When I'm in the kitchen, or tidying up around the house, I find myself humming "I am the very model..." I had no idea this character would have such a profound impact on me. He felt guilt, but didn't make it a pity party. He took action. I love his quirks, his brain, and his heart. Had to be him.
there is a way to save Mordin... Step 1, kill Wrex on Virmire (when he has issues with mission), Step 2 destroy data, Step 3 dont mention sabotage until end of mission....
Damn, I cried 2 days ago when he died on my another playthrough and now I'm crying again watching this video. Mass Effect series just makes your emotions burst from you and you can't help it but let the tears flow. It's one of those games where men are not ashamed to cry.
I'm honestly curious what changed at the last minute for Mordin that made him suddenly think he made a mistake. Not long before he still stated that the Genophage was the right decision at the time. Personally i agree with him though.
Mordin never changed his mind about the Genophage. Up until the end he believed that if he could go back and do it all over again he'd make the same choice. He didn't think he made a mistake, he thought it was time for the Genophage to end. This is from the man's own words, all the way through the games.
@@CarlosHuiskens It was his time with Eve, as well as all the time on Tuchanka where he saw the death and destruction. Eve grew to like Mordin despite being a part of the pain she and her clan and her people have been through, through that connection Mordin realized what the true effects of his work was and realized his mistake. In ME2 when Shepard says "look at the dead woman Mordin, it doesn't look like you saved her" it was a spark in his heart but was fought against it,.
@@AClockworkMelon I know it's been almost a year, but, when you don't reveal the sabotage and you try to convince Mordin not to cure the genophage, he admits that he made a mistake: Shepard: Hell, I had to talk you into saving Maelon's data! How can you change your mind now? Mordin: I made a mistake! I made a mistake... focused on the big picture. Big picture made of little pictures. Too many variables. Can't hide behind statistics. Can't ignore new data. (...)
"Would've liked to run tests on seashells." "Had to be me. Someone else might've gotten it wrong." Two sentences that'll bring tears to your eyes decades on, be forewarned :)
Let's not forget this gem; "I MADE A MISTAKE! I made a mistake... focused on big picture. Big picture made of many little pictures, too many variables!" My favorite ending is still staying silent until the final moment, threatening to stop him and then... don't. As reckless as curing the Genophage is I just can't ever bring myself to actually shoot Mordin.
"I made a mistake!" and "Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong." are two of my favorite lines in the entire franchise. Even better that it's from the same character, in the same team, just under different circumstances.
I know Mass Effect has an official theme, but “Vigil” is easily just as memorable. If not more. Never fails to make me cry from both sadness and happiness.
Mass Effect has so many memorable themes. Vigil, Galaxy Map, Main Theme, Normandy Reborn, Suicide Mission/The End Run, Leaving Earth, A Future For the Krogan, An End Once And For All etc.
Vigil is THE Mass Effect theme, for me. Being the title theme on ME1, where it all started, holding such beauty and mystery. I had it as my wake up alarm for a long time! Until I realised I was starting to associate it with getting up for work, and I didn't want to give negative connotations to such a great piece of music 😅
Something that took me years to notice about this section of the game is Mordin's speech cadence. Typically when he's talking, it's very quick, just saying enough to get the message across, while simultaneously thinking on a dozen other projects. But here, he's calm, collected, focused. He's putting all of himself in curing the Genophage, and it's amazing to see how well it shows just through something as subtle as speech patterns.
Even tho I play paragon, in this mission I like to hold off on telling anyone about the salarian deal so that I get the confrontation between Shepard and Mordin. The whole conversation is super well voice acted and then his line “I MADE A MISTAKE!!!” just hits home super well. I always let him cure the genophage of course, but I love that bit of dialogue that most paragon players miss
I did that method with my Paragon Male Shepard. It was also so awesome to hear when Shepard says this: "Go...Save the cure..." I have no regrets getting that cutscene. It was the best way to let Mordin go. But...I saw an alternate way to let him go. If you pull out the gun, but you not press the Renegade Interrupt to shoot Mordin, Shepard and Mordin looks at each other. Mordin nods, in thanking Shepard letting him do what is right, Shepard then watches as the elevator goes off and discards his/her pistol, disgusted.
Doesn't matter how many times I seen Mordin die its never any easier. The variations of how that unfolds is really good as well, "I made a mistake!" Is so powerful.
No cap I cried at every character death when I played this at launch in high school, and I cried again when I played the LE. Few games have characters I’ve grown as attached to as Mass Effect, or have reduced me to tears as much as ME3. That fucking music… may be a part of it.
Arguably one of the best moments and characters in gaming period. Very few things in all of gaming rank as high of an emotional impact as the Mordin arc.
I must be one of the few who actually likes the Shepard dream / nightmare sequences. They drive home how much the war, the loss and the sacrifice is affecting her.
Mordin's death still gets me everytime. Even watching your playthrough and how you reacted to that scene brought tears to my eyes again even if I've experienced that scene numerous times.
Yeah… I cried too the first time. Still tear up even watching it now. Mordin has one of the best arcs of any character. A true testament to the height of BioWare story telling. I’ll miss him, but some one else might have gotten it wrong.
1:09:52 *"Had to be me."* Mordin Solus. The epitome of Stoicism and Neutral Good. Sometimes you make the universe a better place by helping people and sometimes you make the universe a better place by removing people. But in the end you face death with calm and dignity.
I was 12 when I first played ME3, and Mordin had always been my favourite character. I remember standing up and saluting him, finishing his song in an absolute flood of tears when I saw him die... ... wait, was that when I was 12, or when I was 21?
He is one of the best written and acted characters in all video games or else wise. If he was done with too much cheek or gags it wouldn't hurt as bad. He is a friend not a sight gag, and thus his loss is horrific.
When you're the person who is always ready to make the sacrifice, it can be hard to watch others do what you would do gladly. It takes strength to respect and accept when someone else has to be the one to make it. To borrow a line from Steve Rogers, "this job... we try to save as many people as we can. Sometimes that doesn't mean everybody but, if we can't find a way to live with that, maybe next time nobody gets saved."
What makes Mordin’s death hit so hard is that he wasn’t just a friend, he was an embodiment of something we all aspire to be: a person who owns up to our mistakes and tries to do better. We all make mistakes, but admitting to ourselves and to others we made them is hard, and making the best effort we can to rectify the damage we’ve done is hard too. In doing that, Mordin was a better person than many real people in the world. You hate to lose someone like that, but we can remember him fondly and we can try to be more like him in our own lives. Fantastic writing and acting for his part of the game, and great reaction from you. Thanks for sharing.
This mission always makes me so sad ;_; Remember back in Mordin's loyalty mission? He expressed that he explored religion after his STG work, ones similar to Hinduism, that allowed one to make mistakes in this life, then be reborn in a new life to make up for- or correct them. As this mission shows, Mordin didn't NEED to wait for his next life to correct his mistakes. Even as old as he was, he fixed what he helped destroy, brought life where there was death. You can't change the past, but it's never too late to try to set things right.
When I think of all the characters I've seen and read about over the years, Mordin remains one of my favorites. His logic, skill, heart...and he always kept his feet firmly planted on the ground. He lived and went out like a boss. Someone worthy of looking up to.
Sending love your way Meg. I am glad you came across Mass Effect. You make honor to the game. You fully live the game as most of us did; laughing, crying, and getting attached to those characters. And I'm glad I came across your channel. I cried - again - and as you kept crying I kept crying too hahaha I love this experience of watching you play!
It’s easy to side against the dalatrass on moral grounds, but the choice presented in Priority: Tuchanka is actually a very well-loaded one if you’re thinking about it from a military perspective which you’re supposed to. In terms of the immediate threat, everyone’s already agreed on the strategy to deal with it: delay the Reapers enough so that the Crucible can be deployed. No amount of military might the galaxy can produce will last against the Reapers so the Crucible is your only hope against extinction. The krogan are purely a fighting force which means they’re only good for buying time which will eventually run out. On the other hand, the salarians are the most scientifically advanced race in the galaxy and can therefore make great strides in building and deploying the Crucible. So, you’ve got a race that at best, can delay your extinction vs. a race that can significantly improve your chances of preventing extinction altogether. Which seems more appealing? Then, there’s the question of what happens after the war. We can reasonably assume that Wrex will never turn against us but, like Eve says, he’s just one krogan. If more krogan want revenge than not, there will be nothing Wrex can do to stop them. Either he needs to give his people what they want or he’ll be cast aside. With immunity from the genophage, the krogan will undoubtedly recover faster than any other race. They will have power in the galaxy before anyone else and therefore have complete discretion over whether or not the other races have it as well. Again, as a military leader, do you want to give a race that has so much inbred resentment across their entire species that opportunity despite who their current leader is?
Mordin is my favorite mass effect character. The fact that he willingly and happily gave his life for the entire krogan race to have a second chance makes him, in my opinion, the biggest hero in all of mass effect.
They really couldn't have chosen a better voice actress for Eve. Lani gave such a great performance and consistently maintained this balance of grit and elegance, especially in that speech she gave.
When u broke down when mordin delivered his "had to be me line", damn i felt that lol. U almost made me cry all over again and i played this like 10 years ago 😂
When you asked if the kid in Shep's dreams was even real, I think you were onto something. Maybe Shep being around so many Reapers has allowed them to try affecting her mentally, trying to break her down. No one else ever saw the kid, and remember how he mysteriously vanished in the ventilation shaft when Anderson was wondering who you were talking to?
@@LightsCameraJake When experiencing a work of art, one can ignore artists intensions. It's like with Blade Runner (1982), was Deckard a replicant? You would get a different answer if you asked the writer as opposed to the director. The actor also had his own different answer. Who was correct? All and none. It's art, so interpretations are not factual. How one experiences the art matters more than any of the intentions of those who helped to bring the art to life. In my experience of Mass Effect, the child was not real. No, I didn't see my Shep as indoctrinated, but I also didn't see her as immune to Reaper attempts. It was an inner war, that she also won.
I'm pretty sure the Devs officially stated that indoctrination was never on the table but... the internal lore of the game explicitly states he should be going through the process.
@@Geminias I'm pretty sure it was actually only stated by one of the writers, not officially by the whole dev team, but, yeah, the game itself is all that really matters anyways. And, yeah, there's no reason in-game to assume Shep is immune to Reaper influence.
There's a version of this scene where Mordin says my favorite line of dialogue, but it's only available if you DIDN'T tell the Krogan about the sabotage. You can still cure them even if you don't tell them that the Shroud is sabotaged, but it changes the scene with Mordin considerably.
Honestly, just before Mordin went up the tower, I picked the renegade option. He didn’t sing, but his final words hit just as hard “Genophage cured, Krogan freed. New beginning, for all of us”
I absolutely love Mordin in this, but I cry damn near as much when Eve gives you her real name. The conversation about how she gave it up followed by the reveal after curing the genophage just makes it so much more powerful. This whole mission is one of my favorites in a game full of favorite missions
As sad as this is, my renegade play through of this part absolutely is one of the most guilt-inducing moments I have ever experienced in a game. I don’t think I can forgive myself for what I did to Mordin.
The Kelphic Valley was where the bomb Cerberus was going to use was located. The Krogan people gathering there.. if you and Lieutenant Victus hadn't stopped that threat...
😂 holy shit, lots of quotable moments from this stream. When u said "ouch" after the cure scene, and after you thought everything was over, "no, not another nightmare!" "Not this fucking kid again!" haha too good.
Did the same my first playthru, cos I didn't want to screw the agreement at that point and cos realisticaly speaking, was thinking that Krogans are dangerous as stated by the Dalatrass and even by Mordin back in ME2, then goes Wrex with his sayings all the way in the convoy and then you speak with the crew and they point out some other interesting things to consider. That had been an issue thru all of our own history, like in the WW2🤷♂️😒
Mordin was always one of my favs. I can't watch it without getting misty eyed. Plus the damn music is the kicker. Why I hate replaying 3. "I'm sure where ever he is...."
It’s been at least seven years since i first saw that Mordin scene, and it still never fails to make me tear up. There will never be a series that will make the kind of impact on me like Mass Effect has.
If Wrex dies in the first game you get stuck with Wreave, so for anyone who needed more reason to keep Wrex alive it’s that. Also without Maelon’s research Eve/Bakara doesn’t survive Priority: Tuchunka. It’s really crazy how much variation there can be in the series.
By far one of the best moments of the series. I love to see how invested in this universe you have become. Your reactions are so pure. Exactly what I am looking for as a viewer. Thank you for sharing this with us. How far in advance are you on twitch compared to when the videos are released on youtube? Id love to drop on your streams but I dont want to skip too much and spoil myself basically.
When I first played this and mordin started to sing his song it broked me as he was one of my favorite characters. It hurt even more when you find his recorded tape after the party in the citadel dlc
Seeing someone experience this game for the first time is a sufficient replacement for being unable to experience it for the first time again yourself.
since the release of original ME i cry and pray for everyone that dies on me Ashey/Kaidan, Thane and mostly Mordin(he is my most beloved character in ME) and yeah... you know....
Te acompaño en tu pena. Está parte es tan jodidamente triste que nunca la he podido superar y, cada que juego al juego, está parte es la que menos deseo que llegue. Te extrañaré Mordin. :(
I played this game 11 times, and every time these dramatic moments hit the heart. I have never been so attached to any team in any game. The best team in the Universe. And not once did I turn the situation with the genophage so that Rex died. Never. I just can't do it.
Someone on your twitch stream said that a renegade is a sociopath, that person doesn't get it. Sociopath is an option not a must when playing a renegade. A renegade is the most free playthrough you can have. It's not just a game of make all the choices at the bottom of the screen. You still have to make sound decisions. Commander Shepard is a badass enough to blow an enemy up while he's talking crap and can still have the empathy to hug a teammate who lost a family member, and yet can still be smart enough to not allow a sex demon on their ship who tried to kill them moments ago.
That's the problem with a dual system like this, most people view renegade as the bad guy while paragon is the good guy (just like jedi vs sith in Star Wars). But I find myself enjoying a renegarde Shepard more and more, some of the best dialogues and outcomes are from a renegade perspective and I can even say that some of the paragon choices are dumb
@@ZrodyApo Yeah, you can make really moral choices and still be mostly Renegade if you're brusque with people on the small things. Renegade and Paragon interrupts and special dialogue usually get similar outcomes
@@JBWinter I mean my 1st playthrough ever was a full paragon, but with time and while discovering the trilogy on different playthroughs I tend to like the renegade Shepard, especially in 1 & 2
The 5 paths: - full paragon, as you see - don't tell Wrex, but confess to Mordin with "I didn't trust Wrex, but I trust you" - don't tell Wrex or Mordin, Mordin discovers anyways so you try to convinced him not to proceed. He shouts "I made a mistake", let him go - the above but shoot him. He dies crawling to the console which stops the cure - you've botched everything up so Eve and Wrex are dead and Wreav is in charge, you can convinced Mordin to abandon the Krogan. The third path maximizes the emotional impact of Mordin's arc.
When I'm in the kitchen, or tidying up around the house, I find myself humming "I am the very model..." I had no idea this character would have such a profound impact on me. He felt guilt, but didn't make it a pity party. He took action. I love his quirks, his brain, and his heart. Had to be him.
Someone else might have gotten it wrong. Godspeed, scientist salarian.
😭😭😭
I won't spoil it. But there is only 1 way he can survive and it must be done in specific ways from ME1 2 and 3.
If you save your $$ there’s a fully automatic Mattock that’s AMAZING buy really expensive.
there is a way to save Mordin... Step 1, kill Wrex on Virmire (when he has issues with mission), Step 2 destroy data, Step 3 dont mention sabotage until end of mission....
Mordin's death still hits me like a truck after all these freaking years
Citadel DLC recordings are always an extra kick in the quad
@@pkidawmbt yeah , i don't know if she finished it already , but the last part of the recording still gives me chills
@@21smoothcriminal She's finished the game so talk freely
When girls cry:
When boys cry:
When everybody cries: Mordin's death
Damn, I cried 2 days ago when he died on my another playthrough and now I'm crying again watching this video. Mass Effect series just makes your emotions burst from you and you can't help it but let the tears flow. It's one of those games where men are not ashamed to cry.
Mordin realizing the mistake he made while working on the genophage and trying to redeem himself by helping to cure it is beautiful
I'm honestly curious what changed at the last minute for Mordin that made him suddenly think he made a mistake. Not long before he still stated that the Genophage was the right decision at the time. Personally i agree with him though.
Mordin never changed his mind about the Genophage. Up until the end he believed that if he could go back and do it all over again he'd make the same choice. He didn't think he made a mistake, he thought it was time for the Genophage to end. This is from the man's own words, all the way through the games.
Especially when you try to convince him not to cure it and he screams I made a mistake
@@CarlosHuiskens It was his time with Eve, as well as all the time on Tuchanka where he saw the death and destruction. Eve grew to like Mordin despite being a part of the pain she and her clan and her people have been through, through that connection Mordin realized what the true effects of his work was and realized his mistake. In ME2 when Shepard says "look at the dead woman Mordin, it doesn't look like you saved her" it was a spark in his heart but was fought against it,.
@@AClockworkMelon I know it's been almost a year, but, when you don't reveal the sabotage and you try to convince Mordin not to cure the genophage, he admits that he made a mistake:
Shepard: Hell, I had to talk you into saving Maelon's data! How can you change your mind now?
Mordin: I made a mistake! I made a mistake... focused on the big picture. Big picture made of little pictures. Too many variables.
Can't hide behind statistics. Can't ignore new data. (...)
"Would've liked to run tests on seashells."
"Had to be me. Someone else might've gotten it wrong."
Two sentences that'll bring tears to your eyes decades on, be forewarned :)
Too true!
Perfect writing
The tone and the delivery of those lines are spot on and hit harder for it. Masterful.
Let's not forget this gem; "I MADE A MISTAKE! I made a mistake... focused on big picture. Big picture made of many little pictures, too many variables!" My favorite ending is still staying silent until the final moment, threatening to stop him and then... don't. As reckless as curing the Genophage is I just can't ever bring myself to actually shoot Mordin.
"I made a mistake!" and "Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong." are two of my favorite lines in the entire franchise. Even better that it's from the same character, in the same team, just under different circumstances.
I know Mass Effect has an official theme, but “Vigil” is easily just as memorable. If not more. Never fails to make me cry from both sadness and happiness.
I get flashback to my childhood when I hear Vigil. Playing ME in my Pentium 4 Computer after school 😭😭😭
Mass Effect has so many memorable themes. Vigil, Galaxy Map, Main Theme, Normandy Reborn, Suicide Mission/The End Run, Leaving Earth, A Future For the Krogan, An End Once And For All etc.
Honestly listening to Vigil makes me cry when I listen to it the first time.
Vigil is THE Mass Effect theme, for me. Being the title theme on ME1, where it all started, holding such beauty and mystery. I had it as my wake up alarm for a long time! Until I realised I was starting to associate it with getting up for work, and I didn't want to give negative connotations to such a great piece of music 😅
That single sad warbly note always bring tears of sentiment.
I'm really looking forward to meeting Urdnot Mordin in the next Mass Effect game. It's going to make smile while simultaneously choking me up.
Something that took me years to notice about this section of the game is Mordin's speech cadence. Typically when he's talking, it's very quick, just saying enough to get the message across, while simultaneously thinking on a dozen other projects.
But here, he's calm, collected, focused. He's putting all of himself in curing the Genophage, and it's amazing to see how well it shows just through something as subtle as speech patterns.
MegMage: I love Mordin
People who played ME3: Oh no😬
“And Thane, too! He’s so sweet.”
“OH NO NO NO 😭😭”
ME3 is a game that is not all about laughs and quick gags. If you don't have a box of tissues on hand you will need to get one fast.
@@Megablueliner1I romanced Thane in ME2 :'( And then got hit like a truck in 3...
Even tho I play paragon, in this mission I like to hold off on telling anyone about the salarian deal so that I get the confrontation between Shepard and Mordin. The whole conversation is super well voice acted and then his line “I MADE A MISTAKE!!!” just hits home super well. I always let him cure the genophage of course, but I love that bit of dialogue that most paragon players miss
Me too! I think it makes for better Mordin character arc and more powerful scene.
That's one (more) reason why my favorite playthrough was my Renegon Shepard. That confrontation was such a good scene.
I did that method with my Paragon Male Shepard. It was also so awesome to hear when Shepard says this: "Go...Save the cure..." I have no regrets getting that cutscene. It was the best way to let Mordin go. But...I saw an alternate way to let him go. If you pull out the gun, but you not press the Renegade Interrupt to shoot Mordin, Shepard and Mordin looks at each other. Mordin nods, in thanking Shepard letting him do what is right, Shepard then watches as the elevator goes off and discards his/her pistol, disgusted.
"I made a mistake!" is my number one favorite moment in all three games. A volcanic eruption of story, emotion, and meaning.
That's what great writing is all about. We only knew Mordin for one game but damnit he worked his way into our hearts in a short amount of time.
Doesn't matter how many times I seen Mordin die its never any easier. The variations of how that unfolds is really good as well, "I made a mistake!" Is so powerful.
No cap I cried at every character death when I played this at launch in high school, and I cried again when I played the LE. Few games have characters I’ve grown as attached to as Mass Effect, or have reduced me to tears as much as ME3.
That fucking music… may be a part of it.
One of the "best" moments of the trilogy - one to remember, and what a character Mordin is!
Arguably one of the best moments and characters in gaming period. Very few things in all of gaming rank as high of an emotional impact as the Mordin arc.
I must be one of the few who actually likes the Shepard dream / nightmare sequences. They drive home how much the war, the loss and the sacrifice is affecting her.
They could have been done better
@@flyingpaladin617 yea i liked the idea just not the execution.
I only like that they use the voices of squadmates that died.
These characters are timeless. I'm glad people are still enjoying them 10 years later.
Mordin's death still gets me everytime. Even watching your playthrough and how you reacted to that scene brought tears to my eyes again even if I've experienced that scene numerous times.
Yeah… I cried too the first time. Still tear up even watching it now.
Mordin has one of the best arcs of any character. A true testament to the height of BioWare story telling.
I’ll miss him, but some one else might have gotten it wrong.
No wonder the same writer has given us Solas, too
The renegade option for "that" scene is brutal.
Horrible. I coultdn't do that ever🤷♂️
1:09:52 *"Had to be me."* Mordin Solus. The epitome of Stoicism and Neutral Good. Sometimes you make the universe a better place by helping people and sometimes you make the universe a better place by removing people. But in the end you face death with calm and dignity.
The amount of catharsis I feel watching your playthrough is astounding even after my 4th or 5th run with the games. These moments are so poignant
I was 12 when I first played ME3, and Mordin had always been my favourite character. I remember standing up and saluting him, finishing his song in an absolute flood of tears when I saw him die...
... wait, was that when I was 12, or when I was 21?
I'm 41. Still hits the pain buttons.
Just as you're never too old to find love, there are things you're never too old to shed tears over.
He is one of the best written and acted characters in all video games or else wise. If he was done with too much cheek or gags it wouldn't hurt as bad. He is a friend not a sight gag, and thus his loss is horrific.
Everytime I see Mordin curing the Genophage, I give an irl salute.
What a lad!
me3 is the most emotional mass effect
When you're the person who is always ready to make the sacrifice, it can be hard to watch others do what you would do gladly. It takes strength to respect and accept when someone else has to be the one to make it. To borrow a line from Steve Rogers, "this job... we try to save as many people as we can. Sometimes that doesn't mean everybody but, if we can't find a way to live with that, maybe next time nobody gets saved."
"Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong"
Always hits me
What makes Mordin’s death hit so hard is that he wasn’t just a friend, he was an embodiment of something we all aspire to be: a person who owns up to our mistakes and tries to do better. We all make mistakes, but admitting to ourselves and to others we made them is hard, and making the best effort we can to rectify the damage we’ve done is hard too. In doing that, Mordin was a better person than many real people in the world. You hate to lose someone like that, but we can remember him fondly and we can try to be more like him in our own lives. Fantastic writing and acting for his part of the game, and great reaction from you. Thanks for sharing.
"This is eerily quiet" - MegMage, 2 seconds before things definitely aren't quiet anymore.
The Tuchanka missions in ME3 are the most emotion packed and action packed of the series, aside from the finales of each of the games.
Well I'd say Priority: Thessia had a way harder impact on me. Even after the directors allready toned it down. The first draft was even darker.
Rannoch hit me harder. Maybe that's in part because I'm a Talimancer.
Oh man... Mordin... The feels still hit me after all these years...
This mission always makes me so sad ;_;
Remember back in Mordin's loyalty mission? He expressed that he explored religion after his STG work, ones similar to Hinduism, that allowed one to make mistakes in this life, then be reborn in a new life to make up for- or correct them.
As this mission shows, Mordin didn't NEED to wait for his next life to correct his mistakes. Even as old as he was, he fixed what he helped destroy, brought life where there was death.
You can't change the past, but it's never too late to try to set things right.
This is why this game is special. It really takes a hold of you emotionally.
When I think of all the characters I've seen and read about over the years, Mordin remains one of my favorites. His logic, skill, heart...and he always kept his feet firmly planted on the ground. He lived and went out like a boss. Someone worthy of looking up to.
I love watching these playthroughs and seeing how other people tackle combat, there are so many play styles
Sending love your way Meg. I am glad you came across Mass Effect. You make honor to the game. You fully live the game as most of us did; laughing, crying, and getting attached to those characters.
And I'm glad I came across your channel. I cried - again - and as you kept crying I kept crying too hahaha I love this experience of watching you play!
It’s easy to side against the dalatrass on moral grounds, but the choice presented in Priority: Tuchanka is actually a very well-loaded one if you’re thinking about it from a military perspective which you’re supposed to.
In terms of the immediate threat, everyone’s already agreed on the strategy to deal with it: delay the Reapers enough so that the Crucible can be deployed. No amount of military might the galaxy can produce will last against the Reapers so the Crucible is your only hope against extinction. The krogan are purely a fighting force which means they’re only good for buying time which will eventually run out. On the other hand, the salarians are the most scientifically advanced race in the galaxy and can therefore make great strides in building and deploying the Crucible. So, you’ve got a race that at best, can delay your extinction vs. a race that can significantly improve your chances of preventing extinction altogether. Which seems more appealing?
Then, there’s the question of what happens after the war. We can reasonably assume that Wrex will never turn against us but, like Eve says, he’s just one krogan. If more krogan want revenge than not, there will be nothing Wrex can do to stop them. Either he needs to give his people what they want or he’ll be cast aside. With immunity from the genophage, the krogan will undoubtedly recover faster than any other race. They will have power in the galaxy before anyone else and therefore have complete discretion over whether or not the other races have it as well. Again, as a military leader, do you want to give a race that has so much inbred resentment across their entire species that opportunity despite who their current leader is?
Mordin is my favorite mass effect character. The fact that he willingly and happily gave his life for the entire krogan race to have a second chance makes him, in my opinion, the biggest hero in all of mass effect.
They really couldn't have chosen a better voice actress for Eve. Lani gave such a great performance and consistently maintained this balance of grit and elegance, especially in that speech she gave.
The score in Mass Effect 3 is so epically heartbreaking. You can sense the finality of a lot of moments within the music and it’s incredibly powerful.
I AM URDNOT WREX , AND THIS IS MY PLANET !
I AM KROGAN !
When u broke down when mordin delivered his "had to be me line", damn i felt that lol. U almost made me cry all over again and i played this like 10 years ago 😂
When you asked if the kid in Shep's dreams was even real, I think you were onto something. Maybe Shep being around so many Reapers has allowed them to try affecting her mentally, trying to break her down. No one else ever saw the kid, and remember how he mysteriously vanished in the ventilation shaft when Anderson was wondering who you were talking to?
You are alluding to the indoctrination theory which has been disproved by the devs. The kid is in fact real and the nightmares are just that.
@@LightsCameraJake When experiencing a work of art, one can ignore artists intensions. It's like with Blade Runner (1982), was Deckard a replicant? You would get a different answer if you asked the writer as opposed to the director. The actor also had his own different answer. Who was correct? All and none. It's art, so interpretations are not factual. How one experiences the art matters more than any of the intentions of those who helped to bring the art to life.
In my experience of Mass Effect, the child was not real. No, I didn't see my Shep as indoctrinated, but I also didn't see her as immune to Reaper attempts. It was an inner war, that she also won.
I'm pretty sure the Devs officially stated that indoctrination was never on the table but... the internal lore of the game explicitly states he should be going through the process.
@@Geminias I'm pretty sure it was actually only stated by one of the writers, not officially by the whole dev team, but, yeah, the game itself is all that really matters anyways. And, yeah, there's no reason in-game to assume Shep is immune to Reaper influence.
This scene legit hit me the hardest playing threw the first but the impact mordin had on his last breathe and that smile means he was happy
There's a version of this scene where Mordin says my favorite line of dialogue, but it's only available if you DIDN'T tell the Krogan about the sabotage. You can still cure them even if you don't tell them that the Shroud is sabotaged, but it changes the scene with Mordin considerably.
The renegade path of Mordins story may be the saddest thing I've ever endured in a game...
and then it makes it no better when you have to kill Wrex later...
This is it, the mission that makes you finally get, "oh this is serious now" at least it was for me.
I am commander Shepard and this was my favourite Salarian on the Citadel.
I should go.
Oh boy, the next episode is gonna be something to see for sure.
Honestly, just before Mordin went up the tower, I picked the renegade option. He didn’t sing, but his final words hit just as hard
“Genophage cured, Krogan freed. New beginning, for all of us”
"I fucking love this man" by far your best quote during this playthrough!
I absolutely love Mordin in this, but I cry damn near as much when Eve gives you her real name. The conversation about how she gave it up followed by the reveal after curing the genophage just makes it so much more powerful. This whole mission is one of my favorites in a game full of favorite missions
1:09:50 glad I'm not the only one who broke from the seashell line
The scene with Eve rallying the Krogan still gives me chills.
I was in need of a good cry and you provided it
As sad as this is, my renegade play through of this part absolutely is one of the most guilt-inducing moments I have ever experienced in a game. I don’t think I can forgive myself for what I did to Mordin.
Mordin is in my top 3 of ME characters. So well written. Manly tears were shed and it is one of the most profound moments in gaming history (imho)
The Kelphic Valley was where the bomb Cerberus was going to use was located. The Krogan people gathering there.. if you and Lieutenant Victus hadn't stopped that threat...
😂 holy shit, lots of quotable moments from this stream. When u said "ouch" after the cure scene, and after you thought everything was over, "no, not another nightmare!" "Not this fucking kid again!" haha too good.
Watched the VODs on Twitch to not have to wait for TH-cam uploads...what a journey, indeed. Kinda sad there was stuff you missed out on, but oh well.
Yeah I played this for the first time this year and I had to stop after Mordin’s death. It hits hard.
Dude I’ve done countless play throughout and this never fails to break me
When I played ME 3 the first time, I had to take a long break after this mission and the Citadel one.
In under the ruins you missed one of the paintings and it is one of the funniest moments in the game. Well worth a replay to find.
I'm a grown man and this scene always gets me. No shame here, Mordin is a boss. Had to be him.
Every time I hear a clip of Mordin singing, I have it stuck in my head for hours lol
More tears to come.... but take solice in the fact that plenty of Mass Effect players have shed many a tear over this great series...myself included.
Did the same my first playthru, cos I didn't want to screw the agreement at that point and cos realisticaly speaking, was thinking that Krogans are dangerous as stated by the Dalatrass and even by Mordin back in ME2, then goes Wrex with his sayings all the way in the convoy and then you speak with the crew and they point out some other interesting things to consider. That had been an issue thru all of our own history, like in the WW2🤷♂️😒
I was so exited for you to get to Tuchanka this is one of my 5 favorite missions. Great video keep up the good work 🙂
Mordin was always one of my favs. I can't watch it without getting misty eyed. Plus the damn music is the kicker. Why I hate replaying 3. "I'm sure where ever he is...."
Had to be me.
Someone else might have gotten it wrong.
Watching a Reaper getting instantly destroy + saddest death = ghoosebumbs and tears
It’s been at least seven years since i first saw that Mordin scene, and it still never fails to make me tear up. There will never be a series that will make the kind of impact on me like Mass Effect has.
The renegade dialogue is so good in this....Mordin finally admitting "He made a mistake!" The only time he says a simple sentence...😢
If Wrex dies in the first game you get stuck with Wreave, so for anyone who needed more reason to keep Wrex alive it’s that.
Also without Maelon’s research Eve/Bakara doesn’t survive Priority: Tuchunka. It’s really crazy how much variation there can be in the series.
in this mission i apreciated playing as infiltrator aka "F" the brutes... now you see me, now you dont...
I've seen the scene quite a few times and it still brings me to tears!
By far one of the best moments of the series. I love to see how invested in this universe you have become. Your reactions are so pure. Exactly what I am looking for as a viewer. Thank you for sharing this with us. How far in advance are you on twitch compared to when the videos are released on youtube? Id love to drop on your streams but I dont want to skip too much and spoil myself basically.
She just finished Mass Effect 3 last week and is currently playing Spider-Man PS4 on stream :) stop by! We’d love to have you!
Aahhh yeah the Graal spike thrower, the most awesome shotgun even
Your skills... And your English accent are steadily improving!
It's been a pleasure to watch you grow (and absolutely ruin my native tongue)!
LOL THANK YOU
25:02 she would’ve had a point if Wrex died on Virmire. That would’ve left Wreav in charge of the clans, and no one would oppose him except Eve.
I love that frog.
Tuchanka is just the beginning of the emotional crescendo. Strap yourself in.
Mordin is a perfect example of hoew "Only in Death Does Duty End."
When I first played this and mordin started to sing his song it broked me as he was one of my favorite characters. It hurt even more when you find his recorded tape after the party in the citadel dlc
....A Scientist Salarian.
Never forget.
I just hope that wherever mordin is he's happy collecting his seashells
Seeing someone experience this game for the first time is a sufficient replacement for being unable to experience it for the first time again yourself.
since the release of original ME i cry and pray for everyone that dies on me Ashey/Kaidan, Thane and mostly Mordin(he is my most beloved character in ME) and yeah... you know....
🎶His xenoscience studies range from urban to agrarian🎶😢
Mordin is my absolute favorite NPC in the trilogy and his death definitely hit me the hardest, but it’s also one of the greatest moments too.
Te acompaño en tu pena. Está parte es tan jodidamente triste que nunca la he podido superar y, cada que juego al juego, está parte es la que menos deseo que llegue.
Te extrañaré Mordin. :(
I played this game 11 times, and every time these dramatic moments hit the heart. I have never been so attached to any team in any game. The best team in the Universe.
And not once did I turn the situation with the genophage so that Rex died. Never. I just can't do it.
Someone on your twitch stream said that a renegade is a sociopath, that person doesn't get it. Sociopath is an option not a must when playing a renegade. A renegade is the most free playthrough you can have. It's not just a game of make all the choices at the bottom of the screen. You still have to make sound decisions. Commander Shepard is a badass enough to blow an enemy up while he's talking crap and can still have the empathy to hug a teammate who lost a family member, and yet can still be smart enough to not allow a sex demon on their ship who tried to kill them moments ago.
That's the problem with a dual system like this, most people view renegade as the bad guy while paragon is the good guy (just like jedi vs sith in Star Wars).
But I find myself enjoying a renegarde Shepard more and more, some of the best dialogues and outcomes are from a renegade perspective and I can even say that some of the paragon choices are dumb
@@ZrodyApo Yeah, you can make really moral choices and still be mostly Renegade if you're brusque with people on the small things. Renegade and Paragon interrupts and special dialogue usually get similar outcomes
@@JBWinter I mean my 1st playthrough ever was a full paragon, but with time and while discovering the trilogy on different playthroughs I tend to like the renegade Shepard, especially in 1 & 2
Garrus is a true ride or die friend
The 5 paths:
- full paragon, as you see
- don't tell Wrex, but confess to Mordin with "I didn't trust Wrex, but I trust you"
- don't tell Wrex or Mordin, Mordin discovers anyways so you try to convinced him not to proceed. He shouts "I made a mistake", let him go
- the above but shoot him. He dies crawling to the console which stops the cure
- you've botched everything up so Eve and Wrex are dead and Wreav is in charge, you can convinced Mordin to abandon the Krogan.
The third path maximizes the emotional impact of Mordin's arc.
01:09:55 - Thats the moments, what makes MASS EFFECT so great...
If you choose to stop Mordin, Wrex attacks you and you have to kill him too.
Whoever you do leave behind on Virmire, you'll hear them during the dreams.
Ahhh Tuchanka...where everyone around the world goes to cry😢👍
Mordin: *Dies*
Me: Fuck!!!!!!!!
Pour one out for the very model of a scientist salarian.
even in a renegade playthough......i still can't shoot Mordin....but can cry, still hits me everytime