One of the reasons I always go back to Mass Effect 1 specifically is because, basically, I find the vibes to be immaculate. Some games struggle to really capture the essence of their setting, but Mass Effect 1 nails the sci-fi adventure fantasy (better than the other games imo). The music is perfect, the technology you experience feels exotic, and the alien races are all fascinating and have interesting nuances that make them feel just as real as humans. For me, safety means escaping whatever situation I find myself in, and Mass Effect 1 is the best escape I could ask for.
My only problem with 1, is I got it when it first came out. And then beat it. And then beat it. And then beat it. Etc. My original Shepard had maxed everything out, all armor, max medi gel, credits maxed at all 9's, all skills maxed, level cap, all romances experienced at least once, etc. I beat it constantly, while waiting to be shipped off to boot camp. When I got out of boot, 2 was finally out. Then 3 like a year or so later. My point, is I beat 1 so many times, I know it like the back of my hand. I can close my eyes, and start playing it in my head. I can see the level and quest design in it instead of the game it's self, like seeing the code in the matrix. I played it so much, that I ruined it for myself, and it's just a chore now for me.
@@SolidShepard I got my wife to start playing ME1, just watching her find her way around the galaxy & see someone who doesn’t play a lot of RPGs experience the world. It’s a good to spice up enjoying the story, especially when she asks me questions about stuff.
I agree, people say ME1 is the clunkiest & that’s true but with the Legendary Edition improvements I 100% it every time I play just because I love the atmosphere
Mass effect kinda saved my life. Back as a teenager I was very suicidal. I had no friends, no people in my life other than my abusive mother. Playing mass effect helped me in several ways. It taught me how important it is to trust people, regardless of trauma and insecurities/ anxiety. Not everyone out there is evil and I can choose who I talk to or trust. Thanks to the reapers I could give my voices a face, voices of self hate. Seeing how Shepard fought the "god like" reapers, helped me overcome my whole hopelessness. At some point I basically took control over my mind and banned the reaper. Since it was just a construct of my mind. I can't really explain it at this moment. Writing this while walking. I might elaborate later. Mass effect was just very important to me
There are two games I always go back to. The Witcher 3 and Mass Effect trilogy. In my opinion, these are the ultimate comfort games. No matter what happens in your life, whether good or bad, it always gets you invested so much in their respective stories that you truly escape from reality. Amazing games.
I think these are my favourite two series. With some Fallout games they give you this sense of accomplishment and finishing a journey when you finish the game. Other games simply cannot give this experience.
Brooo, I hadn't played the ME trilogy and Witcher 3 in years and I started a playthrough of both this year after two break-ups (one for each) to immerse myself in another world and take my mind off things temporarily. I can't believe we think the same way!
It’s a small moment, but the paragon interrupt with Khalisah Al-Jilani in ME3 is one of my favorite moments of the Trilogy. It’s way better than the momentary satisfaction of decking her in the face all the way back in ME1.
Mass Effect, to me, will always be the greatest RPG that I have ever played. It came at a time in my life where I was falling in love with the genre out out of love with gaming. And then... there it was. A game that captured my wildest science fiction dreams and at the same time giving me characters whose journeys I will never ever forget. Despite the tiny bit of fear that, this is the time I will get bored of this trilogy, I get when I sit on that character creation screen in Mass Effect 1, all these years and countless playthroughs later I find that my love never diminishes. The story and characters feel like a warm embrace of an old friend. Mass Effect has inspired me more than I can admit. It has made me want to tell stories of my own. It has given me something to strive for- that one day I will be able to tell a story that becomes to someone, what Mass Effect is for me. It has taught me empathy, love, forgiveness, and an ideal to live up to through it's characters. Irrespective of whatever the future brings, Mass Effect will be Bioware's crowning achievement and I am grateful to have experienced it. Thank you for sharing your love for this game. I am glad I am a subscriber. This really made my day. I hope you have a good one too. Per Aspera Ad Astra, my friend.
This'll sound dumb but I played mass effect one the winter I had my last break up. I was very lonely and it felt like the characters were welcoming me. Stupid huh😂
I'm a bit of a younger fan. When I was 10 is when I played mass effect 1 for the first time. I had really bad allergies and couldn't go outside and couldn't breathe well. I remember mouth breathing while fighting out how to progress through Ilos, and being happy I have something to focus on. When I would get bullied and harassed in school, it's stupid, but I would think about my commander Shepard, everything she went through, and how I'm the face of something beyond death she as a paragon was respectful to all. Now as an adult, I have the paragon tattoo to remind myself that nothing is over, and I am strong enough to be kind. Sorry, just needed to get it off my chest. Thanks for this video man
Mass Effect for me has always been a soft spot for me to land when I'm stressed, struggling, and mourning the lost in my life. I found it on accident while my marriage was falling apart around me and I was mourning the loss of a family member, and it has ever since been my go to when I need a boost of confidence or a laugh with old friends.
I filed for a divorce in 2010, and it was very difficult. After being with a very controlling woman for 13 years, I had to find myself again. I was at Wal-Mart browsing through electronics, and as a sci-fi fan I saw Mass Effect 2 on a shelf and knew nothing but what the box showed, and was interested enough to buy it. I installed it on my new PC, fired it, up, and was like “holy WTF is going on?” when I immediately DIED. I..was…hooked! Shepard literally had to reinvent himself. Whatever he was before, he had to forget everything from the first game (which I knew nothing about) and start all over. What an incredible game, and when paired with that stage of my own life’s journey it was transforming to me. It gave me the courage to move forward, rediscover myself, start a new career, and even find my soulmate with much more confidence than I ever would have had I not played it.
I still replay the trilogy multiple times a year. Which is wild considering when ME1 first came out, I didn't even know what it was. I had just built my first PC and was googling single player games to pirate. ME1 was on a list, so I grabbed it without looking into it. I think I made it just a few hours into the game before realizing I was completely immersed and enamored by the story and characters. I loved it so much, I stopped playing it just so I could go buy a legitimate copy. ME2 came out right as I was starting college, I pre-ordered it and remember racing to throw the disk into my Xbox when it arrived while wearing my N7 hoodie. The Mass Effect series just has so many "pure" memories associated with it for me, in ways no other game has matched for me.
Some games are a joy while playing them, and some are a joy to reflect on. Mass Effect is both, that rare game that is fun to play, but also has so much food for thought after the last credits go by.
The Mass Effect Trilogy has been my lifeline for the past couple of months getting me through tough times. I always find myself replaying it and getting comfort from it. My most favorite game of all time is the first Mass Effect.
In fact the planet shepard looks upon in the intro is earth. The rest of the intro also takes place in the solar system. You can recognize the planets.
I clicked on the video going "ok im not sure i get this" then as soon as you showed shepard and garrus on the citadel shooting bottles i went "oh yep i get it"
I never really understood it myself why I kept going back to Mass Effect. 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and a gazillion other playthroughs but now I understand. I first discovered Mass Effect as a 4 year old watching his father play it back in 2009/Early 2010 before Mass Effect 2. Watching my father control the wonky Janky Mako felt calming in it of itself. Then came Mass effect 2, Watching him scan planets and hearing that familiar resource accumulation sound made me stay plopped on his bed for a good 3 hours as I just listened in. (Few years later..) I play my first ME game and it's Andromeda. Of course it wasn't perfect but whenever I uncovered the last encrypted audio about the reapers.. and Hackets audio, It inspired me to play the OG trilogy in 2017. Mass Effect 1 to me, was not how I got rooted into Mass effect, but what got me hooked. Mass effect 2 is where I got rooted. My number one is surprisingly Mass Effect 3. (I have modded it). I think it's number one right now because it's where Im at right now in life. As I face the impending music of starting college.. It's solace to be in ME3 and seemingly forget for hours that something is happening in 3 weeks. Mass effect/the normandy.. andromeda/Tempest is my home away from home, alongside War Thunder and the jet aircraft I inhabit.
As someone who regularly spends time reading astronomy research papers or watching grad students defend their PhDs, your childlike adoration and giddiness in regards to the universe makes you and I kin, brother. The infinite abyss, and all its wonders, is something I yearn to assist us in reaching, and it's why my career goal has been IT at NASA. Instant subscriber
I grew up in the 80's.. space exploration/adventure was huge during that time. My first movie was Star Trek: The Motion Picture (the one with Kirk, Spock, Scotty, etc.) , I was a baby but my parents have always been "nerds". I grew up watching reruns of the original Star Trek series with my dad, we'd watch Star Wars as they came out and had the VHS tapes. There was also E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third kind. Science Fiction and Fantasy were all around me as I grew up. My family moved a LOT because of my dad's job so, outside of family, sci-fi and fantasy were staples for comfort (along with slashers, thanks Mom). All that being said, I only recently got into Mass Effect. I'm TERRIBLE at "shooters" and stick more to mmorpgs. I'd watch my younger brother play it back in the day before or after I'd go to work. It seemed really cool, but again, I can't shoot in games to save my life. Last year I was talking to my husband about wanting to try it out. Turns out he played all the games, read all the books (sadly he got rid of them before my bookworm self came along) so he didn't even hesitate and just bought me the Legendary Edition and told me to use mods, I could play it for the story and not have to worry about "playing poorly". I have never played a game that had me needing to go take a long walk after it was all over. Like you said, it DOES feel safe. The Normandy IS home. I hadn't realized how far I had strayed from my sci-fi roots until I played it. The only other game that I've played that makes me feel this way has been Baldur's Gate 3. There's some kind of magic woven into ME and BG3 that I don't want explained. My only regret is that I didn't play ME sooner. Sorry for the long post but I felt some background was needed. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some books to acquire.
I found mass effect 2 when I was 15. My dad was divorcing my abusive step mother, me and him were in a small flat, my GCSE exams were coming up and I was in a rough school that i had been bullied at for years. I had no idea who some of the returning characters were but they were happy to see me and that was new to me. Garrus like the friend i never had, Tali someone who was sweet and caring that I wanted to protect (i have a generic issue so was especially weak then) and they felt like friends. Add to that very similar feels to space that was in this video it felt like fulfilling my dreams of exploring space with friends who cared about me both old and new. I truly hope humanity reaches out into the stars and we meet other races to unite with. And the music…. I still listen to reflections or virgil at times and feel my heart both soar and ache from the feeling and desires it gives me
I started the trilogy in winter of 2018, when id had a breakup. Last one if well be honest. The characters seemed welcoming and i felt better talking to each one. I felt welcomed to a team of friends when i needed it most.
For me my safe space in videogames has to be a place in cyberpunk, it isn't however any of the apartments but instead a place where only one scene happens, being Judy's old friend's house on the shore of the lake. For me that place makes me feel safe in my identity as during the romance scene between Judy and female V, it just made me think "I want this for myself" and that I am.valid for being who I am, and so sometimes when I play that game I go back to that old house.
For the longest time, my virtual "safe space" was always to be found in the game "The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind" -- partly because it was that good of an immersive experience, & partly because it was a birthday gift to me (the original GOTY collection on CD-ROM) from my best friend before he died. For yrs after 1st installing & booting up the game, I've been able to enhance & expand that original gameworld thanx to the seemingly inexhaustible efforts of the Morrowind modding community, up to & including the "Tamriel Rebirth" mod project *which is still ongoing to this day*.
I will never stop playing Mass Effect, it is in my opinion the greatest Sci-Fi gaming franchise of all time, such a great overall story, a hopeful future for humanity finally reaching the stars and meeting so many cool alien races, and your protagonist Shepard bringing them all together for the greater good to defeat the ultimate threat to all advanced life in the Milky Way Galaxy, in summary Amazing main story, Amazingly detailed squad mates, The Normandy is my home and the squad is my Family, I'm Commander Shepard and I should go play Mass Effect again for the 30th time😆
mass effect 2 is one of my comfort games, it was the first mass effect game i ever played and i go back to it a lot when i'm bored or stressed or don't know what to play cause it always reminds me of how fun gaming can be.
I have never seen a better video that explains what Mass Effect is for me. It’s the game I play when I need to cast my worries aside for a moment before going back to the fight that is life.
I was going through a period of depression when I discovered the Mass Effect series. It helped we through it and I still go back to it when I feel down
One of the first games the truly moved me was the mass effect trilogy. It's not just a space opera about fighting cosmic horrors and mystery. It's about determination, friendship, purpose, morality, unity, good and evil, the indomitable human will to fight for survival and a place to belong, that belongs to us. Not only that but the lengths we will go for those and all that we hold dear, no matter the odds. Mass effect, no matter how long I go without playing it, inspires me endlessly. It will always hold a place in my heart.
i was suffering from choice fatigue last week, not knowing what game to play next. so i just installed MELE again. this is my 6th run for the series since 2009(?). i find myself playing the game every 2 or 3 years. even though i already know the story, i just feel the urge to go back into the world. we'll never have this type of game ever again. this is the LOTR of the gaming industry. So much love and care was put into crafting a story which connects all three games. In a time of profit driven publishers and microtransactions, no AAA will ever devote this much time and resources to a single player narrative.
Wow, this made me cry lol Lately I've been thinking about some of the things you mention, especially that feeling of "home". For me it's Mass Effect and FFXIV, both make me feel very grateful to the people that created them. It's weird but I think they also make me feel connected to other people that share and love those fictional universes. Hell, they even make me feel more connected to myself. The world keeps trying to alienate us but games like these give us the opportunity take a break and open our eyes to new possibilities, experiences, emotions, even new revelations and learnings about ourselves... I love it.
It's weird, I felt so empty after finishing Witcher 3 and not Mass Effect (maybe because of 3s ending), but Mass Effect is my favorite game(s) ever. I just told my wife before I watched this how I feel home while playing. I'm almost 2 years sober and this series has helped me stay that way. Instead of cracking that beer when I get home, I put this game on and feel safe, comforted, and at home.
Thank you for posting this. I agree with you 100%. Have been wrestling with some personal and professional challenges for the last few months, once I started playing the trilogy again (Legendary Edition), it provided me with some much needed escape.
I'm a newer ME player but as soon as i actually tried it, instead of hiding behind "i typically dont like shooter gameplay" it kidnapped me and gave me Stockholm syndrome. The amount of choices you have that actually matter and everyone you meet along the journey are just on a whole different level and getting to the end and seeing that the only people i lost were the ones it's scripted so you can't save was one of the purest feelings of joy and accomplishment. Followed by me sobbing like a baby because i chose Synthesis (ik, ill go tie myself to the stake for the burning, i even had enough war assets for perfect destroy, and it was a FemShep Kaidan romance run so ill pour the gasoline over myself too 😂) but EDI's speech just KILLED ME. Especially when she hit us with "I am alive, and i am not alone." With so much COMPLEXITY animated onto her face 😭😭😭 It's enough i genuinely recommend anyone who hasn't should at minimum ATTEMPT to experience the series at least once. I for one will probably end up playing through it enough times to have romanced everyone EXCEPT THE CHEATER. I will never romance Jacob because of that lol
My cousin kept recommending Mass Effect to me and for years I was all like "this sounds like a cheap Star Wars knockoff, think I'll pass" until I finally played it back in 2016 and it instantly became one of my all time favorite games that'll forever have a special place in both my heart and my brain. Unforgettable experience.
Thank you so much for this video! This was what I needed after the long day today. I am absolutely in love with space exploration and Mass Effect. I start a new trilogy run this weekend. :)
This is incredible, I was working on a video exactly like this because I feel the exact same way as you. Mass Effect makes me feel like I’m at least in control of something when real life is spiralling around me. I am commander Shepard and I CAN save the galaxy damn it!!! And seeing all the squadmates is like seeing old friends. It truly is one of the most special videogame series ever. Thank you for sharing
Well done buddy you made an excellent video about a game series that made realize that games can be art. Before playing this series i haven't played any games that caused all those emotions and thoughts that Mass effect did. Sure i played games that i really enjoyed but Mass effect did a LOT more than just that. It showed me a universe that i would love to exist and experience in real life. I simply adore sci fi,space and anything that has any relation but never thought a game can make care so much about everything in it i mean it's just code and pixels. I've spent a lot of hours just thinking about how the next mass effect game could be and came to the conclusion that the only thing that i really want is to continue the story from where we all left it in ME 3.
Fantasic Video, I feel very similar about these games, for me ME2 is the sweetspot probably just standing on Omega or Ilus and looking into the si-fi skyline. Then I had to think about other games that feel like this and I came to think of Assasins Creed IV: Black Flag, easily my favourite game from the series (mind you I only played 3 of them) but there I have 2 "places" that give me this feeling of home: your ship the Jackdaw and your hideout island. I feel home and safe when sailing the caribbean and my qquatermaster is just talking from time to time (I prefer Adewale to the woman from when you finished the story (I forgot her name, those who played know what I mean)). And I feel endlessly relaxed when I hang out by the tavern on my island listening to the band and enjoying the caribbean flair. Or when I am up by the house looking over the bay after I finished the game, I find peace remembering all the fallen friends along the stroy like Edward did on the party in the end cutscene. I replay it about every two years (which means it's about time again). I would like to replay the legenday edition more often. I played it through only 2 times because I fell like I have to finish all 3 games when I do and that does take quite some time. Edit: oh and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, that whole world just feels like home, especially the shivering iles dlc.
For me it’s also mass effect, but mostly final fantasy, elder scrolls and no man’s sky that I can just get lost in But it was Persona 5 that helped me realize some things about why I was the way I was at the time. PTSD and depression can sneak up on you hard. Take care of yourselves friends
Recently finished the trilogy, really hoping the next installment is a banger. The games had their faults but had such satisfying arcs, characters, RPG elements, and worldbuilding. Regrouping the crew throughout the games worked so well because the camaraderie was so well done and I hope Bioware are able to bring it back.
Star Wars may have been my gateway into sci fi, but Mass Effect is one of the few franchises that (IMO) can stand shoulder to shoulder with it. For one, I think it’s the perfect midpoint between Star Wars and Star Trek. You have the action, adventure, and quips of Wars, and the cultural depth, world building, and character growth of Trek. To bounce off the LOTR reference you made, it’s exactly how I describe the trilogy when people ask me about it. I know that their plots aren’t necessarily 1-1, but the experience of them is very close. With LOTR, you’re watching an engaging, engrossing story. With the Mass Effect trilogy, you’re playing it. You’re not just watching the main character, you *ARE* the main character. When you see every big and small victory, every narrow escape and tragic loss, you really feel it because you were there. Mass Effect makes you forget that you’re playing a video game. And I don’t think I’m alone in loving it for that.
I'm going to comment now as I only have a minute but I'll come back to this later when I have 20. Even just seeing the title this instantly clicked, yes, Mass Effect (and Dragon Age!) are exactly this kind of game. You forge unlikely alliances with people who in time will become your best of friends, and with the right decisions you can save everyone for a happy ending. It's a wonderful, heartwarming tale with a classic hero's arc and a timeless moral - that you can overcome anything through a combination of determination, kindness, and the power of friendship. But what I actually wanted to say is that actually, the first thing that came to mind is how if ME and DA make me feel safe, then Dark Souls makes me feel _at peace._ What do I mean by this? Well, all the Souls entries take place at the end of time, at least from the perspective of their respective civilisations. But the actions of the protagonist are no less meaningful. What's chilling, and yet oddly soothing, is that each game ends with the player ushering in a new age - rekindling the flames and light or opening the way to darkness. And yet you never see that world. None of the sequels are *direct* continuations of the previous game: they all take place hundreds or thousands of years apart, though faintly interconnected with the events of their predecessors. How is this comforting? Well, because just like life and mortality, we only really see and play the bit where we're actually present. It's those little interactions with the few others we cross paths with that truly matter on our journey, and these will have a ripple effect through time that we cannot even begin to understand. We can never know the full consequences of what we do, but what we can do is be kind to each other and try to make the world that much better, in the good faith (theist or not!) that even with a future that is obscured to us, we acted in the hopes of being a positive force for that which is good. We may never know whether those small actions of our lifetime helped create a butterfly effect that changed everything, or if they just clumsily fell flat, but it is simply that we tried our best that really counts. So I guess what I'm trying to say is that Mass Effect is a universe we aspire to - it's idealogical, we hope to rise to its standards and be able to look back and tell tales like it. Whereas Dark Souls confronts us with our mortality, telling us that simply because we try, it has meaning, even if we don't quite know how things will pan out. Both, most importantly, have overt themes of battling darkness, welcoming outcasts and forming strong friendships, which are ultimately the qualities that we should all cling to to guide us through life. Maybe I'll try and make a little video on this too at some point! And oops, guess I had 5 minutes in the end. But I promise I'll be back to watch the whole video! :))
Mass Effect was one of my fav games on Xbox 360, took me on an epic journey for the entirety of the Xbox 360 generation. But I was a fan of Space Sci Fi RPGs before, back on the original Xbox when I first played Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic. That was the game that introduced me to the genre, before Mass Effect and the Normandy, I had KOTOR and the Ebon Hawk. Just something about these space ship games, also feel similar about StarCraft 2 campaign mode, where in between missions you're on your race's capital ship either Hyperion, Leviathan, or Spear of Adun, pointing and clicking around talking to crew and customizing your army for the next mission.
Great video mass effect, gears of war, ghost of tsushima, halo, and one of my favorite shows fire fly and star wars and lotr and so many more its welcoming to go back these pieces of games or movies or even shows
I first played Mass Effect when I was first figuring out what the hell my gender was supposed to be, and the idea of the asari really fucking helped me. Feminine doesn’t mean woman, it doesn’t matter how you look, rather how you feel. The execution of that idea kinda sucked, but I latched onto it anyway. It made me feel better about not knowing. Playing as fem/bro Shepard helped me kinda explore the fluidity of it all, saying again that gender doesn’t matter, YOU matter. Loved this video dude, space is home in Mass Effect.
Mass Effect 3 always makes me angry (in a good way). Like I was a paragon in the first two. But renegade seeped out; I was as pissed as Shepherd should have been when everyone was suddenly like “help Shepherd! Reapers!”. And I was like “No Shit! If only someone had been trying to warn your dumbasses!”
Not that I disagree with your arguments, but I think one reason that area is do relaxed, is because many of the visitors are the "N7" fighters of the multiplayer. I like to think that the Strip wasn't particularly hit during the Cebrerus Coup, the silversun strip lies buried on the Wards are huge after all, has little strategic importance, and hosts some firepower(armax arena/N7). C-SEC can't afford to be everywhere and are mostly on the Presidium and other important (economic) sites. So here, on the Silver Sun strips, mercenaries, warriors en soldiers on N7 mission gather (maybe in large part due to Armax Arena) and people otherwise wanting to be less-concerned with the war gather. As for the ambushing mercs strolling into in the restaurant, I always imagined them just exiting a cab or two at the the more spacious area above the stairs, but them marching down the Strip is funny af
I love 2 and 3. But cant enjoy 1 anymore. I played it so many times from 08 to 09 that it has now become a chore. I know every nook and cranny of that game.
Games I go back to to escape reality's chaos: Mass Effect Trilogy KOTOR 1&2 Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy Skyrim Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis most of all
Curious why there aren't more Normandy Class Frigates in the galaxy 🤔 I know it was experimental, but there's no chance neither the Human Alliance nor the Turian... Hedgemony? Saw the value in small stealth ships, especially in a galaxy where torpedoes apparently work just fine. I guess point defense isn't much of a thing in the not too far future. Anyway, I got distracted, point is I hope we return to a Normandy Class Frigate for ME5, and find out there were dozens already in production when the Reapers invaded. Would make Cerberus feel less like the only sane people in the room and more like a small splinter cell of radicals
I loved this trilogy. I even enjoyed Andromeda, even tho people gave it a lot of shit. I think sometimes we have become overly critical of everything, forgetting that games ( and movies) are for entertainment and dont have to be perfect as long as you are entertained.
Both Mass Effect and the X Series for me. Edit: Not sure if you play on PC, but if you do, there's a Mass Effect total conversion mod for Stellaris called Beyond the Relays, and another one for Sins of a Solar Empire called Dawn of the Reapers.
I wouldn't feel safe being in a random colony and suddenly being invaded/killed/enslaved by pirates or batarians, kidnapped by collectors or just being killed and harvested by the Reapers or The Illusive Man.
I wouldn’t say andromedas explorations pales compared to the original trilogy. The story, characters, overall writing, and release were not great; however, the exploration and combat was better in andromeda.
Shame that 3 and onwards went woke. I LOVED the ESCAPISM that Mass Effect 1 provided. The only problem I have with 2 is the LACK of diplomacy; lack of mercy; too much needless bloodshed of Asari.
One of the reasons I always go back to Mass Effect 1 specifically is because, basically, I find the vibes to be immaculate. Some games struggle to really capture the essence of their setting, but Mass Effect 1 nails the sci-fi adventure fantasy (better than the other games imo). The music is perfect, the technology you experience feels exotic, and the alien races are all fascinating and have interesting nuances that make them feel just as real as humans. For me, safety means escaping whatever situation I find myself in, and Mass Effect 1 is the best escape I could ask for.
I’m so glad to hear someone else express my EXACT feeling, like to the letter
My only problem with 1, is I got it when it first came out. And then beat it. And then beat it. And then beat it. Etc. My original Shepard had maxed everything out, all armor, max medi gel, credits maxed at all 9's, all skills maxed, level cap, all romances experienced at least once, etc. I beat it constantly, while waiting to be shipped off to boot camp. When I got out of boot, 2 was finally out. Then 3 like a year or so later.
My point, is I beat 1 so many times, I know it like the back of my hand. I can close my eyes, and start playing it in my head. I can see the level and quest design in it instead of the game it's self, like seeing the code in the matrix. I played it so much, that I ruined it for myself, and it's just a chore now for me.
@@SolidShepard I got my wife to start playing ME1, just watching her find her way around the galaxy & see someone who doesn’t play a lot of RPGs experience the world. It’s a good to spice up enjoying the story, especially when she asks me questions about stuff.
I agree, people say ME1 is the clunkiest & that’s true but with the Legendary Edition improvements I 100% it every time I play just because I love the atmosphere
Also, the narrator. 🖤🖤🖤
Mass effect kinda saved my life. Back as a teenager I was very suicidal. I had no friends, no people in my life other than my abusive mother. Playing mass effect helped me in several ways. It taught me how important it is to trust people, regardless of trauma and insecurities/ anxiety. Not everyone out there is evil and I can choose who I talk to or trust.
Thanks to the reapers I could give my voices a face, voices of self hate. Seeing how Shepard fought the "god like" reapers, helped me overcome my whole hopelessness. At some point I basically took control over my mind and banned the reaper. Since it was just a construct of my mind. I can't really explain it at this moment. Writing this while walking. I might elaborate later. Mass effect was just very important to me
Glad that it helped you & your still with us
There are two games I always go back to. The Witcher 3 and Mass Effect trilogy. In my opinion, these are the ultimate comfort games. No matter what happens in your life, whether good or bad, it always gets you invested so much in their respective stories that you truly escape from reality. Amazing games.
I think these are my favourite two series. With some Fallout games they give you this sense of accomplishment and finishing a journey when you finish the game. Other games simply cannot give this experience.
Brooo, I hadn't played the ME trilogy and Witcher 3 in years and I started a playthrough of both this year after two break-ups (one for each) to immerse myself in another world and take my mind off things temporarily.
I can't believe we think the same way!
It’s a small moment, but the paragon interrupt with Khalisah Al-Jilani in ME3 is one of my favorite moments of the Trilogy. It’s way better than the momentary satisfaction of decking her in the face all the way back in ME1.
First time I play mass effect 1 I sat on the main menu for 10 minutes in awe because of the music
Mass Effect, to me, will always be the greatest RPG that I have ever played. It came at a time in my life where I was falling in love with the genre out out of love with gaming. And then... there it was. A game that captured my wildest science fiction dreams and at the same time giving me characters whose journeys I will never ever forget.
Despite the tiny bit of fear that, this is the time I will get bored of this trilogy, I get when I sit on that character creation screen in Mass Effect 1, all these years and countless playthroughs later I find that my love never diminishes. The story and characters feel like a warm embrace of an old friend.
Mass Effect has inspired me more than I can admit. It has made me want to tell stories of my own. It has given me something to strive for- that one day I will be able to tell a story that becomes to someone, what Mass Effect is for me.
It has taught me empathy, love, forgiveness, and an ideal to live up to through it's characters. Irrespective of whatever the future brings, Mass Effect will be Bioware's crowning achievement and I am grateful to have experienced it.
Thank you for sharing your love for this game. I am glad I am a subscriber. This really made my day. I hope you have a good one too.
Per Aspera Ad Astra, my friend.
I saw you hearted the comment but my pedantic self had to go and edit it so it's gone. But I still appreciate the sentiment @Adam the Chuck
This'll sound dumb but I played mass effect one the winter I had my last break up. I was very lonely and it felt like the characters were welcoming me. Stupid huh😂
I'm a bit of a younger fan.
When I was 10 is when I played mass effect 1 for the first time. I had really bad allergies and couldn't go outside and couldn't breathe well. I remember mouth breathing while fighting out how to progress through Ilos, and being happy I have something to focus on.
When I would get bullied and harassed in school, it's stupid, but I would think about my commander Shepard, everything she went through, and how I'm the face of something beyond death she as a paragon was respectful to all.
Now as an adult, I have the paragon tattoo to remind myself that nothing is over, and I am strong enough to be kind.
Sorry, just needed to get it off my chest. Thanks for this video man
The Normandy is my home to. Inside her hull always brings me peace when life does not. Atleast I know I’m not alone in that feeling.
Mass Effect for me has always been a soft spot for me to land when I'm stressed, struggling, and mourning the lost in my life. I found it on accident while my marriage was falling apart around me and I was mourning the loss of a family member, and it has ever since been my go to when I need a boost of confidence or a laugh with old friends.
Except Mass Effect 3 for me… hella of a heavy heart. I’ll have a stable mental state to play Mass Effect 3, seriously.
I filed for a divorce in 2010, and it was very difficult. After being with a very controlling woman for 13 years, I had to find myself again. I was at Wal-Mart browsing through electronics, and as a sci-fi fan I saw Mass Effect 2 on a shelf and knew nothing but what the box showed, and was interested enough to buy it. I installed it on my new PC, fired it, up, and was like “holy WTF is going on?” when I immediately DIED. I..was…hooked! Shepard literally had to reinvent himself. Whatever he was before, he had to forget everything from the first game (which I knew nothing about) and start all over. What an incredible game, and when paired with that stage of my own life’s journey it was transforming to me. It gave me the courage to move forward, rediscover myself, start a new career, and even find my soulmate with much more confidence than I ever would have had I not played it.
I still replay the trilogy multiple times a year. Which is wild considering when ME1 first came out, I didn't even know what it was. I had just built my first PC and was googling single player games to pirate. ME1 was on a list, so I grabbed it without looking into it. I think I made it just a few hours into the game before realizing I was completely immersed and enamored by the story and characters. I loved it so much, I stopped playing it just so I could go buy a legitimate copy. ME2 came out right as I was starting college, I pre-ordered it and remember racing to throw the disk into my Xbox when it arrived while wearing my N7 hoodie. The Mass Effect series just has so many "pure" memories associated with it for me, in ways no other game has matched for me.
You stopped playing so you could buy a legitimate copy haha...that's how good this game, love it
Some games are a joy while playing them, and some are a joy to reflect on. Mass Effect is both, that rare game that is fun to play, but also has so much food for thought after the last credits go by.
I started playing this trilogy during June 2023 and im replaying it now. No game gives me this same feeling. These are definitely my comfort games
The Mass Effect Trilogy has been my lifeline for the past couple of months getting me through tough times. I always find myself replaying it and getting comfort from it. My most favorite game of all time is the first Mass Effect.
I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favorite blankey on the Citadel.
In fact the planet shepard looks upon in the intro is earth. The rest of the intro also takes place in the solar system. You can recognize the planets.
I clicked on the video going "ok im not sure i get this" then as soon as you showed shepard and garrus on the citadel shooting bottles i went "oh yep i get it"
I never really understood it myself why I kept going back to Mass Effect. 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and a gazillion other playthroughs but now I understand.
I first discovered Mass Effect as a 4 year old watching his father play it back in 2009/Early 2010 before Mass Effect 2. Watching my father control the wonky Janky Mako felt calming in it of itself. Then came Mass effect 2, Watching him scan planets and hearing that familiar resource accumulation sound made me stay plopped on his bed for a good 3 hours as I just listened in.
(Few years later..)
I play my first ME game and it's Andromeda. Of course it wasn't perfect but whenever I uncovered the last encrypted audio about the reapers.. and Hackets audio, It inspired me to play the OG trilogy in 2017.
Mass Effect 1 to me, was not how I got rooted into Mass effect, but what got me hooked. Mass effect 2 is where I got rooted.
My number one is surprisingly Mass Effect 3. (I have modded it). I think it's number one right now because it's where Im at right now in life. As I face the impending music of starting college.. It's solace to be in ME3 and seemingly forget for hours that something is happening in 3 weeks.
Mass effect/the normandy.. andromeda/Tempest is my home away from home, alongside War Thunder and the jet aircraft I inhabit.
"Except for Jacob, he's going in the vents." I very much approve of this.
bro really
Put him on an airlock
Space him out the airlock
@@asarishepard8171 I wish that were an option. How about pushing him in front of Miranda to save Wilson?
@@AikenDrum1715CE Why the hate for Jacob 😑😑😑
Me1 is my favorite game of all time the “empty” uncharted worlds have such a soothing and beautiful vibe I can’t explain
As someone who regularly spends time reading astronomy research papers or watching grad students defend their PhDs, your childlike adoration and giddiness in regards to the universe makes you and I kin, brother. The infinite abyss, and all its wonders, is something I yearn to assist us in reaching, and it's why my career goal has been IT at NASA. Instant subscriber
I grew up in the 80's.. space exploration/adventure was huge during that time. My first movie was Star Trek: The Motion Picture (the one with Kirk, Spock, Scotty, etc.) , I was a baby but my parents have always been "nerds". I grew up watching reruns of the original Star Trek series with my dad, we'd watch Star Wars as they came out and had the VHS tapes. There was also E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third kind. Science Fiction and Fantasy were all around me as I grew up. My family moved a LOT because of my dad's job so, outside of family, sci-fi and fantasy were staples for comfort (along with slashers, thanks Mom).
All that being said, I only recently got into Mass Effect. I'm TERRIBLE at "shooters" and stick more to mmorpgs. I'd watch my younger brother play it back in the day before or after I'd go to work. It seemed really cool, but again, I can't shoot in games to save my life. Last year I was talking to my husband about wanting to try it out. Turns out he played all the games, read all the books (sadly he got rid of them before my bookworm self came along) so he didn't even hesitate and just bought me the Legendary Edition and told me to use mods, I could play it for the story and not have to worry about "playing poorly".
I have never played a game that had me needing to go take a long walk after it was all over. Like you said, it DOES feel safe. The Normandy IS home. I hadn't realized how far I had strayed from my sci-fi roots until I played it. The only other game that I've played that makes me feel this way has been Baldur's Gate 3. There's some kind of magic woven into ME and BG3 that I don't want explained. My only regret is that I didn't play ME sooner.
Sorry for the long post but I felt some background was needed. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some books to acquire.
I found mass effect 2 when I was 15. My dad was divorcing my abusive step mother, me and him were in a small flat, my GCSE exams were coming up and I was in a rough school that i had been bullied at for years. I had no idea who some of the returning characters were but they were happy to see me and that was new to me. Garrus like the friend i never had, Tali someone who was sweet and caring that I wanted to protect (i have a generic issue so was especially weak then) and they felt like friends.
Add to that very similar feels to space that was in this video it felt like fulfilling my dreams of exploring space with friends who cared about me both old and new.
I truly hope humanity reaches out into the stars and we meet other races to unite with.
And the music…. I still listen to reflections or virgil at times and feel my heart both soar and ache from the feeling and desires it gives me
I started the trilogy in winter of 2018, when id had a breakup. Last one if well be honest. The characters seemed welcoming and i felt better talking to each one. I felt welcomed to a team of friends when i needed it most.
For me my safe space in videogames has to be a place in cyberpunk, it isn't however any of the apartments but instead a place where only one scene happens, being Judy's old friend's house on the shore of the lake. For me that place makes me feel safe in my identity as during the romance scene between Judy and female V, it just made me think "I want this for myself" and that I am.valid for being who I am, and so sometimes when I play that game I go back to that old house.
For the longest time, my virtual "safe space" was always to be found in the game "The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind" -- partly because it was that good of an immersive experience, & partly because it was a birthday gift to me (the original GOTY collection on CD-ROM) from my best friend before he died.
For yrs after 1st installing & booting up the game, I've been able to enhance & expand that original gameworld thanx to the seemingly inexhaustible efforts of the Morrowind modding community, up to & including the "Tamriel Rebirth" mod project *which is still ongoing to this day*.
New sub for 2 reasons. You appreciate the trilogy as much as I do and you didn’t bitch about the endings!
Great job, keep it up!
I will never stop playing Mass Effect, it is in my opinion the greatest Sci-Fi gaming franchise of all time, such a great overall story, a hopeful future for humanity finally reaching the stars and meeting so many cool alien races, and your protagonist Shepard bringing them all together for the greater good to defeat the ultimate threat to all advanced life in the Milky Way Galaxy, in summary Amazing main story, Amazingly detailed squad mates, The Normandy is my home and the squad is my Family, I'm Commander Shepard and I should go play Mass Effect again for the 30th time😆
mass effect 2 is one of my comfort games, it was the first mass effect game i ever played and i go back to it a lot when i'm bored or stressed or don't know what to play cause it always reminds me of how fun gaming can be.
I have never seen a better video that explains what Mass Effect is for me. It’s the game I play when I need to cast my worries aside for a moment before going back to the fight that is life.
There’s just something amazing about
Mass Effect! It feels like home, an amazing immersive experience.
I was going through a period of depression when I discovered the Mass Effect series. It helped we through it and I still go back to it when I feel down
One of the first games the truly moved me was the mass effect trilogy. It's not just a space opera about fighting cosmic horrors and mystery. It's about determination, friendship, purpose, morality, unity, good and evil, the indomitable human will to fight for survival and a place to belong, that belongs to us. Not only that but the lengths we will go for those and all that we hold dear, no matter the odds. Mass effect, no matter how long I go without playing it, inspires me endlessly. It will always hold a place in my heart.
And you nailed it... "It feels like, at this moment in time, I am not alone". God I love mass effect.
Beautifully written essay. I subscribe to every word and being such an abstract feeling I dont think I have much to add to it.
Mass Effect is my comfort series too
i was suffering from choice fatigue last week, not knowing what game to play next. so i just installed MELE again. this is my 6th run for the series since 2009(?). i find myself playing the game every 2 or 3 years. even though i already know the story, i just feel the urge to go back into the world.
we'll never have this type of game ever again. this is the LOTR of the gaming industry. So much love and care was put into crafting a story which connects all three games. In a time of profit driven publishers and microtransactions, no AAA will ever devote this much time and resources to a single player narrative.
Wow, this made me cry lol
Lately I've been thinking about some of the things you mention, especially that feeling of "home". For me it's Mass Effect and FFXIV, both make me feel very grateful to the people that created them. It's weird but I think they also make me feel connected to other people that share and love those fictional universes. Hell, they even make me feel more connected to myself. The world keeps trying to alienate us but games like these give us the opportunity take a break and open our eyes to new possibilities, experiences, emotions, even new revelations and learnings about ourselves... I love it.
This was a beautiful introspective look at how ME has positively impacted you ❤
It's weird, I felt so empty after finishing Witcher 3 and not Mass Effect (maybe because of 3s ending), but Mass Effect is my favorite game(s) ever. I just told my wife before I watched this how I feel home while playing. I'm almost 2 years sober and this series has helped me stay that way. Instead of cracking that beer when I get home, I put this game on and feel safe, comforted, and at home.
Star Trek was my “seed” into my love of science fiction and space. It made me so cosy at how similar ME was to Star Trek.
I’m literally replaying it rn…just got the citadel in ME1
Mass effect and subnautica are definitely my comfort games, both have great music and beautiful environments you get explore on your own pace.
Thank you for posting this. I agree with you 100%. Have been wrestling with some personal and professional challenges for the last few months, once I started playing the trilogy again (Legendary Edition), it provided me with some much needed escape.
I'm a newer ME player but as soon as i actually tried it, instead of hiding behind "i typically dont like shooter gameplay" it kidnapped me and gave me Stockholm syndrome. The amount of choices you have that actually matter and everyone you meet along the journey are just on a whole different level and getting to the end and seeing that the only people i lost were the ones it's scripted so you can't save was one of the purest feelings of joy and accomplishment. Followed by me sobbing like a baby because i chose Synthesis (ik, ill go tie myself to the stake for the burning, i even had enough war assets for perfect destroy, and it was a FemShep Kaidan romance run so ill pour the gasoline over myself too 😂) but EDI's speech just KILLED ME. Especially when she hit us with "I am alive, and i am not alone." With so much COMPLEXITY animated onto her face 😭😭😭
It's enough i genuinely recommend anyone who hasn't should at minimum ATTEMPT to experience the series at least once. I for one will probably end up playing through it enough times to have romanced everyone EXCEPT THE CHEATER. I will never romance Jacob because of that lol
The vibes of Mass Effect 1 are immaculate, I wish they did not fuck the lighting for the Legendary Edition.
My cousin kept recommending Mass Effect to me and for years I was all like "this sounds like a cheap Star Wars knockoff, think I'll pass" until I finally played it back in 2016 and it instantly became one of my all time favorite games that'll forever have a special place in both my heart and my brain.
Unforgettable experience.
Thank you so much for this video! This was what I needed after the long day today. I am absolutely in love with space exploration and Mass Effect. I start a new trilogy run this weekend. :)
This series if games makes me feel safe too, and happy 😊
This is incredible, I was working on a video exactly like this because I feel the exact same way as you.
Mass Effect makes me feel like I’m at least in control of something when real life is spiralling around me. I am commander Shepard and I CAN save the galaxy damn it!!! And seeing all the squadmates is like seeing old friends. It truly is one of the most special videogame series ever. Thank you for sharing
Well done buddy you made an excellent video about a game series that made realize that games can be art.
Before playing this series i haven't played any games that caused all those emotions and thoughts that Mass effect did.
Sure i played games that i really enjoyed but Mass effect did a LOT more than just that.
It showed me a universe that i would love to exist and experience in real life.
I simply adore sci fi,space and anything that has any relation but never thought a game can make care so much about everything in it i mean it's just code and pixels.
I've spent a lot of hours just thinking about how the next mass effect game could be and came to the conclusion that the only thing that i really want is to continue the story from where we all left it in ME 3.
Fantasic Video, I feel very similar about these games, for me ME2 is the sweetspot probably just standing on Omega or Ilus and looking into the si-fi skyline. Then I had to think about other games that feel like this and I came to think of Assasins Creed IV: Black Flag, easily my favourite game from the series (mind you I only played 3 of them) but there I have 2 "places" that give me this feeling of home: your ship the Jackdaw and your hideout island. I feel home and safe when sailing the caribbean and my qquatermaster is just talking from time to time (I prefer Adewale to the woman from when you finished the story (I forgot her name, those who played know what I mean)). And I feel endlessly relaxed when I hang out by the tavern on my island listening to the band and enjoying the caribbean flair. Or when I am up by the house looking over the bay after I finished the game, I find peace remembering all the fallen friends along the stroy like Edward did on the party in the end cutscene. I replay it about every two years (which means it's about time again). I would like to replay the legenday edition more often. I played it through only 2 times because I fell like I have to finish all 3 games when I do and that does take quite some time. Edit: oh and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, that whole world just feels like home, especially the shivering iles dlc.
Have to agree with Oblivion, it's comfort food in video game form, no place in a game ever made me feel as safe and at peace as the whole of Cyrodiil.
This video truly resonates with me.
For me it’s also mass effect, but mostly final fantasy, elder scrolls and no man’s sky that I can just get lost in
But it was Persona 5 that helped me realize some things about why I was the way I was at the time. PTSD and depression can sneak up on you hard. Take care of yourselves friends
Recently finished the trilogy, really hoping the next installment is a banger. The games had their faults but had such satisfying arcs, characters, RPG elements, and worldbuilding. Regrouping the crew throughout the games worked so well because the camaraderie was so well done and I hope Bioware are able to bring it back.
Star Wars may have been my gateway into sci fi, but Mass Effect is one of the few franchises that (IMO) can stand shoulder to shoulder with it.
For one, I think it’s the perfect midpoint between Star Wars and Star Trek. You have the action, adventure, and quips of Wars, and the cultural depth, world building, and character growth of Trek.
To bounce off the LOTR reference you made, it’s exactly how I describe the trilogy when people ask me about it. I know that their plots aren’t necessarily 1-1, but the experience of them is very close. With LOTR, you’re watching an engaging, engrossing story. With the Mass Effect trilogy, you’re playing it. You’re not just watching the main character, you *ARE* the main character. When you see every big and small victory, every narrow escape and tragic loss, you really feel it because you were there.
Mass Effect makes you forget that you’re playing a video game. And I don’t think I’m alone in loving it for that.
I'm going to comment now as I only have a minute but I'll come back to this later when I have 20. Even just seeing the title this instantly clicked, yes, Mass Effect (and Dragon Age!) are exactly this kind of game. You forge unlikely alliances with people who in time will become your best of friends, and with the right decisions you can save everyone for a happy ending. It's a wonderful, heartwarming tale with a classic hero's arc and a timeless moral - that you can overcome anything through a combination of determination, kindness, and the power of friendship.
But what I actually wanted to say is that actually, the first thing that came to mind is how if ME and DA make me feel safe, then Dark Souls makes me feel _at peace._ What do I mean by this? Well, all the Souls entries take place at the end of time, at least from the perspective of their respective civilisations. But the actions of the protagonist are no less meaningful. What's chilling, and yet oddly soothing, is that each game ends with the player ushering in a new age - rekindling the flames and light or opening the way to darkness. And yet you never see that world. None of the sequels are *direct* continuations of the previous game: they all take place hundreds or thousands of years apart, though faintly interconnected with the events of their predecessors.
How is this comforting? Well, because just like life and mortality, we only really see and play the bit where we're actually present. It's those little interactions with the few others we cross paths with that truly matter on our journey, and these will have a ripple effect through time that we cannot even begin to understand. We can never know the full consequences of what we do, but what we can do is be kind to each other and try to make the world that much better, in the good faith (theist or not!) that even with a future that is obscured to us, we acted in the hopes of being a positive force for that which is good. We may never know whether those small actions of our lifetime helped create a butterfly effect that changed everything, or if they just clumsily fell flat, but it is simply that we tried our best that really counts.
So I guess what I'm trying to say is that Mass Effect is a universe we aspire to - it's idealogical, we hope to rise to its standards and be able to look back and tell tales like it. Whereas Dark Souls confronts us with our mortality, telling us that simply because we try, it has meaning, even if we don't quite know how things will pan out. Both, most importantly, have overt themes of battling darkness, welcoming outcasts and forming strong friendships, which are ultimately the qualities that we should all cling to to guide us through life. Maybe I'll try and make a little video on this too at some point!
And oops, guess I had 5 minutes in the end. But I promise I'll be back to watch the whole video! :))
The Tempest in Andromeda is amazing too.
Mass Effect was one of my fav games on Xbox 360, took me on an epic journey for the entirety of the Xbox 360 generation. But I was a fan of Space Sci Fi RPGs before, back on the original Xbox when I first played Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic. That was the game that introduced me to the genre, before Mass Effect and the Normandy, I had KOTOR and the Ebon Hawk. Just something about these space ship games, also feel similar about StarCraft 2 campaign mode, where in between missions you're on your race's capital ship either Hyperion, Leviathan, or Spear of Adun, pointing and clicking around talking to crew and customizing your army for the next mission.
Great video mass effect, gears of war, ghost of tsushima, halo, and one of my favorite shows fire fly and star wars and lotr and so many more its welcoming to go back these pieces of games or movies or even shows
Your mom has really good taste, great vid by the way. And congrats about the house!
I first played Mass Effect when I was first figuring out what the hell my gender was supposed to be, and the idea of the asari really fucking helped me. Feminine doesn’t mean woman, it doesn’t matter how you look, rather how you feel. The execution of that idea kinda sucked, but I latched onto it anyway. It made me feel better about not knowing. Playing as fem/bro Shepard helped me kinda explore the fluidity of it all, saying again that gender doesn’t matter, YOU matter.
Loved this video dude, space is home in Mass Effect.
4:26 The "unknown world" where Shep/the game starts is actually Earth!
I feel You! Its true. This game was true fear escape for me to.
Mass Effect 3 always makes me angry (in a good way). Like I was a paragon in the first two. But renegade seeped out; I was as pissed as Shepherd should have been when everyone was suddenly like “help Shepherd! Reapers!”. And I was like “No Shit! If only someone had been trying to warn your dumbasses!”
That theme music hits hard
C-Sec makes everyone on the Citadel feel safe.
This was already an excellent video but the “Jacob’s going in the vents” made me snort
Another great video!! Hope more is on the way!
It makes me feel safe cuz I know that an army of giant crustacean machines isn't REALLY coming to devour all life.... I think.
Not that I disagree with your arguments, but I think one reason that area is do relaxed, is because many of the visitors are the "N7" fighters of the multiplayer. I like to think that the Strip wasn't particularly hit during the Cebrerus Coup, the silversun strip lies buried on the Wards are huge after all, has little strategic importance, and hosts some firepower(armax arena/N7). C-SEC can't afford to be everywhere and are mostly on the Presidium and other important (economic) sites. So here, on the Silver Sun strips, mercenaries, warriors en soldiers on N7 mission gather (maybe in large part due to Armax Arena) and people otherwise wanting to be less-concerned with the war gather.
As for the ambushing mercs strolling into in the restaurant, I always imagined them just exiting a cab or two at the the more spacious area above the stairs, but them marching down the Strip is funny af
I took a random chance on Me3 years ago and then played the games in reverse order 😂. Gotta be on my 30th play through at this point. Best game
I love 2 and 3. But cant enjoy 1 anymore. I played it so many times from 08 to 09 that it has now become a chore. I know every nook and cranny of that game.
For me it's city/base builders and resource management stuff.
Games I go back to to escape reality's chaos:
Mass Effect Trilogy
KOTOR 1&2
Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
Skyrim
Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis most of all
Curious why there aren't more Normandy Class Frigates in the galaxy 🤔 I know it was experimental, but there's no chance neither the Human Alliance nor the Turian... Hedgemony? Saw the value in small stealth ships, especially in a galaxy where torpedoes apparently work just fine. I guess point defense isn't much of a thing in the not too far future. Anyway, I got distracted, point is I hope we return to a Normandy Class Frigate for ME5, and find out there were dozens already in production when the Reapers invaded. Would make Cerberus feel less like the only sane people in the room and more like a small splinter cell of radicals
You should make a Let's Play channel, or even Livestream an entire Mass Effect Legendary Edition run.
Thanks you
I’ve said this before put playing mass effect feels like home. So does early halo and gears of war. For me anyway.
I loved this trilogy. I even enjoyed Andromeda, even tho people gave it a lot of shit. I think sometimes we have become overly critical of everything, forgetting that games ( and movies) are for entertainment and dont have to be perfect as long as you are entertained.
I enjoyed Andromeda too, except for all that running down long boring corridors in the Nexus.
@@stevenscott2136 yeah. The nexus was boring. But then, so was running around the Citadel. 🙂
Both Mass Effect and the X Series for me.
Edit: Not sure if you play on PC, but if you do, there's a Mass Effect total conversion mod for Stellaris called Beyond the Relays, and another one for Sins of a Solar Empire called Dawn of the Reapers.
What about Tower in Overlord - do you feel as safe place as home too?
The Mass Effect trilogy is my solace. Liara is my cannon romance.
W3 and CP2077 are the only other games I need.
Well, that is unless you have beaten the trilogy on insanity.
Idk dabbin up Jacob is pretty cool tho
best games ever 😍
The only one other game that make me safe is Life Is Strange.
hi, are you doing the burning shores dlc
🙌🏿🔥
Youve got to try fallout 3 and new vegas mod tale of two wastelands with begin again. its fantastic
Beautiful video, not Joseph Anderson. I’ll see you on the colony ship brother
I wouldn't feel safe being in a random colony and suddenly being invaded/killed/enslaved by pirates or batarians, kidnapped by collectors or just being killed and harvested by the Reapers or The Illusive Man.
I wouldn’t say andromedas explorations pales compared to the original trilogy. The story, characters, overall writing, and release were not great; however, the exploration and combat was better in andromeda.
tHiS Is My SAfE PLaCE
I was with you until the unnecessary Jacob hate
Shame that 3 and onwards went woke. I LOVED the ESCAPISM that Mass Effect 1 provided. The only problem I have with 2 is the LACK of diplomacy; lack of mercy; too much needless bloodshed of Asari.