Hackett: “Shepard, let me tell you something I’ve learned the hard way. You can pay a soldier to fire a gun. You can pay a soldier to charge and take a hill. But you can’t pay him to believe.” Shepard: “I’m afraid I don’t follow sir.” Hackett: “That mission against Sovereign all those years ago? There was no reason to believe you’d win. But your team didn’t seem to care; they went along anyway. That mission into the Omega Relay? That was a suicide mission if there ever was one. But there your team was again, standing at your side, *proud* to serve. Why? Because they *believed in you.* And it’s that kind of belief we need right now.”
Still my favorite quote regarding the Cult of Shepard. Regardless of morality, you take a crew of cripples, bastards and broken things and turn them into a living symbol of hope capable of walking into hell with you purely out of belief
@@radopposums2829 Well now. Everyone has their own issues and little skeletons in the closet, but "cripples, bastards and broken things" is taking it a bit too far. Accurate for the ME2 companions alone, perhaps, but certainly not everyone. Let's recap, shall we? Ashley Williams/Kaidan Alenko: Highly trained and extremely capable soldiers. One is a powerful biotic. Spectre material. No real issues to speak of. Tali'Zorah nar Rayya (later vas Normandy): Genius tech expert, at least adequate combatant, next in line for Admiralty Board of the Quarian Fleet. Young and impulsive, at least at first, but hardly a real issue. Garrus Vakarian: Elite sniper, tech expert, capable investigator. Hot-headed and with a strong sense of justice. Spectre material. No real issues. Urdnot Wrex: Krogan Battlemaster and later leader of his people. Stubborn and set in his ways to the point of potentially compromising sound judgement (Virmire), but capable of making the right calls nevertheless. Liara T'Soni: Expert archaologist, powerful biotic. Later extremely competent information broker. No real issues. etc, etc.
That moment when Destiny Ascension comes out of the relay, leading the Asari fleets, and you think, damn, having to deal with these Council fucks for all this time was well worth having this ship by my side.
+B.A.Krokodil I remember the moment when Destiny Ascension emerged from Sol Relay and flew by. My 5+1 sound system was pretty cranked and the tremble coming from bass was... whoa... the shivers went all over my spine...
Alliance fleet checking in Turian fleet checking in Krogan fleet checking in Geth Fleet checking in Quarian fleet accounted for All fleets checking in commander
*Alliance Fleet has joined the game* *Turian Fleet has joined the game* *Asari Fleet has joined the game* *Salarian STG has joined the game* *Krogan Army has joined the game* *Quarian Fleet has joined the game* *Geth Fleet had joined the game* *Harbinger has left the game* *The Reaper Fleet has left the game*
@@vood00ranger UNSC Infinity and Eternity checking in let us punch a hole through the middle of these squids.....i'd pay to see that Prothean fleet...shit never mind its EA you'd have to anyway lol
M3RCxNationHQ, this scene was my favorite, when ALL the Fleets you can recruit show up.. you could picture Shepard at the Galaxy map giving the order: "Shepard to all fleets.. at my signal.. UNLEASH HELL!!"
NatureXwars you can get the Geth Fleet appearing if you complete certain missions a particular way.. same with the Migrant fleet. I have done it in ME3
There is a reason that this song uses the same ME1 theme from "Spectre Induction". When that original scene played in ME1, that is when the Reapers lost the war.
that is a great insight on behalf of your intellect and not stolen from the user @karankenZ commenting on "spectre induction" (th-cam.com/video/Vk8gVWOy7uo/w-d-xo.html). i am certain that when i quote karankenZ stating that "There is a reason this is the same as "the fleet arrives". In the history of mass effect, let it be known , that this was the moment when the reapers lost the war." the similarities to your comment are purely incidental and not of plagiaristic nature.
I am not going to lie. When the ships start pouring in and the full orchestral version of the title theme starts playing, I teared up. There is just something touching about the thought that here is the entire might of this galaxy you have been trying to save for a hundred and fifty hours of game, and they are ro the last man ready to risk everything for a last chance.
It’s the culmination of this entire hopeless feeling you’ve had through the entire game. You’ve lost pretty much every battle but when you see the fleets arrive you think “maybe we can win this”
This is undoubtabky the best moment in the series. For just a moment, you think that MAYBE there is a chance that you can pull it off. And Hacket's speech before hand is awesome. It would have been better if you could see the troops you gathered in action on earth. Maybe even a mechanic where you could call for help from these troops. I mean who didn't want to see the Elcor walking tanks or the Volus bombing fleet ffs!?
I think this moment is second best in the series besides the suicide mission. One is more grand and epic, while the other is tenser and personal, with characters you've become attached to at risk of death. Both are great, but the Suicide Mission soundtrack makes it more epic
@@PonzooonTheGreat apparently it wasn't that they where rushed but that theyd ecided to completely change the ending at the last minute cause the ending had leaked and the writer decided to go with an "artsy" ending.
Kaidan/Ashley: Let's advance together! Tali: Shepard, I'll come to your support anytime. Liara: I'll always be with you, no matter what. Garrus: Once more into the fire? Heh, there's nowhere I'd rather be. Let's do this. Wrex: The enemy will know the might of our combined force, Shepard. Kasumi: This is shaping up to be one amazing partnership eh, Shepard? Grunt: I'll crush your enemies whoever they are, Shepard. Thane: Kalahira, bless this one for his/her quest is nearly done. Jack: Well shit, let's just kill them all, shall we? Miranda: Let's get right to business, no time to waste after all. Legion: Shepard-Commander, we calculated 99.9% rate of success for this mission. Zaeed: What the goddamn hell are we waiting for? Let's just blast the door down and kill those bastards. Samara: I uphold the code of justice. You, Shepard, are justice. And I'll be right beside you. Morinth: Let's not waste any time with these trash. Mordin: So many experiments to do. Too many research needs to be conducted. But I'll always have time for you, Shepard. Jacob: You lead, I'll follow. Wherever that may be. Javik: Commander, this cycle have hope because of you. Now let's show the enemy what fear is. James: Hell Loco/Lola, I still got one up on you in the kill count. Show me what you got, come on. EDI: Commander, just give the word, the Normandy is always ready. Joker: All systems are green and ready to go, Commander. Anderson: I'm proud of you, always. Hackett: You have done the impossibles time and time again. Truly, you are a shining beacon for us all.
I had a similar battle, against the Prethoryn Scourge. Most of the empires had been destroyed, the only ones remaining being me, the smaller empires under my protectorate, an awakened empire, and the Sentinels. My original world was being invaded and populations devoured. My largest fleet, and even my last, made up of the remnants of fleets that somehow tried to contain the infection was followed by the Sentinels and the best that the small empires under my protection had to offer. The larger fleet was invading my original system and preparing to leave it to Attack another when the combined fleets passed the hyperlink. When the fleet was destroyed an army of reconquest made up of several species of the galaxy, refugees in me and of my humans reconquered the planet. And after long battles, the Scourge was defeated, leaving a galaxy littered with the ruins of ancient galactic empires.
@@lordmazdamundi2847 I had a mass effect mod and I launched an offensive against the reapers (the machine one but it changed it) as the Asari with the mod that adds their civilization. The first ships of a United galaxy to arrive where my ships in huge numbers.
I remember this one time in Stellaris when I was in a war with my playthrough's equivalent of the krogan and I don't know whether it was a ridiculous fleet that I missed or a powerful space station but they had somehow destroyed the vast majority of my 2nd fleet. So I had merged my 1st fleet and what was left of the 2nd to try take out what had destroyed my ships. Sometimes when I look back, I think that it would've looked and sounded like this when my fleet arrived to kick their ass back to their home world.
Imagine this scene, as part of a remastered game, that supported vr or 3d. music blaring at full blast, the light at the side, illuminating the relay and the surrounding space, and bang! the fleets arrive, jumping out at you, so close and massive as if you could reach out and touch them. I would love that
@@g1jetfireandrainbowdash798 Bruh give it like 10 more years. Vr games of that kinda scale are unlikely to happen anytime soon, but i almost certain at least something similiar will happen at some point
The secret to the ending: *It WAS actually made at the last moment, days before content lockdown* (aka the date from when work on the game is no longer permitted)
As far as I care, the real ending was the moment the fleets arrived. It was the last time anything relevant happened that was the direct result of decisions you made in previous games, and left me with a pride to be human I can't describe. If I somehow never wanted to interact with semi-benevolent alien races before that moment, there was no way I'd still feel that way afterwards. Somehow, they managed to match, if not mirror, the moment Joker took the Normandy into that dive against Harbringer. The rest of the "ending" aside, Bioware knows how to make your hair stand on end. Like no one else.
That was a key moment for me too. Humans might be intriguing, ignorant dickheads sometime, but never underestimate the good ones among us. While others fought for the glory and the gain of power, we fought for the universe. The trilogy was a masterpiece (and a pretty philosophical one).
I loved this scene. It really gave you the feel that this is the showdown, the final battle. You either gain everything or loose everything. One shall stand and one shall fall.
3 games' hard work of reconciling hostile camps culminated in this proud moment. The sighting of a pan-galactic fleet was a toast to the Commander's career, an occasion for hand-over-mouth gestures and tears of bitter joy. If Shepard had died there and then--flashbacking to the cost of her accomplishment--it would have been a life better spent than the one wasted on the anticlimactic "Catalyst."
***** Bioware has a difficult act to juggle: While the company cannot surrender its artistic license, it also cannot disregard the demands of its customer base.
***** Bioware may have intellectual property rights to the game, but it is the customer base that decides whether the company remains a lucrative acquisition for EA. Bioware can ill-afford to bite the hand that feeds it a second time.
Yet CryTek has had trouble. Non-payment, almost going bankrupt, there main thing now is to license their CryEngine for a free 2 play model. So, it has cost them substantially. And considering the crap that EA releases and then the games still go well review wise (playbase often has complaints that someone we're not in the review copy of the game), it would be hard for a company to give up job security for a losing a bit of creative power over their content.
Which is why I choose the perfect destroy ending every single time....Like I'm actually going to take the catalysts word for it when it says that there can never be peace between synthetics and organics. The mere fact that my Shepard was even standing there to begin with is proof that the Catalyst can't foresee every outcome. I'm not having Shepard give in to the Catalyst's demands when I already know that Catalyst's data is flawed.
It’s like a whisper on the wind, finally after all this time on the horizon the remaster is nearly here. Just a month away folks, let’s get ready to kick some ass. Well bang ok
Listening to this track over and over again, I can feel a enormous surge of positive energy and optimism. Solving coding problems just has totally new meaning. :)
Jovan Perović I know what you mean. It's like a virtual red bull. Only difference is the input method, and the way it invokes the 'will do it, come hell or high water' aggression in our mind.
This scene, the moment the Normandy appears with this amazing, simply amazing piece of music, followed by the hundreds if not thousands of ships from the various allied galactic forces, has got to be up there with the best moments in all of TV, film and gaming media. That's no exaggeration. The first time I saw this was a moment I will never forget. Forgetting the ending, the rest of ME3 was incredible.
For those of you out there talking about how easy it would be for a Halo weapon to destroy a Reaper, apparently you don't realize how powerful the shields of a non-Destroyer Reaper are. The Destroyers which Shepard and his team have defeated multiple times (Tuchanka and Earth more specifically) aren't that difficult to take down. But if you want to see how much punishment a Capital Ship can take, look at the Reaper in ME2 that's floating above Klendagon and look at the planet Klendagon itself. Klendagon and that Reaper were both struck by a Mass Accelerator weapon that created a gigantic rift in the planet's southern hemisphere that's easily viewable from really far away because of it's sheer size. Yet the Reaper was even able to survive that, though heavily damaged. Just sayin'.
Besides the Halo Rings, which I'm assuming that's what you mean, aren't even designed to destroy anything like Reaper tech. They're meant to wipe out organic life.
A little note to everyone saying "ME beats Halo, or 40k beats ME" Or whatever it is. Let me remind you Mass Effect takes place in the 2100's. Halo in the 2500's. And 40k in the 40,000's, so by that logic, it is physically impossible for any of the universes to intersect. Good day.
The Cheekiest of Scrubs but reapers beat everything. Inorganic so immune to flood and tyranids, firepower rivals any 40k warship, indoctrination easily enslaves covenant, and just the experience of waging galactic wars of genocide for millions of years (not to mention all kinds of monsters they can conjure up, we all know husks, collectors, etc, but remember the adjutunts are probably the most dangerous because they can directly convert by virus, not just dragons teeth). So against any foe, indoctrination starts a civil war with sabotage and espionage eroding the war effort, they can employ novel strategies (like a lack of defense and supply lines) throwing the enemy off balance, they convert your armies and civilians into their horde, and they can afford scorched earth tactics. So we have a war of attrition being waged potentially with one reaper raising its own army on thousands of worlds, there's no real defensive formation to hold just a general melee, and any "ace" superweapon is very likely to be sabotaged or even turned against you.
+Connor O'Brien That's simply not true, the Reapers are so immensely powerful in the ME universe because that universe doesn't use insane numbers. For 40k, even the smallest of Imperium ships outclasses every single thing a Reaper has. Their ground forces would be in many cases vaporized by the Imperial Guard, not even getting into the Space Marines. This isn't even getting into the Necrons who make Reapers seem like Tinker Toys in terms of AI complexity. They have a weapon that can instantly destroy any star in the galaxy. All of this is without the Chaos Gods and all their crazy fuckery, and let's remember that Khorne gets stronger with any act of violence, or psykers, or any of the other races who each outnumber the Reapers. Pretty much nothing touches 40k, and the entire Reaper fleet is batted aside by a small flotilla. One 40k planet has something to the tune of 300 TRILLION ships. The Reapers are also outclassed by the Covenant in terms of firepower, though they have the numbers to swarm modern Halo. But if we get near the Forerunners, who outclass even 40k, the Reapers again ain't shit.
When I first saw this scene, with the hundreds of ships of all the species I’d rallied behind me, I felt very much like what we call in my country, Billy Big-Bollocks - I was coming for a fight and I had backup. This music was PERFECT for this most epic of moments!
My favorite part of this scene is when the SR2 Normandy was heading towards the Earth followed by the entire galactic fleet a few seconds later. Shepard had come a long way from the prophetic soldier to an actual commander in chief of the milky way's galactic forces.
Why are people even comparing Mass Effect technology to Halo? Yes, Halo tech is stronger. The UNSC has nearly 400 years of scientific and technological development over the System's Alliance. It should hardly be a surprise that they are more advanced.
It is intriuging that if the Reapers decided to wait just half a millenia, or were by chance somehow delayed, their whole plan would have crumbled, isn't it?
No they dont. The humans in ME got tech from aliens that had already established a galactic civilization for 1000s of years before humans discovered it.
@@theleoita90 40k wins all scenarios, Humanity is just OP in comparision. That said, the Reaps would get obliterated by everything else too. May be a decent solution to the Nids though.
This scene made me feel like a kid on Christmas day. Every. single. goddamn ship in the galaxy in one fleet for one purpose. Seeing all those ships coming through the mass relay AND THEY KEPT COMING FOR A GOOD MINUTE. I don't think there's anything that could ever top that on the epic scale for me.
This scene is what I wish would happen in Superhero media. Just imagine the ENTIRE DC Universe getting together and unifying in one massive army, completely standing up to Darkseid as a unified front and rejecting him as well as everything he stands for. Every single superhero, every single alien race, every single inter-dimensional being, literally everyone, finally just ganging up on him and all of his forces/allies to let him no that he is no longer respected nor obeyed. That they are no longer afraid of him.
I meant the muarders/cannibals and the like, they are organic mash ups combined with some technology but still suitable to the flood. As long as there is a whole body, a nervous system and sufficient Biomass it can be taken over.
Commander Shepard: " This bond that ties us together 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 the galaxy; every mother, every son, every un-born child. But take heart, look around you. You're not alone in this fight. We face our enemy together and together we will defeat them. "
a trilogy with the quality of ME but playing an Inquisitor and his/her retitude in the 40k universe would cause such worldwide nerdgasm that it would open a fucking Eye of Terror just near us
And Halo has the "In Amber clad" "Forward Onto Dawn" "Infinity (its bigger than a reaper)" "Midsummer Night" "Heart of Midlothian" and I could go on about all the main ships in the Halo universe.
If you read the description for the VOLUS dreadnought Kwunu. The ship could char a planet 3 times over. That's the Volus we're talking about, 800 meters to 1km long ships. Reaper Capital Ships can produce a yield 20x that of that kwunu. If reapers wanted to destroy the planets, there wouldn't be a point in harvesting would there?
actually recently they have been developing shielding and the spartans (2-4) have energy shielding which blocks both energy and kinetic. and the average covenant ship is TWICE the size of a reaper and has energy based weapons which even the reapers have no defense. The UNSC has also developed shielding for their ships which fire rounds that are the equivalent of a 100 megatons of TNT on contact BIG BOOM!
If you listen to the soldiers at the entrance to the citadel in ME2, they say that the projectiles, going as fast as they do (1.3% light speed, or roughly 8.7 million miles per hour), impact with the force of multiple nukes, which, because it is a projectile, not a bomb, all the force is concentrated at the point of impact. nukes would actually do less damage (EMPs might work though), especially because in space there is no air to carry the shockwave. :P
This song/theme as far as I'm concerned is the absolute high point of the series. The moment all you have been working towards finally come together, all fleets, races come together to start the final battle! Pitty we only saw a few seconds of the whole fight - and then 'that' ending which made it all for nothing...
Because in ME3 when you go talk to Udina he says that the first things the reapers went for are the satellites orbiting earth and the nuclear missile silos
Make a crossover fanfic with the Zorich universe. European directory there has the Elzas-class battleships, and one of them might as well be called Normandy. 12 21,5" Skoda dual acceleration cannons, meters of armor plating, anti-laser shields, and it can also land on the ground, despite being 800 meters long.
What about the music that plays when you(Sheppard) see the Citadel for the first time in ME1? For me that was also one of the defining moments of the series. I believe they call it 'The Citadel'.
its not an issues of there being no atoms to split its that there is no air to ignite or form a shock wave out of which means they have no real destructive potential.
When we are referencing a "super" MAC are we talking about when they had a UNSC ship and a covenant frigate mated together and they turned the MAC gun into a plasma cannon. Or are we talking about the orbital MAC guns like around Reach?
![Mass Effect 2 Soundtrack - Suicide Mission [Extended]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/GVSsJzSK-H8/mqdefault.jpg)
Hackett: “Shepard, let me tell you something I’ve learned the hard way. You can pay a soldier to fire a gun. You can pay a soldier to charge and take a hill. But you can’t pay him to believe.”
Shepard: “I’m afraid I don’t follow sir.”
Hackett: “That mission against Sovereign all those years ago? There was no reason to believe you’d win. But your team didn’t seem to care; they went along anyway. That mission into the Omega Relay? That was a suicide mission if there ever was one. But there your team was again, standing at your side, *proud* to serve. Why? Because they *believed in you.* And it’s that kind of belief we need right now.”
Still my favorite quote regarding the Cult of Shepard. Regardless of morality, you take a crew of cripples, bastards and broken things and turn them into a living symbol of hope capable of walking into hell with you purely out of belief
Hoo-rah!
@@radopposums2829 Well now. Everyone has their own issues and little skeletons in the closet, but "cripples, bastards and broken things" is taking it a bit too far. Accurate for the ME2 companions alone, perhaps, but certainly not everyone. Let's recap, shall we?
Ashley Williams/Kaidan Alenko: Highly trained and extremely capable soldiers. One is a powerful biotic. Spectre material. No real issues to speak of.
Tali'Zorah nar Rayya (later vas Normandy): Genius tech expert, at least adequate combatant, next in line for Admiralty Board of the Quarian Fleet. Young and impulsive, at least at first, but hardly a real issue.
Garrus Vakarian: Elite sniper, tech expert, capable investigator. Hot-headed and with a strong sense of justice. Spectre material. No real issues.
Urdnot Wrex: Krogan Battlemaster and later leader of his people. Stubborn and set in his ways to the point of potentially compromising sound judgement (Virmire), but capable of making the right calls nevertheless.
Liara T'Soni: Expert archaologist, powerful biotic. Later extremely competent information broker. No real issues.
etc, etc.
@@raindrain1 It's a reference to game of thrones.
@@frgscajs2018 ...Yes, that's obvious.
That moment when Destiny Ascension comes out of the relay, leading the Asari fleets, and you think, damn, having to deal with these Council fucks for all this time was well worth having this ship by my side.
B.A.Krokodil except they didnt make a fuckin difference lol
Nah, id rather have geth than the council.
+B.A.Krokodil I remember the moment when Destiny Ascension emerged from Sol Relay and flew by. My 5+1 sound system was pretty cranked and the tremble coming from bass was... whoa... the shivers went all over my spine...
+B.A.Krokodil I prefer having all Alliance Fleets at full strength. What can I say, i'm loyal to the Alliance.
And it did jackshit!!
Harbinger: "We have an army."
Shepard: "We have a Grunt."
:(
Did you inspire Marvel with this comment?
@@JCLeftYa yeah
Grunt: I AM KROGAN
We Are Legion
Alliance fleet checking in
Turian fleet checking in
Krogan fleet checking in
Geth Fleet checking in
Quarian fleet accounted for
All fleets checking in commander
krogan fleet? i dont think that exists. but their army sure as fucking hell exists lol
Prothean fleet checking in
@@vood00ranger a lost fleet of prothean ships, crew in stasis...
Protheans rejoin the fight.
*Alliance Fleet has joined the game*
*Turian Fleet has joined the game*
*Asari Fleet has joined the game*
*Salarian STG has joined the game*
*Krogan Army has joined the game*
*Quarian Fleet has joined the game*
*Geth Fleet had joined the game*
*Harbinger has left the game*
*The Reaper Fleet has left the game*
@@vood00ranger UNSC Infinity and Eternity checking in let us punch a hole through the middle of these squids.....i'd pay to see that Prothean fleet...shit never mind its EA you'd have to anyway lol
Aside from all these arguments, I kinda liked this scene.
When all the fleets started showing up I was like "Aw damn, Shit just got real."
I don't know, i thought g ear out ng the fear in jack's voice really drove it home
+M3RCxNationHQ Game was great till this scene imo.
M3RCxNationHQ, this scene was my favorite, when ALL the Fleets you can recruit show up.. you could picture Shepard at the Galaxy map giving the order: "Shepard to all fleets.. at my signal.. UNLEASH HELL!!"
Not all, the Geth fleet are nowhere to be seen in the cutscenes & the Migrant Fleet only appeared in that one little scene when they passed Jupiter..
NatureXwars you can get the Geth Fleet appearing if you complete certain missions a particular way.. same with the Migrant fleet. I have done it in ME3
*giant hair dryer flies out of relay*
+Dinosbacsi Cannot unsee!
+Dinosbacsi LOL didn't think of it in that way :D
+Dinosbacsi are you referring to the Destiny's ascension?
LU Shepard
Yes.
could not hold my laugh&smile when seen the comment ;) up up the vote!
There is a reason that this song uses the same ME1 theme from "Spectre Induction". When that original scene played in ME1, that is when the Reapers lost the war.
+Jennifer Popa Holy... I didn´t recognize that it was the same theme
They use that song a lot in the trilogy if you notice, very good observation Jennifer :)
that is a great insight on behalf of your intellect and not stolen from the user
@karankenZ commenting on "spectre induction" (th-cam.com/video/Vk8gVWOy7uo/w-d-xo.html).
i am certain that when i quote karankenZ stating that "There is a reason this is the same as "the fleet arrives". In the history of mass effect, let it be known , that this was the moment when the reapers lost the war." the similarities to your comment are purely incidental and not of plagiaristic nature.
@@doktormabuse7329 Bruh could have just said he stole the comment
Somehow I never noticed it was the same theme before, huh.
I am not going to lie. When the ships start pouring in and the full orchestral version of the title theme starts playing, I teared up. There is just something touching about the thought that here is the entire might of this galaxy you have been trying to save for a hundred and fifty hours of game, and they are ro the last man ready to risk everything for a last chance.
It’s the culmination of this entire hopeless feeling you’ve had through the entire game. You’ve lost pretty much every battle but when you see the fleets arrive you think “maybe we can win this”
Except salarians :P
I love how they threw in the original ME and ME2 the songs into this one. It's just perfect for a last stand mission.
This is undoubtabky the best moment in the series. For just a moment, you think that MAYBE there is a chance that you can pull it off. And Hacket's speech before hand is awesome. It would have been better if you could see the troops you gathered in action on earth. Maybe even a mechanic where you could call for help from these troops. I mean who didn't want to see the Elcor walking tanks or the Volus bombing fleet ffs!?
+PonzooonTheGreat The game was great up until this scene.
Fukin EA rushing Bioware.
Maybe one day we'll get a remake (Not a remaster) that has stuff like that in it.
I think this moment is second best in the series besides the suicide mission. One is more grand and epic, while the other is tenser and personal, with characters you've become attached to at risk of death. Both are great, but the Suicide Mission soundtrack makes it more epic
@@PonzooonTheGreat apparently it wasn't that they where rushed but that theyd ecided to completely change the ending at the last minute cause the ending had leaked and the writer decided to go with an "artsy" ending.
The Feels Arrive
Kaidan/Ashley: Let's advance together!
Tali: Shepard, I'll come to your support anytime.
Liara: I'll always be with you, no matter what.
Garrus: Once more into the fire? Heh, there's nowhere I'd rather be. Let's do this.
Wrex: The enemy will know the might of our combined force, Shepard.
Kasumi: This is shaping up to be one amazing partnership eh, Shepard?
Grunt: I'll crush your enemies whoever they are, Shepard.
Thane: Kalahira, bless this one for his/her quest is nearly done.
Jack: Well shit, let's just kill them all, shall we?
Miranda: Let's get right to business, no time to waste after all.
Legion: Shepard-Commander, we calculated 99.9% rate of success for this mission.
Zaeed: What the goddamn hell are we waiting for? Let's just blast the door down and kill those bastards.
Samara: I uphold the code of justice. You, Shepard, are justice. And I'll be right beside you.
Morinth: Let's not waste any time with these trash.
Mordin: So many experiments to do. Too many research needs to be conducted. But I'll always have time for you, Shepard.
Jacob: You lead, I'll follow. Wherever that may be.
Javik: Commander, this cycle have hope because of you. Now let's show the enemy what fear is.
James: Hell Loco/Lola, I still got one up on you in the kill count. Show me what you got, come on.
EDI: Commander, just give the word, the Normandy is always ready.
Joker: All systems are green and ready to go, Commander.
Anderson: I'm proud of you, always.
Hackett: You have done the impossibles time and time again. Truly, you are a shining beacon for us all.
Correction:
Javik: Let’s throw them out the airlock, shall we?
@@Reach04 What 'bout the reapers?
Build a bigger airlock.
I used this for when I retook my homeworld in stellaris against an awakened fallen empire. It was a glorious battle.
I had a similar battle, against the Prethoryn Scourge. Most of the empires had been destroyed, the only ones remaining being me, the smaller empires under my protectorate, an awakened empire, and the Sentinels.
My original world was being invaded and populations devoured. My largest fleet, and even my last, made up of the remnants of fleets that somehow tried to contain the infection was followed by the Sentinels and the best that the small empires under my protection had to offer. The larger fleet was invading my original system and preparing to leave it to Attack another when the combined fleets passed the hyperlink. When the fleet was destroyed an army of reconquest made up of several species of the galaxy, refugees in me and of my humans reconquered the planet. And after long battles, the Scourge was defeated, leaving a galaxy littered with the ruins of ancient galactic empires.
@@lordmazdamundi2847 I had a mass effect mod and I launched an offensive against the reapers (the machine one but it changed it) as the Asari with the mod that adds their civilization. The first ships of a United galaxy to arrive where my ships in huge numbers.
I remember this one time in Stellaris when I was in a war with my playthrough's equivalent of the krogan and I don't know whether it was a ridiculous fleet that I missed or a powerful space station but they had somehow destroyed the vast majority of my 2nd fleet. So I had merged my 1st fleet and what was left of the 2nd to try take out what had destroyed my ships. Sometimes when I look back, I think that it would've looked and sounded like this when my fleet arrived to kick their ass back to their home world.
Imagine this scene, as part of a remastered game, that supported vr or 3d. music blaring at full blast, the light at the side, illuminating the relay and the surrounding space, and bang! the fleets arrive, jumping out at you, so close and massive as if you could reach out and touch them. I would love that
You have said it, now we need it... I NEED VR MASS EFFECT!!!
@@g1jetfireandrainbowdash798 Bruh give it like 10 more years. Vr games of that kinda scale are unlikely to happen anytime soon, but i almost certain at least something similiar will happen at some point
Well, we're getting the Legendary Edition, so this scene will be twice as awesome!
The secret to the ending: *It WAS actually made at the last moment, days before content lockdown* (aka the date from when work on the game is no longer permitted)
каво
This is it everyone. Attack at my signal....FIRE!
Copy that all fighters on me!
Selin Sevgi Terzi “Hammer, Break out!”
Roger that
As far as I care, the real ending was the moment the fleets arrived. It was the last time anything relevant happened that was the direct result of decisions you made in previous games, and left me with a pride to be human I can't describe.
If I somehow never wanted to interact with semi-benevolent alien races before that moment, there was no way I'd still feel that way afterwards.
Somehow, they managed to match, if not mirror, the moment Joker took the Normandy into that dive against Harbringer. The rest of the "ending" aside, Bioware knows how to make your hair stand on end. Like no one else.
Couldn't agree more!
That was a key moment for me too. Humans might be intriguing, ignorant dickheads sometime, but never underestimate the good ones among us. While others fought for the glory and the gain of power, we fought for the universe. The trilogy was a masterpiece (and a pretty philosophical one).
Cant agree more, this spells it out +
"On my signal, unleash hell.....Fire!"
Garrus: "We're in the Endgame now"
100% EMS : now unleash hell!
Yeah!!!
R.I.P Marauder Shield
I loved this scene. It really gave you the feel that this is the showdown, the final battle. You either gain everything or loose everything. One shall stand and one shall fall.
3 games' hard work of reconciling hostile camps culminated in this proud moment. The sighting of a pan-galactic fleet was a toast to the Commander's career, an occasion for hand-over-mouth gestures and tears of bitter joy. If Shepard had died there and then--flashbacking to the cost of her accomplishment--it would have been a life better spent than the one wasted on the anticlimactic "Catalyst."
*****
Bioware has a difficult act to juggle: While the company cannot surrender its artistic license, it also cannot disregard the demands of its customer base.
*****
Bioware may have intellectual property rights to the game, but it is the customer base that decides whether the company remains a lucrative acquisition for EA. Bioware can ill-afford to bite the hand that feeds it a second time.
Yet CryTek has had trouble. Non-payment, almost going bankrupt, there main thing now is to license their CryEngine for a free 2 play model.
So, it has cost them substantially. And considering the crap that EA releases and then the games still go well review wise (playbase often has complaints that someone we're not in the review copy of the game), it would be hard for a company to give up job security for a losing a bit of creative power over their content.
Which is why I choose the perfect destroy ending every single time....Like I'm actually going to take the catalysts word for it when it says that there can never be peace between synthetics and organics. The mere fact that my Shepard was even standing there to begin with is proof that the Catalyst can't foresee every outcome. I'm not having Shepard give in to the Catalyst's demands when I already know that Catalyst's data is flawed.
One of the most intense moments in mass effect history.
And video game history.
It’s like a whisper on the wind, finally after all this time on the horizon the remaster is nearly here.
Just a month away folks, let’s get ready to kick some ass.
Well bang ok
Listening to this track over and over again, I can feel a enormous surge of positive energy and optimism. Solving coding problems just has totally new meaning. :)
Jovan Perović I know what you mean. It's like a virtual red bull. Only difference is the input method, and the way it invokes the 'will do it, come hell or high water' aggression in our mind.
This scene, the moment the Normandy appears with this amazing, simply amazing piece of music, followed by the hundreds if not thousands of ships from the various allied galactic forces, has got to be up there with the best moments in all of TV, film and gaming media. That's no exaggeration. The first time I saw this was a moment I will never forget. Forgetting the ending, the rest of ME3 was incredible.
Honestly, everything before the final 15 minutes of ME3 was great. I really wish this particular scene had lasted longer though.
For those of you out there talking about how easy it would be for a Halo weapon to destroy a Reaper, apparently you don't realize how powerful the shields of a non-Destroyer Reaper are. The Destroyers which Shepard and his team have defeated multiple times (Tuchanka and Earth more specifically) aren't that difficult to take down. But if you want to see how much punishment a Capital Ship can take, look at the Reaper in ME2 that's floating above Klendagon and look at the planet Klendagon itself. Klendagon and that Reaper were both struck by a Mass Accelerator weapon that created a gigantic rift in the planet's southern hemisphere that's easily viewable from really far away because of it's sheer size. Yet the Reaper was even able to survive that, though heavily damaged. Just sayin'.
Floating above Mnemosyne, not Klendagon. wooopsie daisy
Besides the Halo Rings, which I'm assuming that's what you mean, aren't even designed to destroy anything like Reaper tech. They're meant to wipe out organic life.
ir0nsquire Reapers are half organic.
And they all miss the the indoctrination part ^^
Meh, Thel Vadam could scare away the Reapers with his badass voice.
Best game ever. I'm so glad to saw that magnificent trilogy in my life.
This was literally my favourite moment in the third game. Just seeing all the unified fleets together was pretty stirring stuff.
The Reapers: (chuckles) I'm in danger
This bit gave me goosebumps man
A little note to everyone saying "ME beats Halo, or 40k beats ME" Or whatever it is. Let me remind you Mass Effect takes place in the 2100's. Halo in the 2500's. And 40k in the 40,000's, so by that logic, it is physically impossible for any of the universes to intersect. Good day.
Kesslr if you thought enough about it you could merge Halo with ME but 40K is just so far away from both of them that its not at all feasible
Ben Wilson I suppose, I could see Mass Effect meeting Halo in a few hundred years. Yeah. Thank's for the input.
The Cheekiest of Scrubs but reapers beat everything. Inorganic so immune to flood and tyranids, firepower rivals any 40k warship, indoctrination easily enslaves covenant, and just the experience of waging galactic wars of genocide for millions of years (not to mention all kinds of monsters they can conjure up, we all know husks, collectors, etc, but remember the adjutunts are probably the most dangerous because they can directly convert by virus, not just dragons teeth). So against any foe, indoctrination starts a civil war with sabotage and espionage eroding the war effort, they can employ novel strategies (like a lack of defense and supply lines) throwing the enemy off balance, they convert your armies and civilians into their horde, and they can afford scorched earth tactics. So we have a war of attrition being waged potentially with one reaper raising its own army on thousands of worlds, there's no real defensive formation to hold just a general melee, and any "ace" superweapon is very likely to be sabotaged or even turned against you.
+Connor O'Brien That's simply not true, the Reapers are so immensely powerful in the ME universe because that universe doesn't use insane numbers. For 40k, even the smallest of Imperium ships outclasses every single thing a Reaper has. Their ground forces would be in many cases vaporized by the Imperial Guard, not even getting into the Space Marines. This isn't even getting into the Necrons who make Reapers seem like Tinker Toys in terms of AI complexity. They have a weapon that can instantly destroy any star in the galaxy. All of this is without the Chaos Gods and all their crazy fuckery, and let's remember that Khorne gets stronger with any act of violence, or psykers, or any of the other races who each outnumber the Reapers. Pretty much nothing touches 40k, and the entire Reaper fleet is batted aside by a small flotilla. One 40k planet has something to the tune of 300 TRILLION ships.
The Reapers are also outclassed by the Covenant in terms of firepower, though they have the numbers to swarm modern Halo. But if we get near the Forerunners, who outclass even 40k, the Reapers again ain't shit.
+Andrew Vinter The Reapers would be a bug on a windshield to the Galactic Empire.
"Oh hilarious. Commence primary ignition."
Watching the Normandy lead the charge makes me tear up. Best thing I've ever seen
finally someone did an extended version of this magnificent track . Thanks!
Getting goose bummps.....
When I first saw this scene, with the hundreds of ships of all the species I’d rallied behind me, I felt very much like what we call in my country, Billy Big-Bollocks - I was coming for a fight and I had backup. This music was PERFECT for this most epic of moments!
i was soooo hyped ! i love Mass Effect !
"We will not fall, We will prevail."
ahhhh... that moment when the victory fleet comes suging through the sol relay at full strength. gives me goose bumps everytime
goose bumps EVERY SINGLE TIME i hear this
This must be my favorite track from the entire trilogy. Excellent.
Beautiful
WOOP! THANKS :D
My favorite part of this scene is when the SR2 Normandy was heading towards the Earth followed by the entire galactic fleet a few seconds later. Shepard had come a long way from the prophetic soldier to an actual commander in chief of the milky way's galactic forces.
Exactly . Can't wait ))
Reapers: Well, we have Krogans and Turians mashed together to kill your krogan.
Shepard: Bitch, please.
AMAZING
WHY HAVEN'T YOU LISTENED TO THIS GENIUS YET?!
No problem. If there are any other tracks you would like extended feel free to let me know.
I'm not going to lie, this was the funniest thing I've read in years.
Thank you so much, honestly man :D
Why are people even comparing Mass Effect technology to Halo? Yes, Halo tech is stronger. The UNSC has nearly 400 years of scientific and technological development over the System's Alliance. It should hardly be a surprise that they are more advanced.
It is intriuging that if the Reapers decided to wait just half a millenia, or were by chance somehow delayed, their whole plan would have crumbled, isn't it?
No they dont. The humans in ME got tech from aliens that had already established a galactic civilization for 1000s of years before humans discovered it.
@@egoalter1276 I want to see the reapers against the factions in warhammer40k.. A titan vs a reaper.. Lol
@@theleoita90 40k wins all scenarios, Humanity is just OP in comparision. That said, the Reaps would get obliterated by everything else too. May be a decent solution to the Nids though.
@@g1jetfireandrainbowdash798 very likely.. Still want to see a few titans fire at the sky full of reapers
This and Charge of the Rohirrim most epic scenes in media.
This scene made me feel like a kid on Christmas day. Every. single. goddamn ship in the galaxy in one fleet for one purpose. Seeing all those ships coming through the mass relay AND THEY KEPT COMING FOR A GOOD MINUTE. I don't think there's anything that could ever top that on the epic scale for me.
It's about to go down.
Brilliant
can gives you a hug for uploading this?
Love it
I Swear i always set this theme every time when my fleets are jumpin from hpyerspace on SWEAW I Just love it!
This scene is what I wish would happen in Superhero media. Just imagine the ENTIRE DC Universe getting together and unifying in one massive army, completely standing up to Darkseid as a unified front and rejecting him as well as everything he stands for. Every single superhero, every single alien race, every single inter-dimensional being, literally everyone, finally just ganging up on him and all of his forces/allies to let him no that he is no longer respected nor obeyed. That they are no longer afraid of him.
i feel like... killing something!
Anyone hungry?
mass effect has the best soundtracks ever!!!!
Damn right.
Yes sir.
I meant the muarders/cannibals and the like, they are organic mash ups combined with some technology but still suitable to the flood.
As long as there is a whole body, a nervous system and sufficient Biomass it can be taken over.
Commander Shepard: " This bond that ties us together 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 the galaxy; every mother, every son, every un-born child. But take heart, look around you. You're not alone in this fight. We face our enemy together and together we will defeat them. "
I would have sh*t myself had someone managed a prothean squadron and they were on a ship too.
Best trilogy ever bro I fucking love these 3 games to death
The very point where I forget to breath for more than 5 minutes....
a trilogy with the quality of ME but playing an Inquisitor and his/her retitude in the 40k universe would cause such worldwide nerdgasm that it would open a fucking Eye of Terror just near us
It's even more then just that. You can tear trough a planet with a full powered MAC Airstrike.
REMASTER!!! REMASTER!!! REMASTER!!! REMASTER!!! REMASTER!!! REMASTER!!!
I wish this would play everytime I arrived at a party.
to battle my men to victory and honor !!
And Halo has the "In Amber clad" "Forward Onto Dawn" "Infinity (its bigger than a reaper)" "Midsummer Night" "Heart of Midlothian" and I could go on about all the main ships in the Halo universe.
If you read the description for the VOLUS dreadnought Kwunu. The ship could char a planet 3 times over. That's the Volus we're talking about, 800 meters to 1km long ships. Reaper Capital Ships can produce a yield 20x that of that kwunu. If reapers wanted to destroy the planets, there wouldn't be a point in harvesting would there?
actually recently they have been developing shielding and the spartans (2-4) have energy shielding which blocks both energy and kinetic. and the average covenant ship is TWICE the size of a reaper and has energy based weapons which even the reapers have no defense. The UNSC has also developed shielding for their ships which fire rounds that are the equivalent of a 100 megatons of TNT on contact BIG BOOM!
If you listen to the soldiers at the entrance to the citadel in ME2, they say that the projectiles, going as fast as they do (1.3% light speed, or roughly 8.7 million miles per hour), impact with the force of multiple nukes, which, because it is a projectile, not a bomb, all the force is concentrated at the point of impact. nukes would actually do less damage (EMPs might work though), especially because in space there is no air to carry the shockwave. :P
This song/theme as far as I'm concerned is the absolute high point of the series. The moment all you have been working towards finally come together, all fleets, races come together to start the final battle! Pitty we only saw a few seconds of the whole fight - and then 'that' ending which made it all for nothing...
I'll do it at some point. There's no need to include Vigil... Just the beginning half right?
Grand fleet of the Republic reporting !
large slugs moving at high speeds and heated materials are realy the only way to actualy do any damage
Imagine u hear uss enterprise reporting
All BC-304 and F-302 ready to engage.
Never mind all that, all Shepard needs, is the Doctor.
TY 4 CHAN
Because in ME3 when you go talk to Udina he says that the first things the reapers went for are the satellites orbiting earth and the nuclear missile silos
Battlecruiser operational!
does anyone know that track that plays at the very end when your crew land on that jungle world? thank you
The reapers have a mass effect shield... It blocks everything even energy based weapons
true that is what the they put on the front of there cannons
They (modders) should make a mod where the Normandy is a Everest class dreadnought.
Make a crossover fanfic with the Zorich universe.
European directory there has the Elzas-class battleships, and one of them might as well be called Normandy. 12 21,5" Skoda dual acceleration cannons, meters of armor plating, anti-laser shields, and it can also land on the ground, despite being 800 meters long.
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What about the music that plays when you(Sheppard) see the Citadel for the first time in ME1? For me that was also one of the defining moments of the series. I believe they call it 'The Citadel'.
"NONE CAN WITHSTAND OUR FAITH!"
- Space Marine Chaplain
its not an issues of there being no atoms to split its that there is no air to ignite or form a shock wave out of which means they have no real destructive potential.
MAKE AN EXTENDED VERSION OF ALL THE MASS EFFECT SONGS PT 1,2 AND 3
you forgot the 4th ship that broadcasts a recording of Shepard dancing, They'll either run away, melt down or fall in love.
When we are referencing a "super" MAC are we talking about when they had a UNSC ship and a covenant frigate mated together and they turned the MAC gun into a plasma cannon. Or are we talking about the orbital MAC guns like around Reach?
The flood only take over forms but I must say reapers have the advantage