Admiral Hackett's Speech & The Fleets Arrive - Mass Effect 3 Legendary Edition
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- Admiral Steven Hackett gives a speech to the species of the galaxy, before the coming battle with the reapers. This is obviously a spoiler for anyone who's never played Mass Effect.
I honestly believe Hackett's got to be the most underrated character in the franchise
I'll remember that if your opinion ever starts to be worth anything.
@@dugowt9243 Woah, we have a keyboard badass over here!
Hackett out
He always trusts Shepard’s decision and doesn’t judge them for their actions. Hackett knows Shepard will get the job done, no matter the cost or how impossible it is. You can read a Shadow Broker dossier on Hackett being asked by some Alliance official to imprison Shepard and investigate them for a few months. Hackett denies the request.
To this day it kills me that there wasn’t a Rachni fleet. It would have been the perfect pay off to sparing the Rachni queen in the first game!
Yeah, I definitely feel you on that one. A counterbalancing idea I've always held as head-canon is that the Rachni are the only reason the Crucible could be completed, especially when so many cycles and civilizations failed to construct it in time in eons past.
There is this powerful mental picture that is evoked in my mind of a Tyranid-like swarm, only bent to the sole purpose of collaborative construction, working in ways only comprehensible to a hive mind species. They were capable of taking the figurative blueprint wisps of the other races' engineering minds and were the hand that finally 'touched the face of God', if you will, in being able to just absolutely shred construction, evaluation, and improvement schedule expectations of any other race.
I love the idea, not just because of its aesthetic power, but because the legitimate rationale to get these two traditionally hostile camps - individualistic vs. hive mind races - into pregame perspectives that would legitimately give them a reason to work together, and in so doing, learn to genuinely respect one another through simply letting the proving qualities each possesses to speak for themselves. That sub-current is, to me, the stuff that makes fantasy so unbelievably powerful as a genre. Not only can alternatives and unexpected outcomes be explored freely, but often what comes out of genuinely good creative fantasy processes can't simply be termed a recombination of its constituent parts. Sure, Lord of the Rings can just sit unread as another book on the self - but any mind that reads it WILL KNOW they've just stumbled across something a crucial step above and apart. The idea of a Rachni empire with a legitimate place in the galaxy, a clear basis for respect and cooperation - it almost demands those who encounter the thought to explore further and delve into the worldbuilding of all the new experiences and possibilities that almost seem to leap into life of their own accord with such a uniquely matured blending.
Just realized I went on a massive tangent/rant - so apologies for that. Your comment rekindled a kindred feeling in me as well; I had to shape words to pour that inspiration into, haha.
@@HailThanagor It's a pretty cool idea, but I wasn't really surprised when they didn't show up. There's a fair 'in universe' reason to keep them out of the final fight, and that's their method of communication. They seem to communicate on the same frequencies that reaper indoctirination signals operate. Twice now we've seen the reapers utilize this against the galaxy by sining what the rachni call a 'sour note' that drives the rachni crazy; (i) the rachni war and (ii) the events of the third game.
Using their incredible ship making skills to finish the crucible made sense since it was built in a hidden location where they were out of reach of the reaper signal, but brining a large number of them up close to a massive reaper fleet seems like it would be tempting disaster and the allied forces of the galaxy likely thoght it wasn't worth the risk.
@@toasterroaster666 The reapers caused the rachni war?
@@sovietonion3937 It's mentioned in dialogue with the rachni queen on Noveria in ME 1. It gets repeated in ME 2 if you spare her. An Asari will meet you on Illium with a message from the queen in which she will state she knows you're hunting the ones who 'soured her mothers' song', i.e. the Reapers.
@@sovietonion3937 Yup. Sovereign/Nazara, the Reaper in ME1, is the who actually instigated it by indoctrinating the Rachni Hives and enslaved them.
"Hackett out" has to be one of the best mic drop moments in gamming. I want it on a t-shirt.
“Stand fast. Stand strong. Stand together.”
Damn it. Gets me every damn time. 😂
The way it ends with 5:50 still puts a tear in my eye. If nothing else but the fact Joker salutes Shepard showing rank but Shepard just reaches out their hand having their goodbye be as equals showing true friendship.
Wished there was an option to hug Joker, but I guess since he’s a cripple, makes sense.
Probably accidentally shattered every bone in Joker's hand...
I shook his hand because hes the one person in the galaxy i trust to keep my daughter safe.
everyone else in the galaxy gets a gun, he looks after my EDI.
Always saluted as soldier to soldier. made me cry when he stood up saluted
@@josephmort4039 possiblity yes but no else I would want at the helm.
Why the hell did I just cheer on the Destiny Ascension as it arrived through the relay? I've watched this scene a thousand times, I'm not even playing the game this time... still... goosebumps. Oh, how I adore Mass Effect.
Still miffed that some fleets just have Joker say they're reporting in, I think each fleet should've had a small voice line signaling that you truly brought the galaxy together.
There are mods that fix it
@@thomasjones3206 what mods
@@joooks2254 for og me3 is "Priority Earth overall mod" or PEOM. And for legendary edition is "Take Earth Back".
@@joooks2254 for og me3 is priority earth overhaul mod and for legendary edition me3 is taken earth back mod
One of the greatest moments in Science Fiction history. It is the true culmination of everything we have fought for. Regardless of our choice with how to use the Crucible, all the species united as one is far more meaningful than any other achievement in history.
Mass Effect is without a doubt the best game series I have ever played.
Indeed, even ME:Andromeda was great.
you haven't played many games then their are plenty of games better then Mass Effect if you take the time and look.
@@Warhorse469 And yet you haven't named a single one.
Best Trilogy ever made, i still have it in my heart after all these years, the Normandy Crew was, is and will always be like a Second family to return to.
Dino Crysis...
Arrival of the Destiny ascension is the best! Saving the council is paying off :-) I was so proud when I´d first play it, still I have goosebumps till today
You actually have more assets (Earth fleet) if you let it die.
@@keysersoze3427 I know, but how it arrives to the final battle feels better :-) it is one of the best games moments for me
@Nerevarine Badass Asari who kept all those secrets about the reapers on Thessia?
@@keysersoze3427 Well to be fair only the highest levels of the Asari government like Matriarch Benezia knew about the secrets, not even Liara knew and she's supposed to be the one ontop of secrets.
@@keysersoze3427 Only the top council knew the truth. Hell even the Shadow Broker didn't know. Much like only the top salarian officials probably knew of the "Sabotage the Genophage Cure" plan. Kirrahe basically says f##k them and sends the STG, so it is a fair bet most Asari wouldn't be happy to know that the Matriach Council kept omnicidal super robots a secret from them.
I clapped so hard when the fleets arrived. Probably the only time I have clapped at a cutscene.
Shepard has the whole galaxy at his command. They aren't there for Hackett, they are there because a legend called them for help.
He's the one who's telling the admirals to engage. The admirals obey him. That's how much he matters to them. This one man.
isnt Hacket a legend himself? He lead the Arcturus fleet in the destruction of sovereign. From the invasion of the reapers to this moment probably took months, he managed to keep hit and run warfare against an enemy who completly eclipses his forces both technologicaly and in numbers, without major losses acording to your war assets, and managed to both build and keep safe the superweapon that could finish the war.
@@AnonimatosTM absolutely. I totally agree with you. He's the Admiral of the Admirals. And always he has the back of the shepherd. He is honest and not corrupted. He's a perfect military man.
@@AnonimatosTM Only if you read stuff like a nerd! (I do that, you are doing a good job too)
I wish they would have showed the Krogan fleet arriving as well. Was waiting for that. But this is such a perfect scene, overall.
Watching all those ships come through the relay still makes my eyes sting!
It actually occurs to me now that nobody had ever seen that many ships together before in either a game or even a movie.
I wonder if anyone's made a top 10 largest fictional fleets list.
@@warbacca1017 There’s a good chance that if you compiled a list of fleets from sci-fi this one wouldn’t come close to being the biggest (despite referenced numbers such as 50,000 Quarian ships) but to have so many force their way onto your tv screen at the same time is so rare, and so fucking amazing! 🤣
@@xenosmoke8915 the largest i know are the fleet the flood had on the forerrunner-flood war: 4.360.000+
And the tyranid fleet from WH40K
@@lucaspintospintos423 the daleks in doctor who sent the largest dalek fleet ever assembled at 10 million dalek saucer ships including the dalek emperor's flagship however the war doctor said there was a billion billion daleks attacking(could be n exaggeration) and there's at least 2000 per ship
Which means there could have been 500,000,000,000,000 dalek saucerships instead however perhaps the daleks sent more when they realised the doctor was on galifrey which explains the difference
@@lucaspintospintos423 I think he was refering to being SEEN yeah the Flood have 4.3 million ships....in what cutscene? Tyranid hive fleets are huge....in what scene? Every available warship in the Milky Way surged through the Relays and we saw them....on screen. more ships than the Rebels attack on the Death Star 2. more ships than Vader's Fleet at said Death Star. Might be more ships than Lando's Arrival at Exegol. not theorised on paper numbers.....ON SCREEN.
The ME equivalent of;
Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden!
spear shall be shaken, shield shall be splintered,
a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!
Ride now, ride now, ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending!
Death! Death! Death!
Forth Eorlingas!
Reminds me more of Independence Day.
"In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be joining the largest aerial battle in history...
We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests...
...and you will once again be fighting for our freedom, not from tyranny, or oppression, or persecution, but from annihilation. We're fighting for our right to live, to exist"
@@dxwmurdock That too
"My Soldiers, Rage! My Soldiers, Scream! My Soldiers, Fight!"
“The courageous fallen! The anguished fallen! Their lives have meaning because we the living refuse to forget them! And as we ride to certain death, we trust our successors to do the same for us!”
not even lyin'. played ride of the rohirrim at the end run.
sweetheart, if you need someone shot, call a turian, if you need someone talk to death call an asari, if you need another problem call a salarian, if you need a problem fix call a human...
If not for me you’d all be Reaper chow right now!
If you need someone getting torn apart, call a krogan.
2:22 it reminds me of in ME1 when sovereign and the geth went through the relay to the citadel, truly ironic yet satisfying
I suspect that was intentional, but it works, nonetheless.
After all this time, I still get goosebumps.
I never understood why Admiral Hackett would board a friendly ship with two guards with sidearms in hand. I get that its a time of war and he might have armed guards, but not waving their guns around a friendly ship's CIC.
Same. Those guards just casually waving their sidearms around instead of having them stowed at their hips was what bothered me during the original ME3 and it's unfortunate to see that even in the Legendary edition the devs didn't bother to change that. Then again, the Legendary edition was not much more than a visual overhaul with some modifications so that it would run better on Win10 and stuff I guess. I didn't even read the title of the video and thought I was just seeing the original fleet battle with some graphic enhancement mods as Joker's face still looked rather low-res to me. 😜
To be fair it has been boarded once with the collectors and nearly stolen by their clone
Never know if it could be a trap. After the collectors board it and reapers indoctrinating people you never know. There is even a crazy Krogan on board. The president of the US always has bodyguards watching him.
@@AutomaticSnake Yeah but they don't carry their guns in their hands. They have them in body holsters.
I mean. If my enemy had the power of indoctrination I would take my body guards everywhere too plus cerberus and all their sleeper agents. Cant be too careful when your the leader of the Remnants of the Human military
Hackett is the fucking GOAT of speeches. I would follow this fictional man into hell itself just off this one speech alone.
captain cutter rivals him
Lance Henriksen is a great voice actor, he's that good he can make you love him as a character as we see here, or hate him... (General Shepard, MW2 2009)
2:15 When the goosebumps kicks in
5:59
5:00 big roller-coaster ride there. the fact that a dreadnought got in that tight with a reaper, and the main gun was able to dismember it. imagine the terror, and also elation every soul aboard that ship felt firing those MA rounds. there IS a weapon that CAN physically destroy a reaper.
tragically, just after the peak of their glory, the reaper recovers and extinguishes everyone on board in an instant. great scene. it displays the might of both sides, and also how close yet so far the possibility of killing these things are.
"What had been our strength, our empire, became a liability. All races comforted to one doctrine, one strategy. The Reapers exploited this. Once they found our weaknesses, we could not adapt. The subservient races became divided and confused. Then, it was only a matter of time."
"I'm happy to say our cycle is different. Most races cooperate but they still remain unique."
"Then it may be your only hope."
I am such a sucker for thing like this. Like in Avengers Endgame and in Lord of the Rings. Theres nothing like the cavalry arriving to reduce me to tears.
Same here
LotR, yes. But Avengers? Come on.
Harbinger "We moved Citadel to Earth, organics are doomed. They will run like vermin they are until they all eventually go extinct. They have no hope to win. It is over!"
Combined galactic fleet after entering Sol system "Challenge accepted!"
I think was biggest FU moment in any tv and game series.
This battle is literally shooting pratice for Reapers
Canonically even if Shepard brings all the fleet power available in the galaxy the combined fleet loses to the Reapers during the battle of Earth without the crucible. So Harbinger is right. And the Reaper fleet at Earth is supposedly still smaller than the fleet at Palaven so the very best the fleet could hope for in a conventional battle would be a pyrrhic victory as they'd be sacrificing all other frontlines and planets and just hasten the Reaper's overall victory in war.
Remember , this battle is just between entire galactic fleet vs a single Reaper battlegroup
Well not really it was most the reapers as it is stated they converged on sol but yes that’s not all the reapers
Most reapers converged on earth (well, started to go to earth)
So we can assume there are more than 1200 reapers at least
It was a single reaper battle group earth was holding out against prior to the attack on Cerberus.
After Cerberus’s destruction nearly every reaper went to earth to stop the crucible because the illusive man compromised it by telling them.
That's just what reapers could be spared from the galactic fronts. But remember. The first barrage was their attempt at gaining an early advantage. In a battle of attrition. The longer the fight goes, the more likely it becomes that the United fleets will begin to wain or weaken. Harbinger and several soverign class reapers were heading back into the fray by the time the casualties became equal on both sides. They needed the crucible to work. In the rejection ending, the fact it didn't meant harbinger and his earthbound reinforcements could obliterate the surviving fleets.
Every time the fleets come through ready to fight together gets me every time
I so wish we got to see more of that battle
There are many different scenes depending on which factions you bring/ don't bring. There are some videos which have edited all of those scenes together for an extended battle.
The fact that the frequent Saviour of the Galaxy never got promoted past Commander just astounds me.
Politics never changes, and half the time Shep's a woman so...
@@josephmort4039 Oh, so that's where this is going.
@@drakainequus7115 You're also a Specter. You outrank everyone.
@@josephmort4039 but isn't shepard canonically male?
I mean they used an actual male model for mshep while they only used generic faces for femshep, i think it's obvious which one is canon and which one is not?
Shepard's better off fighting on the ground than behind a war map imo.
As I rewatch this I wish there was some secret ending if you completely filled the War Asset bar and you could defeat all of the reapers with the galaxy standing together as one
I mean it is a war you’re gonna have to make sacrifices I replayed recently and they actually mention and foreshadow that a lot throughout the game.
You get a cutscene after the destroy ending showing shepard still breathing
@@jimmycombs8159 But we still used the crucible and that's only if we grab the destroy ending, I'm talking about a way where we had so much firepower there was no need for the crucible and we would just focus on one reaper at a time to decimate them
@@FrozenChampion32 that would defeat the purpose of the entire story though. The reapers are meant to be unbeatable, United galaxy or no. The reaper ships are ten times as strong as any other, and they outnumber you a thousand to one.
If the galaxy was capable of beating them in a conventional war, it wouldn't be a desperate struggle against annihilation.
@@BorderLanderr maybe.. but if more fleets had the Thanix cannon it would’ve turned the tide.. enough to get the crucible set and enough to get Shepard and his or her squad through the beam.
I know that it isn't a part of the space battle, but I still liked hearing that the Sixth Street Reds were opening up their caches of weapons to the remaining humans on Earth. Like I've never once seen it mentioned anywhere, not even on the wiki. But I know for certain I heard about it over the news in game (I've always played Earthborn Shep).
I was always baffled by the fact that the whole fleet started shooting with mass accelerator weapons when there was a planet behind the enemy. I remember the small dialoge on the Citadel when the sarge scolded the cadets about Sir Isac Newton. And yet, here we are , ruining someones day.
If they win, there's still an Earth to rebuild and the people to do so. If they lose, everyone dies anyways so why does it matter? Plus, Earth in its entirety was a warzone at that point, so there wasn't much left to accidentally get hit aside from the ruins of cities that would have needed to be rebuilt anyways.
@@ergonamix9977 wasnt much to hit accidenally? How about Anderson and the resistance? :D nvm. minor inconvenience.
To be fair, they don't have to be careful as this mission was do or die because everyone committed 100% of their forces.
For a planet like earth the projectiles would just burn up in the atmosphere. The real risk is when there's a colony on a planet that hasn't been terraformed or a space station in orbit
@@emelyn7145 well rannoch as far as I'm aware had an atmosphere similar to earth and the quarian fleet bombarded the fuck out of the reaper base with mass driver weapons.
Honestly the whole game is full of weird plot holes when it comes to consistency. Like this whole fleet coming through the relay all at once (like within seconds) isnt consistent with the games codex, which says that fleets over a certain size need to be broken up otherwise ships can drift off even lightyears from their intended mass relay target.
Also because the reapers have been shown being able to manipulate relays with IFF tech (like the omega 4) theirs no reason why they wouldnt just shut down access to the sol relay (ignoring the rest of the galaxy)
The quarian fleets always get overlooked in analysis, they only have 3 liveships and they sent two to earth along with their heavy fleet and patrol fleet leaving a token force to guard rannoch
Tali probably gave them Thanix canon tech, and they needed to throw the kitchen sink at the Reapers here. It was all or nothing
When they finally cross the relay ...all those ships following shepard. That was awesome. Amazing song too
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.
Sacrifice of Angels DS9!
@@Rendell001 I was wondering why I heard that in Colm Meaney's voice!
"Uh Chief? How does that poem end?"
DUDE, THIS AIN'T THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE........!!
Imagine how well this would be in a live action series. The beginning of the grand finale as the fleets Shepard gathered for the whole season finally comes together. And not like in that other movie where one episode before they said nobody cares, and nobody comes, then suddenly a gigantic armada just appears for the rescue.
Nowadays, they would ruin it through "creative adaptation".
@@ErelasInglor It is hard to adapt a video game, because the combat, and dialogues are in a very different balance. Seeing Shepard moving around, and shooting for 10 hours would be boring. But in case of ME they have no real reason to change stuff for "diversity" as in most other stuff. There is a lot of diversity by default.
Though considering the amount of CGI it would be i think animated movie would be better for it.
@@akuladoctor7355 You’d be surprised then, some of the most diverse stories have suffered at the hands of producers of late. I’m sure this too would suffer terribly. If this was done with the technology of today 20 or even 30 years ago it would stand a chance.
there is a mass effect series incoming!
@@EinDragees you seen what they did with the halo show? i am not excited for a mass effect show at all
5:00 Reaper ship destroyed
Reaper Ship: You wish
"Destroyed" Reaper ship obliterates an Alliance Ship.
What ever team of peeps wrote and made this cutscene better have gotten a raise
The attacking fleet is at a huge disadvantage, ever missed shot from a capital ship is going to slam into Earth.
Then again, imagine all the free space debris
*Earth's atmosphere
We take hits from tiny asteroids constantly and nothing happens cause they just burn up. They'd have to fire something pretty substantial for it to reach the ground and I'd assume they check their targets for those kind of shots
Let's face it, their attack vector was way off. They could have easily avoided the planet being behind their target. Space is vast AND 3-dimensional. The same applies to the fleet - all ships are well aligned (meaning all are similarly "up"). Makes little sense as there is no up and down in space... but I get it. It looks more orderly and having the earth behind the enemy and not just black space drives the threat home just so much more intensely.
@@thegreatxcelerator4224 Yeah thats something I considered, the Sol relay is in orbit of Charon, the moon of Pluto. They had the entire distance from Pluto to Earth to change their vector to come at the Reapers from above, below, to the left or the right keeping Earth out of their line of fire. In fact they could have split their force to come at them from multiple angles and get them in a cross fire. Though it's debatable how effective flanking Reapers is given their awesome kinetic barriers.
Gunnery Chief: I dare to assume you ignorant jackasses know that space is empty. Once you fire a husk of metal, it keeps going until it hits something. That can be a ship, or the planet behind that ship. It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years. If you pull the trigger on this, you're ruining someone's day somewhere and sometime. That is why you check your damn targets! That is why you wait for the computer to give you a damn firing solution! That is why, Serviceman Chung, we do not "eyeball it!" This is a weapon of mass destruction. You are not a cowboy shooting from the hip.
I hope to live to see such a day of unity and comradery.
To this day, this in the most epic moment of any video game I've played
me too, this and the final ride of Arthur Morgan from RDR2
Al i needed to hear was "Rouge sqaudron reporing in"
I will never not tear up at this
2:15 When millions of gamer boners popped out. Dat feel of military armada coming in, the anticipation of greatest space battle Milky Way ever seen, the unity and alliances you've been fostering for 3 games... There's reason military and space goes hard when hand in hand. Damn!
I need to lie down guys and watch it couple dozens more times👌😩
What synthetic Reapers failed to realise is that organics, with their backs against a wall and facing imminent destruction, will fight even if it's futile because alternative is death and organics have a strong aversion to it and that's something AI doesn't understand
while playing me3 and for a week after it i kept thinking to myself if the god damn council heeded my warnings and the galaxy was united and spent the next 2 years building fleets fortifying planets and colonies as well as abandoning the pointless ones and when the reapers finally did arrive we’d have have a fleet with 11 ships to their one (200 minimum) (18,000 reaper capital ships) if only they listened the refuse scene at the end of the game wouldn’t be a future civilisation thanking the previous cycle for the warning but instead the galaxy rejoicing have defeated the reapers once and for all.
also the leviathans not hiding and instead fighting like the apex species they claimed to be
What would've been amazing.
*in the middle of the fight, Shepard is on earth already*
Joker: Shepard, there's something else coming through the relay. *dozens of leviathans come through*
Unexpected support coming right in time. That would give some serious goosebump. And would have been awesome
You really think leviathans would leave peacefully after getting rid of reapers. They would enslave all other species right after reapers are gone :D
@@ijazkhan3335 well i guess we'll see when ME4 comes out
@@enomisv9830 yep.. can't wait
This speech always gives me the same feels when I watch either the Independence Day speech or the Optimus Prime speech "We Take the Battle to them".
Even the geth are like : This guy is pretty cool.
This battle was WAY WAY MILES BETTER THAN A. STAR WARS OR STAR TREK BATTLE!!!!
Well , as star wars fan I need to agreed . This is hell of a battle
Keep telling yourself that.
@@zico739 Sorry but Sacrifice of the angels is less epic than this .
You should watch the Expanse. This is still amazing but the Expanse takes space battles to a whole new level.
@@chaff5 Saw , and you rigth .
"Are you ready to bring the might of the galaxy to bear on the reapers?"
"sir isaac newton was the deadliest son of a in space" - so check your targetting solution before you pull the trigger yada yada bad day yada.
It still bugs me that the reapers were between the fleet and earth. And they missed. A lot.
Admiral Hackett is the spiritual heir to Admiral Petrarch of the GTD Aquaitane from Freespace 2. Same charisma, leadership, tactical mind. Simply chilling!
Freespace 2....now that's a game I haven't heard in a long time....a long time....
@@navybuddy1047 For almost 2 generations, Freespace 2 has been the shining exemplar of space and flight simulations...
That game was 10 years before its time. I still play it now - 20 years later. I was fortunate enough to have the rather rare DVD version of the game rather than the 3 CD version :-D I don't think any other game can come anywhere close to how truly awesome FS2 was in terms of story and play.
I Wish they made a 3rd - showing how GTVA eventually developed advanced tech and went on the offensive against the Shivans - finding out some grand, cosmic truth about them.....
@@taffy881 Damn straight. I fear though that we will never get FS3 unfortunately. 😞
@@novemberzed9163 I agree. Some of the community based stuff is good if you use the FS2 Open source stuff. One of the mods I really enjoyed was the shivans fighting the Ancients where you got to see some of the Ancients ships although it wouldn't be canon. A proper FS3 would be AMAZING - if anyone would do something like then in crowd funding, I'd be more than happy to donate to that
Since the reapers built the mass relays, think they had a moment of confusion when the Sol relay suddenly started accepting hundreds of ships?
Things like this are why Indoctrination Theory only makes sense. The Crucible is a Reaper Honeypot meant to divert resources.
@@ArcaneAnouki yep. I didnt want to believe it very long but the evidence is just too huge..
@@commandershepard2490 ready to go down the rabbit hole?
Why is Cerberus called Cerberus? They don't really guard anything, and other than Shepard, and the Husks, they aren't really associated with the limens of life and death.
My theory is that Cerberus has three "heads". Jack Harper is one of course, Miranda's father or someone like him is another. But who is the third?
My prime suspect is Admiral Hackett ;)
@@ArcaneAnouki I always thought that, since their mission is to “guard” humanity and the sol relay is actually Pluto’s satellite Charon, it made sense for them to name themselves Cerberus. But that three head theory of yours is NICE! Wish it was in the game!
@@irenedietrich7474 I hadn't considered the mythical connection, thanks for the perspective!
“Five years ago I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye and the world just fuckin watched”
Joker... Got out his seat, just to show how much what Shepard is doing means to him not only as a soldier, but as a human being.
God, I love Lance Henriksen’s voice…
Five years ago I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye and the world just fuckin watched.
when i first go this scene years back i felt so proud and so happy and epic, this trilogy was just amazing
Are you ready to bring the might of the galaxy on the Reapers?
Try again
Gunnery Chief in ME2: “Each of these shells impacts with the force of a Hiroshima bomb. That means Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son of a bitch in space”
Earth in background, looking at all of the hits missing the reapers: “Heh. I’m in danger”
It's never not going to be crazy that at the time of this game humanity had only been a part of the Council civilization for 38 years. Talk about kicking in the galaxy's front door, and making yourself at home lol.
I wish they made it, If you had max war assets, then you can just about pull of a conventional victory.
Have a few Reapers get destroyed in the opening volley of fire and slowly destroyed within the final mission.
While the arrival of the fleets is so damn badass am still annoyed we don't see the Geth and Quarian fleet together, also aside from the Destiny Ascension I don't see any of the Asari fleet.
Fuck, even when Hackett only started talking I got goosebumps. You know it's gonna be epic after that
With all assets and fleets it totals about 8200.
Those Battlestar Galactica space shots are the best.
Watching Alien vs Predator and the man in charge started talking and I knew his voice sounded familiar. Turns out it was the voice actor for Hacket, had to come here and watch him once again
"Sir you were muted"
Am i the only one who gets annoyed by the two marines who escort Hackett onto the Normandy? They just walk in with their pistols in their hands swinging them about casually. I don't think a stern and professional figure like Hackett would tolerate that. I feel the scene would have looked better if either their pistols were holstered on their hips, or if they were carrying assault rifles in a proper two haned grip.
I've thought this every time I see this scene.
Especially since they were boarding the Normandy of all ships. Who the fuck do they think they are lol? I guess the lore-friendly reason si because incase ANYONE on the Normandy was indoctrinated.
Lmao just noticed this, and like super loose grips on their pistols like what if they accidentally fired on the ship hahah
Honestly I wasnt surprised. All three games throw military doctrine out the window at the most random times.
Could be worried that close contact with the reapers in the past may have indoctrinated a sleep agent in the crew. Can't be too careful with your king piece.
When the Normandy breaks off and the space battle looks like a totally disorganized nightmare. Sheesh.
there are some scenes of mass effect trilogy that make me cry no matter how many times I've watched. That is one of them. He'll yeah that a fucking great masterpiece. I wonder how didn't anyone turns that into a TV series or movie
Now that I'm older the ending wasn't that bad its was a great story great adventure
On my command! FIRE! pewpewpew.
Still kicking ass :)
All the fleets deserved to be mentioned... I want to see Elcor, Volus, Terminus, Hanar fleet reporting. That would add soooo much to the epicness of the moment.
The greatest "oh shit" moment of all times when the fleet arrives
mass effect
humans...
we all can be greath we just need to remember we are all humans
the FLEET arrives.
Me: They never stood a chance.
Someone: The Reapers?
Me: No, the Citadel Alliance.
Space is like. . . big yo. You don't have to crowd in like that.
Pay respects to that corvette in the lower left corner of the screen at 4:59. It knew it was going to die, and took out two reaper turrets before it got hit. Thats heroism.
I love how the admiral could have done that speech from his own ship. But no he chose to do on the Normandy solidifying the Normandy as the tip of the spear
Shepherd should have been given a field promotion to Colonel or Brigadier General in ME3. A chunk of the Alliance brass was killed in the first 5 minutes so I know they had room to promote Shepherd and he/she for damn sure deserved a higher rank.
True, but at the same time, it would be superfluous, Shepard is already a Specter, their previous rank was a formality, and entirely redundant once they had the title of Specter
No one can do an ending like this never ever 😎🍻🍻🍻🍻
I love seeing all the different kinds of star fighters all in different formations according to type.
Anyone else weirded out by the guards accompanying the admiral with their guns out in the beginning? Every time I see it, it gives the impression that they're there to arrest Shepherd.
Unmatched by anything before or since.
Friendly fire : Am I joke to you?!
The ending of the Mass Effect Trilogy was a travesty! I played the first two games at least 3 times, bought all the DLC, read every codex and did everything that you could possibly do. I was invested to say the least. It was my favorite game. I beat it at three in the morning after ten plus hours of straight game play. I screamed at the tv and threw my controller against the wall smashing it to pieces. I’ve played video games my entire life. Im 40 years old. I quit that day and didn’t pick up another game for 5 plus years.
1:59
I said it on another video but the strings in the music here are EXACTLY the same as the music in Babylon 5 when the fleet returns to Earth to liberate it from President Clark. Sheridan gives a similar banger of a speech "We have come home!" and then its an all out battle between the fleet and the global defence net.
The alignment between jump gates in B5 and mass relays in ME, the shadows in B5 and the Reapers in ME and the whole "galactic space opera" is so strong someone in BioWare was absolutely a fan.
I IMPLORE any scifi fan who hasnt seen Babylon 5 PLEASE watch it. Completely planned from the start so its full of call forwards you only understand later, space battles that were the absolute peak of their time (only bettered by The Expanse) and characters who are are indepth and nuanced as you can want. Particularly Kosh. Cryptic as fuck but has some one liners up there with Sovereign.
Thats a lot of firepower
This scene hits a lot harder when there's the ME2 Suicide Mission song in the background.
I would give anything to see the Destiny Ascension taking down a Reaper on that battle. Sadly, that's a dream that is going to be unfulfilled :(
Who here playing this again after Remastered and still shedding manly tears after "There's no Shepard without Vakarian".
This truly was the war to end all wars.
Hmm, in my playthrough Joker said "Be careful down there" and there was no handshake, just salutes from both. I think the handshake is a lot a better. What do you need to do to make them handshake?
6:02 Those puppy eyes thou
It means Joker doesn't like you
You have to interact with joker multiple yikes yo get all of his unique encounters throughout the game(s).
Man, I would shit myself on Earth that an armada is fighting above and if they miss they will hit the surface .
The only complaint I have is the change in the camera as the fleet arrives. I wish they'd brought Destiny Ascension in closer to the camera but not changed its location so your seeing the fleet arrive and all the sudden the massive warship just takes up most of the screen.
I always wondered how different this fight would have been if Humanity still used nukes and didn’t go the way of kinetic weapons etc.
If I recall, part of the reason civilisation has such a hard time against the reapers is because they go down the route of technology they want them to. So they are more resilient to kinect weapons I imagine.
man,, how many of those rounds miss the Reaper and hit the planet
I dare you to find me a wiki entry on anything you see come out of that mass relay
no one called "ADMIRAL ON DECK" immersion broken