Hackett is one of my absolute favorite characters in the trilogy, and all the characters are good so making my "favorites" list is hard to do. His voice actor was unbelievable. For whatever reason I just loved the way he says "Hackett out."
@dan p Easy there champion. We all know everybody in galaxy did their best. He was awesome man in charge so he used this. Anderson was great man organized resistence. Every species every man and women and children did their best. Not just him or Shepard. Shepard never disrespected him even he wasnt a soldier anymore. Gave the cerberus to him etc. I only remember Shepard talked to Hackett like he was ordering when we saved Cerberus Scientists. Normally Hackett would cut the connection and this time Shepard did.
Admiral Hackett Never before have so many come together--from all quarters of the galaxy. But never before have we faced an enemy such as this. The Reapers will show us no mercy. We must give them no quarter. They will terrorize our populations. We must stand fast in the face of that terror. They will advance until our last city falls, but we will not fall. We will prevail. Each of us will be defined by our actions in the coming battle. Stand fast. Stand strong. Stand together. Hackett out
CMDRBLADE either the halo universe... or the warhammer universe. Cus I mean the forrunners from halo could probably definitely stand their own against the reapers... if not be sufficient enough to kick their asses
I have to agree that Hackett's speech was a little weak, but he did have a certain aura and the line "Stand strong, Stand together." really gave me the feeling: This is it. This is what the last two games have lead to. This is the fight to the death for the whole galaxy.
never b4 has a theme park ever witness such greatness, each one of us here in the audience knows that mass effect is not just a franchise it is a journey, a journey of heartbreak joy and laughter we will defeat the reapers in mass effect land and most of all we will not fail stand strong stand true stand together captain Alex out
Mass Effect deserves it's fanboys seeing that is one of the best game series this decade.It's in a league of its own.That can't be said for Halo,CoD and the other games with thousands of fanboys.So that actually was a compliment.
This fucking song, I remember being a little kid and this playing while the anticipation was mounting, all fleets reporting and the reapers preparing for battle. I was so pumped lol
“Never before have so many come together from all quarters of the galaxy. But never before have we faced an enemy such as this. The Reapers will show us no mercy, we must give them no quarter. They will terrorize our populations. We must stand fast in the face of that terror. They will advance until our last city falls, but we will not fall. We will prevail. Each of us will be defined by our actions in the coming battle. Stand fast, stand strong. Stand together. Hackett out.” -Admiral Hackett
When you are at the head of the full 10,000 asset strong fleet this song USB legendary. So much work, for the perfect payoff... an awesome goddamn battle song and Russel Crowe worthy speech.
I hear you. The fall of Earth is the closest I have ever come to crying while playing a video game. Before that, it was another BioWare game: Dragon Age: Origins during Morrigan's farewell.
Éomer! Take your eored down the left side. Yes, my lord. Gamling, follow the King's banner down the center. Grimbold, take your company right, after you pass the wall. Forth, and fear no darkness! Arise! Arise! Riders of Théoden! Spears shall be shaken, shields shall be splintered! A sword-day! A red day, ere the sun rises! Whatever happens, stay with me. I will look after you. Ride now, ride now, ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending! Death! Death! Forð Eorlingas!
For any who would like a stab at some lyrics to make this the Systems Alliance Anthem: Note: Dashes indicate elongated words. In case it wasn't clear. 0:48 If tomorrow yo-ur sa-cred soil By invasion is- spoilt , Free in solar winds fly blue ensigns! To victory or death they wave ! May we ever stand with hand in hand For these gifts so rich and rare. Arise O children of Earth and colonies! The steel of swo-rd, shield and fleet! All forward! 2:22 We will not kneel nor our hea-ds bow . All sh-all find us unafraid! It matters not how strait the gate, how charged With punishme-nts th-e scro-ll ! We shall stand in the face of all foes ! Stand fast, masters of our fates ! Sta-nd strong, the enemy attacks abate! Stand to-gether as captains of ou-r souls ! Much credit to William Earnest Henley for much of the second verse, as they are either directly from or inspired by his poem, Invictus [fitting, eh?]. The first verse contains bits of real national anthems, the idea being that it represents all nations. Like 5 edits changing small bits here and there. I like the idea of "stand fast, stand strong, stand together" having some secondary meaning.
Some country needs this is their national anthem. I dont care if its america, germany, russia, france, england, china or north korea. Someone freaking NEEDS this
Today we will bring about the end of our enemy. Bare in mind that this will not be an easy fight, many will fall but in the end we will prevail. All of us must fight for everything we're worth and then some! So I ask of you which among you will follow me into the gates of hell!? Who will stand by my side as we stand victorious over our fallen enemies!?
RPG>>FPS The storytelling HAS to be good because it supposedly is an RPG game & not an FPS. In the FPS genre, Halo is one of the few games to have a solid story without being too overly dramatic about it. Master Chief's and Cmdr.Shepard's characters are vastly different. Shepard character is made for the game as is Chief's for Halo. I'm sure if Halo was an RPG and the roles of Shep and Chief were reversed, you would cry for Chief too. ps - You are not supposed to feel bad for a SPARTAN II btw.
Mechanics-wise I mean things like regenerating health/shields as opposed to sole dependency on power-ups (granted, they were still there), the use of vehicles, emplacements etc in a multiplayer coop FPS (I know Battlezone and FarCry had both but not quite like that afaik) - and yes, the 'landscape', atmosphere and such were what I meant by 'contributions to the genre' :)
I've never played any Halo Game so i can't say anything about Halo but, the videos i saw on youtube makes me think, that both Mass Effect and Halo were perfect, both in their own way.
Agreed. There is no comparison there. They're both fantastic, story driven games that make you love the characters. But one is an RPG and the other an FPS. That's like comparing two differant positions in basketball.
I get the felling of a greater good something worth fighting for and even though hackets talk about the reapers was a little weak I enjoyed the line stand strong stand together correct me if I'm wrong on how it went this really got me hyped for the final battle the felling of we are a united galaxy and we bout fuck yo reaper asses up! But jokes aside I personally would have liked a refusal ending where if you would have spent enough time getting forces together you beat the reapers with the Galaxy and not the catalyst IMOR I think that would have been cool what does anyone else think?
"This war has brought us pain and suffering and loss.... but it also brought us together... as soldiers... allies.... friends... this bond that ties us is something the reapers will never understand... it's more powerful than any weapon, stronger than any ship, it can't be taken or destroyed.... The next few hours will decide the fate of everyone in galaxy. Every mother. Every son. Every unborn child, they're trusting you... depending on you to win them their future..." No pressure when you put it that way Shepard!
Only because The Reapers have PlotArmourium. Seriously once The Protheans developed Particle Beam Weapons that would of been a Tide Turner. A PBW would make the main gun on a Sovereign Class look like a popgun. When you accelerate something to 96% the Speed of Light (PBW are Relativistic weapons 96% and above), it has MORE power than a Anitmatter/Matter reaction
It should have been the Crucible released some kind of energy to weaken the Reaper, just like the Geth back on Rannock, then the Combined Fleet defeated them. I think that ending would be much better than these Catalyst's choices.
Halo is great and it has a good story. But it's a short game. You don't bond with the character as much in Halo as you do in ME. I have played ALL Halo games out so far and same goes for ME. In halo you bond with like 2 characters, Cortana and Chief. While in Mass Effect you bond with so many more. There is so much in Mass Effect. I love Halo but mostly for it's multiplayer but I love Mass Effect because of it's amazing story and characters.
Amen to that.I mean,Cerberus had good goals,but the way they wanted to achieve them was wrong.And the Illusive Man was one of the most awesome Mass Effect characters.That's why i liked about the enemies in ME.They all had substance and they all had something that drived them to do those things,which they thought were good,but in the end they ended up being indoctrinated..Look at Saren.
DAMNIT BIOWARE. YOU HAD A GOOD GAME.....and you had to blew it with the ending.......The game is great all the way you expect that you get a reward at the end you feel the story you feel the shepards burden and then you get a kick to the balls at the end. Seriously WHY!? ITS BEEN 3 YEARS AND IM STILL MAD ABOUT THIS.
+SnWFuckUTube "You just wanted a happy ending" is just a bullshit strawman. People aren't bitching because Shepard died; they're bitching because the ending was quite literally a deus ex machina with no foreshadowing at all, it robbed the player of any agency whatsoever, and it invalidated the entire premise of the Mass Effect series: that your choices matter. The ending was as jarring as if, at the end of Return of the King, the hobbits finally make it to Mount Doom only for Slim Pickens to sail in riding his bomb, Sauron and Mount Doom get nuked, and Randy Savage jumps onto the screen, yells his trademark "OHHH YEAAAAAH", and the the credits roll.
Taliesyn42 Exactly.... the ending was just something wrapped up quickly. The citadel was wrapped up quickly building models from the ME2 dlc:shadowbroker map. And they just added things that dont make sense like shepard surviving the beam that incirates everyone else instantly out of existance. Shepards armor changing back to default because hastened making introducing a hologram kid right at the end because of the plot (deus ex machina). and making fighting cerberus completely pointless because hey control is possible....and suddenly the paragon option most of the game ''destroy the reapers'' suddenly becomes the worst option but atleast shepard survives...buth geth and EDI dies.(I have all the games and thus managed to forge peace between quarians and geth). Its like the storywriter had a complete brainfart at the end. ANd thats because the writer changed......the guy who wrote the story up to the beam left and they just filled it in with another one. The ending haunts me almost even after 4 years......
^NutcasE^ My understanding from talking to people who worked there was that one of the project leaders - I forget if it was the producer or the lead writer - wrote the ending completely on his own and the rest of the writing staff wasn't allowed any input whatsoever. Basically, he wrote his dream fanfic and had the clout to force it in as the ending on what was otherwise a spectacular story.
As a Halo Fan...I sorta have to agree with you. I do admire how Mass Effect made EVERY character likeable, and every charcter is redeemable and good in their own way. Halo, on the other hand, took the easy route and made us dislike the bad guys, no matter how cheaply they had to do it. Take the Brutes, for example... Brutes were bad because they ate people, smelled bad, and were meanie heads who kicked smaller people around. Like...how cheap can you get? At least with Cerberus, they WERE bad!
Do not admire yourself in pointless revolt. Do not sacrifice everything for the sake of petty freedoms. The Protheans tried to fight, and they where utterly destroyed. Trillions dead, but what if they had bowed before there invaders? Would the Protheans still exist? Is submission not preferable to extinction?
What if we might of bow to the reapers would they show the same respect to which sovereign showed you. No sovereign used you. If we bowed down to the reapers the war is already lost the harvest will continue no matter what. ~the cycle can not be broken -sovereign, harbinger, unknown reaper, starchild
I'm a bit confused, is the second part some cut-content music? Also, why is the normal soundtrack of Stand Strong,... different from the one in game?:S
Well my heads actually in a cloud. Speaking of heads, i have part of your right mandible and your brains here would you like those back? It could help you see why the freedoms of peoples is important and why those peoples fight for it.
Greatest of the greats these games. I love them so much. I cant believe they messed up Andromeda which had is all going for it just lacking the story:( bring it back you can repair the damage the fans wont say no. I also would kill for a proper proper remaster for ps5 ill pay full price again for each of them :)
Yo,i never said Halo was a bad game.Don't get angry now.But by your own statement,Mass Effect is a better story.In terms of gameplay,you can't compare them because they're different genres.But in terms of universe,story and characters you can.And in my opinion,both universes are awesome and in terms of story and characters Mass Effect is better.So in conclusion Mass Effect is the greater sci-fi game.With Halo taking second place.Being on second place at sci fi THIS DECADE isn't bad at all.
A little weak? A LITTLE WEAK!? IT WAS DOWNRIGHT PATHETIC! It felt like the writer of that speech tried way too hard to avoid any sort of cliches and was more concerned with just getting it over with ASAP, rather than making it a grandiose, uplifting and inspiring speech. And why oh WHY is it NOT Shepard giving the speech? Maybe they could've made the speech into a choice-event, where you could chooce to talk in an uplifting, serious, or maybe even comedic way? Since you could do that to your own team, WHY NOT TO THE FLEET!? I just don't get it! Noooo, fuck that. Oh and hey, let's fuck up the ending too!
RuSosan It would have ben even better if you also saw all the teammates and other friends (Aria, Kirrahe, Wrex) listen to Shepard making a badass speech like in ME1 where you see your teammates listen to shepard's speech. THAT would be absolutely BADASS
RuSosan I was just really disappointed by the speech. The only thing that kept it from being a straight insult was the incredible voice acting by Lance Henriksen. Still, it could have been the ultimate and deeply satisfying "FUCK YEAH!!!" moment. Oh well.. life goes on
They were bad as an organisation - but had a commendable goal, so they ended up entrapping good people, like Jacob. Then they ended up kidnapping and brainwashing civilians x.X I've played both. I prefer Mass Effect, definitely. I do think, however, that we shouldn't forget that Mass Effect is in part a tribute to the space opera genre. So Halo may not be as good, but there may not have BEEN a Mass Effect without its influence on the genre and on shooter gameplay mechanics.
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"no matter what else happens today, you did what no one else could, you united a galaxy. that's a victory right there."
-Wrex
"It's a shame it took the Reapers to get us to work together."
"Shepard got us to work together."
Hackett was such an impressive man, not sure why I feel that way. He has a certain presence :p.
Yeah, a father of the Alliance.
DaBase333 In the low hsm ending extended cut, seing him on board of the broken ship, waitign for death, just amazed me.
Hackett is one of my absolute favorite characters in the trilogy, and all the characters are good so making my "favorites" list is hard to do. His voice actor was unbelievable. For whatever reason I just loved the way he says "Hackett out."
@dan p Easy there champion. We all know everybody in galaxy did their best. He was awesome man in charge so he used this. Anderson was great man organized resistence. Every species every man and women and children did their best. Not just him or Shepard. Shepard never disrespected him even he wasnt a soldier anymore. Gave the cerberus to him etc. I only remember Shepard talked to Hackett like he was ordering when we saved Cerberus Scientists. Normally Hackett would cut the connection and this time Shepard did.
Like when you punch news reporters
There's a few games able to make me cry, and Mass Effect is one of them.
"Hackett out."
Admiral Hackett
Never before have so many come together--from all quarters of the galaxy. But never before have we faced an enemy such as this. The Reapers will show us no mercy. We must give them no quarter. They will terrorize our populations. We must stand fast in the face of that terror. They will advance until our last city falls, but we will not fall. We will prevail. Each of us will be defined by our actions in the coming battle. Stand fast. Stand strong. Stand together. Hackett out
"Commander. Are you ready to bear the might of the Galaxy upon the reapers?"
"Each of us will be defined by our actions in the coming battle. Stand fast, stand strong, stand together."
"Hackett out."
stand fast, stand strong, stand like a BBC!
Commander..are you ready to bring the might of the galaxy to bear on the reapers?
"With a lackluster speech?"
Shepard: Yes,sir!
***** Galaxies, are you Reaper to might the bring of the bear on the Shepard ready?
Udrakan Morturim Commander, are you ready to bring the might of the galaxy to reaper on the bears?
The Crucible didn't win the battle. The forces of a United galaxy did
It was the combination of the two really.
Which other sci fi universe would u bring into this war?
CMDRBLADE either the halo universe... or the warhammer universe. Cus I mean the forrunners from halo could probably definitely stand their own against the reapers... if not be sufficient enough to kick their asses
@@cmdrblade2485 Halo and Star Wars.
@Cmdrblade Star Trek, definitely.
Felt like five years of story was being ended by three minutes of instrumentals. Had to be epic!
"Commander, are you ready to bring the might of the Galaxy to bear on the Reapers?"
shephard: yes sir
I have to agree that Hackett's speech was a little weak, but he did have a certain aura and the line "Stand strong, Stand together." really gave me the feeling: This is it. This is what the last two games have lead to. This is the fight to the death for the whole galaxy.
"we must stop killing each other we must stand together to fight together for survival, we live or we die is your decision"
-shepard-
never b4 has a theme park ever witness such greatness, each one of us here in the audience knows that mass effect is not just a franchise it is a journey, a journey of heartbreak joy and laughter we will defeat the reapers in mass effect land and most of all we will not fail stand strong stand true stand together captain Alex out
Stand Fast Stand Strong Stand Together Hacket out!
Mass Effect deserves it's fanboys seeing that is one of the best game series this decade.It's in a league of its own.That can't be said for Halo,CoD and the other games with thousands of fanboys.So that actually was a compliment.
This song always makes me want to fight for what I Believe in, Always.
Just a phase I went through.
@@blakehester5559 I'm still in it lol
@@blakehester5559 weak
“Probing Uranus”
Shepard, are you sure?
@@anthonyrobaky6436 The real reason the fleets gathered together in the sol system was to protect Uranus.
5 years on and i'm still gettin goosebumps
i get fucking chills when i hear this
This fucking song, I remember being a little kid and this playing while the anticipation was mounting, all fleets reporting and the reapers preparing for battle. I was so pumped lol
Shepard, the greatest hero
“Never before have so many come together from all quarters of the galaxy. But never before have we faced an enemy such as this. The Reapers will show us no mercy, we must give them no quarter. They will terrorize our populations. We must stand fast in the face of that terror. They will advance until our last city falls, but we will not fall. We will prevail. Each of us will be defined by our actions in the coming battle. Stand fast, stand strong. Stand together. Hackett out.”
-Admiral Hackett
When you are at the head of the full 10,000 asset strong fleet this song USB legendary. So much work, for the perfect payoff... an awesome goddamn battle song and Russel Crowe worthy speech.
I can't thank you enough for putting this up.
This has been living in my head rent free. But every time I remember it and hum it, I remember the sadness that came after.
Shit gets you so inspired and pumped
I hear you. The fall of Earth is the closest I have ever come to crying while playing a video game. Before that, it was another BioWare game: Dragon Age: Origins during Morrigan's farewell.
Éomer! Take your eored down the left side.
Yes, my lord.
Gamling, follow the King's banner down the center. Grimbold, take your company right, after you pass the wall. Forth, and fear no darkness!
Arise! Arise! Riders of Théoden! Spears shall be shaken, shields shall be splintered! A sword-day! A red day, ere the sun rises!
Whatever happens, stay with me. I will look after you.
Ride now, ride now, ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending!
Death!
Death!
Forð Eorlingas!
then the normandy flew in and bombed the hell out of the battlefield
Shepard saving the day again :P
For any who would like a stab at some lyrics to make this the Systems Alliance Anthem:
Note: Dashes indicate elongated words. In case it wasn't clear.
0:48
If tomorrow yo-ur sa-cred soil
By invasion is- spoilt
,
Free in solar winds fly blue ensigns!
To victory or death they wave
!
May we ever stand with hand in hand
For these gifts so rich and rare.
Arise O children of Earth and colonies!
The steel of swo-rd, shield and fleet!
All forward!
2:22
We will not kneel nor our hea-ds bow
.
All sh-all find us unafraid!
It matters not how strait the gate, how charged
With punishme-nts th-e scro-ll
!
We shall stand in the face of all foes
!
Stand fast, masters of our fates
!
Sta-nd strong, the enemy attacks abate!
Stand to-gether as captains of ou-r souls
!
Much credit to William Earnest Henley for much of the second verse, as they are either directly from or inspired by his poem, Invictus [fitting, eh?]. The first verse contains bits of real national anthems, the idea being that it represents all nations.
Like 5 edits changing small bits here and there.
I like the idea of "stand fast, stand strong, stand together" having some secondary meaning.
Thanks; looking forward to them.
Some country needs this is their national anthem. I dont care if its america, germany, russia, france, england, china or north korea. Someone freaking NEEDS this
I like to think of this this as the Systems Alliance Anthem.
All rise for the youtube national anthem
Today we will bring about the end of our enemy. Bare in mind that this will not be an easy fight, many will fall but in the end we will prevail. All of us must fight for everything we're worth and then some! So I ask of you which among you will follow me into the gates of hell!? Who will stand by my side as we stand victorious over our fallen enemies!?
i will sir for the republic! and for clone army! and for the honor of our brothers!
About to start my annual play through of the trilogy and I need to pump myself up!!! WOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!
RPG>>FPS
The storytelling HAS to be good because it supposedly is an RPG game & not an FPS. In the FPS genre, Halo is one of the few games to have a solid story without being too overly dramatic about it.
Master Chief's and Cmdr.Shepard's characters are vastly different.
Shepard character is made for the game as is Chief's for Halo. I'm sure if Halo was an RPG and the roles of Shep and Chief were reversed, you would cry for Chief too.
ps - You are not supposed to feel bad for a SPARTAN II btw.
Hackett is awesome
Que celui qui ne ressente pas de frissons en écoutant cette superbe musique ne me jette la première pierre :)
Je pleure en ce moment même
the ending still hurts me...
+reimon 27 yeah i know....
Mechanics-wise I mean things like regenerating health/shields as opposed to sole dependency on power-ups (granted, they were still there), the use of vehicles, emplacements etc in a multiplayer coop FPS (I know Battlezone and FarCry had both but not quite like that afaik) - and yes, the 'landscape', atmosphere and such were what I meant by 'contributions to the genre' :)
The fight all all fights! The battle of all battles! And the war that's going to end all wars!!!
I've never played any Halo Game so i can't say anything about Halo but, the videos i saw on youtube makes me think, that both Mass Effect and Halo were perfect, both in their own way.
Agreed. There is no comparison there. They're both fantastic, story driven games that make you love the characters. But one is an RPG and the other an FPS. That's like comparing two differant positions in basketball.
''salutes'' \
I get the felling of a greater good something worth fighting for and even though hackets talk about the reapers was a little weak I enjoyed the line stand strong stand together correct me if I'm wrong on how it went this really got me hyped for the final battle the felling of we are a united galaxy and we bout fuck yo reaper asses up! But jokes aside I personally would have liked a refusal ending where if you would have spent enough time getting forces together you beat the reapers with the Galaxy and not the catalyst IMOR I think that would have been cool what does anyone else think?
"This war has brought us pain and suffering and loss.... but it also brought us together... as soldiers... allies.... friends... this bond that ties us is something the reapers will never understand... it's more powerful than any weapon, stronger than any ship, it can't be taken or destroyed.... The next few hours will decide the fate of everyone in galaxy. Every mother. Every son. Every unborn child, they're trusting you... depending on you to win them their future..."
No pressure when you put it that way Shepard!
Not to whine about the ending, but if the combined forces defeated the reaper rather than the catalyst choices, I'd be happier.
Raymond Li they couldn't tho. the catalyst is the only way
Only because The Reapers have PlotArmourium. Seriously once The Protheans developed Particle Beam Weapons that would of been a Tide Turner.
A PBW would make the main gun on a Sovereign Class look like a popgun. When you accelerate something to 96% the Speed of Light (PBW are Relativistic weapons 96% and above), it has MORE power than a Anitmatter/Matter reaction
It should have been the Crucible released some kind of energy to weaken the Reaper, just like the Geth back on Rannock, then the Combined Fleet defeated them. I think that ending would be much better than these Catalyst's choices.
@@Gothic7876 they did develop particle weapons, hell the reapers gave their husk versions particle weaponry and it didn't do jack shit to them
Pillar Menn Like I said PlotArmourium
I know right Mass Effect is the greatest game series ever in my opinion
I hereby concur.
Halo is great and it has a good story. But it's a short game. You don't bond with the character as much in Halo as you do in ME. I have played ALL Halo games out so far and same goes for ME. In halo you bond with like 2 characters, Cortana and Chief. While in Mass Effect you bond with so many more. There is so much in Mass Effect. I love Halo but mostly for it's multiplayer but I love Mass Effect because of it's amazing story and characters.
Amen to that.I mean,Cerberus had good goals,but the way they wanted to achieve them was wrong.And the Illusive Man was one of the most awesome Mass Effect characters.That's why i liked about the enemies in ME.They all had substance and they all had something that drived them to do those things,which they thought were good,but in the end they ended up being indoctrinated..Look at Saren.
exactly ;)
THIS FIGHT IS OUR DESTINY.
A little harsh, there are endless names containing 'guy', 'dude', 'man', and the like, it's not flaunting.
Reminds me of Apollo 13. RIP James Horner.
Likewise.
DEM SPEECHES!
Who composed this ? I HAVE TO KNOW.
Marc R Christopher Lennertz
DAMNIT BIOWARE. YOU HAD A GOOD GAME.....and you had to blew it with the ending.......The game is great all the way you expect that you get a reward at the end you feel the story you feel the shepards burden and then you get a kick to the balls at the end. Seriously WHY!? ITS BEEN 3 YEARS AND IM STILL MAD ABOUT THIS.
Your answer is... MEHEM. Google for it. You will fell much better. Also JohnP's MAHEM for less drastic changes... ;)
+SnWFuckUTube thats just how bad the ending is. it leaves eternal bad taste for a fan who expected that bioware would keep their word
+SnWFuckUTube "You just wanted a happy ending" is just a bullshit strawman. People aren't bitching because Shepard died; they're bitching because the ending was quite literally a deus ex machina with no foreshadowing at all, it robbed the player of any agency whatsoever, and it invalidated the entire premise of the Mass Effect series: that your choices matter. The ending was as jarring as if, at the end of Return of the King, the hobbits finally make it to Mount Doom only for Slim Pickens to sail in riding his bomb, Sauron and Mount Doom get nuked, and Randy Savage jumps onto the screen, yells his trademark "OHHH YEAAAAAH", and the the credits roll.
Taliesyn42 Exactly.... the ending was just something wrapped up quickly. The citadel was wrapped up quickly building models from the ME2 dlc:shadowbroker map. And they just added things that dont make sense like shepard surviving the beam that incirates everyone else instantly out of existance. Shepards armor changing back to default because hastened making introducing a hologram kid right at the end because of the plot (deus ex machina). and making fighting cerberus completely pointless because hey control is possible....and suddenly the paragon option most of the game ''destroy the reapers'' suddenly becomes the worst option but atleast shepard survives...buth geth and EDI dies.(I have all the games and thus managed to forge peace between quarians and geth). Its like the storywriter had a complete brainfart at the end. ANd thats because the writer changed......the guy who wrote the story up to the beam left and they just filled it in with another one. The ending haunts me almost even after 4 years......
^NutcasE^ My understanding from talking to people who worked there was that one of the project leaders - I forget if it was the producer or the lead writer - wrote the ending completely on his own and the rest of the writing staff wasn't allowed any input whatsoever. Basically, he wrote his dream fanfic and had the clout to force it in as the ending on what was otherwise a spectacular story.
Well, that escalated quickly.
But these two series are among the best in SF! :P
BioWare should bring Liara back and whoever alien lives for more then hundreds of years
matriarch T'soni
Orlando Vianen that would be something.
+Raresh Muntean have u faced an asari commando b4? few humans have XD
Orlando Vianen Aren't the commandos some Asari Cerberus? Like a pro asari task force?
+Raresh Muntean i dunno, i think they're the asari version of geth prime... or somthing
Don't worry about that. Your speech was good enough.
That dislike is because its only 3 minutes long AND is an extended version.
Harbinger assumed direct control of the dislike button. Pressing dislike means you serve the Reapers.
1:00 straight outta legend of Zelda xD at least the sound :')
This song should play at the Olympics
Are there any more extended tracks?
'I'm proud of you' for instance?
As a Halo Fan...I sorta have to agree with you. I do admire how Mass Effect made EVERY character likeable, and every charcter is redeemable and good in their own way.
Halo, on the other hand, took the easy route and made us dislike the bad guys, no matter how cheaply they had to do it. Take the Brutes, for example...
Brutes were bad because they ate people, smelled bad, and were meanie heads who kicked smaller people around. Like...how cheap can you get?
At least with Cerberus, they WERE bad!
Jon Lyons but no-one can beat good ol' Sgt Johnson... because he always knew what the ladies liked XD
You forgot the most important part of the speech, the "Hackett Out"
and not just once ...
Do not admire yourself in pointless revolt. Do not sacrifice everything for the sake of petty freedoms. The Protheans tried to fight, and they where utterly destroyed. Trillions dead, but what if they had bowed before there invaders? Would the Protheans still exist? Is submission not preferable to extinction?
This isn't the normal soundtrack. This is an extended version that MovieandTVThemes made him/herself
We're going to bring down a hell upon the reapers.....the likes of which they've never seen!
? i was just trying to say its way too epic for just 3 minutes and 40 seconds....
What if we might of bow to the reapers would they show the same respect to which sovereign showed you. No sovereign used you. If we bowed down to the reapers the war is already lost the harvest will continue no matter what.
~the cycle can not be broken -sovereign, harbinger, unknown reaper, starchild
It would be possible if our own people wasn't busy fighting beetween them for crap.
It's like LotR of our era, I think. The story is so rich, complex and complete. But the ending! x.x
its to short :(
You couldn't have gotten it more wrong.
wouldn't it be our planetary anthem instead though?
Remind us this if Reapers come in the future.
I don't, since this track isn't in Halo 3's sound files. You may want to get a new copy of the game.
No it can be said for Halo. Majority of Halo fanboys also happen to be Mass Effect fanatics.
I'm a bit confused, is the second part some cut-content music?
Also, why is the normal soundtrack of Stand Strong,... different from the one in game?:S
Stand strong stand together,POTUOS out.
You know we won't, right?
Is this fan-mixed or a real extended version? If it's real, where can I get it?
Hackett out
sounds little bit like cod 3 just the theme
Well my heads actually in a cloud. Speaking of heads, i have part of your right mandible and your brains here would you like those back? It could help you see why the freedoms of peoples is important and why those peoples fight for it.
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life. HA HA HA.
And FYI I don't lose my right mandible.
I know the Illusive man disagrees with Shepard but they could at least lend a hand with the Reapers.
Bioware killed Shepard legacy
Greatest of the greats these games. I love them so much. I cant believe they messed up Andromeda which had is all going for it just lacking the story:( bring it back you can repair the damage the fans wont say no. I also would kill for a proper proper remaster for ps5 ill pay full price again for each of them :)
Dude imagine a MCC but for mass effect
Yo,i never said Halo was a bad game.Don't get angry now.But by your own statement,Mass Effect is a better story.In terms of gameplay,you can't compare them because they're different genres.But in terms of universe,story and characters you can.And in my opinion,both universes are awesome and in terms of story and characters Mass Effect is better.So in conclusion Mass Effect is the greater sci-fi game.With Halo taking second place.Being on second place at sci fi THIS DECADE isn't bad at all.
not greatest but perfect! there is no game who attach me to the characters game so much except this game
Honestly thought hackett's speech was a little weak.
A little weak?
A LITTLE WEAK!?
IT WAS DOWNRIGHT PATHETIC!
It felt like the writer of that speech tried way too hard to avoid any sort of cliches and was more concerned with just getting it over with ASAP, rather than making it a grandiose, uplifting and inspiring speech.
And why oh WHY is it NOT Shepard giving the speech?
Maybe they could've made the speech into a choice-event, where you could chooce to talk in an uplifting, serious, or maybe even comedic way?
Since you could do that to your own team, WHY NOT TO THE FLEET!?
I just don't get it!
Noooo, fuck that. Oh and hey, let's fuck up the ending too!
RuSosan It would have ben even better if you also saw all the teammates and other friends (Aria, Kirrahe, Wrex) listen to Shepard making a badass speech like in ME1 where you see your teammates listen to shepard's speech. THAT would be absolutely BADASS
*****
Agreed.
RuSosan I was just really disappointed by the speech. The only thing that kept it from being a straight insult was the incredible voice acting by Lance Henriksen. Still, it could have been the ultimate and deeply satisfying "FUCK YEAH!!!" moment. Oh well.. life goes on
***** Could have had Anna Fisher do it better. Something involving anal rape of the Reapers...
They were bad as an organisation - but had a commendable goal, so they ended up entrapping good people, like Jacob. Then they ended up kidnapping and brainwashing civilians x.X
I've played both. I prefer Mass Effect, definitely. I do think, however, that we shouldn't forget that Mass Effect is in part a tribute to the space opera genre. So Halo may not be as good, but there may not have BEEN a Mass Effect without its influence on the genre and on shooter gameplay mechanics.
Saw it. It wasn't your mandible, but you may have lost some of that jaw flap.