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I've got this strange obsession with places that are only meant to passed through. Airports, train stations, highway rest stops, that sort of thing. Port Hanshan captured that vibe perfectly.
Noveria houses many secrets. The Ambience of Port Hanshan Plaza captures that very well in my opinion. There is cold and storms (danger), offset by Zen (clarity of Concentration), and then further offset by Opulence and Profits. Glass walls must have been insanely expensive to heat on such a world - but he Corporations hold back even the Elements of a frozen world to protect their secrets.
There was a place I used to go to frequently when I was working for a catering company. Corporate. Concrete. Probably built in the 70’s or 80’s. The area in between the garage and the elevators had the exact vibe of Port Hanshan. Sometimes after delivering, I’d just stand in that room with the little waterfall and plants and listen to this track on my headphones.
I don't know about you guys but for me Mass Effect 1 had a very special vibe, different from 2 and 3. It's peaceful and melancholic through and through. I honestly don't know how many times I played through it but I would guess 50 at least.. And the vibe still to this day grabs me every time. It's one of the beauties of the internet that we can all come together here and share our thoughts :)
To me what gave it the vibes it had were the different planets and unexplored worlds you could go to which ME2 and 3 lacked intensely. Even if the backdrops were cookie cutter images of the same moon flipped or different colors with different skies.
Cause you actually felt things were alive in the galaxy as a working and growing society. 2 and 3 were great, but that was lost cause the galaxy was doomed.
The Noveria theme is comforting.. I like the feeling of being all safe inside while the weather was just pounding on the complex. It still looked cold inside that place but better than being outside!! I always listen this music when the weather gets extreme..Or when it's windy and the skies are clear. (14 year old ipod died since then)I used to listen to it under the stars in the backyard with my massive telescope scintillating my eyes with the light of the stars and interstellar space... _Do recommend._ Get a telescope, you wont regret it.
I know what you mean. I live in Canada and we can have some pretty intense snow storms up here. There's nothing more relaxing than listening to this while its snowing and freezing outside.
@@Zaxares Omg, me too! And I always returned to our cabin to read the letters (instead of doing that on the deck) so that I can enjoy it a little longer 💙
Where did you deploy? I was a Tech Corporal stationed on the SSV Hastings from 2158 - 2165. I did 3 scout tours out in the Skyllian Verge. We got attached to an N7 unit during my last tour. Pretty sure one of them was a Corsair but of course, all we could do was speculate. They were stuck in the CIC with brass or on the ground most of the time, but they would have me look over their kits from time to time. Was always jealous of those Eagle M-5's you carried.
ME1 really captured the atmosphere and feel of scifi. And unlike most scifi games, we were the new kids on the block and rightfully viewed as "troublesome youngsters" by the rest of the galaxy. Really gave a different spin on the whole "space marine" genre which was what scifi games were up to that point, mostly.
the original ME was such a wonderfully humble game. Bioware only entered a partnership with EA near the very end of the development cycle for this one. This kind of quiet, comfy, atmospheric RPG experience would NEVER get directly funded by EA for a major title these days, it just kinda happened once in 2007 by coincidence. We'll always have the original ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's really nice that 80s retrofuturism is making a comeback in pop culture too. Imagine if ME1 were made as it was today. Just improve the graphics and gameplay, it might be like cyberpunk 2077 but in space.
I don't actually think that IS a windsorm. I hypothesize it is auroral effect, which means that planet's magnetic field is reacting with the huge "solar wind" of charged particles, maybe flares, pouring off the local star. On the Earth, of course, we have that effect too but it is not nearly so strong. If I took a magnetic compass to Noveria or tried to use one of today's radios on Noveria, I really doubt that such things would work. You might know already that nobody knows why, but on Earth the solar flares cycle to getting worse every 11 years beforw subsiding again. I bet their star is more active than ours. Supposing it were really wind, any person working outside would probably be blown off a cliff and killed almost immediately. Nobody would want to come there.
Well, I just reason from the mission context: They say air transport is locked down by a blizzard (which is also very bad timing since the Asari matriarch was able to travel to Peak 15 without any trouble).
@@royalraptor6245 But Halo 2 was a shell of what it could have been and if you think about it, not much happens in Halo 3. Not to mention Halo 3's plot is overdramatic and filled with unnecessary death for the sake of drama because the plot wasnt that strong
@Gehn Saavedro Ah, well I don't know what you want me to do about this, I really don't feel like there is another trilogy as good.... and it's likely we wont get another ME one so........
the whole trilogy was great, each game for its own reasons, but ME1 was by far the coziest game of the 3. the atmosphere was so relaxing and immersive, i really felt like i was exploring space. space is freakin huge! even if there's civilization, you're gonna have tons of quiet down time, and the soundtrack made that down -time wonderful in this game.
I wish there were a few more locations, but what there were were excellently crafted. I got a book of all the concept art they did for ME1 and its visual style is so compelling, I love games with great immersion and Mass Effect had that in spades.
Ahhh, Noveria. What a cool place and fantastic ambience. Reminds me of administrator Anoleis getting his ass dragged out of his office by Gianna Parasini. Good old times!
I think it's the opposite actually; newer games understand the importance of this and put massive amounts of work into it. The ambiances are also much more complex because of the amount of memory we have to work with.
Ah,. Port Hanshan. Corporate espionage and a nice chat with Lorik Qui'in in the bar while the wind and snow is howling outside. I always love coming back here.
If you were to describe this section of the game to someone, especially today, I imagine they'd say it sounds boring, but they wouldn't know what they're missing. Noveria was such a fascinating place with so much great world-building, and this section added a lot to that.
Hearing this makes me happy & sad at the same time. Knowing the trilogy of Shepard is over. However I also feel blessed to experience these games. That music tho. Mass Effect 1 exemplified the proper atmosphere & fit perfectly with the worlds. Will never forget this beauti.
For me this was the best mission in the entire trilogy. Nothing ever captured this magical mysterious vibe again. Not to mention the crazy snow blizzard outside and the incredible vague atmosphere. The music made it feel like it was 80's sci-fi or something very futuristic and otherworldly. Awesome that we get to revisit Noveria in ME3 but it was just more of a small cameo side mission rather than a huge plot important thing. Liked that they kept most of the content on Noveria in ME1 and made so many good quests on it because Feros was not my favorite part of ME1. You feel like you are in this corporate world. I just loved how everything felt so alive. The Citadel pales in comparison.
I've finished the first ME recently. Decided to play it after seeing lots of good ambience on this channel. It was totally worth it! That this place and music are one of my favorite in the game. I was playing the game while being at a ship in the cold polar waters, with strong winds blowing outside. It made this level even more special for me.
I always got the feeling that even though the interior for Port Hanshan is cold and bare-metal that it was a warm place - like the had the heating on full blast and it was snug inside.
So I always thought Mass Effect 2 was my favourite but I've been playing the remaster this week and 1 is actually my favourite. The music, writing, tone and atmosphere is much better in 1 compared to 2 and 3.
I know ME2 is most fans' favourite, and I appreciate why. Not for me though, for reasons 1) exactly what you just said, and 2) I just never warmed up to the way (how shall I say...?) most of ME2 is a series of sidequests and side stories (beautiful though they are), meanwhile the game proper - the critical motivating plot line - is effectively sidelined, as though it's just a punctuation to everything else that does _but doesn't have to_ happen. Sure, it's a winning formula for choose-your-own-adventure style gameplay, but in execution I felt it sort of negates the gravity of the main plot ME1 left you positively hooked in. IMHO ME3 found a much better balance between these two imperatives.
Im playing Legendary Edition i haven't played ME1 in 10 years and it's like my first time again. The days of beautifully made games with detailed stories are over.
This very video and ambient song helped me to get through long days working a dead-end 9 to 5 job, then college when I went back to school, and even my externship. Listening to this soothing but uplifting background music helped give me an extra push to give it my all. I now work as a surgeon assistant at a kidney clinic and still sometimes come back for a visit when finishing my end of shift tasks by myself in the lab.
Felt the same way. But then I started paying attention. It could be many things. I can tell you mine, look'em up and see if they do the trick for you. First and foremost in this game, at least for me, is the lighting. That chiaroscuro high contrast style mixed with the architecture which seems heavily based on Brutalism. And of course, the synth music. All those 3 combined give Mass Effect this eerie atmosphere, of mystery and wonder.
I wish I could get back into this universe again. But I have no confidence that EA or Bioware have the talent or desire to immerse us in such a deep story again.
If you play on PC, check out the ALOT mods. They're a bit fiddly to install but not too bad, and they make all three games look significantly better. Very much worth the time. www.nexusmods.com/masseffect/mods/83
this is not music, it is a relaxation magic. I always imagine this ambience taking place in a spa high up the snowy mountains with a gigantic glass front with gives view to the surrounding mountains and the snowy winds.
The ambiance of this music combined with a station with a heavy blizzard raging outside the windows is one of the most memorable environmental sections I've ever played in a game. ME1 is full of stuff like this too. Just so ahead of its time in 2007 in so many ways.
I think the original Mass Effect will always be my favorite. How new and amazing all the people, species, and environs felt, especially when complimented by amazing tracks like this, really just sold the universe and made it feel real. I love the other games, but no other has ever quite recreated this feeling like the original did. I remember just sitting places like Hanshan and the Citadel and just reading the Codex for ages. Good times.
The ambient music for Noveria composed by Jack Wall (the BEST sci-fi composer in recent time) is the second most iconic song in the ME series in my opinion. The only other soundtrack that absolutely everyone remembers and still uses abundantly to this day is the Galaxy Map Theme by Sam Hulick.
Noveria had the Lilitheriax, known as LI. Another interesting NPC on some corner you would just keep chatting. Mass Effect was the best sci-fi rpg and no one took the crown just yet, more than a decade later.
The games of old... System Shock, Unreal 1, Deus Ex 1, Mass Effect 1... All of them used these somewhat simplistic but beautiful morphing ambient music loops that made the immersion into their worlds complete. The skill that seems to be lost among the modern game makers. Or maybe, it's just me getting old and nostalgic. :)
Coming from someone that gets annoyed when someone says all modern games suck I agree with you it feels like a lost art. Though there is occasionally a new game with ambient tracks like this.
i agree with you, you can feel the love and art in these old games and im not saying that all of the newer games are bad but you can feel the diference
This is my favorite track from the Mass Effect trilogy. It gives me pure nostalgia and this feeling I can’t explain from being 9 again, all the way through my teen years and into my 20s. It’s a score that’s been there throughout every year of my life when I watch videos about Mass Effect, or if I am replaying the game myself. So it can make me feel many different forma of joy. Noveria was the perfect Mass Effect mission and always the highlight for me, so where I love the sounds of the Citadel and other tracks such as Uncharted Worlds, the eery yet futuristic tone of Port Hanshan always had my number 1 spot. Something about it being a place you’re just passing through made it even more special. Also, this song fueled my dissertation. I’d put this loop on for hours while working on the final few months of my degree, I think I listened to it for 4 hours of an all-nighter last March. These Mass Effect tracks are so good to work to. It felt nice working on my Computer Science degree with this background music, working on my special dissertation project that only I was involved in. Suppose it made me feel like I was working on Peak 15, haha.
I have been watching this video almost every day since many years... Noveria was my favorite place in ME. The atmosphere is unmatchable! I usually listen to this video when I have to study or focus on something... I imagine myself working on one of those cold tables in Port Hanshan Plaza while there is a blizzard out there... Thank you for uploading this video!
Noveria is possibly the best place in any game I have played other than Detroit/Hengsha in Deus Ex: Human Revolution and maybe the Imperial City in Jade Empire.
Both ME2 and ME3 were amazing games but only ME managed to make me relive the levels just by listening to the music. Everything was so unique, so stellar, so... alien. And wonderful :)
Hearing this makes me nostalgic not only for Mass Effect 1, but also for Mass Effect 2 (this track is the one I always pick to play in my private quarters on board the Normandy SR-2).
I just came across your entire channel full of the 1 hour sessions of the music and scenes from these locations and I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. I'm running a DnD campaign that follows the Mass Effect storyline like a DnD module, and writing it from scratch is a pain. But with this music and these scenes to cast as background for my players, it makes it all worthwhile to see them experience those emotions that Mass Effect brought to me over a Decade ago.
This ambience and music is life. Something about this cuts right through to the soul and consciousness itself. I've been entranced by this ever since 2007.
When I hear this song I think of a very secret base in Antarctic with security guards and a special operation which try to access to this building without getting noticed .. very precise haha
My favorite place, my favorite track. I can't describe what exactly makes this so special, I just found something I never knew I would love so much: an alien spacestation, brutalism, retro vibes, the overall weirdness and loneliness.
Port Hanshan is literally what got me into modern & brutalist architecture. I couldn't even fathom what was attractive about it until Mass Effect 1 and these feels right here.
Always makes me think of the scene just before the Geth fight in the hanger where the gaurd lady says "YES THAT'S GENUINE" in that bizzar abrupt & jarring way.
Ah I miss the memories this game gave me. Noverria will remain one of my favorite places in gaming for some time to come, thanks Mass Effect. I always loved this song for reminding me of the peaceful yet ominous feeling of Noverria, similar to Ferros where things are... just slightly off. That calm before the storm where you have a moment. It radiates ME1 all over and that's partially why I loved this game so much when I actually played it for the first time.
Mass Effect 1's strongest point is neither the story nor combat, it's the ambiance. While the story is brilliant and well written, and the combat is showing it's age, ME1's god damn ambiance stands undefeated to this very day.
The series was brimming with potential back then, though I do like ME 2&3 very much they changed it way too much in some parts, it became a bit too generic and action like. No doubt because of EA. Hell even the main menu theme is superior to the follow ups!
ME2 is in my top 5 games of all time and I slightly prefer it to ME1 but my love for ME2 wouldn't have been possible with the first game which laid the groundwork for my incredible ME2 experience. I do actually prefer ME1 is a few ways, ME2 was like the dirty dozen in space and a perfect follow on to the more linear traditional, story of ME1 but I do feel the story was better in ME1 and also it had this incredible retro 70's/80's vibe that was somewhat lost in ME2, tracks like this, the C-Sec Academy and ILLOS onesencapsulates that. At times ME1 was a very hard game to love but I just adored it
@@francescogaspari1835 Man I hate what they've done to Star Trek, it's a disgrace, trying to turn the entire franchise into a new Star Wars. I spit on discovery!
Such amazing ambience. I have it running in my headphones at work, with the snow falling outside my window and it makes the whole workplace feel more alive really.
i always felt like presence of all those fountains would really cool the inside of the port hanshan. being safe inside where its warm and dry while bad weather is ragind just outside the window is satisfying, but presence of- or just feeling a moisture makes me shiver in such occasions. i would throw those fountains out.
You're talking about lizard people and a culture that lives and works in space. They're used to regulating against extreme temperatures and conditions. I bet it's rather warm inside actually for the comfort of the salarians that pretty much own the place.
That ambient track in GTA V that Tangerine Dream might have done always reminded me of one of the Mass Effect 1 tracks and it was this one by Jack Wall!
@Alberto Mollinedo i played the game at launch way back in 2007 on the xbox 360 and never encountered a single glitch in the whole thing. Did you play the pc version?
Something tells me they would've considered that sort of thing as an indie studio, but once the game released they were under agreement with EA, and EA likes big epic setpieces like bring down the sky
@@SillyCats99 An interesting choice for jogging outside mate - not that I'm gonna hold you to it. For me, if I ever get bored of listening to music that's hard-hitting (so to say), then I'll have this playing while I'm doing my Garry's Mod work or to sleep.
This is something Andromeda severely lacked, a strong, associative track with arguably 3 exceptions: "The Jardaan" (plays on Veold, some Vaults), "A New Beginning", and the Cluster Map theme which is basically a remix of Uncharted Worlds. ME1 and 3 especially had great themes to each planet.
Noveria is my favorite level in the ME1 game. And like many of the comments before me, I just would enjoy beeing in a place like the main building chilling with a book or something while there is a huge blizzard outside. Or again, even being in Peak 15 in isolation would be also comforting for some reason.
Imagine the future of humanity. You are traveling to Mars for business or study purpose. You are entering into spaceport and going to the registration desk, and you seeing aliens and humans talking to eachother, discusing their routine stuff.
Such a chilled out theme. That conversation between the Human and Salarian must have been riveting for them to stand there like that for such a while. Also, in all my time playing the Mass Effect games, I never thought about this, which is how Salarian's would make wicked runners. Their legs are the same shape as Ostriches ; )
Mass Effect 1, 2, and to a lesser extent 3, all had such evocative music. It really helped sell the atmosphere and transported the player into the universe. And they always incorporated the perfect amount of space opera cinematic flair. I will never forget the opening sequence, the reveal of the Citadel, the resurrection of Normandy, the first time I set foot in the nightclub on Omega... These games created good memories. Something many games these days seem to fail at.
![Mass Effect - Galaxy Map Theme (1 Hour of Music) [4K]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/0Wqo4RrT7F0/mqdefault.jpg)
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Visually, I prefer this one. It has more of a warm mood about it.
@@soundfx68 it’s perfect
@@soundfx68 same
@@soundfx68 Agreed. And personally I don't like how the hanging lights they added break up that immense open space.
@@soundfx68 Likewise.
I've got this strange obsession with places that are only meant to passed through. Airports, train stations, highway rest stops, that sort of thing. Port Hanshan captured that vibe perfectly.
Noveria houses many secrets. The Ambience of Port Hanshan Plaza captures that very well in my opinion. There is cold and storms (danger), offset by Zen (clarity of Concentration), and then further offset by Opulence and Profits. Glass walls must have been insanely expensive to heat on such a world - but he Corporations hold back even the Elements of a frozen world to protect their secrets.
Not sure if you've heard of it, but "liminal space" is the term for those kinds of places. You're not the only one fascinated with them :)
I totally get what you mean, you just feel like you are at the navel of the world. I have a similar feeling on planet manaan in kotor 1...
@@StormcrowIV Right, from the Latin word for "threshold", cf. "subliminal".
There was a place I used to go to frequently when I was working for a catering company. Corporate. Concrete. Probably built in the 70’s or 80’s. The area in between the garage and the elevators had the exact vibe of Port Hanshan. Sometimes after delivering, I’d just stand in that room with the little waterfall and plants and listen to this track on my headphones.
ME was a masterpiece.
Will be forever =)
@@LightHOwUSE IS a Materpiece. :)
Yes YOU are
cant believe it's been almost 12 years.
IS even today :-)
"You can't bludgeon your way through bureaucracy, Shepard.
" I can bludgeon pretty hard
We'll bang ok?
"Just ask every female member of my crew"
@@TheGingiGamer every member*
Anoleis: "Businesses have come here to avoid the second guessing of galactic law."
Shepard: "And I represent the second guessing of galactic law."
Forget fighting RUN RUNNNN
I don't know about you guys but for me Mass Effect 1 had a very special vibe, different from 2 and 3. It's peaceful and melancholic through and through. I honestly don't know how many times I played through it but I would guess 50 at least.. And the vibe still to this day grabs me every time.
It's one of the beauties of the internet that we can all come together here and share our thoughts :)
To me what gave it the vibes it had were the different planets and unexplored worlds you could go to which ME2 and 3 lacked intensely. Even if the backdrops were cookie cutter images of the same moon flipped or different colors with different skies.
@@FUBBA I fully agree! It felt so much more vast and gave a real feeling of the emptiness of space. I really missed that in ME 2-3.
Thank God somebody exists who's done more playthroughs than me. I needed a support group for my addiction.
@@datsyukiancircus Haha glad I could help :D
Cause you actually felt things were alive in the galaxy as a working and growing society. 2 and 3 were great, but that was lost cause the galaxy was doomed.
The Noveria theme is comforting.. I like the feeling of being all safe inside while the weather was just pounding on the complex. It still looked cold inside that place but better than being outside!! I always listen this music when the weather gets extreme..Or when it's windy and the skies are clear. (14 year old ipod died since then)I used to listen to it under the stars in the backyard with my massive telescope scintillating my eyes with the light of the stars and interstellar space... _Do recommend._ Get a telescope, you wont regret it.
As long as I have nowhere to go, terrible weather outside makes being inside feel so much more snug and satisfying.
I know what you mean. I live in Canada and we can have some pretty intense snow storms up here. There's nothing more relaxing than listening to this while its snowing and freezing outside.
Never has office space and expensive drinking water felt so comforting
I know! That’s exactly how I felt with this track!
Which telescope would you recommend me? I'm not a professional, i have 0 experience about it.
God damn I love this. ME1 had such amazing ambiance.
I always choose this song as the music for my cabin in ME2. :3
@@Zaxares Omg, me too!
And I always returned to our cabin to read the letters (instead of doing that on the deck) so that I can enjoy it a little longer 💙
I like to imagine a remastered version with a graphics overhaul
@@StarboyXL9 we all do buddy
Really need to go back and play it, feel like I've missed out
This is a very strong and epic track of Mass Effect , people who really love Mass Effect? Will never forget this track.
Hackett out.
It still hurt me in the feels, especially Nostalgia. ME1. I wish I could rewind my age and relive that moment.
@@BrawndoQC I know exactly what you mean. That awe and wonder... I just hope that one day they will recapture that.
Today Bioware announced they're working on very very early concepts of a new mass effect game. Maybe there's hope.
@@zacharycrater2588 Well Bioware's not Bioware anymore.
@@CheeseOfMasters True ... but I hope for a soul successor ,like obsidian did with the Outer worlds
In college in Minnesota I remember studying for finals in the library during a snowstorm, I played this on loop as I sat by the windows.
Heart.
Playing Mass Effect is actually what initially inspired me to enlist in the Systems Alliance. I am now an N7 operative.
Wonder how many years it'll take for this to age well
Ok. I will found the Systems Alliance.
Where did you deploy? I was a Tech Corporal stationed on the SSV Hastings from 2158 - 2165. I did 3 scout tours out in the Skyllian Verge. We got attached to an N7 unit during my last tour. Pretty sure one of them was a Corsair but of course, all we could do was speculate. They were stuck in the CIC with brass or on the ground most of the time, but they would have me look over their kits from time to time. Was always jealous of those Eagle M-5's you carried.
hey, I know you! you are commander Scorpion, the human Spectre?
when Mass Effect returns it need to go back to this retro art style and classic scifi ambiance music
Yessir! I loved ME1 so much the feel of this game was everything.
ME1 really captured the atmosphere and feel of scifi. And unlike most scifi games, we were the new kids on the block and rightfully viewed as "troublesome youngsters" by the rest of the galaxy. Really gave a different spin on the whole "space marine" genre which was what scifi games were up to that point, mostly.
compmanio36 Yessir you are correct! That was the best thing about ME1 something the other ones couldn’t replicate.
the original ME was such a wonderfully humble game. Bioware only entered a partnership with EA near the very end of the development cycle for this one. This kind of quiet, comfy, atmospheric RPG experience would NEVER get directly funded by EA for a major title these days, it just kinda happened once in 2007 by coincidence. We'll always have the original ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's really nice that 80s retrofuturism is making a comeback in pop culture too. Imagine if ME1 were made as it was today. Just improve the graphics and gameplay, it might be like cyberpunk 2077 but in space.
"'Surface access' you say?"
"'Cut OFF', I said."
Surface access you say?
It's a shame there was a blizzard at the time. Port Hanshan's views must have been spectacular.
I don't actually think that IS a windsorm. I hypothesize it is auroral effect, which means that planet's magnetic field is reacting with the huge "solar wind" of charged particles, maybe flares, pouring off the local star. On the Earth, of course, we have that effect too but it is not nearly so strong. If I took a magnetic compass to Noveria or tried to use one of today's radios on Noveria, I really doubt that such things would work. You might know already that nobody knows why, but on Earth the solar flares cycle to getting worse every 11 years beforw subsiding again. I bet their star is more active than ours.
Supposing it were really wind, any person working outside would probably be blown off a cliff and killed almost immediately. Nobody would want to come there.
Well, I just reason from the mission context: They say air transport is locked down by a blizzard (which is also very bad timing since the Asari matriarch was able to travel to Peak 15 without any trouble).
I love your brain.
i love your knee caps
That's what they said about Battleborn, it's a shame there was a Blizzard at the time.
Those damned guards won't talk to me..
What to expect when an outpost like Noviera's run by a bunch of lonely soldiery bitches on periods and cold hard dildos.
Pretty sure two turians talk to you. One friendly, one rude. The friendly one's craving doughnuts. xD
yeah but he aint cravin my donut but I'm still cravin some dextro meat ya kno
rip me1 shep, absolutely no turian romance options
THE KIRYU yeah they are just standing there waiting for a group of geths to walk in..
who else shot all the peak 15 guards anyway before using the doctors pass just because it was fun to terrorise everyone? XD
In my opinion, there will never be another trilogy as good in history.
halo was better because the ending of 3 wasn’t shit but Mass effect is amazing and my lust for another game like ME:2 is unrivaled
@@royalraptor6245 But Halo 2 was a shell of what it could have been and if you think about it, not much happens in Halo 3. Not to mention Halo 3's plot is overdramatic and filled with unnecessary death for the sake of drama because the plot wasnt that strong
@Gehn Saavedro I'm not 'blocking' anything, this is my opinion. There's no need to take the defensive..
@Gehn Saavedro Ah, well I don't know what you want me to do about this, I really don't feel like there is another trilogy as good.... and it's likely we wont get another ME one so........
@Gehn Saavedro ok bro, your preaching to the wrong person, I do not care.
Atmosphere never fails in this trilogy.
finish part 3 to discover the fail.
Peak 15 you said?
We Mako destiny.
Got that right.
Really Just the 1st game
@@walteravalos4508 and the 2nd and 3rd
the whole trilogy was great, each game for its own reasons, but ME1 was by far the coziest game of the 3. the atmosphere was so relaxing and immersive, i really felt like i was exploring space. space is freakin huge! even if there's civilization, you're gonna have tons of quiet down time, and the soundtrack made that down -time wonderful in this game.
Totally agree, the sense of scale and possibilites in Mass Effect 1 is something I doubt will ever be matched.
I wish there were a few more locations, but what there were were excellently crafted. I got a book of all the concept art they did for ME1 and its visual style is so compelling, I love games with great immersion and Mass Effect had that in spades.
@@G1NZOU omg what's the book called? I adore ME1 art style so much, I need it!
@@Li_Tobler the ISBN-13 is 9780761558514, ISBN-10 is 0761558519
It's called "The Art of Mass Effect"
Hardback published by Prima Games in 2007.
@@Li_Tobler here's a vid of someone flicking through their copy. th-cam.com/video/PLmeJFn6SO8/w-d-xo.html
Ahhh, Noveria. What a cool place and fantastic ambience. Reminds me of administrator Anoleis getting his ass dragged out of his office by Gianna Parasini. Good old times!
"YOU! SHEPARD! I demand you place this bitch under arrest!"
"You have the right to remain silent. I wish to God you'd exercise it!"
@@HolyknightVader999 Thanks Shepard... I owe ya a BEER
Or the time you get them both killed and just walk on and grab the pass.
@@H31MU7 Heh... and in Mass Effect 2 she actually buys Shepard that beer.
Newer games tend to overlook the importance of ambience aka the feels..or their newer target audience simply doesn't care. **sad face**
I so love when snowing and going to Noveria ah the music Is SO Great and gold and good Damn old memories so bad.
Rina R. N. It’s both
Right now snowing so cool!
Exactly
I think it's the opposite actually; newer games understand the importance of this and put massive amounts of work into it. The ambiances are also much more complex because of the amount of memory we have to work with.
One of my favorite locations in the entire trilogy. Thanks for uploading it!
Chris Alley yes man. i remember the first time i heard this. i was so immersed. i became shepard that momenr. still i get goosebumps when i hear this.
"Turians don't like the cold Shepard....did I mention that?" ;)
Hanshan means Cold Mountain(s) in Chinese -- the Port of Hanshan, if there were such a place today, would likely be "Hanshan Duankou" (漢山 端口).
Whoa, thanks for sharing that. I love meaningful naming like that.
Julian G and Noveria is derived from Nova Siberia (new Siberia) ;)
When you play this at home and outside the house it snows. the feeling....
RIGHT?
How has it already been 13 years since this masterpiece was new? 😔
You're a gentleman and scholar for posting Port Hanshan. It would be so cool to sit next to the running water and chill out.
Watching the snowstorm cascading past the windows...
I want to frame this comment. "You are a gentleman and a scholar."
Ah,. Port Hanshan. Corporate espionage and a nice chat with Lorik Qui'in in the bar while the wind and snow is howling outside. I always love coming back here.
Good times maxing out my renegade score with his glitch
If you were to describe this section of the game to someone, especially today, I imagine they'd say it sounds boring, but they wouldn't know what they're missing. Noveria was such a fascinating place with so much great world-building, and this section added a lot to that.
Hearing this makes me happy & sad at the same time. Knowing the trilogy of Shepard is over. However I also feel blessed to experience these games. That music tho. Mass Effect 1 exemplified the proper atmosphere & fit perfectly with the worlds. Will never forget this beauti.
You can play it again and again. Each time I play it, it's a whole different experience between male and female and paragon and renegade choices
It makes me incredibly sad. We will never get an actual sequel to me1 that fulfills the potential it had
@@georgsgrants9925 you mean a sequel that keeps some RPG in my RPG?
@@Mike-jv8bv that and a better story
14 years & still unbeaten. Characters, story, art style, music, atmosphere...masterpiece, always will be.
For me this was the best mission in the entire trilogy. Nothing ever captured this magical mysterious vibe again. Not to mention the crazy snow blizzard outside and the incredible vague atmosphere. The music made it feel like it was 80's sci-fi or something very futuristic and otherworldly. Awesome that we get to revisit Noveria in ME3 but it was just more of a small cameo side mission rather than a huge plot important thing. Liked that they kept most of the content on Noveria in ME1 and made so many good quests on it because Feros was not my favorite part of ME1. You feel like you are in this corporate world. I just loved how everything felt so alive. The Citadel pales in comparison.
YES!
Sadly the only thing that Me3 mission shares in common is the planet it’s on and snow, basically everything else is different.
Matriarch Benezia is out at peak 15- but the road is closed down there's a huge storm.
jack diamond garage is shut down. Need to find a way past that
Mass effect is such a vibe. The aesthetic, the ambience, the story. It’s just so cohesive
I've finished the first ME recently. Decided to play it after seeing lots of good ambience on this channel. It was totally worth it!
That this place and music are one of my favorite in the game.
I was playing the game while being at a ship in the cold polar waters, with strong winds blowing outside. It made this level even more special for me.
What polar ship?
@@zephyr2792 I was at the Russian RV "Akademik Mstislav Keldysh" at that time, we were in Antarctic waters.
@@MrSparker95 that is so cool man
Thats a level of meta ambiance people would die to have
Also safe sailing!
Mass effect 1 has possibly the best ambient trance like yet still somehow also exhilarating soundtrack ever.
I always got the feeling that even though the interior for Port Hanshan is cold and bare-metal that it was a warm place - like the had the heating on full blast and it was snug inside.
I also thought the water of the fountains was warm water for some reason.
So I always thought Mass Effect 2 was my favourite but I've been playing the remaster this week and 1 is actually my favourite. The music, writing, tone and atmosphere is much better in 1 compared to 2 and 3.
I know ME2 is most fans' favourite, and I appreciate why. Not for me though, for reasons 1) exactly what you just said, and 2) I just never warmed up to the way (how shall I say...?) most of ME2 is a series of sidequests and side stories (beautiful though they are), meanwhile the game proper - the critical motivating plot line - is effectively sidelined, as though it's just a punctuation to everything else that does _but doesn't have to_ happen. Sure, it's a winning formula for choose-your-own-adventure style gameplay, but in execution I felt it sort of negates the gravity of the main plot ME1 left you positively hooked in. IMHO ME3 found a much better balance between these two imperatives.
ME1 has the best Story of all ME's. I love the Twist with the citadelle and the Reaper!
This song is a beautiful masterpiece in gaming history
Im playing Legendary Edition i haven't played ME1 in 10 years and it's like my first time again. The days of beautifully made games with detailed stories are over.
You will find new hope with Horizon: Zero Dawn
@@hypervious8878 yeesh
@@hypervious8878 hahahahahahaha
@@Randy_Flamethrower ?
@@hypervious8878 boring slop
Rest in peace BioWare.
BioWare isn’t dead.
@@bluetwinkiesaregood You still think so?
You know what I could go for right now? A donut.
Security likes their donut
Have you tried Ramon? It's like a delicacy back on Earth..
Have you tried Ramon? It's like a delicacy back on Earth..
This very video and ambient song helped me to get through long days working a dead-end 9 to 5 job, then college when I went back to school, and even my externship. Listening to this soothing but uplifting background music helped give me an extra push to give it my all.
I now work as a surgeon assistant at a kidney clinic and still sometimes come back for a visit when finishing my end of shift tasks by myself in the lab.
Hands down my favorite ambience from the first game. So peaceful and nostalgic... thank you!
Noveria is honestly the planet I look forward the most to playing in the remastered version. Always loved the ominous, serene atmosphere.
There is a something about the atmosphere in ME1 that I absolutely love and I have no clue why, which is good. Thank you for this epic track!
Felt the same way. But then I started paying attention. It could be many things. I can tell you mine, look'em up and see if they do the trick for you. First and foremost in this game, at least for me, is the lighting. That chiaroscuro high contrast style mixed with the architecture which seems heavily based on Brutalism. And of course, the synth music. All those 3 combined give Mass Effect this eerie atmosphere, of mystery and wonder.
Especially when you're doing those creepy side missions and it's a trap.
It’s the electronic BGMs that weren’t present in the later games
I wish I could get back into this universe again. But I have no confidence that EA or Bioware have the talent or desire to immerse us in such a deep story again.
If you play on PC, check out the ALOT mods. They're a bit fiddly to install but not too bad, and they make all three games look significantly better. Very much worth the time.
www.nexusmods.com/masseffect/mods/83
@@spork8655 Mm. Nice to know thats on Nexus. Also EA relented and put the third of the franchise on Steam.
Thank you for this piece! I've been listening to it for hours while preparing to exams and passed with flying colors.
this is not music, it is a relaxation magic. I always imagine this ambience taking place in a spa high up the snowy mountains with a gigantic glass front with gives view to the surrounding mountains and the snowy winds.
Noveria was one of my favorite ME1 locations because of this music . Thanks for uploading all of these extended tracks :)
The ambiance of this music combined with a station with a heavy blizzard raging outside the windows is one of the most memorable environmental sections I've ever played in a game. ME1 is full of stuff like this too. Just so ahead of its time in 2007 in so many ways.
I agree, Noveria just lives in my mind rent free since 2007.
Слушаю саундтрек и вспоминаю уют, покой и умиротворение от музыкальной темы этой планеты...
I think the original Mass Effect will always be my favorite. How new and amazing all the people, species, and environs felt, especially when complimented by amazing tracks like this, really just sold the universe and made it feel real. I love the other games, but no other has ever quite recreated this feeling like the original did.
I remember just sitting places like Hanshan and the Citadel and just reading the Codex for ages. Good times.
The ambient music for Noveria composed by Jack Wall (the BEST sci-fi composer in recent time) is the second most iconic song in the ME series in my opinion. The only other soundtrack that absolutely everyone remembers and still uses abundantly to this day is the Galaxy Map Theme by Sam Hulick.
Noveria had the Lilitheriax, known as LI. Another interesting NPC on some corner you would just keep chatting.
Mass Effect was the best sci-fi rpg and no one took the crown just yet, more than a decade later.
The games of old... System Shock, Unreal 1, Deus Ex 1, Mass Effect 1... All of them used these somewhat simplistic but beautiful morphing ambient music loops that made the immersion into their worlds complete. The skill that seems to be lost among the modern game makers. Or maybe, it's just me getting old and nostalgic. :)
Coming from someone that gets annoyed when someone says all modern games suck I agree with you it feels like a lost art. Though there is occasionally a new game with ambient tracks like this.
i agree with you, you can feel the love and art in these old games and im not saying that all of the newer games are bad but you can feel the diference
This is my favorite track from the Mass Effect trilogy. It gives me pure nostalgia and this feeling I can’t explain from being 9 again, all the way through my teen years and into my 20s. It’s a score that’s been there throughout every year of my life when I watch videos about Mass Effect, or if I am replaying the game myself. So it can make me feel many different forma of joy.
Noveria was the perfect Mass Effect mission and always the highlight for me, so where I love the sounds of the Citadel and other tracks such as Uncharted Worlds, the eery yet futuristic tone of Port Hanshan always had my number 1 spot. Something about it being a place you’re just passing through made it even more special.
Also, this song fueled my dissertation. I’d put this loop on for hours while working on the final few months of my degree, I think I listened to it for 4 hours of an all-nighter last March. These Mass Effect tracks are so good to work to. It felt nice working on my Computer Science degree with this background music, working on my special dissertation project that only I was involved in. Suppose it made me feel like I was working on Peak 15, haha.
I have been watching this video almost every day since many years...
Noveria was my favorite place in ME. The atmosphere is unmatchable!
I usually listen to this video when I have to study or focus on something... I imagine myself working on one of those cold tables in Port Hanshan Plaza while there is a blizzard out there... Thank you for uploading this video!
Noveria is possibly the best place in any game I have played other than Detroit/Hengsha in Deus Ex: Human Revolution and maybe the Imperial City in Jade Empire.
Thank you for adding the conversing salarian to this mix.
Its the winter in chicago. Below zero weather. Slipper roads and snow everywhere. This song fits the vibes right now perfectly.
Both ME2 and ME3 were amazing games but only ME managed to make me relive the levels just by listening to the music. Everything was so unique, so stellar, so... alien. And wonderful :)
Thank you very much for uploading. Such good study music.
A future feel to it, just can’t believe I didn’t realize how good it was until now
I've always had a strange obsession with this place, there's something so uniquely comfortable about Port Hanshan.
Mass Effect 1 is like the strong memory, sad but prolonging
Hearing this makes me nostalgic not only for Mass Effect 1, but also for Mass Effect 2 (this track is the one I always pick to play in my private quarters on board the Normandy SR-2).
I just came across your entire channel full of the 1 hour sessions of the music and scenes from these locations and I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. I'm running a DnD campaign that follows the Mass Effect storyline like a DnD module, and writing it from scratch is a pain. But with this music and these scenes to cast as background for my players, it makes it all worthwhile to see them experience those emotions that Mass Effect brought to me over a Decade ago.
This ambience and music is life. Something about this cuts right through to the soul and consciousness itself. I've been entranced by this ever since 2007.
When I hear this song I think of a very secret base in Antarctic with security guards and a special operation which try to access to this building without getting noticed .. very precise haha
My favorite place, my favorite track. I can't describe what exactly makes this so special, I just found something I never knew I would love so much: an alien spacestation, brutalism, retro vibes, the overall weirdness and loneliness.
Port Hanshan is literally what got me into modern & brutalist architecture. I couldn't even fathom what was attractive about it until Mass Effect 1 and these feels right here.
Always makes me think of the scene just before the Geth fight in the hanger where the gaurd lady says "YES THAT'S GENUINE" in that bizzar abrupt & jarring way.
I remember July of 2014 I was doing a 100% run of the series and even in the middle of a blistering hot Mississippi summer, Noveria made me feel cold
Ah I miss the memories this game gave me. Noverria will remain one of my favorite places in gaming for some time to come, thanks Mass Effect.
I always loved this song for reminding me of the peaceful yet ominous feeling of Noverria, similar to Ferros where things are... just slightly off. That calm before the storm where you have a moment. It radiates ME1 all over and that's partially why I loved this game so much when I actually played it for the first time.
"You are not gonna shoot us !"
Wrex: You are right they are actually gonna let me eat you.
Mass Effect 1's strongest point is neither the story nor combat, it's the ambiance.
While the story is brilliant and well written, and the combat is showing it's age, ME1's god damn ambiance stands undefeated to this very day.
The series was brimming with potential back then, though I do like ME 2&3 very much they changed it way too much in some parts, it became a bit too generic and action like. No doubt because of EA. Hell even the main menu theme is superior to the follow ups!
ME1 was something special.
ME2 is in my top 5 games of all time and I slightly prefer it to ME1 but my love for ME2 wouldn't have been possible with the first game which laid the groundwork for my incredible ME2 experience.
I do actually prefer ME1 is a few ways, ME2 was like the dirty dozen in space and a perfect follow on to the more linear traditional, story of ME1 but I do feel the story was better in ME1 and also it had this incredible retro 70's/80's vibe that was somewhat lost in ME2, tracks like this, the C-Sec Academy and ILLOS onesencapsulates that. At times ME1 was a very hard game to love but I just adored it
@@gillri Simply ME1 is like a Star Trek and ME 1-2 is like a Star Wars
@@francescogaspari1835 Man I hate what they've done to Star Trek, it's a disgrace, trying to turn the entire franchise into a new Star Wars. I spit on discovery!
Even the main menu was way better
Such amazing ambience. I have it running in my headphones at work, with the snow falling outside my window and it makes the whole workplace feel more alive really.
Brilliant.
Port Hanshan is one of my favorite ambient locations in the ME trilogy
These game videos are great. The raging storm outside and the cozy yet dense feeling inside is quite the experience when playing the game.
I forgot how much I wanted this
I started a ME1 playthrough last week, and I just got to Noveria last night... the same day it started to flurry at my house. Beautiful.
lucky!!
Mmmmmmm right in the nostalgia
The subtle bass really makes this ambience: 1:08
Great study music too, just calmed me down completely for the last hour before a deadline.
i always felt like presence of all those fountains would really cool the inside of the port hanshan. being safe inside where its warm and dry while bad weather is ragind just outside the window is satisfying, but presence of- or just feeling a moisture makes me shiver in such occasions. i would throw those fountains out.
You're talking about lizard people and a culture that lives and works in space. They're used to regulating against extreme temperatures and conditions. I bet it's rather warm inside actually for the comfort of the salarians that pretty much own the place.
Ready for the remaster to come out.
Can’t wait to experience Noveria again for the fifth time.......with the recent announced Legendary Edition Remaster......
I practically lived in these games back then.
That ambient track in GTA V that Tangerine Dream might have done always reminded me of one of the Mass Effect 1 tracks and it was this one by Jack Wall!
Coming back and listening to all these brilliant tracks whilst waiting for the trilogy remaster! May 14th!!
Same. Hold that line!
@@AshleyWiIliams Gunnery Chief Williams, I will be holding that line until the day comes!
I did not notice this wonderful music in Noveria until 1 month ago, after ..well..10 years. It's my fault but you, sir, made my absolution :D
Frankly O' Oh wow, you were missing out :))
thats the point of ambient music. you arent supposed to notice it. it blends perfectly with the environment
@Alberto Mollinedo i played the game at launch way back in 2007 on the xbox 360 and never encountered a single glitch in the whole thing. Did you play the pc version?
i always thought that they should have had DLC where the hotel opens up to you
R Y And you get to meet some nice Asari babes!
Something tells me they would've considered that sort of thing as an indie studio, but once the game released they were under agreement with EA, and EA likes big epic setpieces like bring down the sky
fwiw we did end up with the citadel DLC for ME3
I like to listen this track when I am going for a walk in the winter evenings)
A whole hour of listening to 'Noveria'? - My absolute favorite song of the whole soundtrack from ME1?
I thank you immensely mate!
Kommandant4298 I play this theme for studying and doing homework. As well as jogging outside.
@@SillyCats99 An interesting choice for jogging outside mate - not that I'm gonna hold you to it.
For me, if I ever get bored of listening to music that's hard-hitting (so to say), then I'll have this playing while I'm doing my Garry's Mod work or to sleep.
Noveria was really a moment of my life...
This is something Andromeda severely lacked, a strong, associative track with arguably 3 exceptions: "The Jardaan" (plays on Veold, some Vaults), "A New Beginning", and the Cluster Map theme which is basically a remix of Uncharted Worlds. ME1 and 3 especially had great themes to each planet.
Noveria is my favorite level in the ME1 game. And like many of the comments before me, I just would enjoy beeing in a place like the main building chilling with a book or something while there is a huge blizzard outside. Or again, even being in Peak 15 in isolation would be also comforting for some reason.
"This one will ask you to leave now."
Imagine the future of humanity. You are traveling to Mars for business or study purpose. You are entering into spaceport and going to the registration desk, and you seeing aliens and humans talking to eachother, discusing their routine stuff.
Such a chilled out theme. That conversation between the Human and Salarian must have been riveting for them to stand there like that for such a while. Also, in all my time playing the Mass Effect games, I never thought about this, which is how Salarian's would make wicked runners. Their legs are the same shape as Ostriches ; )
Mass Effect 1, 2, and to a lesser extent 3, all had such evocative music. It really helped sell the atmosphere and transported the player into the universe. And they always incorporated the perfect amount of space opera cinematic flair. I will never forget the opening sequence, the reveal of the Citadel, the resurrection of Normandy, the first time I set foot in the nightclub on Omega... These games created good memories. Something many games these days seem to fail at.
ME3 never hit it off for me.
you my friend are a true hero for posting this videos.