I just realized the speech would've carried more weight and would've been an opportunity to reward players who actually loaded a save file from ME1 into ME2... If Shepard started his speech with "I let Kaiden/Ashley die two years ago because of the cost of the mission. That isn't happening today, not if I can help it, not if you can help it" type deal. Missed opportunity IMO.
I remember falling just short, and Tali (best girl!) scrambling over to help Shepard up while Garrus (best bro!) and Joker provided covering fire. And then feeling a little sorry for the Collector-General when you discover that he, too, is just a puppet controlled by Harbinger, given his freedom at the very end only to watch the last remnants of his species go up in flames.
I love this track. For me, Shepard and his team destroying the collector base and escaping alive is the turning point in the Trilogy. It symbolizes the galaxy for the first time in the endless cycles of its destruction finally delivering a punch back in the opposite direction against the Reapers and setting their plans back. Something the reapers have never experienced as they are used to decimating the galaxy over and over through compromising the relays. I think its evident in Harbingers words as they seem panicked and make the reapers seem like for the first time ever the galaxy is actually a threat to them. Amazing track and ending sequence.
@@Hunghover It's different though. Killing a single Reapers is not THAT big of a deal, specially for a one time thing and with the massive armed support Shepard had in the battle of the Citadel. ME2 showed how Shepard was a real fucking menace to them. They killed him, and he came back and fucked their plans up, AGAIN and this time, with just a small, albeit extremely talented team.
HUMAN.......YOU HAVE CHANGED NOTHING.....YOUR SPECIES HAS THE ATTENTION OF THOSE INFINITELY YOUR GREATER....THAT WHICH YOU KNOW AS REAPERS ARE YOUR SALVATION THROUGH DESTRUCTION.....
Harbinger's lines are awesome for this ending : "Human, you've changed nothing. Your species has the attention of those infinitely your greater. That which you know as Reapers are your salvation through destruction." It's the ultimate "You can try and try but in the end you'll fail" monologue. ME3 proves him wrong but it is much better when Harbinger acts like Sovereign, unthinkingly confident, viewing Shepard like an insect. Once Harbinger starts addressing Shepard by name he elevates Shepard, admitting Shepard is important.
This is why I, rather unpopularly, actually like Harbinger more then Sovereign. I totally get why most people like Sovereign more, but I personally just prefer the intensity between Shepard and Harbinger as opposed to the indifference between Shep and Sov.
Agreed. While Sovereign was indeed a mysterious force and that mystery was part of its intrigue, I just loved the fact that to Harbinger and Shepard, this was more than a war to harvest or save the galaxy respectively. This, right here, is personal, and when Harbinger starts addressing "Human" as Shepard, it's it saying. "Now it's personal."
Super Saiyan 2 Gohan I felt bad for general collector when the reaper said "You have failed we are going to find another way releasing control" so the general collector get kinda confused on what he was seeing and thinking that was finally the prothean race full extincion
@@zody14 Collector general after being released: What happened? The last thing I know was someone saying they were taking control... Oh, why is there massive explosion/radiation burst coming straight at me? *dead * X(
Mass Effect 2 was the most intense experience I've ever had in video game. The uncertainty but also the feel of duty when you use the Omega 4 relay, the determination, when you and your team fight your way through the heart of the Collectors to save humanity and the Galaxy, the doubt when your biotic squadmate (Samara in my case) barelly holds seeker swarms away from you, the revelation when you face the Human Reaper, the proud when you and your team survives, the pitty when you see collectors general finally being released, only to die and the unease when you see billions of reapers aproaching Milky Way, you know, despite everything you did, that there's even less hope. After that ending my jaw was laying on the ground. BEST. ENDING. EVER.
tzimiable Yeah, it was such a super teaser aswell. It was so short flash of 'em and then the end. To me, ME2 and it's expansion was propably one of the best games to date.
Finished my first ME2 with everyone surviving, never been so happy in my life. Reminds me of the Christopher Eccleston Quote: "Just this once, EVERYBODY LIVES."
Same; that first moment when I got the "Everyone lives" trophy, I jumped off my bed in joy! Hadn't played the 1st or 3rd game yet, didn't know what the heck a Reaper was, or understood any of the references to the previous game...I just knew one thing: I had grown fond of all my squadmates and I wanted each and every one of them to survive after blowing up that Collector base; even Jacob.
Ironic that ME2 had such a strong ending as compared to the rather weak ending of the third game. I am actually a fan of ME3's ending but even I agree its weak. Especially when you look at ME2's, which was downright spectacular in execution and satisfaction...unless you get everybody killed. Then its just sad.
***** Disclaimer: I appreciate your opinion. However, I disagree because you end up deciding which life forms live or die (or synthesis which is the Reapers' plan). That is simply way too heavy a decision to dismiss as a weak ending, in my opinion.
***** Well, the themes and ideas at play are spectacular. The execution (before the extended cut fixed most of it) was why I said its weak. It wasn't clearly defined and had no closure. The ending to ME2 was very clear, you knew what you had to do and accomplishing it was a very satisfying accomplishment. ME2's ending left me joyful and eagerly awaiting the third game. ME3's ending, at first, just left me cold.
***** Interestingly enough, I do agree on those distinctions between the endings, but I find that endings with a lack of closure, if done right, can be just as impactful. Think of it this way, once the dust settled and after everything that the entire united (more or less) galaxy fought for, what happens to the state of affairs of all the species? What happens to all of the people that helped Shepard? These questions are left to be an afterthought, a mystery that we can wonder about because what the entire trilogy had been building up to had come to a crashing, emotionally exhausting conclusion which was the end of the Reapers. However, I do understand your thoughts and I would also like to add that I find them refreshing. Usually when I find people claiming the ending is bad, their argument is that there actually is no choice in the ending. I, personally, cannot ever see how anybody can defend that view seriously, seeing as how the choice given is rather MASSIVE in scale as I pointed out earlier >
***** Yeah, choice was not the problem. I understood the monumentally different implications for each choice. Problem was they just told us, they didn't really show us outside of color swaps. Again, sloppy execution. Not a sloppy ending. Personally I think the level of investment in the characters made it impossible to just leave it that open. You can't really do that with a game like Mass Effect. The characters and relationships are the driving force. To not know if they were ever gonna get off that planet was just horrible. Still, I agree that a little ambiguity should have been good. Hell, I never wanted an explanation for why the Reapers wiped out all advanced civilizations every 50,000 years. I thought they were far more interesting as these mysterious unknowable, almost Lovecrafitan, machine gods from dark space.
+The Superior Spider-Mew While I felt the rest of the game was a bit short (finished in less than a third of the time ME1 took me), the ending was the absolute best in the series by a long way. Edit: WHOOPS THE NECRO.
How long did it take you to finish ME1? It took me like 20 but i didn't do every side quest just the majority, but it took me 30 hours to complete ME2, did i miss something big on the first one?
Personally, I felt ME1 wasn't long but simply difficult (the combat is vastly different from ME2 or ME3) and it took me like 4 days, but I once rushed ME2 and completed it in 1 day. Even saved everyone.
You know, ME1 had this undertone of Sheppard being the ONLY one person responsible for saving all of humanity/all of life. "Sheppard's the only person who can save us..." stuff. Which is why I simply love ME2. There's so much more emphasis on how Sheppard actually leads an elite crack team of diverse members with uniques skill sets to beat the enemy. This just... fits beautifully.
Mass Effect 2 was just such a great personal experience. At the end I rushed for the Omega 4 relay because I _felt_ that there's no more time to waste and many of my crew members died. All my decisions converged in that final mission making it one of the most emotional experience in my history of gaming. I must admit that I shed a tear for my loyal crew members who gave their lives but I think that was what made it feel so real, so believable. I can really recommend this game to anyone who hasn't played it yet. It's a blast. Not because the gameplay feels perfect or the graphics look so damn good but because of the story, the characters and the decisions you take. Don't play that game with the goal to "complete" it. Just play it and do what feels right. You won't regret it.
I wish so many of the people who bitched about the end of ME3 would read what you've said here. All our decisions already DID have an impact and that formed the experience as we went through it! It doesn't get more personalized than that! If you want more, get religion! Damn fine work of art, Bioware!
Shepard's hanging from the dropships ledge. Joker: Shepard!!! Shepard: Joker tell them! No one is going to like the ME3 ending and they need to change it before EA rushes it out the door!!! YOU HAVE TO TELL THEM!!! *falls* Joker: SHEPARD NOOOOOO
Ben Wilson IDC what the ending was, I'm using the MEHEM mod which makes the ending enjoyable, and ties the game together, cause Mass Effect 3 was an awesome game.
I didn't mind the endings so much, myself. What SPECIFICALLY was it that people didn't like besides having put in as much effort as you do to unite the galaxy and then it's STILL NOT ENOUGH on its own? Mainly, my issue was the story DETAILS were left out. Such as, for example: the end-half of the second sentence, along with the fact that Aria's troops never actually made the appearance on the ground that was promised, nor did any Rachni show up, nor did the Batarian fleet remnants take active part.
Seriously i would have prefered to kill Shepard right there and then with that EPIC mission instead of having to listening to god kid preach his garbage and not get the option to shoot his fucking head off for LYING.
+Jose Suarez Lol, true. "Hey, how's it going?" "Oh, I've zero points! :D" "WHAT!??!?!? Why are you so happy then!?" "Well... it's just a grade, and you know, there are bigger things. The universe.... WHO CARES? I'M A FUCKING HERO." Recommended. xD
+Jose Suarez no... play the first half before and/ or during the exams thent he second half after or near the end... or better yet just line things up perfectly so that it gets really happy and stuff right when you win... hard as that would be to pull off that would be AWESOME
+HoneyBadger Teacher: STUDENT......You have changed NOTHING.... Your age group has the attention of those infinitely your greater.... That witch you know as Instructors are your salvation through suffering
I set this theme (1:30 onwards) in Left 4 Dead 2 as the escape theme. Just this one song turned every finale from a desperate run to an heroic escape, it's awesome!
For all of the Mass Effect trilogy's blunders and missteps, it is in moments like the End Run where everything that is great about it coalesced into something greater than the sum of its parts. What a fantastic memory.
It wasn't until my third play-through that i finished with no casualties and full loyalty from my crew. This track playing as you and your whole team fly away from the collector base as it's engulfed in flames, knowing that you've successfully thwarted the reapers plans, is so satisfying.
The feels at 1:20.... That uber moment of real suspense. The defining moment, did you assemble your team properly throughout the game, or did you fail as their commander? Your choices matter in Mass Effect 2. Mass Effect 3.... No comment.
"Human, you chagned nothing!, your species have the attention of those infinitely your greater, The reapers are your salvation through distruction, "sorry for english
Dread Master Raptus img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140623163723/masseffect/images/5/5f/Dark_space_-_reaper_armada_awakening.png And You see this, and know; The War is about to begin
what if it wasn't entirely fictional. It doesn't seem odd to you that the Neanderthal race which was smarter and stronger than humans suddenly vanished about 30,000 B.C. only to have the surface populated with a weaker race incapable of surviving in most climates without clothing?
Go_Away they didn't vanish, we still have animal and primal nature; how nature intended for humans to survive. modern education wants to remove that completely though to turn humans into "obedient workers". ME tells the story with the synthetic/biotic dichotomies. These themes are present in The matrix as well but am unaware of its origins... my guess is Asian folklore/mystical lore. I will go aaway now : )
I envy the people coming here from their first ever experience of the Suicide Mission. Admit it, the entire time you played that mission you had goosebumps and worried someone would die at any moment, didn't you?
I think this was the moment I realized ME2 was something special, unique for me. Listening to this track while the collector base blew up on the background and the Normandy flew off to safety.
“Human, you’ve changed nothing.” “Your species has the attention of those infinitely your greater.” “That which you know as Reapers are your salvation through destruction.” “You have failed, we will find another way.” “Releasing Control.”
The theme itself represents an impossible victory of what was sure to be a suicide mission. Shepard leads a team of united Humans, Drell, Krogan, Turian, Quarian, Asari, Geth and Salarian for one goal: To stop the Collectors. The theme starts with the team starting their mission and ends with The Collectors destroyed and the whole team surviving as they escape. This symbolises that everyone no matter their race and history, all put their trust and faith in each other and believed in their commander that brought them together. This theme represents what Commander Shepard what stand for or how Javik saw her, The Avatar: The Exemplar of Victory
Yeah, ME2 ending had weight, reward and generally a good feeling. ME3 ending you just had a feeling it would be a bad ending without even completing it. It was a very typical ending decision and TBH Bioware just got lazy. Admitting that the ME3 ending was meant to be a "goodbye" to Shep it just gives the impression that they simply wanted to get it off their hands ASAP. Then the Citadel came around - "now that the horse is dead lets do naughty things to it". ME4 is likely to be the same, the mindset is already conditioned and no amount of modern coding and features that it shares with DA:I is gonna save it. Or them both.
Nothing like that last run, Shepard firing a couple final shots at the collectors, the Normandy emerging, joker shooting back at them, then THE JUMP, your teammate gets you up, and it's the flyaway from the nuclear fire. Such an epic setpiece for the last mission. Few games can get that level of hype from me still
Still brings a tear to my eye whenever I hear this. This track was perfect for the moment it was in and is still one of, if not the, best pieces of the mass effect series soundtrack
Mass Effect 2 was and still is one of the best games I’ve played. The final mission is just so epic with the music and the action scenes. Of course, I think one of the best parts was seeing so many different types of Reapers at the end. They were so different in design and just felt a little more real with the whole “we are each a nation”. The other two were pretty good, but the second just basically made the franchise. Harbinger in the Arrival DLC could’ve been better, a little more like Sovereign.
I think Mass Effect had a bigger impact on me growing up than SW. I mean, half of my SW knowledge comes from playing KOTOR, which I only played because it was like Mass Effect :)
When I hear this, I get chills, my stomach tightens up, and tears come to my eyes. Such an emotional piece. When Shepard makes that foot jump to the Normandy and his feet are kicking. I still after so many play throughs, raise my arms and cheer. Thank you for sharing.
No matter how many times I watch it on youtube, or even play through it, the end sprint to the normandy never fails to give me chills. and then joker has a badass moment.
1:21-1:51 The most important 30 seconds of video game score in the game. Just the right composition to symbolize the turning point of the escape. It's a "firing on all cylinders moment" That gives just the right emotional cue to have us be on the edge of our seats to see whether or not we (Commander Shepard and Co.) can really make it through the mission and then have the confirmation that we can come at just the right time with just the right sort of sound. This part is only played once, as it should be. It's similar to the suicide mission, but different. It triggers this sensation of triumph that's executed masterfully. There's no real moment in ME3 that has the same emotional trigger of one upping an intimidating galactic foe. I think that's the one big narrative flaw of the third game.
Played the suicide mission track in ME3 when they jumped the crucible in, it was off a bit. I played it for a bit, paused, put the crucible scene up, played the suicide track, muted the other video, and they synced up
I was SO thrilled when I first played this sequence. I had no idea who would live or die. One of them died early on, and from that point I thought any of them could. I thought Tali (my romance choice) was about to, or Garrus. I was on the edge of my seat with tears in my eyes. Absolutely epic in the true sense of the word.
this was my game. so many memories. i beat this game like a million times just waiting for the third one. the music, the choices, the friendships, etc. I kept everyone alive in this game, only to find out that in the third one thaine gets a disease and dies, and some other teammates die and Miranda leaves, jacob is not in your crew, ashley can die, etc. stupid. I hope the 4th one will be good. they should bring shep back.
i havent touched mass effect 1, 2, 3 since like early 2012 LOL. after i beat Mass effect 3 early last year, i just gave up. there is no point now. the new one coming out will not even let you play as shep and the crew you bonded with all those years. when the first mass effect came out in like 2007, i got it and played it in 2008 I think, and I didn't even know what it was and then when I got home from Iraq in 2010, i saw part 2 out so i just got back into it good. and then 3 and beat it.
The trilogy is over... of course it is going to feature new characters! It's just another chance for us to meet a brand new crew and connect with them all over again! Personally I'm hoping for a group of renegades like in ME2, maybe space pirates or something.
yea, where you can make your whole entire team into renegades. personally i kind of liked the renegade shep. I hope we get to see some newer boss type enemies, not the reapers, but maybe another alien force similar but more sinister
I meant renegades as sort of outcasts, maybe pirates or something. Was more a fan of Paragon myself, but regardless, I hope they don't try to do another end of the galaxy type story. It would seem like a rehash
terry autry Why would you want one that is similar? That would be stupid. I dont want to basically fight the reapers again, but basically an even worse version... ***** Agreed. That would be very stupid
Why when two musics are a little bit (a very little bit for this song) similar there's people who says "this song is copied from that thing" PS : Doctor Who doesn't have Harbinger's voice in his theme so it can't be as good as this music.
whenever shep made the final jump to the ship i thought he was going to fall and die LOL. cuz it goes in slow motion and he's being shot at. it was good to see Joker take out a weapon and start hitting bad guys. best part ever.
+Luffy_EXTREME The moment you feel like you will pass your final exam, sensors monitoring your brainwaves send a signal to an orbital station which proceeds to drop an entire orchestra down on you via drop pod, which then proceed to recreate the epicness of this soundtrack.
Ok guys let me explain the connection to "I am the Doctor" 1: time signatures. Both this and IATD are in 7/4 time which is unusual. 2: Key signatures. Both are in D minor (with suicide mission having hints of dominant A minor in places) 3: instrumentation. Orchestra and choir are both used in both tracks. 4: melody. There are some overlaps with the brass melody being very similar to a choral section of "I am the Doctor" Note: This track is NOT a ripoff of Murray Gold's track nor is his track a rip off of this. There are enough similarities to be noticeable, but not enough to be considered a rip off at least in my eyes. That should clear things up.
@@drbazooka5907 Hah. It's not like it's the first time Murray Gold's done shit like this. Listen to Torchwood's series 2 soundtrack (Ben Foster's work, not his) and there's plenty of things which sound odly familiar to Doctor Who series 5 (which came later.) Also: th-cam.com/video/cMF1xs3SVI8/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/OLT91JaD8HQ/w-d-xo.html Not to mention that, by late Smith, he started ripping off his own earlier music. Such as: th-cam.com/video/h0uUrZOo8pQ/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/Radrh60tAUk/w-d-xo.html
Mass Effect is such an awesome series. The characters are awesome, the story is epic, and the gameplay is fun. It affected me so much and I can say that it reawakened my love of the Sci-fi genre. Bioware, thank you so much
Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, gets left behind, not as long as I'm commander!
*remembers Virmire*
Well...nobody else.
I just realized the speech would've carried more weight and would've been an opportunity to reward players who actually loaded a save file from ME1 into ME2... If Shepard started his speech with "I let Kaiden/Ashley die two years ago because of the cost of the mission. That isn't happening today, not if I can help it, not if you can help it" type deal. Missed opportunity IMO.
"Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to wake."
I think it was: "Some of you will die". But he didn't max out his loyalties and upgrade his ship
Nobody who matters ;)
"as long as I'm commander"
Technically, s/he never was one. His/her rank was Lt.cmdr from the start, not commander.
I can still see Shepard making the leap of faith to the Normandy
I can still see the entire run. 8 years later and this music still gives me chills.
@@kamen42 He would smash the Sprite slam-dunking contest.
I remember falling just short, and Tali (best girl!) scrambling over to help Shepard up while Garrus (best bro!) and Joker provided covering fire.
And then feeling a little sorry for the Collector-General when you discover that he, too, is just a puppet controlled by Harbinger, given his freedom at the very end only to watch the last remnants of his species go up in flames.
1:21
During my first runnof the Suicide Mission in the Collector Base I got picked up by Grunt like Shepard weighted nothing 😂
I love this track. For me, Shepard and his team destroying the collector base and escaping alive is the turning point in the Trilogy. It symbolizes the galaxy for the first time in the endless cycles of its destruction finally delivering a punch back in the opposite direction against the Reapers and setting their plans back. Something the reapers have never experienced as they are used to decimating the galaxy over and over through compromising the relays. I think its evident in Harbingers words as they seem panicked and make the reapers seem like for the first time ever the galaxy is actually a threat to them. Amazing track and ending sequence.
I wish I could upvote your comment 50000 times.
How do you not have more likes?!
Shepard already punched back when he blew up Sovereign
@@Hunghover It's different though. Killing a single Reapers is not THAT big of a deal, specially for a one time thing and with the massive armed support Shepard had in the battle of the Citadel. ME2 showed how Shepard was a real fucking menace to them. They killed him, and he came back and fucked their plans up, AGAIN and this time, with just a small, albeit extremely talented team.
What an amazing observation, sounds sarcastic but it honestly isn’t. Makes ME trilogy all the more inspiring
HUMAN.......YOU HAVE CHANGED NOTHING.....YOUR SPECIES HAS THE ATTENTION OF THOSE INFINITELY YOUR GREATER....THAT WHICH YOU KNOW AS REAPERS ARE YOUR SALVATION THROUGH DESTRUCTION.....
S Manly YOU HAVE FAILED... WE WILL FIND ANOTHER WAY... RELEASING CONTROL...
+S “Music4Ever” Manly
Oh Harbinger, go eat a Vorchan turd.
+S “Music4Ever” Manly
FUKKEN XENOOOOS!
To err is human so.....err? *shrug*
+S Manly (Music4Ever) Destroyer end for you harbinger _I_
This Trilogy was not a game franchise...
... It was art...
True
I mean... can't be both?
Mass Effect 2 is honestly one of the best games I've ever played
Any real arguments there?
Woops, I missread. Damn. Sorry :)
Nice one!
Woops, I misread, sorry.
It's the Empire Strikes Back of Mass Effect. I'd say that in terms of story and atmosphere, the suicide mission was the high point of the series.
Harbinger's lines are awesome for this ending :
"Human, you've changed nothing. Your species has the attention of those infinitely your greater. That which you know as Reapers are your salvation through destruction."
It's the ultimate "You can try and try but in the end you'll fail" monologue. ME3 proves him wrong but it is much better when Harbinger acts like Sovereign, unthinkingly confident, viewing Shepard like an insect. Once Harbinger starts addressing Shepard by name he elevates Shepard, admitting Shepard is important.
Hemmo Laurell Most powerfull being in the Milky Way galaxy. Not the universe.
Love that dialgue
This is why I, rather unpopularly, actually like Harbinger more then Sovereign. I totally get why most people like Sovereign more, but I personally just prefer the intensity between Shepard and Harbinger as opposed to the indifference between Shep and Sov.
Agreed. While Sovereign was indeed a mysterious force and that mystery was part of its intrigue, I just loved the fact that to Harbinger and Shepard, this was more than a war to harvest or save the galaxy respectively. This, right here, is personal, and when Harbinger starts addressing "Human" as Shepard, it's it saying. "Now it's personal."
Super Saiyan 2 Gohan
I felt bad for general collector when the reaper said
"You have failed we are going to find another way releasing control" so the general collector get kinda confused on what he was seeing and thinking that was finally the prothean race full extincion
*"You have failed. We will find another way. Releasing control!"*
man, I felt so much pity for the collector general in that moment
He did look rather distraught, but I feel no sympathy for Collectors.
Same here.
"*But YOU were in control!*"
Imagine the Collector General saying that. :)
@@zody14
Collector general after being released: What happened? The last thing I know was someone saying they were taking control...
Oh, why is there massive explosion/radiation burst coming straight at me? *dead * X(
"Detonation in 10, 9..."
"Yeah, I get the gist of it EDI! Hold on!"
Mass Effect 2 was the most intense experience I've ever had in video game. The uncertainty but also the feel of duty when you use the Omega 4 relay, the determination, when you and your team fight your way through the heart of the Collectors to save humanity and the Galaxy, the doubt when your biotic squadmate (Samara in my case) barelly holds seeker swarms away from you, the revelation when you face the Human Reaper, the proud when you and your team survives, the pitty when you see collectors general finally being released, only to die and the unease when you see billions of reapers aproaching Milky Way, you know, despite everything you did, that there's even less hope. After that ending my jaw was laying on the ground. BEST. ENDING. EVER.
Especially when the Normandy is approaching the collector base. Oh my fucking goddddddd
Couldn't say it better. Amen.
That last flash of Reapers approaching nearly made me faint.
tzimiable
Yeah, it was such a super teaser aswell. It was so short flash of 'em and then the end. To me, ME2 and it's expansion was propably one of the best games to date.
Yeah, to bad the whole veriety was gone in ME3. Could've made for a awesome diversity.
Finished my first ME2 with everyone surviving, never been so happy in my life.
Reminds me of the Christopher Eccleston Quote: "Just this once, EVERYBODY LIVES."
Same; that first moment when I got the "Everyone lives" trophy, I jumped off my bed in joy! Hadn't played the 1st or 3rd game yet, didn't know what the heck a Reaper was, or understood any of the references to the previous game...I just knew one thing: I had grown fond of all my squadmates and I wanted each and every one of them to survive after blowing up that Collector base; even Jacob.
suicide mission. the best ending to a game/movie ever!
Ironic that ME2 had such a strong ending as compared to the rather weak ending of the third game. I am actually a fan of ME3's ending but even I agree its weak. Especially when you look at ME2's, which was downright spectacular in execution and satisfaction...unless you get everybody killed. Then its just sad.
***** Disclaimer: I appreciate your opinion. However, I disagree because you end up deciding which life forms live or die (or synthesis which is the Reapers' plan). That is simply way too heavy a decision to dismiss as a weak ending, in my opinion.
***** Well, the themes and ideas at play are spectacular. The execution (before the extended cut fixed most of it) was why I said its weak. It wasn't clearly defined and had no closure. The ending to ME2 was very clear, you knew what you had to do and accomplishing it was a very satisfying accomplishment. ME2's ending left me joyful and eagerly awaiting the third game. ME3's ending, at first, just left me cold.
***** Interestingly enough, I do agree on those distinctions between the endings, but I find that endings with a lack of closure, if done right, can be just as impactful.
Think of it this way, once the dust settled and after everything that the entire united (more or less) galaxy fought for, what happens to the state of affairs of all the species? What happens to all of the people that helped Shepard? These questions are left to be an afterthought, a mystery that we can wonder about because what the entire trilogy had been building up to had come to a crashing, emotionally exhausting conclusion which was the end of the Reapers.
However, I do understand your thoughts and I would also like to add that I find them refreshing. Usually when I find people claiming the ending is bad, their argument is that there actually is no choice in the ending. I, personally, cannot ever see how anybody can defend that view seriously, seeing as how the choice given is rather MASSIVE in scale as I pointed out earlier >
***** Yeah, choice was not the problem. I understood the monumentally different implications for each choice. Problem was they just told us, they didn't really show us outside of color swaps. Again, sloppy execution. Not a sloppy ending.
Personally I think the level of investment in the characters made it impossible to just leave it that open. You can't really do that with a game like Mass Effect. The characters and relationships are the driving force. To not know if they were ever gonna get off that planet was just horrible. Still, I agree that a little ambiguity should have been good. Hell, I never wanted an explanation for why the Reapers wiped out all advanced civilizations every 50,000 years. I thought they were far more interesting as these mysterious unknowable, almost Lovecrafitan, machine gods from dark space.
Such a good ending to a game, the suspense, the music, everything was pure gold.
+The Superior Spider-Mew While I felt the rest of the game was a bit short (finished in less than a third of the time ME1 took me), the ending was the absolute best in the series by a long way.
Edit: WHOOPS THE NECRO.
How long did it take you to finish ME1? It took me like 20 but i didn't do every side quest just the majority, but it took me 30 hours to complete ME2, did i miss something big on the first one?
Personally, I felt ME1 wasn't long but simply difficult (the combat is vastly different from ME2 or ME3) and it took me like 4 days, but I once rushed ME2 and completed it in 1 day. Even saved everyone.
Krister Eriksen ive been playing me1 for over two maybe three years and i just cant be bothered completing that snow mission near the start
Gaming boy 2003 It's definitely worth beating though, because it's still a great game
There's something about that climactic turning point at 1:30-1:50 that gets me every time.
1:30 - *when some random homeless dude on the subway sticks his cane out and that lets you jump onto the train in time before the doors close*
Still one of the best endings ever. This sequence was amazing on all levels. Instant chills after 1:29
You know, ME1 had this undertone of Sheppard being the ONLY one person responsible for saving all of humanity/all of life. "Sheppard's the only person who can save us..." stuff.
Which is why I simply love ME2. There's so much more emphasis on how Sheppard actually leads an elite crack team of diverse members with uniques skill sets to beat the enemy. This just... fits beautifully.
Mass Effect 2 was just such a great personal experience. At the end I rushed for the Omega 4 relay because I _felt_ that there's no more time to waste and many of my crew members died. All my decisions converged in that final mission making it one of the most emotional experience in my history of gaming. I must admit that I shed a tear for my loyal crew members who gave their lives but I think that was what made it feel so real, so believable. I can really recommend this game to anyone who hasn't played it yet. It's a blast. Not because the gameplay feels perfect or the graphics look so damn good but because of the story, the characters and the decisions you take. Don't play that game with the goal to "complete" it. Just play it and do what feels right. You won't regret it.
I wish so many of the people who bitched about the end of ME3 would read what you've said here. All our decisions already DID have an impact and that formed the experience as we went through it! It doesn't get more personalized than that! If you want more, get religion! Damn fine work of art, Bioware!
it did in ME2. ME3...not so much
1000 years from now people will ask what did the people of the 2000s do for entertainment. This trilogy says it all.
"Always seems impossible, until it is done."
What is impossible has never been done.
Shepard's hanging from the dropships ledge.
Joker: Shepard!!!
Shepard: Joker tell them! No one is going to like the ME3 ending and they need to change it before EA rushes it out the door!!! YOU HAVE TO TELL THEM!!! *falls*
Joker: SHEPARD NOOOOOO
RUdigitized I thought it was a fairly decent ending, what they fucked up was the horrid delivery. WTF starchild? seriously?
Ben Wilson IDC what the ending was, I'm using the MEHEM mod which makes the ending enjoyable, and ties the game together, cause Mass Effect 3 was an awesome game.
I didn't mind the endings so much, myself. What SPECIFICALLY was it that people didn't like besides having put in as much effort as you do to unite the galaxy and then it's STILL NOT ENOUGH on its own?
Mainly, my issue was the story DETAILS were left out.
Such as, for example: the end-half of the second sentence, along with the fact that Aria's troops never actually made the appearance on the ground that was promised, nor did any Rachni show up, nor did the Batarian fleet remnants take active part.
Seriously i would have prefered to kill Shepard right there and then with that EPIC mission instead of having to listening to god kid preach his garbage and not get the option to shoot his fucking head off for LYING.
*****
The game should've ended with Anderson's death. Shepherd should've died with him.
Leaving to do final exams
*This theme plays*
I prefer to play this AFTER the exams. ;)
+Jose Suarez Lol, true.
"Hey, how's it going?"
"Oh, I've zero points! :D"
"WHAT!??!?!? Why are you so happy then!?"
"Well... it's just a grade, and you know, there are bigger things. The universe.... WHO CARES? I'M A FUCKING HERO."
Recommended. xD
+Jose Suarez no... play the first half before and/ or during the exams thent he second half after or near the end... or better yet just line things up perfectly so that it gets really happy and stuff right when you win... hard as that would be to pull off that would be AWESOME
+HoneyBadger Teacher: STUDENT......You have changed NOTHING.... Your age group has the attention of those infinitely your greater.... That witch you know as Instructors are your salvation through suffering
+Doruk The Immortal Principle to teacher: You have failed. We will find another way......releasing control
Oh man. This track. It still gives me goosebumps.
+NinjaOnFire58 Truth.
This
0:35 Make me proud. Make yourselves proud.
"Releasing control."
When Harbinger was giving his speech in the end about the reapers it gave me chills with this soundtrack
Unforgettable
Keelah se'lai
Mass Effect 2 is from 2009. Doctor Who didn't use this style of themes until Matt Smith in 2010. I'd call it a coincidence.
Mass Effect 2 was released in 2010.
The two themes aren't even that similar.
My words escape me. I can only acknowledge the excitement this provides through the suicide mission. Oh God!
Mass Effect has an overdose of Epicness.
At the end of Suicide Mission, you going to cry hit your chest, and scream "WE DID IT!!!"
No matter how many times I listen to this, the crescendo at 1.50 gives me chills. Every time.
We will find another way, Releasing control.
I had tears in my eyes when I first heard this. Mass Effect 2 is a fucking classic.
0:39 "Human, You've changed nothing."
This shit is ultra effective for workouts
I set this theme (1:30 onwards) in Left 4 Dead 2 as the escape theme. Just this one song turned every finale from a desperate run to an heroic escape, it's awesome!
For all of the Mass Effect trilogy's blunders and missteps, it is in moments like the End Run where everything that is great about it coalesced into something greater than the sum of its parts. What a fantastic memory.
God bless both the mass effect and dead space trilogies love em
It wasn't until my third play-through that i finished with no casualties and full loyalty from my crew. This track playing as you and your whole team fly away from the collector base as it's engulfed in flames, knowing that you've successfully thwarted the reapers plans, is so satisfying.
The Collector Base Mission: The mission everyone should look at when deciding how to create a Final Mission to their game.
The feels at 1:20.... That uber moment of real suspense. The defining moment, did you assemble your team properly throughout the game, or did you fail as their commander? Your choices matter in Mass Effect 2.
Mass Effect 3.... No comment.
Can't wait to experience this series all over again in 4k. This is gonna be incredible.
"You exist because we allow it and you will end because we demand it"
Pure Epicness
The whole soundtrack is pure gold.
I got an eargasm so hard I cried
"Ah yes 'Separd' an imortal human badass supposedly waiting in council space... we have dismissed this claim"
EA: Mass Effect? Even after all those years?
Me: Always!
same
They just might screw it up given how little of the group who wrote 1 and 2 still work for Bioware.
"Human, you chagned nothing!, your species have the attention of those infinitely your greater, The reapers are your salvation through distruction,
"sorry for english
Dread Master Raptus "You have failed. We will find another way. Releasing control."
Fucking epic music plays
Dread Master Raptus
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And You see this, and know; The War is about to begin
what if it wasn't entirely fictional. It doesn't seem odd to you that the Neanderthal race which was smarter and stronger than humans suddenly vanished about 30,000 B.C. only to have the surface populated with a weaker race incapable of surviving in most climates without clothing?
Go_Away they didn't vanish, we still have animal and primal nature; how nature intended for humans to survive. modern education wants to remove that completely though to turn humans into "obedient workers". ME tells the story with the synthetic/biotic dichotomies. These themes are present in The matrix as well but am unaware of its origins... my guess is Asian folklore/mystical lore. I will go aaway now : )
I envy the people coming here from their first ever experience of the Suicide Mission. Admit it, the entire time you played that mission you had goosebumps and worried someone would die at any moment, didn't you?
I think this was the moment I realized ME2 was something special, unique for me. Listening to this track while the collector base blew up on the background and the Normandy flew off to safety.
“Human, you’ve changed nothing.”
“Your species has the attention of those infinitely your greater.”
“That which you know as Reapers are your salvation through destruction.”
“You have failed, we will find another way.”
“Releasing Control.”
The theme itself represents an impossible victory of what was sure to be a suicide mission. Shepard leads a team of united Humans, Drell, Krogan, Turian, Quarian, Asari, Geth and Salarian for one goal: To stop the Collectors. The theme starts with the team starting their mission and ends with The Collectors destroyed and the whole team surviving as they escape. This symbolises that everyone no matter their race and history, all put their trust and faith in each other and believed in their commander that brought them together. This theme represents what Commander Shepard what stand for or how Javik saw her, The Avatar: The Exemplar of Victory
The Last Mission of ME2 was pure epicness, much better than ME3. Sadly but true ;)
Yeah, Priority: Earth needed more complexity. The tone was strong, but other then that it was a letdown.
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Yeah, ME2 ending had weight, reward and generally a good feeling. ME3 ending you just had a feeling it would be a bad ending without even completing it. It was a very typical ending decision and TBH Bioware just got lazy. Admitting that the ME3 ending was meant to be a "goodbye" to Shep it just gives the impression that they simply wanted to get it off their hands ASAP. Then the Citadel came around - "now that the horse is dead lets do naughty things to it". ME4 is likely to be the same, the mindset is already conditioned and no amount of modern coding and features that it shares with DA:I is gonna save it. Or them both.
Sorry what is DA?
Erik Accorsi Dragon Age, Mass Effect's sister series.
Nothing like that last run, Shepard firing a couple final shots at the collectors, the Normandy emerging, joker shooting back at them, then THE JUMP, your teammate gets you up, and it's the flyaway from the nuclear fire. Such an epic setpiece for the last mission. Few games can get that level of hype from me still
Still brings a tear to my eye whenever I hear this. This track was perfect for the moment it was in and is still one of, if not the, best pieces of the mass effect series soundtrack
Mass Effect 2 was and still is one of the best games I’ve played. The final mission is just so epic with the music and the action scenes. Of course, I think one of the best parts was seeing so many different types of Reapers at the end. They were so different in design and just felt a little more real with the whole “we are each a nation”. The other two were pretty good, but the second just basically made the franchise. Harbinger in the Arrival DLC could’ve been better, a little more like Sovereign.
i did not play mass efect,but this song is perfect,im listening to it for more than a hour now
Human, you've changed nothing. That which you know as reapers are your salvation through destruction.
Less than week and we get to experience all this again OMG T_T....
Final mission hits like a truck when all 12 make it out alive and Harbinger does his coping
Man the adrenaline rush I got was just too powerful
REALLY EPIC!!😃😉😊
Cuz I felt like it and Halo Reach is awesome!!!
Never got so hyped while playing a videogame , hope Andromeda will recapture the epicness of this moment
Narrator: it didn't
Mass Effect>Star Wars
Ercan Güler Sad but true.
I think Mass Effect had a bigger impact on me growing up than SW. I mean, half of my SW knowledge comes from playing KOTOR, which I only played because it was like Mass Effect :)
I like Star Wars, but damn the saga don't have a chance against mass effect
especially now Krazy Kathleen Kennedy has turned the SW franchise into her own libtard propaganda now
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star wars eu > me
star wars disney < me
When I hear this, I get chills, my stomach tightens up, and tears come to my eyes. Such an emotional piece. When Shepard makes that foot jump to the Normandy and his feet are kicking. I still after so many play throughs, raise my arms and cheer. Thank you for sharing.
No matter how many times I watch it on youtube, or even play through it, the end sprint to the normandy never fails to give me chills. and then joker has a badass moment.
One of my favorite games of all time alongside other greats such as The Witcher 3, Dragon Age : Origins and Kotor.
Shepard: You're just a machine, and machines can be broken!
Reapers: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE #Triggered
Nazara: Your words are as empty as your future, I am the vanguard of your demise.
This exchange is over.
The empire strikes back of game sequels.
1:21-1:51
The most important 30 seconds of video game score in the game. Just the right composition to symbolize the turning point of the escape. It's a "firing on all cylinders moment" That gives just the right emotional cue to have us be on the edge of our seats to see whether or not we (Commander Shepard and Co.) can really make it through the mission and then have the confirmation that we can come at just the right time with just the right sort of sound. This part is only played once, as it should be. It's similar to the suicide mission, but different. It triggers this sensation of triumph that's executed masterfully.
There's no real moment in ME3 that has the same emotional trigger of one upping an intimidating galactic foe. I think that's the one big narrative flaw of the third game.
I still have the trilogy on ps3 I beat it so many times this game is fucking LEGENDARY
0:41 that almost sounds like Doctor Who theme
This same soundtrack on a huge church organ: google 'end run requiem' and tell me if I must play all mass effect 2 ost on an organ!
The theme to the Philae landing.
Played the suicide mission track in ME3 when they jumped the crucible in, it was off a bit. I played it for a bit, paused, put the crucible scene up, played the suicide track, muted the other video, and they synced up
I was SO thrilled when I first played this sequence. I had no idea who would live or die. One of them died early on, and from that point I thought any of them could. I thought Tali (my romance choice) was about to, or Garrus. I was on the edge of my seat with tears in my eyes.
Absolutely epic in the true sense of the word.
Oh hello Doctor Who, whatcha doin in Mass Effect?
"NOT ONE MORE!"
This is fucking Awesome!!
Such a good game with such a good music, thank you, Jacky)
2:06 *"YOU HAVE FAILED. WE WILL FIND ANOTHER WAY. RELEASING CONTROL."*
If the Earth ever gets a national anthem it should be this
YOU HAVE FAILED! We will find another way.
This was the true end of Mass Effect
Mass Effect 2 has the best music of the trilogy. Just for the awesomeness that is the Suicide Mission soundtrack.
Very reminiscent of the Doctor Who "Pandorica Speech" music in the beginning.. Must be why I love this song so much.
YOU HAVE FAILED - WE WILL FIND ANOTHER WAY..!
Bioware after Andromeda)
1:52 that moment when the Normandy flew down at max speed to escape the radius of the explosion was cool as hell
the fills
Coming hear after the announcement, looking forward to hearing this song in the remastered trilogy.
9 years ago... good times... thank you commander
this was my game. so many memories. i beat this game like a million times just waiting for the third one. the music, the choices, the friendships, etc. I kept everyone alive in this game, only to find out that in the third one thaine gets a disease and dies, and some other teammates die and Miranda leaves, jacob is not in your crew, ashley can die, etc. stupid. I hope the 4th one will be good. they should bring shep back.
terry autry Spoiler alert, I already beat it so I don't really care though
That is not bad. In the war people dies and if you are in a war against cosmic gods... Is very easy to loose friends.
terry autry no sheperd in mass efffect andromeda
Jonathan Diestelhorst Well with the way ME3 ended I kinda figured that much
+Jonathan Diestelhorst mark vandeloo! :D the new shepard will be jhon kartajarena.
i havent touched mass effect 1, 2, 3 since like early 2012 LOL. after i beat Mass effect 3 early last year, i just gave up. there is no point now. the new one coming out will not even let you play as shep and the crew you bonded with all those years. when the first mass effect came out in like 2007, i got it and played it in 2008 I think, and I didn't even know what it was and then when I got home from Iraq in 2010, i saw part 2 out so i just got back into it good. and then 3 and beat it.
The trilogy is over... of course it is going to feature new characters! It's just another chance for us to meet a brand new crew and connect with them all over again! Personally I'm hoping for a group of renegades like in ME2, maybe space pirates or something.
yea, where you can make your whole entire team into renegades. personally i kind of liked the renegade shep. I hope we get to see some newer boss type enemies, not the reapers, but maybe another alien force similar but more sinister
I meant renegades as sort of outcasts, maybe pirates or something. Was more a fan of Paragon myself, but regardless, I hope they don't try to do another end of the galaxy type story. It would seem like a rehash
terry autry Why would you want one that is similar? That would be stupid. I dont want to basically fight the reapers again, but basically an even worse version...
***** Agreed. That would be very stupid
Why when two musics are a little bit (a very little bit for this song) similar there's people who says "this song is copied from that thing"
PS : Doctor Who doesn't have Harbinger's voice in his theme so it can't be as good as this music.
Of course he copied. That's what composers do. Good composers create. Great composers borrow. I learned that back in Music Theory 101.
whenever shep made the final jump to the ship i thought he was going to fall and die LOL. cuz it goes in slow motion and he's being shot at. it was good to see Joker take out a weapon and start hitting bad guys. best part ever.
Just absolutely amazing! love the mass effect trilogy soundtrack!!!
this song plays when you are confident that you're going to pass on the final exam
+Luffy_EXTREME
The moment you feel like you will pass your final exam, sensors monitoring your brainwaves send a signal to an orbital station which proceeds to drop an entire orchestra down on you via drop pod, which then proceed to recreate the epicness of this soundtrack.
Mass effect BACK
Ok guys let me explain the connection to "I am the Doctor"
1: time signatures. Both this and IATD are in 7/4 time which is unusual.
2: Key signatures. Both are in D minor (with suicide mission having hints of dominant A minor in places)
3: instrumentation. Orchestra and choir are both used in both tracks.
4: melody. There are some overlaps with the brass melody being very similar to a choral section of "I am the Doctor"
Note: This track is NOT a ripoff of Murray Gold's track nor is his track a rip off of this. There are enough similarities to be noticeable, but not enough to be considered a rip off at least in my eyes. That should clear things up.
Additionally, this song was composed late 2008 or early 2009 and wasn't heard until release in 2010. IATD was likely composed mid 2009 to early 2010
Logan Shepard I'm not sure when this was composed exactly but the similarities are there. Not a rip off though
@@drbazooka5907 Hah. It's not like it's the first time Murray Gold's done shit like this.
Listen to Torchwood's series 2 soundtrack (Ben Foster's work, not his) and there's plenty of things which sound odly familiar to Doctor Who series 5 (which came later.)
Also:
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Not to mention that, by late Smith, he started ripping off his own earlier music.
Such as:
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Absolute fucking GEM. Let Mass Effect and it’s community be eternal
Mass Effect is such an awesome series. The characters are awesome, the story is epic, and the gameplay is fun. It affected me so much and I can say that it reawakened my love of the Sci-fi genre.
Bioware, thank you so much