Although its easy to achieve the paragon and good ending, it's very rewarding see the end of the arc. The genophage arc is also rewarding but after the cue on the citadel, the quarian-geth arc becomes the center of my attention. Great video, I hope it will bring more fans to such amazing universe. Quarians and geth are my favorite. I cant wait to see legion and tali in this new version!
I scraped the Geth and sabotage the "cure", everytime.
@@madkabal you monster.
@@otakon17 yep, no more reaper 2.0s and no more hyper violent monsters that make the Taliban look civilized.
coup* ha took me a few seconds to figure out what you mean by cue on the citadel. I like the Geth, they're cool. But I'd say Vorcha are probably my favorite species design.
I hated this arc. The lore of the Geth gets basically white washed so that their previous flaws/motivations are ignored in favor of making them hapless victims with a Pinocchio complex. In addition, I feel like Bioware was trying to write a gray conflict, but they made it too lopsided. The Quarians are depicted as utterly unrepentant and un-understanding, while the Geth are portrayed as being poor victims who wouldn't so much as hurt a fly unless provoked.
I just love the history between the Geth and Quarians
Something to add to the lore:
During the Morning War, there were many Quarians who sympathized with the Geth and tried to protect them. But were immediately gunned down by the military for aiding machines. When the Geth killed 99% of the worlds population, they spared the remaining 1 million Quarians and let them escape through the Relay. The surviving Quarians who defended the Geth, left with the Migrant Fleet in fear they would be killed next if they stayed in Rannoch.
I think the quarrians who defended the geth were already dead by the time the geth got serious in standing up for themselves and waging war with the rest of the quarrians.
Can we get one of these until MELE lunch? These videos are awesome
Ah yes, the AIs who I original thought were your typical cyborg space zombies when I first encountered them.
we have dismissed that claim
Thank you! Getting ready for Legendary edition
The more i hear about the quarins and the geth the more it sounds like the quarins were the villains of the story.
Well they did kinda create their own problem.
@@Ehsan0121 yeah a problem that became everyone else's problem.
@@mikey-qe9op9fv9w yh but Tali is awesome so that's something to be happy about.
This video is pretty generous to the qaurians considering they created a new race of beings, attempted genocide (even killing their own people who got in the way), and act like victims because the Geth fought back.. but hey Tali is one of my fav crew members so it's whatever
I love these M.E. lore vids!
I always did say that the geth almost look exactly like Quarians and only realized recently that the quarians actually made em.
Guess a lot of lore flew over my head
love these lore videos. keep up the good work
Great video, but I think there should be a warning at the start to new players. After all, finding out the secret history of the Geth is a cool moment in the game, and shouldn't be robbed.
Hmm, but maybe new players aren't watching lore videos to begin with?
You forget that the 'secret' history was the Geth trying to build sympathy, with the Reaper Indoctrinated code linking it in to your mind, they are not above lying or deceiving. Not to mention if you go back to ME1 you'll remember the Prothean VI on Illos talking about more than one Reaper left behind, I.E. Sovereign, to prevent the discovery of the Reapers too early as they were there to observe, meaning the Reaper on Rannoch must've found out that Quarians were near completion of deciphering a Prothean beacon and started to ' Upgrade' the Geth.
The Reapers have been behind major events including Synthetic rebellions. You'll notice Shepard's hostile resolve when talking to Legion-Geth VI when showing the runtime of the Geth VI hive mind, noting they were upgraded and not evolved.
I do agree that there should be a warning for new players in these videos, however, in my opinion, you're kind of robbing yourself if you're a new player regardless because finding out about these races and what their backstory is and other things in-game is 10x better than going in already knowing about them and what's going on. It's like watching someone play a game and then going into the same game to play it yourself afterwards. It just won't feel the same as going in blind.
I'm wanting to know where The Quarian ark is at.
Lost to development hell because of Andromeda's lackluster reception(because it was a glitchy, incoherent mess of a game made by rank amateurs in an engine not designed for that sort of thing). They were going to add the Quarians via DLC but it'll probably never happen now unless they completely scrap Andromeda's timeline and start over with something else.
Here's one thing I think people look over in the quarian geth war. The quarians had a population of billions during the uprising and they eventually got reduced to only 17 million after that war. In me3 its implied that it was the military who shut down all the geth along with some civilian help. What I'm getting at here is that there was no way that the quarians would have billions of military personnel. They would have been a small fraction of the population. So that means that the geth must have murdered tons of innocent civilians along with the military personnel they came into conflict with.
How come in the Quarian hologram flashbacks they're wearing their envirosuits? I thought they only had to do that after they fled their planet due to their diminishing immune systems and in case the risk of a hull breach?
That occurs when Shepard enters the mainframe so to speak. It uses his subconscious to project the images in a manner in which he can interpret them. Since Shepard has never seen an unsuited quarian the projections don’t appear that way.
@@polux5136 well... in some playthroughs he's seen a certain Quarian without their envirosuit...
@@madmohawk6560 something about not enough data to fully project on to the different individuals
I hate that you don't find this out until there is a Geth party member
Very nice rundown.
ナレーションの声が綺麗。そこじゃねぇだろうは聞きあきた。
I feel that bioware aped the trilogy by peaking too soon & expanding the game too quickly. The trilogy should have focused on the geth.
In the same way that space is infinite, the story should have had plenty of room to move.
The reapers/collectors should have been presented as an ominous threat at the end of the trilogy as a twist.
Beautiful
Quarian suits don't protect them from KO gas or similar substances, right?
The suits are sealed
the suits are fully sealed, no pathogens, nerve toxins or outside gases are able to make it in under normal circumstances.
They created a new life and instead of trying to understand things are doing its best to try to make him come and stand until you have a curving Shepherd just bumped into this whole mess that they make themselves with her help and them there and stuff out for themselves and you as well haha
ME concept artist tasked to draw up concept art for Quarians: draws 🐷
Only 5 more days!
The quarians are my fave race and the krogans
We are one, WE ARE GETH
I love the geth legion was my favorite character
Your just building the hype Lucy! Can't bloody wait
Nice video GameSpot
I know Quarians have no immune system or whatever but still weird they haven't tried terraforming a planet yet to fit their natural enviroment they evolved within.
I heard that Mass Effect has a lot of lore. Is this true?
This be true.
It has vore
In all three games, you will get lore pages for an insane amount of things that will show pictures for the most important things, and for the ones that don't want to do it themselves, also are read for you. There are also a lot of secondary things in the lore that do not have a picture and are not read to you so just know that many of those are not as important but are still very nice to read and learn about.
Insane amount of lore
Sounds like battlestar galactica story exactly to me
Love ME! I wish we have a new one with actual directions
Keelah se'lai
Hello évidemment le pouce bleu 👍
um its fictitious.... chilling
So they tried to build slaves and it back fired 😳
I never liked the Quarians, I preferred their creations. I like Tali with limitaions: didn't like that she kept calling Shepard's trustworthiness into question. Kal'reeger is cool though.
Tali only questions your trustworthiness if you put her people in danger. Hence why she's one of best characters there. She is a sweethearth but if you do something harmful to her people she is a spitfire.
Besides she and Wrex are the ones with biggest responsaibilites in the series, if you destroy Maelon's data Wrex questions your trustworthiness in ME3 as well.
Unlike Garrus, he always trusts you because he doesn't have a dying species to worry about and you never endanger his species somehow. Hence why Tali and Garrus are my favorites. treat them with respect and they have your back no matter what.
Tali has quite a bit of responsibility to make sure she doesn’t inadvertently endanger the migrant fleet somehow so it’s wise for her to be cautious especially if you make decisions that could endanger her people. Otherwise she basically trusts shepherd with her life.
Geth are the good guys krogen are the good guys.
Excited 💘🙀😻🔥 to pre-order may 14 💘
give me legion over Tali everyday of the week, fite me
Over Tali? Nah. Over Liara? 100%.
Why not both
Completely agree! I love Legion!!!
yes
Destroy all synthetics.
Peace is better option imo.
@@sandrogamer30018 I mean I guess you could use them until you get rid of them with the destroy ending.
@@eodyn7 So savage. So use them as bullet sponge for Reapers and then get rid of them xD
@@sandrogamer30018 By peace, what do you mean the Quarians and the Geth living side by side?
@@hardwell2484 Nothing. I just let the Quarians destroy the Geth now.
5 Days!
Yeah yeah
what is the purpose of geth now? they build each other and their ships but why? they want to increase they numbers and take over the galaxy?
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Keelah Se'lai
The QuarianS*
Would watching this spoil stuff for someone who's never played the games? Like I realize it'd lore but will it ruin any story bits?
Yes it spoils stuff a bit, i recommend going in as blind as possible to discover all the lore yourself, hope you enjoy your experience ME is some of the greates RPG's ever made in my opinion.
@@MrMasterdue thank you! I'm excited to play this series for the first time and I've managed to completely ignore all spoilers .
@@farmsalot1233 you're in for a hell of a journey
Don't forget side quests
Yes, I would avoid everything. Part of the magic of Mass Effect is learning the lore as you play.
Mmmmmmmmmm Quarians
Roll on 14th
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33:333 could this happen to humans. Sounds like us. Elon musk maybe. Could elon musk be bringing the starlink to monitor humans with semens micro chips? With enhanced chat gbt infecting key life support infrastructures wow not world of warcraft
Geth did nothing wrong