It's nice to know that the 3 endings have consequences and can be limited based on what you did through out the trilogy. You will have less options if you didn't accomplish a certain goal. Example: You can only do the destroy ending now since you have low war assets. I'm also kind of disappointed that you need to have a really high amount of war assets in order to get the synthesis ending. The amount I have reached on my playthroughs have been 5,500 somewhere.
"C'mon Wrexie boi, remember how I got you back your dad's shitty armor that one time? Buddy o'le pal? Buddy rooskie? Brood brotha from anotha motha? NO?" 💥🔫😃
@@metetural9140 it doesn't matter how long this takes but one day a argument will manifest into of existance between the fallout 1,2, New Vegas fans and fallout 3, 4, 76 fans
To be fair on my first time through I had the Quarians die to the Geth and then the Geth die when I destroyed the Reapers. On the bright side there is really cheap property available on Rannoch.
I always destroy the space toasters, then I build that House for me and Tali with the toaster's scrap metal and live like a King. No more toasted breads but I can live with that.
@@Oceansama Yeah, even I forgot about it. But considering how Liara is featured in the next Mass Effect teaser trailer, we can confidently say that this ending is not cannon just like Shepard dying in ME2.
Me, too. I watched this entire video with my eyebrows raised, like how? My first ever playthrough was ME2 back in it was first released and I had no idea loyalty missions could save them. I only did a couple and when some died I was devastated lol
@@noahcennerilli7975 Yeah my memory of ME3 was that even when I got a high EMS Shepard Survived Destroy ending, the Normandy always took damage from the blast & Joker was always trying his hardest to get away from it. When I finished my 1st run of Legendary, he's calmly working and the Normandy even picks up speed and clearly gets away as the music swells to a climax
@@GTAVictor9128 There are two ways it could have been darker: 1) Not bothering to recruit Garrus until Mass Effect 2. 2) Keeping Samara alive for Mass Effect 3, ignoring the Paragon Interrupt to save her and then executing her last Ardat Yakshi daughter.
On TV Tropes, there was this liveblog called "The Adventure of Failure Shepard or How Not to Play the Mass Effect Trilogy", which didn't just get your squadmates killed, but also got as many people killed as possible.
I think that it can get even worse if Jack survives ME2, but you don't save grissom academy. Not only do you hear her being tortured but then you have to fight her.
Honestly the Liara and James one was actually horrifying. The casual brutality of it compared to all of the other ways of loosing squad mates is just jaw dropping, especially when you don't get given any time at all for that to then sink it.
10 years later and I always thought liara and James would survive each ending aside from refusal. That scene caught me so off guard… weird to think Hackett is the only immortal character
Okay, I'll be honest, out of all of these, Tali's suicide really hits hardest. All the others either died in fights or were killed by Shepard, but she just.... did it herself. Somehow Tali always manages to make the most emotionally scarring scenes.
For me, it hits so hard because it's YOUR choice at the end and not simple consequence of your mistakes that you were not aware of before. Killing Wrex on Virmire or losing someone in me2 is such a mistake (and many other examples), not curing genophage is the choice you unlikely make (especially at first playthrough). But this choice on Rannoch (considering some mistakes leading to having no ideal option) can be made either way because you want sacrifice neither of two sides. I think this choice more about quarians - of course you want to save Tali, but admirals are really retarded and don't want peace even if geth ready to cooperate. So you decide save friend or or don't let these mfs slaughter another race
Fantastic video. Still, though you do briefly show it, I wish you got into how in this worst ending the Catalyst's 'Destruction' weapon gets out of control and fries Earth to a crisp. You see London get absolutely *evaporated* and then the entire surface of the Earth getting engulfed in flames. Now, THAT is a grim ending! Granted, it doesn't concern the characters Shepard cares about (I get why you focus on them), but the entire planet of the protagonist's species becoming apparently uninhabitable is still a big deal.
Ngl, just watching the video all the way through almost made me break into tears. Doing an actual playthrough like this would just make me hate myself so kudos to you for enduring the experience, Dan. You've done what most of us Mass Effect fans wouldn't.
They shouldve made a hidden dialogue where if you kill every possible squadmate up to that point, Joker lists not just them but every friendly deceased character like major Kirrahae or whatever his name is, Dr Chocolates, any random victim of Something's Hope "cleansing" (aka Shep shooting everyone in the face instead of knoxking them out with those grenades he had), making the whole conversation lasting few minutes just to roast Shep and effectively the player too 💀
not exactly the perfect run, because they kill the reapers in the end and someone still lifes. For the real perfect just shoot the child in the end, then you have really kill everyone.
Literally last night I was watching the Dragon Age one and thought "Man, I really hope Big Dan is doing one for Mass Effect, my fav trilogy ever" and here it is!
Its crazy how you can see how the destroy ending change like it kills everything this time but normally with high assets its leaves a ton of things alive
Honestly it makes sense. When you collect various war assets in ME3 and read their descriptions, a lot of them explain how each artifact helps the engineers translate the blueprints of the crucible. Without enough design works and development the crucible is just a crude nuke that hits everyone
@@protonjones54 or the fleets protecting the crucible from getting damaged, theoretically more ground forces maybe clearing up from needing air support too?
14:49 I never expected that line in this cutscene. Also, things go immediately wrong as soon as we head to earth with less than minimum Galactic fleet strength. We see that the fleets in Sword are getting demolished as soon we give the attack command.
If there's one thing to be said for such a nightmarish potential ending, it does at least allow for new appreciation of the best endings. Saving everyone from complete oblivion is much more meaningful when the ending could have left everyone dead.
Dan... damn... I, I can't even describe how bad and sad I felt... And, thanks for giving this. Is so hard to imagine how broken this end will left the people.
It's funny how Wrex is SOOO mad at you through this playthrough. I mean... you let a bomb blow up on his planet, which Wrex tells you about during the confrontation. You sabotage a cure for his people. AND he feels so betrayed, especially just like he is being USED just for Shepard's own benefits for his mission. Yeah, I can understand why Wrex is 1,000% pissed off.
Well, she did literally just ask for it by saying that anyone with biotics is capable like it was a piece of cake just as Jacob volunteered to go into the vents. Guess they both just wanted to get offed Xd.
@@armorfrogentertainment Tbh though, Miranda was made to be perfect which would mean perfect biotics as well and the fact she cant hold it is imo a forced and badly written consequence.
@@Dark_Voice Yeah, honestly for all the talks of "My parents created me to be perfect" her biotics sure is anything but. It's pretty obvious that Jacob isn't the right choice for the door assignment but everything throughout ME2 suggested that Miranda is more than capable to hold the goddamn barriers, from the fact that she was created to be the perfect human to the fact that she said any biotic would be able to do the job.
Absolutely crazy he achieved what the reapers couldn’t even do from this play through; it cut me deep when I saw Jacob, Garrus, and Samara bite the bullet within minutes of each other
Watch "The Saddest party on the citadel" on youtube, they also killed everyone and did the DLC, it's really empty and the cool moments are lame, it's funny
you could resolve peace between the quarians and the geth with all of the accumulated renegade points, but you specifically killed them, which is twisted lmao
Funny how you made this video just now as I was also thinking of doing a pure chaotic playthrough doing the absolute worst ways to do the trilogy. Imagine doing a live stream of these worst choices and seeing that chat freak out?! XD
Mass Effect is my favorite games of all time and I really thought I seen all the cutscenes but this video blew my mind and I had no idea that you can get your Squad killed while running down to the beam and I had no idea that ending even existed... thank you big Dan for all your work on your videos and we really do appreciate it I'm a really big fan of yours
Oh, Dan. I know I'm late to the party, but discovering your channel two days ago has reignited my burning love for Mass Effect, and I can't stop watching your videos on it. Meanwhile, I downloaded the Legendary Edition as I've never played it, but considering my many classic playthroughs before, I considered shaking things up. And eventually I arrived at the exact question you answered in this video. Thanks for giving me an out, I don't think I could have actually let my people die like that... but man, it was fascinating, devastating and at times hilarious to watch. You rock!
It's almost a work of art. And the intestinal fortitude it would take to complete this project of poor choices was on par with none other. Bravo sir, bravo.
Letting Chakwas die was literally the worst part of this video. Just Brutal. I also like how Joker is just sick of your shit in ME3 with the Rachni queen lol
Now that you’ve done this, I’m curious. What is the absolute maximum amount of War Assets you can get in a playthrough? What does Mass Effect 3 consider to be a “perfect run” through the trilogy?
Holy fuck. That was really hard to watch but interesting.. never have I thought this would be an outcome for mass effect 3, when I did my worst play through on purpose it was bad, but what you’ve done is truly horrifying. Well done sir! 👏🏾👏🏾
You should've done the Citadel DLC and put the near empty squad photo, is haunting and sad. Also shooting the star child might have been a worst ending that destroy.
At least in the Refuse ending the less-advanced species are spared, the mass relays and citadel survive, and it's implied that the next cycle was able to defeat the Reapers. Low-EMS Destroy saves a remnant of the spacefaring species, but at the cost of most of the non-spacefaring species also dying (star child says that "few organics will survive," not just spacefaring organics) along with all of the Geth, and also ruins the galactic infrastructure and causes post-apocalyptic situations galaxy-wide, with all of the chaos that entails. I'd say that Low-EMS Destroy causes more harm than it prevents, especially if you value all sapient lives equally and not just the spacefaring organics (who are the only ones to benefit from Low-EMS Destroy).
It really seems like you are hitting your stride with these videos. Loved it! I've completed the trilogy countless times, and there were some scenes in here that I haven't seen. Well done Dan
Hackett speech at the end gave me goose bump. He believed in Shep, he believed in humanity he never given up and even if the battle was a catastrophy he take the blame. I love him
9:38 joker's reaction fucking killed me, just a pure "Shepard you dumbass" comment 😂😂 19:58 also the star child, his "how the fuck did you make it this far?" response lol
Wait....squadmates can die during the conduit charge?! I've beaten this game an unholy amount of times and I never knew that was even a thing. I weirdly like the extended cut on this outcome of the ending, it really hammers home how hard the reapers were to beat.
Thank you for this video, because i NEVER could do all of that in one playthrough. It would totally break me too. I always have to be a little paragon, even with my renegade runs.
Joker's expression as he desperately tries to escape the blast absolutely destroys me. Thank you for making this, so I never have to suffer through an actual playthrough of seeing everyone I love die because of how stupid I was!
Same, that was the worst one for me. First, there's the panic. Then there's the fire and sparks right behind his ears. Then, once the explosion catches up and starts banging the back of the ship around, tearing it apart. Poor Joker, man, he deserved way better.
These videos are some of the best out there. As a lifetime fan of ME, I can never bring myself to do anything remotely like this. However, after watching this I wonder what the low ems control ending would look like when it comes to the memorial scene. Obviously some people (Joker, EDI, the geth, javik, traynor, etc) survive. But who would hand sheps name up on the memorial if James and Liara died on the run to the beam? I'd be interested to see how that scene plays out as the low ems control ending doesn't kill the Normandy like the low ems destroy does (or so I believe I'm not 100% sure) Would be cool to see the control side of this playthrough if you'd saved the collector base!
I had the idea to do this out of curiosity, but after watching your video and choking up at some of the deaths, I realized that I never would've been able to stomach it. Watching Tali throw herself to her death and watching Liara get incinerated with that look on her face.....fuck. Congrats to you for pulling this off, but man, what a horrible way for things to go.
Joker: "How many friends do we have left..."
Shepard: "I consider you a friend Joker."
Joker: *sweating*
😂😂😂😂😂😂😵
Damn...hahaha
🤣🤣
Joker: come on I am going to die anyway crashing this ship
"Oh come on, Shepard, you know I'll go down with the ship."
"Noted"
“Tell me another story about The Shepard.”
“No. It’s too depressing.”
🤣😭
😆😂
"To this day, historians look back and question how these incomprehensible strategies ever led to victory."
"By all accounts none of us should have survived."
ROTFL
This man did it. He did what the reapers could never do
Que Tokyo ghoul unravel music
Big Dan is such a mad lad!
It's nice to know that the 3 endings have consequences and can be limited based on what you did through out the trilogy. You will have less options if you didn't accomplish a certain goal. Example: You can only do the destroy ending now since you have low war assets.
I'm also kind of disappointed that you need to have a really high amount of war assets in order to get the synthesis ending. The amount I have reached on my playthroughs have been 5,500 somewhere.
He should have done it with a bald crackhead Shepard like some other guy…
@@obijuanquenobi1911
You talking about the "Saddest Party on the Citadel" videos?
2:39 "Only lost one squadmate in the first game" Dan really did Jenkins dirty like that.
Jenkins pulled out a “Leeroy”, he wasn’t squad material
@@kevinbernardini1293 Was to be expected. His name is literally Richard Leeroy Jenkins.
@@JHenry-nz7hy oh my god. He just ran in.
Yeah that's total bullshit! everyone knows Jenkins is the best Squadmate!
@@kevinbernardini1293 actually, we tell him to move up, he didn't rush in.
Cerberus cemented their place as the true villains of the trilogy by bringing this mad man back from the dead 🤦♂️
top tier commentary
Only Mordin could've resurrected him. Someone else might've gotten it wrong
@@RokuHanmar someone DID everything wrong in this playthrough.
@@maurymanna19 "cemented" 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭im weaakk
@@danmarusan2878 im crying
Truly love that Shepards come back to Wrex after dooming his species is "member how I got you that armor buddy?"
"C'mon Wrexie boi, remember how I got you back your dad's shitty armor that one time? Buddy o'le pal? Buddy rooskie? Brood brotha from anotha motha? NO?"
💥🔫😃
I now know that wearing pink goggles is a sign that someone is evil.
and purple armor
Nah, my Engineer is just a Barbie girl in a Barbie worr-uurrold.
@@jimmym3352 that was totally my last shep. had on dark purple and pink and wore the mnemonic visor lol
Dude seeing Wrex absolutely hurt that his friend would betray him was actually heart wrenching
The Wrex scene got me the most. He's such a bro and had been through so much.
yeah, even Tali didn't seem as betrayed more just sad that her people died. But killing Wrex like that was horrible to see
Seeing Miranda cry was the worst part.
My renegade Shepard literally can never do it.
Yeah
15:12 if you didnt choose the renegade option there, Wrex would say ''Whats the matter Ashley not here no save you? Oh right you killed her too''
Actually it depends a lot of your overall reputation, if is very renegade Wrex will always say that "all humans should go to hell" line.
@@PikangsFutaba That line is the equivalent to blaming fast food places for making you fat.
@@PikangsFutaba thing is is that this Shepard isn’t that renegade.
Damn, Wrex is vicious in battle and with words lol
💀💀💀
It's crazy to think that the player can force the Mass Effect universe into the post-apocalyptic genre
"There's nothing as great... as Fallout."
@@metetural9140 it doesn't matter how long this takes but one day a argument will manifest into of existance between the fallout 1,2, New Vegas fans and fallout 3, 4, 76 fans
@@theshadows1416 Don't tempt them you fool!
@theshadows1416 fallout 4 is the best
Star child: why are you here?
Shepard: more like how, amirite?
Mordin: Had to be me, someone else might have gotten it wrong.
Shepard: Oh I will my friend
Mordin from the afterlife: 'That was not supposed to be taken as a challenge.'
Shepherd Had a plan like his ancestor Dutch... Get every one killed and we need money lol.
Shepard: "Yes I fucking will!"
@@napoleoncomplex2712 mordin returned to omega?
23:20 Man, imagine if this guy found a pair of pink goggles instead as a tribute to Shepards incompetence
LMAO!
That was Jenkins helmet
Man, there are “the worst timelines,” and then this one points and laughs at them.
I mean he didn't keep morinth alive to become an banshee or jack alive to get recaptured and turned into a phantom soo....
@@TheItzal11also could’ve killed Wrex on Virmire
@@anthonytitonehe said why, I think if you watch this video you will get it xd
@@aleksanderz2320 I get why he did it but I disagree because the Krogan r far worse off wirh Wreav, it’s subjective tho both r terrible outcomes
The scene where Joker lists everyone who died really made me laugh.
He shoulda said, “Did I miss anyone?”
They clearly didn't plan for the list to be that long, it sounded super unnatural.
I stopped and wondered if it's true in-game footage or a montage :-D Holy hell
Can you put a time stamp, please? I don't wanna to see all this carnage lol
@@sarenarterius6217 30 seconds into the video
To be fair on my first time through I had the Quarians die to the Geth and then the Geth die when I destroyed the Reapers. On the bright side there is really cheap property available on Rannoch.
How is it possible to do this?!?! Morally, I mean.
I always destroy the space toasters, then I build that House for me and Tali with the toaster's scrap metal and live like a King.
No more toasted breads but I can live with that.
But Tali though… :(
Tali doesnt need a suicide mission to die
She can do it herself
And you did that
:(
@@sandrogamer30018 Man you just made my day.
Christ, I didn't even know you COULD get your squad killed during the beam charge.
And without the extended cut they don't even get a cutscene, just lying dead in front of maurader shields
My first ME3 playthrough resulted in it, although I haven't failed anything before this moment
Didn't even know Liara could die, honestly.
Neither me
@@Oceansama
Yeah, even I forgot about it.
But considering how Liara is featured in the next Mass Effect teaser trailer, we can confidently say that this ending is not cannon just like Shepard dying in ME2.
That was so painful to watch. Garrus’ death, murdering Wrex, Tali’s suicide, and poor Liara. Ai yai yai.
I could never commit such atrocity. It’s madness lol. But hey, at least we have Big Dan here to do stuff like this for us, so we don’t have to. 😂
He should go
Me, too. I watched this entire video with my eyebrows raised, like how? My first ever playthrough was ME2 back in it was first released and I had no idea loyalty missions could save them. I only did a couple and when some died I was devastated lol
No we HAD Big Dan.... Nobody survived that play through.... Not even the player
Shepard standing in front of memorial plaque:
"I'm Commander Shepard and this is now my favourite spot on the Citadel!"
Love it
😂😂😂😂😂😵
Well done on sending Jacob to the vents
He did volunteer so...
Dirty Cheaters go in the tube
its like the game wants us to kill him... telling us it's okay..... send him to the tube..shepard...
@@invertedangel I am crying at this comment lol I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time
I mean, does it even qualify as a bad decision?
@@StLuxiya Of course it does, you chose to listen to Jacob Taylor
Oh my god seeing Joker try to get away from the explosion at the end genuinely almost made me cry - I love him so much ugh it hurt to see lol
Him and Traynor both, yea.
That was the only cutscene you could get before the extended cut released i think
@@noahcennerilli7975 Yeah my memory of ME3 was that even when I got a high EMS Shepard Survived Destroy ending, the Normandy always took damage from the blast & Joker was always trying his hardest to get away from it. When I finished my 1st run of Legendary, he's calmly working and the Normandy even picks up speed and clearly gets away as the music swells to a climax
Mass Effect TH-camrs - finding the darkest outcomes so that you don't have to.
"This is the darkest timeline."
@@GTAVictor9128 There are two ways it could have been darker:
1) Not bothering to recruit Garrus until Mass Effect 2.
2) Keeping Samara alive for Mass Effect 3, ignoring the Paragon Interrupt to save her and then executing her last Ardat Yakshi daughter.
@@Jedi_Spartan
Also keeping Jack alive to then ignore Grissom Academy so that she gets turned into a phantom.
@@Jedi_Spartan I thought you had to recruit garrus
@@GTAVictor9128 I didn’t know priority missions passed time so I got her killed by accident.
On TV Tropes, there was this liveblog called "The Adventure of Failure Shepard or How Not to Play the Mass Effect Trilogy", which didn't just get your squadmates killed, but also got as many people killed as possible.
Even the player die...
I've never seen that James memory when you're going for destroy thats wild
Same! Cos James has to die, and I didn't even know he could
Damn yes... see him smiling and dying is... even more heartbreaking that I thought
rip creatine bro
I think that it can get even worse if Jack survives ME2, but you don't save grissom academy. Not only do you hear her being tortured but then you have to fight her.
"This one's gonna hurt..." Garrus is the Mass Effect _player's_ soulmate, regardless of Shepard.
Since I plsy male is he my bro mate with tali being my waifu
I know you feel this lol
@@djeldj Same here. Besides, the Garrus bromance is better than the romance.
Honestly the Liara and James one was actually horrifying. The casual brutality of it compared to all of the other ways of loosing squad mates is just jaw dropping, especially when you don't get given any time at all for that to then sink it.
10 years later and I always thought liara and James would survive each ending aside from refusal. That scene caught me so off guard… weird to think Hackett is the only immortal character
How could you even get them killed? Is it the low war asset?
Honestly I think it’s saddest when garrus is there.
@@dennygunawan208 War asset, yea.
@@YourKingJDG eh, I was never a big Garrus fan but to each their own.
In my Cycle, we used to throw squadmates out of the airlock so we can escape a pursuing Reaper.
-Javik, problably.
We're outta flares... eject the Wizzo 😂
I can't seem to stop laughing. I could never do this but am glad Big Dan did. Thanks for the laughs.
9:47 LMAO Joker is literally us
Shep: It seemed like the right choice.
Joker: Uhh.... alright...
I honestly like this ending a lot. Shepherd and his crew faced impossible odds, and they succeeded at the cost of all of their lives.
A follow-up: Shore Leave DLC with so many of the characters dead...
The Saddest Party On The Citadel from the GameSpot.
@@Vyury shepard dancing in his apartment and the only one there is Glyph
party in the cemetary.
Okay, I'll be honest, out of all of these, Tali's suicide really hits hardest. All the others either died in fights or were killed by Shepard, but she just.... did it herself.
Somehow Tali always manages to make the most emotionally scarring scenes.
For me, it hits so hard because it's YOUR choice at the end and not simple consequence of your mistakes that you were not aware of before. Killing Wrex on Virmire or losing someone in me2 is such a mistake (and many other examples), not curing genophage is the choice you unlikely make (especially at first playthrough). But this choice on Rannoch (considering some mistakes leading to having no ideal option) can be made either way because you want sacrifice neither of two sides. I think this choice more about quarians - of course you want to save Tali, but admirals are really retarded and don't want peace even if geth ready to cooperate. So you decide save friend or or don't let these mfs slaughter another race
When i saw that you romanced Miranda, I just knew you would use the dumping Miranda trick to kill her 😂 you're so mean Dan
Actually, that was his mistake because he couldnt kill Orianna now, only shoot her in the leg.
The Citadel DLC is just Shepard dancing alone in his apartment with a bottle.
Fantastic video. Still, though you do briefly show it, I wish you got into how in this worst ending the Catalyst's 'Destruction' weapon gets out of control and fries Earth to a crisp. You see London get absolutely *evaporated* and then the entire surface of the Earth getting engulfed in flames. Now, THAT is a grim ending! Granted, it doesn't concern the characters Shepard cares about (I get why you focus on them), but the entire planet of the protagonist's species becoming apparently uninhabitable is still a big deal.
Earth got Kharaked, and they didn't even get a mothership for their troubles.
Nah, we could just re-settle Rannoch since no one is using it anymore.
Ngl, just watching the video all the way through almost made me break into tears. Doing an actual playthrough like this would just make me hate myself so kudos to you for enduring the experience, Dan. You've done what most of us Mass Effect fans wouldn't.
Joker lowkey dissing Shepard about his awful leadership 0:33 LOL
i thought joker were wgoing to go down the list and have take 5 minutes 😂
They shouldve made a hidden dialogue where if you kill every possible squadmate up to that point, Joker lists not just them but every friendly deceased character like major Kirrahae or whatever his name is, Dr Chocolates, any random victim of Something's Hope "cleansing" (aka Shep shooting everyone in the face instead of knoxking them out with those grenades he had), making the whole conversation lasting few minutes just to roast Shep and effectively the player too 💀
Let's be honest, we all thought our kill em all runs were perfect. Dan has just showed us all up 😂
not exactly the perfect run, because they kill the reapers in the end and someone still lifes. For the real perfect just shoot the child in the end, then you have really kill everyone.
@@candyhochstmann4632 True, but by also killing the Reapers, he extends the body count by the millions :)
Actually he did a very mild run on this. Theres significantly worse choices he missed.
@@candyhochstmann4632 no, he has to walk away to kill everyone
@@channel45853 if you shoot the child it will disapear and the Reapers carry out their normal stuff (killing everyone). It is like a walk away.
Literally last night I was watching the Dragon Age one and thought "Man, I really hope Big Dan is doing one for Mass Effect, my fav trilogy ever" and here it is!
Wrex' death was brutal, but Tali's just broke my heart. Which sadistic bastard decided that should be in the game?
I could never do this. I always save everyone I can.
"How many more friends do we need to lose commander?"
"I don't know how many are left?"
At least this was probably one of the shortest playthroughs you've done
Its crazy how you can see how the destroy ending change like it kills everything this time but normally with high assets its leaves a ton of things alive
It's linked to the Crucible: If you score too low on your War Assets, the device inevitably gets severely damaged and so backfires.
Honestly it makes sense. When you collect various war assets in ME3 and read their descriptions, a lot of them explain how each artifact helps the engineers translate the blueprints of the crucible. Without enough design works and development the crucible is just a crude nuke that hits everyone
@@protonjones54 or the fleets protecting the crucible from getting damaged, theoretically
more ground forces maybe clearing up from needing air support too?
14:49 I never expected that line in this cutscene.
Also, things go immediately wrong as soon as we head to earth with less than minimum Galactic fleet strength. We see that the fleets in Sword are getting demolished as soon we give the attack command.
If there's one thing to be said for such a nightmarish potential ending, it does at least allow for new appreciation of the best endings. Saving everyone from complete oblivion is much more meaningful when the ending could have left everyone dead.
Liara's death hit me hard there...the look on her face as she reaches out to you is haunting...and then she's vaporised
Dan... damn... I, I can't even describe how bad and sad I felt...
And, thanks for giving this. Is so hard to imagine how broken this end will left the people.
That confrontation with Wrex is amazing, god damn.
It's funny how Wrex is SOOO mad at you through this playthrough. I mean... you let a bomb blow up on his planet, which Wrex tells you about during the confrontation. You sabotage a cure for his people. AND he feels so betrayed, especially just like he is being USED just for Shepard's own benefits for his mission. Yeah, I can understand why Wrex is 1,000% pissed off.
We definitely need an additional video about Citadel DLC with this choices.
*Insert Will Smith empty room meme *
Inviting everyone to the party but it's just EDI and Joker
"I'm sure Miranda can pull this off, right?"
Me in my 1st playthrough of Mass Effect 2
Well, she did literally just ask for it by saying that anyone with biotics is capable like it was a piece of cake just as Jacob volunteered to go into the vents. Guess they both just wanted to get offed Xd.
Let's see, we have... a 700 year old space paladin, someone created to be the strongest possible human biotic, and also Miranda.
@@fuhrerhosty Thing is that Miranda kills someone else, not herself.
@@armorfrogentertainment Tbh though, Miranda was made to be perfect which would mean perfect biotics as well and the fact she cant hold it is imo a forced and badly written consequence.
@@Dark_Voice Yeah, honestly for all the talks of "My parents created me to be perfect" her biotics sure is anything but. It's pretty obvious that Jacob isn't the right choice for the door assignment but everything throughout ME2 suggested that Miranda is more than capable to hold the goddamn barriers, from the fact that she was created to be the perfect human to the fact that she said any biotic would be able to do the job.
Absolutely crazy he achieved what the reapers couldn’t even do from this play through; it cut me deep when I saw Jacob, Garrus, and Samara bite the bullet within minutes of each other
Dan: *chooses to save ashley over kaiden*
Me: yes. This is the darkest timeline indeed.
I thought the same thing: " Whelp.... all downhill from here..."
Well, actually, I usually save her. She is more interesting.
@@kevinthunder3375 your not wrong, but she is more interesting in the worst way possible
Kaiden who?
@@sirpotatolord2219 eh not really. She seems real. Plus, I love her relationship with her family. Especially her sisters.
This actually hurt my heart to watch. Thank you for doing the thing that no one else was brave enough to do.
Amazing video! Kudos to you for suffering through this so that we didn’t have to.
Ho? I learned something very new today. That little nod at the end if you kept the collector base giving only the control option is very interresting!
I'm happy to say that I'm part of the 0.1% of people that did that crazy thing of killing the entire galaxy, and then tried the citadel DLC
Nani?
And what happens?
Watch "The Saddest party on the citadel" on youtube, they also killed everyone and did the DLC, it's really empty and the cool moments are lame, it's funny
you could resolve peace between the quarians and the geth with all of the accumulated renegade points, but you specifically killed them, which is twisted lmao
Possibly, but there's an extra set of conditions to meet for establishing peace.
Tali and Legion need the both be alive and you need the admiral on your side which he said he had deliberately messed up earlier
Funny how you made this video just now as I was also thinking of doing a pure chaotic playthrough doing the absolute worst ways to do the trilogy. Imagine doing a live stream of these worst choices and seeing that chat freak out?! XD
I was actually in ME2 of my "fuck it up" playthrough but stopped when I saw he was working on this. It hurt my soul too much to kill everyone
Harbinger: “Your extinction is inevitable.”
Shepard: “Copy that.”
Mass Effect is my favorite games of all time and I really thought I seen all the cutscenes but this video blew my mind and I had no idea that you can get your Squad killed while running down to the beam and I had no idea that ending even existed... thank you big Dan for all your work on your videos and we really do appreciate it I'm a really big fan of yours
Oh, Dan. I know I'm late to the party, but discovering your channel two days ago has reignited my burning love for Mass Effect, and I can't stop watching your videos on it. Meanwhile, I downloaded the Legendary Edition as I've never played it, but considering my many classic playthroughs before, I considered shaking things up. And eventually I arrived at the exact question you answered in this video. Thanks for giving me an out, I don't think I could have actually let my people die like that... but man, it was fascinating, devastating and at times hilarious to watch. You rock!
You killed Garrus and Mordin! Unforgivable! 😭😭😭
Well, to be fair, someone else might have gotten it wrong ;)
WHo cares about that dammed Turian. He always perishes on my playthroughs.
@@sandrogamer30018 based
I love that in the "evry bad decision" playthrough, he picks Ashley on Virmie. Proof that she truly is the worse option.
Cope
You’re going to have to put me on suicide watch after struggling through this Dan.
Shepard shooting Mordin really hurt...
It's almost a work of art. And the intestinal fortitude it would take to complete this project of poor choices was on par with none other. Bravo sir, bravo.
Letting Chakwas die was literally the worst part of this video. Just Brutal.
I also like how Joker is just sick of your shit in ME3 with the Rachni queen lol
Now that you’ve done this, I’m curious. What is the absolute maximum amount of War Assets you can get in a playthrough? What does Mass Effect 3 consider to be a “perfect run” through the trilogy?
i did that 3 days ago in my oldests version games on ps3 . 0% multiplayer and everyone alive
I got over 8100 on my last play through
@@BigVito109 is possible 8200
Ooh! Maybe Big Dan could help The Completionist do this if he ever chooses to cover the Mass Effect trilogy on his channel.
I got 8276
Zaeed screaming SHEPAAAAD and then exploding is so funny I had to rewatch it 5 times
Holy fuck. That was really hard to watch but interesting.. never have I thought this would be an outcome for mass effect 3, when I did my worst play through on purpose it was bad, but what you’ve done is truly horrifying. Well done sir! 👏🏾👏🏾
Shepard, speaking directly to his own life: "I should go."
Jesus Christ that Tali scene jumping to he sea gave me shivers. So sad 😓
You should've done the Citadel DLC and put the near empty squad photo, is haunting and sad. Also shooting the star child might have been a worst ending that destroy.
At least in the Refuse ending the less-advanced species are spared, the mass relays and citadel survive, and it's implied that the next cycle was able to defeat the Reapers. Low-EMS Destroy saves a remnant of the spacefaring species, but at the cost of most of the non-spacefaring species also dying (star child says that "few organics will survive," not just spacefaring organics) along with all of the Geth, and also ruins the galactic infrastructure and causes post-apocalyptic situations galaxy-wide, with all of the chaos that entails. I'd say that Low-EMS Destroy causes more harm than it prevents, especially if you value all sapient lives equally and not just the spacefaring organics (who are the only ones to benefit from Low-EMS Destroy).
SO BE IT (reaper voice)
Well technically the worst ending would be Refusal, where you shoot the Catalyst, continuing the reaper cycle
It really seems like you are hitting your stride with these videos. Loved it!
I've completed the trilogy countless times, and there were some scenes in here that I haven't seen. Well done Dan
Hackett speech at the end gave me goose bump. He believed in Shep, he believed in humanity he never given up and even if the battle was a catastrophy he take the blame. I love him
Hacketts VA perfomance is underrated
“Now this is a man who knows how to kill his squad” - Captain Anderson
9:38 joker's reaction fucking killed me, just a pure "Shepard you dumbass" comment 😂😂
19:58 also the star child, his "how the fuck did you make it this far?" response lol
😂😂
Wait....squadmates can die during the conduit charge?! I've beaten this game an unholy amount of times and I never knew that was even a thing.
I weirdly like the extended cut on this outcome of the ending, it really hammers home how hard the reapers were to beat.
It also shows how BADLY you have to botch everything from Mass Effect 2 and onward
I would say technically the "refuse" choice is still objectively worse.
Dude you must have really wanted to show us this if you were willing to get every squadmate killed I would never do a playthrough like that
The truth is that nobody on earth is THAT cruel enough to get this ending on a blind playthrough.
Haha true...he really needs to plan to do this.
I will always associate those goggles and pink armor with incompetent Shepard now. It's almost like you've created your own Mass Effect icon.
I guess Shepard and The hero of ferelden would be great friends
Joker listing off the people who died so far made me laugh uncontrollably.😂
Thank you for this video, because i NEVER could do all of that in one playthrough. It would totally break me too. I always have to be a little paragon, even with my renegade runs.
I cracked up every time you said "I feel like I'm forgetting something..."
I feel like Blonde Shepard did the ending of ME2 slightly worse. Only Morinth survived.
I've always wondered if this was possible. I'm so glad you went through all the trouble!
4:23 Defo best moment in the entire Mass Effect Trilogy,
my boy jacob took a missile to the face hahaha
@@kingpet
"I probably deserved that."
seriously who likes jacob
@@mafscoolas8754 blond FemShep?
Joker's expression as he desperately tries to escape the blast absolutely destroys me. Thank you for making this, so I never have to suffer through an actual playthrough of seeing everyone I love die because of how stupid I was!
Same, that was the worst one for me. First, there's the panic. Then there's the fire and sparks right behind his ears. Then, once the explosion catches up and starts banging the back of the ship around, tearing it apart.
Poor Joker, man, he deserved way better.
These videos are some of the best out there. As a lifetime fan of ME, I can never bring myself to do anything remotely like this. However, after watching this I wonder what the low ems control ending would look like when it comes to the memorial scene. Obviously some people (Joker, EDI, the geth, javik, traynor, etc) survive. But who would hand sheps name up on the memorial if James and Liara died on the run to the beam? I'd be interested to see how that scene plays out as the low ems control ending doesn't kill the Normandy like the low ems destroy does (or so I believe I'm not 100% sure) Would be cool to see the control side of this playthrough if you'd saved the collector base!
I had the idea to do this out of curiosity, but after watching your video and choking up at some of the deaths, I realized that I never would've been able to stomach it. Watching Tali throw herself to her death and watching Liara get incinerated with that look on her face.....fuck. Congrats to you for pulling this off, but man, what a horrible way for things to go.
There's a much simpler way to get the worst ending: reject the star child's options. If you do that, everyone dies.
How many years later and I’m still learning new things about this game! Thanks Big Dan!
As someone who romanced Liara, seeing her get vaporized by the reaper beam made me die a little inside
Such a cold hearted playthrough, thanks for doing this so i don't have to