Mass Effect Trilogy - ALL Squadmates & Crew Die in the WORST PLAYTHROUGH EVER (All 3 Games)

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  • Опубліковано 8 лип 2024
  • So this video is going to be a wild ride. We’re going to be delving into the absolute WORST playthrough of the Mass Effect Trilogy ever… where Shepard makes the worst decisions and gets all 20 of his squadmates - and all of the Normandy crew - killed throughout the course of the Trilogy.
    MASS EFFECT 2 - WHAT HAPPENS IF SHEPARD DIES
    • Mass Effect 2 - What H...
    DRAGON AGE ORIGINS - ALL COMPANIONS DIE IN WORST PLAYTHROUGH EVER
    • Dragon Age Origins - A...
    0:00 Introduction
    1:10 MASS EFFECT 1
    1:47 Ashley or Kaidan?
    2:45 MASS EFFECT 2
    3:39 Jack, Kasumi and Thane Die
    4:20 Jacob Dies
    4:48 Rescuing Normandy Crew... or Are We?
    5:31 Grunt Dies
    5:50 Garrus and Dr. Chocolates Die
    6:26 Samara Dies
    6:49 What About Morinth?
    7:11 Zaeed Dies
    8:08 MASS EFFECT 3
    8:40 Dumping Miranda and Other Bad Decisions
    9:59 Mordin Dies and Genophage NOT Cured
    10:51 Cerberus Attacks the Citadel
    11:35 Ashley Dies
    12:56 Tali and Legion Die
    14:11 Wrex Dies
    16:23 TRASH War Assets
    17:13 Cortez Dies
    17:58 Sadboi Javik
    18:47 Liara and James Die
    19:37 Anderson and The Illusive Man Die
    20:02 DESTROY is the Only Option - EDI and the Geth Die
    21:12 Joker and the Rest Die
    22:46 WORST DESTROY ENDING
    23:30 This Playthrough Broke Me
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  • @jimcanterak7349
    @jimcanterak7349 2 роки тому +2836

    Joker: "How many friends do we have left..."
    Shepard: "I consider you a friend Joker."
    Joker: *sweating*

  • @jeffmcmorrough
    @jeffmcmorrough 2 роки тому +2740

    “Tell me another story about The Shepard.”
    “No. It’s too depressing.”

    • @SuperSaiyan3985
      @SuperSaiyan3985 2 роки тому +28

      💀💀💀

    • @PrinceKelify
      @PrinceKelify 2 роки тому +10

      🤣😭

    • @thepoetsavenue6220
      @thepoetsavenue6220 2 роки тому +10

      😆😂

    • @raychii7361
      @raychii7361 2 роки тому +132

      "To this day, historians look back and question how these incomprehensible strategies ever led to victory."

    • @AAhmou
      @AAhmou 2 роки тому +87

      "By all accounts none of us should have survived."

  • @holyloli69420
    @holyloli69420 2 роки тому +645

    Reaper: *Once there was an ugly Commander. He was so ugly that everyone died. The end*

  • @KamilDrakari
    @KamilDrakari 2 роки тому +1329

    2:39 "Only lost one squadmate in the first game" Dan really did Jenkins dirty like that.

    • @kevinbernardini1293
      @kevinbernardini1293 2 роки тому +148

      Jenkins pulled out a “Leeroy”, he wasn’t squad material

    • @JHenry-nz7hy
      @JHenry-nz7hy 2 роки тому +104

      @@kevinbernardini1293 Was to be expected. His name is literally Richard Leeroy Jenkins.

    • @RevolverOcelot1
      @RevolverOcelot1 2 роки тому +53

      @@JHenry-nz7hy oh my god. He just ran in.

    • @RimeyCH
      @RimeyCH 2 роки тому +9

      Yeah that's total bullshit! everyone knows Jenkins is the best Squadmate!

    • @matthewsimon6170
      @matthewsimon6170 2 роки тому +6

      @@kevinbernardini1293 actually, we tell him to move up, he didn't rush in.

  • @H3lios227
    @H3lios227 2 роки тому +3900

    This man did it. He did what the reapers could never do

    • @matthewclark703
      @matthewclark703 2 роки тому +32

      Que Tokyo ghoul unravel music

    • @BrotherMag
      @BrotherMag 2 роки тому +10

      Big Dan is such a mad lad!

    • @SharkWolf-lz3ov
      @SharkWolf-lz3ov 2 роки тому +10

      It's nice to know that the 3 endings have consequences and can be limited based on what you did through out the trilogy. You will have less options if you didn't accomplish a certain goal. Example: You can only do the destroy ending now since you have low war assets.
      I'm also kind of disappointed that you need to have a really high amount of war assets in order to get the synthesis ending. The amount I have reached on my playthroughs have been 5,500 somewhere.

    • @obijuanquenobi1911
      @obijuanquenobi1911 2 роки тому +4

      He should have done it with a bald crackhead Shepard like some other guy…

    • @KritoSkywaker
      @KritoSkywaker 2 роки тому +9

      @@obijuanquenobi1911
      You talking about the "Saddest Party on the Citadel" videos?

  • @zaneex4043
    @zaneex4043 2 роки тому +887

    Cerberus cemented their place as the true villains of the trilogy by bringing this mad man back from the dead 🤦‍♂️

    • @maurymanna19
      @maurymanna19 Рік тому +16

      top tier commentary

    • @RokuHanmar
      @RokuHanmar Рік тому +17

      Only Mordin could've resurrected him. Someone else might've gotten it wrong

    • @danmarusan2878
      @danmarusan2878 Рік тому +8

      ​@@RokuHanmar someone DID everything wrong in this playthrough.

    • @christhovhannisyan2074
      @christhovhannisyan2074 Рік тому +3

      ​@@maurymanna19 "cemented" 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭im weaakk

    • @nekorei2023
      @nekorei2023 10 місяців тому +1

      @@danmarusan2878 im crying

  • @caveresch
    @caveresch 2 роки тому +394

    Truly love that Shepards come back to Wrex after dooming his species is "member how I got you that armor buddy?"

    • @protonjones54
      @protonjones54 Рік тому +51

      "C'mon Wrexie boi, remember how I got you back your dad's shitty armor that one time? Buddy o'le pal? Buddy rooskie? Brood brotha from anotha motha? NO?"
      💥🔫😃

  • @ThePhanatik116
    @ThePhanatik116 2 роки тому +799

    Dude seeing Wrex absolutely hurt that his friend would betray him was actually heart wrenching

    • @JoviaI1
      @JoviaI1 2 роки тому +76

      The Wrex scene got me the most. He's such a bro and had been through so much.

    • @ivanschweizer9146
      @ivanschweizer9146 2 роки тому +61

      yeah, even Tali didn't seem as betrayed more just sad that her people died. But killing Wrex like that was horrible to see

    • @YZ87110
      @YZ87110 Рік тому +24

      Seeing Miranda cry was the worst part.

    • @uranium-3789
      @uranium-3789 Рік тому +2

      My renegade Shepard literally can never do it.

    • @deontaeavila3514
      @deontaeavila3514 Рік тому +1

      Yeah

  • @awesomehpt8938
    @awesomehpt8938 2 роки тому +1592

    I now know that wearing pink goggles is a sign that someone is evil.

    • @jimmym3352
      @jimmym3352 2 роки тому +24

      and purple armor

    • @nathanlevesque7812
      @nathanlevesque7812 2 роки тому +52

      Nah, my Engineer is just a Barbie girl in a Barbie worr-uurrold.

    • @JaeshaunDT
      @JaeshaunDT 2 роки тому +7

      ​@@jimmym3352 that was totally my last shep. had on dark purple and pink and wore the mnemonic visor lol

  • @BySpartan
    @BySpartan 2 роки тому +1013

    15:12 if you didnt choose the renegade option there, Wrex would say ''Whats the matter Ashley not here no save you? Oh right you killed her too''

    • @PikangsFutaba
      @PikangsFutaba 2 роки тому +149

      Actually it depends a lot of your overall reputation, if is very renegade Wrex will always say that "all humans should go to hell" line.

    • @n2badsam420
      @n2badsam420 2 роки тому +54

      @@PikangsFutaba That line is the equivalent to blaming fast food places for making you fat.

    • @iterationfackshet1990
      @iterationfackshet1990 2 роки тому +4

      @@PikangsFutaba thing is is that this Shepard isn’t that renegade.

    • @donnyyasu2764
      @donnyyasu2764 2 роки тому +37

      Damn, Wrex is vicious in battle and with words lol

    • @protonjones54
      @protonjones54 Рік тому

      💀💀💀

  • @MrMantekoso
    @MrMantekoso 2 роки тому +527

    Mordin: Had to be me, someone else might have gotten it wrong.
    Shepard: Oh I will my friend

    • @napoleoncomplex2712
      @napoleoncomplex2712 2 роки тому +59

      Mordin from the afterlife: 'That was not supposed to be taken as a challenge.'

    • @tyranasorusrex
      @tyranasorusrex 2 роки тому +4

      Shepherd Had a plan like his ancestor Dutch... Get every one killed and we need money lol.

    • @HugoRBMarques
      @HugoRBMarques Рік тому +5

      Shepard: "Yes I fucking will!"

    • @protonjones54
      @protonjones54 Рік тому +2

      ​@@napoleoncomplex2712 mordin returned to omega?

  • @davidcameron5308
    @davidcameron5308 2 роки тому +425

    It's crazy to think that the player can force the Mass Effect universe into the post-apocalyptic genre

    • @metetural9140
      @metetural9140 2 роки тому +37

      "There's nothing as great... as Fallout."

  • @Anonymos185
    @Anonymos185 2 роки тому +721

    23:20 Man, imagine if this guy found a pair of pink goggles instead as a tribute to Shepards incompetence

  • @mattbelanich1
    @mattbelanich1 2 роки тому +488

    Star child: why are you here?
    Shepard: more like how, amirite?

  • @emeraldknight72
    @emeraldknight72 2 роки тому +433

    Man, there are “the worst timelines,” and then this one points and laughs at them.

    • @TheItzal11
      @TheItzal11 2 роки тому +32

      I mean he didn't keep morinth alive to become an banshee or jack alive to get recaptured and turned into a phantom soo....

    • @anthonytitone
      @anthonytitone 5 місяців тому

      @@TheItzal11also could’ve killed Wrex on Virmire

    • @aleksanderz2320
      @aleksanderz2320 3 місяці тому

      ​@@anthonytitonehe said why, I think if you watch this video you will get it xd

    • @anthonytitone
      @anthonytitone 3 місяці тому

      @@aleksanderz2320 I get why he did it but I disagree because the Krogan r far worse off wirh Wreav, it’s subjective tho both r terrible outcomes

  • @Durandalski
    @Durandalski 2 роки тому +202

    That was so painful to watch. Garrus’ death, murdering Wrex, Tali’s suicide, and poor Liara. Ai yai yai.

  • @tentrilliconlp7748
    @tentrilliconlp7748 2 роки тому +1384

    The scene where Joker lists everyone who died really made me laugh.

    • @miketacos9034
      @miketacos9034 2 роки тому +261

      He shoulda said, “Did I miss anyone?”

    • @jackpfefferkorn3734
      @jackpfefferkorn3734 2 роки тому +380

      They clearly didn't plan for the list to be that long, it sounded super unnatural.

    • @_Tomon
      @_Tomon 2 роки тому +69

      I stopped and wondered if it's true in-game footage or a montage :-D Holy hell

    • @sarenarterius6217
      @sarenarterius6217 2 роки тому +6

      Can you put a time stamp, please? I don't wanna to see all this carnage lol

    • @nsagoogle9581
      @nsagoogle9581 2 роки тому +43

      @@sarenarterius6217 30 seconds into the video

  • @GSpotFrenzy
    @GSpotFrenzy 2 роки тому +1153

    Christ, I didn't even know you COULD get your squad killed during the beam charge.

    • @silvy3047
      @silvy3047 2 роки тому +211

      And without the extended cut they don't even get a cutscene, just lying dead in front of maurader shields

    • @constantinefedotov8394
      @constantinefedotov8394 2 роки тому +39

      My first ME3 playthrough resulted in it, although I haven't failed anything before this moment

    • @Oceansama
      @Oceansama 2 роки тому +113

      Didn't even know Liara could die, honestly.

    • @felipedamiani1613
      @felipedamiani1613 2 роки тому +1

      Neither me

    • @GTAVictor9128
      @GTAVictor9128 2 роки тому +63

      @@Oceansama
      Yeah, even I forgot about it.
      But considering how Liara is featured in the next Mass Effect teaser trailer, we can confidently say that this ending is not cannon just like Shepard dying in ME2.

  • @drmattconrad77
    @drmattconrad77 2 роки тому +501

    To be fair on my first time through I had the Quarians die to the Geth and then the Geth die when I destroyed the Reapers. On the bright side there is really cheap property available on Rannoch.

    • @miketacos9034
      @miketacos9034 2 роки тому +37

      How is it possible to do this?!?! Morally, I mean.

    • @sandrogamer30018
      @sandrogamer30018 2 роки тому +45

      I always destroy the space toasters, then I build that House for me and Tali with the toaster's scrap metal and live like a King.
      No more toasted breads but I can live with that.

    • @earlysteven123
      @earlysteven123 2 роки тому +18

      But Tali though… :(

    • @Flame_FirE
      @Flame_FirE 2 роки тому +12

      Tali doesnt need a suicide mission to die
      She can do it herself
      And you did that
      :(

    • @jek4587
      @jek4587 2 роки тому +6

      @@sandrogamer30018 Man you just made my day.

  • @nsagoogle9581
    @nsagoogle9581 2 роки тому +284

    Shepard standing in front of memorial plaque:
    "I'm Commander Shepard and this is now my favourite spot on the Citadel!"

  • @mastar5469
    @mastar5469 2 роки тому +946

    I could never commit such atrocity. It’s madness lol. But hey, at least we have Big Dan here to do stuff like this for us, so we don’t have to. 😂

    • @firstnamelastname1042
      @firstnamelastname1042 2 роки тому +2

      Just wait untill you hear of a UA-camr named KevDuit

    • @JohnGoetzGaming
      @JohnGoetzGaming 2 роки тому +2

      He should go

    • @evolutionari
      @evolutionari 2 роки тому +5

      Me, too. I watched this entire video with my eyebrows raised, like how? My first ever playthrough was ME2 back in it was first released and I had no idea loyalty missions could save them. I only did a couple and when some died I was devastated lol

    • @robertyoung9988
      @robertyoung9988 2 роки тому +6

      No we HAD Big Dan.... Nobody survived that play through.... Not even the player

  • @Jedi_Spartan_38
    @Jedi_Spartan_38 2 роки тому +344

    Mass Effect UA-camrs - finding the darkest outcomes so that you don't have to.

    • @GTAVictor9128
      @GTAVictor9128 2 роки тому +7

      "This is the darkest timeline."

    • @Jedi_Spartan_38
      @Jedi_Spartan_38 2 роки тому +17

      @@GTAVictor9128 There are two ways it could have been darker:
      1) Not bothering to recruit Garrus until Mass Effect 2.
      2) Keeping Samara alive for Mass Effect 3, ignoring the Paragon Interrupt to save her and then executing her last Ardat Yakshi daughter.

    • @GTAVictor9128
      @GTAVictor9128 2 роки тому +12

      @@Jedi_Spartan_38
      Also keeping Jack alive to then ignore Grissom Academy so that she gets turned into a phantom.

    • @YourKingJDG
      @YourKingJDG 2 роки тому

      @@Jedi_Spartan_38 I thought you had to recruit garrus

    • @YourKingJDG
      @YourKingJDG 2 роки тому +1

      @@GTAVictor9128 I didn’t know priority missions passed time so I got her killed by accident.

  • @N.B.456
    @N.B.456 2 роки тому +76

    I think that it can get even worse if Jack survives ME2, but you don't save grissom academy. Not only do you hear her being tortured but then you have to fight her.

  • @123Nightcloud
    @123Nightcloud 2 роки тому +205

    Oh my god seeing Joker try to get away from the explosion at the end genuinely almost made me cry - I love him so much ugh it hurt to see lol

    • @kevinthunder3375
      @kevinthunder3375 Рік тому +2

      Him and Traynor both, yea.

    • @noahcennerilli7975
      @noahcennerilli7975 Рік тому +2

      That was the only cutscene you could get before the extended cut released i think

    • @Whiteythereaper
      @Whiteythereaper Рік тому +4

      @@noahcennerilli7975 Yeah my memory of ME3 was that even when I got a high EMS Shepard Survived Destroy ending, the Normandy always took damage from the blast & Joker was always trying his hardest to get away from it. When I finished my 1st run of Legendary, he's calmly working and the Normandy even picks up speed and clearly gets away as the music swells to a climax

  • @mingQWERTY
    @mingQWERTY 2 роки тому +572

    Well done on sending Jacob to the vents
    He did volunteer so...

    • @texasarbiter8454
      @texasarbiter8454 2 роки тому +76

      Dirty Cheaters go in the tube

    • @invertedangel
      @invertedangel 2 роки тому +97

      its like the game wants us to kill him... telling us it's okay..... send him to the tube..shepard...

    • @AMoistBum
      @AMoistBum 2 роки тому +12

      @@invertedangel I am crying at this comment lol I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time

    • @StLuxiya
      @StLuxiya 2 роки тому +26

      I mean, does it even qualify as a bad decision?

    • @KingdomHeart723
      @KingdomHeart723 2 роки тому +29

      @@StLuxiya Of course it does, you chose to listen to Jacob Taylor

  • @BySpartan
    @BySpartan 2 роки тому +179

    9:47 LMAO Joker is literally us

    • @BigDanGaming
      @BigDanGaming  2 роки тому +68

      Shep: It seemed like the right choice.
      Joker: Uhh.... alright...

  • @amouramarie
    @amouramarie 2 роки тому +155

    "This one's gonna hurt..." Garrus is the Mass Effect _player's_ soulmate, regardless of Shepard.

    • @djeldj
      @djeldj Рік тому +7

      Since I plsy male is he my bro mate with tali being my waifu

    • @greasy8394
      @greasy8394 Рік тому +1

      I know you feel this lol

    • @contown731
      @contown731 Рік тому +1

      @@djeldj Same here. Besides, the Garrus bromance is better than the romance.

  • @georgehouliaras7239
    @georgehouliaras7239 2 роки тому +139

    In my Cycle, we used to throw squadmates out of the airlock so we can escape a pursuing Reaper.
    -Javik, problably.

    • @protonjones54
      @protonjones54 Рік тому +2

      We're outta flares... eject the Wizzo 😂

  • @JosephHauger
    @JosephHauger 2 роки тому +140

    A follow-up: Shore Leave DLC with so many of the characters dead...

    • @Vyury
      @Vyury 2 роки тому +38

      The Saddest Party On The Citadel from the GameSpot.

    • @devildavin
      @devildavin 2 роки тому +65

      @@Vyury shepard dancing in his apartment and the only one there is Glyph

    • @manubishe
      @manubishe 2 роки тому +14

      party in the cemetary.

  • @thetallwarden
    @thetallwarden 2 роки тому +354

    I've never seen that James memory when you're going for destroy thats wild

    • @jamesmclean8623
      @jamesmclean8623 2 роки тому +31

      Same! Cos James has to die, and I didn't even know he could

    • @emilioa.bayardoarceo758
      @emilioa.bayardoarceo758 2 роки тому +41

      Damn yes... see him smiling and dying is... even more heartbreaking that I thought

    • @protonjones54
      @protonjones54 Рік тому +1

      rip creatine bro

  • @revan3970
    @revan3970 9 місяців тому +11

    Shepard, speaking directly to his own life: "I should go."

  • @PartigradeCannon
    @PartigradeCannon 2 роки тому +148

    On TV Tropes, there was this liveblog called "The Adventure of Failure Shepard or How Not to Play the Mass Effect Trilogy", which didn't just get your squadmates killed, but also got as many people killed as possible.

    • @jomnix
      @jomnix 2 роки тому +16

      Even the player die...

  • @BoJangles42
    @BoJangles42 2 роки тому +19

    Harbinger: “Your extinction is inevitable.”
    Shepard: “Copy that.”

  • @StarCraftNOOB204
    @StarCraftNOOB204 2 роки тому +388

    Honestly the Liara and James one was actually horrifying. The casual brutality of it compared to all of the other ways of loosing squad mates is just jaw dropping, especially when you don't get given any time at all for that to then sink it.

    • @Carlosdreamur
      @Carlosdreamur 2 роки тому +51

      10 years later and I always thought liara and James would survive each ending aside from refusal. That scene caught me so off guard… weird to think Hackett is the only immortal character

    • @dennygunawan208
      @dennygunawan208 2 роки тому +10

      How could you even get them killed? Is it the low war asset?

    • @YourKingJDG
      @YourKingJDG 2 роки тому +20

      Honestly I think it’s saddest when garrus is there.

    • @riotgoeswoof
      @riotgoeswoof 2 роки тому +7

      @@dennygunawan208 War asset, yea.

    • @kevinthunder3375
      @kevinthunder3375 Рік тому +2

      @@YourKingJDG eh, I was never a big Garrus fan but to each their own.

  • @mlabrant
    @mlabrant 2 роки тому +133

    I can't seem to stop laughing. I could never do this but am glad Big Dan did. Thanks for the laughs.

  • @gazelle_diamond9768
    @gazelle_diamond9768 Рік тому +34

    Okay, I'll be honest, out of all of these, Tali's suicide really hits hardest. All the others either died in fights or were killed by Shepard, but she just.... did it herself.
    Somehow Tali always manages to make the most emotionally scarring scenes.

    • @pet3tyak
      @pet3tyak 7 місяців тому +2

      For me, it hits so hard because it's YOUR choice at the end and not simple consequence of your mistakes that you were not aware of before. Killing Wrex on Virmire or losing someone in me2 is such a mistake (and many other examples), not curing genophage is the choice you unlikely make (especially at first playthrough). But this choice on Rannoch (considering some mistakes leading to having no ideal option) can be made either way because you want sacrifice neither of two sides. I think this choice more about quarians - of course you want to save Tali, but admirals are really retarded and don't want peace even if geth ready to cooperate. So you decide save friend or or don't let these mfs slaughter another race

  • @Lolavs
    @Lolavs 10 місяців тому +25

    I honestly like this ending a lot. Shepherd and his crew faced impossible odds, and they succeeded at the cost of all of their lives.

  • @OmegaTC666
    @OmegaTC666 2 роки тому +207

    Let's be honest, we all thought our kill em all runs were perfect. Dan has just showed us all up 😂

    • @candyhochstmann4632
      @candyhochstmann4632 2 роки тому +20

      not exactly the perfect run, because they kill the reapers in the end and someone still lifes. For the real perfect just shoot the child in the end, then you have really kill everyone.

    • @OmegaTC666
      @OmegaTC666 2 роки тому +13

      @@candyhochstmann4632 True, but by also killing the Reapers, he extends the body count by the millions :)

    • @merrickmiller1224
      @merrickmiller1224 2 роки тому +7

      Actually he did a very mild run on this. Theres significantly worse choices he missed.

    • @channel45853
      @channel45853 Рік тому

      @@candyhochstmann4632 no, he has to walk away to kill everyone

    • @candyhochstmann4632
      @candyhochstmann4632 Рік тому +1

      @@channel45853 if you shoot the child it will disapear and the Reapers carry out their normal stuff (killing everyone). It is like a walk away.

  • @francoislatulippe7183
    @francoislatulippe7183 2 роки тому +93

    When i saw that you romanced Miranda, I just knew you would use the dumping Miranda trick to kill her 😂 you're so mean Dan

    • @Dark_Voice
      @Dark_Voice 2 роки тому +11

      Actually, that was his mistake because he couldnt kill Orianna now, only shoot her in the leg.

  • @noktin
    @noktin 2 роки тому +69

    Wrex' death was brutal, but Tali's just broke my heart. Which sadistic bastard decided that should be in the game?

  • @jaspertonnon1409
    @jaspertonnon1409 2 роки тому +95

    Literally last night I was watching the Dragon Age one and thought "Man, I really hope Big Dan is doing one for Mass Effect, my fav trilogy ever" and here it is!

  • @sithmaster4305
    @sithmaster4305 2 роки тому +18

    "How many more friends do we need to lose commander?"
    "I don't know how many are left?"

  • @XyzzySqrl
    @XyzzySqrl 2 роки тому +5

    The Citadel DLC is just Shepard dancing alone in his apartment with a bottle.

  • @ArticWS
    @ArticWS 2 роки тому +124

    Fantastic video. Still, though you do briefly show it, I wish you got into how in this worst ending the Catalyst's 'Destruction' weapon gets out of control and fries Earth to a crisp. You see London get absolutely *evaporated* and then the entire surface of the Earth getting engulfed in flames. Now, THAT is a grim ending! Granted, it doesn't concern the characters Shepard cares about (I get why you focus on them), but the entire planet of the protagonist's species becoming apparently uninhabitable is still a big deal.

    • @teecee1827
      @teecee1827 2 роки тому +5

      Earth got Kharaked, and they didn't even get a mothership for their troubles.

    • @mikeanderson1722
      @mikeanderson1722 Місяць тому

      Nah, we could just re-settle Rannoch since no one is using it anymore.

  • @needcloroxnow
    @needcloroxnow 2 роки тому +206

    Joker lowkey dissing Shepard about his awful leadership 0:33 LOL

    • @kingpet
      @kingpet 2 роки тому +34

      i thought joker were wgoing to go down the list and have take 5 minutes 😂

    • @aw2584
      @aw2584 2 роки тому +31

      They shouldve made a hidden dialogue where if you kill every possible squadmate up to that point, Joker lists not just them but every friendly deceased character like major Kirrahae or whatever his name is, Dr Chocolates, any random victim of Something's Hope "cleansing" (aka Shep shooting everyone in the face instead of knoxking them out with those grenades he had), making the whole conversation lasting few minutes just to roast Shep and effectively the player too 💀

  • @MrRedberet
    @MrRedberet 2 роки тому +70

    Ngl, just watching the video all the way through almost made me break into tears. Doing an actual playthrough like this would just make me hate myself so kudos to you for enduring the experience, Dan. You've done what most of us Mass Effect fans wouldn't.

  • @vette1
    @vette1 2 роки тому +39

    Its crazy how you can see how the destroy ending change like it kills everything this time but normally with high assets its leaves a ton of things alive

    • @Robidu1973
      @Robidu1973 2 роки тому +5

      It's linked to the Crucible: If you score too low on your War Assets, the device inevitably gets severely damaged and so backfires.

    • @protonjones54
      @protonjones54 Рік тому +1

      Honestly it makes sense. When you collect various war assets in ME3 and read their descriptions, a lot of them explain how each artifact helps the engineers translate the blueprints of the crucible. Without enough design works and development the crucible is just a crude nuke that hits everyone

    • @soaringraven0
      @soaringraven0 Рік тому

      @@protonjones54 or the fleets protecting the crucible from getting damaged, theoretically
      more ground forces maybe clearing up from needing air support too?

  • @CLfreak246
    @CLfreak246 2 роки тому +32

    14:49 I never expected that line in this cutscene.
    Also, things go immediately wrong as soon as we head to earth with less than minimum Galactic fleet strength. We see that the fleets in Sword are getting demolished as soon we give the attack command.

  • @NathanT_Performer
    @NathanT_Performer 2 роки тому +47

    At least this was probably one of the shortest playthroughs you've done

  • @awesomehpt8938
    @awesomehpt8938 2 роки тому +92

    I could never do this. I always save everyone I can.

  • @napoleoncomplex2712
    @napoleoncomplex2712 2 роки тому +31

    If there's one thing to be said for such a nightmarish potential ending, it does at least allow for new appreciation of the best endings. Saving everyone from complete oblivion is much more meaningful when the ending could have left everyone dead.

  • @internationalfailure9997
    @internationalfailure9997 2 роки тому +74

    "I'm sure Miranda can pull this off, right?"
    Me in my 1st playthrough of Mass Effect 2

    • @fuhrerhosty
      @fuhrerhosty 2 роки тому +27

      Well, she did literally just ask for it by saying that anyone with biotics is capable like it was a piece of cake just as Jacob volunteered to go into the vents. Guess they both just wanted to get offed Xd.

    • @armorfrogentertainment
      @armorfrogentertainment 2 роки тому +31

      Let's see, we have... a 700 year old space paladin, someone created to be the strongest possible human biotic, and also Miranda.

    • @Dark_Voice
      @Dark_Voice 2 роки тому +4

      @@fuhrerhosty Thing is that Miranda kills someone else, not herself.

    • @Dark_Voice
      @Dark_Voice 2 роки тому +8

      @@armorfrogentertainment Tbh though, Miranda was made to be perfect which would mean perfect biotics as well and the fact she cant hold it is imo a forced and badly written consequence.

    • @Kreze202
      @Kreze202 2 роки тому +11

      @@Dark_Voice Yeah, honestly for all the talks of "My parents created me to be perfect" her biotics sure is anything but. It's pretty obvious that Jacob isn't the right choice for the door assignment but everything throughout ME2 suggested that Miranda is more than capable to hold the goddamn barriers, from the fact that she was created to be the perfect human to the fact that she said any biotic would be able to do the job.

  • @cracked21
    @cracked21 2 роки тому +42

    you could resolve peace between the quarians and the geth with all of the accumulated renegade points, but you specifically killed them, which is twisted lmao

    • @justicetaylor3050
      @justicetaylor3050 2 роки тому +12

      Possibly, but there's an extra set of conditions to meet for establishing peace.

    • @GeneralMattimo
      @GeneralMattimo 2 роки тому +12

      Tali and Legion need the both be alive and you need the admiral on your side which he said he had deliberately messed up earlier

  • @starkraver-7938
    @starkraver-7938 Рік тому +9

    Liara's death hit me hard there...the look on her face as she reaches out to you is haunting...and then she's vaporised

  • @paragon1172000
    @paragon1172000 Рік тому +4

    I feel like Blonde Shepard did the ending of ME2 slightly worse. Only Morinth survived.

  • @La_cabine_de_Cabine
    @La_cabine_de_Cabine 2 роки тому +43

    I'm happy to say that I'm part of the 0.1% of people that did that crazy thing of killing the entire galaxy, and then tried the citadel DLC

    • @StLuxiya
      @StLuxiya 2 роки тому +1

      Nani?

    • @aldaircontreras9523
      @aldaircontreras9523 Рік тому +2

      And what happens?

    • @La_cabine_de_Cabine
      @La_cabine_de_Cabine Рік тому +1

      Watch "The Saddest party on the citadel" on youtube, they also killed everyone and did the DLC, it's really empty and the cool moments are lame, it's funny

  • @frostylolman666
    @frostylolman666 2 роки тому +73

    That confrontation with Wrex is amazing, god damn.

    • @SharkWolf-lz3ov
      @SharkWolf-lz3ov 2 роки тому +30

      It's funny how Wrex is SOOO mad at you through this playthrough. I mean... you let a bomb blow up on his planet, which Wrex tells you about during the confrontation. You sabotage a cure for his people. AND he feels so betrayed, especially just like he is being USED just for Shepard's own benefits for his mission. Yeah, I can understand why Wrex is 1,000% pissed off.

  • @awesomehpt8938
    @awesomehpt8938 2 роки тому +34

    You killed Garrus and Mordin! Unforgivable! 😭😭😭

    • @dankertester
      @dankertester 2 роки тому +5

      Well, to be fair, someone else might have gotten it wrong ;)

    • @sandrogamer30018
      @sandrogamer30018 2 роки тому +1

      WHo cares about that dammed Turian. He always perishes on my playthroughs.

    • @LopsidedMoz
      @LopsidedMoz 2 роки тому +1

      @@sandrogamer30018 based

  • @Mr.VaSimple
    @Mr.VaSimple 2 роки тому +24

    We definitely need an additional video about Citadel DLC with this choices.

    • @deedelta9263
      @deedelta9263 2 роки тому +3

      *Insert Will Smith empty room meme *

    • @ThePastaBolognese
      @ThePastaBolognese Місяць тому

      Inviting everyone to the party but it's just EDI and Joker

  • @thepoetsavenue6220
    @thepoetsavenue6220 2 роки тому +33

    Absolutely crazy he achieved what the reapers couldn’t even do from this play through; it cut me deep when I saw Jacob, Garrus, and Samara bite the bullet within minutes of each other

  • @sirpotatolord2219
    @sirpotatolord2219 2 роки тому +223

    Dan: *chooses to save ashley over kaiden*
    Me: yes. This is the darkest timeline indeed.

    • @christineherrmann205
      @christineherrmann205 2 роки тому +21

      I thought the same thing: " Whelp.... all downhill from here..."

    • @kevinthunder3375
      @kevinthunder3375 Рік тому +9

      Well, actually, I usually save her. She is more interesting.

    • @sirpotatolord2219
      @sirpotatolord2219 Рік тому +7

      @@kevinthunder3375 your not wrong, but she is more interesting in the worst way possible

    • @kalinmir
      @kalinmir Рік тому +3

      Kaiden who?

    • @kevinthunder3375
      @kevinthunder3375 Рік тому +6

      @@sirpotatolord2219 eh not really. She seems real. Plus, I love her relationship with her family. Especially her sisters.

  • @emilioa.bayardoarceo758
    @emilioa.bayardoarceo758 2 роки тому +20

    Dan... damn... I, I can't even describe how bad and sad I felt...
    And, thanks for giving this. Is so hard to imagine how broken this end will left the people.

  • @bastardhyena7882
    @bastardhyena7882 2 роки тому +10

    Shepard shooting Mordin really hurt...

  • @sirguinea3513
    @sirguinea3513 2 роки тому +21

    Well technically the worst ending would be Refusal, where you shoot the Catalyst, continuing the reaper cycle

  • @chop54321
    @chop54321 2 роки тому +5

    Letting Chakwas die was literally the worst part of this video. Just Brutal.
    I also like how Joker is just sick of your shit in ME3 with the Rachni queen lol

  • @whynotylang-ylang1162
    @whynotylang-ylang1162 2 роки тому +5

    Hackett speech at the end gave me goose bump. He believed in Shep, he believed in humanity he never given up and even if the battle was a catastrophy he take the blame. I love him

  • @Darkschool6
    @Darkschool6 2 роки тому +13

    Amazing video! Kudos to you for suffering through this so that we didn’t have to.

  • @protonjones54
    @protonjones54 Рік тому +8

    9:38 joker's reaction fucking killed me, just a pure "Shepard you dumbass" comment 😂😂
    19:58 also the star child, his "how the fuck did you make it this far?" response lol

  • @10Adragon
    @10Adragon 2 роки тому +7

    You should've done the Citadel DLC and put the near empty squad photo, is haunting and sad. Also shooting the star child might have been a worst ending that destroy.

    • @erickpoorbaugh6728
      @erickpoorbaugh6728 2 роки тому

      At least in the Refuse ending the less-advanced species are spared, the mass relays and citadel survive, and it's implied that the next cycle was able to defeat the Reapers. Low-EMS Destroy saves a remnant of the spacefaring species, but at the cost of most of the non-spacefaring species also dying (star child says that "few organics will survive," not just spacefaring organics) along with all of the Geth, and also ruins the galactic infrastructure and causes post-apocalyptic situations galaxy-wide, with all of the chaos that entails. I'd say that Low-EMS Destroy causes more harm than it prevents, especially if you value all sapient lives equally and not just the spacefaring organics (who are the only ones to benefit from Low-EMS Destroy).

    • @werty21100
      @werty21100 10 місяців тому

      SO BE IT (reaper voice)

  • @francoislatulippe7183
    @francoislatulippe7183 2 роки тому +9

    Ho? I learned something very new today. That little nod at the end if you kept the collector base giving only the control option is very interresting!

  • @t4nk3r4l1f3
    @t4nk3r4l1f3 2 роки тому +3

    It really seems like you are hitting your stride with these videos. Loved it!
    I've completed the trilogy countless times, and there were some scenes in here that I haven't seen. Well done Dan

  • @ZoeBellCake
    @ZoeBellCake Рік тому +5

    This actually hurt my heart to watch. Thank you for doing the thing that no one else was brave enough to do.

  • @BySpartan
    @BySpartan 2 роки тому +9

    I guess Shepard and The hero of ferelden would be great friends

  • @achilles9448
    @achilles9448 2 роки тому +6

    Mass Effect is my favorite games of all time and I really thought I seen all the cutscenes but this video blew my mind and I had no idea that you can get your Squad killed while running down to the beam and I had no idea that ending even existed... thank you big Dan for all your work on your videos and we really do appreciate it I'm a really big fan of yours

  • @averageanne2969
    @averageanne2969 2 роки тому +1

    Amazing Dan, keep up the good work!

  • @onii29
    @onii29 2 роки тому

    Very entertaining to see these result :D
    Great work + great cut!

  • @nolanschotanus2769
    @nolanschotanus2769 2 роки тому +5

    The truth is that nobody on earth is THAT cruel enough to get this ending on a blind playthrough.

    • @dennygunawan208
      @dennygunawan208 2 роки тому +1

      Haha true...he really needs to plan to do this.

  • @viktorbarney6795
    @viktorbarney6795 2 роки тому +58

    You’re going to have to put me on suicide watch after struggling through this Dan.

  • @Icynova
    @Icynova 2 роки тому

    I love this. Thank you for your dedication!

  • @mushroomsamba82
    @mushroomsamba82 2 роки тому

    I've been waiting for this one!

  • @LegallyBlindGamer7926
    @LegallyBlindGamer7926 2 роки тому +74

    Now that you’ve done this, I’m curious. What is the absolute maximum amount of War Assets you can get in a playthrough? What does Mass Effect 3 consider to be a “perfect run” through the trilogy?

    • @NEMESIS.3337
      @NEMESIS.3337 2 роки тому +13

      i did that 3 days ago in my oldests version games on ps3 . 0% multiplayer and everyone alive

    • @BigVito109
      @BigVito109 2 роки тому +16

      I got over 8100 on my last play through

    • @NEMESIS.3337
      @NEMESIS.3337 2 роки тому +8

      @@BigVito109 is possible 8200

    • @LegallyBlindGamer7926
      @LegallyBlindGamer7926 2 роки тому +5

      Ooh! Maybe Big Dan could help The Completionist do this if he ever chooses to cover the Mass Effect trilogy on his channel.

    • @sebastianandrade317
      @sebastianandrade317 2 роки тому +2

      I got 8276

  • @edwardfindley8483
    @edwardfindley8483 2 роки тому +5

    It's almost a work of art. And the intestinal fortitude it would take to complete this project of poor choices was on par with none other. Bravo sir, bravo.

  • @leen8430
    @leen8430 10 місяців тому +2

    Oh, Dan. I know I'm late to the party, but discovering your channel two days ago has reignited my burning love for Mass Effect, and I can't stop watching your videos on it. Meanwhile, I downloaded the Legendary Edition as I've never played it, but considering my many classic playthroughs before, I considered shaking things up. And eventually I arrived at the exact question you answered in this video. Thanks for giving me an out, I don't think I could have actually let my people die like that... but man, it was fascinating, devastating and at times hilarious to watch. You rock!

  • @CaptRobau
    @CaptRobau Рік тому

    I've always wondered if this was possible. I'm so glad you went through all the trouble!

  • @Timbo_Slice
    @Timbo_Slice 2 роки тому +92

    I love that in the "evry bad decision" playthrough, he picks Ashley on Virmie. Proof that she truly is the worse option.

  • @justthor5970
    @justthor5970 2 роки тому +4

    Holy fuck. That was really hard to watch but interesting.. never have I thought this would be an outcome for mass effect 3, when I did my worst play through on purpose it was bad, but what you’ve done is truly horrifying. Well done sir! 👏🏾👏🏾

  • @lightning1910
    @lightning1910 Рік тому

    How many years later and I’m still learning new things about this game! Thanks Big Dan!

  • @xlioneg2162
    @xlioneg2162 2 роки тому +1

    Holy shit. Just when I thought I'd seen it all you drop this video and blow my mind. Thanks Big Dan! Love the videos!

  • @MrMantekoso
    @MrMantekoso 2 роки тому +50

    Jesus Christ that Tali scene jumping to he sea gave me shivers. So sad 😓

  • @BrokenToy
    @BrokenToy 2 роки тому +12

    Funny how you made this video just now as I was also thinking of doing a pure chaotic playthrough doing the absolute worst ways to do the trilogy. Imagine doing a live stream of these worst choices and seeing that chat freak out?! XD

    • @Amarrente
      @Amarrente 2 роки тому +1

      I was actually in ME2 of my "fuck it up" playthrough but stopped when I saw he was working on this. It hurt my soul too much to kill everyone

  • @xXrapidkillerXx
    @xXrapidkillerXx 2 роки тому

    Appreciate the video big Dan!

  • @anonymous6666
    @anonymous6666 2 роки тому

    beeg dan your videos are so well edited and funny. thanks for great content. i loved the ghost of ashley!!

  • @malcolmredhead5266
    @malcolmredhead5266 2 роки тому +20

    Dude you must have really wanted to show us this if you were willing to get every squadmate killed I would never do a playthrough like that

  • @kevinscott3047
    @kevinscott3047 2 роки тому +16

    As someone who romanced Liara, seeing her get vaporized by the reaper beam made me die a little inside

  • @mrrrbanks1102
    @mrrrbanks1102 2 роки тому

    This was so much fun I don't know what was worst outcome da o or this playthrough brilliant video

  • @starfleetcaptain5413
    @starfleetcaptain5413 9 місяців тому +2

    Such a cold hearted playthrough, thanks for doing this so i don't have to

  • @awe_cutts3212
    @awe_cutts3212 2 роки тому +25

    Watching Tali die makes me want to die... but damn that music is fire during it.

    • @grunt7917
      @grunt7917 2 роки тому +1

      One wanna cry... another wanna die. Crazy worshipers. Worse than Indocrinated ones, hehehe

    • @sandrogamer30018
      @sandrogamer30018 2 роки тому +1

      @@grunt7917 Ok Grunt, you are gonna for the vent in my next playthrough 😂🤡
      P.S. I just butthurt a Garrus worshipper ahaha. Soft!

    • @gennarosavastano9424
      @gennarosavastano9424 2 роки тому

      Watching her jump makes me laugh hard and happy

    • @sandrogamer30018
      @sandrogamer30018 2 роки тому +1

      @@gennarosavastano9424 Impossible mate. I destroyed the toasters and builded that house for me and Tali and lived like a King ontop the flashlight heads's carcasses 😁

    • @gennarosavastano9424
      @gennarosavastano9424 2 роки тому

      @@sandrogamer30018 well there's no such a thing as quarians left in universe. My Shepherd made sure that genocidal bastards won't betray no one again

  • @copilots3159
    @copilots3159 2 роки тому +38

    Wait....squadmates can die during the conduit charge?! I've beaten this game an unholy amount of times and I never knew that was even a thing.
    I weirdly like the extended cut on this outcome of the ending, it really hammers home how hard the reapers were to beat.

    • @Chirpysemperboy
      @Chirpysemperboy Рік тому +7

      It also shows how BADLY you have to botch everything from Mass Effect 2 and onward

  • @commanderowen
    @commanderowen Рік тому +1

    Admiral Hackett and major coats are gonna be talking to each like “that’s who we chose to rally our forces to victory?”

  • @buddasquirrel
    @buddasquirrel 2 роки тому

    What a hoot! Thanks for doing this.