Damn right, this is on another level of genius and Ilos a whole other level of game experience. I feel they did not use it in the right places in 2 and 3 - tried too much to put it in places with emotional relationships which ruined the flavour for me - instead of for example during the end sequence of 3 which it would have suited perfectly. It is far too grand and vast to be limited to scenes like the VS on horizon which doesn't do this theme justice.
Curunen Exactly my thought in its use. Too used. Let this show what it means to have brought our worlds to peace. Not in every relationship scene. It's meant to show us JUST how vast and awe inspiring the cosmos are. That despite saving, or dooming all life in the universe, it will carry on as it always has. Uncaring for all beings, synthetic or otherwise. No star-child, no reapers, no humans, no asari, no quarians, no turians, no volus, no geth, no elcor, nothing but stars and worlds. Whether the Reapers saw that or not...Well, they never told. In the end, we realise that nothing can beat the pure power of the universe. No matter how perfect the Reapers are, no matter how many the Krogan, all would simply perish if they even tried to fight what the universe is. This is how it should have ended. The Reapers, high and mighty, begin to see just how the universe truly works. As the races seek to understand their purpose, the universe already knows its purpose. To simply be.
For anyone who has played ALL of the Mass Effect games, listening to this song just brings back an indescribable feeling in your chest, makes you feel so much pain, but also at the same time make you feel so at peace... Beautiful
True. This song makes me think about how vast our galaxy is let alone the whole universe it's like thinking out of the box. But this song also reminds me a lot about Liara (never romanced anyone except her in all of my countless playthroughs). Shit they better bring her and Shepard and the gang back for the next Mass Effect title, man.. I just.. Shit the Mass Effect Trilogy really got me feeling some type of way haha I just really wish this ain't the end for Shepard
Louis Gonzales Indeed, in regards to thinking about the galaxy. As Arthur C. Clarke said "'Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying". Really does make you wonder what if any other 'race' is out there. In regards to race, it has me wondering if there are other 'races' out there if they have the same sorts of stupid petty wars we have relating to race or religion.
Louis Gonzales i think that too,except for Liara,i've never romanced her,instead i opted for Tali,and the music reminds me of her since it plays many times in ME3,i hope they do Tali Shepard justice in the next mass effect. (always referred to that song as Tali's theme) and when in ME2 when i reunited with Wrex i nearly cried. i hoped too that Shepard wouldn't end,but we knew that eventually it would have ended TheKirk15 yeah,i feel nostalgia for ME1,it was simply unique and amazing and sadness because the beatiful concept has been ruined in ME3
TheKirk15 When I heard this for the first time, it gave me the image of a great space opera. And when it came and played during the vigil sequence in game, with the guys awesome voice explaining what happened, it was chilling. Now when I listen to it, I get shivers down my spine, it brings great happiness to me, and hope, but also a sad emptyness, since it plays during some of the most touching moments in the later games. "It's funny shepard, I just landed on my homeworld for the first time." Hands Tali a rock from Rannoch "Well, you best start carrying it with you too."
Listening to Vigil, in a tomb filled with some of the last and most brilliant of its people patiently explaining the end of their civilisation is one of the saddest moments in gaming for me.
@@ThaneTheDrell well most boss fights can be cheesed on insanity what's hard is when you have a timer or have to keep someone alive like garrus on maas effect 2 and kasumi goto mission due to gunship plot armor trashmobs like harbinger also are harder to kill than most bosses in game
"Shepard-Commander... I must go to them. I... I'm sorry. It's the only way." "Legion... the answer to your question... was 'yes'." "I know, Tali... but thank you. Keelah se'lai."
"I look at all this - this picture of hope and peace - and all I see... is everyone I've lost. My team on Haestrom, my father, even Legion! I'm mourning a Geth, how crazy is that?!" "It's not crazy at all..." "It is beautiful, though..." "Yeah. It is..."
Meeting Vigil on Ilos is so terrifying. The music is serene and calm, but also sad. Vigil describes the last days of a civilization, and the final mission to try to save future civilizations. At this point we had met Sovereign and seen his influence, but the Reapers were still very much unknown. There’s a lot of fear at this point since we know what Sovereign and Saren are trying to do, but we don’t know the magnitude of it until we speak to Vigil and hear the account of the dying civilization. “It is a quiet thing, to fall. But far more terrible is to admit it.” - Kreia
"I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments, will be lost in time... like tears in rain." RIP Rutger Hauer 1944 - 2019
When Mordin gave his life to save the krogan and the galaxy, and this played in the aftermath... with Wrex talking about how his people had hope for the first time after being reduced almost to animals... and then this theme, an old friend, kicked in... I set the controller down and couldn't pick it up for a long, long time.
I thank the older gentleman at the Walmart that told me to play mass effect 2, he was probably in his 50’s or 60’s, I was in my late 20’s looking for a game to play. He simply said play this game, you will not find a better game. Other than part 1. I put trust in his advice and as soon as I finished 2 I had to get Mass effect….damn thank you sir. Walmart employee led me to the best gaming trilogy of all time….
I remember when I first played Mass Effect and came across Vigil on Ilos, the music and atmosphere as vigil explained what happened with the protheans really effected me emotionally, mass effect is one of the only few games that really knows how to tug at your heart strings.
@Chris Butrim I know exactly what you mean. The storytelling was brilliant. (ME was my first exposure to RPGs because I'd never seen one set in a world where I'd actually want to live, and thus never cared enough to try one.) But as I realised what had happened to the Protheans, especially those on Ilos, I wept openly. Having this piece play as the opening for the story was utter genius, because when heard it again in context, it suddenly tied the whole story together. Not just brilliant: BUH-rilliant. It was as if I could feel the whole galaxy at once, and it was beautiful and tragic and somehow still so full of potential. It may be as close as I've come to a "religious experience." A remaster is a good step. Have you tried any of the mods? There's a very well-developed community of ME-PC modders who have done some really wonderful things in terms of adding depth and even expanding the story (slightly). Well worth your time to investigate...assuming you have it on PC. Here's a 15-minute intro: th-cam.com/video/jf9JcQMMSls/w-d-xo.html But what I think will make me fall in love with it all over again is a rebuild. Procedurally-driven NPCs that you can have extended conversations with, decisions that are actually decisions instead of "pick one of these three paths." (Have you ever had a conversation with the ticketing AI for British Airways? Or heard Google make a call to a hair salon to schedule an appointment for you? (If you haven't...prepare to have your Mind. Blown. Because this is from 2018: th-cam.com/video/JvbHu_bVa_g/w-d-xo.html) If nothing else, the Andromeda protocol of actually telling you what your interrupt options are in the moment (along with a three-to-five-second window during which it can be implemented) may be one of the best things to add that doesn't require creating AGI characters. Can you imagine this as a game for Oculus Go 3, or even full-immersion BMI? I'd never want to come out. Still, the story could have used a little more work; work that I'm sure Bioware had neither time nor budget for. So I'm writing some of it as a guide for the AGI/MLA that I hope to task with building it in a decade or so: www.fanfiction.net/s/10792259/1/Mass-Effect-All-in-the-Details
Go to the countryside at night, lay down on the soft grass and stare at the night sky. While this song plays. A memory that will be imprinted for life.
I live out in the country, once in a while I’ll put any version of this song on and stare up into the stars at night. I’ve seen shooting stars penetrating the atmosphere while listening to this. One of those pieces of music that you love and know why you love it. It creates an awesome scope of everything that isn’t pessimistic.
Our galaxy has billions of stars, each of those stars can have many worlds, and every world can be home to different forms of life, and every life has its special story of its own
I loved all Mass Effects, especially the 2nd, but remembering what the first felt like and meant... the first time playing the game, the plot, the characters, and the omnipresent feeling of the immense, vast space, all bound by this soundtrack... still gives me chills and shivers.
same i played all ME games in 2015 and god damn i could back of the game the world the story and companions i love all 3 games and i wish i could erase memories of playing them so could experience it all over again
The eradication of an entire civilisation witnessed here. The very last of their people held within these pods. Switched off one by one. The very last hope eventually made it to the citadel through the relay and there they starved and died of thirst and hunger. The most saddening end to a species ever.
+The Unknown javik lives! and as long as 1 stands up the prothean shall endure and his voice screaming VENGEANCE will be the last thing the reapers will hear before their ultimate downfall
Two weeks ago, I just finished the entire Mass Effect trilogy in a three-week binge. And now, coming back to this track? I'm in tears. There are few games that can distil such a sense of nostalgia in me so short after, and that sure as hell says a lot about Mass Effect. These games changed my life, and I'd say I would have wanted to play it sooner. But I don't think I would be able to appreciate it back in the day. Some things just get better with age, and for Mass Effect, that goes both ways.
Played them for the first time once the first came out when I was 17. I was a sophomore in high school back then. I appreciated and loved the remaster so bad that I finished it four times and I felt exactly the same feelings as yours. This trilogy had, has and will forever have a profound impact on me as a person and there's so many videogames that sent me spinning but this series became one of my favorites and might be for years to come.
I'm late to the game of mass effect also, after hearing about it for years and thinking nah I won't be into it, here I am, absolutely obsessed, crying over robots and aliens, and feeling sad that no other game will quite make me feel so attached to the characters.
After exploring countless worlds, jumping from cluster to cluster, fighting Geth here and there, and finally, you reach the VI unit on the Prothean homeworld; here, you meet Vigil and he explains a situation of desperation and sorrow regarding the slow eradication of their species by the Reapers. The sheer amount of emotional impact of knowing that all organic life was exterminated and to hear the last ditch efforts of the most powerful species, is humbling. While standing there, I wanted to know more: the why, the how, and I HAVE to find a way to stop this from happening during this cycle. Very powerful, ethereal, and is the core to what Mass Effect is about: the excitement of space exploration, the eventual clarity of the unknown, and the power of friendship between you and the crew of the Normandy. I don't know what part gets you guys when the starting menu comes up, but what gets me,....is the slow fading images of the crew on the Normandy. It brings tears. I am glad I was able to make the journey with this franchise.
Played this in memory of my brother who died 3 months ago, and was as big a fan of this game as me. He wanted to be sent off the stars to this. May you find peace, bud. I will stand vigil for you.
If I hear this on the start screen of ME Andromeda, there will be a river of tears from my eyes. Post ME:A release edit: MEA appeared to be a pile of shit. But I still cry, for now - out of anger and impotent rage. Mass Effect Trilogy will be forever in my heart.
You guys want that full Mass Effect high? The end credits song is M4 part 2 (faunts). Two and Three were good games in their own right, but Mass Effect was a perfect story, and had a perfect end. We all know you stayed for the credits.
Actually, my favourite is the third game because it made me feel more things than any video game or movie made me ever feel. But the three of them are awesome, powerful, meaningful, and legendary. Without one of the three game, this trilogy wouldn't be the same.
I just finished the trilogy yesterday. Hearing this again...it brings a tightness to my chest and a lump to my throat in a way no other piece from a game has. From starting with one these games were the only thing I'd play in my free time, I became one with the world, connecting to the people, the characters, and their struggles. I never got emotional in 1 and 2. I rarely do with any game at all. But this...when I touched down on Earth. When I had those final talks with Garrus, and Liara, and she gave me her gift, with this slowly, faintly, shortly playing in the background. I couldn't take it anymore. I cried like a fucking baby at my desk in the middle of the night. All of the emotion I'd felt over the trilogy flowing out in that moment because I knew it was all coming to an end. It was coming to an end and I didn't want it to. I wanted to keep going, I wanted to keep having hijinx with the crew, saving the galaxy. I wanted to see those little blue children. But at that point a part of me knew Shepherd wouldn't make it, and all of this would end. Then at the very end. After the Reapers were destroyed and everyone was safe, after the credits. I cried possibly the hardest I think I have in a long time during the Stargazer scene. But a part of me doesn't know why. I've seen more compelling films, more artistic works of art, and pieces of music. Yet. This. This series of three games broke me in the end. It's something I'll never forget. Something I'll always remember. Something I will always love. Keelah Se'lai
This is perhaps the single greatest piece of music that I have ever heard. When I heard in the mass effect series, I only thought of the free empty void and just being a part of this massive universe. That everything is connected. And I feel more at home when I look up at the stars than any other time in the universe.
This.Exactly This. It's weird because this isn't the song that's really well known when you hear Mass Effect. Most people know this game by The "Mass Effect theme" and "Uncharted World" songs , though also brilliant songs, this song IS Mass Effect to me. It truly captured the soul of the game.
Hoze24 "I don't know exactly what's out there. I don't know why it's so interesting, but what I do know is that it must be pretty damn important. Why else would humanity have left it all alone for so long?"
This song is the best song in the series, narrowly beating out suicide misson from ME2. This song makes me feel at peace with the world, and I will hear this song when I'm in a grave, in an eternal slumber.
This almost isn't even music, it's more like ambiance so how does it elicit such an emotional response in me like it does? It's practically as iconic as the trilogy itself so maybe that's it.
The very first and the very last song you hear in the Mass Effect Trilogy- people may hate 3's ending, but hearing this song at the end brought the series full circle. It needs to be in subsequent ME games in some form.
@@josephharrison8354 the Liara gift made me tear up as well, when she rest her head on Shepherd’s shoulder. I wasn’t in a relationship with her, but I always felt she loved Shepherd from the start.
This music has all. The spleen, the beauty, the memories and the hopes. This music is emotion, a bittersweet taint of serenity and melancholia. When my mom passed away I ran away from the hospital, went back in my childhood bedroom where I saved the galaxy so many times and put this music into my ears not to feel the tears. For hours long just to make the moment easier, and it did. Thank you Mass Effect team. Thank you who posted this video and thanks everyone with whom I enjoyed speaking of those games for years.
I never played ME when I was little, and I thought that now as an adult I’d never get to experience it in the eyes of innocence but when I played and this theme started, I was amazed at it’s originality and beauty, in a way, I think it was better for me to play it now than then. I would never give away that experience. Ever…😁
Fallout 1 and 2 and Baldurs Gate 1 and 2 were the pinnacle of 2D narrative heavy rpgs. Mass Effect and Dragon Age : Origins are the pinnacle of 3D. None of them have been surpassed. The culmination of atmosphere, writing, character building, lore, combat balancing, progression, visuals, and then just perfect thematic scores like this - modern games haven't come close.
Thank you for posting this. My Grandma, who I took care of, passed away recently. I don't know why, but this song somehow helped me get things out and deal with that a little bit. Thank you so much for that.
Why is this so calming yet so chilling? And why is it that every time I hear this I think of Shep and Tali sitting on that ledge on Rannoch after the Reaper is killed and the cooperation between the geth and Quarians instead of the ME startup screen?
Aurora Not the only actually. It was played in the end of the mission on Tuchanka, when the cure for the genophage was distributed through the Shroud, and then the tower explodes.
The fact that this song plays on ME2 when you meet some important people, from the first game, literally gave me chills. (I don't if it's specific to the Legendary edition) This song is just filled to the brim with nostalgia, and I'm all up for it. One hell of a journey, and I am glad to have participated in it.
In my 30s and i finally got to play Mass Effect for the first time. At my age, its hard to feel an emotional attachment to new video games to the same degree i have felt as a child (Zelda: The Ocarina of Time is MY childhood game that will always hold a special place in my heart). I felt the same level of childlike excitement to the vigil scene at ilos with this music playing in the background. The exchange filled my head with imageries of Protheans final days and the dispair that echoed through my heart. For brief moments, i felt completely immersed in vigils memories and empathized with a video game fictional race. This is a magical track.
The first time I heard this song in the main menu of the game, I stopped and said to myself: "This is going to be an experience you will never forget" And this is my second comment on this video but OMFG this song inspires me
one of the most brilliant moments in gaming history. you fight like hell through ME and into ilos at a rapid pace and then they lock you in this long hallway and begin this music. then you learn the struggle and ultimate failure of the previous civilization who's secrets you have been trying to unlock in order to save your own. i can't hear this music without feeling both hope and despair at the same time. congrats to the writers and music director for that.
When I first heard this song in the title menu I knew this game would affect me like no other. As an aspiring science fiction author Mass Effect has greatly influenced my writing. The grandeur of the setting, the depth of the story, the charm of the characters - everything I look for in a good Space Opera. It was practically love at first sight. Thank you Bioware for letting me experience Mass Effect in my lifetime.
Good luck on your writing ambition! ME1 is an excellent example of how to write a good science-fiction setting. I had a fun experience with that, actually. I was halfway through writing my first novel (with much of the action taking place aboard a starship named 'Normandy') when I first came across the ME series. Needless to say, I had to rename the ship in my story...
This song really captures the "organics vs synthetics" theme. With the ambient melody representing the organics and their emotions and individuality while the industrial sounding bits pop up in the background occasionally represent the synthetics.
Speaking with Vigil and having this melody play was almost heartbreaking to me. His explanation of what happened to his creators hurt and had a serene sense of loneliness to it. This "lullaby" will forever be embedded into my brain as it carries both a sense of sadness and tranquility. :') Even hearing it at the menu screen envelops me with emotion.
Listening to this floods me with so much emotion and nostalgia it almost hurts. This series used to be my life, I haven't played through the trilogy in a few years so it all feels like an old dream.
Shepherd opened his eyes. The last thing he remembered was when he jumped into the Catalyst. A singular solution that made the galaxy safe once again. Now, he stood in a place more beautiful than all he could sum up. Better than Mindoar, better than Earth. Beautiful. Pristine, Calm. Everything was white and above him, blue skies floated weightless as if without any care in the world. He closed his eyes, and at the far end he heard a voice. A voice he would never forget. A thin, long Turian holding a Black Widow stood at the other end, smiling. "You looked better, " said Garrus Vakarian. "I agree" joined in the modest, quiet and precise Drell. Thane Krios looked healthy once again. Behind him, someone started mumbling, "I hope Maelon's solution worked, Shepherd." The quick witted Salarian named Mordin Solus, said with an impish smile. Shepherd, smiled with one single tear in his eyes. Hoping that Miranda would stay happy after all these years with her sister, Liara would start rebuilding with the Asari, Wrex with his kid and Joker with EDI... he took his final step into the binding light - realising he had made friends in life and also in death. Somewhere out there trillions of lives smiled because of him.
I remember booting the game up for the first time on my Xbox 360. Had no idea what kind of experience I was in for. This song really gives you that initial impression that your actions are going to affect an entire Universe.
- _Error. Copying code is insufficient. Direct personality dissemination required. Shepard-Commander, I must go to them... I'm sorry. It's the only way._ - Legion, the answer of your question was "Yes" - _I know, Tali. But thank you. Keelah Se'lai._
Mass Effect 1 was, at times, a meditative experience. Looking at the map, driving the Mako across the planets in awe, wondering what this galaxy has in store for us. Who was there before us and who would follow us. No other game captured the mystery and beauty of space as beautifully as this game did, in my humble opinion.
This song is so hauntingly beautiful, standing amongst the ruins of a long gone empire, hearing of the last, desperate struggle of a dying race to persevere, how they, many centuries more advanced than us were helpless before the coming darkness, and that we are the final hope all of existence may ever have of finally breaking the cycle
That feeling when you saved both the Geth and the Quarians, gave Tali her planet back, and she goes to fight the Reapers by your side because now you have become her home.
I remember sitting down on November 20th, 2007. I remember turning on my Xbox to hear this music for the first time, and my mind was instantly flooded with images of what this game could possibly be. Space travel? Exploring unknown expanses of the Universe? Finding the root of my own humanity while saving not only a single world, but entire galaxies from an almost Omni-potent evil? It's over half way through 2015, and I'm impatiently waiting the arrival of Mass Effect: Andromeda (Holiday 2016). Needless to say, every time I play this game over and over again, I get more attached to it. But I have to say, it's not always a good thing. You play it enough and you know every line, every scenario and every possible outcome. Never again will I get that initial feeling, in November of '07, where I first shot Wrex because my Paragon wasn't high enough. Never again will I be able to recreate the raw feeling of every mission, every dialogue option, and every surprise that assaulted you right in the feels. "Leaving Earth" might still tug at my heartstrings, but not in the way it did when I watched/heard it for the very first time. I wish I could do it all over again. Mass Effect is an integral part of my gaming history, and will always be my favorite series of all time.
This background theme combined with Liara's excitement if you take her along in mission makes it the most epic moment in the whole trilogy. Ok maybe a close tie-up with the Mordin death sequence in ME3.
"More likely they are driven by goals and modes of thinking that organic minds cannot comprehend, In any case, what does it matter? Your survival hinges on you defeating them, not understanding them". Vigil was where I really sat up and paid attention to mass effect. Yes as a narrative and game it was good, albeit with clunk, but when you travel to Vermier and more so when you come to Ilos, you come across Nazara and then Vigil, one totally unfazed by you as an organic being it had presumably killed trillions of before but one who had shown it could and not be cowed by it. Vigil on the other hand was hope, condensed into a VI/AI programme and preserved into the future, the last hope of race-long dead, that one would come. One who opposed the machines that had wiped its people out completely and seen the destruction of its empire. Even than 50,000 years later, corrupted and barely functional Vigil pleads with you to take up hope as a weapon against galactic extinction. The last voice of a dead race telling you " As the last vestige of the Protheans we ask you to kill what we could not, and survive where we could not. " I will admit I was younger when I played the original, and as I age I appreciate Vigils message of perseverance more and more. "We were defeated, we were driven to extinction and yet even after that we still struck back against the reapers, still struck them back even from the grave, and we beg you to do so for yourself. It is too late for us as a people, our time in the sun has passed, yours, however, need not be so easily extinguished". I am sorry for the longish post, but I have thought about Vigil a lot over the years and wanted to say what I thought somewhere to someone, even if no one ever reads it, I wrote it so there it is.
The fact that this calm and uplifting song is playing during the most terrifying and universe-changing revelation of the game was a surefire way to make sure no one will ever forget it.
I just can't simply describe the FEEL when you discover vigil and the protheans fate, about the reapers and all, when you say "Mass Effect" that scene comes to my head, a beatiful and memorable moment. When you re-encounter old pals, and also when you say goodbye the last time this music starts playing, it gives an accomplishment and peaceful feel, but also gives a feel of strenght, hope. It also plays when you achieve great things, making them even more memorable, i can easily say this is the best music from every single OST
I remember it playing at the very end of Mass Effect 3. When the old man was telling a story to a child who Commander Shepard was, Child: "Can you tell another story of the Shepard?" Old man: "Its getting late, but I can tell you one more time"..........
Outside the mountain cabin just now, clear spring sky full of stars, took a moment to stargaze holding the ME:Revelation book and listening to this. The feeling is indescribable. What joy it is to be able to look up and behold the universe in all its glory. The mere thought that humanity may very well one day reach those stars is simply beautiful.
ME's story might just be the greatest sci-fi story ever told , with the gameplay and soundtrack to back it up, sadly games like these don't come very often , but I'm looking forward to the next mass effect game :)
lol, I only wonder if you know much sci-fi then... since ME2 the series story was already turning into a sloppy unfocused mess & that trend accelerated... the ME1 story was (very) well done but also very derivative of other scifi like babylon 5 or star control 2, both of which are genuinely and consistently well written which makes ME's faults more glaring, to me at least
I still remember to this day, 17 years later, booting up Mass Effect for the first time and hearing this music. I knew at that moment that I was going to experience something special, that would stick with me for many years to come. Still my favorite game trilogy of all time.
20kiv10 What makes you say that? There was a ton of content, tied up story arcs for characters missing them like Garrus and Zaeed, a good espionage plot, good soundtrack, the combat arena, a pile of minigames. It was just generally fantastic.
It's pointless and bad to sell cutted content from original game after stupid final of ME trilogy. Also all good Bioware's developers run away from EA.^^
20kiv10 Oh? I didn't think it was pointless, if you are one of those people who hated the game's end but loved the rest, then let take a minute to remember all the good times you had through the series. Now with that in mind, replay the Citadel. You'll find that it is a great way to say good bye to your friends. Breaks the fourth wall at various times, it's very meta, it makes all the jokes we're all thinking when we play the game. But more importantly, it gets all your companions together, in one final epic mission before you say good bye and close their book.
I remember booting this game up on my xbox360 for the first time back in 2007 or 2008. I had gotten the game as a birthday present, a used copy, but I didn't mind. The game loaded, the starting screen appeared, with this broody and mystical musical ambience, and a prompt appeared telling me to press start. I did. I will never forget the sound that push of that button made, this unbelievable synth sound that sounded like it came out from a cybernetic brains dream of a forgotten world. And then the music, and the slow fading in and out of mysterious characters in the menu, and then the creation of your character. Man, what a great game, not flawless, but unquestionably great. For me, this song will always be Mass Effects true theme.
This theme really hits hard, outside of the game it makes me think about the finite existence we have. How we have the means to pursue whatever we want, but the grand scope of universe will always be at the core our of struggles. We can run away from it and be broken by that knowledge or we can make peace with it. Live to the fullest and draw whatever temporary meaning we can both from ourselves and each other.
I love Mass Effect so much. Its near and dear to my heart. I feel like every few years that pass... I'll start obsessing over it again. Thinking about the good times I had with my friends in the game. A feeling that I need to go back and see them all again. No other game has made me feel this way.
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THIS is the true theme of Mass Effect.
Damn right, this is on another level of genius and Ilos a whole other level of game experience.
I feel they did not use it in the right places in 2 and 3 - tried too much to put it in places with emotional relationships which ruined the flavour for me - instead of for example during the end sequence of 3 which it would have suited perfectly. It is far too grand and vast to be limited to scenes like the VS on horizon which doesn't do this theme justice.
Curunen Exactly my thought in its use. Too used. Let this show what it means to have brought our worlds to peace. Not in every relationship scene. It's meant to show us JUST how vast and awe inspiring the cosmos are. That despite saving, or dooming all life in the universe, it will carry on as it always has. Uncaring for all beings, synthetic or otherwise. No star-child, no reapers, no humans, no asari, no quarians, no turians, no volus, no geth, no elcor, nothing but stars and worlds. Whether the Reapers saw that or not...Well, they never told. In the end, we realise that nothing can beat the pure power of the universe. No matter how perfect the Reapers are, no matter how many the Krogan, all would simply perish if they even tried to fight what the universe is. This is how it should have ended. The Reapers, high and mighty, begin to see just how the universe truly works. As the races seek to understand their purpose, the universe already knows its purpose.
To simply be.
+71tofu Truer words were never written.
That's right, man
calkhi Spoken like a true Philosopher well done 👏🏾
For anyone who has played ALL of the Mass Effect games, listening to this song just brings back an indescribable feeling in your chest, makes you feel so much pain, but also at the same time make you feel so at peace... Beautiful
True. This song makes me think about how vast our galaxy is let alone the whole universe it's like thinking out of the box. But this song also reminds me a lot about Liara (never romanced anyone except her in all of my countless playthroughs). Shit they better bring her and Shepard and the gang back for the next Mass Effect title, man.. I just.. Shit the Mass Effect Trilogy really got me feeling some type of way haha I just really wish this ain't the end for Shepard
Louis Gonzales Indeed, in regards to thinking about the galaxy. As Arthur C. Clarke said "'Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying". Really does make you wonder what if any other 'race' is out there. In regards to race, it has me wondering if there are other 'races' out there if they have the same sorts of stupid petty wars we have relating to race or religion.
Louis Gonzales i think that too,except for Liara,i've never romanced her,instead i opted for Tali,and the music reminds me of her since it plays many times in ME3,i hope they do Tali Shepard justice in the next mass effect.
(always referred to that song as Tali's theme)
and when in ME2 when i reunited with Wrex i nearly cried.
i hoped too that Shepard wouldn't end,but we knew that eventually it would have ended
TheKirk15 yeah,i feel nostalgia for ME1,it was simply unique and amazing and sadness because the beatiful concept has been ruined in ME3
TheKirk15 I think it's a bit of pain but hope. Great track. It's the penultimate theme for Mass Effect.
TheKirk15 When I heard this for the first time, it gave me the image of a great space opera. And when it came and played during the vigil sequence in game, with the guys awesome voice explaining what happened, it was chilling.
Now when I listen to it, I get shivers down my spine, it brings great happiness to me, and hope, but also a sad emptyness, since it plays during some of the most touching moments in the later games. "It's funny shepard, I just landed on my homeworld for the first time." Hands Tali a rock from Rannoch "Well, you best start carrying it with you too."
Listening to Vigil, in a tomb filled with some of the last and most brilliant of its people patiently explaining the end of their civilisation is one of the saddest moments in gaming for me.
Tuberuser187 Agreed - it's poignant sci-fi. It's moments like this that make Mass Effect heads and tails above most of its competition in the genre.
kitredKitredson "World by world, system by system..." Just gives me the shivers.
Tuberuser187 Ya pretty bone chilling. Very eerie.
Nonarei same its one of the only game that made my heart actually feel heavy
Then EA in ME3:
Yo ma nigga, you wanna have one of them Promethean-ian... Whatever, cats? Set your boy up with some dollar. Cheeeeaaahhhh.
“You are not Prothean, but you are not machine either. This was one of many eventualities that was anticipated. Perhaps there is still hope.”
There is still hope that you will beat this game on Insanity
I did😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉@@ThaneTheDrell
@@ThaneTheDrell well most boss fights can be cheesed on insanity what's hard is when you have a timer or have to keep someone alive like garrus on maas effect 2 and kasumi goto mission due to gunship plot armor trashmobs like harbinger also are harder to kill than most bosses in game
@@AMaidenlessRunt you can skip Saren's first stage with Renegade/Paragon points
Every time I hear this track it is like ME is giving me a hug and saying 'everything will be ok'
to me it tells me "We'll bang okay?"
I needed that so much right now.
One of those “we’ll always be here for you” type things, especially in today’s world.
Pretty much. Lol
@@whathappenswhen4767 you ruined this track lol
"Shepard-Commander... I must go to them. I... I'm sorry. It's the only way."
"Legion... the answer to your question... was 'yes'."
"I know, Tali... but thank you. Keelah se'lai."
I just hits even harder when you hear him say I instead of “We”
"I look at all this - this picture of hope and peace - and all I see... is everyone I've lost. My team on Haestrom, my father, even Legion! I'm mourning a Geth, how crazy is that?!"
"It's not crazy at all..."
"It is beautiful, though..."
"Yeah. It is..."
this moment and the genophage cure by mordin absolutely destroyed me emotionally
Meeting Vigil on Ilos is so terrifying. The music is serene and calm, but also sad. Vigil describes the last days of a civilization, and the final mission to try to save future civilizations.
At this point we had met Sovereign and seen his influence, but the Reapers were still very much unknown. There’s a lot of fear at this point since we know what Sovereign and Saren are trying to do, but we don’t know the magnitude of it until we speak to Vigil and hear the account of the dying civilization.
“It is a quiet thing, to fall. But far more terrible is to admit it.” - Kreia
That Kreia quote is more applicable to Saren (particularly if you talk him down) than to Vigil. But I see what you're saying, agreed
This is Mass Effect's rendition of tears in rain.
ΓΚΕΪΚ, είσαι και εσύ εδώ 😂
"I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.
All those moments, will be lost in time... like tears in rain."
RIP Rutger Hauer 1944 - 2019
exactly right
Perfection
Well Said 😄😄
When Mordin gave his life to save the krogan and the galaxy, and this played in the aftermath... with Wrex talking about how his people had hope for the first time after being reduced almost to animals... and then this theme, an old friend, kicked in...
I set the controller down and couldn't pick it up for a long, long time.
There really wasn't any other crew who could have planned out that scene as well. Someone else would have gotten it wrong.
This theme allways reminds me about my friend which died from cancer some time ago, he loved the Mass Effect universe. Rest in Piece Hubert
❤
Maybe he's there now, walking down the streets of the Citadel, watching the stars ❤
@@victorgann4869 so poetic
May your friend rest in peace among the stars.
May your friend rest in peace, I'm sure he's waiting for you at the bar
I thank the older gentleman at the Walmart that told me to play mass effect 2, he was probably in his 50’s or 60’s, I was in my late 20’s looking for a game to play.
He simply said play this game, you will not find a better game. Other than part 1.
I put trust in his advice and as soon as I finished 2 I had to get Mass effect….damn thank you sir.
Walmart employee led me to the best gaming trilogy of all time….
If you hear this music...Two things.
-You chosen the right choice
-but in return you lose someone important/they make the ultimate sacrifice for you.
I remember when I first played Mass Effect and came across Vigil on Ilos, the music and atmosphere as vigil explained what happened with the protheans really effected me emotionally, mass effect is one of the only few games that really knows how to tug at your heart strings.
@Chris Butrim I know exactly what you mean. The storytelling was brilliant. (ME was my first exposure to RPGs because I'd never seen one set in a world where I'd actually want to live, and thus never cared enough to try one.) But as I realised what had happened to the Protheans, especially those on Ilos, I wept openly.
Having this piece play as the opening for the story was utter genius, because when heard it again in context, it suddenly tied the whole story together. Not just brilliant: BUH-rilliant. It was as if I could feel the whole galaxy at once, and it was beautiful and tragic and somehow still so full of potential. It may be as close as I've come to a "religious experience."
A remaster is a good step. Have you tried any of the mods? There's a very well-developed community of ME-PC modders who have done some really wonderful things in terms of adding depth and even expanding the story (slightly). Well worth your time to investigate...assuming you have it on PC. Here's a 15-minute intro: th-cam.com/video/jf9JcQMMSls/w-d-xo.html
But what I think will make me fall in love with it all over again is a rebuild. Procedurally-driven NPCs that you can have extended conversations with, decisions that are actually decisions instead of "pick one of these three paths." (Have you ever had a conversation with the ticketing AI for British Airways? Or heard Google make a call to a hair salon to schedule an appointment for you? (If you haven't...prepare to have your Mind.
Blown.
Because this is from 2018: th-cam.com/video/JvbHu_bVa_g/w-d-xo.html)
If nothing else, the Andromeda protocol of actually telling you what your interrupt options are in the moment (along with a three-to-five-second window during which it can be implemented) may be one of the best things to add that doesn't require creating AGI characters.
Can you imagine this as a game for Oculus Go 3, or even full-immersion BMI? I'd never want to come out.
Still, the story could have used a little more work; work that I'm sure Bioware had neither time nor budget for. So I'm writing some of it as a guide for the AGI/MLA that I hope to task with building it in a decade or so: www.fanfiction.net/s/10792259/1/Mass-Effect-All-in-the-Details
@@stevejordan7275 lmaoo I'm not reading all that.....but I'm sure it's good
@@nautikient2151 Lmfao I was like "come on man it's 4 lines" and then I saw read more and I was also like "Yeah lmao I'm not reading all that"
Go to the countryside at night, lay down on the soft grass and stare at the night sky. While this song plays.
A memory that will be imprinted for life.
lovely
One day, i'll take my son stargazing and tell him stories about The Shepard.
I did this with my cousins, my brother and my fiancée. It's a memory for life, yes
I live out in the country, once in a while I’ll put any version of this song on and stare up into the stars at night. I’ve seen shooting stars penetrating the atmosphere while listening to this.
One of those pieces of music that you love and know why you love it. It creates an awesome scope of everything that isn’t pessimistic.
Our galaxy has billions of stars, each of those stars can have many worlds, and every world can be home to different forms of life, and every life has its special story of its own
I loved all Mass Effects, especially the 2nd, but remembering what the first felt like and meant... the first time playing the game, the plot, the characters, and the omnipresent feeling of the immense, vast space, all bound by this soundtrack... still gives me chills and shivers.
I played ME1 for the first time in my life in 2016 and the game felt huge.
how was it?
same i played all ME games in 2015 and god damn i could back of the game the world the story and companions i love all 3 games and i wish i could erase memories of playing them so could experience it all over again
ME2 sjw bullshit and pointless mini games
@@Romano2018 what
The eradication of an entire civilisation witnessed here. The very last of their people held within these pods. Switched off one by one. The very last hope eventually made it to the citadel through the relay and there they starved and died of thirst and hunger. The most saddening end to a species ever.
+The Unknown What about Javik?
+shotmeonsightplease well he was Apart of a special unit weren't he he wasnt the last on illos after everyone had been harvested. lucky bastard
+The Unknown Well, fair enough, I'll give you that.
+The Unknown javik lives! and as long as 1 stands up the prothean shall endure and his voice screaming VENGEANCE will be the last thing the reapers will hear before their ultimate downfall
+WIlliam Blaylock Wreav said that, not Wrex.
Nostalgia level infinity achieved.
Two weeks ago, I just finished the entire Mass Effect trilogy in a three-week binge. And now, coming back to this track? I'm in tears. There are few games that can distil such a sense of nostalgia in me so short after, and that sure as hell says a lot about Mass Effect. These games changed my life, and I'd say I would have wanted to play it sooner. But I don't think I would be able to appreciate it back in the day.
Some things just get better with age, and for Mass Effect, that goes both ways.
This music always makes me cry because it's so beautiful and makes me feel nostalgic 😭... Mass Effect trilogy is such a special journey 💙.
Played them for the first time once the first came out when I was 17. I was a sophomore in high school back then. I appreciated and loved the remaster so bad that I finished it four times and I felt exactly the same feelings as yours. This trilogy had, has and will forever have a profound impact on me as a person and there's so many videogames that sent me spinning but this series became one of my favorites and might be for years to come.
Played mass effect first when i was 14 now iam 22 and this shit still makes me teary... no game will ever come like it.
I'm late to the game of mass effect also, after hearing about it for years and thinking nah I won't be into it, here I am, absolutely obsessed, crying over robots and aliens, and feeling sad that no other game will quite make me feel so attached to the characters.
You played 8h a day for 3 weeks straight?
After exploring countless worlds, jumping from cluster to cluster, fighting Geth here and there, and finally, you reach the VI unit on the Prothean homeworld; here, you meet Vigil and he explains a situation of desperation and sorrow regarding the slow eradication of their species by the Reapers. The sheer amount of emotional impact of knowing that all organic life was exterminated and to hear the last ditch efforts of the most powerful species, is humbling. While standing there, I wanted to know more: the why, the how, and I HAVE to find a way to stop this from happening during this cycle. Very powerful, ethereal, and is the core to what Mass Effect is about: the excitement of space exploration, the eventual clarity of the unknown, and the power of friendship between you and the crew of the Normandy. I don't know what part gets you guys when the starting menu comes up, but what gets me,....is the slow fading images of the crew on the Normandy. It brings tears. I am glad I was able to make the journey with this franchise.
well said bro
+seanlamar29 Thank you.😆
Its even sadder when that *one* crew member that never made it to the end fades in and slowly back out. D':
Do you ever just start Mass Effect for the very first time and you hear this and you immediately realize this is going to be a very special game?
best title theme ever
i like your profile pic
Cerberus Haha
The irony in this comment with his PFP.
So much nostalgia, chills every fucking time, easily the best song of an excellent soundtrack
Honestly, Vigil's scene still gives me chills years later.
Played this in memory of my brother who died 3 months ago, and was as big a fan of this game as me. He wanted to be sent off the stars to this. May you find peace, bud. I will stand vigil for you.
Im so sorry
🙏🏿👑
I'm jealous of those that will get to travel the galaxy some day. Mass Effect really got to me 👍
After Rannoch, I think this is the most emotional track in the entire trilogy. Hits me right in the feels.
amen to that.
If I hear this on the start screen of ME Andromeda, there will be a river of tears from my eyes.
Post ME:A release edit: MEA appeared to be a pile of shit. But I still cry, for now - out of anger and impotent rage. Mass Effect Trilogy will be forever in my heart.
+Melodeath by Countries same
same here. we will all lay the controller on the floor, sit back, close our eyes..and soak up the nostalgia
if i get to see the start screen of ME Andromeda there will be a river of tears from my eyes
not a single trailer ever since the e3 reveal in 2015
i agree
me too
You guys want that full Mass Effect high? The end credits song is M4 part 2 (faunts). Two and Three were good games in their own right, but Mass Effect was a perfect story, and had a perfect end. We all know you stayed for the credits.
agree, it was like the ending of (your own) epic movie.
Actually, my favourite is the third game because it made me feel more things than any video game or movie made me ever feel. But the three of them are awesome, powerful, meaningful, and legendary. Without one of the three game, this trilogy wouldn't be the same.
Why call one better than the other? The true mass effect experience is playing all three games together and enjoying one true “trilogy”
@@vedantdesai1 7 years ago, dude
@@TitaniteHydra yet you replied
This song...the only thing I can imagine when I hear it is... the sunrise.
+CegeRoles I thought of my Grandmother when I first heard this in Mass Effect 3.
+Tory Crow This song was in ME1, m8
I have only played ME3, m8.rocritz
+Tory Crow It sucks to be you
+Tory Crow well you're missing out. ME3 is the worst of the three
I just finished the trilogy yesterday. Hearing this again...it brings a tightness to my chest and a lump to my throat in a way no other piece from a game has. From starting with one these games were the only thing I'd play in my free time, I became one with the world, connecting to the people, the characters, and their struggles. I never got emotional in 1 and 2. I rarely do with any game at all. But this...when I touched down on Earth. When I had those final talks with Garrus, and Liara, and she gave me her gift, with this slowly, faintly, shortly playing in the background. I couldn't take it anymore. I cried like a fucking baby at my desk in the middle of the night. All of the emotion I'd felt over the trilogy flowing out in that moment because I knew it was all coming to an end. It was coming to an end and I didn't want it to. I wanted to keep going, I wanted to keep having hijinx with the crew, saving the galaxy. I wanted to see those little blue children. But at that point a part of me knew Shepherd wouldn't make it, and all of this would end. Then at the very end. After the Reapers were destroyed and everyone was safe, after the credits. I cried possibly the hardest I think I have in a long time during the Stargazer scene. But a part of me doesn't know why. I've seen more compelling films, more artistic works of art, and pieces of music. Yet. This. This series of three games broke me in the end. It's something I'll never forget. Something I'll always remember. Something I will always love.
Keelah Se'lai
This is perhaps the single greatest piece of music that I have ever heard. When I heard in the mass effect series, I only thought of the free empty void and just being a part of this massive universe. That everything is connected. And I feel more at home when I look up at the stars than any other time in the universe.
This.Exactly This. It's weird because this isn't the song that's really well known when you hear Mass Effect. Most people know this game by The "Mass Effect theme" and "Uncharted World" songs , though also brilliant songs, this song IS Mass Effect to me. It truly captured the soul of the game.
Hoze24 "I don't know exactly what's out there. I don't know why it's so interesting, but what I do know is that it must be pretty damn important. Why else would humanity have left it all alone for so long?"
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
:Carl Sagan-The Pale Blue Dot.
Damn.. Your comment hit me! I feel the exact same way man
+BatterySonic My god... that is my exact reaction. Well put friend.
The conversation with Vigil, surrounded by what had essentially become a graveyard is one of my favorite moments in gaming.
This song is the best song in the series, narrowly beating out suicide misson from ME2. This song makes me feel at peace with the world, and I will hear this song when I'm in a grave, in an eternal slumber.
"I know, Tali. But thank you. Keelah Se'lai."
This almost isn't even music, it's more like ambiance so how does it elicit such an emotional response in me like it does? It's practically as iconic as the trilogy itself so maybe that's it.
madcapper6 there's such a thing as ambient music...
The very first and the very last song you hear in the Mass Effect Trilogy- people may hate 3's ending, but hearing this song at the end brought the series full circle. It needs to be in subsequent ME games in some form.
Tries not to cry *floods room*
unforgettable. i'll always cherish this game.
Bioware, you were supposed to be the chosen one, bring balance to the force!
Does this unit have a soul?
Legion. The answer to your question...was yes.
I know, Tali. But thank you... Kee'lah selai.
@@josephharrison8354 the Liara gift made me tear up as well, when she rest her head on Shepherd’s shoulder. I wasn’t in a relationship with her, but I always felt she loved Shepherd from the start.
When Vigil went off-line, I said it here in the real world "go with the stars my friend'' and a tear dropped. Immersion was golden.
This music has all. The spleen, the beauty, the memories and the hopes. This music is emotion, a bittersweet taint of serenity and melancholia.
When my mom passed away I ran away from the hospital, went back in my childhood bedroom where I saved the galaxy so many times and put this music into my ears not to feel the tears. For hours long just to make the moment easier, and it did.
Thank you Mass Effect team. Thank you who posted this video and thanks everyone with whom I enjoyed speaking of those games for years.
May both of our mothers RIP. I sincerely hope you found some peace, healing and closure.
Truly a masterpiece. I can't describe the feeling I get each time I boot up the first Mass Effect.
The entire series holds a special place in my heart
I never played ME when I was little, and I thought that now as an adult I’d never get to experience it in the eyes of innocence but when I played and this theme started, I was amazed at it’s originality and beauty, in a way, I think it was better for me to play it now than then. I would never give away that experience. Ever…😁
this holds a special place in my heart :3
Over the next decades, the Reapers systematically obliterated our people. World by world, system by system, they methodically wiped us out........
Happy N7day !! - 2022
Fallout 1 and 2 and Baldurs Gate 1 and 2 were the pinnacle of 2D narrative heavy rpgs.
Mass Effect and Dragon Age : Origins are the pinnacle of 3D.
None of them have been surpassed. The culmination of atmosphere, writing, character building, lore, combat balancing, progression, visuals, and then just perfect thematic scores like this - modern games haven't come close.
Thank you for posting this. My Grandma, who I took care of, passed away recently. I don't know why, but this song somehow helped me get things out and deal with that a little bit. Thank you so much for that.
So many memories... Makes me wonder what lies beyond the stars.
MORE STARS!
(slowly begins applause).
Why is this so calming yet so chilling? And why is it that every time I hear this I think of Shep and Tali sitting on that ledge on Rannoch after the Reaper is killed and the cooperation between the geth and Quarians instead of the ME startup screen?
Because this is the most chilling and peaceful picture you can see in the whole Universe.
Well this song played in ME3 on Rannoch in that scene of Talk and Shepard. I think it's the only scene in that game where this was played.
Aurora Not the only actually. It was played in the end of the mission on Tuchanka, when the cure for the genophage was distributed through the Shroud, and then the tower explodes.
It was actually played three times, that I could count. The third is at the Stargazer scene, playing very faintly in the background.
The fact that this song plays on ME2 when you meet some important people, from the first game, literally gave me chills. (I don't if it's specific to the Legendary edition)
This song is just filled to the brim with nostalgia, and I'm all up for it. One hell of a journey, and I am glad to have participated in it.
I believe it also plays after Mordin sacrifices himself in the third game with the cure to save all Krogans.
It’s not a song, it’s not music. It’s Raw emotion recorded in wave lengths played back at us.
In my 30s and i finally got to play Mass Effect for the first time. At my age, its hard to feel an emotional attachment to new video games to the same degree i have felt as a child (Zelda: The Ocarina of Time is MY childhood game that will always hold a special place in my heart). I felt the same level of childlike excitement to the vigil scene at ilos with this music playing in the background. The exchange filled my head with imageries of Protheans final days and the dispair that echoed through my heart. For brief moments, i felt completely immersed in vigils memories and empathized with a video game fictional race. This is a magical track.
This is even more heartbreaking when you get the refusal ending in ME3 and you see Liara generations later playing the part of Vigil
The first time I heard this song in the main menu of the game, I stopped and said to myself: "This is going to be an experience you will never forget"
And this is my second comment on this video but OMFG this song inspires me
One of the few scores that gives me chills everytime
This is most unique and beautiful soundtrack from all Mass Effect series.
one of the most brilliant moments in gaming history. you fight like hell through ME and into ilos at a rapid pace and then they lock you in this long hallway and begin this music. then you learn the struggle and ultimate failure of the previous civilization who's secrets you have been trying to unlock in order to save your own.
i can't hear this music without feeling both hope and despair at the same time. congrats to the writers and music director for that.
When I first heard this song in the title menu I knew this game would affect me like no other.
As an aspiring science fiction author Mass Effect has greatly influenced my writing. The grandeur of the setting, the depth of the story, the charm of the characters - everything I look for in a good Space Opera. It was practically love at first sight.
Thank you Bioware for letting me experience Mass Effect in my lifetime.
Good luck on your writing ambition! ME1 is an excellent example of how to write a good science-fiction setting.
I had a fun experience with that, actually. I was halfway through writing my first novel (with much of the action taking place aboard a starship named 'Normandy') when I first came across the ME series. Needless to say, I had to rename the ship in my story...
This song really captures the "organics vs synthetics" theme. With the ambient melody representing the organics and their emotions and individuality while the industrial sounding bits pop up in the background occasionally represent the synthetics.
It's not necessarily "versus".
Don't remind us of that complete retcon that Bioware made in the ME3 ending...
This has been played over 13 MILLION times on Spotify... WOW! Shows how much people love Mass Effect and especially this track!
Mass Effect 4 baby!!!
Speaking with Vigil and having this melody play was almost heartbreaking to me. His explanation of what happened to his creators hurt and had a serene sense of loneliness to it. This "lullaby" will forever be embedded into my brain as it carries both a sense of sadness and tranquility. :') Even hearing it at the menu screen envelops me with emotion.
This better be the soundtrack on the start screen for ME: Andromeda
Ik it better be
+LadyGaGa is hot it's releasing Q1 2017
Listening to this floods me with so much emotion and nostalgia it almost hurts. This series used to be my life, I haven't played through the trilogy in a few years so it all feels like an old dream.
Just...pure beauty.
This song describes the frailty of our life...
Sovereign - life is frail, therefore it must be extinguished
Vigil - life is frail, therefore, it must be treasured
Welcome back everyone on this fine N7 Day of 2022.
And just like that, the legendary edition has been announced!!!
This songs helped me with my anxiety attacks in a way that no medicine could... It's incredible how peaceful it is to me. All those memories...
Shepherd opened his eyes. The last thing he remembered was when he jumped into the Catalyst. A singular solution that made the galaxy safe once again. Now, he stood in a place more beautiful than all he could sum up. Better than Mindoar, better than Earth. Beautiful. Pristine, Calm. Everything was white and above him, blue skies floated weightless as if without any care in the world. He closed his eyes, and at the far end he heard a voice. A voice he would never forget. A thin, long Turian holding a Black Widow stood at the other end, smiling. "You looked better, " said Garrus Vakarian. "I agree" joined in the modest, quiet and precise Drell. Thane Krios looked healthy once again. Behind him, someone started mumbling, "I hope Maelon's solution worked, Shepherd." The quick witted Salarian named Mordin Solus, said with an impish smile.
Shepherd, smiled with one single tear in his eyes. Hoping that Miranda would stay happy after all these years with her sister, Liara would start rebuilding with the Asari, Wrex with his kid and Joker with EDI... he took his final step into the binding light - realising he had made friends in life and also in death.
Somewhere out there trillions of lives smiled because of him.
I remember booting the game up for the first time on my Xbox 360. Had no idea what kind of experience I was in for. This song really gives you that initial impression that your actions are going to affect an entire Universe.
- _Error. Copying code is insufficient. Direct personality dissemination required. Shepard-Commander, I must go to them... I'm sorry. It's the only way._
- Legion, the answer of your question was "Yes"
- _I know, Tali. But thank you. Keelah Se'lai._
wow that hurt to read again legions death hurt so much didnt think i could care so much about a geth
Mass Effect 1 was, at times, a meditative experience. Looking at the map, driving the Mako across the planets in awe, wondering what this galaxy has in store for us. Who was there before us and who would follow us. No other game captured the mystery and beauty of space as beautifully as this game did, in my humble opinion.
Even after 10 years of mass effect i can't find a game more epic and emotional than this .
This is the theme that clinched my loving of this trilogy. Discovering Vigil, listening to the exposition....I was fully hooked.
avaughnimous Same here.
Still brings me to tears after all these years.
Vigil + The Normandy + Galaxy Map = Holy trinity of ME1 songs.
This song is so hauntingly beautiful, standing amongst the ruins of a long gone empire, hearing of the last, desperate struggle of a dying race to persevere, how they, many centuries more advanced than us were helpless before the coming darkness, and that we are the final hope all of existence may ever have of finally breaking the cycle
This makes me want to start a go fund me to get myself cryogenically frozen for a 1000 years.. I want explore space for real.. to this soundtrack.
That feeling when you saved both the Geth and the Quarians, gave Tali her planet back, and she goes to fight the Reapers by your side because now you have become her home.
I remember sitting down on November 20th, 2007. I remember turning on my Xbox to hear this music for the first time, and my mind was instantly flooded with images of what this game could possibly be. Space travel? Exploring unknown expanses of the Universe? Finding the root of my own humanity while saving not only a single world, but entire galaxies from an almost Omni-potent evil? It's over half way through 2015, and I'm impatiently waiting the arrival of Mass Effect: Andromeda (Holiday 2016). Needless to say, every time I play this game over and over again, I get more attached to it. But I have to say, it's not always a good thing. You play it enough and you know every line, every scenario and every possible outcome. Never again will I get that initial feeling, in November of '07, where I first shot Wrex because my Paragon wasn't high enough. Never again will I be able to recreate the raw feeling of every mission, every dialogue option, and every surprise that assaulted you right in the feels. "Leaving Earth" might still tug at my heartstrings, but not in the way it did when I watched/heard it for the very first time. I wish I could do it all over again. Mass Effect is an integral part of my gaming history, and will always be my favorite series of all time.
This background theme combined with Liara's excitement if you take her along in mission makes it the most epic moment in the whole trilogy. Ok maybe a close tie-up with the Mordin death sequence in ME3.
"More likely they are driven by goals and modes of thinking that organic minds cannot comprehend,
In any case, what does it matter? Your survival hinges on you defeating them, not understanding them".
Vigil was where I really sat up and paid attention to mass effect. Yes as a narrative and game it was good, albeit with clunk, but when you travel to Vermier and more so when you come to Ilos, you come across Nazara and then Vigil, one totally unfazed by you as an organic being it had presumably killed trillions of before but one who had shown it could and not be cowed by it.
Vigil on the other hand was hope, condensed into a VI/AI programme and preserved into the future, the last hope of race-long dead, that one would come. One who opposed the machines that had wiped its people out completely and seen the destruction of its empire. Even than 50,000 years later, corrupted and barely functional Vigil pleads with you to take up hope as a weapon against galactic extinction. The last voice of a dead race telling you " As the last vestige of the Protheans we ask you to kill what we could not, and survive where we could not. "
I will admit I was younger when I played the original, and as I age I appreciate Vigils message of perseverance more and more.
"We were defeated, we were driven to extinction and yet even after that we still struck back against the reapers, still struck them back even from the grave, and we beg you to do so for yourself. It is too late for us as a people, our time in the sun has passed, yours, however, need not be so easily extinguished".
I am sorry for the longish post, but I have thought about Vigil a lot over the years and wanted to say what I thought somewhere to someone, even if no one ever reads it, I wrote it so there it is.
The fact that this calm and uplifting song is playing during the most terrifying and universe-changing revelation of the game was a surefire way to make sure no one will ever forget it.
I just can't simply describe the FEEL when you discover vigil and the protheans fate, about the reapers and all, when you say "Mass Effect" that scene comes to my head, a beatiful and memorable moment. When you re-encounter old pals, and also when you say goodbye the last time this music starts playing, it gives an accomplishment and peaceful feel, but also gives a feel of strenght, hope. It also plays when you achieve great things, making them even more memorable, i can easily say this is the best music from every single OST
This theme INSTANTLY gets goosebumps and the chills
I remember it playing at the very end of Mass Effect 3. When the old man was telling a story to a child who Commander Shepard was,
Child: "Can you tell another story of the Shepard?"
Old man: "Its getting late, but I can tell you one more time"..........
Playing Mass effect remastered and hearing this again... its just... beautiful
Outside the mountain cabin just now, clear spring sky full of stars, took a moment to stargaze holding the ME:Revelation book and listening to this. The feeling is indescribable. What joy it is to be able to look up and behold the universe in all its glory. The mere thought that humanity may very well one day reach those stars is simply beautiful.
Cant wait to do this when i visit the rockies in a few weeks
Edit: top tier experience listening to this in yellowstone, unmatched
Feels like years since I’ve just...Sat down.
ME's story might just be the greatest sci-fi story ever told , with the gameplay and soundtrack to back it up, sadly games like these don't come very often , but I'm looking forward to the next mass effect game :)
lol, I only wonder if you know much sci-fi then... since ME2 the series story was already turning into a sloppy unfocused mess & that trend accelerated... the ME1 story was (very) well done but also very derivative of other scifi like babylon 5 or star control 2, both of which are genuinely and consistently well written which makes ME's faults more glaring, to me at least
grathapilot u full of crap
I still remember to this day, 17 years later, booting up Mass Effect for the first time and hearing this music. I knew at that moment that I was going to experience something special, that would stick with me for many years to come. Still my favorite game trilogy of all time.
The Citadel DLC is proof that Bioware are still awesome.
Um, no.
20kiv10 What makes you say that? There was a ton of content, tied up story arcs for characters missing them like Garrus and Zaeed, a good espionage plot, good soundtrack, the combat arena, a pile of minigames. It was just generally fantastic.
It's pointless and bad to sell cutted content from original game after stupid final of ME trilogy. Also all good Bioware's developers run away from EA.^^
20kiv10 Oh? I didn't think it was pointless, if you are one of those people who hated the game's end but loved the rest, then let take a minute to remember all the good times you had through the series. Now with that in mind, replay the Citadel. You'll find that it is a great way to say good bye to your friends. Breaks the fourth wall at various times, it's very meta, it makes all the jokes we're all thinking when we play the game. But more importantly, it gets all your companions together, in one final epic mission before you say good bye and close their book.
I thought Citadel was one of the best DLC
I remember booting this game up on my xbox360 for the first time back in 2007 or 2008. I had gotten the game as a birthday present, a used copy, but I didn't mind. The game loaded, the starting screen appeared, with this broody and mystical musical ambience, and a prompt appeared telling me to press start. I did. I will never forget the sound that push of that button made, this unbelievable synth sound that sounded like it came out from a cybernetic brains dream of a forgotten world. And then the music, and the slow fading in and out of mysterious characters in the menu, and then the creation of your character. Man, what a great game, not flawless, but unquestionably great. For me, this song will always be Mass Effects true theme.
This theme really hits hard, outside of the game it makes me think about the finite existence we have. How we have the means to pursue whatever we want, but the grand scope of universe will always be at the core our of struggles.
We can run away from it and be broken by that knowledge or we can make peace with it. Live to the fullest and draw whatever temporary meaning we can both from ourselves and each other.
Every single year. I have to play through this absolutely amazing trilogy!
I love Mass Effect so much. Its near and dear to my heart. I feel like every few years that pass... I'll start obsessing over it again. Thinking about the good times I had with my friends in the game. A feeling that I need to go back and see them all again. No other game has made me feel this way.
I never imagined one of the greatest space operas/science fiction stories to ever be told through video games. Satisfied I was there for all 3.