This mission was a great way to start the game and really set the tone of desperation, but I always wished there was at least one mission actually on Palaven. It's the only major planet we never have any interaction with. Hell, there's even two side things to do on Dekunna
@@tyskbulle Yup, but you can still compensate by maintaining coherent writing throughout the trilogy, even if you have to improvise. Well, unless your lead writer jumps out of the boat mid-trip that is. And why did that happen? EA corporate meddling.
The strategist in me admires their brutality. The Turian in me knows that I'm watching the destruction of....fifteen thousand years of civilization... MY civilization
Strategy? there's no strategy there at all. Looks like a massacre, pure domination. Just goes to show how destructive those Reapers can be. Humans are not too far away from that. I mean, they did build the A-Bomb after all. Enough of those could obliterate an entire Planet for goodness sake, and yet they STILL make them 🥴🙄
@@TheRCPLANE He just wrote what a Turian would probably think, without just quoting a phrase from the game. You just wrote what an idiot would say, without using your brain.
Honestly, I wish most of the mass effect 3 would be like this mission, like the cinematic trailer for the game about taking earth back. Massive, dark and depressing war for the survival of the whole galaxy that you eventually manage to win, not the running around solar systems to find and build magical weapon to solve all the problems. This was the peak of this game IMO, at least for me in the vanilla version of the game.
I agree with you wholeheartedly. The game's writing was utterly torn in two directions. You had the 'everything is hell, civilisation is collapsing, the Reapers are here' plot violently struggling against the 'mess about with your squad mates, get laid, search for gadgets, make friends, have fun' plot
I agree 2 they did some ✂ for the MP the end game was suppose to be a boss battle against the illusive man which he turns into some kind of reaper if I'm not mistaken and that dark energy in M.E.2 they ✂ out was part of the end game for M.E.3 wish bioware would do a remaster.
I remember the first time I saw this scene. The Reapers walking about while Palaven burns in the background. The ships shooting high above the moon. How they'd open fire on the Reapers - only to be destroyed in one hit by the Reaper Beam. The conversations around the camp. A great first mission out of the Sol System. Really set the tone of how out of depth and desperate everyone is in a war that just started hours ago for them.
I'm just glad to hear Saren's theme in this soundtrack to symbolize the turians and the conflict between the reapers that surrounds the player before going straight into combat.
I don't know why people hated Mass Effect 3 and the ending. The entire game WAS the ending. We got to see and address all the cool things that we learned about in previous games like Earth, the Turian homeworld, the Quarian Flotilla and the Genophage. We got an ending to character stories like Mordin, Wrex and Legion.
I'm with you but I think the last 15-20 mins could have just been done so much better. And honestly, I wouldnt have given us choices in the end. Everyone would have got 1 cannon "destroy" ending and the epilogue would have shown the results of your decisions across the galaxy while the crew of Normandy is stranded in deep space for a future sequel to find their remains and a rotting Normandy. I think they spent too much time on the decision branches and cut too much because of EA being garbage, that the end was disapointing to a large extent. If you had Quarians AND Geth, there should have at least been 10 seconds showing them attacking a Reaper over Earth together in the final engagement video. All that said, Palaven started the game off in an amazing way and I'm glad EA wasnt able to ruin the majority of the first 95% of the game despite their best efforts.
@@Thextoastxisxbob The extended ending didn't help much. It made some things better, other things worse. The ending is fundamentally flawed, it would have to be completely redone. 1. It should make sense and not contradict the lore and plot. 2. It should be significantly more impacted by the choices we make. 3. It should actually give closure, to the characters we love and to Shepard.
@@Horny_Fruit_Flies I really disagree with what you wrote 1. The first ending was more useless/cheap than contradictory. In fact it gives so few precise answers that I don't see how it could even contradict anything else in the lore. The Leviathan mission fixed this frustration by bringing interesting and coherent lore details and explanations about why reapers exist (validates @Thextoastxisxbob 's point about DLCs) 2. You do get to decide whether the main character survives, you can destroy all the synthetics in the galaxy, decide what the quarians and geth will become, whether you end the genophage, whether many people die or survive, the very vast majority of the characters can die or survive in ME2...Hell you can even chose to NOT save the galaxy and let the cycle continue if you want - it's absurd but you can ! As a player you're literally the galactic Jesus in this game... What other impact do you wish the player could have on the global ending ? 😅 3. Let's imagine for a moment that once you launch the citadel DLC, a message prints in the game saying "Hello dear player ! Once you start this mission, you cannot go back finish any more quest and will have to finish the game. Are you sure you want to continue ?"... Then Admiral Hackett pops in and say that you have a shore leave while he finishes preparing the fleet. You do the Citadel DLC. After the shore leave, Hackett is back online : the fleet are mobilizing. Priority Earth starts immediately with the Normandy fully staffed after their shore leave, ready for a last suicide mission... ... Would you think then that you had a closure with everyone ? Many people agree that the citadel DLC is part of the ending and wait the very end of the game to do it. You can do that too if you want
Something that strikes me is how ancient this sounds. You can hear the old underneath the new. You hear more of the electronic, but the flute is still there as the base. Just like Palaven and the Turian civilization. Perhaps you cannot hear it so clearly, but it's still there. Palaven, the origin, persists in the music. Just as it does for Turians.
I love this mission so much ❤️ Can you make a version of this that also loops in the battle theme? It's one of my favorites from the whole series! Keep doing awesome work!
This theme is so beautifully haunting knowing that the deadliest fleet in the Galaxy is getting their asses handed to them shows so much desperation and hopelessness and how this threat is very real
this theme makes me wonder what mass effect wouldve been like with Drew. K as the writer for all 3 games. if bioware had just a little more time. this game would have been bigger and better and the ending wouldve been fleshed out more instead of just lines of dialogue
@@guattodaddo i agree with you. while the extended cut was not perfect it was pretty good and was drastically better then the original insulting rgb starbrat ending.
I think I’ll replay the whole series again
What about now that the legendary edition is coming out in sad they took out multiplayer I loved it but I love the single player even more
@Spetsnaz haha exactly! Plus no money either so fck it xD
This mission was a great way to start the game and really set the tone of desperation, but I always wished there was at least one mission actually on Palaven. It's the only major planet we never have any interaction with. Hell, there's even two side things to do on Dekunna
Time constraint, B-team and EA harsh deadlines, sadly. Also, their meddling in the scenario. Commercial logic above artistic liberty.
@@MEUAR another problem is when you dont plan a trilogy from the beginning.
@@tyskbulle Yup, but you can still compensate by maintaining coherent writing throughout the trilogy, even if you have to improvise. Well, unless your lead writer jumps out of the boat mid-trip that is. And why did that happen? EA corporate meddling.
The strategist in me admires their brutality.
The Turian in me knows that I'm watching the destruction of....fifteen thousand years of civilization...
MY civilization
Strategy? there's no strategy there at all. Looks like a massacre, pure domination. Just goes to show how destructive those Reapers can be. Humans are not too far away from that. I mean, they did build the A-Bomb after all. Enough of those could obliterate an entire Planet for goodness sake, and yet they STILL make them 🥴🙄
@@Johny40Se7en Though the A-Bomb is a political tool not a military weapon.
seek help
@@TheRCPLANE He just wrote what a Turian would probably think, without just quoting a phrase from the game.
You just wrote what an idiot would say, without using your brain.
@@Agustin_Leal seek help
Priority: Palaven is a good mission and i am always very happy to see Garrus Vakarian again. Hell of a soldier and loyal to the bone.
Hackett out.
Sir Admiral sir,
don't want to be cocky but thats maybe why they call him Archangel.
I should go..
The best thing about this mission is that Reaper scrolling around and wrecking havok in the background
Gary Tran only a synthetic would like it destroying organics
@@iancameron8391 Haha not true. I know a lot of organics who love destroying organics. Autocratic systems like the third reich are most famous.
I remember playing this part for the first time and just felt so depressed by it. No other game captured this feeling to me so early in the game.
Honestly, I wish most of the mass effect 3 would be like this mission, like the cinematic trailer for the game about taking earth back. Massive, dark and depressing war for the survival of the whole galaxy that you eventually manage to win, not the running around solar systems to find and build magical weapon to solve all the problems. This was the peak of this game IMO, at least for me in the vanilla version of the game.
Agreed. And if I'm not mistaken, there was originally going to be a mission on Palaven itself but it was cut out :(
I agree with you wholeheartedly. The game's writing was utterly torn in two directions. You had the 'everything is hell, civilisation is collapsing, the Reapers are here' plot violently struggling against the 'mess about with your squad mates, get laid, search for gadgets, make friends, have fun' plot
I agree 2 they did some ✂ for the MP the end game was suppose to be a boss battle against the illusive man which he turns into some kind of reaper if I'm not mistaken and that dark energy in M.E.2 they ✂ out was part of the end game for M.E.3 wish bioware would do a remaster.
I remember the first time I saw this scene. The Reapers walking about while Palaven burns in the background. The ships shooting high above the moon. How they'd open fire on the Reapers - only to be destroyed in one hit by the Reaper Beam. The conversations around the camp. A great first mission out of the Sol System. Really set the tone of how out of depth and desperate everyone is in a war that just started hours ago for them.
Did not notice until watching this video that you see firestorms start on Palaven's surface throughout the mission :O
"How bad is it,General?"
I'm just glad to hear Saren's theme in this soundtrack to symbolize the turians and the conflict between the reapers that surrounds the player before going straight into combat.
Above glory, above victory, above even survival, remember that you never fight alone.
I love the atmosphere of this planet. One of my favorite game locations it’s so cool
Mass Effect 3 may have some flaws but the soundtrack is amazing. Thanks for another great video.
One of the best part of the trilogy...first time this whole scene was shocking for me.
Thank you for your work 1000times!
This music gives a sense of urgency to me. Almost to desperation level. I got to really focus in what I'm studying, because the thing is vital.
Just love the fact that this is a remake of the Virmire track from ME1
One of my favorite locations in Mass Effect.
I can sit for hours and watch those two reapers walk around in circles
Best atmosphere EVER
I don't know why people hated Mass Effect 3 and the ending. The entire game WAS the ending. We got to see and address all the cool things that we learned about in previous games like Earth, the Turian homeworld, the Quarian Flotilla and the Genophage. We got an ending to character stories like Mordin, Wrex and Legion.
I'm with you but I think the last 15-20 mins could have just been done so much better. And honestly, I wouldnt have given us choices in the end. Everyone would have got 1 cannon "destroy" ending and the epilogue would have shown the results of your decisions across the galaxy while the crew of Normandy is stranded in deep space for a future sequel to find their remains and a rotting Normandy.
I think they spent too much time on the decision branches and cut too much because of EA being garbage, that the end was disapointing to a large extent. If you had Quarians AND Geth, there should have at least been 10 seconds showing them attacking a Reaper over Earth together in the final engagement video.
All that said, Palaven started the game off in an amazing way and I'm glad EA wasnt able to ruin the majority of the first 95% of the game despite their best efforts.
Alot of the hate came before the DLCs and extending endings fleshed everything out.
@@Thextoastxisxbob The extended ending didn't help much. It made some things better, other things worse. The ending is fundamentally flawed, it would have to be completely redone.
1. It should make sense and not contradict the lore and plot.
2. It should be significantly more impacted by the choices we make.
3. It should actually give closure, to the characters we love and to Shepard.
@@Horny_Fruit_Flies I really disagree with what you wrote
1. The first ending was more useless/cheap than contradictory. In fact it gives so few precise answers that I don't see how it could even contradict anything else in the lore. The Leviathan mission fixed this frustration by bringing interesting and coherent lore details and explanations about why reapers exist (validates @Thextoastxisxbob 's point about DLCs)
2. You do get to decide whether the main character survives, you can destroy all the synthetics in the galaxy, decide what the quarians and geth will become, whether you end the genophage, whether many people die or survive, the very vast majority of the characters can die or survive in ME2...Hell you can even chose to NOT save the galaxy and let the cycle continue if you want - it's absurd but you can ! As a player you're literally the galactic Jesus in this game... What other impact do you wish the player could have on the global ending ? 😅
3. Let's imagine for a moment that once you launch the citadel DLC, a message prints in the game saying "Hello dear player ! Once you start this mission, you cannot go back finish any more quest and will have to finish the game. Are you sure you want to continue ?"... Then Admiral Hackett pops in and say that you have a shore leave while he finishes preparing the fleet. You do the Citadel DLC. After the shore leave, Hackett is back online : the fleet are mobilizing. Priority Earth starts immediately with the Normandy fully staffed after their shore leave, ready for a last suicide mission...
... Would you think then that you had a closure with everyone ?
Many people agree that the citadel DLC is part of the ending and wait the very end of the game to do it. You can do that too if you want
Something that strikes me is how ancient this sounds. You can hear the old underneath the new. You hear more of the electronic, but the flute is still there as the base. Just like Palaven and the Turian civilization. Perhaps you cannot hear it so clearly, but it's still there. Palaven, the origin, persists in the music. Just as it does for Turians.
I love this mission so much ❤️ Can you make a version of this that also loops in the battle theme? It's one of my favorites from the whole series! Keep doing awesome work!
Yeah I was going to do it a few days after I finished this one but started doing other stuff heh. I will get back to it eventually..
This theme is so beautifully haunting knowing that the deadliest fleet in the Galaxy is getting their asses handed to them shows so much desperation and hopelessness and how this threat is very real
Finally the long awaited composition! Thank you!
Listening to this while studying gives you that feel of urgency and really motivates you to not fail :D
*1 hour of Palaven burning*
Lots of mixed feelings w me3, but palavan was a high point.
Imagine if they got 12 more months on that title...
@@tyskbulle Could've been the best game ever
one of the best mission's in hole triology
can you make an ambiance at the krogan world with those canons firing in the background?
Despair
Ready for playing this in Remastered
this theme makes me wonder what mass effect wouldve been like with Drew. K as the writer for all 3 games. if bioware had just a little more time. this game would have been bigger and better and the ending wouldve been fleshed out more instead of just lines of dialogue
Nice one
my Q is, where did u get this video of Palaven? its avesome..
and how and where i can download it?
I recorded it myself in-game with the FoV increased to over 100 I believe.
@@GamingAmbience does the FoV increase leave the player character out of the view? Also how would you have removed the HUD
Mass Effect 3 was awesome until last 20 minutes
Not true! It's ALL great.
@@guattodaddo i agree with you. while the extended cut was not perfect it was pretty good and was drastically better then the original insulting rgb starbrat ending.
Just watching bitcoin dumps
I just wish Mass Effect 3 had a better ending and that Andromeda didn't exist.