I did not expect this video to get this much traction. i tried to respond to every comment best i could but i’m having trouble keeping up now. i average like 30 views and 1 comment a video so this is very out of the ordinary for me! thank you for watching and also i’m sorry 😅 i teared up while editing it if that makes anyone feel better 😂 EDIT: - Not everyone loves the same characters, that does not take away from how much YOU love a character. - If you love the Destroy ending so much, go do it yourself 🥰
I caught the edit on the "daddy issues" - I am a father, and my emotional damage in ME:LE begins in 2... Project overlord. My son is autistic, he's been doing higher math after he figured out logic... he isn't past 10 yet and he does square roots.... they calm him.... Remember the end of the DLC? This Dad is emotionally wrecked and has to stop playing for the day after that. This story is held dear in our hearts. I cry when I do Grissom Academy in 3....
It's popular because it's always enjoyable to watch people get sucked into a good game. As for one possible wrecking moment you missed - there is the fate of Joker's family (probably easier to just hit up UA-cam for that one)
@@glrasshopper I got that one, for my first playthrough I went renegade Shep, and at this point he just lashed out at everyone. Jokers response made me instantly feel so bad and I apologized before the last mission...
@@AbstractJJJ i plan on doing a Renegade playthrough at some point so i’m going to wait to see it then! cant wait to have my heart broken in different ways 😢
Telling Tali (my LI) right before the final battle to go build a home for herself on Rannoch, then hearing her say, "I have a home!!" all broken... man, that tore my heart into ribbons.
"I don't even like this character that much" How dare you not love your test tube baby son Honestly, for its faulty ass ending, this game was really damn brilliantly emotional
When you say goodbye to Garris at the end of ME 3 it is the first, last, and only time Garris says I love you to your face. He does start to say I love you during the citadel DLC but finishes it with "your hair" and, "is partial to the rest of you as well." But never actually says the words I love you until, I think, he finally believes he may never see s Shepherd again at the end of ME 3.
Yeah . I stopped playing at that point for bout 5 weeks. Didn't want to go forward after that. And the bit just before going into closed citadel. My eyes were wet sore and very red going though them corridors to find Anderson.
Let me just say something real quick. For me the biggest line that broke me was tali’s last good bye. When you romance tali and you bring her with you on the last mission when you charge the beam. She gets hurt, you send her away. “Go back to rinok build yourself a home” She delivers pure pain “but I have a home”. And now I’m crying
This was before people bought pre-orders and sent the industry on a self destructive path. This was when game devs were told to make STORIES! The 00s had the best games because there wasn't money outside unit sales and console sales. When your shit had to be GOOD to be good. I have 100 pristine GameInformer mags sitting in my closet and sometimes when I'm cleaning I grab one or 2 and sit down to remember the good old days. Indie games are making a return. With games like Helldivers 2, im glad the new generation is getting decent games and good communities. Full circle imo. Keep supporting indie and small studios. Fuck these companies who've lost their way.
There's something special about how bioware during this period just fucking nailed squad mates and character writing. Even baldurs gate as much as I love it doesn't match how truly together your team feels. Mass effect was the last time I felt attached on a real level to every member of my squad. Just an absolute masterpiece despite all its flaws, Shepard and his squad are the family fast and furious folks wish they were 😂
Kolyat speaking at his father’s memorial in the Citadel DLC is a moment that absolutely crushes me every time. This game hits every emotional beat so well
I've cried a lot on ME3. I was soo deeply connected with every single character and when the game ended, I felt lonely, empty. I've missed them so much that I'm playing all the trilogy again now. The real Mass Effect is the friends we made along the journey.
saying goodbye to garrus in priority earth was the worst pain i felt since my mom passed, and he's a character from a video game; really goes to show how well bioware did on this game. I'll always love garrus :(
Just finished the hole trilogy a few days ago thanks to prime gifting the legendary edition, i got the three games finished on a total of 145 hours. Gotta say, while Halo is still my favourite franchise, Mass Effect is something special, it made me feel things i almost forgot i were able to feel, the characters, the universe and the story in general is just beautiful and is nothing like anything else nor videogames, nor movies, nor series, nor books, NOTHING compares to what the Mass Effect franchise is. And as it got in my life it leaved me with a giant hole in my heart that can be just fullfilled by building a little house on Ranoch with a window wich were i can look to the sea Still somehow a steel lizard obsesed with calibration and a immuno deficent purple girl became the two best characters on the history of gaming I should go
It's not the same thing, but since you enjoyed how the story and characters themselves were written, I think you'll love the Dragon Age trilogy. It's from BioWare as well.
@@th3braz1l1an not sure if you’re talking to me or the original commenter but i LOVE dragon age with my whole heart. 10/10 recommend those games to anyone who likes Mass Effect
@@LilijaTheLancer Can't it be both? 🤣 I'm glad you like them, I'm currently on my third playthrough of Inquisition. It's wild how many different "worlds" you can create by combining the ending of previous games. I'm tempted to do a save for each love interest, as I did in Origins, but I currently doing the more contradictory/funnier ones, like dating Fenris as a mage in Dragon age 2 (for someone who hates mages so much, he sure spends a lot of time on my bed) or dating Iron Bull as a dwarf (how would they... I mean... My poor inquisitor...)
My body has yet to recover emotionally, physically, or spiritually from the sheer whiplash of thinking I had lost my beautiful baby boy Grunt without saying goodbye to him being okay
7:54 *"Had to be me."* Mordin Solus. The epitome of Stoicism and Neutral Good. Sometimes you make the universe a better place by helping people and sometimes you make the universe a better place by removing people. But in the end you face death with calm and dignity.
Super late, but... Idk if you've done this versi9n of the scene or not but if you almost go through eith the sabotage plot for the genophqge and try to to talk mordin our of curing it, he breaks down and admits it was all a mistake, the salaries, his work, everything. Confirming what we already knew about him, a man racked with guilt that he refuses to acknowledge to himself until the end of his life Even in paragon playthroughs I'm always tempted to set this scene up, but hiding information from wrex feels wrong as that's my guy right there
i grew up watching my dad play these games (garrus was my childhood crush lmao), we still both play them now, and i recently played through the trilogy for the first time in a couple years and ommg.. i didn't expect to react as much as i did and it's good to see someone else in my shoes haha :) i hope you have a good day!
Mass Effect trilogy had the biggest impact on me in video games history. This trilogy saved my life back then when I was facing a tough depression. This crew was ma family, my almost only friends then, I miss them so much that I have to do at least one or two full playthrough every year. It will always be special to me 🙏🏻🥹❤️
What a sweet video. Watching you cry made me cry, even at parts of the game that usually don't make me cry! For me, the ending that really gets me every time is the synthesis ending. I know lots of people hate that ending, but it's my favorite. When EDI says "I'm alive!" in the epilogue I start sobbing, every time, and I've played the game at least half a dozen times.
One of the telltale signs you know you're playing a good game is when you feel emotionally invested. Those are the kinda games you find memorable for all the right reasons. From what I've watched for streams on this game, I can see how this is one of them.
You know you have a game that is quintessential and timeless when you can watch dozens, thousdsands of playthroughs and commentary and still the emotional betas hit you just as raw as they did when you first played them. The first time I played through, screwed up and Tali died. I had to put down the controller, turn off the game and walk away fro a day or two. I was not good. Then i booted up a save and went back through the game to do make sure the quarians and geth lived. They were too important to me. That's the mark of excellence.
I did Grunt's mission and that left me emotionally vulnerable almost losing him. But then I cured the Genophage right after and losing Mordin made me stop playing the game for a day. And I am not one to get sad playing video games.
In addition to above, the commando squad that hold the bridge on Thessia for us to get to the artifact, only to have Kai Leng take it, then the squad dies ... gets me every damn time!
I played these games for the first time this year. I remember my older brother playing them when I was younger though I didn’t really pay any attention. I have never had a more emotional response to finishing a game, I cried for an entire evening after beating the last game, i was so torn up and sad to leave the stories behind and leave my team and my romance and my shepherd behind. I truly have never connected to a story more then this series. I love it so much and I think about it all the time.
Rannoch, Mordin's death and curing the genopage, the ending.... these moments broke me. I was reluctant to play the Mass Effect trilogy and it became my favorite series, my favorite games of all time.
ME3 was just an emotional game all around. Seeing Earth get absolutely annihilated by the reapers, Mordin sacrificing himself to cure a genophage he caused, saying goodbye to your squadmates in the end. The writing of the overall trilogy might not be perfect, but I can't deny that it was emotional as hell
played the trilogy for the first time a couple months ago. Immediately shot up to my S+ tier. One of the few games that I wish I could erase my memories of so I could experience it all over again.
as someone who has played a lot of this game i absolutely love watching people experience this for the first time. i don't cry at these scenes anymore until i see someone else really feeling it and then i just lose it lmao. it just makes my heart happy to see how touched people are by this game because it was really life changing for me
Say whatchu want about me3 But the opening really sets the tone for the game. You feel like a legendary bad ass going through the first 2 games and this game comes in and hits you like a train
Anderson's death... Oh my. "You did good son, you did good... I'm proud of you" words all any young man wants to hear from those he respects and or loves.
I love you so much. Thank you for this. I've had so many playthroughs and I bawl every time. I recently lost someone very close to me in my life. I have been in shock, but watching your video and your reactions allowed me to fully cry and feel the pain and loss, but, at the same time it was cathartic. My friend will always be a part of me. In my mind and in my heart. You helped me release these emotions, as the Mass Effect series (which my friend and I love) helped in the past. Thank you for being a beautiful human being. Thank you for this reaction.
mordin's death, garrus's goodbye, and the game's ending always hurt even as someone who plays these games annually. and when "a future for the krogan" plays during eve's speech before taking down the reaper on tuchanka
There's a mod that removes all reference of the war from the Citadel DLC. So when I play the games now, I beat the game with the secret destroy ending, THEN do the Citadel DLC, which then plays out as a "we won the war" celebration. Mental gymnastics.
I mean, look, if the Normandy crew was able to repair the Normandy in the middle of nowhere with everything electronic fried, give it a couple of months to a year for the wounds to heal and they can throw the same party again, edi and all (In fact every time I play engineer I pick destroy+ Shep survives ending and it's my head Canon that Shepard survives just out of the sheer determination of repairing edi and the geth and proving the reapers wrong)
Man I have played this game *way* too many times to have such a strong emotional response anymore, but the moments that will always stick with me are Mordin’s death, Legion’s death, and Shepard’s final goodbye (specifically with Tali romanced, her farewell always breaks my heart)
Leaving Earth, looking around during the Palaven mission, watching Grunt literally run into death to buy us time, Mordin dying, Thane dying, Legion dying, me dying of laughing and crying during the Citadel DLC, meeting the Leviathan (that scene is monumental by itself), the final with Hacket’s speach and when you bring every fleet to Earth, then saying goodbye to everyone, Anderson dying… chosing was hard too every time (when chosing the destroy ending I always told myself that EDI and the Geth better making backups in every hour so we can just push the restart button on them TT-TT) I love this game but I my heart just can’t take it
The first time I played EM was when Legendary Edition came out. I was not prepared for how much the ending would get me. Literally emotional for days after, and immediately started a second playthrough. I still tear up when I hear the music. These games are so special, no other series has ever had such an emotional effect on me!
Saying goodbye to Tali and Garrus will always wreck me emotionally. I hope with the next Mass Effect, we can all at least get some closure as to what happened to Shepard and the Normandy crew after the ending of 3.
with the "Virmire Savior Mod" you could save both Ash and Kaiden in ME1 and they both would stick with you in ME3, complete with dialogue, banter and such. Also with the "Thane can live" Mod, Thane suvives his illness due to a new untested cure. You only get that via mail tho. But he won't die and there would be no prayer with his Son. Only Mordin's (Paragon Route), Legion's and Anderson's sacrifice are the ones that can't be undone. Btw: With "Anderson's Final Speech restored" Mod makes the scene even more heartbreaking. oh and saying goodbye to Garrus in the end fight is hard, but if you romanced Tali, oh by the Emperor, you gonna cry for days. And saying goodbye to Grunt is always wholesome.
This game is so emotional, but the only moments that make me cry like a baby are 1) saying goodbye to Garrus on Earth as fem!Shep both times, and 2) listening to Thane's fourth video message to fem!Shep. 😭😭😭💔💔💔 MY SPACE HUSBANDS Also, Anderson's death gets me now too because my dad died a year and a half ago, so it hits for even deeper reasons. This game is *b r u t a l* 🥺
VIdeos like this show you how much of a Masterpiece the OG Trilogy of Mass Effect is. The mere fact that you can pull this kind of emotion out of millions is a testament to the writing, music, etc. Long live Mass Effect!
I just completed a me1-3 playthrough to get the absolute best destroy ending (The one considered canon). Boy, I was an emotional wreck by the end of it. Bioware really know how to write a damn good story. Now I want my emotions to be utterly destroyed once again with the Mass Effect 4 game due to release in a couple of years. Great video!
i’ve never seen Destroy! i do want to do a playthrough sometime where i do everything the opposite of what i usually do, so i’ll perceive it hopefully soon 👀
@@LilijaTheLancer You could react to the Perfect Destroy Ending: drive.google.com/file/d/1qYK6BazBx70nXvcakFAcnQ_0429sWr0e/view?usp=sharing Perfect Destroy is only available to a true Heroic Shepard, who has done almost everything possible, and gathered the largest of fleets.
This trilogy is something else for me, It's a masterpiece in story telling that few games have been able to achieve, I'm forever grateful with bioware for creating this masterpiece. I always choose destroy, and sometimes synthesis, but for me, the only good reaper is a dead reaper, ever since the first scene, watching them destroy unharmed vehicles with women and children, I wasn't sad, I was fucking furious, well I think it's time to play it one more time. Keelah Se'lai
Yeah, Mass Effect hits hard. They captured the feeling of loss and the destructive nature and tragedy of war very well. I had to take a break after deaths of Legion and Mordin and when Thane died, damn it broke me for two days while games ending did the same thing but for whole week.
When a video-game brings you in this state, loveing the characters, carrying about them, and most of all, crying, you know its a game done right. It hits you right in the soul. Probably the best trilogy ever.
Thank you for this video! I cried so much that I feel like my head is going to explode. So much emotion in this game. Brief, new subscriber unlocked! And thank you from Belgium.
i can relate to all the parts you broke down for. I'm gonna let what you said about grunt slide since you chose control. I chose destroy and that music does hit those heart strings
I must admit, I’ve watched this video at least 5 times over the past few months. Lilija’s sensitivity and my strong empathy means this video is cathartic therapy for me, lol.
Every time Mordin's sacrifice, Legion's sacrifice and the death of Thane comes it always shatters my heart every damn time. No matter how many times I see its like I can never get used to seeing those scenes. I'm balling my eyes out just watching this video
Therapist: Garrus vibing in front of everyone during photo op is not real, he can't hurt you. Garrus vibing in front of everyone during photo op: 17:03
@@LilijaTheLancer I mean I get it lol the characters I love don’t need to be the characters everyone else loves. I was just caught off guard because that’s the first time I heard someone say the didn’t like him 😂
This game captures "grim" like no other, really puts you in the thick of it not pulling any punches. I know people whine about the ending but I still think this game is a work of art.
People can say whatever they want about the endings, but boy did they make all the farewells hit like a dreadnought. Peak character development, even in the smallest conversations.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who started crying during the photo being taken in the Citadel DLC. I'm just sitting there crying, going "I don't want this to end, I want them to remain in this happy moment forever."
“Why am I crying?!?” Mass Effect 3 for me in a nutshell. Even before I played the games I had a friend who was huge into the games. So I *knew* what to do. I knew who I could save and who I couldn’t… and yet… “I am the very model of-“ *BOOM* I just lowered my head quietly. “His prayer was not for him… it was for you…” At that point I lost it and started to shed a few tears. Being awake at 3:30 because I wanted to get Citadel 2 and Tuchunka done didn’t help. And then Legion… I thought I lost Grunt, because I’d seen his “death”, even though I did everything right the only change is him wandering back at the end…. So for a brief moment chills went down my spine. thinking I forgot something! Somewhere! And while it eventually ended in screams of frustration as I tried to *fix* it… I messed up saving Miranda because I didn’t talk to her in OPTIONAL DIALOGUE…. I was just so absolutely floored by her dying… and I didn’t even LIKE HER AT ALL!
I know how you feel. I've been crying each time I play it, especially ME3. You can't get away from not crying. You're going to do it and swear each time! Like I said, you can't get away from it.
Just stumbled onto your vid here while watching other ME tribute vids. It is amazing to see how a game can provoke such strong emotions. Even though we all have different characters we like, make different choices during missions or conversations, we all have experienced the emotional rollercoaster that is ME. I'll never forget the first time I watched Mordin die, watched Legion sacrifice himself to give Geth true freedom,... or the amazing fun times hanging out with my bro Garrus shooting bottles in the Presidium. No other game has had me sobbing so much at every playthrough (every year jeeeej :p). Luckily my wife thinks it's 'cute'... 😂 and yes: "Leaving Earth" is just like getting hit by an emotional wrecking ball, every time.
Honestly, when Shep saw the reaper targeting the shuttle with the kid on it, how much more impactful would it have been if he/she screamed at it to get out of here faster in hopes to save at least someone.
I literally found your content from this video. I'm a fucking retired US Army Infantryman.....you don't get used to seeing dead civilians like that. Goes against. Few games really have the balls to cross that line. ME3 is one of the ones that slams it's balls on the table and makes you stare as civilians are killed in the millions. So your reaction is completely valid
I did not expect this video to get this much traction.
i tried to respond to every comment best i could but i’m having trouble keeping up now. i average like 30 views and 1 comment a video so this is very out of the ordinary for me!
thank you for watching and also i’m sorry 😅 i teared up while editing it if that makes anyone feel better 😂
EDIT:
- Not everyone loves the same characters, that does not take away from how much YOU love a character.
- If you love the Destroy ending so much, go do it yourself 🥰
I caught the edit on the "daddy issues" - I am a father, and my emotional damage in ME:LE begins in 2... Project overlord. My son is autistic, he's been doing higher math after he figured out logic... he isn't past 10 yet and he does square roots.... they calm him.... Remember the end of the DLC? This Dad is emotionally wrecked and has to stop playing for the day after that. This story is held dear in our hearts. I cry when I do Grissom Academy in 3....
I chose destroy than control since it seems sketchy and i get to live with tali😌
@@krisolier2789 uuuh what-
It's popular because it's always enjoyable to watch people get sucked into a good game. As for one possible wrecking moment you missed - there is the fate of Joker's family (probably easier to just hit up UA-cam for that one)
@@glrasshopper I got that one, for my first playthrough I went renegade Shep, and at this point he just lashed out at everyone. Jokers response made me instantly feel so bad and I apologized before the last mission...
"Every time ME3 Destroyed me emotionally"
so... basically every time "Leaving Earth" starts playing
ACCURATE
That track is a banger
I HATE leaving Earth, It's home.... it's special, and it makes me pissed everytime, fueling rage and strength i didn't know i had.
Thats the track i let play in the background while reading "You came back to me"
"Someone else might've gotten it wrong."
Of all the deaths in the game, Mordin's hits me the absolute hardest.
they gave us such a happy and silly character who also had such moral complexities and SUCH a tragic sacrifice at the end
@@LilijaTheLancer You should look up Mordin's death on a renegade playthrough. It's awful, but a good scene; he stands up to Shephard.
@@AbstractJJJ i plan on doing a Renegade playthrough at some point so i’m going to wait to see it then! cant wait to have my heart broken in different ways 😢
@@LilijaTheLancer Oh my, good luck!
@@AbstractJJJ we’ll see if i make it through 😂
the fact that they had mordin sing in his last moments sent me into a spiral, literally pushing me to the edge
LITERALLY HOW DARE THEY 😭
Worst part is, if you dont talk to him enough in me2 that he reveals his patter song, he doesn't sing in me3.
Telling Tali (my LI) right before the final battle to go build a home for herself on Rannoch, then hearing her say, "I have a home!!" all broken... man, that tore my heart into ribbons.
I feel you, that shit cut DEEP.
Finished my first playthrough 3 days ago and I still havent recovered. I´m a emotional mess since finishing the game.
Keelah Se'lai
Someday we will meet our tali soon ❤
Tell me about it. That was my first playthrough too and it felt like Tali just shot out my heart with her freaking shotgun 😂
I'm an eternal Tali romancer, i cannot do any other romance everytime i play this game and it still completely destroy me every single times.
Thane's final prayer FUCKING HURTS ME EVERYTIME
I WASNT READY FOR THE PRAYER TO BE FOR MEEEEEE
The prayer hits hard... but later when Shepard finds the message logs from Thane that never got forwarded... thats pure enptional damage
@@Vesp3r1987 I vaguely remembering choosing to romance Thane when I was younger and subconsciously i don’t think i ever recovered
I just started playing these games. I romanced thane in me2 his death was so terrible. But the letter that you get after crushed my soul.
@@LilijaTheLancer be glad that was pre-citadel because if you do that with a thane romance his spirit comes to chat with you at the end 😀
"I don't even like this character that much" How dare you not love your test tube baby son
Honestly, for its faulty ass ending, this game was really damn brilliantly emotional
Saying goodbye to Garrus is litteraly the worse thing I've ever seen and felt
i will never recover
When you say goodbye to Garris at the end of ME 3 it is the first, last, and only time Garris says I love you to your face. He does start to say I love you during the citadel DLC but finishes it with "your hair" and, "is partial to the rest of you as well." But never actually says the words I love you until, I think, he finally believes he may never see s
Shepherd again at the end of ME 3.
@@SoulMetalAlchemist15 Stooooop you just finished to kill me
omg yes! my heart can NOT.
Yeah . I stopped playing at that point for bout 5 weeks. Didn't want to go forward after that. And the bit just before going into closed citadel. My eyes were wet sore and very red going though them corridors to find Anderson.
This game can hit you emotionally. Especially for me when Mordin died. And I love both Grunt and Wrex.
i needed a few weeks to recover after Mordin
had to be him... someone else might have gotten it wrong 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Let me just say something real quick. For me the biggest line that broke me was tali’s last good bye. When you romance tali and you bring her with you on the last mission when you charge the beam. She gets hurt, you send her away.
“Go back to rinok build yourself a home”
She delivers pure pain “but I have a home”. And now I’m crying
we didn't realize it at the time, nor for many years, but this was peak bioware and peak narrative gaming 🥺🥺😭😭
This was before people bought pre-orders and sent the industry on a self destructive path. This was when game devs were told to make STORIES! The 00s had the best games because there wasn't money outside unit sales and console sales. When your shit had to be GOOD to be good. I have 100 pristine GameInformer mags sitting in my closet and sometimes when I'm cleaning I grab one or 2 and sit down to remember the good old days.
Indie games are making a return. With games like Helldivers 2, im glad the new generation is getting decent games and good communities. Full circle imo. Keep supporting indie and small studios. Fuck these companies who've lost their way.
There's something special about how bioware during this period just fucking nailed squad mates and character writing. Even baldurs gate as much as I love it doesn't match how truly together your team feels. Mass effect was the last time I felt attached on a real level to every member of my squad. Just an absolute masterpiece despite all its flaws, Shepard and his squad are the family fast and furious folks wish they were 😂
did you forget the ending drama?
Kolyat speaking at his father’s memorial in the Citadel DLC is a moment that absolutely crushes me every time. This game hits every emotional beat so well
Anderson's death ALWAYS gets me. Space dad has always been there for us and the music that plays when he dies KILLS me
That melancholic tune of ME3 is what motivated me to learn to play the piano/keyboard
my sister will play it on her keyboard from time to time, it is so beautiful
I've cried a lot on ME3. I was soo deeply connected with every single character and when the game ended, I felt lonely, empty.
I've missed them so much that I'm playing all the trilogy again now.
The real Mass Effect is the friends we made along the journey.
Esse finalzinho de comentário só pode ter vindo de um brasileiro, não é possível.
saying goodbye to garrus in priority earth was the worst pain i felt since my mom passed, and he's a character from a video game; really goes to show how well bioware did on this game. I'll always love garrus :(
ay man it hits everyone hard just remember the happy parts as best as you can.
Saying goodbye to Tali destroyed me man 😭. I just hope i can keep my promise to her in ME4
Just finished the hole trilogy a few days ago thanks to prime gifting the legendary edition, i got the three games finished on a total of 145 hours.
Gotta say, while Halo is still my favourite franchise, Mass Effect is something special, it made me feel things i almost forgot i were able to feel, the characters, the universe and the story in general is just beautiful and is nothing like anything else nor videogames, nor movies, nor series, nor books, NOTHING compares to what the Mass Effect franchise is.
And as it got in my life it leaved me with a giant hole in my heart that can be just fullfilled by building a little house on Ranoch with a window wich were i can look to the sea
Still somehow a steel lizard obsesed with calibration and a immuno deficent purple girl became the two best characters on the history of gaming
I should go
Go to cry i mean XD
i feel this so deeply! i’m actually playing through the Halo games for the first time right now :)
It's not the same thing, but since you enjoyed how the story and characters themselves were written, I think you'll love the Dragon Age trilogy. It's from BioWare as well.
@@th3braz1l1an not sure if you’re talking to me or the original commenter but i LOVE dragon age with my whole heart. 10/10 recommend those games to anyone who likes Mass Effect
@@LilijaTheLancer Can't it be both? 🤣 I'm glad you like them, I'm currently on my third playthrough of Inquisition. It's wild how many different "worlds" you can create by combining the ending of previous games. I'm tempted to do a save for each love interest, as I did in Origins, but I currently doing the more contradictory/funnier ones, like dating Fenris as a mage in Dragon age 2 (for someone who hates mages so much, he sure spends a lot of time on my bed) or dating Iron Bull as a dwarf (how would they... I mean... My poor inquisitor...)
My body has yet to recover emotionally, physically, or spiritually from the sheer whiplash of thinking I had lost my beautiful baby boy Grunt without saying goodbye to him being okay
To be honest, I was so proud of him.
"Anybody... got something to eat?"
I was like, "That's my boy!"
I can get through most of these parts dry eyed, but Mordin crushes me every single time.
Garrus and Shepherd talking about meeting at the bar in heaven always pulled my heartstrings. Wait for me in the next game Ash.
7:54 *"Had to be me."* Mordin Solus. The epitome of Stoicism and Neutral Good. Sometimes you make the universe a better place by helping people and sometimes you make the universe a better place by removing people. But in the end you face death with calm and dignity.
Super late, but...
Idk if you've done this versi9n of the scene or not but if you almost go through eith the sabotage plot for the genophqge and try to to talk mordin our of curing it, he breaks down and admits it was all a mistake, the salaries, his work, everything. Confirming what we already knew about him, a man racked with guilt that he refuses to acknowledge to himself until the end of his life
Even in paragon playthroughs I'm always tempted to set this scene up, but hiding information from wrex feels wrong as that's my guy right there
@@magiv7573 The fact that he never raises his voice at any point in the game except to shout *"I MADE A MISTAKE!"* hits hard as well.
i grew up watching my dad play these games (garrus was my childhood crush lmao), we still both play them now, and i recently played through the trilogy for the first time in a couple years and ommg.. i didn't expect to react as much as i did and it's good to see someone else in my shoes haha :) i hope you have a good day!
The death of Legion and Mordin were the hardest. 2 individuals. The fate of entire species hung on their self sacrifice.
Mass Effect trilogy had the biggest impact on me in video games history. This trilogy saved my life back then when I was facing a tough depression. This crew was ma family, my almost only friends then, I miss them so much that I have to do at least one or two full playthrough every year. It will always be special to me 🙏🏻🥹❤️
The music in ME3 in particular is god-tier. Gets me every time 🥲
Shepard: "Get back to Rannoch, build yourself a home."
Tali: "I *have* a home."
*sniff*
After all these years this music still hits just as hard. Thanks for sharing your experience with us!
thank you for watching Chadley 😭
I always romance Thane. His final prayer KILLS me inside. I always meet him across the sea 😭
What a sweet video. Watching you cry made me cry, even at parts of the game that usually don't make me cry! For me, the ending that really gets me every time is the synthesis ending. I know lots of people hate that ending, but it's my favorite. When EDI says "I'm alive!" in the epilogue I start sobbing, every time, and I've played the game at least half a dozen times.
One of the telltale signs you know you're playing a good game is when you feel emotionally invested. Those are the kinda games you find memorable for all the right reasons. From what I've watched for streams on this game, I can see how this is one of them.
it’s truly a one-of-a-kind journey. if you have the time and interest, the trilogy is definitely worth your own playthrough
You know you have a game that is quintessential and timeless when you can watch dozens, thousdsands of playthroughs and commentary and still the emotional betas hit you just as raw as they did when you first played them.
The first time I played through, screwed up and Tali died. I had to put down the controller, turn off the game and walk away fro a day or two. I was not good. Then i booted up a save and went back through the game to do make sure the quarians and geth lived. They were too important to me.
That's the mark of excellence.
18:35 and i'm in tears... He was a good man. May he rest in peace beyond the rim where no shadows fall.
(yes i know he's a character.. but damn.)
I understood that reference. Good to see another B5 fan.
I remember all my first times with this saga.
I truly cried many times. I'm playing the whole trology again, and still give me chills.
I did Grunt's mission and that left me emotionally vulnerable almost losing him. But then I cured the Genophage right after and losing Mordin made me stop playing the game for a day. And I am not one to get sad playing video games.
In addition to above, the commando squad that hold the bridge on Thessia for us to get to the artifact, only to have Kai Leng take it, then the squad dies ... gets me every damn time!
I played these games for the first time this year. I remember my older brother playing them when I was younger though I didn’t really pay any attention.
I have never had a more emotional response to finishing a game, I cried for an entire evening after beating the last game, i was so torn up and sad to leave the stories behind and leave my team and my romance and my shepherd behind. I truly have never connected to a story more then this series. I love it so much and I think about it all the time.
Rannoch, Mordin's death and curing the genopage, the ending.... these moments broke me. I was reluctant to play the Mass Effect trilogy and it became my favorite series, my favorite games of all time.
ME3 was just an emotional game all around. Seeing Earth get absolutely annihilated by the reapers, Mordin sacrificing himself to cure a genophage he caused, saying goodbye to your squadmates in the end. The writing of the overall trilogy might not be perfect, but I can't deny that it was emotional as hell
played the trilogy for the first time a couple months ago. Immediately shot up to my S+ tier. One of the few games that I wish I could erase my memories of so I could experience it all over again.
as someone who has played a lot of this game i absolutely love watching people experience this for the first time. i don't cry at these scenes anymore until i see someone else really feeling it and then i just lose it lmao. it just makes my heart happy to see how touched people are by this game because it was really life changing for me
I've played this game so much and I swear I gets me every single time I play. I cannot wait for Mass Effect 4.
this bloody algorythm, here i whas having a grand old day and this plopes up and im like ooo my favorit game series......now im bawling my eyes out
my condolences 🙏 and ty for watching
Say whatchu want about me3
But the opening really sets the tone for the game.
You feel like a legendary bad ass going through the first 2 games and this game comes in and hits you like a train
it’s such an epic conclusion
Anderson's death... Oh my. "You did good son, you did good... I'm proud of you" words all any young man wants to hear from those he respects and or loves.
I love you so much. Thank you for this. I've had so many playthroughs and I bawl every time. I recently lost someone very close to me in my life. I have been in shock, but watching your video and your reactions allowed me to fully cry and feel the pain and loss, but, at the same time it was cathartic. My friend will always be a part of me. In my mind and in my heart. You helped me release these emotions, as the Mass Effect series (which my friend and I love) helped in the past. Thank you for being a beautiful human being. Thank you for this reaction.
I´m so sorry for your loss, fellow ME fan
I finished the legendary edition few days ago and I found this video because I felt like crying some more. Thanks for uploading.
thank you for watching! i definitely watched a lot of reaction videos after i finished the trilogy too 🥲
mordin's death, garrus's goodbye, and the game's ending always hurt even as someone who plays these games annually. and when "a future for the krogan" plays during eve's speech before taking down the reaper on tuchanka
Yeah Mordin was rough
The prayer scene with Thane still gets me on every playthrough.
Two moments in this game crushed me. The farewell with Garrus and Tali's "I dont want the homeworld. I want you!" She broke me with that delivery
There's a mod that removes all reference of the war from the Citadel DLC. So when I play the games now, I beat the game with the secret destroy ending, THEN do the Citadel DLC, which then plays out as a "we won the war" celebration.
Mental gymnastics.
I mean, look, if the Normandy crew was able to repair the Normandy in the middle of nowhere with everything electronic fried, give it a couple of months to a year for the wounds to heal and they can throw the same party again, edi and all
(In fact every time I play engineer I pick destroy+ Shep survives ending and it's my head Canon that Shepard survives just out of the sheer determination of repairing edi and the geth and proving the reapers wrong)
I think the anderson scene has played in my head on repeat since i was about 12
Man I have played this game *way* too many times to have such a strong emotional response anymore, but the moments that will always stick with me are Mordin’s death, Legion’s death, and Shepard’s final goodbye (specifically with Tali romanced, her farewell always breaks my heart)
debating a masc shep playthrough just to cry over a Tali romance tbh
@@LilijaTheLancer I definitely recommend it! It’s probably my favorite romance in all 3 games, very sweet and emotional
8:35 infact mording sing at hes end means you cared of him from mass effect 1 ❤ connection with the crew is very complex ❤
Leaving Earth, looking around during the Palaven mission, watching Grunt literally run into death to buy us time, Mordin dying, Thane dying, Legion dying, me dying of laughing and crying during the Citadel DLC, meeting the Leviathan (that scene is monumental by itself), the final with Hacket’s speach and when you bring every fleet to Earth, then saying goodbye to everyone, Anderson dying… chosing was hard too every time (when chosing the destroy ending I always told myself that EDI and the Geth better making backups in every hour so we can just push the restart button on them TT-TT)
I love this game but I my heart just can’t take it
The first time I played EM was when Legendary Edition came out. I was not prepared for how much the ending would get me. Literally emotional for days after, and immediately started a second playthrough. I still tear up when I hear the music. These games are so special, no other series has ever had such an emotional effect on me!
Recently played through the trilogy again. I’m not an emotional guy but Mordin’s death absolutely ruined me.
i love that videogames can bring out such real emotions 😭❤️ Mordin’s character development is one of my favourite things
Finally someone who understands ME3, I can relate SO much, playing the trilogy for the first time is such a fucking experience, it's surreal.
The soundtrack to this is legit perfection
Saying goodbye to Tali and Garrus will always wreck me emotionally.
I hope with the next Mass Effect, we can all at least get some closure as to what happened to Shepard and the Normandy crew after the ending of 3.
I have replayed this whole series about 20 times and ME3 gets me the most emotional the whole time.
with the "Virmire Savior Mod" you could save both Ash and Kaiden in ME1 and they both would stick with you in ME3, complete with dialogue, banter and such.
Also with the "Thane can live" Mod, Thane suvives his illness due to a new untested cure. You only get that via mail tho. But he won't die and there would be no prayer with his Son.
Only Mordin's (Paragon Route), Legion's and Anderson's sacrifice are the ones that can't be undone.
Btw: With "Anderson's Final Speech restored" Mod makes the scene even more heartbreaking.
oh and saying goodbye to Garrus in the end fight is hard, but if you romanced Tali, oh by the Emperor, you gonna cry for days.
And saying goodbye to Grunt is always wholesome.
Mordin's death will haunt me forever. And saying goodbye to romanced Garrus is just fucking heartbreaking.
This game is so emotional, but the only moments that make me cry like a baby are 1) saying goodbye to Garrus on Earth as fem!Shep both times, and 2) listening to Thane's fourth video message to fem!Shep. 😭😭😭💔💔💔 MY SPACE HUSBANDS
Also, Anderson's death gets me now too because my dad died a year and a half ago, so it hits for even deeper reasons. This game is *b r u t a l* 🥺
VIdeos like this show you how much of a Masterpiece the OG Trilogy of Mass Effect is. The mere fact that you can pull this kind of emotion out of millions is a testament to the writing, music, etc. Long live Mass Effect!
I just completed a me1-3 playthrough to get the absolute best destroy ending (The one considered canon). Boy, I was an emotional wreck by the end of it. Bioware really know how to write a damn good story. Now I want my emotions to be utterly destroyed once again with the Mass Effect 4 game due to release in a couple of years. Great video!
i’ve never seen Destroy! i do want to do a playthrough sometime where i do everything the opposite of what i usually do, so i’ll perceive it hopefully soon 👀
@@LilijaTheLancer You could react to the Perfect Destroy Ending:
drive.google.com/file/d/1qYK6BazBx70nXvcakFAcnQ_0429sWr0e/view?usp=sharing
Perfect Destroy is only available to a true Heroic Shepard, who has done almost everything possible, and gathered the largest of fleets.
The destroy ending offers the best hope for the galaxy getting back to "normal" at some point.
Okay, I have only watched the first minute of this and I am invested. You are awesome and I love this content.
This trilogy is something else for me, It's a masterpiece in story telling that few games have been able to achieve, I'm forever grateful with bioware for creating this masterpiece.
I always choose destroy, and sometimes synthesis, but for me, the only good reaper is a dead reaper, ever since the first scene, watching them destroy unharmed vehicles with women and children, I wasn't sad, I was fucking furious, well I think it's time to play it one more time.
Keelah Se'lai
for me its when tali says she has a home. at the end of ME 3 when you all get injured
Yeah, Mass Effect hits hard. They captured the feeling of loss and the destructive nature and tragedy of war very well. I had to take a break after deaths of Legion and Mordin and when Thane died, damn it broke me for two days while games ending did the same thing but for whole week.
When a video-game brings you in this state, loveing the characters, carrying about them, and most of all, crying, you know its a game done right. It hits you right in the soul. Probably the best trilogy ever.
First fem shep ending I saw. Still hits . It was awesome you got to make a Shepard looking so close to yourself
i cried with you basically the whole video and I've replayed it like 6 times. still not over it!
Mass effect is my soul ❤️ without this family im nothing
Thank you for this video!
I cried so much that I feel like my head is going to explode.
So much emotion in this game. Brief, new subscriber unlocked!
And thank you from Belgium.
Garrus is fast AF. He is still dancing when glyph comes in and in the next second he is sitting with the others
i can relate to all the parts you broke down for. I'm gonna let what you said about grunt slide since you chose control. I chose destroy and that music does hit those heart strings
The song that plays during the end of Tuchanka is called A Future for the Krogan according to the Soundtrack. Some of it plays when you meet Eve too.
No joke Thane romance makes Thane's death so sad, as well as the Citadel DLC.
Everytime I hear that song I instantly cry too. Been crying throught your whole video T_T
Legion is the one who gets me every time, idky. i just ball my eyes out.
The Garrus/Shepard relationship was the best of the bunch. Jennifer Hale and Brandon Keener absolutely nailed every beat.
I must admit, I’ve watched this video at least 5 times over the past few months. Lilija’s sensitivity and my strong empathy means this video is cathartic therapy for me, lol.
Every time Mordin's sacrifice, Legion's sacrifice and the death of Thane comes it always shatters my heart every damn time. No matter how many times I see its like I can never get used to seeing those scenes. I'm balling my eyes out just watching this video
This Shepard literally completed the Illusive Man’s mission by taking full control of the Reapers! Damn!
Therapist: Garrus vibing in front of everyone during photo op is not real, he can't hurt you.
Garrus vibing in front of everyone during photo op: 17:03
🤣 i never noticed until people in the comments started pointing him out!
4:28 “I don’t like him” that’s literally Shepherds child 😂
THAT MUCH 😂 EVERYONE IGNORES THE "THAT MUCH" PART 😭
@@LilijaTheLancer I mean I get it lol the characters I love don’t need to be the characters everyone else loves. I was just caught off guard because that’s the first time I heard someone say the didn’t like him 😂
This game captures "grim" like no other, really puts you in the thick of it not pulling any punches. I know people whine about the ending but I still think this game is a work of art.
People can say whatever they want about the endings, but boy did they make all the farewells hit like a dreadnought. Peak character development, even in the smallest conversations.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who started crying during the photo being taken in the Citadel DLC. I'm just sitting there crying, going "I don't want this to end, I want them to remain in this happy moment forever."
Thank you so much. I just finished LE replay myself, and it still gets me every time. I want to play again, because I just don't ever want it to end.
I felt that with you. I'm glad there are people like you. You've got a great heart.
Sending Love to you.
Ilya, 22 years old, Russia.
You missed Eve's Valkyrie funeral! That grabs and yanks my heartstrings much harder than when she survives.
“Why am I crying?!?”
Mass Effect 3 for me in a nutshell.
Even before I played the games I had a friend who was huge into the games. So I *knew* what to do. I knew who I could save and who I couldn’t… and yet…
“I am the very model of-“ *BOOM*
I just lowered my head quietly.
“His prayer was not for him… it was for you…”
At that point I lost it and started to shed a few tears.
Being awake at 3:30 because I wanted to get Citadel 2 and Tuchunka done didn’t help.
And then Legion…
I thought I lost Grunt, because I’d seen his “death”, even though I did everything right the only change is him wandering back at the end…. So for a brief moment chills went down my spine. thinking I forgot something! Somewhere!
And while it eventually ended in screams of frustration as I tried to *fix* it… I messed up saving Miranda because I didn’t talk to her in OPTIONAL DIALOGUE…. I was just so absolutely floored by her dying… and I didn’t even LIKE HER AT ALL!
I know how you feel. I've been crying each time I play it, especially ME3. You can't get away from not crying. You're going to do it and swear each time! Like I said, you can't get away from it.
Suprised to see people still talking about this game, especially after the ending
i liked the ending(s) but to each their own! i definitely understand that not everyone was satisfied.
Wow! Your Shepard is so pretty.
Mass Effect the Original Trilogy is more than just games. There will never be anything like them again.
Just stumbled onto your vid here while watching other ME tribute vids. It is amazing to see how a game can provoke such strong emotions. Even though we all have different characters we like, make different choices during missions or conversations, we all have experienced the emotional rollercoaster that is ME. I'll never forget the first time I watched Mordin die, watched Legion sacrifice himself to give Geth true freedom,... or the amazing fun times hanging out with my bro Garrus shooting bottles in the Presidium.
No other game has had me sobbing so much at every playthrough (every year jeeeej :p). Luckily my wife thinks it's 'cute'... 😂
and yes: "Leaving Earth" is just like getting hit by an emotional wrecking ball, every time.
Honestly, when Shep saw the reaper targeting the shuttle with the kid on it, how much more impactful would it have been if he/she screamed at it to get out of here faster in hopes to save at least someone.
I literally found your content from this video. I'm a fucking retired US Army Infantryman.....you don't get used to seeing dead civilians like that. Goes against. Few games really have the balls to cross that line. ME3 is one of the ones that slams it's balls on the table and makes you stare as civilians are killed in the millions. So your reaction is completely valid