Hackett: “Shepard, let me tell you something I’ve learned the hard way. You can pay a soldier to fire a gun. You can pay a soldier to charge and take a hill. But you can’t pay him to believe.” Shepard: “I’m afraid I don’t follow sir.” Hackett: “That mission against Sovereign all those years ago? There was no reason to believe you’d win. But your team didn’t seem to care; they went along anyway. That mission into the Omega Relay? That was a suicide mission if there ever was one. But there your team was again, standing at your side, *proud* to serve. Why? Because they *believed in you.* And it’s that kind of belief we need right now.”
Still my favorite quote regarding the Cult of Shepard. Regardless of morality, you take a crew of cripples, bastards and broken things and turn them into a living symbol of hope capable of walking into hell with you purely out of belief
@@radopposums2829 Well now. Everyone has their own issues and little skeletons in the closet, but "cripples, bastards and broken things" is taking it a bit too far. Accurate for the ME2 companions alone, perhaps, but certainly not everyone. Let's recap, shall we? Ashley Williams/Kaidan Alenko: Highly trained and extremely capable soldiers. One is a powerful biotic. Spectre material. No real issues to speak of. Tali'Zorah nar Rayya (later vas Normandy): Genius tech expert, at least adequate combatant, next in line for Admiralty Board of the Quarian Fleet. Young and impulsive, at least at first, but hardly a real issue. Garrus Vakarian: Elite sniper, tech expert, capable investigator. Hot-headed and with a strong sense of justice. Spectre material. No real issues. Urdnot Wrex: Krogan Battlemaster and later leader of his people. Stubborn and set in his ways to the point of potentially compromising sound judgement (Virmire), but capable of making the right calls nevertheless. Liara T'Soni: Expert archaologist, powerful biotic. Later extremely competent information broker. No real issues. etc, etc.
That moment when Destiny Ascension comes out of the relay, leading the Asari fleets, and you think, damn, having to deal with these Council fucks for all this time was well worth having this ship by my side.
+B.A.Krokodil I remember the moment when Destiny Ascension emerged from Sol Relay and flew by. My 5+1 sound system was pretty cranked and the tremble coming from bass was... whoa... the shivers went all over my spine...
Alliance fleet checking in Turian fleet checking in Krogan fleet checking in Geth Fleet checking in Quarian fleet accounted for All fleets checking in commander
*Alliance Fleet has joined the game* *Turian Fleet has joined the game* *Asari Fleet has joined the game* *Salarian STG has joined the game* *Krogan Army has joined the game* *Quarian Fleet has joined the game* *Geth Fleet had joined the game* *Harbinger has left the game* *The Reaper Fleet has left the game*
@@vood00ranger UNSC Infinity and Eternity checking in let us punch a hole through the middle of these squids.....i'd pay to see that Prothean fleet...shit never mind its EA you'd have to anyway lol
M3RCxNationHQ, this scene was my favorite, when ALL the Fleets you can recruit show up.. you could picture Shepard at the Galaxy map giving the order: "Shepard to all fleets.. at my signal.. UNLEASH HELL!!"
NatureXwars you can get the Geth Fleet appearing if you complete certain missions a particular way.. same with the Migrant fleet. I have done it in ME3
There is a reason that this song uses the same ME1 theme from "Spectre Induction". When that original scene played in ME1, that is when the Reapers lost the war.
that is a great insight on behalf of your intellect and not stolen from the user @karankenZ commenting on "spectre induction" (czcams.com/video/Vk8gVWOy7uo/video.html). i am certain that when i quote karankenZ stating that "There is a reason this is the same as "the fleet arrives". In the history of mass effect, let it be known , that this was the moment when the reapers lost the war." the similarities to your comment are purely incidental and not of plagiaristic nature.
I am not going to lie. When the ships start pouring in and the full orchestral version of the title theme starts playing, I teared up. There is just something touching about the thought that here is the entire might of this galaxy you have been trying to save for a hundred and fifty hours of game, and they are ro the last man ready to risk everything for a last chance.
It’s the culmination of this entire hopeless feeling you’ve had through the entire game. You’ve lost pretty much every battle but when you see the fleets arrive you think “maybe we can win this”
This is undoubtabky the best moment in the series. For just a moment, you think that MAYBE there is a chance that you can pull it off. And Hacket's speech before hand is awesome. It would have been better if you could see the troops you gathered in action on earth. Maybe even a mechanic where you could call for help from these troops. I mean who didn't want to see the Elcor walking tanks or the Volus bombing fleet ffs!?
I think this moment is second best in the series besides the suicide mission. One is more grand and epic, while the other is tenser and personal, with characters you've become attached to at risk of death. Both are great, but the Suicide Mission soundtrack makes it more epic
@@PonzooonTheGreat apparently it wasn't that they where rushed but that theyd ecided to completely change the ending at the last minute cause the ending had leaked and the writer decided to go with an "artsy" ending.
I had a similar battle, against the Prethoryn Scourge. Most of the empires had been destroyed, the only ones remaining being me, the smaller empires under my protectorate, an awakened empire, and the Sentinels. My original world was being invaded and populations devoured. My largest fleet, and even my last, made up of the remnants of fleets that somehow tried to contain the infection was followed by the Sentinels and the best that the small empires under my protection had to offer. The larger fleet was invading my original system and preparing to leave it to Attack another when the combined fleets passed the hyperlink. When the fleet was destroyed an army of reconquest made up of several species of the galaxy, refugees in me and of my humans reconquered the planet. And after long battles, the Scourge was defeated, leaving a galaxy littered with the ruins of ancient galactic empires.
@@lordmazdamundi2847 I had a mass effect mod and I launched an offensive against the reapers (the machine one but it changed it) as the Asari with the mod that adds their civilization. The first ships of a United galaxy to arrive where my ships in huge numbers.
I remember this one time in Stellaris when I was in a war with my playthrough's equivalent of the krogan and I don't know whether it was a ridiculous fleet that I missed or a powerful space station but they had somehow destroyed the vast majority of my 2nd fleet. So I had merged my 1st fleet and what was left of the 2nd to try take out what had destroyed my ships. Sometimes when I look back, I think that it would've looked and sounded like this when my fleet arrived to kick their ass back to their home world.
Kaidan/Ashley: Let's advance together! Tali: Shepard, I'll come to your support anytime. Liara: I'll always be with you, no matter what. Garrus: Once more into the fire? Heh, there's nowhere I'd rather be. Let's do this. Wrex: The enemy will know the might of our combined force, Shepard. Kasumi: This is shaping up to be one amazing partnership eh, Shepard? Grunt: I'll crush your enemies whoever they are, Shepard. Thane: Kalahira, bless this one for his/her quest is nearly done. Jack: Well shit, let's just kill them all, shall we? Miranda: Let's get right to business, no time to waste after all. Legion: Shepard-Commander, we calculated 99.9% rate of success for this mission. Zaeed: What the goddamn hell are we waiting for? Let's just blast the door down and kill those bastards. Samara: I uphold the code of justice. You, Shepard, are justice. And I'll be right beside you. Morinth: Let's not waste any time with these trash. Mordin: So many experiments to do. Too many research needs to be conducted. But I'll always have time for you, Shepard. Jacob: You lead, I'll follow. Wherever that may be. Javik: Commander, this cycle have hope because of you. Now let's show the enemy what fear is. James: Hell Loco/Lola, I still got one up on you in the kill count. Show me what you got, come on. EDI: Commander, just give the word, the Normandy is always ready. Joker: All systems are green and ready to go, Commander. Anderson: I'm proud of you, always. Hackett: You have done the impossibles time and time again. Truly, you are a shining beacon for us all.
Imagine this scene, as part of a remastered game, that supported vr or 3d. music blaring at full blast, the light at the side, illuminating the relay and the surrounding space, and bang! the fleets arrive, jumping out at you, so close and massive as if you could reach out and touch them. I would love that
@@g1jetfireandrainbowdash798 Bruh give it like 10 more years. Vr games of that kinda scale are unlikely to happen anytime soon, but i almost certain at least something similiar will happen at some point
The secret to the ending: *It WAS actually made at the last moment, days before content lockdown* (aka the date from when work on the game is no longer permitted)
As far as I care, the real ending was the moment the fleets arrived. It was the last time anything relevant happened that was the direct result of decisions you made in previous games, and left me with a pride to be human I can't describe. If I somehow never wanted to interact with semi-benevolent alien races before that moment, there was no way I'd still feel that way afterwards. Somehow, they managed to match, if not mirror, the moment Joker took the Normandy into that dive against Harbringer. The rest of the "ending" aside, Bioware knows how to make your hair stand on end. Like no one else.
That was a key moment for me too. Humans might be intriguing, ignorant dickheads sometime, but never underestimate the good ones among us. While others fought for the glory and the gain of power, we fought for the universe. The trilogy was a masterpiece (and a pretty philosophical one).
3 games' hard work of reconciling hostile camps culminated in this proud moment. The sighting of a pan-galactic fleet was a toast to the Commander's career, an occasion for hand-over-mouth gestures and tears of bitter joy. If Shepard had died there and then--flashbacking to the cost of her accomplishment--it would have been a life better spent than the one wasted on the anticlimactic "Catalyst."
***** Bioware has a difficult act to juggle: While the company cannot surrender its artistic license, it also cannot disregard the demands of its customer base.
***** Bioware may have intellectual property rights to the game, but it is the customer base that decides whether the company remains a lucrative acquisition for EA. Bioware can ill-afford to bite the hand that feeds it a second time.
Yet CryTek has had trouble. Non-payment, almost going bankrupt, there main thing now is to license their CryEngine for a free 2 play model. So, it has cost them substantially. And considering the crap that EA releases and then the games still go well review wise (playbase often has complaints that someone we're not in the review copy of the game), it would be hard for a company to give up job security for a losing a bit of creative power over their content.
Which is why I choose the perfect destroy ending every single time....Like I'm actually going to take the catalysts word for it when it says that there can never be peace between synthetics and organics. The mere fact that my Shepard was even standing there to begin with is proof that the Catalyst can't foresee every outcome. I'm not having Shepard give in to the Catalyst's demands when I already know that Catalyst's data is flawed.
I loved this scene. It really gave you the feel that this is the showdown, the final battle. You either gain everything or loose everything. One shall stand and one shall fall.
Listening to this track over and over again, I can feel a enormous surge of positive energy and optimism. Solving coding problems just has totally new meaning. :)
Jovan Perović I know what you mean. It's like a virtual red bull. Only difference is the input method, and the way it invokes the 'will do it, come hell or high water' aggression in our mind.
It’s like a whisper on the wind, finally after all this time on the horizon the remaster is nearly here. Just a month away folks, let’s get ready to kick some ass. Well bang ok
For those of you out there talking about how easy it would be for a Halo weapon to destroy a Reaper, apparently you don't realize how powerful the shields of a non-Destroyer Reaper are. The Destroyers which Shepard and his team have defeated multiple times (Tuchanka and Earth more specifically) aren't that difficult to take down. But if you want to see how much punishment a Capital Ship can take, look at the Reaper in ME2 that's floating above Klendagon and look at the planet Klendagon itself. Klendagon and that Reaper were both struck by a Mass Accelerator weapon that created a gigantic rift in the planet's southern hemisphere that's easily viewable from really far away because of it's sheer size. Yet the Reaper was even able to survive that, though heavily damaged. Just sayin'.
Besides the Halo Rings, which I'm assuming that's what you mean, aren't even designed to destroy anything like Reaper tech. They're meant to wipe out organic life.
This scene, the moment the Normandy appears with this amazing, simply amazing piece of music, followed by the hundreds if not thousands of ships from the various allied galactic forces, has got to be up there with the best moments in all of TV, film and gaming media. That's no exaggeration. The first time I saw this was a moment I will never forget. Forgetting the ending, the rest of ME3 was incredible.
A little note to everyone saying "ME beats Halo, or 40k beats ME" Or whatever it is. Let me remind you Mass Effect takes place in the 2100's. Halo in the 2500's. And 40k in the 40,000's, so by that logic, it is physically impossible for any of the universes to intersect. Good day.
The Cheekiest of Scrubs but reapers beat everything. Inorganic so immune to flood and tyranids, firepower rivals any 40k warship, indoctrination easily enslaves covenant, and just the experience of waging galactic wars of genocide for millions of years (not to mention all kinds of monsters they can conjure up, we all know husks, collectors, etc, but remember the adjutunts are probably the most dangerous because they can directly convert by virus, not just dragons teeth). So against any foe, indoctrination starts a civil war with sabotage and espionage eroding the war effort, they can employ novel strategies (like a lack of defense and supply lines) throwing the enemy off balance, they convert your armies and civilians into their horde, and they can afford scorched earth tactics. So we have a war of attrition being waged potentially with one reaper raising its own army on thousands of worlds, there's no real defensive formation to hold just a general melee, and any "ace" superweapon is very likely to be sabotaged or even turned against you.
+Connor O'Brien That's simply not true, the Reapers are so immensely powerful in the ME universe because that universe doesn't use insane numbers. For 40k, even the smallest of Imperium ships outclasses every single thing a Reaper has. Their ground forces would be in many cases vaporized by the Imperial Guard, not even getting into the Space Marines. This isn't even getting into the Necrons who make Reapers seem like Tinker Toys in terms of AI complexity. They have a weapon that can instantly destroy any star in the galaxy. All of this is without the Chaos Gods and all their crazy fuckery, and let's remember that Khorne gets stronger with any act of violence, or psykers, or any of the other races who each outnumber the Reapers. Pretty much nothing touches 40k, and the entire Reaper fleet is batted aside by a small flotilla. One 40k planet has something to the tune of 300 TRILLION ships. The Reapers are also outclassed by the Covenant in terms of firepower, though they have the numbers to swarm modern Halo. But if we get near the Forerunners, who outclass even 40k, the Reapers again ain't shit.
Why are people even comparing Mass Effect technology to Halo? Yes, Halo tech is stronger. The UNSC has nearly 400 years of scientific and technological development over the System's Alliance. It should hardly be a surprise that they are more advanced.
It is intriuging that if the Reapers decided to wait just half a millenia, or were by chance somehow delayed, their whole plan would have crumbled, isn't it?
No they dont. The humans in ME got tech from aliens that had already established a galactic civilization for 1000s of years before humans discovered it.
@@theleoita90 40k wins all scenarios, Humanity is just OP in comparision. That said, the Reaps would get obliterated by everything else too. May be a decent solution to the Nids though.
When I first saw this scene, with the hundreds of ships of all the species I’d rallied behind me, I felt very much like what we call in my country, Billy Big-Bollocks - I was coming for a fight and I had backup. This music was PERFECT for this most epic of moments!
My favorite part of this scene is when the SR2 Normandy was heading towards the Earth followed by the entire galactic fleet a few seconds later. Shepard had come a long way from the prophetic soldier to an actual commander in chief of the milky way's galactic forces.
Commander Shepard: " This bond that ties us together is something the Reapers will never understand. It's more powerful than any weapon, stronger than any ship. It can't be taken or destroyed. The next few hours will decide the fate of everyone in the galaxy; every mother, every son, every un-born child. But take heart, look around you. You're not alone in this fight. We face our enemy together and together we will defeat them. "
a trilogy with the quality of ME but playing an Inquisitor and his/her retitude in the 40k universe would cause such worldwide nerdgasm that it would open a fucking Eye of Terror just near us
This scene made me feel like a kid on Christmas day. Every. single. goddamn ship in the galaxy in one fleet for one purpose. Seeing all those ships coming through the mass relay AND THEY KEPT COMING FOR A GOOD MINUTE. I don't think there's anything that could ever top that on the epic scale for me.
I meant the muarders/cannibals and the like, they are organic mash ups combined with some technology but still suitable to the flood. As long as there is a whole body, a nervous system and sufficient Biomass it can be taken over.
This song/theme as far as I'm concerned is the absolute high point of the series. The moment all you have been working towards finally come together, all fleets, races come together to start the final battle! Pitty we only saw a few seconds of the whole fight - and then 'that' ending which made it all for nothing...
Oh man ME was such a good game, I only wish they made warhammer, star trek or star wars games of this caliber. I dont want better graphics or anything just the same epic experience :)
Make a crossover fanfic with the Zorich universe. European directory there has the Elzas-class battleships, and one of them might as well be called Normandy. 12 21,5" Skoda dual acceleration cannons, meters of armor plating, anti-laser shields, and it can also land on the ground, despite being 800 meters long.
And Halo has the "In Amber clad" "Forward Onto Dawn" "Infinity (its bigger than a reaper)" "Midsummer Night" "Heart of Midlothian" and I could go on about all the main ships in the Halo universe.
The reapers didnt just piss off shepard The reapers didn’t just piss off humanity The reapers didn’t just piss offf the council species They pissed the entire galaxy
You forget that the Reapers failed to indoctrinate even half the Mass effect universe leaders. Shepard, Garus, Anderson, Liara, Tali all were out there kicking ass. Spartans would be less likely to be indoctrinated than most as would captains of starships. Btw, this is actually quite an interesting though experiment, mainly because there is no right answer, it's completely subjective. :D
Because in ME3 when you go talk to Udina he says that the first things the reapers went for are the satellites orbiting earth and the nuclear missile silos
Space Marine Chapter Fleets reporting in. We will purge the unclean. Imperial Fleet reporting in. For the Emperor. Eldar Craftworlds, bearing down on the enemy. Star Destroyers reporting in. Battlemaster group, ready to set them ablaze. UNSC Infinity, ready to kick some ass. Tau fleet coming abroad. For the Greater Good. Firefly class trans-Did the Primary Buffer Panel just fall off my ship?
And before you say anything about how the UNSC ships have larger slugs and higher speeds, the recoil on the UNSC ships would put SO MUCH strain on the ships IRL that they would be utterly demolished. You're firing nearly a third of a tonne to 119916983.2 meters a second. Stupidly fast, stupidly damaging, but it also means that their guns would be single shot before needing replacing. You can't launch something like that without the firer REALLY suffering.
Great Fox, standing b- CAN'T LET YOU DO THAT FOX. Ted Striker, standing by. *I just wanted you to know, good luck. We're all counting on you.* USG Ishimura standing b- OH GOD AAAAGH!
Furthermore, once the main MAC cannon is gone, the ship is fairly useless. Slipspace doesn't exist in the ME universe, whilst negative mass allowing FTL travel should exist in the Halo universe (due to near-identical laws of physics), which means that not only would the ships be unable to shoot anything after one shot, the ships would then be unable to flee. The ships from the ME universe then come along and shot the UNSC ships to buggery.
Hackett: “Shepard, let me tell you something I’ve learned the hard way. You can pay a soldier to fire a gun. You can pay a soldier to charge and take a hill. But you can’t pay him to believe.”
Shepard: “I’m afraid I don’t follow sir.”
Hackett: “That mission against Sovereign all those years ago? There was no reason to believe you’d win. But your team didn’t seem to care; they went along anyway. That mission into the Omega Relay? That was a suicide mission if there ever was one. But there your team was again, standing at your side, *proud* to serve. Why? Because they *believed in you.* And it’s that kind of belief we need right now.”
Still my favorite quote regarding the Cult of Shepard. Regardless of morality, you take a crew of cripples, bastards and broken things and turn them into a living symbol of hope capable of walking into hell with you purely out of belief
Hoo-rah!
@@radopposums2829 Well now. Everyone has their own issues and little skeletons in the closet, but "cripples, bastards and broken things" is taking it a bit too far. Accurate for the ME2 companions alone, perhaps, but certainly not everyone. Let's recap, shall we?
Ashley Williams/Kaidan Alenko: Highly trained and extremely capable soldiers. One is a powerful biotic. Spectre material. No real issues to speak of.
Tali'Zorah nar Rayya (later vas Normandy): Genius tech expert, at least adequate combatant, next in line for Admiralty Board of the Quarian Fleet. Young and impulsive, at least at first, but hardly a real issue.
Garrus Vakarian: Elite sniper, tech expert, capable investigator. Hot-headed and with a strong sense of justice. Spectre material. No real issues.
Urdnot Wrex: Krogan Battlemaster and later leader of his people. Stubborn and set in his ways to the point of potentially compromising sound judgement (Virmire), but capable of making the right calls nevertheless.
Liara T'Soni: Expert archaologist, powerful biotic. Later extremely competent information broker. No real issues.
etc, etc.
@@raindrain1 It's a reference to game of thrones.
@@frgscajs2018 ...Yes, that's obvious.
That moment when Destiny Ascension comes out of the relay, leading the Asari fleets, and you think, damn, having to deal with these Council fucks for all this time was well worth having this ship by my side.
B.A.Krokodil except they didnt make a fuckin difference lol
Nah, id rather have geth than the council.
+B.A.Krokodil I remember the moment when Destiny Ascension emerged from Sol Relay and flew by. My 5+1 sound system was pretty cranked and the tremble coming from bass was... whoa... the shivers went all over my spine...
+B.A.Krokodil I prefer having all Alliance Fleets at full strength. What can I say, i'm loyal to the Alliance.
And it did jackshit!!
Harbinger: "We have an army."
Shepard: "We have a Grunt."
:(
Did you inspire Marvel with this comment?
@@JCLeftYa yeah
Grunt: I AM KROGAN
We Are Legion
*giant hair dryer flies out of relay*
+Dinosbacsi Cannot unsee!
+Dinosbacsi LOL didn't think of it in that way :D
+Dinosbacsi are you referring to the Destiny's ascension?
LU Shepard
Yes.
could not hold my laugh&smile when seen the comment ;) up up the vote!
Alliance fleet checking in
Turian fleet checking in
Krogan fleet checking in
Geth Fleet checking in
Quarian fleet accounted for
All fleets checking in commander
krogan fleet? i dont think that exists. but their army sure as fucking hell exists lol
Prothean fleet checking in
@@vood00ranger a lost fleet of prothean ships, crew in stasis...
Protheans rejoin the fight.
*Alliance Fleet has joined the game*
*Turian Fleet has joined the game*
*Asari Fleet has joined the game*
*Salarian STG has joined the game*
*Krogan Army has joined the game*
*Quarian Fleet has joined the game*
*Geth Fleet had joined the game*
*Harbinger has left the game*
*The Reaper Fleet has left the game*
@@vood00ranger UNSC Infinity and Eternity checking in let us punch a hole through the middle of these squids.....i'd pay to see that Prothean fleet...shit never mind its EA you'd have to anyway lol
Aside from all these arguments, I kinda liked this scene.
When all the fleets started showing up I was like "Aw damn, Shit just got real."
I don't know, i thought g ear out ng the fear in jack's voice really drove it home
+M3RCxNationHQ Game was great till this scene imo.
M3RCxNationHQ, this scene was my favorite, when ALL the Fleets you can recruit show up.. you could picture Shepard at the Galaxy map giving the order: "Shepard to all fleets.. at my signal.. UNLEASH HELL!!"
Not all, the Geth fleet are nowhere to be seen in the cutscenes & the Migrant Fleet only appeared in that one little scene when they passed Jupiter..
NatureXwars you can get the Geth Fleet appearing if you complete certain missions a particular way.. same with the Migrant fleet. I have done it in ME3
There is a reason that this song uses the same ME1 theme from "Spectre Induction". When that original scene played in ME1, that is when the Reapers lost the war.
+Jennifer Popa Holy... I didn´t recognize that it was the same theme
They use that song a lot in the trilogy if you notice, very good observation Jennifer :)
that is a great insight on behalf of your intellect and not stolen from the user
@karankenZ commenting on "spectre induction" (czcams.com/video/Vk8gVWOy7uo/video.html).
i am certain that when i quote karankenZ stating that "There is a reason this is the same as "the fleet arrives". In the history of mass effect, let it be known , that this was the moment when the reapers lost the war." the similarities to your comment are purely incidental and not of plagiaristic nature.
@@doktormabuse7329 Bruh could have just said he stole the comment
Somehow I never noticed it was the same theme before, huh.
I am not going to lie. When the ships start pouring in and the full orchestral version of the title theme starts playing, I teared up. There is just something touching about the thought that here is the entire might of this galaxy you have been trying to save for a hundred and fifty hours of game, and they are ro the last man ready to risk everything for a last chance.
It’s the culmination of this entire hopeless feeling you’ve had through the entire game. You’ve lost pretty much every battle but when you see the fleets arrive you think “maybe we can win this”
Except salarians :P
This is undoubtabky the best moment in the series. For just a moment, you think that MAYBE there is a chance that you can pull it off. And Hacket's speech before hand is awesome. It would have been better if you could see the troops you gathered in action on earth. Maybe even a mechanic where you could call for help from these troops. I mean who didn't want to see the Elcor walking tanks or the Volus bombing fleet ffs!?
+PonzooonTheGreat The game was great up until this scene.
Fukin EA rushing Bioware.
Maybe one day we'll get a remake (Not a remaster) that has stuff like that in it.
I think this moment is second best in the series besides the suicide mission. One is more grand and epic, while the other is tenser and personal, with characters you've become attached to at risk of death. Both are great, but the Suicide Mission soundtrack makes it more epic
@@PonzooonTheGreat apparently it wasn't that they where rushed but that theyd ecided to completely change the ending at the last minute cause the ending had leaked and the writer decided to go with an "artsy" ending.
I used this for when I retook my homeworld in stellaris against an awakened fallen empire. It was a glorious battle.
I had a similar battle, against the Prethoryn Scourge. Most of the empires had been destroyed, the only ones remaining being me, the smaller empires under my protectorate, an awakened empire, and the Sentinels.
My original world was being invaded and populations devoured. My largest fleet, and even my last, made up of the remnants of fleets that somehow tried to contain the infection was followed by the Sentinels and the best that the small empires under my protection had to offer. The larger fleet was invading my original system and preparing to leave it to Attack another when the combined fleets passed the hyperlink. When the fleet was destroyed an army of reconquest made up of several species of the galaxy, refugees in me and of my humans reconquered the planet. And after long battles, the Scourge was defeated, leaving a galaxy littered with the ruins of ancient galactic empires.
@@lordmazdamundi2847 I had a mass effect mod and I launched an offensive against the reapers (the machine one but it changed it) as the Asari with the mod that adds their civilization. The first ships of a United galaxy to arrive where my ships in huge numbers.
I remember this one time in Stellaris when I was in a war with my playthrough's equivalent of the krogan and I don't know whether it was a ridiculous fleet that I missed or a powerful space station but they had somehow destroyed the vast majority of my 2nd fleet. So I had merged my 1st fleet and what was left of the 2nd to try take out what had destroyed my ships. Sometimes when I look back, I think that it would've looked and sounded like this when my fleet arrived to kick their ass back to their home world.
I love how they threw in the original ME and ME2 the songs into this one. It's just perfect for a last stand mission.
Kaidan/Ashley: Let's advance together!
Tali: Shepard, I'll come to your support anytime.
Liara: I'll always be with you, no matter what.
Garrus: Once more into the fire? Heh, there's nowhere I'd rather be. Let's do this.
Wrex: The enemy will know the might of our combined force, Shepard.
Kasumi: This is shaping up to be one amazing partnership eh, Shepard?
Grunt: I'll crush your enemies whoever they are, Shepard.
Thane: Kalahira, bless this one for his/her quest is nearly done.
Jack: Well shit, let's just kill them all, shall we?
Miranda: Let's get right to business, no time to waste after all.
Legion: Shepard-Commander, we calculated 99.9% rate of success for this mission.
Zaeed: What the goddamn hell are we waiting for? Let's just blast the door down and kill those bastards.
Samara: I uphold the code of justice. You, Shepard, are justice. And I'll be right beside you.
Morinth: Let's not waste any time with these trash.
Mordin: So many experiments to do. Too many research needs to be conducted. But I'll always have time for you, Shepard.
Jacob: You lead, I'll follow. Wherever that may be.
Javik: Commander, this cycle have hope because of you. Now let's show the enemy what fear is.
James: Hell Loco/Lola, I still got one up on you in the kill count. Show me what you got, come on.
EDI: Commander, just give the word, the Normandy is always ready.
Joker: All systems are green and ready to go, Commander.
Anderson: I'm proud of you, always.
Hackett: You have done the impossibles time and time again. Truly, you are a shining beacon for us all.
Correction:
Javik: Let’s throw them out the airlock, shall we?
@@Reach04 What 'bout the reapers?
Build a bigger airlock.
The Feels Arrive
Imagine this scene, as part of a remastered game, that supported vr or 3d. music blaring at full blast, the light at the side, illuminating the relay and the surrounding space, and bang! the fleets arrive, jumping out at you, so close and massive as if you could reach out and touch them. I would love that
You have said it, now we need it... I NEED VR MASS EFFECT!!!
@@g1jetfireandrainbowdash798 Bruh give it like 10 more years. Vr games of that kinda scale are unlikely to happen anytime soon, but i almost certain at least something similiar will happen at some point
Well, we're getting the Legendary Edition, so this scene will be twice as awesome!
The secret to the ending: *It WAS actually made at the last moment, days before content lockdown* (aka the date from when work on the game is no longer permitted)
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As far as I care, the real ending was the moment the fleets arrived. It was the last time anything relevant happened that was the direct result of decisions you made in previous games, and left me with a pride to be human I can't describe.
If I somehow never wanted to interact with semi-benevolent alien races before that moment, there was no way I'd still feel that way afterwards.
Somehow, they managed to match, if not mirror, the moment Joker took the Normandy into that dive against Harbringer. The rest of the "ending" aside, Bioware knows how to make your hair stand on end. Like no one else.
Couldn't agree more!
That was a key moment for me too. Humans might be intriguing, ignorant dickheads sometime, but never underestimate the good ones among us. While others fought for the glory and the gain of power, we fought for the universe. The trilogy was a masterpiece (and a pretty philosophical one).
Cant agree more, this spells it out +
This is it everyone. Attack at my signal....FIRE!
Copy that all fighters on me!
Selin Sevgi Terzi “Hammer, Break out!”
Roger that
Garrus: "We're in the Endgame now"
"On my signal, unleash hell.....Fire!"
100% EMS : now unleash hell!
Yeah!!!
3 games' hard work of reconciling hostile camps culminated in this proud moment. The sighting of a pan-galactic fleet was a toast to the Commander's career, an occasion for hand-over-mouth gestures and tears of bitter joy. If Shepard had died there and then--flashbacking to the cost of her accomplishment--it would have been a life better spent than the one wasted on the anticlimactic "Catalyst."
*****
Bioware has a difficult act to juggle: While the company cannot surrender its artistic license, it also cannot disregard the demands of its customer base.
*****
Bioware may have intellectual property rights to the game, but it is the customer base that decides whether the company remains a lucrative acquisition for EA. Bioware can ill-afford to bite the hand that feeds it a second time.
Yet CryTek has had trouble. Non-payment, almost going bankrupt, there main thing now is to license their CryEngine for a free 2 play model.
So, it has cost them substantially. And considering the crap that EA releases and then the games still go well review wise (playbase often has complaints that someone we're not in the review copy of the game), it would be hard for a company to give up job security for a losing a bit of creative power over their content.
Which is why I choose the perfect destroy ending every single time....Like I'm actually going to take the catalysts word for it when it says that there can never be peace between synthetics and organics. The mere fact that my Shepard was even standing there to begin with is proof that the Catalyst can't foresee every outcome. I'm not having Shepard give in to the Catalyst's demands when I already know that Catalyst's data is flawed.
I loved this scene. It really gave you the feel that this is the showdown, the final battle. You either gain everything or loose everything. One shall stand and one shall fall.
One of the most intense moments in mass effect history.
And video game history.
Listening to this track over and over again, I can feel a enormous surge of positive energy and optimism. Solving coding problems just has totally new meaning. :)
Jovan Perović I know what you mean. It's like a virtual red bull. Only difference is the input method, and the way it invokes the 'will do it, come hell or high water' aggression in our mind.
It’s like a whisper on the wind, finally after all this time on the horizon the remaster is nearly here.
Just a month away folks, let’s get ready to kick some ass.
Well bang ok
For those of you out there talking about how easy it would be for a Halo weapon to destroy a Reaper, apparently you don't realize how powerful the shields of a non-Destroyer Reaper are. The Destroyers which Shepard and his team have defeated multiple times (Tuchanka and Earth more specifically) aren't that difficult to take down. But if you want to see how much punishment a Capital Ship can take, look at the Reaper in ME2 that's floating above Klendagon and look at the planet Klendagon itself. Klendagon and that Reaper were both struck by a Mass Accelerator weapon that created a gigantic rift in the planet's southern hemisphere that's easily viewable from really far away because of it's sheer size. Yet the Reaper was even able to survive that, though heavily damaged. Just sayin'.
Floating above Mnemosyne, not Klendagon. wooopsie daisy
Besides the Halo Rings, which I'm assuming that's what you mean, aren't even designed to destroy anything like Reaper tech. They're meant to wipe out organic life.
ir0nsquire Reapers are half organic.
And they all miss the the indoctrination part ^^
Meh, Thel Vadam could scare away the Reapers with his badass voice.
This scene, the moment the Normandy appears with this amazing, simply amazing piece of music, followed by the hundreds if not thousands of ships from the various allied galactic forces, has got to be up there with the best moments in all of TV, film and gaming media. That's no exaggeration. The first time I saw this was a moment I will never forget. Forgetting the ending, the rest of ME3 was incredible.
Best game ever. I'm so glad to saw that magnificent trilogy in my life.
A little note to everyone saying "ME beats Halo, or 40k beats ME" Or whatever it is. Let me remind you Mass Effect takes place in the 2100's. Halo in the 2500's. And 40k in the 40,000's, so by that logic, it is physically impossible for any of the universes to intersect. Good day.
Kesslr if you thought enough about it you could merge Halo with ME but 40K is just so far away from both of them that its not at all feasible
Ben Wilson I suppose, I could see Mass Effect meeting Halo in a few hundred years. Yeah. Thank's for the input.
The Cheekiest of Scrubs but reapers beat everything. Inorganic so immune to flood and tyranids, firepower rivals any 40k warship, indoctrination easily enslaves covenant, and just the experience of waging galactic wars of genocide for millions of years (not to mention all kinds of monsters they can conjure up, we all know husks, collectors, etc, but remember the adjutunts are probably the most dangerous because they can directly convert by virus, not just dragons teeth). So against any foe, indoctrination starts a civil war with sabotage and espionage eroding the war effort, they can employ novel strategies (like a lack of defense and supply lines) throwing the enemy off balance, they convert your armies and civilians into their horde, and they can afford scorched earth tactics. So we have a war of attrition being waged potentially with one reaper raising its own army on thousands of worlds, there's no real defensive formation to hold just a general melee, and any "ace" superweapon is very likely to be sabotaged or even turned against you.
+Connor O'Brien That's simply not true, the Reapers are so immensely powerful in the ME universe because that universe doesn't use insane numbers. For 40k, even the smallest of Imperium ships outclasses every single thing a Reaper has. Their ground forces would be in many cases vaporized by the Imperial Guard, not even getting into the Space Marines. This isn't even getting into the Necrons who make Reapers seem like Tinker Toys in terms of AI complexity. They have a weapon that can instantly destroy any star in the galaxy. All of this is without the Chaos Gods and all their crazy fuckery, and let's remember that Khorne gets stronger with any act of violence, or psykers, or any of the other races who each outnumber the Reapers. Pretty much nothing touches 40k, and the entire Reaper fleet is batted aside by a small flotilla. One 40k planet has something to the tune of 300 TRILLION ships.
The Reapers are also outclassed by the Covenant in terms of firepower, though they have the numbers to swarm modern Halo. But if we get near the Forerunners, who outclass even 40k, the Reapers again ain't shit.
+Andrew Vinter The Reapers would be a bug on a windshield to the Galactic Empire.
"Oh hilarious. Commence primary ignition."
R.I.P Marauder Shield
Honestly, everything before the final 15 minutes of ME3 was great. I really wish this particular scene had lasted longer though.
The Reapers: (chuckles) I'm in danger
Why are people even comparing Mass Effect technology to Halo? Yes, Halo tech is stronger. The UNSC has nearly 400 years of scientific and technological development over the System's Alliance. It should hardly be a surprise that they are more advanced.
It is intriuging that if the Reapers decided to wait just half a millenia, or were by chance somehow delayed, their whole plan would have crumbled, isn't it?
No they dont. The humans in ME got tech from aliens that had already established a galactic civilization for 1000s of years before humans discovered it.
@@egoalter1276 I want to see the reapers against the factions in warhammer40k.. A titan vs a reaper.. Lol
@@theleoita90 40k wins all scenarios, Humanity is just OP in comparision. That said, the Reaps would get obliterated by everything else too. May be a decent solution to the Nids though.
@@g1jetfireandrainbowdash798 very likely.. Still want to see a few titans fire at the sky full of reapers
Watching the Normandy lead the charge makes me tear up. Best thing I've ever seen
This bit gave me goosebumps man
When I first saw this scene, with the hundreds of ships of all the species I’d rallied behind me, I felt very much like what we call in my country, Billy Big-Bollocks - I was coming for a fight and I had backup. This music was PERFECT for this most epic of moments!
This was literally my favourite moment in the third game. Just seeing all the unified fleets together was pretty stirring stuff.
i was soooo hyped ! i love Mass Effect !
My favorite part of this scene is when the SR2 Normandy was heading towards the Earth followed by the entire galactic fleet a few seconds later. Shepard had come a long way from the prophetic soldier to an actual commander in chief of the milky way's galactic forces.
Getting goose bummps.....
Reapers: Well, we have Krogans and Turians mashed together to kill your krogan.
Shepard: Bitch, please.
"We will not fall, We will prevail."
finally someone did an extended version of this magnificent track . Thanks!
This must be my favorite track from the entire trilogy. Excellent.
I would have sh*t myself had someone managed a prothean squadron and they were on a ship too.
Commander Shepard: " This bond that ties us together is something the Reapers will never understand. It's more powerful than any weapon, stronger than any ship. It can't be taken or destroyed. The next few hours will decide the fate of everyone in the galaxy; every mother, every son, every un-born child. But take heart, look around you. You're not alone in this fight. We face our enemy together and together we will defeat them. "
a trilogy with the quality of ME but playing an Inquisitor and his/her retitude in the 40k universe would cause such worldwide nerdgasm that it would open a fucking Eye of Terror just near us
ahhhh... that moment when the victory fleet comes suging through the sol relay at full strength. gives me goose bumps everytime
The very point where I forget to breath for more than 5 minutes....
REMASTER!!! REMASTER!!! REMASTER!!! REMASTER!!! REMASTER!!! REMASTER!!!
This and Charge of the Rohirrim most epic scenes in media.
This scene made me feel like a kid on Christmas day. Every. single. goddamn ship in the galaxy in one fleet for one purpose. Seeing all those ships coming through the mass relay AND THEY KEPT COMING FOR A GOOD MINUTE. I don't think there's anything that could ever top that on the epic scale for me.
goose bumps EVERY SINGLE TIME i hear this
WHY HAVEN'T YOU LISTENED TO THIS GENIUS YET?!
I meant the muarders/cannibals and the like, they are organic mash ups combined with some technology but still suitable to the flood.
As long as there is a whole body, a nervous system and sufficient Biomass it can be taken over.
i feel like... killing something!
Anyone hungry?
Never mind all that, all Shepard needs, is the Doctor.
Grand fleet of the Republic reporting !
Battlestar Galactica standing by, let's frak up some toaster ass.
You're wrong. All we need is Uncle Urdnot and his "presents".
Forerunners standing fleets reporting in COMPOSER STANDING BY
Best trilogy ever bro I fucking love these 3 games to death
I'm not going to lie, this was the funniest thing I've read in years.
Thank you so much, honestly man :D
It's fully just him flying through space next to the Normandy
No ship, just him. Chuck Norris don't need no spaceship.
This song/theme as far as I'm concerned is the absolute high point of the series. The moment all you have been working towards finally come together, all fleets, races come together to start the final battle! Pitty we only saw a few seconds of the whole fight - and then 'that' ending which made it all for nothing...
No problem. If there are any other tracks you would like extended feel free to let me know.
all fleets report
alliance fleets ready!
turians fleets ready!
quarians fleets ready!
geth fleets ready
alright then.. lets us march to earth
All BC-304 and F-302 ready to engage.
Mandalorian Fleet reporting..
everyone : oh s***
Imagine u hear uss enterprise reporting
Oh man ME was such a good game, I only wish they made warhammer, star trek or star wars games of this caliber. I dont want better graphics or anything just the same epic experience :)
I Swear i always set this theme every time when my fleets are jumpin from hpyerspace on SWEAW I Just love it!
Hackett: uhh fleets.. Turns out, we dont need the crucible!
soo uhh... you can sort of, go home now...
They (modders) should make a mod where the Normandy is a Everest class dreadnought.
Make a crossover fanfic with the Zorich universe.
European directory there has the Elzas-class battleships, and one of them might as well be called Normandy. 12 21,5" Skoda dual acceleration cannons, meters of armor plating, anti-laser shields, and it can also land on the ground, despite being 800 meters long.
NO
Pre-Covenant war UNSC would wipe the floor with reapers. Post-War, not sure...granted, the UNSC infinity seems to be damn near indestructible.
And Halo has the "In Amber clad" "Forward Onto Dawn" "Infinity (its bigger than a reaper)" "Midsummer Night" "Heart of Midlothian" and I could go on about all the main ships in the Halo universe.
Mass accelerator cannon, accelerates matter to ca. a quarter the speed of light. Shit is powerful, and a superMAC is even fucking better!
Empire fleets reporting Death Star standing by
The reapers didnt just piss off shepard
The reapers didn’t just piss off humanity
The reapers didn’t just piss offf the council species
They pissed the entire galaxy
Honestly, the trilogy should have ended at this point.
With a final statement: To continued.
So they can continue the MA story.
Yes sir.
Damn right.
It's even more then just that. You can tear trough a planet with a full powered MAC Airstrike.
You forget that the Reapers failed to indoctrinate even half the Mass effect universe leaders. Shepard, Garus, Anderson, Liara, Tali all were out there kicking ass. Spartans would be less likely to be indoctrinated than most as would captains of starships.
Btw, this is actually quite an interesting though experiment, mainly because there is no right answer, it's completely subjective. :D
Because in ME3 when you go talk to Udina he says that the first things the reapers went for are the satellites orbiting earth and the nuclear missile silos
"NONE CAN WITHSTAND OUR FAITH!"
- Space Marine Chaplain
mass effect has the best soundtracks ever!!!!
Space Marine Chapter Fleets reporting in. We will purge the unclean.
Imperial Fleet reporting in. For the Emperor.
Eldar Craftworlds, bearing down on the enemy.
Star Destroyers reporting in.
Battlemaster group, ready to set them ablaze.
UNSC Infinity, ready to kick some ass.
Tau fleet coming abroad. For the Greater Good.
Firefly class trans-Did the Primary Buffer Panel just fall off my ship?
And before you say anything about how the UNSC ships have larger slugs and higher speeds, the recoil on the UNSC ships would put SO MUCH strain on the ships IRL that they would be utterly demolished. You're firing nearly a third of a tonne to 119916983.2 meters a second. Stupidly fast, stupidly damaging, but it also means that their guns would be single shot before needing replacing. You can't launch something like that without the firer REALLY suffering.
The Imperium of Man reporting in. All Adeptus Astartes at your command Shepard.
That would be the best thing ever
It's about to go down.
Exactly . Can't wait ))
Great Fox, standing b- CAN'T LET YOU DO THAT FOX.
Ted Striker, standing by. *I just wanted you to know, good luck. We're all counting on you.*
USG Ishimura standing b- OH GOD AAAAGH!
autobot fleet reportin,decepticon fleet reporting,earth gov fleet reporting,
Reapers: We have an army
Shepherd: We have a Krogan
THE SWARM IS READY TO DEVOUR ALL WHO STAND IN ITS WAY. ZERG FLEET AT YOUR DISPOSAL.
Imagine the Rebellion/New Republic amass the largest fleet in the universe. To defeat the Galactic Empire
Rebel Transports
Corellian Corvettes
Corellian Gunboats
Nebulon Frigates
Hammerhead Cruisers
Marauder Cruisers
Assault Frigates MK1
Assault Frigates MK2
*Flagships:*
MC75 Star Cruisers
Mon Calamari Cruisers
Starhawk Battleships
Led into battle by:
The Ghost
Rogue Shadow (Starkiller-Galen Marek)
Millennium Falcon
Corvus
Furthermore, once the main MAC cannon is gone, the ship is fairly useless. Slipspace doesn't exist in the ME universe, whilst negative mass allowing FTL travel should exist in the Halo universe (due to near-identical laws of physics), which means that not only would the ships be unable to shoot anything after one shot, the ships would then be unable to flee. The ships from the ME universe then come along and shot the UNSC ships to buggery.
God the music was so epic in the ME trilogy. But the giant mic for the galactic Karaoke was really silly. x'D
Beautiful