Thank you for watching! What an amazing story im sure you'll agree, one of the best ever devised in gaming, we need more of this! Such a shame about Andromeda :( What did you think of the trilogy series?
GamerGrade I think Andromeda has some pretty great potential- if they ever add some DLC’s or some extra stuff to fill in the plot holes and all of those painstaking side quests.
@@Laura_Katherine I dont think they will ever go back to improving Andromeda now which is a shame, although its not an entirely bad game it had so much to live up to and never hit the mark.
Man ive been looking for a video which covers the story for all 3 ME games and this is easily the best video ive come across! All key events are really well explained, great job dude thanks a million for putting all this together, you got a big thumbs up from me :)
•WetCactus• All off them pale in comparison with Mass Effect. My favorite trilogy. It has really set a personal standard for what I expect from a good sci-fi action RPG. GamerGrade, thank you for the detailed explanation. Your video deserves a lot more views than it currently has.
Arkillian Solaris halo has good lore sure and I loved it as a kid, but Halo’s major emphasis on the actual video games has always been the FPS combat and eventually multiplayer. There’s so much more you learn about through other media that the games just don’t touch. Mass Effect just dumps you so much information about the world you’re in at every turn that you absolutely don’t need anything outside of the games to really have a deep deep understanding of that universe.
YES PLEASE! I honestly was hoping Andromeda would be ya know the continuation to the trilogy or have some sort of connection to it other than a few things mentioned about Normandy. Like Mass Effect 1 was so amazing. The whole thing was amazing but it kind of... Well it started getting a bit played out. I mean it should’ve had three different villains instead of just the reapers and some accomplices. 1 and 2 are my fav tho like I love the second ones crew and ahhhhhh
Destroy option didn't end Shepard's life. You get a clip of him breathing and alive at the end of it. Who knows what happens from that, but definitely alive to some degree
Movie won't work - would need to be at least 1 movie per game but a high budget TV series would be better and make each game a series. If I was a billionaire I'd pay for it myself.
The whole point of the games is to put all the decisions in the hands of the player. A film would take all of that away as Commander Shepard wouldn’t be our character anymore.
Movie wont work, tv show could, and they would change stuff in order to not show something they already showed, maybe they could make a better wrap up. If you are craving mass effect i cant recommend the TV SHOW The Expanse enough is high budget and it is so damn good, when you watch the first 3 seasons you realize it is pretty similar to what a prequel of ME would be, even the moral decisions are there.
Can we have a moment of respect to to gamergrade for responding to comments posted a couple days ago in a two year old video. Btw this video is amazing and it makes me that much more upset that instead of a sequel, we got andromeda
Thanks for the support brother, much appreciate the love 🙏 I agree 100%, Andromeda is not what we deserved! We can only hope and pray that Bioware make a big turn around and dont disappear ending on a low note 😬 Thanks for commenting and watching my friend 👊
I have to admit that after seeing this video, I did not fully understand the original endings at all when I first played through all the mass effect games. So a big thanks for clearing things up for me. Mass effect will always be a great part of my childhood. No idea why this video has so little views btw. I think your edit was very good. Your voice is also very suited for explaining things.
You are most welcome Jorn! Glad to hear you enjoyed the video, its no doubt one of the best gaming stories ever told 😍 Thank you for the positive feedback my friend, and for taking the time to watch and comment, which is all greatly appreciated 🙏
But I still ask the question. Why didn't the Leviathans advise us on making synthetics? Why create synthetics that can destroy the galaxy? We managed to bring peace between the geth and quarians. It was the reapers fault that geth were as destructive as they were. True, the quarians made the geth and developed their intelligence. It would've been a lot easier if the reapers never assumed control of the geth.
The mistake the Leviathans made was to leave the decision up to an AI which they created, i forgot to mention in the video that the Leviathans at some stage realised the Reapers created by the AI was a mistake but at this stage the Reapers were too powerful who tried to destroy their creators (the Leviathans) so the Leviathans went into hiding unable to act or correct their mistake. How ironic that their creation turned out to be just as bad, if not worse, than the problem they wanted to fix.
Not only that, but all sentient life is archived in a reaper, essentially each creature united with a reaper very likely has their consciousness become a program of the reaper itself in perfect preservation and unification of synthetic and organic life.
The whole point of the Reaper is to preserve lives of the organics. By turning them into Reaper, they achieved the goal. The reaper are just doing what they're tasked by the Leviathan
Hold on there, Quarians in their panic at the geth becoming free, tried to strike the geth first and destroy them. If they hadn’t and made a deal with the geth, then they would probably have their home world AND wouldn’t be at war with geth. They could’ve been joined together against Sovereign and would have been stronger. Especially once the reapers came back in Mass Effect 3. Just saying, panic and distrust towards the geth made them hostile.
Only things I felt were missing was the Cerberus Attack on the Citadel and The Geth/Quarian Conflict other than that this is a Amazing Recap of the Trilogy.
I just watched a video summing up the Halo franchise like this, and I have to say, it's surprising how similar a lot of the story is. Precursor civilizations who want to and have wiped out civilizations, and unknowing pawns used as villains until the puppeteer villains show up. Although, this one has much more cooperation and Halo has much more "all aliens are evil" to the story.
Im not too familiar with the Halo story so it's interesting to know how similar their stories are, i may have to play the Halo series sometime and experience it for myself as i loved the story in ME! Thanks for watching and commenting 🙏
@@GamerGrade I've never actually played the games before, I mostly looked it up because I like Red versus Blue. Here, this is the recap I watched, if you want it: ruclips.net/video/y6DtLNPet0k/видео.html
One thing I noticed about the Reapers is that they are a walking biomechanical tu quoque fallacy. Just as you described within the first 4 minutes, the Reapers only exist to keep organic life from creating super advanced machines from wiping out organic life, they too were created by organics, and through the process of harvesting organic life, are selectively wiping out organics. They guise it as preserving organic culture and data, but in reality it is still deatructive to the self determination of organic life. I recently beat the trilogy about 3 or so years ago. And I am a fan of it. I just found it odd that they are doing what they claim to be preventing, although they are doing it in a selective capacity. It still boils down to the same thing.
The other thing is that they should have come up with radically different endings. Realistically, even with the extended endings and nuance of the extended endings, it still amounted to the same ending, technically.
Thank you for the positive feedback William, glad you enjoyed! I agree, one of the most deep and moving stories ever experienced in gaming history :) I hope they bring back the love and passion this series deserves if they ever decide to make another one.
Still the best gaming series ever, it inspired it me to join the military and eventually get my life in order. If it wasn't for this gaming series I have no idea where I would be.
Wow thats a great story, you should share a video on how it helped you! Most definitely the best story of any game to date. Nothing has come close since.
@@Big_Shay that one too. Haven’t played any of them in so long but I used to play it with my bro a lot. That one was definitely a good memory in my childhood
i only really love the 2nd one, that one's a classic. 1 is merely good atleast now wit the remake on the legendary edition cuz the original's trash. & 3 is merely great but a huge step down from 2. i still like those games but they don't match me2.
Michael Harvey since you enjoyed it so much, two of its inspirations you might enjoy are a late 90s tv series called “Babylon Five,” and a video game trilogy from the early 90s called “Star Control.” You will be , um, surprised, at some of the plot and gameplay similarities they share with ME.
Thank you Matt much appreciate the positive feedback :) The most epic story in gaming history, one that will go down as legendary and will never be forgotten!
ME3 Ending could be epic if your choices along the three games actually had an effect. This is what I think angered most of fans. Even so, the trilogy is a must play. It's a beatiful and incredible experience, with good replay value.
Haha yeah 100% agree, disgraceful what they tried to pull off after such an epic twisting story! They should have spent a few months really fleshing out the ending that such a masterpiece deserves. Its almost like they just couldn't be bothered lol, which is gutting after being so invested emotionally. As you rightly mention, the whole main story experience is so mind blowing especially at the time, a rushed ending i suppose, is forgivable.
Gamer Grade; Thanks for the intro. I wasn't that familiar with the story until now. I have been wanting to fine something I could sink my teeth into so to speak.
I have not played any of the games in this trilogy but wanted to learn about the backstory before I played Andromeda.Thanks to the trial, which I really enjoyed, I decided to get Andromeda.Thank you for this vid and God Bless.
Dude play the original triology, you won't regret. I played the triology in 2016-17.Wish I played it before as I could have been in the fan base during its prime time.
This was one of the best trilogies I've ever played in my life. I was fully immersed in Mass effect in those years. The beginning of Mass effect 3 was probably the most jaw-dropping oh s*** moment in my video game career. I was talking so much s*** about how they didn't listen. I was not wanted a gamers who was mad about the original three choices, it all made sense to me. I only went through the trilogy once and I chose the green light. I have refused to let Shepherd die. Also I think like the majority of players at the end of the second Mass effect I mean who didn't blow the base up? The elusive man was a dick
They should have just stuck with the Indoctrination Theory, which I still believe they were setting up and abandoned. It had the potential to be so much more awesome than the bland endings we got. Also, you didn't have to die at the end of ME3. If you had your rating high enough and chose the right ending, it would show a cutscene of you waking up in a pile of rubble in London. I've done it, so I know it's possible.
It's only available on the best version of the "Destroy" ending. You have to max out the military rating that the game uses (you get military readiness points or something like that by helping factions, doing side quests, doing main quests, finding special resources, and playing multiplayer), and then choose to destroy the Reapers.
having never played this series, id like to sya you did an excellent job. 30 minutes was about perfect length, and you know the subject matter well. why play games when years later you can watch recaps videos! lol thx man, subbed!
You are very welcome Koaasst, thank you for your encouraging comment 🙏 Glad the video was helpful for you, the gameplay doesn't hold up well if you play the games now and feels very dated, but its still one of the best sci-fi stories ever devised in gaming, so you are right, a video is sometimes the best way to get informed! Your subscription is very much appreciated, thank you, its great to have you onboard :)
Because you can make different decisions. Like you can never use the genophage/use it. You don’t have to kill the rachni queen, you could make peace between Geth and quarians or choose a side. You also miss the multitude of side stories that span all 3 games. For example you could help this Asari diplomat with family issues in ME1. You see that exact person in me2 get killed by thane because she herself was corrupt. There is also so many romances you can have. Basically the story telling of andromeda is no match for the original trilogy. This video is the short and sweet version. You need to play the trilogy because it’s a 120 hour story combined. (I’ve timed it).
@@zachrhinehart Spot on i remember playing the trilogy well and all the branching decisions that affected the lengthy story deeply, nothing has really topped ME in this department to date. Like many ME fans I had such high hopes for Andromeda, but maybe too high, as i dont think any studio could have met them (sorry for the delay your comment was with held for approval and i only just noticed lol).
Im playing andromeda completely blind to the series as a whole and my god this game is good. I just experienced the part where i learn that the milky way is gone and where i learn about the reapers and etc. I thought it was a good time to watch a video like this and my god. This is one hell of a freight train to get hit by out of nowhere. A+ story so far.
Yeah i agree, the story is mindblowing. When an epic story is implemented perfectly into a theme such as space exploration and time travel, the resulting experience is exponential. I seriously hope they pour as much passion into ME4! Enjoy :) 🍻
I was literally depressed after I beat the third game. I played 1 and 2 probably 15 times each. The 3rd I played one time and I was so disgusted with the ending I never played it again. I did beat the DLCs and the extended endings but it really didn’t add enough to wash the taste out of my mouth.
Yeah most fans felt the same, the passion seemed to be lost by the end 😡 However, as long they they nail it with the remake, like Capcom did with RE2, then ill be happy.
Yes this is fantastic news. However, i really hope the creators give it the love, attention, and passion it deserves, and not just another Andromeda cash in. Otherwise i have no interest. I pray that this will be the case 🙏
I feel like the reapers were the thanos' finger snap, we all see it as something horribly bad, then we reflect about it and see the logic behind it yet it is still somewhat cruel.
I've never played any of the Mass Effect games in my life. I just pre-ordered Mass Effect: legendary edition and decided to look for videos explaining the lore so that I know what to expect. I hope the gameplay is great when it comes out
Mass Effect is by far one of the best games ive ever played. However it was based on a very old engine released in 2004 (Unreal Engine 3) 17 years ago. Unfortunately the devs are not updating the engine its based on for the upcoming Legendary edition, so gameplay will most likely still feel dated. Make sure to bear this in mind when playing it, and try and engage in the breath taking story and setting that truly deserves your time and attention. Hope you enjoy :) 🍻
Great Video. What do you think about my opinion about the ending? "Refuse" was the true ending in my opinion. Cycle was on going for millions of years, something different needed to happen, and what is more unexpected thing to do then by not being selfish at the moment like that but being careful to make sure that the galaxy to defeat reaper would be ready to move in a different a positive direction for a all living things. By acknowledging that shepard's universe was still not ready...acknowledging that galaxy that were at war before reapers in action would ultimately become reapers. Also showing true freedom in complicated balance of wisdom/understanding for future generations. For example Prothean shown great wisdom, but they locked them selves into primitive believe, without acknowledging how powerful and important emotions meant to survive and for life to bloom in galaxy. I think that ending ultimately brings out complicated human kind of a positive emotions as an ultimate weapon to bring galaxy to a peace, and it makes all the work done those who created reapers, and those who bring all the knowledge bit by bit by every generation into place for that to succeed.
Is Mass Effect worth playing in 2020? I bought the first 3, and of course started with 1 but I really don’t like the controls, so I watched a few story explanation videos to get an understanding of the story and go straight to 2
I dont recommend playing ME1 at this time as it hasnt dated well in the gameplay at all. I would indeed skip to number 2 which was much improved over 1! Enjoy the game my friend 👍
This reply is 3 months after you posted your original comment... but ABSOLUTELY. I recently played all 3 in order, having only played ME2 several years ago. I agree the gameplay in ME1 is not stellar by today's standards, but if you ask me, it's worth playing for the decision making, story, and character development. I too didn't like the control/gameplay of ME1, but it's worth sticking through to the end. And if you can't bring yourself to finish ME1, there's DLC for ME2 which allows you to make the important choices from ME1 without having to play through the game. I just finished the trilogy and it's amazing. The best story to one of the best game series ever made. Even though the endings in 3 were a little disappointing, the trilogy as a whole is ABSOLUTELY worth it.
It was one of my earlier videos and my narration (and recording equipment) has improved a lot. Still learning this game of RUclips! Thanks for clicking and trying though brother 🙏
Such an awesome video bro 👍 what’s amazing about this video and with no diss to you but it does such an perfect job at explaining the plot of the game but this doesn’t even touch the story arcs of all the characters relationships with Shepard. Such a thick story and tale it’s ridiculous lol
Thanks for your positive feedback, much appreciated! I agree, the Mass Effect universe has so much depth a 30 minute video can never do it justice, just a story recap lol. However, for people that havent experienced the depth for themselves even this 'quick' recap blows them away! Lets hope and pray Bioware can find their feet again and make another gem true to their passion.
Great summary of the whole trilogy! Love it and learned how great the trilogy is! So good I thought it was in league with trilogies like LOTR or Star Wars. To all fanboys, its just my opinion! Im not insisting Mass Effect is better than either trilogies.
They should have made a Mass Effect 4 with that as a playable option. Playing a story based on the complete perspective of the Reapers would have been epic!
You know, an option to free the collectors from reaper control would have been nice. Since Harbinger was controlling them the whole time. The condition should be saving everyone in the final mission and having really high paragon/renegade stats (saving a dangerous reaper enhanced race, but they were essentially slaves). Having them in ME3 gets you the human reapers heart and brain and there ships , but Javiks required to do it
@@GamerGrade thanks for the response. I just seems like taking a bet on the collectors helping if the reapers do show seems like a good gamble. If nothing else, they now have to retake the outpost from an occupying force and that should divert their attention
I didn't like playing the first game because the omni-gel and the hacking and the classes only had specific weapons and armor they could use. So if you were a person who liked to use assault rifles then there were only two classes you could pick. And the sniper rifles were a pain to use. I am normally a sniper type of gamer but in the first game it was impossible to hit the enemies with the sniper rifle as there was NO way to steady the aim, you had to time your shot perfectly. And while you were waiting for your shot other enemies walked up to you and shot at or hit you. I kinda want them to remake Mass Effect one with the same graphics and controls and newer tech that ME3 has. Including hairstyles and Eye color and the ability to choose your own armor colors.
Agreed the original has many dated features which need to be improved and brought up to date, if they remade it from the ground up improving everything but retaining what we love still giving us everything we 'remember' about its amazing universe, that would no doubt be a remake at the top of my most wanted list. We can only hope...
Option A, screw your war assets, you still die and loose. Option B: screw you, you still die and eventually turn on civilization as the new Reaper. Option C: screw you, you still die and take away the rights and the diversity of all life both organic and synthetic alike and turn them into a single unwilling twisted abomination of "life" without the consent for the joining of existence. Option D: screw you still die. And so does all life in the galaxy. Option E: Install a mod that completely makes the vanilla ending pointless
Yes i agree that would be great! The Witcher has been made into a series so im definitely looking forward to seeing how that translates? Although the only real important thing is that the director has the vision and passion to create something the fans can deeply relate to, whether that be film, series or fingers crossed, another game. If that doesnt exist, as was shown with Andromeda, then its a complete waste of time and money.
Yes the concept, ideas and story was just as epic as the original trilogy, exactly what we'd expect from Bioware! How did you find playing Andromeda, did you enjoy it and complete it recently?
That decision at the end of the first game is bullshit for how people judge you. Save the council of three people or save a ship-full of like, 3,000 people. They claim you're a racist for saving more lives just because they were human. I was just going on Vulcan logic: "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."
Yeah i agree it does suck as it just seems rushed with not much thought for the player experience and closure. However, it was more about the journey with this game, and what an epic journey it was! 🍻
Maybe you guys should stick to CoD or Forknite. Andromeda was better the some things and lacked in others same as all the others before it. The first games in the series tends to be dull because its the opening/
@@stuart3712 That's our fucking opinion. If we don't like Andromeda then we don't. Why is your ass hurting about it? I thought the game was ok until the ending came around. I just don't like the game and comparing ME top cod or fortnight is pretty stupid. Try fallout or Borderlands.
Good job .. really hope the Mass Effect remaster is happening in s few weeks.. i can't believe EA would allow the story to continue if it wasn't true.. unless they're just being cruel
Yeah im pretty sure its true! I dont mind waiting a while if it means they do an excellent and passionate job. There's no other game series i can think of that deserves all the love, attention and care, to bring back to life 😍
I’m pretty sure the reapers didn’t make the mass relays and it was the race that actually created the reapers created them I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure you get that information on a side quest where you can recruit them into part of your army in mass effect 3
Yes at the start It was first believed that the Protheans made the Mass Relays and Citadel, but later it was proven that was incorrect, once they found out about the Reapers 👍
From what i understand, the Reapers were created by the Leviathans to come up with a solution to the organic life problem, and the Reapers answer invloved creating the Mass Relays. Its been a long time since i researched and played this game so i could well be wrong?
@@GamerGrade maybe I am wrong I just assumed because the leviathans are not immortal they would of created the relays to travel then the reapers modified them to be used for their own purpose of keeping future civilizations from creating something they don’t know how to stop. Whilst also using the relays to surprise attack I to haven’t played it in a while but I’m currently starting a play through just to check if I’m wrong lol
Great i would appreciate to know the correct answer too, as im thinking about doing an updated video on the series with all DLC stories included, so i wouldnt want to get it wrong in the updated release lol. A lot of time would probably have passed by the time you get round to finding out for sure, so if you could create a new comment which will then filter to the top so ill see it easily. Thanks a lot :) 👍
it's frequently pronounced throughout the original trilogy 😂 It's weirdly difficult watching this video and thinking "Pro-the-AN" I wish RUclips would allow a quick audio swap for pronunciation in videos whenever they're missed on the final take 😭 (Pretty good lore overview btw 👌 nice and comprehensive)
Yeah you do have to turn a blind eye to some aspects of the story, but overall the experience is still unmatched. However, me personally thought the series deserved a proper remake rather than just a remaster to bring it in-line with current gen, due to the dated feel of the originals which remains in the remasters.
Thank you for the positive feedback, much appreciated! 🙏 Could you please let me know the mistakes, im thinking of producing an updated version in future :) thanks and happy holidays 🍻
@@GamerGrade My apologies, let me correct my mistake. Some of this information _seems_ wrong. Honestly, I'm relatively new to the franchise, so I could simply be missing information, I could be the wrong one here. Plus, I can't name a specific instance off the top of my head, so it cannot be that big of a deal. Besides, that wasn't the point of my comment. Anyway, seriously, grey video! Happy holidays right back at ya! 🍻.
@@GamerGrade I GOT IT! Question, I thought the Collectors were initially designed to serve the Reapers, not a failed experiment. Because they weren't the first the Reapers tried to turn into more of them, as they had been doing so for quite some time, or it's simply implied, as Leviathan and Catalyst informs you, the Leviathans were the _first_ true Reapers. Implying that there must have been other assimilated throughout the cycles. I don't remember if they ever say that, that the Collectors were failed experiment, correct me if I'm wrong.
Thanks for your reply! Apologies for the delay, YT is the worst for notifying when people reply to replies so most the time they go unnoticed 😡 I do remember sourcing information that the Reapers initially tried to produce something more effective but in the end the Collectors turned out to be nothing more than subservient drones, therefore the project was deemed a failure, even though they were still used to serve. Ill have to do some digging and try to find this information again. Thanks a lot for bringing this to my attention, always interesting to find the facts :) If there's anything else you would like to share please start a new comment so ill see it as YT never notifies me when i get a reply to a reply which is really annoying. They seriously need to improve their communications platform!
Please buy at least a $50 Blue Snowball mic. Whatever you're using was clipping non-stop and I couldn't really get much out of it due to the voice distortion. Shame cause I'm sure this is a great video. But on headphones is hurt a lot :(.
Apologies for the audio Tag Wolf, ive actually got a Blue Yeti but i only just got it when i did this video and didnt set the gain and levels correctly before uploading, ive now learned how to properly set these levels so should not be this bad in future, thanks for the helpful feedback and clicking the video! 🙏
Thank you for watching! What an amazing story im sure you'll agree, one of the best ever devised in gaming, we need more of this! Such a shame about Andromeda :( What did you think of the trilogy series?
As well as feros and ilos the s on ilos isnt silent and feros is still one word
U also forgot Jacob and miranda for the squad in mass effect 2
GamerGrade I think Andromeda has some pretty great potential- if they ever add some DLC’s or some extra stuff to fill in the plot holes and all of those painstaking side quests.
@@Laura_Katherine I dont think they will ever go back to improving Andromeda now which is a shame, although its not an entirely bad game it had so much to live up to and never hit the mark.
I hope they make a new Mass Effect game with the proper love and attention from the developers it deserves. Thanks for commenting and watching :)
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Mars has the demons!
@@lujack1801You respawned in the wrong game.
Man ive been looking for a video which covers the story for all 3 ME games and this is easily the best video ive come across! All key events are really well explained, great job dude thanks a million for putting all this together, you got a big thumbs up from me :)
Thank you Teddy Williams glad you enjoyed the video! :)
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Best damn trilogy ever. That theme music gets me every single time.
100% Agree!
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@@aabirgoswami7310 meh. never played it.
@@BlueBoxRevan the story good too lol
Wouldnt say best theres tons of better games still a good game thoo
Why don't other video games have this much of a dense story?
Indeed we need more single player stories like this, unfortunately it seems modern day gaming is going the other way
Em dragon age, the Witcher , final fantasy I could go on
•WetCactus• All off them pale in comparison with Mass Effect. My favorite trilogy. It has really set a personal standard for what I expect from a good sci-fi action RPG. GamerGrade, thank you for the detailed explanation. Your video deserves a lot more views than it currently has.
Uhhh halo also has pretty decent lore
Arkillian Solaris halo has good lore sure and I loved it as a kid, but Halo’s major emphasis on the actual video games has always been the FPS combat and eventually multiplayer. There’s so much more you learn about through other media that the games just don’t touch. Mass Effect just dumps you so much information about the world you’re in at every turn that you absolutely don’t need anything outside of the games to really have a deep deep understanding of that universe.
Who wants a mass effect trilogy remaster or a mass effect 4. Starting with Shepard taking the breath at the ending of me3???
BOTH!!
Looks like we are finally getting the remasters
YES PLEASE! I honestly was hoping Andromeda would be ya know the continuation to the trilogy or have some sort of connection to it other than a few things mentioned about Normandy. Like Mass Effect 1 was so amazing. The whole thing was amazing but it kind of... Well it started getting a bit played out. I mean it should’ve had three different villains instead of just the reapers and some accomplices. 1 and 2 are my fav tho like I love the second ones crew and ahhhhhh
Hell + yeah + ! = Hell yeah!
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Destroy option didn't end Shepard's life. You get a clip of him breathing and alive at the end of it. Who knows what happens from that, but definitely alive to some degree
Only if you have enough War Assets, maybe he didn't get the amount needed.
This is so well made, I can't imagine how long the editing process was. Deserves more views.
Thank you Žiga P. Škraba! It did take a good few days to make but was well worth the effort, glad you enjoyed :)
the ending scene just breaks my heart: "The cycle continues" *dramatic music, scenery & me crying*
This needs to be made into a movie. The story of commander Shepard EPIC!
100 Agree! It needs to be done
Movie won't work - would need to be at least 1 movie per game but a high budget TV series would be better and make each game a series. If I was a billionaire I'd pay for it myself.
The whole point of the games is to put all the decisions in the hands of the player. A film would take all of that away as Commander Shepard wouldn’t be our character anymore.
Movie wont work, tv show could, and they would change stuff in order to not show something they already showed, maybe they could make a better wrap up.
If you are craving mass effect i cant recommend the TV SHOW The Expanse enough is high budget and it is so damn good, when you watch the first 3 seasons you realize it is pretty similar to what a prequel of ME would be, even the moral decisions are there.
@@SinnohGreen I can understand that. Taking away the rug element. But at least we could see the "real" ending to ME3
Can we have a moment of respect to to gamergrade for responding to comments posted a couple days ago in a two year old video.
Btw this video is amazing and it makes me that much more upset that instead of a sequel, we got andromeda
Thanks for the support brother, much appreciate the love 🙏
I agree 100%, Andromeda is not what we deserved! We can only hope and pray that Bioware make a big turn around and dont disappear ending on a low note 😬
Thanks for commenting and watching my friend 👊
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Nice vid! Recently finished mass effect legendary edition and wanted a story summary :D
Thanks for the feedback and for watching 🍻
I have to admit that after seeing this video, I did not fully understand the original endings at all when I first played through all the mass effect games. So a big thanks for clearing things up for me. Mass effect will always be a great part of my childhood. No idea why this video has so little views btw. I think your edit was very good. Your voice is also very suited for explaining things.
You are most welcome Jorn! Glad to hear you enjoyed the video, its no doubt one of the best gaming stories ever told 😍
Thank you for the positive feedback my friend, and for taking the time to watch and comment, which is all greatly appreciated 🙏
Fyi, mass effect was actually released PC and on Xbox first before going to PlayStation. PlayStation came after :)
Thanks for the clarification Mike 🙏
But I still ask the question. Why didn't the Leviathans advise us on making synthetics? Why create synthetics that can destroy the galaxy? We managed to bring peace between the geth and quarians. It was the reapers fault that geth were as destructive as they were. True, the quarians made the geth and developed their intelligence. It would've been a lot easier if the reapers never assumed control of the geth.
The mistake the Leviathans made was to leave the decision up to an AI which they created, i forgot to mention in the video that the Leviathans at some stage realised the Reapers created by the AI was a mistake but at this stage the Reapers were too powerful who tried to destroy their creators (the Leviathans) so the Leviathans went into hiding unable to act or correct their mistake. How ironic that their creation turned out to be just as bad, if not worse, than the problem they wanted to fix.
Not only that, but all sentient life is archived in a reaper, essentially each creature united with a reaper very likely has their consciousness become a program of the reaper itself in perfect preservation and unification of synthetic and organic life.
The whole point of the Reaper is to preserve lives of the organics. By turning them into Reaper, they achieved the goal. The reaper are just doing what they're tasked by the Leviathan
Hold on there, Quarians in their panic at the geth becoming free, tried to strike the geth first and destroy them. If they hadn’t and made a deal with the geth, then they would probably have their home world AND wouldn’t be at war with geth. They could’ve been joined together against Sovereign and would have been stronger. Especially once the reapers came back in Mass Effect 3. Just saying, panic and distrust towards the geth made them hostile.
awesome video dude. very well explained. i love the mass effect series as does my daughter! nice 1 ☆☆☆☆☆
Thanks Den! The best video game sci-fi story ever devised :)
Only things I felt were missing was the Cerberus Attack on the Citadel and The Geth/Quarian Conflict other than that this is a Amazing Recap of the Trilogy.
Thank you NazoServantArk!
You have Earned my subscription.
Excellent work.
Thank you very much JayGameTech! Great to have you onboard :)
I just watched a video summing up the Halo franchise like this, and I have to say, it's surprising how similar a lot of the story is. Precursor civilizations who want to and have wiped out civilizations, and unknowing pawns used as villains until the puppeteer villains show up. Although, this one has much more cooperation and Halo has much more "all aliens are evil" to the story.
Im not too familiar with the Halo story so it's interesting to know how similar their stories are, i may have to play the Halo series sometime and experience it for myself as i loved the story in ME! Thanks for watching and commenting 🙏
@@GamerGrade I've never actually played the games before, I mostly looked it up because I like Red versus Blue. Here, this is the recap I watched, if you want it: ruclips.net/video/y6DtLNPet0k/видео.html
Great thanks for the share, looks interesting, will check it out! 👊
One thing I noticed about the Reapers is that they are a walking biomechanical tu quoque fallacy.
Just as you described within the first 4 minutes, the Reapers only exist to keep organic life from creating super advanced machines from wiping out organic life, they too were created by organics, and through the process of harvesting organic life, are selectively wiping out organics. They guise it as preserving organic culture and data, but in reality it is still deatructive to the self determination of organic life.
I recently beat the trilogy about 3 or so years ago. And I am a fan of it. I just found it odd that they are doing what they claim to be preventing, although they are doing it in a selective capacity. It still boils down to the same thing.
The other thing is that they should have come up with radically different endings. Realistically, even with the extended endings and nuance of the extended endings, it still amounted to the same ending, technically.
Amazing! This game changed my life, how refreshing to hear the story told back to me!
Thank you for the positive feedback William, glad you enjoyed! I agree, one of the most deep and moving stories ever experienced in gaming history :)
I hope they bring back the love and passion this series deserves if they ever decide to make another one.
Thanks for commenting and watching!
Great video mate :)
Thank you Wade :)
Still the best gaming series ever, it inspired it me to join the military and eventually get my life in order. If it wasn't for this gaming series I have no idea where I would be.
Wow thats a great story, you should share a video on how it helped you! Most definitely the best story of any game to date. Nothing has come close since.
@@GamerGrade How about the Halo Series
Ikr! I kinda want to join the military (still underaged) or be in the navy! I know it wouldn’t be the same, but it still seems like it would be good
@@Big_Shay that one too. Haven’t played any of them in so long but I used to play it with my bro a lot. That one was definitely a good memory in my childhood
i only really love the 2nd one, that one's a classic. 1 is merely good atleast now wit the remake on the legendary edition cuz the original's trash. & 3 is merely great but a huge step down from 2. i still like those games but they don't match me2.
Mass Effect Trilogy > Star Wars & Star Trek
Agreed :)
Thanks for watching!
Michael Harvey since you enjoyed it so much, two of its inspirations you might enjoy are a late 90s tv series called “Babylon Five,” and a video game trilogy from the early 90s called “Star Control.” You will be , um, surprised, at some of the plot and gameplay similarities they share with ME.
Absolutely perfect summary of one of the most deep and and complex series! Well done!
Thank you Matt much appreciate the positive feedback :) The most epic story in gaming history, one that will go down as legendary and will never be forgotten!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
ME3 Ending could be epic if your choices along the three games actually had an effect.
This is what I think angered most of fans.
Even so, the trilogy is a must play. It's a beatiful and incredible experience, with good replay value.
Haha yeah 100% agree, disgraceful what they tried to pull off after such an epic twisting story!
They should have spent a few months really fleshing out the ending that such a masterpiece deserves. Its almost like they just couldn't be bothered lol, which is gutting after being so invested emotionally.
As you rightly mention, the whole main story experience is so mind blowing especially at the time, a rushed ending i suppose, is forgivable.
@@GamerGrade Not only because of the characters. There is a lot of morale themes
Gamer Grade; Thanks for the intro. I wasn't that familiar with the story until now. I have been wanting to fine something I could sink my teeth into so to speak.
You are very welcome Jose, glad the video helped explain the bulk of the story for you :)
Thanks for commenting and watching!
I have not played any of the games in this trilogy but wanted to learn about the backstory before I played Andromeda.Thanks to the trial, which I really enjoyed, I decided to get Andromeda.Thank you for this vid and God Bless.
You are very welcome wufako glad the video was helpful, no doubt you will enjoy Andromeda a lot :)
I'd rather buy the trilogies.
Dude play the original triology, you won't regret. I played the triology in 2016-17.Wish I played it before as I could have been in the fan base during its prime time.
This was one of the best trilogies I've ever played in my life. I was fully immersed in Mass effect in those years. The beginning of Mass effect 3 was probably the most jaw-dropping oh s*** moment in my video game career. I was talking so much s*** about how they didn't listen. I was not wanted a gamers who was mad about the original three choices, it all made sense to me. I only went through the trilogy once and I chose the green light. I have refused to let Shepherd die. Also I think like the majority of players at the end of the second Mass effect I mean who didn't blow the base up? The elusive man was a dick
They should have just stuck with the Indoctrination Theory, which I still believe they were setting up and abandoned. It had the potential to be so much more awesome than the bland endings we got.
Also, you didn't have to die at the end of ME3. If you had your rating high enough and chose the right ending, it would show a cutscene of you waking up in a pile of rubble in London. I've done it, so I know it's possible.
Thanks for the clarification, i didnt know about that ending! So what happens to the Reapers with that ending?
It's only available on the best version of the "Destroy" ending. You have to max out the military rating that the game uses (you get military readiness points or something like that by helping factions, doing side quests, doing main quests, finding special resources, and playing multiplayer), and then choose to destroy the Reapers.
Cool thanks for the explanation! Shame i didnt know otherwise i would have included it in the video 👍
having never played this series, id like to sya you did an excellent job. 30 minutes was about perfect length, and you know the subject matter well. why play games when years later you can watch recaps videos! lol thx man, subbed!
You are very welcome Koaasst, thank you for your encouraging comment 🙏
Glad the video was helpful for you, the gameplay doesn't hold up well if you play the games now and feels very dated, but its still one of the best sci-fi stories ever devised in gaming, so you are right, a video is sometimes the best way to get informed!
Your subscription is very much appreciated, thank you, its great to have you onboard :)
Because you can make different decisions. Like you can never use the genophage/use it. You don’t have to kill the rachni queen, you could make peace between Geth and quarians or choose a side. You also miss the multitude of side stories that span all 3 games. For example you could help this Asari diplomat with family issues in ME1. You see that exact person in me2 get killed by thane because she herself was corrupt. There is also so many romances you can have. Basically the story telling of andromeda is no match for the original trilogy. This video is the short and sweet version. You need to play the trilogy because it’s a 120 hour story combined. (I’ve timed it).
@@zachrhinehart Spot on i remember playing the trilogy well and all the branching decisions that affected the lengthy story deeply, nothing has really topped ME in this department to date. Like many ME fans I had such high hopes for Andromeda, but maybe too high, as i dont think any studio could have met them (sorry for the delay your comment was with held for approval and i only just noticed lol).
I need an HD trilogy remake on current consoles
Likewise!!
Your wish has been granted...hello from the future by the way 😁😁
unreal video man, big respects to the time and effort put into this video 👍
Thank you for your feedback and support Johnny! Much appreciated brother :) 🙏
Really glad you enjoyed the video, looking forward to the remaster! 🍻
Clear. Concise. To the point. Great video and a very cool story!
Thank you Eddie :) 🙏
Agreed, no doubt one of the very best stories in gaming!
Im playing andromeda completely blind to the series as a whole and my god this game is good. I just experienced the part where i learn that the milky way is gone and where i learn about the reapers and etc. I thought it was a good time to watch a video like this and my god. This is one hell of a freight train to get hit by out of nowhere. A+ story so far.
Yeah i agree, the story is mindblowing. When an epic story is implemented perfectly into a theme such as space exploration and time travel, the resulting experience is exponential. I seriously hope they pour as much passion into ME4! Enjoy :) 🍻
I couldn’t sleep wondering about it. I’m at that part right now. I felt silent when I learned about the milky way
I was literally depressed after I beat the third game. I played 1 and 2 probably 15 times each. The 3rd I played one time and I was so disgusted with the ending I never played it again. I did beat the DLCs and the extended endings but it really didn’t add enough to wash the taste out of my mouth.
Yeah most fans felt the same, the passion seemed to be lost by the end 😡
However, as long they they nail it with the remake, like Capcom did with RE2, then ill be happy.
For a channel that made such an awesome video, to have so few subs is a travesty!
Thank you brother, much appreciate the love! :)
Thanks for watching!
Looks like we are getting a new Mass Effect to maybe look for Commander Shepherd!
Yes this is fantastic news. However, i really hope the creators give it the love, attention, and passion it deserves, and not just another Andromeda cash in. Otherwise i have no interest. I pray that this will be the case 🙏
I've only played part 2. I always wondered what happened before and after. Now I know. Thanks!
You are welcome Tom, thanks for your comment, glad you enjoyed the video!
Thanks for watching :)
When video games have better writers than most movies today.
I just hope they can re-produce this level of story telling with ME4? 🤔
I feel like the reapers were the thanos' finger snap, we all see it as something horribly bad, then we reflect about it and see the logic behind it yet it is still somewhat cruel.
Indeed! Sometimes sacrifice is needed, for the greater good 👌
I've never played any of the Mass Effect games in my life.
I just pre-ordered Mass Effect: legendary edition and decided to look for videos explaining the lore so that I know what to expect.
I hope the gameplay is great when it comes out
Mass Effect is by far one of the best games ive ever played. However it was based on a very old engine released in 2004 (Unreal Engine 3) 17 years ago.
Unfortunately the devs are not updating the engine its based on for the upcoming Legendary edition, so gameplay will most likely still feel dated. Make sure to bear this in mind when playing it, and try and engage in the breath taking story and setting that truly deserves your time and attention.
Hope you enjoy :) 🍻
Great video! Hope to see one of ME Andromeda
Thank you Bulanuuuu!
now i need to replay the series, shitttttttttttttttttttt
Fallout Lore: Understandable
Mass Effect Lore: Complicated
Elder Scrolls Lore: Incomprehensible
40k lore: everything sucks
@@brianmonk9333 that is true
#1 came out in 07 for xbox 360, 08 for windows, and 12 for ps3
I've been a fan of M.E from the start this should be movies or even a tv series
Couldn't agree more Matrix Coder, that would be awesome!
damn mass effect 3 seems to be the pinnacle of the series cant wait to get to it...
For sure! The best game trilogy ever made. Cant wait for the Legendary edition coming soon... 🍻
Great work man...!!!
Thank you Omar! 🙏
I can't wait for the LEGENDARY EDITION!
Like wise brother!! 💯🍻
Great Video. What do you think about my opinion about the ending?
"Refuse" was the true ending in my opinion. Cycle was on going for millions of years, something different needed to happen, and what is more unexpected thing to do then by not being selfish at the moment like that but being careful to make sure that the galaxy to defeat reaper would be ready to move in a different a positive direction for a all living things. By acknowledging that shepard's universe was still not ready...acknowledging that galaxy that were at war before reapers in action would ultimately become reapers. Also showing true freedom in complicated balance of wisdom/understanding for future generations. For example Prothean shown great wisdom, but they locked them selves into primitive believe, without acknowledging how powerful and important emotions meant to survive and for life to bloom in galaxy.
I think that ending ultimately brings out complicated human kind of a positive emotions as an ultimate weapon to bring galaxy to a peace, and it makes all the work done those who created reapers, and those who bring all the knowledge bit by bit by every generation into place for that to succeed.
Is Mass Effect worth playing in 2020? I bought the first 3, and of course started with 1 but I really don’t like the controls, so I watched a few story explanation videos to get an understanding of the story and go straight to 2
I dont recommend playing ME1 at this time as it hasnt dated well in the gameplay at all. I would indeed skip to number 2 which was much improved over 1! Enjoy the game my friend 👍
If you skip ME1 you won't have Wrex or Kaidan tho😭
This reply is 3 months after you posted your original comment... but ABSOLUTELY. I recently played all 3 in order, having only played ME2 several years ago.
I agree the gameplay in ME1 is not stellar by today's standards, but if you ask me, it's worth playing for the decision making, story, and character development. I too didn't like the control/gameplay of ME1, but it's worth sticking through to the end. And if you can't bring yourself to finish ME1, there's DLC for ME2 which allows you to make the important choices from ME1 without having to play through the game.
I just finished the trilogy and it's amazing. The best story to one of the best game series ever made. Even though the endings in 3 were a little disappointing, the trilogy as a whole is ABSOLUTELY worth it.
This narration completely dilutes the emotion associated with the franchise....
It was one of my earlier videos and my narration (and recording equipment) has improved a lot. Still learning this game of RUclips!
Thanks for clicking and trying though brother 🙏
@@GamerGrade I am sorry for being so rude. I wish the narrative was equally thrilling as the trilogy itself.
@@GamerGrade Also I would like to suggest you to read Brad Hind's behind the series dissertation on some core and critical concepts.
I agree! Nothing beats actually experiencing the game/story for the first time without knowing what to expect. It blew me away when i first played it!
Thanks for the suggestion, where can i find this?
I sometimes chose the ending to shoot the little star bastard. This would let the reapers win
Such an awesome video bro 👍 what’s amazing about this video and with no diss to you but it does such an perfect job at explaining the plot of the game but this doesn’t even touch the story arcs of all the characters relationships with Shepard. Such a thick story and tale it’s ridiculous lol
Thanks for your positive feedback, much appreciated! I agree, the Mass Effect universe has so much depth a 30 minute video can never do it justice, just a story recap lol. However, for people that havent experienced the depth for themselves even this 'quick' recap blows them away! Lets hope and pray Bioware can find their feet again and make another gem true to their passion.
Thanks for watching!
i play me2 n me3 17 time...i love it
Great summary of the whole trilogy! Love it and learned how great the trilogy is! So good I thought it was in league with trilogies like LOTR or Star Wars.
To all fanboys, its just my opinion! Im not insisting Mass Effect is better than either trilogies.
Thank you Smurf ID! It's definitely up there with the best of them :)
Thankyou kind stranger
Thank you for watching my friend, hope you enjoyed it :)
No doubt ME3 is my favourite game
Definitely one of our favourites too, not many games leave such a long lasting impression these days!
You forgot to add that the wear and tear of it all was adding up on Shepard, and DID indeed start showing symptoms of Indoctrination.
Yes you are right J. Moose, Shepard did indeed become part synthetic, thanks for bringing this up!
I would take the 2nd end game option, I would love to control the reapers even if my physical bodies was destroyed
They should have made a Mass Effect 4 with that as a playable option. Playing a story based on the complete perspective of the Reapers would have been epic!
Thank you for watching :)
You know, an option to free the collectors from reaper control would have been nice. Since Harbinger was controlling them the whole time. The condition should be saving everyone in the final mission and having really high paragon/renegade stats (saving a dangerous reaper enhanced race, but they were essentially slaves). Having them in ME3 gets you the human reapers heart and brain and there ships , but Javiks required to do it
Thanks for sharing this interesting idea :) 🍻
@@GamerGrade thanks for the response. I just seems like taking a bet on the collectors helping if the reapers do show seems like a good gamble. If nothing else, they now have to retake the outpost from an occupying force and that should divert their attention
I like it, will certainly help turn the tide of battle with the Collector's strength in numbers for sure. A huge force of grunts lol 👊
This video is PERFECT for explaining to my mom exactly how STAR TREK: Picard plagiarised its entire story from my favorite videogames.
Lol awesome! Thanks for watching brother 🙏
@@GamerGrade I am no brother.
Yep I agree 😂
The games are outdated, but the story is one of the best I've watched.
Agreed 💯
I didn't like playing the first game because the omni-gel and the hacking and the classes only had specific weapons and armor they could use. So if you were a person who liked to use assault rifles then there were only two classes you could pick. And the sniper rifles were a pain to use. I am normally a sniper type of gamer but in the first game it was impossible to hit the enemies with the sniper rifle as there was NO way to steady the aim, you had to time your shot perfectly. And while you were waiting for your shot other enemies walked up to you and shot at or hit you. I kinda want them to remake Mass Effect one with the same graphics and controls and newer tech that ME3 has. Including hairstyles and Eye color and the ability to choose your own armor colors.
Agreed the original has many dated features which need to be improved and brought up to date, if they remade it from the ground up improving everything but retaining what we love still giving us everything we 'remember' about its amazing universe, that would no doubt be a remake at the top of my most wanted list. We can only hope...
Nope I played the 1st one 1st and loved the combat and feel. Then the 2nd one the change was jarring and by the 3rd I dint care anymore.
Option A, screw your war assets, you still die and loose.
Option B: screw you, you still die and eventually turn on civilization as the new Reaper.
Option C: screw you, you still die and take away the rights and the diversity of all life both organic and synthetic alike and turn them into a single unwilling twisted abomination of "life" without the consent for the joining of existence.
Option D: screw you still die. And so does all life in the galaxy.
Option E: Install a mod that completely makes the vanilla ending pointless
great great great summary, holy
The whole thing coming down to your belief in A.I. as sentient life form. My answer : Depends, do I still get to shoot stuff ?
Of course!
What does the green beam do at the end of the series? Ive never played this series and i didnt really understand what it does.
The Green Beam merges all organic and synthetic lifeforms together. Sounds beneficial to us humans!
I had no clue what this game was. I just learned of some girl getting melted. Now I feel like I’m an expert
Lol! Glad to hear you enjoyed the video Gallium, thanks for watching and commenting 🙏
I bought the original Mass Effect Trilogy at Game Stop last year and with the crappy ending of Mass Effect 3 I had an absolute blast with the trilogy
Completely agree Dylan, still one of the best ever gaming experiences to date. Shame Andromeda didnt bring it up to modern standards.
Don't kill the Dragon? Let it judge it's Captors?
GTG
I'm sorry, forgive me.
GO DAWGS!
"Proth-Ian"😒
Antoni Mena Oh-me-gah
It almost seems like people only do this with media that consistently makes it clear how to pronounce something
You have an amazing accent. Where in the uk are you from
Thank you! 🙏
Im from near London and Brighton :)
@@GamerGrade Cool! Do you know how you would classify your regional accent? Would it be cockney or sussex for example?
Its probably closest to what we call Queen's English, with a little London/Cockney :)
Mass effect 2 came out while i was in iraq and i hid out in my room and played it for days.
Such an epic story, cant wait for the remake :)
@@GamerGrade a remake would be awesome but i still play me2 these days and love it.
I know it will never happen. But this needs to be an HBO series, not a trilogy or a movie.
Yes i agree that would be great! The Witcher has been made into a series so im definitely looking forward to seeing how that translates? Although the only real important thing is that the director has the vision and passion to create something the fans can deeply relate to, whether that be film, series or fingers crossed, another game. If that doesnt exist, as was shown with Andromeda, then its a complete waste of time and money.
@@GamerGrade well said. To honest, the ME trilogy is my favorite of all time, and I didn't even finish Andromeda because it was so bad.
Telltale games need to make a mass effect game, who's with me? It would be phenomenal
Now that would be something that could work very well! Such a shame Telltale shut down 😥
@@GamerGrade I'm gutted to hear they went under but man they missed a trick with that one
@@thompson223 Indeed !
Mass effect trilogy was a xbox exclusive till about 2012
Yes you are correct, along with Gears, it was one of the best XBOX 360 exclusives!
Cant wait for the remaster this year 🍻
now i see the similarities to Mass Effect Andromeda :D
Yes the concept, ideas and story was just as epic as the original trilogy, exactly what we'd expect from Bioware!
How did you find playing Andromeda, did you enjoy it and complete it recently?
At first i had to get used to the controls but after a few minutes i was already hooked :D
Nice!
When they first released the game it was in a bad state, but luckily they fixed everything so its a good time to jump in 💯
Hope you enjoy bro 👊
so did Shepard survive the orange beam as seen in the ending if so is there a continuation to the story
He does survive but unfortunately nothing confirmed in the pipeline by the devs, i dont think we'll see anything soon 😢
The reapers did make the mass relays but leviathans made the citadel sorry it took a while just finished the mission
Thanks so much for the confirmation, noted 👌
So many things can easily be missed with these complex story lines.
So Shepard's goes unconscious and dreams the final part and possibly survived the destruction of humanity
It all depends on which ending is chosen by the player :)
@@GamerGrade ya but still he wakes up under rubble but that could be from the citadel
That decision at the end of the first game is bullshit for how people judge you. Save the council of three people or save a ship-full of like, 3,000 people. They claim you're a racist for saving more lives just because they were human. I was just going on Vulcan logic: "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."
Yeah i agree it does suck as it just seems rushed with not much thought for the player experience and closure. However, it was more about the journey with this game, and what an epic journey it was! 🍻
This video only made me hate andromeda even more and I'm currently trying to beat it but my God is it boring asf.
Yeah i agree, after the Trilogy, Andromeda fell flat :(
Maybe you guys should stick to CoD or Forknite. Andromeda was better the some things and lacked in others same as all the others before it. The first games in the series tends to be dull because its the opening/
@@stuart3712 That's our fucking opinion. If we don't like Andromeda then we don't. Why is your ass hurting about it? I thought the game was ok until the ending came around. I just don't like the game and comparing ME top cod or fortnight is pretty stupid. Try fallout or Borderlands.
We e need a game like this and with alot alot more planets to travel to ... Make the game endles slash Halo slash borderlands slash GTA
Good job .. really hope the Mass Effect remaster is happening in s few weeks.. i can't believe EA would allow the story to continue if it wasn't true.. unless they're just being cruel
Yeah im pretty sure its true!
I dont mind waiting a while if it means they do an excellent and passionate job.
There's no other game series i can think of that deserves all the love, attention and care, to bring back to life 😍
I’m pretty sure the reapers didn’t make the mass relays and it was the race that actually created the reapers created them I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure you get that information on a side quest where you can recruit them into part of your army in mass effect 3
Yes at the start It was first believed that the Protheans made the Mass Relays and Citadel, but later it was proven that was incorrect, once they found out about the Reapers 👍
@@GamerGrade I was talking about the leviathans the original first race to exist
From what i understand, the Reapers were created by the Leviathans to come up with a solution to the organic life problem, and the Reapers answer invloved creating the Mass Relays. Its been a long time since i researched and played this game so i could well be wrong?
@@GamerGrade maybe I am wrong I just assumed because the leviathans are not immortal they would of created the relays to travel then the reapers modified them to be used for their own purpose of keeping future civilizations from creating something they don’t know how to stop. Whilst also using the relays to surprise attack I to haven’t played it in a while but I’m currently starting a play through just to check if I’m wrong lol
Great i would appreciate to know the correct answer too, as im thinking about doing an updated video on the series with all DLC stories included, so i wouldnt want to get it wrong in the updated release lol. A lot of time would probably have passed by the time you get round to finding out for sure, so if you could create a new comment which will then filter to the top so ill see it easily. Thanks a lot :) 👍
Good video
Thank you Carlos glad you enjoyed!
GamerGrade just subscribed. Keep it up.
Unpopular opinion... I loved mass effect andromeda
It just didnt live up to expectations, as fans were pretty much expecting ME4.
But that doesnt mean Andromeda was a bad game in itself :)
Mass Effect > Star Wars
100% Agree 👊
Awesome video, but I gotta say, your pronounciations of certain things bugged me way more than it should :P
Thanks Joachimmen! Haha thats due to my English accent, i get flagged a lot for it lol, hopefully it wasnt too distracting for you :)
It’s pronounced PRO-thee-un. And the planet is called Ilos with an “s”. But great vid otherwise.
Yeah i wish i could re-edit the video now!
Thanks for watching my friend, much appreciate the support 👊🙏
it's frequently pronounced throughout the original trilogy 😂 It's weirdly difficult watching this video and thinking "Pro-the-AN"
I wish RUclips would allow a quick audio swap for pronunciation in videos whenever they're missed on the final take 😭
(Pretty good lore overview btw 👌 nice and comprehensive)
It’s obvious this guy didn’t play the game. Prothean and Ilos were pronounced in the game so many times that’s theirs no reason for saying it wrong
I definitely played the games, its just been a long time and Prothean is due to my English accent lol. Thanks for watching my friend 🙏
Great video but it reminded me of all the unfortunate plot holes the games have. I’d still play the series every day if I could though.
Yeah you do have to turn a blind eye to some aspects of the story, but overall the experience is still unmatched.
However, me personally thought the series deserved a proper remake rather than just a remaster to bring it in-line with current gen, due to the dated feel of the originals which remains in the remasters.
Some of this information is wrong, but great video! Love it!
Thank you for the positive feedback, much appreciated! 🙏
Could you please let me know the mistakes, im thinking of producing an updated version in future :) thanks and happy holidays 🍻
@@GamerGrade My apologies, let me correct my mistake. Some of this information _seems_ wrong. Honestly, I'm relatively new to the franchise, so I could simply be missing information, I could be the wrong one here. Plus, I can't name a specific instance off the top of my head, so it cannot be that big of a deal. Besides, that wasn't the point of my comment. Anyway, seriously, grey video! Happy holidays right back at ya! 🍻.
No problem thanks for your reply. If anything does come to mind in future would appreciate the feedback :)
Have a great one! 🍾
@@GamerGrade I GOT IT! Question, I thought the Collectors were initially designed to serve the Reapers, not a failed experiment. Because they weren't the first the Reapers tried to turn into more of them, as they had been doing so for quite some time, or it's simply implied, as Leviathan and Catalyst informs you, the Leviathans were the _first_ true Reapers. Implying that there must have been other assimilated throughout the cycles. I don't remember if they ever say that, that the Collectors were failed experiment, correct me if I'm wrong.
Thanks for your reply! Apologies for the delay, YT is the worst for notifying when people reply to replies so most the time they go unnoticed 😡
I do remember sourcing information that the Reapers initially tried to produce something more effective but in the end the Collectors turned out to be nothing more than subservient drones, therefore the project was deemed a failure, even though they were still used to serve. Ill have to do some digging and try to find this information again. Thanks a lot for bringing this to my attention, always interesting to find the facts :)
If there's anything else you would like to share please start a new comment so ill see it as YT never notifies me when i get a reply to a reply which is really annoying. They seriously need to improve their communications platform!
Quick disclaimer: If you watch this without playing original trilogy you've robbed yourself!
Indeed! Its only for people who want to know the main story and never actually plan to play the game, or previous players who just want a recap.
I swear I almost stopped watching because of his pronunciation of “Prothean”...
Thanks for watching and sticking with it!
No worries, info itself and presentation was actually spot on!
Thanks a lot, appreciate it!
And saying Edi is a v.i when she's a a.i
Yeah apologies about that, she is most definitely an A.I.
Thanks for watching 🙏
Love it, but it's Ilos with an S not Ilo.
Thanks for the correction! 👍
For some reason i always thought it was pronounced without
Please buy at least a $50 Blue Snowball mic. Whatever you're using was clipping non-stop and I couldn't really get much out of it due to the voice distortion. Shame cause I'm sure this is a great video. But on headphones is hurt a lot :(.
Apologies for the audio Tag Wolf, ive actually got a Blue Yeti but i only just got it when i did this video and didnt set the gain and levels correctly before uploading, ive now learned how to properly set these levels so should not be this bad in future, thanks for the helpful feedback and clicking the video! 🙏
Why u gotta play the sad music bro got me all in my feelings
Lol i did sample other ME music but something just kept drawing me back to this one, suits the dark emotional story 👌