Mass Effect is completely character driven, one of the best story role playing games out there! The world and the complexities are really brought to life by the characters, their dialogues, and your interactions with them, especially in the first game when they didn't have the graphics to show everything off as well as in later titles.
yeah which can be a little bit funny for example in Mass Effect 3 you see Wrex giving a speech to Krogan on Earth thinking "holy shit there's 100's of them" but once you walk over there's only like 10 krogan. Love Mass Effect 1 and 2 but idk prefer Knights of the Old Republic just a shame they never made a 3rd.
The Mass Effect games are full of choices... It is like... If you're the director and the story goes in this direction. What changes would you like to see the main character do. Who should live, die, Is the Charater a hero or an anti hero. It's not all point and shoot. Sometimes conversations in the game can take you in many directions that will alter the later games or the later games as in 2 or 3.
@@unlikelyspore1406 Well. I like Ashley a lot since she's the stronger crewmate. Firstly. Secondly. I would romance Ashley with some of my male characters. I know in modern socieity in the first one she's "problematic" but she changes. This game is after all about character development and she changes to the better. So does Garrus even though he's been marked as "problematic" and I like this. Because of the main character all theese characters either change or stay the same.
I picked Kaiden over god-fearing space-racist Ashley. The only thing I liked about Ashley is that she shares a name with the protagonist of The Evil Dead 😆
@@sarahscott5305 I hated her in the start as well but she changes. :) And then I started to love. She even goes so far as respecting Tali as her "little sister" and starts to see how asari culture is beautiful. Again. I love roleplaying games because of the character development. A character that might start out as an asshole might become a sweet person. Depending on how YOU speak to them. You the player is responsible for garrus either not giving a shit about civilian casualties or acturally carring about saving people. You are allso responsible for if Ash either stays an asshole or becomes a more tolerant and sweet person.
If you really want to get the most out of all of these trailers. Watch the Legendary Edition official trailer. It's a trailer that shows the games as a cohesive whole. And it's the best trailer in my opinion.
Andromeda is actually the 4th game, you missed out Mass Effect 3 unfortunately. Edit: I was wrong, 3 is on another vid with a couple others from an earlier date 👍
My favorite series of all time, theres a good chance I wouldnt have made it through my deep depression years without them, so i'm glad you enjoyed! If your ever interested in a quality story-heavy gaming series, this is the one!
The Star Wars Connection- The Company that made Mass Effect, Bioware, in 2003, Made one of the best and most famous Star Wars games of all time, Knights of the Old Republic. They then decided to create their own space opera, set in their own Universe. And the 1st Mass Effect was released in 2007. The Mass Effect Trilogy- Mass Effect and it's 2 sequels (2 in 2010, 3 in 2012) were about a human marine who basically stumbles on a plot by an ancient Artificially Intelligent race of giant ship like machines that cyclically every 50,000 years eliminate all Intelligent life in the galaxy. Those machines create the faster than light travel points (Mass Relays) that all alien civilizations eventually find and use (the one the humans 1st find is near Jupiter, which we 1st discover after finding alien ruins of a past wiped out civilization on Mars). But the Relays are a trap, to make all alien civilizations reliant on the tech, so when the 50,000 year cycle is up, the evil A.I. Machines called Reapers, can easily find and eliminate all advanced Organic life. The games allow you to make life and death decisions, as well as little ones, that are carried through all 3 games via a save file that the games read. It's also a universe with many different alien species, history between those species, (many wars, they don't all get along) and the universe has it's own science based "force" power called biotics, which was the blue power the one character was using to lift enemies in the air. 1st game is about realizing that a Reaper invasion is coming. 2nd game is about recruiting a team, dirty dozen style, to take on the Reaper Underlings, (though you through dialogue choices, recruit team members in all Mass Effect games), and the 3rd game is fighting the War against the Reapers. FemShep- The character you play is referred to by their last name, which is Shepherd (you can change the 1st name to whatever). You can choose to be male or female, with a preset look, or one that you create, and they have separate voice actors. The female version is referred to as Fem Shep. Also the N7 armor that Shepherd wears refers to a special Marine Rank, which he or she is. Mass Effect Andromeda- released in 2017 was about groups of Aliens from the Milky Way, including Humans, sending out Arks to the Andromeda Galaxy, just in case we don't survive the War with the Reapers in the original trilogy. Since the trilogy had a finite end. The creators thought that this would be a good way to continue the series. You play a human pathfinder called Ryder trying to find a new home planet. Upon release, it had a lot of bugs, most specifically to facial animations, which caused it to get scores in the 6 and 7s out of 10, as opposed to the original games which were 9/10 games. The bugs were quickly patched out, but by then public sentiment had turned against the game and it didn't sell as well as EA, it's publisher thought it should. Thus putting the future of Mass Effect in doubt. The Last Trailer- was a secret world premiere trailer that debuted at the Game Awards this past December 2020. Telling audiences that Bioware was working on a new Mass Effect, and that it was connected to the original trilogy (thus why you see the N7 armor being picked up by the blue character, who is someone you recruit in the original games) but still connected to Andromeda as well. Why it's relevant now- On November 7th, N7 day, Bioware announced they were releasing a remastered (use tools to update the graphics, make certain tweeks to gameplay) version of the original trilogy, all available as one game. A trailer for it, called Mass Effect Legendary edition was released in January, and the game itself was released just a week ago on May 14th! So now people who never played the series are getting an updated way to play the games on playstation, xbox, and PC, but fans of the series can relieve the games in an updated way as they wait on the sequel. Plenty of people are playing it on Twitch now, if you want to check it out. Other trailers- should check out the Trailer for the Legendary edition from January, should also check out the Mass Effect community trailer that launched the day of the Legendary Edition that shows you how big and popular Mass Effect is.
excellent summary of events, was a shame they (EA) gutted the studio behind andromeda before they could turn that around somewhat and finish it's story it was always going to be difficult to turn it around but if a few month's after launch the studio behind it gets canned....probably ain't no coming back. if i remember correctly the studio behind it went from you have to make the multiplayer mode to oke full game on new engine now which did not work out to well :( for them for us for everybody really :(
Awesome reaction Hannah, The first trailer the voice you noticed is of Keith David from "Gargoyles" who plays Admiral Anderson, in the second trailer the voices you heard were of Martin Sheen from "West Wing" playing the Illusive Man, and of Yvonne Strahovski from "Chuck" (the lady standing behind him named Miranda) Another voice you may know is of the Ships Pilot call sign Joker name Jeff Moreau which is played by Seth Green from "Buffy". There are a lot of other voice actors from sci-fi shows and movies as well. They even got Tricia Helfer from Battlestar Galactica voicing the ship's A.I. named E.D.I.
Fun fact the big guy in the silver armor of the second trailer is named Grunt and is considered as Shepard's baby because even if he's a big boy he technically is a new born
Fem-Shep is also a huge thing. All the voice work in these games is amazing, but Jen Hale will always be my Shep. She’s also so dedicated to the fandom- she’s usually the driving force behind cast reunions.
@@snakesnoteyes I liked the whole shy awkward nerd thing she had and the way they interact when pursuing that romance after one is just super wholesome. That's just me though I do like that if your not pursuing Garrus or Tali that they end up together in three I thought that was super cute as well.
The Reapers on Mass Effect were based on the Borg, but took it in a very different direction. Later, your favourite Picard series took the idea of the Reapers and turned them into a plot device. The Mass Effect series are some of the most narrative and story driven experiences in gaming.
@@autoduck BioWare were the ones who said they based the Reapers on the Borg. They aren't too similar to the Shadows, either. Unless I missed the part where the Reapers decided to guide and strengthen the young races of the galaxy through chaos and strife.
No, just the billions of years old ancient race that comes out of hiding every 10 thousands of years and wipes out whole civilizations for no apparent reason part.
@@autoduck The Shadows don't come out of hiding to consume the Younger Races, though. And the Shadows only left last time because they were defeated, the Reapers just fancied a nap while the galaxy repopulated itself.
@@HannaHsOverInvested The game is choice based (other than the shooty shooty bang bang stuff) and the story changes depending how you interact an form relationships with other characters. The brain melting alien sex can be done in a side mission, and the choice leads to a game over.
I'm glad you enjoyed this but I think the trailers don't do the games justice :( The story (which spans through all 3 games with choices you make having repercussions on the other games) and the characters is something I'm sure you will love but you can't really see that in the trailers.
Mass effect is literally the pinnacle of being a game where u can decide the entire story’s fate they would have had to record a stupidly crazy amount of animations voice lines everything for all other possibilities depending on how u decide to the point the entire story can play out differently in the next game.
best thing about mass effect 1, 2, 3, was that whatever you decided in mass effect 1 had an effect in mass effect 2, 3 your decisions carried on as the storyunfolded across 3 titles.
Characters in ME2 trailer: Thane, the terminally ill widower assassin. Grunt, the Krogan super soldier cloned from his race because they have a genetic disease that prevents breeding. Shepard, pick a class and pick a gender and you’re done.
There is an animated movie called Mass Effect: Paragon Lost. You should watch it if you liked these trailers. You could even do a reaction video to it.
Yay! Mass Effect! Finally, sheesh! One of a handful of games I've played myself! The game is soooo character driven, it's basically impossible to describe them in any detail that would do them justice. The generic commander guy in the middle is Shepard. His background and personality is basically whatever you make him into. The guy who looks like a cross between a toad and the incredible hulk is called Grunt. He's a science project from a guy trying to create a genetically pure version of his race (but not in like a 1930s Germany kind of way) hard to sum up. The other guy, who looks like a sexy gecko, he's an introspective pacifist with a terminal illness and only a handful of yeas left to live. He's also an assassin badass and my Shepard's boyfriend.
I'm really glad to see you're into these games! The Mass Effect series is very dear to me, and having watched a lot of your content, you often ask if knowing what you're fighting for and the story about the battle is important; well, in this story, it is very much ingrained into the plot, and it develops over time. Each of the 3 games has a separate contained-plot to itself, as well as the larger over-arcing story in the 3 Mass Effect Games. Andromeda is a separate story entirely. The New Mass Effect trailer features a character from the original trilogy of a long-lived species (think space elves) finding a piece of the helmet worn by the main protagonist, of whom you get to choose the appearance entirely yourself, which you pointed out remembering, where "femshep" comes from (as opposed to MaleShep) the person in these videos is the default appearance for cutscenes and trailers. if the rumors that there will be a Mass Effect Movie starring Henry Cavill are true, I hope it is a great one.
It's about damn time! Mass Effect, let's go!! If you're all about story/characters THESE are the games for you. Only games that got me so invested in the characters that I felt real world guilt for decisions I made that hurt my crew..
@@evanflynn4680 I can't play renegade myself. Especially since it feels less like do what needs to be done to get things done and more like I'll just insult and shoot my way through cause I'm a BAMF.
As I’m sure others have mentioned, Mass Effect 1,2 and 3 are one continuous story. Mass Effect Andromeda is a spinoff that didn’t do well due to technical issues.
Also the main character of Mass Effecy is called Commander Sheperd. You can choose how they look, including their gender. FemShep is literally just female Sheperd. They've rereleased the series with some tweaks and one of the best customisation things they've done is introduce the Mass Effect 3 Fenshep's default look to them all. Because male sheperd uses an irl model for inspiration qnd Femshep originally didnt, and it really showed. She looked way less polished than Male Sheperd did until 3 where she got a more iconic look (side note, the game case cover for Mass Effect 3 was double sided and one side was FemShep, which was super cool)
Here is a story that Jennifer Hale (the voice of femshep) told us during the November 7th reunion (it is on her UA-cam channel still, it was a live reunion and not everyone was there). Jennifer was at a gamestop helping give out preorders for mass effect 3 in 2012. She was looking at the case and saw that the cover was changeable from maleshep to femshep. She flat out called out to Casey Hudson (if i remember right that was who was there. Casey Hudson was the director of the game and Bioware at the time), and she went nuts. She was so happy about that. I recommend watching the reunions. There was one from the 15th of this month as well that i attended too. They are both on Jennifer Hale's UA-cam channel.
You should watch the trailer called "mass effect we few, we happy few, we band of brothers". It sums up the original trilogy in a very impressive story driven trailer! Please do a reaction of it!
PLEASE, WE NEED MORE LIKES ON THIS COMMENT SO HANNAH REACTS TO IT!!! I had never seen the video until I saw this comment and I just looked it up and watched it. Thank you SO SO MUCH for this, that video made me so emotional that it made my cry, specially in the end. ME was a truly incredible journey that I am honored to have been a part of.
Finally!!!! The title of this video alone was enough to make me bounce with excitement 😂 Mass Effect is one of my favourite video game series and I could probably tell you everything about it
I love you for reacting to this!! I remember I pleaded under a community post a couple of weeks ago. Haha. I just love this trilogy too much. I'm scared of playing it again, due to how good my memories already are. Most games really aren't very touching at all to be perfectly honest. This one however is like better than my favourite movies pretty much.
Regarding the last one, the woman that picked up the armor fragment with the N7 on it is from the original trilogy (presumably). Her name is Liara and she's part of a mono-gendered race of 2000-year-lifespanning aliens called Asari. She's a fan favorite character and the trailer seems to suggest that the player character from the original trilogy may still be alive after the events of the finale. The most recent game in the series (Andromeda) was not very well received and had fans basically clamoring for a return to the original subject matter in the form of either a prequel or a continuation of the story post ME3 finale. I don't think many people actually thought it would be Shepard's story and I don't know if we can assume it will be. But all that said, the stories the original trilogy tells and the choices you have to make in the games are just next level interactive narrative gaming. They didn't make the perfect games by any means, but they made something incredible nonetheless. Jeez I love to write way too much in your comment section! Sorry not sorry...
Gameplay for these is a mix of shooting, talking and varying degrees of exploration. You can choose to approach things as a paragon (diplomatic, generally sticks to a moral code, very much your “why can’t we all be friends” approach), renegade (morally flexible pragmatist, veers into humanity first at some points) or a mix of the two. A big gimmick of the series was that choices made would carry over between games, affecting possible outcomes, which characters lived or died etc.
The new lighting definitely shows how awesome your hair is. The thing that she found in the last trailer was a piece of N7 armor. N7 is the designation for the most elite human special forces. It's a program Shepard was a part of and his/her N7 armor is iconic to the series.
I didn't play the Mass Effect games until some time after the third came out. This series hooked me so hard when I started I played through all three in the span of two weeks. @.@ sleep? Nah. More Mass Effect.
"Haha, have I got a story for you!" - Marcus I've found a couple Borderlands videos, if you are interested. The Borderlands Series All Intros/Opening Cinematics: ua-cam.com/video/82QB9eKkjIY/v-deo.html Borderlands 3 All Characters Trailers: ua-cam.com/video/Sp3WoaGhAJA/v-deo.html
Probably should add the Borderlands 2 "Wimoweh" trailer and the Game of the Year trailer. Wimoweh - ua-cam.com/video/kdeN-WFeWHQ/v-deo.html GotY - ua-cam.com/video/kdeN-WFeWHQ/v-deo.html And, while we're at it, lets add the Psycho Soup song created by Pogo from scenes of BL2 and BL:PreSequel.. and a custom fan made dance.. ua-cam.com/video/aGogidkqUsQ/v-deo.html
Mass Effect 1, Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect 3, Mass Effect Andromeda, Mass Effect 4. All connected. They all tell a central story. Andromeda is more like a branch that tells what happened to a group of civilizations that weren't directly involved in ME3. Mass Effect 4 hasn't come out yet. The Legendary Edition recently came out, it's a Remaster of 1,2 and 3. They're all amazing and absolutely beautiful. It's my favorite series ever.
Femshep was an option for all three of the original games but the marketing focused on the default male version (often known as Sheploo as they used the likeness of a model called Mark Vanderloo) prior to ME3. Shepard doesn’t appear in Andromeda. Initial VO for the Andromeda trailer was Clancy Brown.
I'm kinda a fan of Mass Effect Universe, especially in the N7 status. N7 status is there to show that person has completed his training for being a special operative. This training is not simple training at its core. N1 training covers the basic combat training of a special forces soldier in today's military training. N2 training covers linguistic education, tactics, etc. N3 training happens on another planet where people have to survive without water etc. N4 training covers the combat on another planet and different g(gravity) values as well. N5 training is a front-line medical education, such as using medigel in the front lines of a war. N6 training covers zero-g combat and N7 covers extreme situations such as fighting alone against lots of enemy or getting out of impossible positions. The main character in this game is called Commander Shepard. Shepard is a soldier who completed his N7 training and has a spectre status in citadel space. Spectre's are operatives from various alien races who can defy the laws of citadel if necessary. Spectre's are an one-man army
For me, story is everything in gaming The Original ME trilogy is top tier in this regard. Would love to see you react to famous and/or well done scenes from games in all genres. You’ll get tons of suggestions. Interested?...
I would highly recommend the launch trailers for Mass Effect Two and Three as well as it helps give more context to the story. It definitely paints a great picture and feel you will just become as entranced as the rest of us. This series had such a massive impact on me and my interests in story-based games. Mass Effect 2: ua-cam.com/video/lx9sPQpjgjU/v-deo.html Mass Effect 3: ua-cam.com/video/AluTOOCVXVQ/v-deo.html
Mass Effect 1-3 all follow the same character, either Male or Female Shepard. Mass Effect Andromeda follows 3 out of 4 colony ships, that left right at the beginning Mass Effect 3, that make it to the Andromeda galaxy to be a type of back up of the main "friendly" races of our galaxy...if I'm remembering it correctly...I am about to play through all of the Mass Effects again, so we'll see...
"What makes him special" if you have seen movie called Upgrade its the same. He has super smart A.I in his head giving him like 400IQ, tactical advantage and skills.
Best way to describe the Mass Effect franchise is a series of interactive movies where the viewer chooses the path (with obligatory combat gameplay crammed between the conversation scenes to please the publisher). Also, you kind of need to know the story to get the andomeda trailer and the "nods" in the final trailer.
Completely forgot about that 2nd trailer! Still gets me fired up! Mass Effect 2 is so damn good. So many incredible characters, relationships, choices and stories! Can't wait to get to it in the remaster. Also, Andromeda was not as bad as many people say, but it was nowhere near as good as the OG trilogy. Love your reaction to these btw!
Mass Effect 1, 2 , and 3 are essentially a Trilogy the story building between them. Mass Effect Andromeda is a spin off story, basically Andromeda is about how the galaxy sent Colony Sleeper Ships to the Andromeda Galaxy to colonize and explore it. The N7 Armor piece from 'The Next Mass Effect' is a recurring tease Bioware has used when revealing that they are working on a new mass effect game in the past. They generally put out a trailer that has N7 Armor or an Armor piece somewhere in it since the N7 Armor is associated with Commander Shepard(The Player Character) The First Trailer for ME1, is in a way a big trick. It makes you think you're going into your standard popcorn film. But then after you get into the story it throws you a curve ball. Here's a segment from the first game that is the first time your characters have a conversation with a Reaper(Via long distance call because Sovereign is 2 Kilometers in length), which are the true threat to the galaxy because they are very advanced, extremely intelligent, and have no remorse. ua-cam.com/video/R_NAoNd4YyY/v-deo.html
Lighting? As long as I can see you and the thing you're reacting to then the lighting is belissima. Mass Effect is basically the Star Trek game that was never made. You play as Kirk flying around a sexy Enterprise and doinking all kinds of spaceladies/spacegentlemen.
You sound like Fox news man. I can't tell if you are joking or not. That sounds like the stuff they were saying, before confessing that they and their experts never played the game and have no idea what the game is like.
@@leonardocastro410 Methinks you're taking my comment a little too seriously! But kudos on the very topical news story from 2008 👍 Well, I say "news" but you'd have to be pretty charitable to label anything Fox comes out with as news.
Whether it is Borg, bedding sexy aliens or any other iconic concept from classic Sci-fi, silly or deep, Mass Effect is sure to have it somewhere in its DNA. That has always been the main draw of the series, right alongside the character writing and the proper space opera scale of choices, events and emotions.
Looking forward to you finally finishing Sequel Required by the way. And yes you can use that title if you want, I won't even ask for any royalties 😊 x
@@chavo8989 the combat was a definite improvement, but the bugs making it unplayable (I preordered it and played it on day one of release), and the story being what it was, I couldn't even be bothered finishing it. Looked it up on google and was very unimpressed.
@13:58 That was one of the ship crew characters (Liara T'soni) finding a piece of tech that Shepard would have been wearing with the N7 Designation. It looks like a piece of the visor you can choose to wear. It fits snugly to Shepard's cranium and reaches over the right eye. There is some in game lore as to why the N7 thing is important in the game.
In the last trailer, the audio is the entirety of human history within space travel. Where humanity discovered the “Prothean Archives” (Prothean: an alien race that was believed to have created the Mass Relays: technology in space used to travel between star systems located throughout the Milky Way galaxy) humanity used the archives to become a space faring race until “First Contact” where the First Contact Wars occurred between the humans and the Turians. Next audio clip was humanity has become part of the galactic community as a council race by Shepard (who was an N7 which is Alliance Military Special Forces: The Alliance is Earth’s space navy where people from all over join up together) defeating Saren a rogue spectre that allied with Sovereign a reaper. Spectre: an above the law sort of elite group special tactics and reconnaissance group that works exclusively for the Council. The Council is made up of (prior to ME1) a Turian Representative, an Asari Representative, and a Salarian Representative. They are the leaders of the galactic community and can aid/enlist/etc entire races for assistance (military, financial, etc) in various crisis’ and as such have immense power. That being said they can’t use their power in a lot of different circumstances else they could trigger a galactic war. That’s why they created the Spectres. Commander Shepard became the first human Spectre to hunt down Saren, the Council’s best Spectre, because he had gone rogue. We uncover a lot of plot such as the Protheans were the leading powerful alien race 50,000 years previous, and that life cycle had been driven to extinction by a race of sentient machines called the Reapers. ME1, ME2, and ME3 has Shepard in ME1 taking down Sovereign (a reaper) thereby thinking he alerted the council to the impending galactic extinction level threat that they are. In ME2 joining forces with a rogue human centric organization called Cerberus (they believe in humanity first and are xenophobic extremists) to take down the Collectors (an indoctrinated race which we later find out are the remnants of the Protheans) which had been harvesting human colonies to create a colossal human reaper. Shepard destroys the indoctrinated race and also thwarts an indoctrinated human science team from expediting the return of the Reapers by blowing up a Mass Relay and also killing i think 300,000 Batarians (an alien race that touts religious extremism and also hates humanity with an exceptionally violent fashion).since that planet was close enough to the mass relay when it exploded. Then ME3 the reapers actually invaded which is when you see all that debris in the trailer and that loud sound after the people screaming for help. Oh and then The Ark 6 leaving audio is actually the Arks that left the Milky Way Galaxy heading for the Andromeda galaxy right before the Reaper invasion. Reaper invasion occurred Shepard and his team (if you were a pure Paragon:a good guy, then you had your entire companion list from ME1 to ME3 have respect for you including the Asari that picks up the N7 logo and reminisces about the past. Her name is Liara T’Soni. She is a very pivotal character in the series and for a lot of people she is Shepard’s Paramour. When you see Liara walking up the mountain, in the background towards the left you see the silhouette of a dead Reaper from the Reaper war that you ended. I don’t know if it’s been confirmed or not but it’s believed that the Liara we see is in her Matriarch years (Asari can live for about 1000 years, we meet Liara in 2187 i think as a 107 year old kid, the matriarch years occurs in the last quarter of an Asari’s life which means we could be seeing this as 600 years in the future). The audio clips are key bits of really important stages throughout Mass Effect Universe’s history and they are signifiers of where it started, where it’s been, and now where we get to meet an old friend or lover once again. Femshep with Liara romance through all 3 games was the way I went, so seeing Liara come back definitely gave me goosebumps. If you were maleshep…”we’ll bang ok” is a very relevant meme for the maleshep content out there XD but regardless, the series is entirely choice driven with ME2 being the pinnacle in character interaction and developing those friendships and rekindling friendships. ME1 is where it all began, ME2 is where we made companions that are unmatched (Garrus best bro for life, Mordin…someone else could have gotten it wrong, Thane we will miss you, Grunt, hehe grunt, Wrex, EDI, Joker, Tali, all absolutely incredible companions) in gaming in general. ME3 the closure supposedly to the Reaper problem and where a lot of your decisions had galaxy impacting consequences. Also depending on your choices, where a lot of your companions die and maybe even where Shepard dies. Oh and yes Martin Sheen is the voice of TIM (commonly called The Illusive Man, the head of Cerberus). Additionally Seth Green is the voice of Joker. It has been a blast playing through the Mass Effect Universe as it has some of the absolute best world and lore building (ignore Andromeda, it tried to use WOKE politics in our world to rewrite the Lore of certain alien races in that fictional world). Even if you never play it, it is an emotional rollercoaster but with an overall positive catharsis. Hope you enjoyed the trailers, they aren’t great representations of the game, but the Mass Effect continues reveal trailer is a summary/love letter to the fans of the series (mostly the trilogy, almost everyone hates the story of Andromeda) with references to what had happened, what we “lived” through and the promise that we can adventure some more through this wonderful space opera. Cheers
In the official teaser that’s liara from 1,2&3 finding your characters N7 insignia in the snow. It made almost all of us mass effect fans tear up a bit because maybe everyone is back!!
Written as I watch: About lighting: the problem with natural lighting is that the Sun moves. Long shoots will have inconsistent illumination. If your window faces away from the Sun (North) I suppose the problem won't be too bad. The Illusive Man (Martin Sheen) is Darth Bartlett. As much of a statesman, and just as smart. But, well, evil isn't too off the mark. It's complicated. ME3 is MIA Finally, if you want character development, Mass Effect is the Gold Standard for the genre.
Plot summary of each game: Mass Effect 1: Go stop a rogue super spy Mass Effect 2: Humanity is being Abducted by the thousands Mass Effect 3: Ten thousand Cthulhus show up Mass Effect Andromeda: We're looking for a new home
The final trailer features Liara, one of the most popular characters and love interests in the series. Shepard wore the N7 symbol on all his armor, it became a bit of a symbol for the whole series. And Andromeda is an offshoot of the series, new adventures with new people as you attempt to colonize another galaxy -- why it's called Andromeda.
The Mass Effect trilogy is an interactive action/story game. The decisions you make affect the later games in a story that evolves with you as you play it. You meet new characters, characters can permanently die, and their reactions to you are all dependent on what you do.
TLDR: The character that picked up a piece of someones (presumably Shepherds) armor is one of your close companions that had been with you since the start, then we kind of blew up the faster than light travel system that was built throughout the galaxy in Mass Effect 3 and it's assumed our character died in the process. The series goes 1, 2, 3, that last trailer and whatever they call it, then Andromeda happens god knows when (I never played it) after all of that because of the time involved travelling to another galaxy.
Didn't see anyone else point it out, so I will. In that last trailer, the first voice you hear is Orson Welles. It's the intro to the original radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds in 1938. The second voice is the NASA Houston control center telling Apollo 11 they are a go for the moon landing. The rest of the audio is game audio, but those 1st two pieces are truly historical. A LOT of Mass Effect is named after real life astronauts/cosmonauts, including Commander Shepard, the main character, being named after Alan Shepard. There is a lot of homage paid to the real people who inspired the story.
If you want to know about that floaty guy, his name is Thane Krios. He is an assassin who is very religious and he's dying of a rare disease. He is trying to make up for the lives he's taken and find forgiveness before he dies. Mass effect is so story and character driven that you really could just watch the conversations although you wouldn't get to choose what to say if you aren't playing
So much of Mass Effect is getting to know your squad mates and the world. It’s an action RPG. The emphasis on the action increases with every game, but there’s a lot of player choice and consequences from those choices that impact long running story lines. The selling point on the original trilogy was that it was going to be a trilogy where player choices impacted the storyline increasingly as the games progressed. And it did that for the most part! Edit: I would say that it’s more Star Trek than Star Wars.
N7 is basically commander shephard male and female' callsign basically. and the blue lady who picked it up is Liara T'Soni one of Shephard' teammates and potential lover.
Mass Effect 1, 2 and 3 was basically one story in 3 parts. Andromeda was a whole other story in the same universe but in another galaxy and 600 years later. The last trailer you watched with the character walking up a mountain in snow was a very important character in the first 3 games and that whole trailer is basically a teaser announcing that they are working on a new mass effect game. (They had put the franchise on ice after the disastrous Mass Effect Andromeda). As for the part with the N7 found in the snow, it was a piece of a helmet and we're guessing it was Shepard's helmet.
the interesting thing about the mass effect games, at least to me and maybe to you, is that there were books released along side them. There was a book released before the first game and a book between the subsequent games that set up side characters and the universe. One of my favourite series by far.
Mass Effect had a great trilogy, and then a sequal it followed called Andromeda. It was not as well recieved, owing to it being handed to an inexperienced team at bioware. And in addition many of the key staff working on Mass Effect started to resign. Bioware was considered a monumental developer not least because of the work on Mass Effect 1, 2 and 3. Andromeda was what started the now widely held belief that Bioware had died as a monument in gaming. The significance of the N7 in the new trailer is a direct reference to the original trilogy as Andromeda took place in a completely different galaxy. It's the highest rank achievable by an officer and most notably worn as an emblem on commander Shepards armour (the protagonist in 1, 2 and 3). That was the hype moment when they showed that.
The bits at the start of the trailer for the new Mass Effect were old radio transmissions from Earth, because that stuff just shoots off into space. I might be wrong, but at a glance, that first one sounded like Orson Welles' rendition of War of the Worlds
I totally understand your confusion with the last trailer - New Mass Effect. Let me do a short breakdown for you, the intro audio is starting from radio broadcast War of the Worlds, followed by Apollo mission audio, space exploration theme... the rest of the audio goes with the Game timeline - First Contact War into the events of Mass Effect 1-3 and the Send off for Andromeda.... it follows with a shuttle landing of one of the main characters of the trilogy(possibly the lead characters Significant Other if chosen) where the main character's fate is unknown... She reaches down and picks up a broken piece from the lead's helmet - Their special forces logo... N7.... She's searching for Shepard...
Mass Effect Andromeda (for all its flaws, some of which were overstated because it's being compared to 1-3, which would have been hard to live up to regardless) has a really good answer to the male or female main character question. Alec Ryder (the character doing the initial voiceover in the trailer) has twins (male and female) and you select which one you play as. The other one still exists in the game and has their own things going on.
Mass Effect 1 is one of the best stories in any game ever. It’s the best of the series for me. And yes that’s Martin Sheen’s voice in the mass effect 2 trailer. He voices one of the characters in that game.
I just finished Mass Effect 1 in the Mass Effect Legendary Edition as a FemShep last night. I cannot tell you how moving the story can be just in the first one. The fact that with Legendary Edition, I can use the ME3 Iconic FemShep default is making me so invested in the story and the voice acting. Jennifer Hale, who is like the Meryl Streep of voice-over actors, is the FemShep voice...she can make you cry at the drop of a hat just by the context of what happens in the game. If there is a game you should try...this is it, then Witcher 3. The characters are amazing, the story compelling with HUGE stakes, and the core games (ME 1, 2, & 3) are seriously one of the most amazing science fiction stories of any media format (movies, books, or tv) I have ever fallen for...it actually reminds me a lot of my favorite television series of all time, 'Babylon 5'. The last trailer begins with the "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast with Orson Welles in the 1930s. It ends with Dr. Liara T'Soni, a fan-favorite character in the trilogy (ME 1-3 - The Shepard Trilogy). She is an Asari, a race of "female" only aliens that can live up to 1,000 years and reproduce via a form of parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction)...their biology (with or without physical contact) seeks out the best genetic traits to incorporate from their partner. This allows an Asari to "mate" with any intelligent species of any gender in order to mother a child, with the mate being a father (even a female mate). She is one of the Shepard romance options or just one of your best and most loyal friends (my FemShep fell for her). The N7 piece she finds might hint at what really happened to Shepard after ME 3...which is kinda vague from what I understand no matter how your playthrough has ended. "N7" is a military classification that Shepard has....N denotes Special Forces and 7 is the highest training attainable...Shepard (FemShep or BroShep) is a complete and total bad-ass, whether you play as a Paragon (Good) or as a Renegade (Asshole). The Mass Effect Legendary Edition Trailer is the one you really should have watched with these. ME Andromeda...not so much. Still, this was an awesome reaction, Hannah!!! For someone else obsessed with character...trust me, I understand. Mass Effect is amazing!!!
Another great video. So many subscribers congrats! I ordered your first book Magic required last week and it arrived on the weekend. I look forward to reading it :)
There's no way to understand the last one without real knowledge of the original trilogy. Even sounds are important to know. As for the trilogy, it's amazingly done. Choices are important. There are dozens of characters that help you along the way and your choices in the game decide if they survive or not and how they behave in the next game if they survive. If a character dies in Mass Effect 1, they are dead in Mass Effect 2 and there are consequences either way. Sometimes saving a life will lead to that character being an ally for life or even a deadly enemy. Some choices can even lead to the extinction of an entire species or race of people. Characters remember how you treated them, how you spoke to them and this forms the relationship later. You get so attached to every character that deaths in the game really hit you in the feels. I've gone back and replayed dozens of hours because I lost a character that I cared about and wanted to do better for them. Precious few games can make me do that.
Oh! And the Mass Effect 3 Announcement Trailer is fan made BUT really well done and gives a good insight into the main villains of the series who are a large part of why Mass Effect was such a great experience
N7 is the best training a human can receive. Commander Shepherd (best as FemShep) by 24 had graduated the 7th level of special forces training which puts her as one of the best human commando troops that is.
I don't know if you know it now, but the "trailer" with "Mass Effect will continue" is more for the fans of the franchise after what happened with Andromeda release (not going to spoil) and the state of the company. There is another game after Andromeda which is not related to the franchise, Anthem, and a lot of people who have a strong bond with Mass Effect felt like the franchise won't be having any new game anymore. I remember watching it and my heart races and I was so happy, I really love the franchise, even the weakest entry I feel enjoyable enough and feel a connection with the secondary characters. Vetra, Garrus, Liara, Tali, Thane, Joker, and Wrex are names I probably will never forget. The piece that the blue alien (who is Liara, one of the most important characters on the franchise) grabs on the ice planet is part of the uniform N7, who the MC is part of the first trilogy.
You missed the Mass Effect 3 trailer, that would have come before the very last trailer you saw on the video. Mass Effect: Andromeda is basically a spin-off of 1, 2 and 3 that was very ambitious but kinda fell on its face a little due to development nightmares at the studio. I still liked the story, the exploring (it was a bit more open world then the other 3, esp 2 and 3) and especially the ending. So for quick storyline from the bad guy’s perspective: Mass Effect: Hello, I’m a Reaper, known as a ‘bad guy’. I’m a precursor to the ‘Great Reset’ by me and my friends killing everybody in the galaxy and starting over from scratch. Sort of like an Etch-A-Sketch end of the world. Mass Effect 2: We’re not in this one but we do get alluded to a lot and ooo meet our lovely friends, the Harvesters. Aren’t they just lovely? Mass Effect 3: We’ve all come now to destroy everything you hold dear, nothing can save you, winner winner chicken dinner.
The Mass Effect series is also Canadian. BioWare are from Edmonton, while the developers of Andromeda were from Montreal. EA closed down the Montreal studio shortly after the game was released. The development period of Andromeda was a very turbulent one.
I think you would like Jack from mass effect 2 as a character. Mass effect 2 was loved because the back stories and side missions you can play for the companion characters were so good. They did a good job of fleshing out those characters by allowing you to periodically talk with them and get a little closer to understanding who they are as people and why they are the way they are. You play missions to help some of these characters out as a good friend would. Or you can ignore that stuff and maybe not gain as much loyalty from them which can have an impact on the later game. Loyal friends will follow you into hell and back if you take some time to help them.
Meeting Sovereign in Mass Effect 1 was one of my favorite and most haunting moments. It really made me realize how amazing the storyline was for this series. You should watch gameplay through that section if you can.
In the last video, the character we see is clearly Liara T'Soni, the blue alien girl who was important in MASS EFFECT 1 to 3. However, her species can live as long as a millennium, so it's not clear how long after ME3 this takes place.
Mass Effect is among my favorite series (Andromeda not included) because of how it handles decisions and how those decisions carry over into the next games. One squadmate is left to protect and arm a nuke while the other is leading a diversion team on the other side of the facility, you only have time to extract one. Who do you choose? Do you condemn the last of an alien species that once terrorized the galaxy to extinction? Letting them live could be useful in the fight against annihilation or they could return to terrorize the galaxy once more. Do you help cure a bioengineered sterility plague inflicted on an entire species to control their population? The species bearing the plague is brutal and prone to warmongering and had the sterility plague inflicted on them after they nearly toppled the Galactic Government. Not curing them means they won't deal with overpopulation or be able to wage war against the galaxy again, but it also means that for every 1000 children born, only a handful survive. Do you side with the machines or their creators? The machines forced their creators off their homeworld and to roam the galaxy as a migrant fleet with no real place to call home. Their creators started the bloody war after a machine became aware enough to ask if it had a soul and forced the machines to fight for their own survival. Mass Effect is full of phenomenal moments and choices that really make you think but what really hammers these decisions in is that they are personal. Over the course of the games you will become friends with a couple Krogan (the species dealing with the sterility plague) and you'll hear of how horrible it is. You'll also come to know one of the scientists responsible for working on creating that same plague and you'll come to understand the logic behind why they did what they did. You'll also come to know the Quarians (the people forced to live in a fleet with no planet to call home) and the Geth (their creations) and you'll hear both sides of the story of the Morning War. There are some arbitrary decisions you make with no real connection to what you're actually doing in your decision, but for many other choices you make, you will have friends on both sides of the argument who will have shared their stories and complicate those decisions even further because they've become personal and that's what I love so much about the series.
The last trailer was just too confirm that they were still working on the series. The first 3 all came out within like 2 years of each other. The 4th took 4 years to release after the trilogy. As of right now, today, we're 4 years after the release of the last, probably another 2 years to go until it releases so they put in the last trailer you watched to confirm to the fans "Yes, we're making it. Yes it's coming."
The thing that she found in the last trailer is a part of the main character's armor (assumed dead). She's a character who's been there since the first game as well. The game series was essentially considered dead, especially the trilogy that included those characters. So it was set up to be a HUGE reveal for fans after years of their stories ending
The trailers really tell you nothing about the story. It starts with you, a commander in the military, going to a planet to help pick up an ancient alien beacon that was recently discovered. On your way there you get a video call and see snippets of people panicking, dying and a giant squid-shaped ship coming to the ground, trying to take the beacon. Once there you encounter some resistance but eventually make it there, the beacon activates and zaps you, burning visions into your brain. Which then pushes to you find answers. Who were these invaders, why did they want the beacon, and what do the visions mean? Throughout your travels in search for answers you learn that this invasion is a galaxy wide annihilation event that happens roughly ever 50.000 years, destroying pretty much every form of intelligent life, restarting the universe. Leaving only remnants behind for the next cycle to study, advance technology, only to be annihilated once again. Going from planet to planet you encounter people that you recruit, joining you on your quest to stop this cycle and saving everyone. This is just the beginning of Mass Effect 1, and this story is part of a trilogy. I won't go into much more detail because spoilers. But know that although it is basically a linear story, there is a nuance on how and how well things play out based on what you do on your travels, who you recruit and befriend. This is all layered with a choice-heavy dialogue system and an alignment system where your actions and responses affect how good or evil you are, which also affects all the things I said before. Mass Effect Andromeda is the 4th installment in this universe, where, as a way to escape the destruction, a ship full of people was sent hundreds of light years away to another galaxy hoping to save at least some of humanity. Sadly this game was rushed by marketing resulting in a release with a ton of bugs and lacking a lot of the content. There was an initial promise of some patched and additional downloadable content (expansions), but it was received so poorly, they just abandoned ship and never looked back. Ignore Andromeda, and enjoy Mass Effect 1, 2 and 3. This is even easier with the Mass Effect Legendary Edition that just came out. This is a remaster of these 3 games mitigating the issue that these games are very dated, especially ME1.
I realise this is over a year old and has probably already been answered but here it is :- In the final trailer the person walking up the snowy remnants of a Reaper (ancient machines that were driven to extinguish all life in the galaxy every 50000 years) is Liara, a potential love interest of the main character, Shepard. She is an Asari, a race that lives for thousands of years, and she saved his life once. After the events of the final game the trailer appears to show her go looking for him once again. If you've played through all of the games it's an incredibly emotional moment.
The last trailer: For a while we considered the IP dead since they really phucked up with the last one to the point they broke their promise about making additional content to the game(because it flopped bad enough they didn't even want to invest into fixing it up). But the original trilogy was good and the IP in terms of potential is really good so...
It is a Story about Consequences. Every conversation, which is 70% of the game, can have an effect on the story you experience. The choices YOU make will probably be completely different from mine and your experience will bejust as different. You'll love different characters than I did because you'll make choices and they'll react to those choices. Whether glorious or tragic. The choice is yours.
Mass Effect is completely character driven, one of the best story role playing games out there! The world and the complexities are really brought to life by the characters, their dialogues, and your interactions with them, especially in the first game when they didn't have the graphics to show everything off as well as in later titles.
I love me some characters!
Yeah it's character driven, and depending on your choices some will live or die (p_q)
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Depending on your choices, ALL of them may die.
They only die in cut scenes though. Nothing you do in actual combat can get them killed, just knocked out.
yeah which can be a little bit funny for example in Mass Effect 3 you see Wrex giving a speech to Krogan on Earth thinking "holy shit there's 100's of them" but once you walk over there's only like 10 krogan. Love Mass Effect 1 and 2 but idk prefer Knights of the Old Republic just a shame they never made a 3rd.
If you ever decide to try your hand at a game, this is the one for you. One of the best story arcs in a game with great characters
I second that.
Third from me
@@OzoneTheLynx motion carried.
Also the combat in one and especially in LE is really easy.
fourth from me
Most certainly.
The Mass Effect games are full of choices... It is like... If you're the director and the story goes in this direction. What changes would you like to see the main character do. Who should live, die, Is the Charater a hero or an anti hero. It's not all point and shoot. Sometimes conversations in the game can take you in many directions that will alter the later games or the later games as in 2 or 3.
Just one question: Kaiden or Ashley?
thanks!
@@unlikelyspore1406 Well. I like Ashley a lot since she's the stronger crewmate. Firstly. Secondly. I would romance Ashley with some of my male characters. I know in modern socieity in the first one she's "problematic" but she changes. This game is after all about character development and she changes to the better. So does Garrus even though he's been marked as "problematic" and I like this. Because of the main character all theese characters either change or stay the same.
I picked Kaiden over god-fearing space-racist Ashley. The only thing I liked about Ashley is that she shares a name with the protagonist of The Evil Dead 😆
@@sarahscott5305 I hated her in the start as well but she changes. :) And then I started to love. She even goes so far as respecting Tali as her "little sister" and starts to see how asari culture is beautiful. Again. I love roleplaying games because of the character development. A character that might start out as an asshole might become a sweet person. Depending on how YOU speak to them. You the player is responsible for garrus either not giving a shit about civilian casualties or acturally carring about saving people. You are allso responsible for if Ash either stays an asshole or becomes a more tolerant and sweet person.
If you really want to get the most out of all of these trailers. Watch the Legendary Edition official trailer. It's a trailer that shows the games as a cohesive whole. And it's the best trailer in my opinion.
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I second this!
Andromeda is actually the 4th game, you missed out Mass Effect 3 unfortunately.
Edit: I was wrong, 3 is on another vid with a couple others from an earlier date 👍
She watched 3 last year.
@@Droid15243Z yeah I found it since 👍 I’ll add an edit.
My favorite series of all time, theres a good chance I wouldnt have made it through my deep depression years without them, so i'm glad you enjoyed!
If your ever interested in a quality story-heavy gaming series, this is the one!
You're not the first to express that about these games. Thats pretty cool that they helped you so much.
The Star Wars Connection- The Company that made Mass Effect, Bioware, in 2003, Made one of the best and most famous Star Wars games of all time, Knights of the Old Republic. They then decided to create their own space opera, set in their own Universe. And the 1st Mass Effect was released in 2007.
The Mass Effect Trilogy- Mass Effect and it's 2 sequels (2 in 2010, 3 in 2012) were about a human marine who basically stumbles on a plot by an ancient Artificially Intelligent race of giant ship like machines that cyclically every 50,000 years eliminate all Intelligent life in the galaxy. Those machines create the faster than light travel points (Mass Relays) that all alien civilizations eventually find and use (the one the humans 1st find is near Jupiter, which we 1st discover after finding alien ruins of a past wiped out civilization on Mars). But the Relays are a trap, to make all alien civilizations reliant on the tech, so when the 50,000 year cycle is up, the evil A.I. Machines called Reapers, can easily find and eliminate all advanced Organic life. The games allow you to make life and death decisions, as well as little ones, that are carried through all 3 games via a save file that the games read. It's also a universe with many different alien species, history between those species, (many wars, they don't all get along) and the universe has it's own science based "force" power called biotics, which was the blue power the one character was using to lift enemies in the air. 1st game is about realizing that a Reaper invasion is coming. 2nd game is about recruiting a team, dirty dozen style, to take on the Reaper Underlings, (though you through dialogue choices, recruit team members in all Mass Effect games), and the 3rd game is fighting the War against the Reapers.
FemShep- The character you play is referred to by their last name, which is Shepherd (you can change the 1st name to whatever). You can choose to be male or female, with a preset look, or one that you create, and they have separate voice actors. The female version is referred to as Fem Shep. Also the N7 armor that Shepherd wears refers to a special Marine Rank, which he or she is.
Mass Effect Andromeda- released in 2017 was about groups of Aliens from the Milky Way, including Humans, sending out Arks to the Andromeda Galaxy, just in case we don't survive the War with the Reapers in the original trilogy. Since the trilogy had a finite end. The creators thought that this would be a good way to continue the series. You play a human pathfinder called Ryder trying to find a new home planet. Upon release, it had a lot of bugs, most specifically to facial animations, which caused it to get scores in the 6 and 7s out of 10, as opposed to the original games which were 9/10 games. The bugs were quickly patched out, but by then public sentiment had turned against the game and it didn't sell as well as EA, it's publisher thought it should. Thus putting the future of Mass Effect in doubt.
The Last Trailer- was a secret world premiere trailer that debuted at the Game Awards this past December 2020. Telling audiences that Bioware was working on a new Mass Effect, and that it was connected to the original trilogy (thus why you see the N7 armor being picked up by the blue character, who is someone you recruit in the original games) but still connected to Andromeda as well.
Why it's relevant now- On November 7th, N7 day, Bioware announced they were releasing a remastered (use tools to update the graphics, make certain tweeks to gameplay) version of the original trilogy, all available as one game. A trailer for it, called Mass Effect Legendary edition was released in January, and the game itself was released just a week ago on May 14th! So now people who never played the series are getting an updated way to play the games on playstation, xbox, and PC, but fans of the series can relieve the games in an updated way as they wait on the sequel. Plenty of people are playing it on Twitch now, if you want to check it out.
Other trailers- should check out the Trailer for the Legendary edition from January, should also check out the Mass Effect community trailer that launched the day of the Legendary Edition that shows you how big and popular Mass Effect is.
Yea, i knew about the remaster long before it was announced. I knew about it since January 2020.
Great summary of events.
excellent summary of events, was a shame they (EA) gutted the studio behind andromeda before they could turn that around somewhat and finish it's story it was always going to be difficult to turn it around but if a few month's after launch the studio behind it gets canned....probably ain't no coming back. if i remember correctly the studio behind it went from you have to make the multiplayer mode to oke full game on new engine now which did not work out to well :( for them for us for everybody really :(
The very first mass effect has, in my opinion, top tier sci fi writing regardless of medium
well noted! Thanks!
Awesome reaction Hannah, The first trailer the voice you noticed is of Keith David from "Gargoyles" who plays Admiral Anderson, in the second trailer the voices you heard were of Martin Sheen from "West Wing" playing the Illusive Man, and of Yvonne Strahovski from "Chuck" (the lady standing behind him named Miranda) Another voice you may know is of the Ships Pilot call sign Joker name Jeff Moreau which is played by Seth Green from "Buffy". There are a lot of other voice actors from sci-fi shows and movies as well. They even got Tricia Helfer from Battlestar Galactica voicing the ship's A.I. named E.D.I.
Fun fact the big guy in the silver armor of the second trailer is named Grunt and is considered as Shepard's baby because even if he's a big boy he technically is a new born
Fem-Shep is also a huge thing. All the voice work in these games is amazing, but Jen Hale will always be my Shep. She’s also so dedicated to the fandom- she’s usually the driving force behind cast reunions.
All hail our queen Jennifer Hale the true Shepard. Only reason I ever play male Shepard is for the tali romance and that's it lol.
@@Gradyolson Tali has always felt like a little sister to me so I have never played dude-Shep 🤣
@@snakesnoteyes I liked the whole shy awkward nerd thing she had and the way they interact when pursuing that romance after one is just super wholesome. That's just me though I do like that if your not pursuing Garrus or Tali that they end up together in three I thought that was super cute as well.
The Reapers on Mass Effect were based on the Borg, but took it in a very different direction.
Later, your favourite Picard series took the idea of the Reapers and turned them into a plot device.
The Mass Effect series are some of the most narrative and story driven experiences in gaming.
OMG REALLY????? I knew I was getting Borg vibes!
The Reaper are based more on the shadows from Babylon 5 then the borg.
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BioWare were the ones who said they based the Reapers on the Borg.
They aren't too similar to the Shadows, either. Unless I missed the part where the Reapers decided to guide and strengthen the young races of the galaxy through chaos and strife.
No, just the billions of years old ancient race that comes out of hiding every 10 thousands of years and wipes out whole civilizations for no apparent reason part.
@@autoduck The Shadows don't come out of hiding to consume the Younger Races, though. And the Shadows only left last time because they were defeated, the Reapers just fancied a nap while the galaxy repopulated itself.
Ahhh yes... The game where I actively chose to have my brain be melted by having sex with an alien. And that's not even the weirdest thing you can do.
REALLY?!?!?
@@HannaHsOverInvested The game is choice based (other than the shooty shooty bang bang stuff) and the story changes depending how you interact an form relationships with other characters. The brain melting alien sex can be done in a side mission, and the choice leads to a game over.
Morinth FTW!
One of the many stupid game over that people do for a lark.
@@bebomac5 I think he was talking about Samara... but I guess it's like mother, like daughter. XD
I'm glad you enjoyed this but I think the trailers don't do the games justice :( The story (which spans through all 3 games with choices you make having repercussions on the other games) and the characters is something I'm sure you will love but you can't really see that in the trailers.
If a trailer fully did a game justice, no one would need to play... I never expect to get the whole story, but I have fun piecing things together.
@@HannaHsOverInvested You did skip over a piece of information with the trailer or A trailer for Mass Effect 3.
@@CarlosHuiskens Yeah, that was confusing. Jumping from 2 to Andromeda leaves out the final piece of the trilogy.
@@HannaHsOverInvested Echoing Tawnya DS... yeah. Please watch the Legendary Edition trailer. It's basically a trilogy trailer, and it's fantastic. You'll be doing yourself a favor! :)
Mass effect is literally the pinnacle of being a game where u can decide the entire story’s fate they would have had to record a stupidly crazy amount of animations voice lines everything for all other possibilities depending on how u decide to the point the entire story can play out differently in the next game.
best thing about mass effect 1, 2, 3, was that whatever you decided in mass effect 1 had an effect in mass effect 2, 3 your decisions carried on as the storyunfolded across 3 titles.
Characters in ME2 trailer: Thane, the terminally ill widower assassin. Grunt, the Krogan super soldier cloned from his race because they have a genetic disease that prevents breeding. Shepard, pick a class and pick a gender and you’re done.
There is an animated movie called Mass Effect: Paragon Lost. You should watch it if you liked these trailers. You could even do a reaction video to it.
After the events of Mass Effect 3, that inception sound in the New Mass Effect trailer sends chills down my spine every single time I hear it
They did a series of trailers for the characters in Mass Effect 2. If you wanted to know a bit more about them
Yay! Mass Effect! Finally, sheesh! One of a handful of games I've played myself!
The game is soooo character driven, it's basically impossible to describe them in any detail that would do them justice.
The generic commander guy in the middle is Shepard. His background and personality is basically whatever you make him into.
The guy who looks like a cross between a toad and the incredible hulk is called Grunt. He's a science project from a guy trying to create a genetically pure version of his race (but not in like a 1930s Germany kind of way) hard to sum up.
The other guy, who looks like a sexy gecko, he's an introspective pacifist with a terminal illness and only a handful of yeas left to live. He's also an assassin badass and my Shepard's boyfriend.
From now on I shall exclusively call Thane by his new title. Sexy Gecko.
Thane was for me the cool, introspective, mysterious lizard assassin, but hey, sexy gecko works too...
I'm really glad to see you're into these games! The Mass Effect series is very dear to me, and having watched a lot of your content, you often ask if knowing what you're fighting for and the story about the battle is important; well, in this story, it is very much ingrained into the plot, and it develops over time. Each of the 3 games has a separate contained-plot to itself, as well as the larger over-arcing story in the 3 Mass Effect Games. Andromeda is a separate story entirely.
The New Mass Effect trailer features a character from the original trilogy of a long-lived species (think space elves) finding a piece of the helmet worn by the main protagonist, of whom you get to choose the appearance entirely yourself, which you pointed out remembering, where "femshep" comes from (as opposed to MaleShep) the person in these videos is the default appearance for cutscenes and trailers.
if the rumors that there will be a Mass Effect Movie starring Henry Cavill are true, I hope it is a great one.
It's about damn time! Mass Effect, let's go!!
If you're all about story/characters THESE are the games for you. Only games that got me so invested in the characters that I felt real world guilt for decisions I made that hurt my crew..
Cool!!!
I actually found it hard to play renegade. They really make you feel all the decisions and their consequences in the trilogy.
@@evanflynn4680 I can't play renegade myself. Especially since it feels less like do what needs to be done to get things done and more like I'll just insult and shoot my way through cause I'm a BAMF.
As I’m sure others have mentioned, Mass Effect 1,2 and 3 are one continuous story. Mass Effect Andromeda is a spinoff that didn’t do well due to technical issues.
Which were fixed pretty quickly
Also the main character of Mass Effecy is called Commander Sheperd. You can choose how they look, including their gender. FemShep is literally just female Sheperd.
They've rereleased the series with some tweaks and one of the best customisation things they've done is introduce the Mass Effect 3 Fenshep's default look to them all. Because male sheperd uses an irl model for inspiration qnd Femshep originally didnt, and it really showed. She looked way less polished than Male Sheperd did until 3 where she got a more iconic look
(side note, the game case cover for Mass Effect 3 was double sided and one side was FemShep, which was super cool)
That is super cool!
Here is a story that Jennifer Hale (the voice of femshep) told us during the November 7th reunion (it is on her UA-cam channel still, it was a live reunion and not everyone was there). Jennifer was at a gamestop helping give out preorders for mass effect 3 in 2012. She was looking at the case and saw that the cover was changeable from maleshep to femshep. She flat out called out to Casey Hudson (if i remember right that was who was there. Casey Hudson was the director of the game and Bioware at the time), and she went nuts. She was so happy about that.
I recommend watching the reunions. There was one from the 15th of this month as well that i attended too. They are both on Jennifer Hale's UA-cam channel.
You should watch the trailer called "mass effect we few, we happy few, we band of brothers".
It sums up the original trilogy in a very impressive story driven trailer!
Please do a reaction of it!
Can't agree with this sentiment strongly enough!
PLEASE, WE NEED MORE LIKES ON THIS COMMENT SO HANNAH REACTS TO IT!!! I had never seen the video until I saw this comment and I just looked it up and watched it. Thank you SO SO MUCH for this, that video made me so emotional that it made my cry, specially in the end. ME was a truly incredible journey that I am honored to have been a part of.
"Subjugation or extinction... why not neither"
Menacing deep voice: SO BE IT!
"We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it." - Sovereign.
Mass Effect is the pinnacle of gaming. The one franchise everybody on the planet should look into, every game is nothing short of a masterpiece.
Finally!!!! The title of this video alone was enough to make me bounce with excitement 😂 Mass Effect is one of my favourite video game series and I could probably tell you everything about it
Thanks for watching my suggestion! Loved watching you puzzle over the story! :P
I love you for reacting to this!! I remember I pleaded under a community post a couple of weeks ago. Haha. I just love this trilogy too much. I'm scared of playing it again, due to how good my memories already are. Most games really aren't very touching at all to be perfectly honest. This one however is like better than my favourite movies pretty much.
Regarding the last one, the woman that picked up the armor fragment with the N7 on it is from the original trilogy (presumably). Her name is Liara and she's part of a mono-gendered race of 2000-year-lifespanning aliens called Asari. She's a fan favorite character and the trailer seems to suggest that the player character from the original trilogy may still be alive after the events of the finale. The most recent game in the series (Andromeda) was not very well received and had fans basically clamoring for a return to the original subject matter in the form of either a prequel or a continuation of the story post ME3 finale. I don't think many people actually thought it would be Shepard's story and I don't know if we can assume it will be. But all that said, the stories the original trilogy tells and the choices you have to make in the games are just next level interactive narrative gaming. They didn't make the perfect games by any means, but they made something incredible nonetheless. Jeez I love to write way too much in your comment section! Sorry not sorry...
Gameplay for these is a mix of shooting, talking and varying degrees of exploration. You can choose to approach things as a paragon (diplomatic, generally sticks to a moral code, very much your “why can’t we all be friends” approach), renegade (morally flexible pragmatist, veers into humanity first at some points) or a mix of the two. A big gimmick of the series was that choices made would carry over between games, affecting possible outcomes, which characters lived or died etc.
The new lighting definitely shows how awesome your hair is.
The thing that she found in the last trailer was a piece of N7 armor. N7 is the designation for the most elite human special forces. It's a program Shepard was a part of and his/her N7 armor is iconic to the series.
I didn't play the Mass Effect games until some time after the third came out. This series hooked me so hard when I started I played through all three in the span of two weeks. @.@ sleep? Nah. More Mass Effect.
"Haha, have I got a story for you!" - Marcus
I've found a couple Borderlands videos, if you are interested.
The Borderlands Series All Intros/Opening Cinematics:
ua-cam.com/video/82QB9eKkjIY/v-deo.html
Borderlands 3 All Characters Trailers:
ua-cam.com/video/Sp3WoaGhAJA/v-deo.html
Probably should add the Borderlands 2 "Wimoweh" trailer and the Game of the Year trailer.
Wimoweh - ua-cam.com/video/kdeN-WFeWHQ/v-deo.html
GotY - ua-cam.com/video/kdeN-WFeWHQ/v-deo.html
And, while we're at it, lets add the Psycho Soup song created by Pogo from scenes of BL2 and BL:PreSequel.. and a custom fan made dance..
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Mass Effect 1, Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect 3, Mass Effect Andromeda, Mass Effect 4. All connected. They all tell a central story. Andromeda is more like a branch that tells what happened to a group of civilizations that weren't directly involved in ME3.
Mass Effect 4 hasn't come out yet. The Legendary Edition recently came out, it's a Remaster of 1,2 and 3.
They're all amazing and absolutely beautiful. It's my favorite series ever.
Femshep was an option for all three of the original games but the marketing focused on the default male version (often known as Sheploo as they used the likeness of a model called Mark Vanderloo) prior to ME3. Shepard doesn’t appear in Andromeda. Initial VO for the Andromeda trailer was Clancy Brown.
Thanks for the info!
And VO for the first trailer was Keith David.
I'm kinda a fan of Mass Effect Universe, especially in the N7 status. N7 status is there to show that person has completed his training for being a special operative. This training is not simple training at its core. N1 training covers the basic combat training of a special forces soldier in today's military training. N2 training covers linguistic education, tactics, etc. N3 training happens on another planet where people have to survive without water etc. N4 training covers the combat on another planet and different g(gravity) values as well. N5 training is a front-line medical education, such as using medigel in the front lines of a war. N6 training covers zero-g combat and N7 covers extreme situations such as fighting alone against lots of enemy or getting out of impossible positions.
The main character in this game is called Commander Shepard. Shepard is a soldier who completed his N7 training and has a spectre status in citadel space. Spectre's are operatives from various alien races who can defy the laws of citadel if necessary. Spectre's are an one-man army
The story in the mass effect games (Andromeda excluded) is one of the greatest stories ever. Better than any movie or show I've ever seen. By far.
I think only all-in fans truly appreciate and understand the "Next Mass Effect" trailer.
For me, story is everything in gaming The Original ME trilogy is top tier in this regard.
Would love to see you react to famous and/or well done scenes from games in all genres.
You’ll get tons of suggestions.
Interested?...
I would highly recommend the launch trailers for Mass Effect Two and Three as well as it helps give more context to the story. It definitely paints a great picture and feel you will just become as entranced as the rest of us. This series had such a massive impact on me and my interests in story-based games.
Mass Effect 2: ua-cam.com/video/lx9sPQpjgjU/v-deo.html
Mass Effect 3: ua-cam.com/video/AluTOOCVXVQ/v-deo.html
Thank you!
Mass Effect 1-3 all follow the same character, either Male or Female Shepard. Mass Effect Andromeda follows 3 out of 4 colony ships, that left right at the beginning Mass Effect 3, that make it to the Andromeda galaxy to be a type of back up of the main "friendly" races of our galaxy...if I'm remembering it correctly...I am about to play through all of the Mass Effects again, so we'll see...
Ohhhhhh okay! Thank you!
"What makes him special" if you have seen movie called Upgrade its the same. He has super smart A.I in his head giving him like 400IQ, tactical advantage and skills.
Wrong it's his eyes
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Best way to describe the Mass Effect franchise is a series of interactive movies where the viewer chooses the path (with obligatory combat gameplay crammed between the conversation scenes to please the publisher). Also, you kind of need to know the story to get the andomeda trailer and the "nods" in the final trailer.
Completely forgot about that 2nd trailer! Still gets me fired up! Mass Effect 2 is so damn good. So many incredible characters, relationships, choices and stories! Can't wait to get to it in the remaster. Also, Andromeda was not as bad as many people say, but it was nowhere near as good as the OG trilogy. Love your reaction to these btw!
Mass Effect 1, 2 , and 3 are essentially a Trilogy the story building between them. Mass Effect Andromeda is a spin off story, basically Andromeda is about how the galaxy sent Colony Sleeper Ships to the Andromeda Galaxy to colonize and explore it. The N7 Armor piece from 'The Next Mass Effect' is a recurring tease Bioware has used when revealing that they are working on a new mass effect game in the past. They generally put out a trailer that has N7 Armor or an Armor piece somewhere in it since the N7 Armor is associated with Commander Shepard(The Player Character)
The First Trailer for ME1, is in a way a big trick. It makes you think you're going into your standard popcorn film. But then after you get into the story it throws you a curve ball.
Here's a segment from the first game that is the first time your characters have a conversation with a Reaper(Via long distance call because Sovereign is 2 Kilometers in length), which are the true threat to the galaxy because they are very advanced, extremely intelligent, and have no remorse. ua-cam.com/video/R_NAoNd4YyY/v-deo.html
One of my all time favorite games. Just stopping in to boost your video with traffic :) may the algorithm be with you.
Lighting? As long as I can see you and the thing you're reacting to then the lighting is belissima.
Mass Effect is basically the Star Trek game that was never made. You play as Kirk flying around a sexy Enterprise and doinking all kinds of spaceladies/spacegentlemen.
are you saying the enterprise is not sexy?
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The Enterprise is hella-sexy, but alas, the Normandy (Shepard's ship) is just so dang slinky.
You sound like Fox news man. I can't tell if you are joking or not. That sounds like the stuff they were saying, before confessing that they and their experts never played the game and have no idea what the game is like.
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Methinks you're taking my comment a little too seriously!
But kudos on the very topical news story from 2008 👍 Well, I say "news" but you'd have to be pretty charitable to label anything Fox comes out with as news.
Whether it is Borg, bedding sexy aliens or any other iconic concept from classic Sci-fi, silly or deep, Mass Effect is sure to have it somewhere in its DNA. That has always been the main draw of the series, right alongside the character writing and the proper space opera scale of choices, events and emotions.
Looking forward to you finally finishing Sequel Required by the way. And yes you can use that title if you want, I won't even ask for any royalties 😊 x
8:11 "and the guy with his floaty glowy stuff" hahaha thats great
"The next one I got was Mass Effect Andromeda."
I can hear the collective "OOOF" from all viewers behind the screens.
Lol I didn't think Andromeda was that bad
HAHAHA
@@chavo8989 the combat was a definite improvement, but the bugs making it unplayable (I preordered it and played it on day one of release), and the story being what it was, I couldn't even be bothered finishing it. Looked it up on google and was very unimpressed.
@@evanflynn4680 Definitely agree, combat was great, everything else not so much.
@13:58 That was one of the ship crew characters (Liara T'soni) finding a piece of tech that Shepard would have been wearing with the N7 Designation. It looks like a piece of the visor you can choose to wear. It fits snugly to Shepard's cranium and reaches over the right eye.
There is some in game lore as to why the N7 thing is important in the game.
In the last trailer, the audio is the entirety of human history within space travel. Where humanity discovered the “Prothean Archives” (Prothean: an alien race that was believed to have created the Mass Relays: technology in space used to travel between star systems located throughout the Milky Way galaxy) humanity used the archives to become a space faring race until “First Contact” where the First Contact Wars occurred between the humans and the Turians. Next audio clip was humanity has become part of the galactic community as a council race by Shepard (who was an N7 which is Alliance Military Special Forces: The Alliance is Earth’s space navy where people from all over join up together) defeating Saren a rogue spectre that allied with Sovereign a reaper. Spectre: an above the law sort of elite group special tactics and reconnaissance group that works exclusively for the Council. The Council is made up of (prior to ME1) a Turian Representative, an Asari Representative, and a Salarian Representative. They are the leaders of the galactic community and can aid/enlist/etc entire races for assistance (military, financial, etc) in various crisis’ and as such have immense power. That being said they can’t use their power in a lot of different circumstances else they could trigger a galactic war. That’s why they created the Spectres. Commander Shepard became the first human Spectre to hunt down Saren, the Council’s best Spectre, because he had gone rogue. We uncover a lot of plot such as the Protheans were the leading powerful alien race 50,000 years previous, and that life cycle had been driven to extinction by a race of sentient machines called the Reapers. ME1, ME2, and ME3 has Shepard in ME1 taking down Sovereign (a reaper) thereby thinking he alerted the council to the impending galactic extinction level threat that they are. In ME2 joining forces with a rogue human centric organization called Cerberus (they believe in humanity first and are xenophobic extremists) to take down the Collectors (an indoctrinated race which we later find out are the remnants of the Protheans) which had been harvesting human colonies to create a colossal human reaper. Shepard destroys the indoctrinated race and also thwarts an indoctrinated human science team from expediting the return of the Reapers by blowing up a Mass Relay and also killing i think 300,000 Batarians (an alien race that touts religious extremism and also hates humanity with an exceptionally violent fashion).since that planet was close enough to the mass relay when it exploded. Then ME3 the reapers actually invaded which is when you see all that debris in the trailer and that loud sound after the people screaming for help. Oh and then The Ark 6 leaving audio is actually the Arks that left the Milky Way Galaxy heading for the Andromeda galaxy right before the Reaper invasion. Reaper invasion occurred Shepard and his team (if you were a pure Paragon:a good guy, then you had your entire companion list from ME1 to ME3 have respect for you including the Asari that picks up the N7 logo and reminisces about the past. Her name is Liara T’Soni. She is a very pivotal character in the series and for a lot of people she is Shepard’s Paramour. When you see Liara walking up the mountain, in the background towards the left you see the silhouette of a dead Reaper from the Reaper war that you ended. I don’t know if it’s been confirmed or not but it’s believed that the Liara we see is in her Matriarch years (Asari can live for about 1000 years, we meet Liara in 2187 i think as a 107 year old kid, the matriarch years occurs in the last quarter of an Asari’s life which means we could be seeing this as 600 years in the future). The audio clips are key bits of really important stages throughout Mass Effect Universe’s history and they are signifiers of where it started, where it’s been, and now where we get to meet an old friend or lover once again. Femshep with Liara romance through all 3 games was the way I went, so seeing Liara come back definitely gave me goosebumps. If you were maleshep…”we’ll bang ok” is a very relevant meme for the maleshep content out there XD but regardless, the series is entirely choice driven with ME2 being the pinnacle in character interaction and developing those friendships and rekindling friendships. ME1 is where it all began, ME2 is where we made companions that are unmatched (Garrus best bro for life, Mordin…someone else could have gotten it wrong, Thane we will miss you, Grunt, hehe grunt, Wrex, EDI, Joker, Tali, all absolutely incredible companions) in gaming in general. ME3 the closure supposedly to the Reaper problem and where a lot of your decisions had galaxy impacting consequences. Also depending on your choices, where a lot of your companions die and maybe even where Shepard dies. Oh and yes Martin Sheen is the voice of TIM (commonly called The Illusive Man, the head of Cerberus). Additionally Seth Green is the voice of Joker. It has been a blast playing through the Mass Effect Universe as it has some of the absolute best world and lore building (ignore Andromeda, it tried to use WOKE politics in our world to rewrite the Lore of certain alien races in that fictional world). Even if you never play it, it is an emotional rollercoaster but with an overall positive catharsis. Hope you enjoyed the trailers, they aren’t great representations of the game, but the Mass Effect continues reveal trailer is a summary/love letter to the fans of the series (mostly the trilogy, almost everyone hates the story of Andromeda) with references to what had happened, what we “lived” through and the promise that we can adventure some more through this wonderful space opera. Cheers
In the official teaser that’s liara from 1,2&3 finding your characters N7 insignia in the snow. It made almost all of us mass effect fans tear up a bit because maybe everyone is back!!
If you liked "The west wing", you'll probably love "The Newsroom" - same writer, fantastic cast.
Written as I watch:
About lighting: the problem with natural lighting is that the Sun moves. Long shoots will have inconsistent illumination.
If your window faces away from the Sun (North) I suppose the problem won't be too bad.
The Illusive Man (Martin Sheen) is Darth Bartlett. As much of a statesman, and just as smart. But, well, evil isn't too off the mark. It's complicated.
ME3 is MIA
Finally, if you want character development, Mass Effect is the Gold Standard for the genre.
Plot summary of each game:
Mass Effect 1: Go stop a rogue super spy
Mass Effect 2: Humanity is being Abducted by the thousands
Mass Effect 3: Ten thousand Cthulhus show up
Mass Effect Andromeda: We're looking for a new home
Wait... no Mass Effect 3 trailer? That would remove some confusion. and it is by FAR the most emotional of the trailers. The kid :'(
The final trailer features Liara, one of the most popular characters and love interests in the series. Shepard wore the N7 symbol on all his armor, it became a bit of a symbol for the whole series. And Andromeda is an offshoot of the series, new adventures with new people as you attempt to colonize another galaxy -- why it's called Andromeda.
The Mass Effect trilogy is an interactive action/story game. The decisions you make affect the later games in a story that evolves with you as you play it. You meet new characters, characters can permanently die, and their reactions to you are all dependent on what you do.
TLDR: The character that picked up a piece of someones (presumably Shepherds) armor is one of your close companions that had been with you since the start, then we kind of blew up the faster than light travel system that was built throughout the galaxy in Mass Effect 3 and it's assumed our character died in the process.
The series goes 1, 2, 3, that last trailer and whatever they call it, then Andromeda happens god knows when (I never played it) after all of that because of the time involved travelling to another galaxy.
Didn't see anyone else point it out, so I will. In that last trailer, the first voice you hear is Orson Welles. It's the intro to the original radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds in 1938. The second voice is the NASA Houston control center telling Apollo 11 they are a go for the moon landing. The rest of the audio is game audio, but those 1st two pieces are truly historical. A LOT of Mass Effect is named after real life astronauts/cosmonauts, including Commander Shepard, the main character, being named after Alan Shepard. There is a lot of homage paid to the real people who inspired the story.
If you want to know about that floaty guy, his name is Thane Krios. He is an assassin who is very religious and he's dying of a rare disease. He is trying to make up for the lives he's taken and find forgiveness before he dies.
Mass effect is so story and character driven that you really could just watch the conversations although you wouldn't get to choose what to say if you aren't playing
i watched all of the West Wing based off your excitement in this vid. thank you! it was amazing
So much of Mass Effect is getting to know your squad mates and the world. It’s an action RPG. The emphasis on the action increases with every game, but there’s a lot of player choice and consequences from those choices that impact long running story lines. The selling point on the original trilogy was that it was going to be a trilogy where player choices impacted the storyline increasingly as the games progressed. And it did that for the most part!
Edit: I would say that it’s more Star Trek than Star Wars.
N7 is basically commander shephard male and female' callsign basically. and the blue lady who picked it up is Liara T'Soni one of Shephard' teammates and potential lover.
Mass Effect 1, 2 and 3 was basically one story in 3 parts. Andromeda was a whole other story in the same universe but in another galaxy and 600 years later. The last trailer you watched with the character walking up a mountain in snow was a very important character in the first 3 games and that whole trailer is basically a teaser announcing that they are working on a new mass effect game. (They had put the franchise on ice after the disastrous Mass Effect Andromeda). As for the part with the N7 found in the snow, it was a piece of a helmet and we're guessing it was Shepard's helmet.
the interesting thing about the mass effect games, at least to me and maybe to you, is that there were books released along side them. There was a book released before the first game and a book between the subsequent games that set up side characters and the universe. One of my favourite series by far.
Mass Effect had a great trilogy, and then a sequal it followed called Andromeda. It was not as well recieved, owing to it being handed to an inexperienced team at bioware. And in addition many of the key staff working on Mass Effect started to resign. Bioware was considered a monumental developer not least because of the work on Mass Effect 1, 2 and 3. Andromeda was what started the now widely held belief that Bioware had died as a monument in gaming.
The significance of the N7 in the new trailer is a direct reference to the original trilogy as Andromeda took place in a completely different galaxy. It's the highest rank achievable by an officer and most notably worn as an emblem on commander Shepards armour (the protagonist in 1, 2 and 3). That was the hype moment when they showed that.
4:20 That was a Mass Effect relay, basically a slingshot to fire off ships at FTL speed. It is definitely a cool thing
The bits at the start of the trailer for the new Mass Effect were old radio transmissions from Earth, because that stuff just shoots off into space. I might be wrong, but at a glance, that first one sounded like Orson Welles' rendition of War of the Worlds
I totally understand your confusion with the last trailer - New Mass Effect. Let me do a short breakdown for you, the intro audio is starting from radio broadcast War of the Worlds, followed by Apollo mission audio, space exploration theme... the rest of the audio goes with the Game timeline - First Contact War into the events of Mass Effect 1-3 and the Send off for Andromeda.... it follows with a shuttle landing of one of the main characters of the trilogy(possibly the lead characters Significant Other if chosen) where the main character's fate is unknown... She reaches down and picks up a broken piece from the lead's helmet - Their special forces logo... N7.... She's searching for Shepard...
Mass Effect Andromeda (for all its flaws, some of which were overstated because it's being compared to 1-3, which would have been hard to live up to regardless) has a really good answer to the male or female main character question. Alec Ryder (the character doing the initial voiceover in the trailer) has twins (male and female) and you select which one you play as. The other one still exists in the game and has their own things going on.
The piece at the end was part of the main characters (and possible love interest for the blue lady) helmet.
Mass Effect 1 is one of the best stories in any game ever. It’s the best of the series for me. And yes that’s Martin Sheen’s voice in the mass effect 2 trailer. He voices one of the characters in that game.
I just finished Mass Effect 1 in the Mass Effect Legendary Edition as a FemShep last night. I cannot tell you how moving the story can be just in the first one. The fact that with Legendary Edition, I can use the ME3 Iconic FemShep default is making me so invested in the story and the voice acting. Jennifer Hale, who is like the Meryl Streep of voice-over actors, is the FemShep voice...she can make you cry at the drop of a hat just by the context of what happens in the game. If there is a game you should try...this is it, then Witcher 3. The characters are amazing, the story compelling with HUGE stakes, and the core games (ME 1, 2, & 3) are seriously one of the most amazing science fiction stories of any media format (movies, books, or tv) I have ever fallen for...it actually reminds me a lot of my favorite television series of all time, 'Babylon 5'.
The last trailer begins with the "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast with Orson Welles in the 1930s. It ends with Dr. Liara T'Soni, a fan-favorite character in the trilogy (ME 1-3 - The Shepard Trilogy). She is an Asari, a race of "female" only aliens that can live up to 1,000 years and reproduce via a form of parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction)...their biology (with or without physical contact) seeks out the best genetic traits to incorporate from their partner. This allows an Asari to "mate" with any intelligent species of any gender in order to mother a child, with the mate being a father (even a female mate). She is one of the Shepard romance options or just one of your best and most loyal friends (my FemShep fell for her). The N7 piece she finds might hint at what really happened to Shepard after ME 3...which is kinda vague from what I understand no matter how your playthrough has ended. "N7" is a military classification that Shepard has....N denotes Special Forces and 7 is the highest training attainable...Shepard (FemShep or BroShep) is a complete and total bad-ass, whether you play as a Paragon (Good) or as a Renegade (Asshole).
The Mass Effect Legendary Edition Trailer is the one you really should have watched with these. ME Andromeda...not so much. Still, this was an awesome reaction, Hannah!!! For someone else obsessed with character...trust me, I understand. Mass Effect is amazing!!!
Another great video. So many subscribers congrats! I ordered your first book Magic required last week and it arrived on the weekend. I look forward to reading it :)
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There's no way to understand the last one without real knowledge of the original trilogy. Even sounds are important to know. As for the trilogy, it's amazingly done. Choices are important. There are dozens of characters that help you along the way and your choices in the game decide if they survive or not and how they behave in the next game if they survive. If a character dies in Mass Effect 1, they are dead in Mass Effect 2 and there are consequences either way. Sometimes saving a life will lead to that character being an ally for life or even a deadly enemy. Some choices can even lead to the extinction of an entire species or race of people. Characters remember how you treated them, how you spoke to them and this forms the relationship later. You get so attached to every character that deaths in the game really hit you in the feels. I've gone back and replayed dozens of hours because I lost a character that I cared about and wanted to do better for them. Precious few games can make me do that.
Oh! And the Mass Effect 3 Announcement Trailer is fan made BUT really well done and gives a good insight into the main villains of the series who are a large part of why Mass Effect was such a great experience
N7 is the best training a human can receive. Commander Shepherd (best as FemShep) by 24 had graduated the 7th level of special forces training which puts her as one of the best human commando troops that is.
I'm done spamming your comments for now.
Well, I'll try anyway.
love it.
You told me comment spamming helps engagement. I'd do it myself, but I can never think of anything witty to say 😳
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Witty? Why does that matter? Since when we're any of my comments 'witty'?!
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Erm, I mean, what I meant to say was:
All your comments are witty!
Mass Effect... one of the greatest gaming experiences I've ever had
I don't know if you know it now, but the "trailer" with "Mass Effect will continue" is more for the fans of the franchise after what happened with Andromeda release (not going to spoil) and the state of the company. There is another game after Andromeda which is not related to the franchise, Anthem, and a lot of people who have a strong bond with Mass Effect felt like the franchise won't be having any new game anymore. I remember watching it and my heart races and I was so happy, I really love the franchise, even the weakest entry I feel enjoyable enough and feel a connection with the secondary characters. Vetra, Garrus, Liara, Tali, Thane, Joker, and Wrex are names I probably will never forget. The piece that the blue alien (who is Liara, one of the most important characters on the franchise) grabs on the ice planet is part of the uniform N7, who the MC is part of the first trilogy.
You missed the Mass Effect 3 trailer, that would have come before the very last trailer you saw on the video. Mass Effect: Andromeda is basically a spin-off of 1, 2 and 3 that was very ambitious but kinda fell on its face a little due to development nightmares at the studio. I still liked the story, the exploring (it was a bit more open world then the other 3, esp 2 and 3) and especially the ending.
So for quick storyline from the bad guy’s perspective:
Mass Effect: Hello, I’m a Reaper, known as a ‘bad guy’. I’m a precursor to the ‘Great Reset’ by me and my friends killing everybody in the galaxy and starting over from scratch. Sort of like an Etch-A-Sketch end of the world.
Mass Effect 2: We’re not in this one but we do get alluded to a lot and ooo meet our lovely friends, the Harvesters. Aren’t they just lovely?
Mass Effect 3: We’ve all come now to destroy everything you hold dear, nothing can save you, winner winner chicken dinner.
The Mass Effect series is also Canadian. BioWare are from Edmonton, while the developers of Andromeda were from Montreal.
EA closed down the Montreal studio shortly after the game was released. The development period of Andromeda was a very turbulent one.
I think you would like Jack from mass effect 2 as a character. Mass effect 2 was loved because the back stories and side missions you can play for the companion characters were so good. They did a good job of fleshing out those characters by allowing you to periodically talk with them and get a little closer to understanding who they are as people and why they are the way they are. You play missions to help some of these characters out as a good friend would. Or you can ignore that stuff and maybe not gain as much loyalty from them which can have an impact on the later game. Loyal friends will follow you into hell and back if you take some time to help them.
Meeting Sovereign in Mass Effect 1 was one of my favorite and most haunting moments. It really made me realize how amazing the storyline was for this series. You should watch gameplay through that section if you can.
In the last video, the character we see is clearly Liara T'Soni, the blue alien girl who was important in MASS EFFECT 1 to 3. However, her species can live as long as a millennium, so it's not clear how long after ME3 this takes place.
Mass Effect is among my favorite series (Andromeda not included) because of how it handles decisions and how those decisions carry over into the next games. One squadmate is left to protect and arm a nuke while the other is leading a diversion team on the other side of the facility, you only have time to extract one. Who do you choose?
Do you condemn the last of an alien species that once terrorized the galaxy to extinction? Letting them live could be useful in the fight against annihilation or they could return to terrorize the galaxy once more.
Do you help cure a bioengineered sterility plague inflicted on an entire species to control their population? The species bearing the plague is brutal and prone to warmongering and had the sterility plague inflicted on them after they nearly toppled the Galactic Government. Not curing them means they won't deal with overpopulation or be able to wage war against the galaxy again, but it also means that for every 1000 children born, only a handful survive.
Do you side with the machines or their creators? The machines forced their creators off their homeworld and to roam the galaxy as a migrant fleet with no real place to call home. Their creators started the bloody war after a machine became aware enough to ask if it had a soul and forced the machines to fight for their own survival.
Mass Effect is full of phenomenal moments and choices that really make you think but what really hammers these decisions in is that they are personal. Over the course of the games you will become friends with a couple Krogan (the species dealing with the sterility plague) and you'll hear of how horrible it is. You'll also come to know one of the scientists responsible for working on creating that same plague and you'll come to understand the logic behind why they did what they did. You'll also come to know the Quarians (the people forced to live in a fleet with no planet to call home) and the Geth (their creations) and you'll hear both sides of the story of the Morning War. There are some arbitrary decisions you make with no real connection to what you're actually doing in your decision, but for many other choices you make, you will have friends on both sides of the argument who will have shared their stories and complicate those decisions even further because they've become personal and that's what I love so much about the series.
The last trailer was just too confirm that they were still working on the series. The first 3 all came out within like 2 years of each other. The 4th took 4 years to release after the trilogy. As of right now, today, we're 4 years after the release of the last, probably another 2 years to go until it releases so they put in the last trailer you watched to confirm to the fans "Yes, we're making it. Yes it's coming."
The thing that she found in the last trailer is a part of the main character's armor (assumed dead).
She's a character who's been there since the first game as well.
The game series was essentially considered dead, especially the trilogy that included those characters. So it was set up to be a HUGE reveal for fans after years of their stories ending
The trailers really tell you nothing about the story. It starts with you, a commander in the military, going to a planet to help pick up an ancient alien beacon that was recently discovered. On your way there you get a video call and see snippets of people panicking, dying and a giant squid-shaped ship coming to the ground, trying to take the beacon. Once there you encounter some resistance but eventually make it there, the beacon activates and zaps you, burning visions into your brain. Which then pushes to you find answers. Who were these invaders, why did they want the beacon, and what do the visions mean?
Throughout your travels in search for answers you learn that this invasion is a galaxy wide annihilation event that happens roughly ever 50.000 years, destroying pretty much every form of intelligent life, restarting the universe. Leaving only remnants behind for the next cycle to study, advance technology, only to be annihilated once again. Going from planet to planet you encounter people that you recruit, joining you on your quest to stop this cycle and saving everyone.
This is just the beginning of Mass Effect 1, and this story is part of a trilogy. I won't go into much more detail because spoilers. But know that although it is basically a linear story, there is a nuance on how and how well things play out based on what you do on your travels, who you recruit and befriend. This is all layered with a choice-heavy dialogue system and an alignment system where your actions and responses affect how good or evil you are, which also affects all the things I said before.
Mass Effect Andromeda is the 4th installment in this universe, where, as a way to escape the destruction, a ship full of people was sent hundreds of light years away to another galaxy hoping to save at least some of humanity. Sadly this game was rushed by marketing resulting in a release with a ton of bugs and lacking a lot of the content. There was an initial promise of some patched and additional downloadable content (expansions), but it was received so poorly, they just abandoned ship and never looked back.
Ignore Andromeda, and enjoy Mass Effect 1, 2 and 3. This is even easier with the Mass Effect Legendary Edition that just came out. This is a remaster of these 3 games mitigating the issue that these games are very dated, especially ME1.
Bioware take note: this is how a NONGAMER WOULD REACT IF YOU MADE THIS INTO A MOVIE!!!!
I realise this is over a year old and has probably already been answered but here it is :-
In the final trailer the person walking up the snowy remnants of a Reaper (ancient machines that were driven to extinguish all life in the galaxy every 50000 years) is Liara, a potential love interest of the main character, Shepard. She is an Asari, a race that lives for thousands of years, and she saved his life once. After the events of the final game the trailer appears to show her go looking for him once again.
If you've played through all of the games it's an incredibly emotional moment.
The last trailer: For a while we considered the IP dead since they really phucked up with the last one to the point they broke their promise about making additional content to the game(because it flopped bad enough they didn't even want to invest into fixing it up).
But the original trilogy was good and the IP in terms of potential is really good so...
It is a Story about Consequences.
Every conversation, which is 70% of the game, can have an effect on the story you experience.
The choices YOU make will probably be completely different from mine and your experience will bejust as different. You'll love different characters than I did because you'll make choices and they'll react to those choices.
Whether glorious or tragic.
The choice is yours.