I remember I had tears in my eyes, when I finished the game the first time. And the second time. And the third time. And the fourth time. And the fifth time....
@@beatsntoons because it’s not a sound, it’s a side effect of electromagnetic impulses that are used for indoctrination, like a “sound” from a concussion 😂
@@yuvl32 No it is absolutely just the sound of the weapon firing. Mass Effect, like most sci fi franchises, has its ships make noise in space. You can tell it's nothing to do with indoctrination because every ship, Reaper and not, makes sound in space. It's just a stylistic choice.
@naggie6358 ME1 has several people state that the Reaper horn of Sovereign came from their own head. I don't know about the other sounds they make, but the horns should be heard by people in-universe.
The best moment at 0:31 imo, where the fleet arrives and just keeps pouring and pouring in. The united galaxy simply summoned everything they had against an equally terryfing enemy, because the stakes have never been higher. Basically the most important fight of the galaxy since ever.
I've been talking with some buddies, comparing/contrasting this with the fleet arrival from Rise of Skywalker, and how this scene succeedes where the other does not, despite their many similarities.
I'm really bad with nice, concise answers, so you may need to bear with me here. However there are several things going against the RoS vs ME3. Presentation is the first, in two regards. One is the setup. RoS has this really cheesy, "But there are more of us, Poe. There are more of us." line that I thought was really out of place. Then there's the pan over the Xyston to a frankly ludicrous amount of ships that have already appeared. How this fleet arrived and especially coordinated so quickly is a whole issue in of itself, but here a bulk of the fleet has already arrived to save the failing Resistance in what feels very much like a randomly inserted Deus Ex Machina. ME3 on the other hand starts out in the cockpit of the Normandy. The calm before the storm. The musical score also builds up before finally fully dropping as the first ships begin to arrive. We see the arrival as it happens, and the score is more of a building heroic epic, as opposed to the already victorious SW main theme. Second, I think the sound design of ME3 and the ships coming out of warp is also better. In paths where it survived, you also get the pan over the Destiny Ascension as it appears while STILL hearing the sound of ships arriving in the background. Everything about this scene from the sound/music design to the narrative is just better. The battle scene that follows is also just leagues ahead of RoS, but that's starting to stray into other scene territory. On that note though our second issue is intention/history and stakes. ME3 is the culmination of three games and hundreds of hours of work minimum on the part of players. Additionally these released happened over the course of an additional year over the sequel trilogy, 5 years vs 4. Not getting into the nature of video games vs movies, there are still major stakes if the Galactic fleets fail. The Reapers threaten ALL sentient life in the galaxy, not the just the political state of the Resistance/New Republic. It is way easier to get invested in the ME3 scene, even discounting the sense of personal investment. The galactic fleets already KNOW they're basically screwed. They're not there to win the fight. Their only purpose in life is to stall for time, to hope that Shephard can get to the Citadel and activate the Crucible. It's a lot like the history of Operation Zero Dawn in a way. Humanity's fighting a losing battle, and their only purpose is to stall so the Zero Dawn scientists can finish the terraforming project. However in Horizon Zero Dawn, THEY DIDN'T KNOW THAT. They thought they were working on a super weapon to stop the Faro Plague. The Galactic fleet knew, and still had the balls to fly into certain death. The Resistance thought they had a fighting chance, and everything fell apart, for them to be saved at the last minute by a fleet that somehow got assembled, which is our third point. There are just so many logical issues/inconsistencies in this. Memory does not serve correctly, but we do remember that they needed some kind of Macguffin in order to get to Exegol safely. It seemed really improbable that they would manage to get such a massive fleet there even WITH the Macguffin, if it were available to be distributed in such a manner, ignoring the fact that Lando somehow managed to gather and coordinate TENS of thousands of ships in what must have been a relatively small timeframe. There's some pretty big suspension of disbelief going on. It was some kind of navigation data or tool if I'm remembering correctly. Safe path through a bunch of blackholes or something? Either way, it was just one other thing on top of the whole laundry list of things that were just not right with the sequel movies.
@@terrivel11 I agree on all points, and I would like to add one little thing. In ME3, the story is told from the player's perspective, where they are within the arriving fleet, plus the 100 hours of gathering the galaxy to join this fleet (you also got the feeling that you were in control, sort of). In Star Wars the deus ex machina fleet suddenly arrived from outside without much plot.
@@antonk.653 The sudden nature of it all was really the big sticking point of it all in regards to a Deus Ex Machina. Done right, they can be really effective. Super Saiyan for instance is a form of it, though not nearly as suddenly inserted. Even if it weren’t something that Vegeta had been alluding to in his prior fight with Freeza, the whole journey and then loss of Krillin Goku went through to get there was narratively satisfying.
I'm not into sci-fi. But this particular trilogy made me assemble 8000 and more war assets for the final battle and almost completely max out the 3 episodes, that's how great I think it is. Legendary Edition was one of the few things EA did lately I actually found worth paying for, the trilogy with the DLCs really is a modern day epic.
Played the Mass Effect trilogy for the first time when LE came back out and I gotta tell ya, it blew me away, and this scene specifically gave me chills and had me choking up.
Yeah I agree to that mate I love the mass effect games I got the trilogy trilogies I say me2 my favourite I've never played the Andromeda one yet have you played that one
2:00 that opening salvo always gives me chills and again at 2:31 when the fighters move in. Still think it would have been awesome to see turian and geth fighters among the mix.
If I remember right there was a lore reason for that. There's a treaty limiting the number of dreadnoughts that the races of the council could've, but the Alliance got around that by having carrier class ships which were non-existent in the other races, hence why only human small crafts. Of course, Geth had small fighter class ships, but then having to make another cutscene to have them is meh... To expensive. :D
I am actually just simply happy that if you pay attention, you can see a couple of Alliance dreadnoughts come in along the mass of cruisers. For all the game lore makes of dreadnoughts, they really get a miniscule amount of screen time. Sure the Destiny Ascension gets a little, but that is still just one ship which is also a one-off as well. By the time of this battle if you tally up how many dreadnoughts _could_ have been at the battle, you end up with around 100 (Turians + Geth = somewhere around 70 by themselves). Counting all the races at pre-war levels. Even if half of those are actually destroyed or otherwise out of action, that still leaves 50 or so in action that could and by all rights should be there. A note on carriers: While humans are the first to utilize this concept in space warfare, other species start doing the same thing pretty quickly. Read enough of the codex and you will see references to carriers of other species here and there. btw, you probably have to think of these kinds of carriers as nothing more than a giant frame designed to carry tons of fighters/interceptors. Something like the body of a zeppelin, with gates at either end (maybe in other places, but you get the idea). With just enough armor that minor attacks are not life threatening. Not exactly a big engineering feat for anyone who can build dreadnoughts, which alongside the main gun have 150 or so broadside guns.
@@whyjnot420 Turian's already used fighter tenders. Like sea plane tenders. Not intended to carry them through relays, but used for off battlefield repair, resupply and emergency command. But yes, Humans already had multiple ships larger than cruisers used for carrying fighters and bombers. Humans and Turians are the only mentioned races to use small craft bombers. Capable of dropping heavy ordinance inside PD envelopes and ME fields, or targeting small points with heavy weapons up close. Even the Geth just use their fighters in that role.
I never played Mass Effect, but I can tell by this cutscene alone that it's a damn great game. Also the sound of the laser from the Reaper ships cannot be beat, both amazing and terrifying
If you get the chance to play the trilogy, I highly recommend you doing it. Or at least watching it on UA-cam. When you play the 3 games and meet all the characters, alien races and see the story unfold, this scene towards the end becomes so much better.
I have to agree with everyone else. I HATE shooter-games because I suck at them. But I've loved this game since I picked up ME2 when it came out in 2010. It's definitely worth at least watching a play-thru just to get the full story. :)
I played this game for the first time a year ago and it truly changed my outlook in gaming, might be an exaggeration or sound corny but you owe it to yourself to experience this story. In my opinion of of the best stories ever told in gaming or storytelling in general....
yeah, 10mins of final battle thats that we all waited for 3 series and 60+ hours of game. Suicide mission 7min lasts only Normandy throwing to the Collector base. Just for the difference.
I still remember the day clearly as it was back in 2012. The moment blowing up the Catalyst and then the flashbacks. The very long journey that it took to get to that point. Realising this was the end and you'll never see your crew again. That hit different in so many ways I can still remember it 10 years later.
Gotta assume this is pretty new for the Reapers. I mean, they're still going to be completely confident in annihilating everything, but they've likely not seen anything like this before. They usually sabotage the relay network long before anything like this can be organised.
@@MegaGanash problem is that even if they won this fight, so many other planets were being destroyed by equal sized fleets of reapers that it would’ve been a phyrric victory at best. “Save Earth” only for the reapers at Palevin to make a U-turn and end what little remained of the fleet.
@@DamonHowe7 A) I'm pretty sure most of the reapers had moved to earth when the battle for earth started, B) also imagine if the crucible was just a giant super-beam weapon that destroyed anything it blasted, and attaching the citadel just let you FTL one-shot anything in the galaxy
@@juzoli More than 1 reaper per cycle, main races usually get several capital ship class reapers produced while smaller races end up being turned into the destroyers.
Dude this game came out in 2012(I was 19). Now I’m 31 and I’m going to be Commander Shepards age(32) this coming February. Wow time flies. This is one of the greatest Video Game 🎮 finales that I’ve every played. I always stick to the Destroy(red) ending. Admiral Andersons final line: “I’m proud of you”, makes me cry every time.
What a effing leader Shepard is! By the time this moment hits it doesn’t feel cheap, it feels earned. The story is amazing and about hope and the human spirit in that we will keep fighting to the very end in the face of unimaginable odds. All the emotions come back watching this scene again. Our last stand!
It was the absolute worst ending ever at the time, pick a colour and thats it. Your decisions from the previous games amount to nothing. Im still pissed off.
@@jadler457 they DO matter because they affect the environment in front of you. The dialogues, the species that you either save or exterminate, the crew members that can either die or survive until the end depending on your decision, the love interest cutscenes, the final battle where you either unite the entire galaxy or fail to do so - all of them DEPEND on your decisions. Yes, the ending could be better but in my opinion it’s about the journey not the end. I like to see how your decisions change the environment while you still playing the game and not when you watch the final credits.
@@jadler457 They might be the case in the vannila endings before the extended cut. But anyways,red colour kills Reapers. Blue makes them leave(sort of),and green...we all become abominations. Those are all very, very different things. Depending on what you did with Krogan cure,there is either a Krogan species renesanse or Rachi rule there now. True, it's far from perfect,but even so, I was quite happy.
Playing through the series and getting to this point, having done everything in your power to get every possible ally, and knowing that this is an enemy that will stop at nothing short of complete extermination made this last battle perfect. It’s us or them. Do or die. I remember playing through before the huge patch and still feeling satisfied. I play through the series probably once a year. Still love it with all my heart.
I've replayed the original trilogy and I've replayed the Legendary Edition, but I could never bring myself to finish the game more than once past the final battle. It's too emotional for me and painful to see the journey end.
I remember when I finished the last DLC they released and you got a moment with each character and you got closure with each one. It was then that I realized I saw all these characters as my friends, and how I was going to miss them. Sure, I could replay it. But it would be the same dialogue, same everything. It'd be like reliving a memory while not really making new ones. I love Mass Effect, man.
Im only disappointed that they didn't merge the Quarian and Geth fleets together >:( would have made Joker saying Geth fleet reporting make more sense.
It still amazes me that Bioware made us play 3 Games just to get the Perfect End-Game Experience we've always wanted. And we loved every moment of it. not just once to boot!
@@WickedPrince3D well we see their fleet,if you save the council in me1 then in me3 the salarian councillor gives you the salarian 3rd fleet because you saved her from kai leng
@@γιουργια I've never had that happen in the base ME3 because she hinges Salarian support on betraying the Krogan and I refuse to do that. I haven't finished my run of Legendary Edition so if they change that I haven't seen it.
@@WickedPrince3D If it makes you feel better, you are most definitely in the majority; I don't think betraying the krogan is a very popular choice among fans.
If you think about the progress of human civilization, you can imagine that the prothean actions stalling the reaper return for some 200 or 300 years (i think it was only that), made a huge difference in the level they found the galactic civilizations when they returned. Everyone had quite some decent fleets by that time
i had only played the first one originally, and didnt continue until the ME collection years later, im glad i did. i was far more mature and able to appreciate the story and characters more, and playing them back to back like that by the 3rd game i TRULY felt exhausted and tired with Shepard. about half way through the 3rd game i have never felt so in tune with a character's feelings (fem shep liara love) and that ending was 1 of only 2 ever games to make me cry, and again when i played it again a few weeks later. (as an aside i got to simply experience the patched ending as a noob!) i played anthem before a played the LE and at the time i didnt understand why bioware fans hated it so much, after playing the LE i COMPLETLY understand. this scene ^^^ was so rewarding, to be the first ship through the relay after running. . .i love mass effect so much
You watch this, and you are full of pride. Then you land, there is so much foreboding. I played this for the first time aged 47, and I thought I'd played it all. How wrong was I? They come at you from all angles; bosses intermingled with the badassery of the worst enemies. It was exhausting, right up to the last moments and you really think you are going to lose teammates. Then you do, God, that hurt. Nothing ever has, and nothing ever will beat it. I played Legendary after six full playthroughs - it still hits hard. I'll play it again all the way through. The greatest computer game of all time. I don't mind the ending, the reapers were always going to get it, always.
well this was good story cos it was based on us. on our reality, betreyal, our flaws, and women degeneracy and self sabotage. chaos drama they bring to stable life
Imagine the moment Shepherd commands all fleets to fire, the entire Reaper fleet just quickly maneuvers to the side, allowing projectiles to rain on the Earth. XD
I love this game. Never could get over the fact that they killed Shepard in ME2 then brought them back in ME2 just to kill them off again in ME3. If that’s the case, they should have let clone Shepard live.
It's to show that no victory is ever without sacrifice. Shepard was needed as a charismatic leader to unite the galaxy, but in order to save the galaxy from the existential threat that the Reapers pose, he is the only one that can make the choices that delivers us all from evil. He alone is the anomaly introduced into the crucible to present the opportunity for a new solution; like the Starchild says "none have ever come this far", but count on Shepard to be the one to make it and finally change things from how they have always been. Unless you pick the Refusal ending ofc, but that was just a fan-pressured joke of an ending anyway so it doesn't count.
if you go with the Destroy ending (which theory states is cannon) Shepard lives, as you see a suit of N7 armor move like someone is taking a breath, but it doesn't show the person so for all we know it's just some rando N7
@@shadowai9668 The odd part about that is that its on ground so it would mean that he survived crashing from space onboard the crucible/citadel. I get that the dude is like 80% cybernetics at this point but still :P
I wanted to see out of curiosity and I regretted my decision immediately and went back to redo that part and yeah got both Geth and Quarians working together
In my fail-through of the series I made sure she didn’t make it. What’s hilarious is that I was locked to Destroy ending for ME3, the game didn’t even make Control an option.
@@christanbranch5811 [ MAJOR SPOILERS ] If you support the geth in the Priority: Rannoch quest, the quarian fleet is wiped out and Tali commits suicide.
that's why im not planing to switch to LE edition,i cannot play the game without mods such as MAHEM happy ending,Expanded galaxy mod,project varity,specter expansion,ARK mod and many more,and i got graphics upgraded with ALOT of textures mod,and reshaders
Awesome scene and score. But I'm a bit sad in the remaster we didn't see salarian ships at least. There have been dozens of fan models made in the previous decade they could have used one of those. Would have been cool to see minor races as well. At least 1.
@spartandare390 would be awesome to see some ground assault ships. Surely the turians have some atkeast. In the take back earth dlc cinematic, you see the Normandy leading some turian frigates in the atmosphere for a second. But that's it.
@spartandare390 agreed. Sometimes it didn't feel like a galactic war with stuff like that missing. Some mods fix it up. For the battle of earth, specifically, the take back earth mod is awesome. Makes it feel much more alive, that all the work collecting allies was worth it, and makes you feel like you have to hurry or the galaxy is screwed. It also includes all your old squadmates from me2 as temporary squad mates in certain sections. Leading their own units into battle.
I wish some talented SFM artist/animator would make a short scene of Reaper fleet vs UNSC ships from Halo The ships in Halo usually have a single but deadly railgun mounted in the front but it takes a few seconds to charge up a shot (for those who don't know) I imagine the battle would go like this - Reapers would cut through the ships pretty quickly but the UNSC ships would blow apart the Reaper ships in spaced out waves/intervals
This trilogy broke me , i was invested in every character, i cared about them and mourned my femshep....theres something quite moving when she gets blasted by the reaper in the final mission and she wakes up all bruised and battered ..... but the scene that gets me everytime is Thanes death in the hospital, the prayer, the music , its beautifully voice acted by Jennifer Hale "Goodbye Thane, you won't be alone long " 😢😢😢
I remember when I was 11 years old in 2008, my mum would take me out to go buy a game. I couldn't see anything I liked the look of so I just grabbed Mass Effect because the front cover looked kinda cool. Didn't know anything about it to be honest. Oh boy, did that change my life. Hands down the best gaming trilogy just for ultimate story telling and lore, I have never felt such a bond for fictional characters as in this game. If you have never played, give it a chance you might be surprised.
It will be with ME4 they say; but IMHO it''s BS; unless you were playing Renegade all the way through you should have learned that cooperation was the key and finding a way to cooperate with the Reapers without submitting to them - the Reapers were just pawns of the Citadel AI anyways - was the correct answer.
They should have switched the colors to keep with the Paragon is blue and Renegade is red theme. By this point and especially after the ME4 trailer everything is pointing towards Destroy as the canon making it the Paragon choice. Control is obviously the Renegade choice and should have been colored red because this option flat out makes Shepard vindicate the Illusive Man's actions, someone he/she knew full well was indoctrinated.
Wrong. The whole idea here is that nothing is ever as black and white as it seems because none of the endings is without any form of sacrifice. "Destroy" is most certainly the Renegade ending because it has you wiping out all synthetic life despite being shown that indigenous species like the Geth deserves life on their own terms. "Synthesis" is touted as the best ending as it allows for synthetics and organics to reach a new level of understanding coupled with all the benefits of physically integrating synthetic frameworks into organic DNA, but I would argue that "Control" is the best and most Paragon ending despite being championed by the Illusive Man. You see, choosing "Control" does not mean that you agree with the Illusive Man. TIM wanted to use the reapers for humanity's benefits only, he would've used them to make humans the superior species of the galaxy. Shepard's intentions are quite different; if by nothing else, his actions throught the games (especially breaking with Cerberus in the end of ME2) informs you of that. Moreover, there are even subtle differences in Shepard's monologue in "Control" based on whether you went Paragon or Renegade throughout your playthroughs. If you have played mostly Renegade, the Shepard AI says things like, "I will give direction, provide a powerful leader and end the bickering of the many" and "I will lead an army that no one will dare oppose!", whereas if you go mostly Paragon, the Shepard AI says things like "To give the many hope for a future, to ensure that all have a voice in that future" and "I will rebuild what the many have lost, I will create a future with limitless possibilities. I will protect and sustain. I will act as guardian for the many". Plus, like I said, I personally view "Control" as the MOST Paragon ending because it saves the galaxy without committing mass genocide of synthetics while also keeping the status quo intact, i.e no one is forced to become a walking glowstick against their will; the only real change is Shepard dying, but that was the most fitting end to a character which affected so many on such a massive level anyway. And he doesn't even necessarily "die" either, but lives on as a supreme A.I god. I couldn't even think of a more epic ending than that. But the point is, it isn't all cut and dry. In the end, it doesn't matter what character originally sought what goals, because all endings are made viable and justified if you decide for them to be the definitive one for the very moral reasons that they could be seen as such. No ending is completely wrong, but no ending is completely in the right either.
@@Egobyte83 The Geth helped in building the Crucible, so they sure as hell knew it’d kill them, but some were able to theoretically bypass that by uploading into Quarian Suits. Synthesis is an nonconsensual mutilation of all life, Control is a grab for power. There’s a reason Shepard only lives in the destroy ending.
@cjbladesworth8049 Ok (1) lol, that's wishful thinking. Synthetic life is synthetic life, regardless if it is living in a quarian suit or a geth platform, the geth even said so themselves; their bodies are just tools. (2) Nobody knew what the Crucible was going to do, it was a desperate hope that it would be a problem-solver, but they didn't know if it was a solution through destruction or anything else (which is what is left for you to decide), they mention it many times how they wonder how it is going to help them, some believe it's a weapon, but nobody knows for sure, they simply hope. Moreover, I am fairly certain that with their need for self-preservation, had the geth known beforehand that Shepard was going to use it to kill them too, they wouldn't have helped build it in the first place. (3) And about that, no geth was made privy to the information Shepard got from the Catalyst, Shepard was the only one there at the time. (4) And there it is, once again; the narrowminded intepretations of the choices. I already explained how it is NOT a black/white choice; failure for anyone else to understand it is not my problem.
@@Egobyte83 (1) It’s more than wishful thinking. The fact the Quarians are alive even after the Crucible goes off implies that their suits are still active, meaning the Geth in there are still alive. At low EMS the Crucible destroys all technology, but at High EMS we see that the damage is far more limited and controlled. Realistically if you create a Geth-Quarian alliance both parties are close enough that the Destroy ending would have to take them both out. But, we’ve seen if you had Tali as a love interest, Quarian suits are still functioning. You’re being pessimistic, which is fine, but basic observation says there’s a strong chance they’re fine just like Shepard was. (2) The Geth were connected to the Reapers, and Legion was able to steal and distribute information from them before his death. They definitely knew AT LEAST the crucible would destroy the reapers because that’s the base function that the reapers have shown they fear most time and time again. (3) No one was made privy period. I never said they were. But the star child outright lies to you anyways. The fact you’re treating Harbinger’s word as law is strange-. (4) it’s VERY. Black and white when it comes to Synthesis. Humans should have the right to deny their bodies being changed in a genetic level. It should be a choice. Shepard doesn’t have the right to play god.
@@cjbladesworth8049 (1) Your headcanon doesn't apply to what the game has already established. But I mean, sure, if you want to analyze and interpret a pretty clear message differently, that's your right to do so. But that's getting dangerously close to those deluded Indoctrination-theory people who wished for something that wasn't in the game to be real. (2) Here we go again with creative assumptions. Look, before I disassemble this, do you REALLY believe that a sentient race would just happily go along with building a doomsday weapon that they knew would specifically be used to destroy their own species all across the galaxy, even if it had been as a side effect? ... I mean, really?.. Don't you see the problem here..? Regardless, the fact is that the true geth have already shown that it was "evidently" acceptable for them even to deal with the reapers if it meant continued existance. (3) Lies? Why would they-.... oh, I get it now... yep, I knew I saw the pattern here. You're right buddy, I am sure there is some hidden agenda there. Bioware must have surely made this game for conspiracy theorists to pick apart. We weren't at all given what we got, it's a lie. All of it. 🙄 (4) 🤦♂️ Boy, that bus just keeps running you over, eh?
They likely would have failed hard. So many writers don't want to follow source material for thier own selfish gains. They don't get recognized if all they do is follow source material
Me: think we have a chance Me: realizing this is a single fight, around a single planet, against one invasion force... with everything we could muster... and we are losing...
I remember first time I ran through the game half assed and this scene was so heartbreaking because everyone kept dying and getting destroyed. Next time I completed all missions correctly 😅
2:44 This is what you will see when you are a newbie then you suddenly get curious about a galaxy with red dots and warning signs and you go there without knowing that it is a PvP area with high loot in your ship.
This is one of the most amazing conclusions in terms of space fights for me; what made it extra epic was knowing that it was my Shepherd (me) who brought the galaxy together. Mass Effect, man! I was so pumped when the Legendary Edition was announced on N7 Day; it as the ONE series i was waiting to be remastered (after having beat it on my PS3 and 2/3 on my 360).
As cool as this scene is, that initial volley from the allied fleet probably triggered an extinction event on Earth. Every shot that missed would have hit the planet. Thousands of impacts, each with the force of a nuclear bomb.
to this date, in my eyes, the MOST EPIC space battle in history. the light flashes everytime a ship jumps out of hyperspace, the amount of ships, how you see the shots getting fired out in sections at all times.
One thing that crakes me up is .... "Hey who's the commander here, the can only be one who's in command thats me Shepard & therefore we go when only I say so...!" 1sec later ..."Ok you can go"... Lol
Its a badass moment and I was there to play it but man this was way to hyped up in terms of an "upgrade". The third game fundamentally felt different from the first two games. Took a lot of agency outta the previous titles but then again they suffered a ton of internal strife.
The fact that you go from a soldier, just another joe on the ground, to the tip of the spear lead commander, admiral of all admiral's, of the biggest fleet the known galaxy anyone has ever seen with nearly all of them mostly loyal to you, is why I love this trilogy so much. And if feels like you earned it too
Did anyone else get the 4th ending? Don't choose any of the 3 presented endings; just turn around and shoot the Crucible. Enjoy the perfect bittersweet farewell.
I repeat, One of the greatest stories told in this century. At the heart of it all it's the classic Hero's Journey tale... But damn it if it isn't the best story out there.
Remember when it was a big point to never fight around a world that could grow live on it because the major projectiles missing their target would basically nuke the entire world with the kinetic energy they carry?
Renember this moments this is the peak of sci-fi games in yours lifetime , after that never will be the same , Mass Effect at least for me is the peak . Just imagine there are no Lord of the Rings trilogy or matrix in 2003 but Mass Effect trilogy movie , as this you can see in game , as Keanu Reevs play Shepard. It will be masterpiece aff all time . Some Harry from Harry Potter will go duck yourself .
@@stateofopportunity1286 Fair. The original Mass Effect Trilogy is a masterpiece with a few flawed minutes near the end. It's like a beautiful creamy milkshake with a sour-spoiled cherry on top.
That shot of the soldiers running through the streets in that doomsday shot of earth is one of the most memorable scenes in any form of media, ever lol.
1. Chills every time. 2. Seeing the Asari dreadnaught is...an almost impossible to describe moment. 3. WHY DO THEY NOT FOCUS FIRE!? 4. Fighters. Out of no where. Somehow cool. 5. 3:46 I'm sorry, but if the sound the Normandy makes as she screams by doesn't get you excited in parts you didn't even know you had, I'm not certain we're of the same species.
Fighters flying in front of the capital ships so now their big guns cannot fire. Surely they know by now to fire when the reaper main gun is exposed (the red eye thing). Focus fire!!! Take the reapers down 1 at a time. Who is coordinating this fight and picking targets? Even so, still a cool fight. Especially when you have united most of the species. Play it with the AHEM and Take Earth Back mods for a longer video.
just finished the whole trilogy for the first time and i dont know what am i supposed to do i will not find that good game as this series for a long time
This was the original 'Avengers Endgame' moment for me, i remember being in high school and getting to this point and it being an incredible masterpiece to experience the first time. The way all the ships flash out of hyperspace and are rushing headlong into almost certain death was amazing. Felt like a true culmination of a saga! Mass Effect is still to this day the GOAT of epic sci-fi battle scenes in my opinion
Crushing numerical superiority against an enemy that has techonological superiority. Certainly a single direction, frontal assault with - in the background - the planet that we want to save and that most certainly wont suffer all of our missed shot is the way to go. Great strategy, commander Shepard!
My problem with this is the allies fucked up the strategy. "So we get there and what's the plan?" "Fire." "Uh...ok." There were like a few dozen Reaper ships. And some of them WERE getting damaged. The allies fired at ALL of them at once, so they did little damage to each one over time, while they were still combat effective. The smart thing would have been for all ally ships to fire at a couple Reapers at a time, take those out of the battle completely and then move on to the next couple targets. This would have been over in a couple minutes.
@@redpandasarecool3 I think there are total thousands of them. But that is spread out across an entire galaxy. The Allied fleet could have focused their fire on each ship, taken out one Reaper group after another, and just replaced their losses as they went. Because the Reapers only produce one Reaper per cycle. That puts them at a massive numerical disadvantage since they can't replace their losses as much.
@@chriswhite3692 it would still take alot of time to destroy a reaper after all the only reason sovereign was destroyd so quick was bc killing implanted saren sent a feedback loop which disabled all his systems INCLUDING sheilds thats def what got him killed not weak armour or shields so if you use that as a base line it would take a decent ammount of time to destroy all of the reapers like that 1 by 1 and the reapers would jsut destroy ships in 1 hit so its a power disadvantage atp also if they did do that more reaper forces would have broken off to attack hammer team which is no good at all
As a reminder, the "Destroy" ending is the canon one. In case people get confused when the sequel eventually comes out, since the ending in this video is the "Control" ending. Future addition: This is not because I'm a "Destroy" ending lover. It's more like because it's the only way for the next Mass Effect (not Andromeda) to be plausible in the continuity.
No it is not its not confirmed that any ending was canon yet especially since the destroy ending said ALL synthetics including the geth wouldve died and the new one has Geth in it you destroy fanboys gotta stop
@@blackfox9743 Eh, whatever you want to think, sure. I'm not the one who's trying to cope with the fact that Destroy is more likely than either Control or Synthesis. Let's just say that Shepard's survival depends on it.
Shepard would never accept anything other than 'destroy". He's spent three years of his life and two of his death focused on the sole goal of destroying the Reapers. He would personally fly around picking up the bits and throwing them into stars if he could.
i could never access this ending for some reason but seeing it brings a tear my eye i would have loved to see thyyis back when i first played it when i was 9 years old and i loved to see it now and im also playing throuhg the original triology as we speak and these are an amazing set of games that i loved as a kid and will love now they are bueatiful even these days and even tho mass effect andromeda may not have been a follow up of the current storyline but i think 500 years in the future they are still an amazing set of games i loved to play when i was and still love to play these days
I remember I had tears in my eyes, when I finished the game the first time. And the second time. And the third time. And the fourth time. And the fifth time....
You and me both. ❤️😵💫
You had tears in your eyes after witnessing the vanilla ME3 ending??
@@Paveway-chan deadass
@@Paveway-chan it was that bad
Me to bro
that reaper beam sound still gives me goosebumps. what a legendary sound they came up with
It should give you goosebumps.. that would mean space is full of something that can transmit sound...
@@beatsntoons because it’s not a sound, it’s a side effect of electromagnetic impulses that are used for indoctrination, like a “sound” from a concussion 😂
@@beatsntoons oh my god no one cares. it’s cool and that’s that. stop being such a nerd and shut up for once
@@yuvl32 No it is absolutely just the sound of the weapon firing. Mass Effect, like most sci fi franchises, has its ships make noise in space. You can tell it's nothing to do with indoctrination because every ship, Reaper and not, makes sound in space. It's just a stylistic choice.
@naggie6358 ME1 has several people state that the Reaper horn of Sovereign came from their own head. I don't know about the other sounds they make, but the horns should be heard by people in-universe.
This still gives me goosebumps so many years later. Hats off to the greatest science fiction series ever.
Star Trek Deep Space Nine is the greatest sci fi related thing ever. Mass Effect is 2nd
The wrong ending put an end to the goosebumps though ^^
@@BigB0ss00 foundation? dune? hello??
laughs in halo
@@BigB0ss00 Yo fight me!, All star trek up to voyager is the best
The best moment at 0:31 imo, where the fleet arrives and just keeps pouring and pouring in. The united galaxy simply summoned everything they had against an equally terryfing enemy, because the stakes have never been higher. Basically the most important fight of the galaxy since ever.
I've been talking with some buddies, comparing/contrasting this with the fleet arrival from Rise of Skywalker, and how this scene succeedes where the other does not, despite their many similarities.
@@terrivel11 Interesting comparison, I think you're right. Please elaborate, what did you find out? Why does ME work where Rise of Skywalker doesn't ?
I'm really bad with nice, concise answers, so you may need to bear with me here.
However there are several things going against the RoS vs ME3.
Presentation is the first, in two regards.
One is the setup. RoS has this really cheesy, "But there are more of us, Poe. There are more of us." line that I thought was really out of place. Then there's the pan over the Xyston to a frankly ludicrous amount of ships that have already appeared. How this fleet arrived and especially coordinated so quickly is a whole issue in of itself, but here a bulk of the fleet has already arrived to save the failing Resistance in what feels very much like a randomly inserted Deus Ex Machina.
ME3 on the other hand starts out in the cockpit of the Normandy. The calm before the storm. The musical score also builds up before finally fully dropping as the first ships begin to arrive. We see the arrival as it happens, and the score is more of a building heroic epic, as opposed to the already victorious SW main theme.
Second, I think the sound design of ME3 and the ships coming out of warp is also better. In paths where it survived, you also get the pan over the Destiny Ascension as it appears while STILL hearing the sound of ships arriving in the background. Everything about this scene from the sound/music design to the narrative is just better. The battle scene that follows is also just leagues ahead of RoS, but that's starting to stray into other scene territory.
On that note though our second issue is intention/history and stakes.
ME3 is the culmination of three games and hundreds of hours of work minimum on the part of players. Additionally these released happened over the course of an additional year over the sequel trilogy, 5 years vs 4.
Not getting into the nature of video games vs movies, there are still major stakes if the Galactic fleets fail. The Reapers threaten ALL sentient life in the galaxy, not the just the political state of the Resistance/New Republic. It is way easier to get invested in the ME3 scene, even discounting the sense of personal investment. The galactic fleets already KNOW they're basically screwed. They're not there to win the fight. Their only purpose in life is to stall for time, to hope that Shephard can get to the Citadel and activate the Crucible. It's a lot like the history of Operation Zero Dawn in a way. Humanity's fighting a losing battle, and their only purpose is to stall so the Zero Dawn scientists can finish the terraforming project.
However in Horizon Zero Dawn, THEY DIDN'T KNOW THAT. They thought they were working on a super weapon to stop the Faro Plague. The Galactic fleet knew, and still had the balls to fly into certain death.
The Resistance thought they had a fighting chance, and everything fell apart, for them to be saved at the last minute by a fleet that somehow got assembled, which is our third point.
There are just so many logical issues/inconsistencies in this. Memory does not serve correctly, but we do remember that they needed some kind of Macguffin in order to get to Exegol safely. It seemed really improbable that they would manage to get such a massive fleet there even WITH the Macguffin, if it were available to be distributed in such a manner, ignoring the fact that Lando somehow managed to gather and coordinate TENS of thousands of ships in what must have been a relatively small timeframe. There's some pretty big suspension of disbelief going on. It was some kind of navigation data or tool if I'm remembering correctly. Safe path through a bunch of blackholes or something?
Either way, it was just one other thing on top of the whole laundry list of things that were just not right with the sequel movies.
@@terrivel11 I agree on all points, and I would like to add one little thing. In ME3, the story is told from the player's perspective, where they are within the arriving fleet, plus the 100 hours of gathering the galaxy to join this fleet (you also got the feeling that you were in control, sort of).
In Star Wars the deus ex machina fleet suddenly arrived from outside without much plot.
@@antonk.653 The sudden nature of it all was really the big sticking point of it all in regards to a Deus Ex Machina. Done right, they can be really effective. Super Saiyan for instance is a form of it, though not nearly as suddenly inserted. Even if it weren’t something that Vegeta had been alluding to in his prior fight with Freeza, the whole journey and then loss of Krillin Goku went through to get there was narratively satisfying.
This is when we taught the Reapers one fundamental truth
They came to the wrong neighborhood
_And knocked on the wrong _*_fucking door_*
I hope Mass Effect 5 continues reaper threat
"I'M THE PO-LICE!"
“YOU PICKED THE WRONG HOUSE FOOL!”
Bashes the Reapers to death with a baseball bat
@@ahonui how come? They were defeated, it would feel kinda lame for them to come back, imo. Like "somehow, the reapers returned" haha
I am surprised no one caught the GTU reference
I'm not into sci-fi. But this particular trilogy made me assemble 8000 and more war assets for the final battle and almost completely max out the 3 episodes, that's how great I think it is. Legendary Edition was one of the few things EA did lately I actually found worth paying for, the trilogy with the DLCs really is a modern day epic.
Played the Mass Effect trilogy for the first time when LE came back out and I gotta tell ya, it blew me away, and this scene specifically gave me chills and had me choking up.
If you haven’t played this series, you are missing out on one of the greatest science fiction games ever
Yeah I agree to that mate I love the mass effect games I got the trilogy trilogies I say me2 my favourite I've never played the Andromeda one yet have you played that one
I wish I could replay the trilogy for thr first time again! I was locked in grinding through these 3 games like 2 or 3 years ago. Amazing trilogy
2:00 that opening salvo always gives me chills and again at 2:31 when the fighters move in. Still think it would have been awesome to see turian and geth fighters among the mix.
If I remember right there was a lore reason for that.
There's a treaty limiting the number of dreadnoughts that the races of the council could've, but the Alliance got around that by having carrier class ships which were non-existent in the other races, hence why only human small crafts.
Of course, Geth had small fighter class ships, but then having to make another cutscene to have them is meh... To expensive. :D
I am actually just simply happy that if you pay attention, you can see a couple of Alliance dreadnoughts come in along the mass of cruisers. For all the game lore makes of dreadnoughts, they really get a miniscule amount of screen time. Sure the Destiny Ascension gets a little, but that is still just one ship which is also a one-off as well. By the time of this battle if you tally up how many dreadnoughts _could_ have been at the battle, you end up with around 100 (Turians + Geth = somewhere around 70 by themselves). Counting all the races at pre-war levels. Even if half of those are actually destroyed or otherwise out of action, that still leaves 50 or so in action that could and by all rights should be there.
A note on carriers: While humans are the first to utilize this concept in space warfare, other species start doing the same thing pretty quickly. Read enough of the codex and you will see references to carriers of other species here and there. btw, you probably have to think of these kinds of carriers as nothing more than a giant frame designed to carry tons of fighters/interceptors. Something like the body of a zeppelin, with gates at either end (maybe in other places, but you get the idea). With just enough armor that minor attacks are not life threatening. Not exactly a big engineering feat for anyone who can build dreadnoughts, which alongside the main gun have 150 or so broadside guns.
@@whyjnot420 Turian's already used fighter tenders. Like sea plane tenders. Not intended to carry them through relays, but used for off battlefield repair, resupply and emergency command. But yes, Humans already had multiple ships larger than cruisers used for carrying fighters and bombers. Humans and Turians are the only mentioned races to use small craft bombers. Capable of dropping heavy ordinance inside PD envelopes and ME fields, or targeting small points with heavy weapons up close.
Even the Geth just use their fighters in that role.
good spot, immense framing
3:20
Ship: “Yeah! I got one!”
Reaper: “Fuck you”
*𝘋𝘖𝘖𝘖𝘖𝘖𝘔*
🥶
One of the best action scenes in the game. Funny, when I got to this part, Joker shook my Shepard's hand.
Bro something happen to me as well.
Its cuz you actually befriended him. Maybe bcuz of the citadel dlc
Same here.
My joker kissed Shepard.
I think the author cut out the decision wheel, but you can decide on whether to shake the hand or not.
10 years ago it released. And still to this day, there is nothing to get even close to beating it as the biggest space battle in sci-fi history.
I never played Mass Effect, but I can tell by this cutscene alone that it's a damn great game. Also the sound of the laser from the Reaper ships cannot be beat, both amazing and terrifying
If you get the chance to play the trilogy, I highly recommend you doing it. Or at least watching it on UA-cam. When you play the 3 games and meet all the characters, alien races and see the story unfold, this scene towards the end becomes so much better.
Please do yourself a favour and buy the legendary edition. The money you will give is nothing compared to the game you will play.
I recently finished this trilogy for the first time, it was worth every minute played. Much more than a game, Mass Effect is an unforgettable journey.
I have to agree with everyone else. I HATE shooter-games because I suck at them. But I've loved this game since I picked up ME2 when it came out in 2010. It's definitely worth at least watching a play-thru just to get the full story. :)
I played this game for the first time a year ago and it truly changed my outlook in gaming, might be an exaggeration or sound corny but you owe it to yourself to experience this story. In my opinion of of the best stories ever told in gaming or storytelling in general....
After all this time, the feel is still there. Man! What a series!
yeah, 10mins of final battle thats that we all waited for 3 series and 60+ hours of game. Suicide mission 7min lasts only Normandy throwing to the Collector base. Just for the difference.
“Always”
I still remember the day clearly as it was back in 2012. The moment blowing up the Catalyst and then the flashbacks. The very long journey that it took to get to that point. Realising this was the end and you'll never see your crew again. That hit different in so many ways I can still remember it 10 years later.
I tear up watching this now, over a decade after finishing the trilogy. I doubt I’ll ever have an investment in a game quite like this.
Gotta assume this is pretty new for the Reapers.
I mean, they're still going to be completely confident in annihilating everything, but they've likely not seen anything like this before. They usually sabotage the relay network long before anything like this can be organised.
tbh i wish they could've just won in a straight up fight, extreme difficulty refusal ending
@@MegaGanash problem is that even if they won this fight, so many other planets were being destroyed by equal sized fleets of reapers that it would’ve been a phyrric victory at best. “Save Earth” only for the reapers at Palevin to make a U-turn and end what little remained of the fleet.
@@DamonHowe7 A) I'm pretty sure most of the reapers had moved to earth when the battle for earth started, B) also imagine if the crucible was just a giant super-beam weapon that destroyed anything it blasted, and attaching the citadel just let you FTL one-shot anything in the galaxy
They build 1 new reaper in each cycle. They already lost a couple. This war is already a loss for them, even if they end up beating us.
@@juzoli More than 1 reaper per cycle, main races usually get several capital ship class reapers produced while smaller races end up being turned into the destroyers.
Dude this game came out in 2012(I was 19). Now I’m 31 and I’m going to be Commander Shepards age(32) this coming February. Wow time flies. This is one of the greatest Video Game 🎮 finales that I’ve every played. I always stick to the Destroy(red) ending. Admiral Andersons final line: “I’m proud of you”, makes me cry every time.
What a effing leader Shepard is! By the time this moment hits it doesn’t feel cheap, it feels earned. The story is amazing and about hope and the human spirit in that we will keep fighting to the very end in the face of unimaginable odds. All the emotions come back watching this scene again. Our last stand!
Best ending ever, all the species of the known galaxy coming together
It was the absolute worst ending ever at the time, pick a colour and thats it. Your decisions from the previous games amount to nothing. Im still pissed off.
they could’ve done so much more nowhere near me2
@@jadler457 they DO matter because they affect the environment in front of you. The dialogues, the species that you either save or exterminate, the crew members that can either die or survive until the end depending on your decision, the love interest cutscenes, the final battle where you either unite the entire galaxy or fail to do so - all of them DEPEND on your decisions. Yes, the ending could be better but in my opinion it’s about the journey not the end. I like to see how your decisions change the environment while you still playing the game and not when you watch the final credits.
@@jadler457
They might be the case in the vannila endings before the extended cut.
But anyways,red colour kills Reapers.
Blue makes them leave(sort of),and green...we all become abominations.
Those are all very, very different things.
Depending on what you did with Krogan cure,there is either a Krogan species renesanse or Rachi rule there now.
True, it's far from perfect,but even so, I was quite happy.
@@jadler457 also, if you have low War Assets the ending is determined by the decision to save or destroy the collector base in ME2
Playing through the series and getting to this point, having done everything in your power to get every possible ally, and knowing that this is an enemy that will stop at nothing short of complete extermination made this last battle perfect. It’s us or them. Do or die. I remember playing through before the huge patch and still feeling satisfied. I play through the series probably once a year. Still love it with all my heart.
I'm on my fifth play through of ME3 and still this scene has such emotional punch.
I've replayed the original trilogy and I've replayed the Legendary Edition, but I could never bring myself to finish the game more than once past the final battle. It's too emotional for me and painful to see the journey end.
I feel you....
how old are you? everything has begining and end. all good times end. ours ends now
I remember when I finished the last DLC they released and you got a moment with each character and you got closure with each one. It was then that I realized I saw all these characters as my friends, and how I was going to miss them. Sure, I could replay it. But it would be the same dialogue, same everything. It'd be like reliving a memory while not really making new ones. I love Mass Effect, man.
@@tomaszszupryczynski5453 just because they got emotional over good storytelling doesn’t mean they’re a little kid
Im only disappointed that they didn't merge the Quarian and Geth fleets together >:( would have made Joker saying Geth fleet reporting make more sense.
Angry math sounds over the coms? xD
It's cause you can lose one of it at Priority: Rannoch. So that's why that cutscene looks like that
@@M3lbL4sT Indeed, but considering this is from the Legendary edition a minor adjustment to show both when you have both would have been appreciated.
@@Centurian1283rd game remaster was a jump on money only when mods had better shaders anyway xd
It still amazes me that Bioware made us play 3 Games just to get the Perfect End-Game Experience we've always wanted. And we loved every moment of it. not just once to boot!
Even with the remastered version, I thought it would have been cool seeing the Geth fleet with the amanda
My five play-thru's the only fleet we didn't get was the selfish Salarian's because of the Delatross. Dela-trait-ross. ;)
@@WickedPrince3D well we see their fleet,if you save the council in me1 then in me3 the salarian councillor gives you the salarian 3rd fleet because you saved her from kai leng
@@γιουργια I've never had that happen in the base ME3 because she hinges Salarian support on betraying the Krogan and I refuse to do that. I haven't finished my run of Legendary Edition so if they change that I haven't seen it.
@@WickedPrince3D If it makes you feel better, you are most definitely in the majority; I don't think betraying the krogan is a very popular choice among fans.
@@γιουργια Oh, wait, I probably didn't even realize this. :)
When it truly pays to do all the side quests in this moment from one save file through all three games masterful
If you think about the progress of human civilization, you can imagine that the prothean actions stalling the reaper return for some 200 or 300 years (i think it was only that), made a huge difference in the level they found the galactic civilizations when they returned. Everyone had quite some decent fleets by that time
i had only played the first one originally, and didnt continue until the ME collection years later, im glad i did. i was far more mature and able to appreciate the story and characters more, and playing them back to back like that by the 3rd game i TRULY felt exhausted and tired with Shepard. about half way through the 3rd game i have never felt so in tune with a character's feelings (fem shep liara love) and that ending was 1 of only 2 ever games to make me cry, and again when i played it again a few weeks later. (as an aside i got to simply experience the patched ending as a noob!)
i played anthem before a played the LE and at the time i didnt understand why bioware fans hated it so much, after playing the LE i COMPLETLY understand.
this scene ^^^ was so rewarding, to be the first ship through the relay after running. . .i love mass effect so much
No one does space battle cinematic like ME. Amazing.
Eve online is better
Maaan with a big bass subwoofer and epic home sound system and max it when the fleets arrives in 4k is just.. SO EPIC !:D
You watch this, and you are full of pride. Then you land, there is so much foreboding. I played this for the first time aged 47, and I thought I'd played it all. How wrong was I? They come at you from all angles; bosses intermingled with the badassery of the worst enemies. It was exhausting, right up to the last moments and you really think you are going to lose teammates. Then you do, God, that hurt. Nothing ever has, and nothing ever will beat it. I played Legendary after six full playthroughs - it still hits hard. I'll play it again all the way through. The greatest computer game of all time. I don't mind the ending, the reapers were always going to get it, always.
Damn I loved this trilogy
well this was good story cos it was based on us. on our reality, betreyal, our flaws, and women degeneracy and self sabotage. chaos drama they bring to stable life
Imagine the moment Shepherd commands all fleets to fire, the entire Reaper fleet just quickly maneuvers to the side, allowing projectiles to rain on the Earth. XD
lolz diabolical
Какая же Крутая игра!! Я помню этот момент и те чувства что я испытал впервые увидев это!! Супер!! Жаль что такие игры уже в прошлом(
I love this game. Never could get over the fact that they killed Shepard in ME2 then brought them back in ME2 just to kill them off again in ME3. If that’s the case, they should have let clone Shepard live.
Может клон то и не умер, а его просто (когда он падал с Нормандии) забрали на корабле) и концовка была с ним
It's to show that no victory is ever without sacrifice. Shepard was needed as a charismatic leader to unite the galaxy, but in order to save the galaxy from the existential threat that the Reapers pose, he is the only one that can make the choices that delivers us all from evil. He alone is the anomaly introduced into the crucible to present the opportunity for a new solution; like the Starchild says "none have ever come this far", but count on Shepard to be the one to make it and finally change things from how they have always been. Unless you pick the Refusal ending ofc, but that was just a fan-pressured joke of an ending anyway so it doesn't count.
if you go with the Destroy ending (which theory states is cannon) Shepard lives, as you see a suit of N7 armor move like someone is taking a breath, but it doesn't show the person so for all we know it's just some rando N7
@@shadowai9668 The odd part about that is that its on ground so it would mean that he survived crashing from space onboard the crucible/citadel. I get that the dude is like 80% cybernetics at this point but still :P
@@pepparmostheelder idk its weird but theres prob some bullshit around that could make it work also def not 80%
this scene will never fail to make me cry. best fight scene in video game history
I didn't get the Quarian fleet...
And you know why.
Bros, I cried real tears when I saw what Tali did. I felt sick to my stomach.
I wanted to see out of curiosity and I regretted my decision immediately and went back to redo that part and yeah got both Geth and Quarians working together
I didn't get the Quarian fleet either. Its the only time my blood has run cold when playing a game. Great game :)
@@morratut what happened to the Quarian fleet?
In my fail-through of the series I made sure she didn’t make it.
What’s hilarious is that I was locked to Destroy ending for ME3, the game didn’t even make Control an option.
@@christanbranch5811 [ MAJOR SPOILERS ]
If you support the geth in the Priority: Rannoch quest, the quarian fleet is wiped out and Tali commits suicide.
Endings could have been better but overall it was a really fun game. Currently have a female Shepard, biotic.
that's why im not planing to switch to LE edition,i cannot play the game without mods such as MAHEM happy ending,Expanded galaxy mod,project varity,specter expansion,ARK mod and many more,and i got graphics upgraded with ALOT of textures mod,and reshaders
@@LumenInTenebris They're all (or mostly) available now on LE :) AHEM and Take Earth Back make the ending so much better.
Awesome scene and score. But I'm a bit sad in the remaster we didn't see salarian ships at least. There have been dozens of fan models made in the previous decade they could have used one of those. Would have been cool to see minor races as well. At least 1.
i'm sad they didn't bring the full scale (if recruited) hammer fleet into the ground battle... would be fun actually nailing some reaper asses
@spartandare390 would be awesome to see some ground assault ships. Surely the turians have some atkeast. In the take back earth dlc cinematic, you see the Normandy leading some turian frigates in the atmosphere for a second. But that's it.
@@questionmark05 yes!! or any of the mp characters supporting would also be a fun addition. too bad the remaster didnt have the mp tho
@spartandare390 agreed. Sometimes it didn't feel like a galactic war with stuff like that missing. Some mods fix it up. For the battle of earth, specifically, the take back earth mod is awesome. Makes it feel much more alive, that all the work collecting allies was worth it, and makes you feel like you have to hurry or the galaxy is screwed. It also includes all your old squadmates from me2 as temporary squad mates in certain sections. Leading their own units into battle.
I wish some talented SFM artist/animator would make a short scene of Reaper fleet vs UNSC ships from Halo
The ships in Halo usually have a single but deadly railgun mounted in the front but it takes a few seconds to charge up a shot (for those who don't know)
I imagine the battle would go like this - Reapers would cut through the ships pretty quickly but the UNSC ships would blow apart the Reaper ships in spaced out waves/intervals
there's a mash-up kind alie that forgot what it was called tho, but it was a mix of Star-trek, Halo, and Mass Effect
This trilogy broke me , i was invested in every character, i cared about them and mourned my femshep....theres something quite moving when she gets blasted by the reaper in the final mission and she wakes up all bruised and battered ..... but the scene that gets me everytime is Thanes death in the hospital, the prayer, the music , its beautifully voice acted by Jennifer Hale
"Goodbye Thane, you won't be alone long " 😢😢😢
I remember when I was 11 years old in 2008, my mum would take me out to go buy a game. I couldn't see anything I liked the look of so I just grabbed Mass Effect because the front cover looked kinda cool. Didn't know anything about it to be honest.
Oh boy, did that change my life. Hands down the best gaming trilogy just for ultimate story telling and lore, I have never felt such a bond for fictional characters as in this game.
If you have never played, give it a chance you might be surprised.
We were eating so good back then and didn't even realize it.
The “Destroy” Ending should be canon.
It is lmao. 😂
It is
it's man
Those endings are such bullshit
It will be with ME4 they say; but IMHO it''s BS; unless you were playing Renegade all the way through you should have learned that cooperation was the key and finding a way to cooperate with the Reapers without submitting to them - the Reapers were just pawns of the Citadel AI anyways - was the correct answer.
Such an amazing game series. I don't care about others opinions. I thought it was ended beautifully. And now i'm so hyped for the next installment.
The Reapers are such a scary and unbelivebly powerful villains/antagagonists
Just think one person ONE PERSON united an ENTIRE Galaxy to face off the Reapers and pulls it off , absolute king shit
"holy shit, he did it" idk but that still gives me goosebumps
If only I could wipe my memory to relieve the experience and emotions I felt the first time. This game will always have a special place in my heart.
I'm chugging degergent to get early onset alzheimers so I can replay ME again.
They should have switched the colors to keep with the Paragon is blue and Renegade is red theme. By this point and especially after the ME4 trailer everything is pointing towards Destroy as the canon making it the Paragon choice. Control is obviously the Renegade choice and should have been colored red because this option flat out makes Shepard vindicate the Illusive Man's actions, someone he/she knew full well was indoctrinated.
Wrong. The whole idea here is that nothing is ever as black and white as it seems because none of the endings is without any form of sacrifice. "Destroy" is most certainly the Renegade ending because it has you wiping out all synthetic life despite being shown that indigenous species like the Geth deserves life on their own terms. "Synthesis" is touted as the best ending as it allows for synthetics and organics to reach a new level of understanding coupled with all the benefits of physically integrating synthetic frameworks into organic DNA, but I would argue that "Control" is the best and most Paragon ending despite being championed by the Illusive Man.
You see, choosing "Control" does not mean that you agree with the Illusive Man. TIM wanted to use the reapers for humanity's benefits only, he would've used them to make humans the superior species of the galaxy. Shepard's intentions are quite different; if by nothing else, his actions throught the games (especially breaking with Cerberus in the end of ME2) informs you of that.
Moreover, there are even subtle differences in Shepard's monologue in "Control" based on whether you went Paragon or Renegade throughout your playthroughs.
If you have played mostly Renegade, the Shepard AI says things like, "I will give direction, provide a powerful leader and end the bickering of the many" and "I will lead an army that no one will dare oppose!", whereas if you go mostly Paragon, the Shepard AI says things like "To give the many hope for a future, to ensure that all have a voice in that future" and "I will rebuild what the many have lost, I will create a future with limitless possibilities. I will protect and sustain. I will act as guardian for the many".
Plus, like I said, I personally view "Control" as the MOST Paragon ending because it saves the galaxy without committing mass genocide of synthetics while also keeping the status quo intact, i.e no one is forced to become a walking glowstick against their will; the only real change is Shepard dying, but that was the most fitting end to a character which affected so many on such a massive level anyway. And he doesn't even necessarily "die" either, but lives on as a supreme A.I god. I couldn't even think of a more epic ending than that.
But the point is, it isn't all cut and dry. In the end, it doesn't matter what character originally sought what goals, because all endings are made viable and justified if you decide for them to be the definitive one for the very moral reasons that they could be seen as such.
No ending is completely wrong, but no ending is completely in the right either.
@@Egobyte83 The Geth helped in building the Crucible, so they sure as hell knew it’d kill them, but some were able to theoretically bypass that by uploading into Quarian Suits.
Synthesis is an nonconsensual mutilation of all life, Control is a grab for power. There’s a reason Shepard only lives in the destroy ending.
@cjbladesworth8049
Ok (1) lol, that's wishful thinking. Synthetic life is synthetic life, regardless if it is living in a quarian suit or a geth platform, the geth even said so themselves; their bodies are just tools.
(2) Nobody knew what the Crucible was going to do, it was a desperate hope that it would be a problem-solver, but they didn't know if it was a solution through destruction or anything else (which is what is left for you to decide), they mention it many times how they wonder how it is going to help them, some believe it's a weapon, but nobody knows for sure, they simply hope. Moreover, I am fairly certain that with their need for self-preservation, had the geth known beforehand that Shepard was going to use it to kill them too, they wouldn't have helped build it in the first place.
(3) And about that, no geth was made privy to the information Shepard got from the Catalyst, Shepard was the only one there at the time.
(4) And there it is, once again; the narrowminded intepretations of the choices. I already explained how it is NOT a black/white choice; failure for anyone else to understand it is not my problem.
@@Egobyte83
(1) It’s more than wishful thinking. The fact the Quarians are alive even after the Crucible goes off implies that their suits are still active, meaning the Geth in there are still alive. At low EMS the Crucible destroys all technology, but at High EMS we see that the damage is far more limited and controlled. Realistically if you create a Geth-Quarian alliance both parties are close enough that the Destroy ending would have to take them both out.
But, we’ve seen if you had Tali as a love interest, Quarian suits are still functioning. You’re being pessimistic, which is fine, but basic observation says there’s a strong chance they’re fine just like Shepard was.
(2) The Geth were connected to the Reapers, and Legion was able to steal and distribute information from them before his death. They definitely knew AT LEAST the crucible would destroy the reapers because that’s the base function that the reapers have shown they fear most time and time again.
(3) No one was made privy period. I never said they were. But the star child outright lies to you anyways. The fact you’re treating Harbinger’s word as law is strange-.
(4) it’s VERY. Black and white when it comes to Synthesis. Humans should have the right to deny their bodies being changed in a genetic level. It should be a choice. Shepard doesn’t have the right to play god.
@@cjbladesworth8049
(1) Your headcanon doesn't apply to what the game has already established. But I mean, sure, if you want to analyze and interpret a pretty clear message differently, that's your right to do so. But that's getting dangerously close to those deluded Indoctrination-theory people who wished for something that wasn't in the game to be real.
(2) Here we go again with creative assumptions. Look, before I disassemble this, do you REALLY believe that a sentient race would just happily go along with building a doomsday weapon that they knew would specifically be used to destroy their own species all across the galaxy, even if it had been as a side effect? ... I mean, really?.. Don't you see the problem here..? Regardless, the fact is that the true geth have already shown that it was "evidently" acceptable for them even to deal with the reapers if it meant continued existance.
(3) Lies? Why would they-.... oh, I get it now... yep, I knew I saw the pattern here. You're right buddy, I am sure there is some hidden agenda there. Bioware must have surely made this game for conspiracy theorists to pick apart. We weren't at all given what we got, it's a lie. All of it. 🙄
(4) 🤦♂️ Boy, that bus just keeps running you over, eh?
Could you imagine if they did a Mass Effect Trilogy Movie, and they did this fight, after 3 films, with a full budget... 😍
They likely would have failed hard. So many writers don't want to follow source material for thier own selfish gains. They don't get recognized if all they do is follow source material
Give it 20 years
The reapers would be renamed to Patriarchy or something. Trump's voice would be used for Sovereign.
Me: think we have a chance
Me: realizing this is a single fight, around a single planet, against one invasion force... with everything we could muster... and we are losing...
I remember first time I ran through the game half assed and this scene was so heartbreaking because everyone kept dying and getting destroyed. Next time I completed all missions correctly 😅
2:44 This is what you will see when you are a newbie then you suddenly get curious about a galaxy with red dots and warning signs and you go there without knowing that it is a PvP area with high loot in your ship.
So nostalgic, started with 1, 2 and then, the finale. Back then, it was epic, bittersweet, legendary, and romantic.
man that loading screen transition is still best thing ever!
its the small things :')
Brings me back. What a series.
This is one of the most amazing conclusions in terms of space fights for me; what made it extra epic was knowing that it was my Shepherd (me) who brought the galaxy together.
Mass Effect, man! I was so pumped when the Legendary Edition was announced on N7 Day; it as the ONE series i was waiting to be remastered (after having beat it on my PS3 and 2/3 on my 360).
As cool as this scene is, that initial volley from the allied fleet probably triggered an extinction event on Earth. Every shot that missed would have hit the planet. Thousands of impacts, each with the force of a nuclear bomb.
True. I think they said that earlier in the game (Palaven?) that the reapers put their back to the planet so that missed shots hit the planet.
Earth was almost done at the point, missed shots probably killed more reapers and their zombies than actual humans.
Still better than the new star wars trylogy
Greatest gaming experience of my life bar none.
to this date, in my eyes, the MOST EPIC space battle in history. the light flashes everytime a ship jumps out of hyperspace, the amount of ships, how you see the shots getting fired out in sections at all times.
I finished the game about 20 times. Now i was able to complete it in Insanity without take a single hit... My feelings take it all
One of the most epic moments in gaming history.
This end was the first deception in my life.... After years waiting for a great end we receive a end with 3 colors.....
One thing that crakes me up is ....
"Hey who's the commander here, the can only be one who's in command thats me Shepard & therefore we go when only I say so...!"
1sec later ..."Ok you can go"...
Lol
Its a badass moment and I was there to play it but man this was way to hyped up in terms of an "upgrade". The third game fundamentally felt different from the first two games. Took a lot of agency outta the previous titles but then again they suffered a ton of internal strife.
ME1 was far too much of a copy/paste grind.
The fact that you go from a soldier, just another joe on the ground, to the tip of the spear lead commander, admiral of all admiral's, of the biggest fleet the known galaxy anyone has ever seen with nearly all of them mostly loyal to you, is why I love this trilogy so much. And if feels like you earned it too
Did anyone else get the 4th ending? Don't choose any of the 3 presented endings; just turn around and shoot the Crucible. Enjoy the perfect bittersweet farewell.
No matter how many times I watch this I still get goosebumps, even with my complaints about the plot and ending of this game
best game i ever played. Wishing for more from the series.
This was one of the best space battles in sci-fi
The ending should say something liek "It took 11 year to clear the battle debris and bodies from circling earth's gravity." - would be a cool touch :D
@@messofstuff1116 Oh if it was that simple lol
I repeat, One of the greatest stories told in this century. At the heart of it all it's the classic Hero's Journey tale... But damn it if it isn't the best story out there.
Remember when it was a big point to never fight around a world that could grow live on it because the major projectiles missing their target would basically nuke the entire world with the kinetic energy they carry?
"Sir Isaac Newton was the deadliest son of a bitch in space!" -- Gunnery Chief
they mightve burnt up in the atmosphere that or they dont go THAT far
Renember this moments this is the peak of sci-fi games in yours lifetime , after that never will be the same , Mass Effect at least for me is the peak . Just imagine there are no Lord of the Rings trilogy or matrix in 2003 but Mass Effect trilogy movie , as this you can see in game , as Keanu Reevs play Shepard. It will be masterpiece aff all time . Some Harry from Harry Potter will go duck yourself .
The ending feels like a rushed job, to this day.
Compared to modern AAA titles, it feels like a polished masterpiece without compare. Today's games are barely worthy of the descriptor.
@@stateofopportunity1286 Fair. The original Mass Effect Trilogy is a masterpiece with a few flawed minutes near the end. It's like a beautiful creamy milkshake with a sour-spoiled cherry on top.
That shot of the soldiers running through the streets in that doomsday shot of earth is one of the most memorable scenes in any form of media, ever lol.
1. Chills every time.
2. Seeing the Asari dreadnaught is...an almost impossible to describe moment.
3. WHY DO THEY NOT FOCUS FIRE!?
4. Fighters. Out of no where. Somehow cool.
5. 3:46 I'm sorry, but if the sound the Normandy makes as she screams by doesn't get you excited in parts you didn't even know you had, I'm not certain we're of the same species.
Because then they would have won.
With conventional means.
Fighters flying in front of the capital ships so now their big guns cannot fire.
Surely they know by now to fire when the reaper main gun is exposed (the red eye thing).
Focus fire!!! Take the reapers down 1 at a time. Who is coordinating this fight and picking targets?
Even so, still a cool fight. Especially when you have united most of the species. Play it with the AHEM and Take Earth Back mods for a longer video.
4:19 "we'll bang, okay?"
why many people dislike the third sequel, I think it was very good.
In my opinion is the best
The *game* itself is by far the best Mass Effect, the *ending* tho... uhm yeah
People really like it up until the last 20 mins or so.
It was good overall..
@@jackdempsey2497 overall good? it was most epic mass effect till the ending
Added to my favorites.👍
I still feel the tingles.
just finished the whole trilogy for the first time and i dont know what am i supposed to do i will not find that good game as this series for a long time
Play it again with the right choices
Which end did you choose ?
The fact that Bioware spent years building a believable universe and then they put engine noise in deep space always bugs me
Mass Effect is space opera.
The truth is no one wants to watch a mute space battle, it should be enjoyable first and foremost not realistic.
This was the original 'Avengers Endgame' moment for me, i remember being in high school and getting to this point and it being an incredible masterpiece to experience the first time. The way all the ships flash out of hyperspace and are rushing headlong into almost certain death was amazing. Felt like a true culmination of a saga! Mass Effect is still to this day the GOAT of epic sci-fi battle scenes in my opinion
MASS EFFECT FOREVER 🥰
I finished the game a few weeks back.
And this scene was making me act up with the coolness like dayum.
Crushing numerical superiority against an enemy that has techonological superiority. Certainly a single direction, frontal assault with - in the background - the planet that we want to save and that most certainly wont suffer all of our missed shot is the way to go. Great strategy, commander Shepard!
Well I’m pretty sure they didn’t have any time to maneuver after exiting the relay but yeah they likely glassed what remained of Europe 😂
My problem with this is the allies fucked up the strategy.
"So we get there and what's the plan?"
"Fire."
"Uh...ok."
There were like a few dozen Reaper ships. And some of them WERE getting damaged. The allies fired at ALL of them at once, so they did little damage to each one over time, while they were still combat effective.
The smart thing would have been for all ally ships to fire at a couple Reapers at a time, take those out of the battle completely and then move on to the next couple targets. This would have been over in a couple minutes.
i dont even think they have numerical superiortity overall edi states there there are more reaper forces then allied forces in priority earth
@@redpandasarecool3 I think there are total thousands of them. But that is spread out across an entire galaxy. The Allied fleet could have focused their fire on each ship, taken out one Reaper group after another, and just replaced their losses as they went.
Because the Reapers only produce one Reaper per cycle. That puts them at a massive numerical disadvantage since they can't replace their losses as much.
@@chriswhite3692 it would still take alot of time to destroy a reaper after all the only reason sovereign was destroyd so quick was bc killing implanted saren sent a feedback loop which disabled all his systems INCLUDING sheilds thats def what got him killed not weak armour or shields so if you use that as a base line it would take a decent ammount of time to destroy all of the reapers like that 1 by 1 and the reapers would jsut destroy ships in 1 hit so its a power disadvantage atp also if they did do that more reaper forces would have broken off to attack hammer team which is no good at all
That music when the combined fleets come out of the relay always gets me.
its like space d-day
every time that god damn music... and i still hear tali's last words
As a reminder, the "Destroy" ending is the canon one. In case people get confused when the sequel eventually comes out, since the ending in this video is the "Control" ending.
Future addition: This is not because I'm a "Destroy" ending lover. It's more like because it's the only way for the next Mass Effect (not Andromeda) to be plausible in the continuity.
No it is not its not confirmed that any ending was canon yet especially since the destroy ending said ALL synthetics including the geth wouldve died and the new one has Geth in it you destroy fanboys gotta stop
@@blackfox9743 Eh, whatever you want to think, sure. I'm not the one who's trying to cope with the fact that Destroy is more likely than either Control or Synthesis.
Let's just say that Shepard's survival depends on it.
@@blackfox9743 u can easily rebuild robots and there could have been a workaround u never know
Shepard would never accept anything other than 'destroy". He's spent three years of his life and two of his death focused on the sole goal of destroying the Reapers.
He would personally fly around picking up the bits and throwing them into stars if he could.
Man, the scene where Joker retreats with Javik is surprisingly touching.
mass effect was a beautiful game, veilguard is filth
Sometimes I play this scene with the futurama theme song synched up. It works surprisingly well.
Netflix here is your next big budget series.
Bold of you to trust them with video game franchises
@@TheSetkon who else would have the money it needs maybe Amazon so there’s your options.
Maybe ridley Scott
Maybe the best gaming experiences, what the gaming industry delivered.
i could never access this ending for some reason but seeing it brings a tear my eye i would have loved to see thyyis back when i first played it when i was 9 years old and i loved to see it now and im also playing throuhg the original triology as we speak and these are an amazing set of games that i loved as a kid and will love now they are bueatiful even these days and even tho mass effect andromeda may not have been a follow up of the current storyline but i think 500 years in the future they are still an amazing set of games i loved to play when i was and still love to play these days