When I had that cutscene for the first time, I had no idea Mordin would sacrifice himself. Never even considered the notion. I was so caught up in curing the genophage, and then Mordin said the whole "won't be back" thing, and how he'd like to have tested those seashells... Closest thing I've come to bawling from these games
@@Heliox4 Three years late but: "Legion knows... but thanks you." Between that and, "my project. My work. My cure. My responsibility," both _stunning_ pieces of writing in their thematic power, emotionality and their ability to cap off _heavy,_ complex character/plot arcs... perfectly.
Honestly, the ME trilogy, is one of the better stories and hero journeys around, if you play pure paragon, its really sad, a man who did all he could to save as many as he can, couldnt save all of his friends in the end, nor could he save himself, tho he did save the galaxy. His sacrifice, his final sacrifice, managed to end the cycle, tho the cost was great, the reward was a free galaxy with no existential threat.
@@Zeitgeist2000 Yeah, I could never play anything but Paragon, the game made it feel so good helping people. I remember being so shocked when I actually talked Saren out of being a Reaper thrall at the end of 1. I think the mechanic of just choosing your ending was lame, but I have nothing but love in my heart for the ME trilogy as a whole. Either ME2 or Diablo 2 are the best game of all time.
If they ever did they’d definitely try to make all the wrong choices to be more edgy and interesting not realizing they’ve written themselves into a hole they can’t climb out of.
@@jeramiejoseph6745 The Last of Us was a pretty good game to TV adaptation. It doesn't always end in failure. That said... this is EA we're talking about so I do think they'd fuck it up LOL
I played 2 and 3 back to back. I was partial to Mordin in 2, did everything I could with him, laughed at his Scientist Salarian song and dance. Then I played 3. I got to this mission. And when he started singing, my heart shattered. And when it was cut short, it fractured even further. I didn't make it far past this point in 3. It hurt too much.
3 is not an easy game to enjoy if you played the other 2. At the end of the day, it's a Pyrrhic Victory. A lot of people died to make things right, both against the reapers and against each other.
I remember the first time I played through this part, I was sure they were going to find a way to swoop in and save him at the last moment. So sure. Then they don't....Gutted....I'm sat there stunned, a 40 something father of two, with tears swelling in my eyes. Then the music from the original ME starts playing and forever links that tune with Mordins death in my mind. Thanks for that Bioware. You know what though Mordin? You're not wrong, you're not fucking wrong.
Mass Effect truly is one of the greatest works of our time, and not just in videogames but in art and culture as a whole. And people can bitch and moan about the endings 'till tomorrow, doesn't change the fact that ME3 is for the most a fantastic story with many deep moments like this that can bring tears to one's eyes.
I am the very model of a scientist salarian I've studied species turian asari and batarian my xenoscience studies range from urban to agrarian I am the very model of a scientist salarian
This was the one death in the entire series that somehow caught me completely off guard. I'd never even considered it before the last minute or so, despite how thematically appropriate it is.
My family didn't understand why I cried about the death of a fictional character, but Mordin is far more than that, is the very model of a scientist salarian. And one of the best character I've ever met
Everything about this scene is perfect Mordin trying to keep himself calm with those breaths him singing to himself as focusing mechanism then when it's finally done he smiles while also looking like he's at the verge of tears.
Well, is even sadder If you can't mediate between the geth and the quarians, and you choose the qeth, then legion die and Tali suicides. I'll just say that I had to redo all me3 to mediate
I'm 28 years old and cried infront of my wife, telling her this isn't the first time I cried over this, probably wouldn't be the last time too. Rest in peace Mordin.
@@gastonxd3315 okay, you probably will never find love and die alone with your right hand wrapped around your business lol. Life probably was never good for you and will probably never get better. Try calling a helpline before you kick your own bucket.
When I first got Mordin in me2, I wasn’t sure about him..he was a good enough companion to fight with, but as he kept talking and revealing his background..I learned to love the guy..I got a respect for him
The mass effect series is one of the most perfect reasons why videogames are art mass effect three in particular was just a crying shit show all the sacrifices made me tear up like I was a baby
Yeah, you can't tell them that Mordin did it, it can't be that the krogan are still like that, I couldn't believe it, it felt like the sacrifice of Mordin was for nothing 😭
Mordin Solus, possibly the last video game character I genuinely cared about and actually shed a tear for when he sacrificed himself. We don't get story telling and characters like this anymore in modern day gaming and it's such a shame.
The first time this happened I was like "I MADE A MISTAKE" went back and.....faked the cure to the genophage. I regret lying to the krogan it was a selfish choice to save mordin but I couldn't handle it. It was probably what i consider my most renegade choice and I typically play paragon.
Yeah right? I forget about DA:O but that game was really good! Last game of an era IMO. Capstone to the old isometrics. Glad that type of game is making a slow return.
@@imacatman8775 At least it seems that Larian is becoming the "new BioWare", if you look at games like Divinity: Original Sin 2, and the upcoming Baldur's Gate sequel in particular. They've got that old-school BioWare style, somehow. At least I get that impression from them. And they're only getting bigger and better, Larian.
Nowadays, i dont count the ME series as one of my favorites. However, even though its not one of the series thats grabbed hold of my sould, i dtill think about this scene every once in a while. The saddness and fear in mordins voice, the history i have with him, his endless pragmatism mixed with the empthy he feels deep in his heart. Mordin is such s good character. Just pixels on a screne destined to fade, but something about him makes me want to hug him so, so bad. Maybe its the contradictions - this is a man dictated by logic and reason, whose devoted to science and mathematics; yet this is a boy thats trying to do whats right even though he knows just how wrong it is. Mordin is a monster and a saint alll at the same time. Genocidal psychopath and yet loving father figure all at once - cant stop moving forward and just wants to lie down and pass. I think hes so good and heatwrentching because of that contradiction. He FEELS like a game deva actual parent - full of love and optimism when they were young, self assured, and as they got older they started seeing all the cracks in the armor. This is someone thats barely put together - they desperately need someone to tell them itll be ok, and they need that to be true
I like that when he realizes it has to be him and he wont be coming back, he takes a minute to steady himself, accept what must be done. And then, after processing his whole life, he says his one and only regret. He would have really like to run tests on those seashells
I have never understood why the tower was exploding the reaper didn’t even hit it in any previous cutscenes was it just overloaded by the reaper poisoning the air
nope all ai's gone including edi, infact if you look at the memorial wall in that ending edi is already on there, personally after all id done to save the geth and quarians and finding out how much the geth were helping I couldn't do the kill option because the collateral was too high a price
I know but the mission is to finish the reapers. I'm honoring their sacrifice by doing exactly that. The geth and EDI knew full well of what Shepard gonna do. If not for the Starchild, there won't even be an option to do another thing. So even if that would mean the end for the geth and EDI, they'd end knowing they had finished the mission succesfully.
Both control and synthesis ending renders the sacrifices useless. Think about it, in synthesis everyone would be "forced" to live peacefully and the world becomes a better place? Yeah, doesn't sound like paradise to me, more like a gilded cage. Control is basically utilizing the reapers under the pretense that this million years old intellgent machine doesn't take over the mortal mind of a human that is commander shepard. Which sounds shady as hell. And these two ending means that brokering peace between species wouldn't need to last long at all. Because on the one hand everyone was kind of influenced to be at peace and on the other hand, there are tons of reapers ready to strike at those who tried to break that peace. All in all, we're here to destroy the reapers. The geth and EDI knows that, the turians and the krogan knows that, the salarians and the asaris knows that, the humans and the prothean expected that.
It's been 6 years since they released this game and this quote still bugs me. Mordin said it first in Mass Effect 2 and it was: "Had to be me, others might have gotten it wrong". Not "someone else", he first said "others" (also he had a different actor doing his voice, a better actor).
3’s actor was better. Go watch the version of this scene where Shepard tries to stop Mordin and they yell at each other. That “I made a mistake!” Is some of the best voice work in the entire series
This scene was a gut punch to me. I didn't actually cry. I just sat there with the controller in my hand, numb. I set the controller down after a while and just tried to process it. Losing Mordin almost felt like losing a friend, and actual living breathing friend. I need a moment.
"My project. My work. My cure. My responsibility." Words of a true doctor.
inhale
"Would have liked to run tests on the seashells."
Those words make you know he truly thought what he did was wrong and he was trying to rectify his wrongs
You have forgotten "My mistake". This arch is probably one of the greatest in the trilogy
A model of a scientist salarian
When I had that cutscene for the first time, I had no idea Mordin would sacrifice himself. Never even considered the notion. I was so caught up in curing the genophage, and then Mordin said the whole "won't be back" thing, and how he'd like to have tested those seashells... Closest thing I've come to bawling from these games
"Creator Zora, does this unit... have... a... souuu...?"
@@malchir4036 the answer is yes, Legion
Still makes me cry...
Took the words from my mouth 😭😭😭😭
@@Heliox4 Three years late but: "Legion knows... but thanks you."
Between that and, "my project. My work. My cure. My responsibility," both _stunning_ pieces of writing in their thematic power, emotionality and their ability to cap off _heavy,_ complex character/plot arcs... perfectly.
When somebody reminds you about ME3s ending, remind them about the journey.
Honestly, the ME trilogy, is one of the better stories and hero journeys around, if you play pure paragon, its really sad, a man who did all he could to save as many as he can, couldnt save all of his friends in the end, nor could he save himself, tho he did save the galaxy. His sacrifice, his final sacrifice, managed to end the cycle, tho the cost was great, the reward was a free galaxy with no existential threat.
@@Zeitgeist2000 Yeah, I could never play anything but Paragon, the game made it feel so good helping people. I remember being so shocked when I actually talked Saren out of being a Reaper thrall at the end of 1. I think the mechanic of just choosing your ending was lame, but I have nothing but love in my heart for the ME trilogy as a whole. Either ME2 or Diablo 2 are the best game of all time.
Life is a journey, not a destination
The journey to the toilet.
Whatever issues me3 had...
The end of the road was heart breaking. One of the greatest moments in video game
He was the very model of a scientist salarian.
He always was
They couldn't let him finish the verse 😭😭😭😭😭😭
If they ever make a Mass Effect series, this is how this scene should play out. No other ending to Mordin’s story is acceptable.
If they ever did they’d definitely try to make all the wrong choices to be more edgy and interesting not realizing they’ve written themselves into a hole they can’t climb out of.
@@jeramiejoseph6745 The Last of Us was a pretty good game to TV adaptation. It doesn't always end in failure. That said... this is EA we're talking about so I do think they'd fuck it up LOL
I can play ME3 a million times and I would still cry about mordin dying
Yea I’m with you on that, saddest moment of mass effect
Glad I'm not the only one
"Would've liked to run tests on the seashells."
😭😭😭😭
I played 2 and 3 back to back. I was partial to Mordin in 2, did everything I could with him, laughed at his Scientist Salarian song and dance. Then I played 3. I got to this mission. And when he started singing, my heart shattered. And when it was cut short, it fractured even further. I didn't make it far past this point in 3. It hurt too much.
3 is not an easy game to enjoy if you played the other 2. At the end of the day, it's a Pyrrhic Victory. A lot of people died to make things right, both against the reapers and against each other.
2:30 ...A SCIENTIST SALARIAN! :(
>Lie down
>Try not to cry
>Cry a lot
I remember the first time I played through this part, I was sure they were going to find a way to swoop in and save him at the last moment. So sure. Then they don't....Gutted....I'm sat there stunned, a 40 something father of two, with tears swelling in my eyes. Then the music from the original ME starts playing and forever links that tune with Mordins death in my mind. Thanks for that Bioware.
You know what though Mordin? You're not wrong, you're not fucking wrong.
Mass Effect truly is one of the greatest works of our time, and not just in videogames but in art and culture as a whole.
And people can bitch and moan about the endings 'till tomorrow, doesn't change the fact that ME3 is for the most a fantastic story with many deep moments like this that can bring tears to one's eyes.
I am the very model of a scientist salarian I've studied species turian asari and batarian my xenoscience studies range from urban to agrarian I am the very model of a scientist salarian
You win, and not enough people will get it. But you are the very model of a modern major general.
I start to tear up when he begins singing...
Right in the Feels
This was the one death in the entire series that somehow caught me completely off guard. I'd never even considered it before the last minute or so, despite how thematically appropriate it is.
My family didn't understand why I cried about the death of a fictional character, but Mordin is far more than that, is the very model of a scientist salarian.
And one of the best character I've ever met
Someone else might have gotten it wrong...
Mordin was a true hero. Rest in peace you brilliant man
Everything about this scene is perfect Mordin trying to keep himself calm with those breaths him singing to himself as focusing mechanism then when it's finally done he smiles while also looking like he's at the verge of tears.
he had so much more to do
*Brilliant video game line, a decade later.* Really emotional music too, trying to make me feel as sad and proud as possible.
One of the only times where I’ve cried at a game
The game gets a lot of shit for the ending but everything else in the game is absolutely brilliant
This and legion's death are the saddest moments in the saga and then he starts singing OMG!😥
Thane's death was sad too, but at least you can say good bye properly to him, but when Kolyat prays for you that part always make me tear too
@@marcraider More if you have a relationship with him it hits you harder when in the DLC he leaves messages for you!.😢
Well, is even sadder If you can't mediate between the geth and the quarians, and you choose the qeth, then legion die and Tali suicides.
I'll just say that I had to redo all me3 to mediate
This made me cry like a Quarian with a tummy ache...
I'm 28 years old and cried infront of my wife, telling her this isn't the first time I cried over this, probably wouldn't be the last time too.
Rest in peace Mordin.
She probably thinks little of you now, won't be long until your wife has a boyfriend lol
@@gastonxd3315 okay, you probably will never find love and die alone with your right hand wrapped around your business lol. Life probably was never good for you and will probably never get better. Try calling a helpline before you kick your own bucket.
A year late but i hope you are still with your wife. I mean its mordins death, i'd be concerned if you didnt start crying cause i never fail to cry
@@jurgenstrang6366 still together and got her hooked to gaming. Mass effect is on her playlist now, maybe someday she will get it too.
When I first got Mordin in me2, I wasn’t sure about him..he was a good enough companion to fight with, but as he kept talking and revealing his background..I learned to love the guy..I got a respect for him
Mordin went out in a blaze of glory.
Someone else might have gotten it wrong .....
The mass effect series is one of the most perfect reasons why videogames are art mass effect three in particular was just a crying shit show all the sacrifices made me tear up like I was a baby
ME: Andromeda is what happens when Mordin dies. Someone else DID get it wrong.
Yeah, you can't tell them that Mordin did it, it can't be that the krogan are still like that, I couldn't believe it, it felt like the sacrifice of Mordin was for nothing 😭
Came back due to the remake. Still balling my eyes out in this scene. 🥺🥺🥺
He's right. It had to be him. Someone else *would* have gotten it wrong.
But you, Mordin...you got it *right*
😥
As if it wasn't enough they have to play the ME1 menu music after too...
Mordin Solus, possibly the last video game character I genuinely cared about and actually shed a tear for when he sacrificed himself. We don't get story telling and characters like this anymore in modern day gaming and it's such a shame.
This is the most emotional scene in the ENTIRE trilogy IMO 😭
The first time this happened I was like "I MADE A MISTAKE" went back and.....faked the cure to the genophage. I regret lying to the krogan it was a selfish choice to save mordin but I couldn't handle it. It was probably what i consider my most renegade choice and I typically play paragon.
You doomed an entire race to spare your conscience!
In The first game, I went back many hours of play time to save Wrex.
I understand.
Cant wait to see this scene in the remaster more tears incoming.
I love that line, I also love Mordins song in me2
Mass effect is just something else... It hits you differently .
"had to be me,Someone else might have gotten it wrong"😭😭😭
there simply wasn't enough time for him to get away
Star Trek is dead. Mass Effect is dead. There's a new void in my heart that waits to be filled.
The expanse is perfect.
Join warhammer 40k
Hey mass effect 3 sequel confirmed
@@TheEvilTrooper96 I'm wary but optimistic
Remaster too. So.. there is that at least.
The first time Mordin sang we smiled and laughed... the last time we cried.
-a scientist salarian."
BioWare, you made Mass Effect and Dragon Age: Origins. What happened to you? We miss you!
EA happened
Yeah right? I forget about DA:O but that game was really good! Last game of an era IMO. Capstone to the old isometrics. Glad that type of game is making a slow return.
@@imacatman8775 At least it seems that Larian is becoming the "new BioWare", if you look at games like Divinity: Original Sin 2, and the upcoming Baldur's Gate sequel in particular.
They've got that old-school BioWare style, somehow. At least I get that impression from them. And they're only getting bigger and better, Larian.
it's 2022 and still no new mass effect and we miss him
And after THIS Andromeda comes out.
Holy shit BioWare.
Sent the bulk of the team to develop Anthem..... fuck'n Anthem
kimjack1000 this^ they purposely killed Andromeda to work on Anthem, but look how that turned out.
kimjack1000 yeah and you know how anthem went up
superphantom100 and andromeda ended up being a better overall game than anthem despite glitches
TheUnder F1ip On principal I didn’t play Anthem because to me I stood for everything I hated. Boy was I glade to hear that Anthem was a terrible game.
RIP Dr. Mordin. A true bad ass
Would have liked to have run tests on the sea shells
I'm sorry.
"I'm not. Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong."
Imagine if the music at the end was an orchestral version of that song.
Nowadays, i dont count the ME series as one of my favorites. However, even though its not one of the series thats grabbed hold of my sould, i dtill think about this scene every once in a while.
The saddness and fear in mordins voice, the history i have with him, his endless pragmatism mixed with the empthy he feels deep in his heart. Mordin is such s good character. Just pixels on a screne destined to fade, but something about him makes me want to hug him so, so bad. Maybe its the contradictions - this is a man dictated by logic and reason, whose devoted to science and mathematics; yet this is a boy thats trying to do whats right even though he knows just how wrong it is. Mordin is a monster and a saint alll at the same time. Genocidal psychopath and yet loving father figure all at once - cant stop moving forward and just wants to lie down and pass. I think hes so good and heatwrentching because of that contradiction. He FEELS like a game deva actual parent - full of love and optimism when they were young, self assured, and as they got older they started seeing all the cracks in the armor. This is someone thats barely put together - they desperately need someone to tell them itll be ok, and they need that to be true
I like that when he realizes it has to be him and he wont be coming back, he takes a minute to steady himself, accept what must be done. And then, after processing his whole life, he says his one and only regret. He would have really like to run tests on those seashells
Shepard lost so many friends in this story 😭
So many tech workers exult this character to encourage the young to sacrifice themselves
We love you Mordin
1:15 Players talking to their Forever DM after they have to run their game again.
“Not coming back”
Had too be me someone else may gotten it wrong
just put this in youtube search: Mass Effect 3 Soundtrack - Mordin, first video.
I have never understood why the tower was exploding the reaper didn’t even hit it in any previous cutscenes was it just overloaded by the reaper poisoning the air
Mordin went out LIKE A BOSS.
I feel like he could've survived if after to fixed the cure he went back to the elevator
The scene should have been set to Gilbert and Sullivan.
I’m crying
nope all ai's gone including edi, infact if you look at the memorial wall in that ending edi is already on there,
personally after all id done to save the geth and quarians and finding out how much the geth were helping I couldn't do the kill option because the collateral was too high a price
I realize this comment is years old, but considering that Joker managed to outrun the blastwave in the ending, EDI can survive. But yeah, the Geth die
@@ropeburngaming3380 no. EDI dies if u go red
I know but the mission is to finish the reapers. I'm honoring their sacrifice by doing exactly that. The geth and EDI knew full well of what Shepard gonna do. If not for the Starchild, there won't even be an option to do another thing. So even if that would mean the end for the geth and EDI, they'd end knowing they had finished the mission succesfully.
Smexy graphix
Someone put the RE5 filter on this
sincerely tears in eyes...fuck
I was so shocked
Absolute fucking Chad.
never played mass effect, this video is so fucking bizarre to me
You sir, are missing out.
how did you even end up here?
hyun028 reddit link
aaron lol
aaron you should try out this trilogy though.
With Andromeda, someone else DID get it wrong. Welp, time to reinstall the trilogy and play for the umpteenth time.
Remastered release in May!
danm onions ;_;
btw. aren't you using an ENB? if so witch one?
I MADE A MISTAKE!!
Or see a Krogan baby.
Fucking love this guy! Why did he have to fucking die
We get Mass Effect Andromeda that kills the franchise instead of a Mordin Spinoff. So sad. Playing as Mordin would have been awesome.
ME 3 : good story, stellar gameplay, progress from previous game buildup nicely, but most importantly
*_BAD ENDING_*
Both control and synthesis ending renders the sacrifices useless. Think about it, in synthesis everyone would be "forced" to live peacefully and the world becomes a better place? Yeah, doesn't sound like paradise to me, more like a gilded cage. Control is basically utilizing the reapers under the pretense that this million years old intellgent machine doesn't take over the mortal mind of a human that is commander shepard. Which sounds shady as hell. And these two ending means that brokering peace between species wouldn't need to last long at all. Because on the one hand everyone was kind of influenced to be at peace and on the other hand, there are tons of reapers ready to strike at those who tried to break that peace.
All in all, we're here to destroy the reapers. The geth and EDI knows that, the turians and the krogan knows that, the salarians and the asaris knows that, the humans and the prothean expected that.
1:10
It's been 6 years since they released this game and this quote still bugs me. Mordin said it first in Mass Effect 2 and it was: "Had to be me, others might have gotten it wrong". Not "someone else", he first said "others" (also he had a different actor doing his voice, a better actor).
3’s actor was better. Go watch the version of this scene where Shepard tries to stop Mordin and they yell at each other. That “I made a mistake!” Is some of the best voice work in the entire series
So glad I maxed out renegade for this.
o7
Why didn't Mordin just leave the shroud tower after he cured the Genophage?
because it literally detonates after he disperses the cure
@@_b1ack0ut4 I also think he had to be sure it dispersed properly. He had to stay to ensure that before he died.
@@Shiverwar he had to go to the top to reverse sabotage so that it could dispense properly but it detonated immediately after that
@@_b1ack0ut4 Oh I know, but even if he had time to escape, I'm sure he would have stayed anyway to ensure proper dispersal.
had to be me
God speed you mad fucking Salarian
the only good arc in the game
Hey, the geth quarian arc is a good one too
F
This scene was a gut punch to me. I didn't actually cry. I just sat there with the controller in my hand, numb. I set the controller down after a while and just tried to process it. Losing Mordin almost felt like losing a friend, and actual living breathing friend. I need a moment.