You wont get it until you lose your car in a pink slip race and have to grind to buy a new one, while hearing this song every time in the menu lol Great song nonetheless.
Perfect comment, bro. I still remember the first time i hit Omega and this song just invaded my ears, i swear to god it was the first time i left my human body and for a few mins i was in that club myself. Orgasmic song.
Youngmandub, if we're talking about decades, let's take it further down the memory lane and reminiscence on the NFS2SE theme song lol, that was my first proper NFS experience. Loved them all, especially Underground 2, up until Most Wanted, the 2005 one, not the crappy re-do. It all went downhill from there.
I agree, first time I entered on the club I spend 30 minutes listening the music and observing the entire club, like if I was on a real life. I'll never forget that moment and experience.
Yeah I remember it timed so perfectly for me that the doors of the club opened exactly at 0:28, and I just standed there completely overwhelmed by the music and the atmosphere of the club and its colors and everything...
@@Hewkll not as often lol. Clubbing is great but that was space club. It's much much different and kind of cool. Plus, it was based around a city with lots of criminals and space gangs. That added to its atmosphere. Whenever I play Mass effect 2 and go to the afterlife I just forget I'm actually playing a game. It's pretty good looking.
you got a point, the first one i finished was the 3 but i do not have any complain about the ending, is excessively sad in both ways but i could handle that
ShaDO118k Im sorry, but who in his/her right judgement would finish the 3 first? it says 3 for a reason people... I played the trilogy in order, it was magical.
Horacio Ferreira you werent complaining about the ending because you didnt play 1 and 2 before. you didnt spend hundreds of hours with the characters before
Kuba Piotrowski Wow because LeDerpinator totally implied that he/she knows Erik. *sarcasm* I don't know him but I care about his comments because his comment was funny and related to the game. Keep commenting *****
+Sherbet_Bomb Ever been to industrial or cyber clubs? The Afterlife club (or any ME series club for that matter) reminds me of those (minus the aliens of course, lol). Strict all-black dress code though :).
+anuj balodi It's a great song for a Lounge-like area. You know: Drinking, chatting, chilling. For dancing I would have taken something faster paced (like they actually did for afterlife in the lower area)
+Krixig that first time meeting Aria, everyone pulling guns on each other, her sitting at her.... throne, i guess. with strippers dancing left and right, strobe lights everywhere, and this song. That was one of the best moments in game history.
I'll never forget that feeling when I first landed on Omega and the doors to Afterlife opened - the lights, the dancers, this song. It hit me then just how good this game was going to be.
For me it felt like my trip to London, entering my first English Discotheke. (I'm belgian). Same feeling like in the game LOL! It's so trancy, that even if you are anti-drugs, you'll take some that night.
Watching a video of Afterlife and hearing this song was the reason I bought this game and was introduced to the Mass Effect trilogy. Thank fucking god they used this song or I would probably never have played it
They say a person dies twice. The first time is when his heart stops beating, the second is when his name is spoken for a last time. Rip Saki Kaskas, may you never be forgotten.
Ah,Mass Effect.The best gaming series ever in my opinion.Awesome and epic story,deep and awesome characters,breathtaking moments,the music,the whole Mass Effect Universe and lore.I could talk about it for days.....I know it sounds kinda stupid but I feel like many people including me have some kind of emotional connection to this game...
+Martin1538|Nr.1 Mass Effect Fan - best storyline/storytelling in any media imo. Definitely beats the new Star Wars movies as far as storytelling/ emotional impact / believable characters goes.
Oh I get it! The upper Afterlife is pleasant, energetic yet calm, excited yet controlled, light and lofty (Heaven). The lower Afterlife is dark, fast, quick, dirty (Hell). And when Aria isn't in her Afterlife she's in Purgatory. How did I not get that until now?
It’s 2010, you arrive at the local GameStop around midnight to pickup your Mass Effect 2 preorder. You return home thinking you might play it for an hour or two before going to bed. But now it’s four a.m and you’ve arrived at Omega. Muffled music plays outside of the Afterlife. The guard lets you in and the most glorious electronic music plays. Good times.
zodiac909 DID YOU JUST ASSUME MY GENDER!?!? jk m8 ^^ Anyway, I was refering to this specific song, which I've heard only in NFS 4 ( High Stakes ) ( I've played 2 & 3 as well, btw so no research needed )
REST IN PEACE SAKI. Your music helped define my childhood, you inspired me to become a music producer, and your music STILL continues to inspire me 18 years after having first heard it. I am at such a loss for words, and heart broken beyond belief. FOREVER an Inspiration.
His sounds are so sofisticated. They fit perfectly to the high tech car theme from NFS back on those times and even now! Cant imagine better musics for a car showroom.
Thank you for your comment, I just found out about his death today and to be honest, your comment summed up how I feel as well aside from becoming a music producer (took a different career path at school). Ive been a big fan of his music along with Rom di Prisco's in the classic Need for Speed series and in recent years, the inclusion of Callista in Mass Effect. I was sad to see the news, i remember recognizing the music artists that made all these tracks when i was a kid. Its nice to see other fans enjoying and remembering these tracks now. Your comment made me feel better, thanks and best of luck!
This game will always be one of my favorites ah the memories. I remember when I played it, it felt like I was playing through a movie. IMO Mass Effect 2 is one of the best games ever made. The dialogue and story is just sooo good
Yeah, I remember watching some guy's review of recommended Xbox 360 games back in the day when ME2 got announced and he spent solid 15 minutes of the 20 minute video talking about how great and amazing Mass Effect 2 is and all I remember was rolling my eyes and thinking "this guy can't be serious, didn't this guy ever watch Star Wars movies. This must be a rip off of Star Wars of some sort" and not playing it until 2012 or so and got my mind blown away. Now I'm on my 6th or 7th playthrough of the game and well over 1500 hours invested into the game and I loved every single second of it. ME really is something special that I wasn't able to find in any other work of fiction whether it be a book, a movie, a tv show or another video game. It's just irreplaceable in every way. And trust me, I tried. A lot :D Edit: 1.5k hours, not 15k. Fixed that :D
A lot of people love the 2nd over the first but as great as that game is i can't agree. the only reason is probably because i played #1 first. 15000 hours that's insanity. you're hardcore. glad you love it so much it is def worth the love. I'm big on game music as well and this game as well as the first do not disappoint. Amazing soundtracks.
I avoided it for several years after not really getting into the first game. I got the trilogy from a friend about a month ago. I am now obsessed. You are not alone!
When you are walking slowly into the bar, you hear the bass of the song echoing louder as you approach, until finally you open the door and get in. I remember my mind blowing with the music effects at its best. There is a good reason the game is called Mass Effect
Coming up 15 years after the release of Mass Effect 2, this game is still amazing, and is made even better with the release of Legendary Edition. Since I walked into that club for the first time, I knew that it was going to be my favourite game, at least for a while, and the Mass Effect Legendary Edition Trilogy is my favourite game of all time. This song is so good, and just walking into the club every time hits me with exactly the same feeling every time I replay the games. They're just too good not to! Old games are always the best games, there's no doubt in my mind. When I'm not playing old single-player games such as (of course) Mass Effect, I'm playing War Thunder, which is 11 years old too (although still regularly updated). New games just don't have the same charm.
Mass Effect's atmosphere is so great: As a child I always dreamt of getting aboard Omega, lie in a room with a full view of the endless space, and finally, this song playing in the background.
There is something I really love about the Afterlife club's ambiance and I'm not even the type of guy who frequents this kind of club IRL. You really feel like you enter in both a very dangerous place, but also a very seductive and enthralling one. It also has an atmosphere simillar to the dark alleys of the movie Blade Runner. The only thing that really disappointed me in ME2 is that there wasn't enough to do in the club! I would have loved to have a bit more conversations/assignments there. Despite this, I think this was one of the most memorable place in the whole series, maybe even in the whole video game history.
Edit; the fact that there are no ads is a godsend and I would literally hand the uploader twenty bucks if I knew the money would go directly to him/her
Just picked up the legendary edition, never played these before. Now I wish I had a time machine so 12 y/o me could enjoy this story. I’m early into ME3 right now, but this song and the vibe at Afterlife has definitely been my favorite so far
+Johnny Ryder Yes, its in NFS High Stakes on the showroom screen, a game from 1999. As soon as I heard it in Afterlife I recongnised it from there, a bit of nostaga, then made the EA connection. It's a nice easter egg and reference if that was the intent :)
You all know probably this amazing soundtrack from ME2 but for me, this was the soundtrack which was used in Need for Speed: Road Challenge (also known as High Stakes) from 1999. First NFS game i played, my childhood, hearing this amazing soundtrack once more in Afterlife made me almost cry (from happines)...It just reminded me my childhood i spent with NFS, the times when I was just kid, with no obligations nor responsibilities just enjoying my schools life ah gosh missing those times so much....
_"I knew a bar out on the front that was like this. Me and some friends got stupid one night; long story short, tempers flared, followed by pistols! We all got out, except for my buddy Narco... places like this are slaughterhouses, dressed as nightclubs! I shit you not!"_ *-Zaeed Massani, 2186*
Playing this game for the first time. I just spent 2 hours roaming the club and drinking. That intro as you walk in, hearing the muffled music in the background, then feeling it flood into your ears as the doors open. So well done.
Is it just me that feels really emotional when I play this game? To me, it's barely a game, it's like a really engaging book or movie. I can't stop thinking about it, the story is so deep and it speaks to me on a spiritual level. Maybe it's just me knowing I won't live to see a day when interstellar travel may happen...and so I want to be able to experience that life though this game.
Saki Kaskas, the hero if EA soundtracks, sunce the last century. His songs were reason alone to buy a game with sometimes less than mediocre gameplay. Rest in peace Legend.
Every time i went into Afterlife and heard this song, i thought: "Hmm, they must really like this song a LOT since they play it every time i'm here." Either that or Aria is a big fan of electro-synth and she has a playlist of this type of music :). Anyway, it's a good tune. I like it too.
Love that song! It fits so perfectly for Afterlife. I still get goosebumps when I think of the first time I played ME2 and entered the club and the music got louder, that was so awesome. Sounds funny but that was the moment that established the ME-Series at the top of my top-games-list. Still playing all four parts on a regular basis!
NFS and ME are two very different kinds of games, and not everyone who plays Mass Effect plays car/racing games like NFS, myself included, so there might be why many people don't recognize the song. That this melody is one that was in an NFS game and then got used in Mass Effect 2 is really cool though!
Across the board the music in this game is so well written and composed. Half the reason I'd be able to spend a good half hour trying to customize the perfect armor for Shepard was for having this song play in the background, nevermind the atmosphere that comes up when you go to Afterlife... truly a terrific game.
this is bizarre. I first heard this song in Need For Speed High Stakes. Didn't even know it ended up in a Mass Effect game years later. Interesting to know.
Not only that, but the synth beats are used for Afterlife, while the early oboe cues are used for Samara's theme. So you technically hear the whole song in ME2, but separated into two distinct entities.
The song just fits 100% perfectly in Mass Effect 2 when entering the Club Afterlife on Planet Omega. When I heard it in NFSHS in 99 it didn't make sense, didn't fit the game.
God damn'ed drunken nostalgia! This is great, I return to this track every few months or weeks. One of most rememberable tracks of my gaming career (since 1980's) and Mass Effect is my beloved series of all time
I remember on my first playthrough in Mass effect 2 when i stepped foot in Omega and heard this music. The atmosphere was great and it was like you were really there as Shepard . I thought to myself: "2 years disappeared from my life, the group i used to fight against brought me back from the dead, i'm sorrounded by people i have never seen in my life before and basically i don't know what should i do but damn, this music is awesome!"
Mike Sessa mine too! it's from Need for Speed 4 High Stakes. I've been hunting for it and I couldn't find it, then I heard it in Mass Effect in club Afterlife, it was like coming home :D
Haha for sure! I also heard it in Shepard's cabin if you toggle through his music playlist on ME2. I am a bit NFS 4 fan, its always been one of my favorites since I was little for many reasons :3
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SFN Low Skates, we get it...
pog
You wont get it until you lose your car in a pink slip race and have to grind to buy a new one, while hearing this song every time in the menu lol Great song nonetheless.
Good lord, imagine being this terminally douchebag because people heard it before you.
@@DesertStateNevada 1
Yessir!
"c'mon, let me in...."
Aria's expecting me! Ugh!
Annoyed: If she were expecting you, you'd be inside already.
King Derner Cousland Do you even renegade m8?
beatingstuff88 1v1 m in rel bitioc fght
In italian: avanti, fammi entrare...!
hearing this muffled in the distance as you first walked out of the Normandy onto omega, thats how you knew you were on one hell of an astroid.
the geth yea outstanding sound design there.
the geth yessirrrr
Perfect comment, bro. I still remember the first time i hit Omega and this song just invaded my ears, i swear to god it was the first time i left my human body and for a few mins i was in that club myself. Orgasmic song.
@@sajgodaniel2181 sounded great because dorks like me had nostalgic feelings from Need For Speed car select menu a decade prior lol
Youngmandub, if we're talking about decades, let's take it further down the memory lane and reminiscence on the NFS2SE theme song lol, that was my first proper NFS experience. Loved them all, especially Underground 2, up until Most Wanted, the 2005 one, not the crappy re-do. It all went downhill from there.
"You wanna talk? Talk to Aria"
I
AM
OMEGA!!!
Get back!
so you must know whats what on omega???
I should go
There's one rule on Omega:
Don't f*ck with Aria
The first time in this club is really an experience for every player!
They knew exactly how to make a first impression :)
I agree, first time I entered on the club I spend 30 minutes listening the music and observing the entire club, like if I was on a real life. I'll never forget that moment and experience.
You mean because people who play Mass Effect don't go to clubs in real life?
Yeah I remember it timed so perfectly for me that the doors of the club opened exactly at 0:28, and I just standed there completely overwhelmed by the music and the atmosphere of the club and its colors and everything...
@@Hewkll not as often lol. Clubbing is great but that was space club. It's much much different and kind of cool. Plus, it was based around a city with lots of criminals and space gangs. That added to its atmosphere. Whenever I play Mass effect 2 and go to the afterlife I just forget I'm actually playing a game. It's pretty good looking.
Shepard: "You run Omega?"
*Aria laughs*
Aria: "I am Omega!"
''I laugh even harder''.. Yeah just wait for EA, I mean for ME3... xD
it was like "I Am the Senate"
@@BoyNextGen Not too much just 6 months
Aria is a shitty character
@@jordandennis6794 Explain?
Fucking nostalgia and this game isn't even that old.
still been 6 years though, i feel so old now
This track was originally in Need for Speed: High Stakes in 1999. Which is why it has such a nice nostalgic feel! :)
damn i remember bro, great catch
The showcase theme! I used to spend a long time sitting there listening to it. very similar to the garage theme too
the soundtract of mass effect 1 was the most amazing one tho, incredible space opera
Is impossible not to become a fan of this wonderful saga
you got a point, the first one i finished was the 3 but i do not have any complain about the ending, is excessively sad in both ways but i could handle that
Glad you could dude but me my self. I must have gone into a deep depretion after finnishing 3.
No need of that bro, you have to enjoy it as the story that it is, Shepard is the greatest hero of the galaxy and that is unchangeable no matter what.
ShaDO118k Im sorry, but who in his/her right judgement would finish the 3 first? it says 3 for a reason people... I played the trilogy in order, it was magical.
Horacio Ferreira you werent complaining about the ending because you didnt play 1 and 2 before. you didnt spend hundreds of hours with the characters before
Annoyed Human: Come on, let me in!
Erik piss off, no one cares about your comments
@Kuba Piotrowski I care! :] And its better if you get the reference!
Shepard : Bitch please I'm going in everytime I wan't.
Kuba Piotrowski
Wow because LeDerpinator totally implied that he/she knows Erik. *sarcasm* I don't know him but I care about his comments because his comment was funny and related to the game. Keep commenting *****
Bruh you is gay
They should play this at real bars and clubs.
+Sherbet_Bomb Ever been to industrial or cyber clubs? The Afterlife club (or any ME series club for that matter) reminds me of those (minus the aliens of course, lol). Strict all-black dress code though :).
I've heard of them
I'd rather tech-noir, you see some crazy shit in those clubs
+Sherbet_Bomb if i ever own a nightclub i will play this 24*7.
+anuj balodi It's a great song for a Lounge-like area. You know: Drinking, chatting, chilling. For dancing I would have taken something faster paced (like they actually did for afterlife in the lower area)
I absolutely adore the late 90s, early 2000s smooth alien synth. Reminds me of Unreal landscapes
I am glad to not be the only one! unreal had some really good music and sound as well as atmosphere.
Walking into Afterlife and listening to this was one of my favorite moments in gaming.
+Krixig that first time meeting Aria, everyone pulling guns on each other, her sitting at her.... throne, i guess. with strippers dancing left and right, strobe lights everywhere, and this song. That was one of the best moments in game history.
s blair yea man, this song gives me chills
It made me feel like such a badass. In this shady club, strolling around with my crew, just waiting for things to get a little too wild.
+s blair amen renegade femshep 4 life
AT THIS MOMENT, everyone knew that Mass Effect was on a totally different level.
I'll never forget that feeling when I first landed on Omega and the doors to Afterlife opened - the lights, the dancers, this song. It hit me then just how good this game was going to be.
For me it felt like my trip to London, entering my first English Discotheke. (I'm belgian). Same feeling like in the game LOL! It's so trancy, that even if you are anti-drugs, you'll take some that night.
Watching a video of Afterlife and hearing this song was the reason I bought this game and was introduced to the Mass Effect trilogy. Thank fucking god they used this song or I would probably never have played it
ayWusgod your a moran
it was big moment
He was an absolutely talented composer, well ahead of his time, his music still holds up so well many years later.
R.I.P. Saki Kaskas
1971 - 2016
HGCentral rip
:( I didn't know that he died.
noooooo RIP ;_;
So sad. R.I.P. man ... Hope you're in a better world now. We'll all be there...
....in the Afterlife Club.
This Is Commander Shepard & This Is My Favorite Song On The Citadel
+mikey alicea You mean omega.
+midnightninja698 you mean ther known universe.
Haha Yessssssssss!
They say a person dies twice. The first time is when his heart stops beating, the second is when his name is spoken for a last time. Rip Saki Kaskas, may you never be forgotten.
There's only one rule on Omega...
Don't fuck with Aria ;)
Joey King I like it easy to remember.
ShadowofBatman
If You forget, someone will remind You.
Ben Kerry and someone broke it more than once :-D
Joey King but.. if i want to fuck with her? :( i'll be gentle.. or hard if she want... naahhh....
Ah,Mass Effect.The best gaming series ever in my opinion.Awesome and epic story,deep and awesome characters,breathtaking moments,the music,the whole Mass Effect Universe and lore.I could talk about it for days.....I know it sounds kinda stupid but I feel like many people including me have some kind of emotional connection to this game...
+Martin1538|Nr.1 Mass Effect Fan It doesn't sound stupid at all
Erick V. Critsinelis I hope so ^^
+Martin1538|Nr.1 Mass Effect Fan great story, dull gameplay
+Martin1538|Nr.1 Mass Effect Fan - best storyline/storytelling in any media imo. Definitely beats the new Star Wars movies as far as storytelling/ emotional impact / believable characters goes.
Dawn Shepard Of course it does ! ^^ Damn right
Whose ready to rehear this in the Legendary edition?!
ME !!
Fuck yeah
Sound of Elation. Yes that would be amazing
Listening right now!
Mass is Erect all over again ^_^
Oh I get it! The upper Afterlife is pleasant, energetic yet calm, excited yet controlled, light and lofty (Heaven). The lower Afterlife is dark, fast, quick, dirty (Hell). And when Aria isn't in her Afterlife she's in Purgatory. How did I not get that until now?
.................................................huh.
I never looked at it that way.
Maybe Afterlife is the bar Shepard will meet Garrus in after everything is all said and done?
I'm not sure you could call it 'pleasant', but I get what you mean lol
Pretty certain there's a high risk of getting glassed up top too
HOLY SHIT! I NEVER THOUGHT THAT! I knew there was something with the names of those bars that were linked, but I couldnt come up with any theory.
MIND = Blown
It’s 2010, you arrive at the local GameStop around midnight to pickup your Mass Effect 2 preorder.
You return home thinking you might play it for an hour or two before going to bed. But now it’s four a.m and you’ve arrived at Omega.
Muffled music plays outside of the Afterlife. The guard lets you in and the most glorious electronic music plays.
Good times.
This was literally me back in college
I think I called in "slick". I mean sick.
This, exactly
This pretty accurately describes my first experience with ME 2.
Damn mate, after all of that you described, I went up to the roof of my house, turned on Calista on and looked at the stars. It was magical.
Don't *fuck* with Aria.
But can I fuck Aria?
Except if your name is Mordin.
Will be here if you need me ;)
I like it! Easy to remember.....
@@tonycmac If you forget, someone will remind you.
If I ever start a bar in the future, it's gonna have a futuristic/modernized theme with trance music only + this song of course!
i will come :)
Everyone would go there, not these stupid ass western bars! We need futuristic!
On se retrouve pour la Happy Hour, j'ai un rencard avec une quarienne sur Ilium qui vient de se faire plaquer xD !
*****
bars are yesterday's news, but what you described are 60's news haha
Don't forget the asari strippers. Never forget the asari strippers.
2024 and this song is still an absolute banger. Thank you, Saki.
My nostalgia level is over 9000 right now.
I'll tell you the same when I finish this game, I'm pretty sure about it! :D
If you would feel me right now…
@@user-ig7ow7lc8w 2022 come on
Still hope they bring back the characters and the series to life
R.I.P. Saki Kaskas, thanks for all the good work & awesome NFS tracks aswell.
This track has a sort of Need for Speed 2 flair to it.
NFS 4 more exactly ;-)
@Paul Mares Need for Speed 2, 3, & 4. Do some research sir. One love! :)
zodiac909
DID YOU JUST ASSUME MY GENDER!?!?
jk m8 ^^
Anyway, I was refering to this specific song, which I've heard only in NFS 4 ( High Stakes )
( I've played 2 & 3 as well, btw so no research needed )
Paul Mares lol fair enough
C'mon, let me in!
Aria's expecting me. Ugh!
+Jacob Coleman If Aria wanted to see you, you'd be in by now.
"Annoyed . . ."
This help me with my depression.....MASS EFFECT !!!!!
Try cutting out sugar and bread. That helps too
Sorry mate but i gotta say mass effect makes depression worse
@@VGAnxiety How that works? Cos I find the need to eat sweet things when I feel down
Me too. I went through a slump in 2015 and the 'Mass Effect' trilogy really helped me. That is why I have so much love and respect for the trilogy.
@@tclaw5388 Coz it doesn't work. Brain needs sucrose to function 😉
I love this bass... so evil... so Omega... so Aria... so pure...
much merc, on rule, so arkangel, much doge
hamptonwooster Such shepard so fuck much Miranda
darkmaxiron wow
Asari... Liara T'Soni... such blue ass... wow
And was composed in 1999 from NFS high stakes
REST IN PEACE SAKI.
Your music helped define my childhood, you inspired me to become a music producer, and your music STILL continues to inspire me 18 years after having first heard it. I am at such a loss for words, and heart broken beyond belief.
FOREVER an Inspiration.
damn man. walking into club afterlife for the first time was one of the best gaming moments i ever had..
Thanks for the memories from one of my most favorite video games. Finding out the news is truly pulling on my heart strings.
His sounds are so sofisticated.
They fit perfectly to the high tech car theme from NFS back on those times and even now!
Cant imagine better musics for a car showroom.
Thank you for your comment, I just found out about his death today and to be honest, your comment summed up how I feel as well aside from becoming a music producer (took a different career path at school). Ive been a big fan of his music along with Rom di Prisco's in the classic Need for Speed series and in recent years, the inclusion of Callista in Mass Effect. I was sad to see the news, i remember recognizing the music artists that made all these tracks when i was a kid. Its nice to see other fans enjoying and remembering these tracks now. Your comment made me feel better, thanks and best of luck!
He was drug addict and died because of drugs.
This game will always be one of my favorites ah the memories. I remember when I played it, it felt like I was playing through a movie. IMO Mass Effect 2 is one of the best games ever made. The dialogue and story is just sooo good
Anxiety High true
Was thinking that ME2 (even just on its own, without ME1) is literally a playable epic heist movie.
I demand this song at my funeral, also Asari strip dancers.
+Sandrika 86 Just at the funeral? ;)
When a man asks song to be played at funeral, you know that he love it madly and in life he has played it like quadrillion times
Sandrika 86 Good point...silly me...
This is Mass Effect for me. Never gets old. Timeless.
I underestimated this series so much and put off playing it cause I thought it'd be generic sci fi. I played this game first and now I love all three.
The first game is my fav though...
Yeah, I remember watching some guy's review of recommended Xbox 360 games back in the day when ME2 got announced and he spent solid 15 minutes of the 20 minute video talking about how great and amazing Mass Effect 2 is and all I remember was rolling my eyes and thinking "this guy can't be serious, didn't this guy ever watch Star Wars movies. This must be a rip off of Star Wars of some sort" and not playing it until 2012 or so and got my mind blown away. Now I'm on my 6th or 7th playthrough of the game and well over 1500 hours invested into the game and I loved every single second of it. ME really is something special that I wasn't able to find in any other work of fiction whether it be a book, a movie, a tv show or another video game. It's just irreplaceable in every way. And trust me, I tried. A lot :D
Edit: 1.5k hours, not 15k. Fixed that :D
A lot of people love the 2nd over the first but as great as that game is i can't agree. the only reason is probably because i played #1 first. 15000 hours that's insanity. you're hardcore. glad you love it so much it is def worth the love. I'm big on game music as well and this game as well as the first do not disappoint. Amazing soundtracks.
You're not the only one..
I avoided it for several years after not really getting into the first game. I got the trilogy from a friend about a month ago. I am now obsessed. You are not alone!
When you are walking slowly into the bar, you hear the bass of the song echoing louder as you approach, until finally you open the door and get in. I remember my mind blowing with the music effects at its best. There is a good reason the game is called Mass Effect
Bass Effect.
Coming up 15 years after the release of Mass Effect 2, this game is still amazing, and is made even better with the release of Legendary Edition. Since I walked into that club for the first time, I knew that it was going to be my favourite game, at least for a while, and the Mass Effect Legendary Edition Trilogy is my favourite game of all time. This song is so good, and just walking into the club every time hits me with exactly the same feeling every time I replay the games. They're just too good not to! Old games are always the best games, there's no doubt in my mind. When I'm not playing old single-player games such as (of course) Mass Effect, I'm playing War Thunder, which is 11 years old too (although still regularly updated). New games just don't have the same charm.
Mass Effect > Star Wars. i cant believe im thinking that but its true...
Mass Effect was literally a Star Wars game at first.
Of course it is.
Indeed.Better Lore,better Story,better Characters and it´s a Game which gives it extra Bonus for Interaction and Choices aswell as Gameplay
Mass Effect and the Dune series are the sci-fi as a genre.
without Star Wars there would be no Mass Effect
I always make this song play in the captain's cabin
Michael Stevens same
This makes me miss 2010 a lot! I spent so many days playing this at night in my room while at uni.
Great track for walking slow while panning the camera around your Shepard. :p
and looking at the giant screen! haha i thought i was the only one XD
Mass Effect's atmosphere is so great:
As a child I always dreamt of getting aboard Omega, lie in a room with a full view of the endless space, and finally, this song playing in the background.
Stop lying you just want Asari strippers
@@ImUrZaddy 😂
Damn it! Now I have to go play Mass Effect 1-3 again. It really doesn't ever take much for me to go back and do it all over again.
Still one of the best! Anyone else from 2019?
Yeah, I still love these games and their music. 👍
Mass effect forever in my heart
Yh g
Actually just discovered Mass Effect :)
No, I'm from 2011. Fuck off with these retarded date comments.
Господи, сколько же воспоминаний с этой прекрасной музыкой, я как будто возвращаюсь в детство. Покойся с миром Saki...
Omega is the Renegade to the Citadel's Paragon.
Nothing shouts out "2010" more than this track.
What beautiful times we lived in back then without even realizing it...
Великолепная игра, великолепный саунд! До сих пор доставляет. Спустя столько лет....
I've never played Mass Effect but first this in NFS High Stakes (PS1)... its really nice to know this cool song has returned to a modern game.
kynigh timeless
There is something I really love about the Afterlife club's ambiance and I'm not even the type of guy who frequents this kind of club IRL. You really feel like you enter in both a very dangerous place, but also a very seductive and enthralling one. It also has an atmosphere simillar to the dark alleys of the movie Blade Runner. The only thing that really disappointed me in ME2 is that there wasn't enough to do in the club! I would have loved to have a bit more conversations/assignments there. Despite this, I think this was one of the most memorable place in the whole series, maybe even in the whole video game history.
True mass effect feeling
Hearing this for the first time just meant that this was going to be something special.
Still listening to this now...and still everytime I hear it it makes me want to play ME2. 💛
This track is unlike anything else, so many feelings when I hear this
Edit; the fact that there are no ads is a godsend and I would literally hand the uploader twenty bucks if I knew the money would go directly to him/her
its a masterpiece. Sadly the creator passed away in 2016.
Playing this game for the first time. Cost me $9.00 for all three games. This song keeps sticking in my mind. Money well spent.
This trilogy changed my life. Check out Faunts - M4 Pt 2. It's the ending song of the first game. Amazing track
"broke Omegas only rule, in more ways than one"
Don't trust the batarian bartender, my heart feels funny after one of his drinks
He doesn't feel nothing already after i made him drink that one of his own drinks
RIP my dude
may the asari strippers greet you in heaven
You simply don't get enough credit for your genius.
*asari dancers.
@@Vantud391 strippers are also dancers
I know we all remember it from mass effect. But who remembers it from need for speed?
***** mhm i don't mate which need for speed?
Para Norm Need for speed: High Stakes. An old, old game
***** i think i have copy laying around of high stakes lol, where are the times
Para Norm I know right, hearing this song instantly took me back
***** You are so right. No wonder I got some weird flashbacks.
i just want a bar like that exactly
xX_AceHunter_Xx same. would be the best place in the galaxy
Be careful with batarian bartender:)))
Cannot wait to revisit the place in the remastered version..
Just picked up the legendary edition, never played these before. Now I wish I had a time machine so 12 y/o me could enjoy this story.
I’m early into ME3 right now, but this song and the vibe at Afterlife has definitely been my favorite so far
Need for Speed High Stakes anyone?
+Johnny Ryder Yes, its in NFS High Stakes on the showroom screen, a game from 1999. As soon as I heard it in Afterlife I recongnised it from there, a bit of nostaga, then made the EA connection. It's a nice easter egg and reference if that was the intent :)
+Johnny Ryder ahh the nostalgia, makes me feel kinda sad..
need for speed (high stakes has one of the best OST ever!
it's already double nostalgia - it reminds you high stakes and beautifull time playn' ME trilogy
There was something similar in Porshe Unleashed
You all know probably this amazing soundtrack from ME2 but for me, this was the soundtrack which was used in Need for Speed: Road Challenge (also known as High Stakes) from 1999. First NFS game i played, my childhood, hearing this amazing soundtrack once more in Afterlife made me almost cry (from happines)...It just reminded me my childhood i spent with NFS, the times when I was just kid, with no obligations nor responsibilities just enjoying my schools life ah gosh missing those times so much....
_"I knew a bar out on the front that was like this. Me and some friends got stupid one night; long story short, tempers flared, followed by pistols! We all got out, except for my buddy Narco... places like this are slaughterhouses, dressed as nightclubs! I shit you not!"_
*-Zaeed Massani, 2186*
This is that one song I can listen to for days on end and never get tired of. Might just be my favourite song of all time.
That's Mass Effect.. Will I ever experience that again?
Playing this game for the first time. I just spent 2 hours roaming the club and drinking. That intro as you walk in, hearing the muffled music in the background, then feeling it flood into your ears as the doors open. So well done.
im commander shephard and this is my favorite tune on omaga
Is it just me that feels really emotional when I play this game? To me, it's barely a game, it's like a really engaging book or movie. I can't stop thinking about it, the story is so deep and it speaks to me on a spiritual level. Maybe it's just me knowing I won't live to see a day when interstellar travel may happen...and so I want to be able to experience that life though this game.
It's a good game, but maybe you smoked too much weed when you played it.
No matter if this song has 20 years...it fits perfect with ME atmosphere.
Saki Kaskas, the hero if EA soundtracks, sunce the last century. His songs were reason alone to buy a game with sometimes less than mediocre gameplay. Rest in peace Legend.
Every time i went into Afterlife and heard this song, i thought: "Hmm, they must really like this song a LOT since they play it every time i'm here." Either that or Aria is a big fan of electro-synth and she has a playlist of this type of music :).
Anyway, it's a good tune. I like it too.
Exactly. Every time you end up on Omega, Aria turns on this afterlife music to honour the visit of the dead SPECTRE. Or just to tease you.
There is only one rule on Omega.
Fucking with Aria...*inhales*... problematic.
Fucking Aria less so
Asari and Turians ruling the galaxy; the primitives of my cycle used to hunt wild animals to feed themselves...
And if you forget it, someone will remind you.
don't ask for a drink if youre human :V xDDD
Or if you're Mordin, just break the rules. In more than one way....
This really was the absolute perfect song for Mass Effect 2. It perfectly captures the feel of the game.
Suacide first the game better, in my mind, still this is one sexy beat, sad that Andromeda hasn't got any good beats.
Love that song! It fits so perfectly for Afterlife. I still get goosebumps when I think of the first time I played ME2 and entered the club and the music got louder, that was so awesome. Sounds funny but that was the moment that established the ME-Series at the top of my top-games-list. Still playing all four parts on a regular basis!
Hearing this for the first time was like an out of body experience, it felt like something straight out of a movie when you first walk inside
Bioware should open a club really, Mass Effect theme, this music, can't go wrong with that.
How can u dislike this absolute tune
on mass effect 2 afterlife is where i spent most of my time because i absolutely loved the music and i still love it
RIP SAKI - You belong in the electronic music hall of fame.
Guys... come on... how old are you? 15 ?
Initially, this was a soundtrack to NFS 4....
Respect for the old golden times.
But Mass Effect 2 is a far more impactful and important game
edit: not to say that NFS is bad or anything, I loved those games
NFS and ME are two very different kinds of games, and not everyone who plays Mass Effect plays car/racing games like NFS, myself included, so there might be why many people don't recognize the song. That this melody is one that was in an NFS game and then got used in Mass Effect 2 is really cool though!
ME2 took music from all over the place. This one from NFS:HS, some Citadel stores play Sim City 4 tracks and at least one club has a song from SSX.
YES!
C'mon, let me in!
Ugh, Aria's expecting me.
Just playing Need for Speed 2016, heard this, knew i had heard it somewhere before
you might also heard this in 1999
I remember this from Need For Speed: High Stakes!
CALISTA!
Same
One of the best club tracks in ME series. I couldn't leave Afterlife because of this amazing music.
Across the board the music in this game is so well written and composed. Half the reason I'd be able to spend a good half hour trying to customize the perfect armor for Shepard was for having this song play in the background, nevermind the atmosphere that comes up when you go to Afterlife... truly a terrific game.
“If you wanna think we’re dancing together, go ahead!”
this is bizarre. I first heard this song in Need For Speed High Stakes. Didn't even know it ended up in a Mass Effect game years later. Interesting to know.
Not only that, but the synth beats are used for Afterlife, while the early oboe cues are used for Samara's theme. So you technically hear the whole song in ME2, but separated into two distinct entities.
The song just fits 100% perfectly in Mass Effect 2 when entering the Club Afterlife on Planet Omega. When I heard it in NFSHS in 99 it didn't make sense, didn't fit the game.
Geil Ganso It was only in the replay section unless you changed it, It calms you down after a long race it fits perfectly with NFS HS
Bunta Fujiwara I remember it being the menu music. At least for the PC version (was there a console version?).
Essess Nine
Yes there was a PS1 version of the game.
I hope the new Cyberpunk 2077 will be like Mass Effect 2!
I just started playind ME trilogy recently, and when i first came into the Afterlife i was like :"Why do you need Cyberpunk when you got this" lol
I’m from the future
It’s not
😅🤣🤣🤣🤣
everything has gone to shit with the gaming industry
That did not age well.
Perhaps in the *afterlife*, i’ll be listening to this far away on a *darkstar* for forever and all *eternity*
When I hear this I imagine Garrus with dual pistols fighting some mercs in a skyscraper somewhere on Illium.
I imagine him in his helmet shooting every eclipse, blue suns, and blood pack merc in omega like on the cover art for doom
Maybe in the *Afterlife* or *Purgatory* I'll be in a state of *Flux* on a *Darkstar* listening to this for all *Eternity*
God damn'ed drunken nostalgia! This is great, I return to this track every few months or weeks. One of most rememberable tracks of my gaming career (since 1980's) and Mass Effect is my beloved series of all time
Shepard one of the best main character in video games!
*You, Afterlife. Now.*
"But Cerberus just brought me back...."
it's good to know that in the future we're still listening to 90s techno music from old racing games
Only true legends remember this track from NFS4
I remember on my first playthrough in Mass effect 2 when i stepped foot in Omega and heard this music. The atmosphere was great and it was like you were really there as Shepard . I thought to myself: "2 years disappeared from my life, the group i used to fight against brought me back from the dead, i'm sorrounded by people i have never seen in my life before and basically i don't know what should i do but damn, this music is awesome!"
Heard this come on and was expecting to see a hologram pop up of a little 64-bit Porsche racing through a poorly rendered German valley.
Haha i love it! this was one of my favorite songs in NFS as a kid, its nice to hear it in modern games like ME.
Mike Sessa mine too! it's from Need for Speed 4 High Stakes. I've been hunting for it and I couldn't find it, then I heard it in Mass Effect in club Afterlife, it was like coming home :D
Haha for sure! I also heard it in Shepard's cabin if you toggle through his music playlist on ME2. I am a bit NFS 4 fan, its always been one of my favorites since I was little for many reasons :3
when i heard it first time,i was totally shocked XD
That opening reminds me of Timesplitters, just makes the track all that more awesome.