Mass Effect 3 seems like it's throwing out everything that was previously thought about the Protheans. Quite sad, degradation of the series under the facade of game evolution. Disgusting. The leaked script, ugh.
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mass effect fanboys metroid rape mass effect verse i love mass effect more than metroid but metroid universe win reason x parasite can only killed by metroid creature that suck energy from another creatures sorry mass effect cannot stand against galactic empire i hate some body say someone rapes someone its so stupid
@ikosabre The "lore" is a million times better. But what's sad, is that if they had taken out the covenant entirely, the story (although it wouldn't have existed) would have been a trillion times better. The whole "forerunner" story is interesting, similar to the protheans, etc.
I just love how even though this is a AI, which one would expect to talk matter-of-factly and without feeling... this one has emotion.
When you're waited thousands of years for someone to come across your planet so you can tell the tragic history of your species (and to tell them how to avoid the same fate), you gotta make them feel it!
Halo is a good game and the universe in interesting, but it's very limited. Halo is only about war and a bunch of religious alien nuts killing humans. The universe of Mass Effect is much more complex and varied. I just love browsing through the codex and see how the Mass Effect universe actually "works".
I understand that in a strange universe we, the players, will have to have things explained to us, but sometimes the questions Shepard asks make him/her sound like a fucking retard
small boy didn't played ME1 back then (possibly still didn't?) and commented before comment was made XD. Since the comment was 6 months ago, i'll spare you my lecture :D
when i got to this part i was on my wold tv that was going and anything bright on the screen for a while distorted the color and this rly FUCKED it up lol but it was worth it
@KRAUSER0130 Its unlikely vigil knew about the collectors , dont forget Illos was cut off from the rest of the galaxy there would be no way for them to know what the reapers were up to. The only means of escape was the conduit they built but that only took them to the citadel. The galaxy is a big place :P.
@Marcorix2010 yeah,anyway i would like to see in details in ME3 what happened to them,how they looks like(one picture and statues means nothing) how they talked and so on,i only know they are ugly,have some tubes going from mouth and eyes into chests
First time I watched this, I was literally stunned by just about everything. The whole entire story of Mass Effect is one of the best ones i've ever witnessed. This whole entire scene right here filled me in on so much story, so much info about the Reapers and the Protheans, I was just sort of stuck there, thinking about the whole world of Mass Effect and its entirety.
Truly an amazing game, and nothing more needs to be said.
I like the ME2 gameplay better. They should have just dropped half the characters and had a small squad that actually interacted with eachother, and it could have been better than ME1.
I forgot how long it took the Reapers to wipe out the galaxy. Decades, it seems. I guess there is some hope for Earth in ME3... it'll just be utterly destroyed.
This also reminds me how much ME1 is better than ME2. Mass Effect 2 is just another third person shooter (although incredibly good, atmospheric and polished and I have played 6 time - with every class), but Mass Effect 1 is simply EPIC. I will remember ME1 forever, ME2 already fading. I just hope that ME3 will be like first.
@goranarsic ME1 was...majestic, is the first word that comes to mind. This one scene, however simple, sets the tone for the entire game. ME2, although a great game in it's own right, can't come up with a similar scene that is so subtle yet powerful.
Im glad some other people feel the same. I loved ME and remember it way more than ME2 (though I played the first 5 times, the second only once so far) I think the first had better "main quests" like this, Virmire, and the finale on the Citadel. The second, while it did have a few, didnt have as powerful an overarching plot. Im gonna replay it soon, hopefully I can appreciate the sequel a bit more.
@padawanmage71 I totally agree, No powerful speech happens, except during the suicide mission, I loved how my MaleShep did a speech right before selecting crew,
@padawanmage71 I couldn't agree more. The story of the Protheans moved me past what I could ever say, and this revelation was incredible. One of the best moments in gaming history, if not the best moment.
@padawanmage71 Majestic... yes, definitely. I think I might even like this scene even more than the very end, which was epic. As Vigil told its story, I couldn't help but think about what it must have been like for those last Protheans. To know they would die out, BUT still tried their best to help those who would come after. It was immensely satisfying to see that their sacrifice was not in vain.
Perhaps it was because ME2 didn't need to. The tone of the second game was different, and it had revelations of its own, delivered with pessimism instead of optimism. Take the scene where Shepard discovered the Collectors were actually Protheans. Would a 20 minute description of that have made it more frightening? The first game was about discovery and hope. The second was not.
@goranarsic In some ways, I found ME1 better than ME2 as well. ME2 feels more cinematic, more focused and more character-based. The first game is bigger in scale, it feels more important and more epic but at the same time less intense than ME2. I think ME2 is sort of an interlude, getting to know the galaxy you're going to save in Mass Effect 3.
@goranarsic Ans still it's a Mass Effect universe. ME2 just expands further on the story and stopping the Reapers. The reason why ME1 was so good is that it was an unexpected shock on how good it was.
@goranarsic what are you talking about mass effect 2 story line is far more complex. mass effect 1 is fucking awesome and the story line is simple however very predictable. people seem to forget that mass effect 2 is just the starting point and lead up to mass effect 3 and yeah the combat was improved in me2 cause it sucked so bad in me1. i think after mass effect 3 comes out we will all learn to really love me2 story line cause everything will come together. sucks we have to wait another 6 mths
The great thing about RPG's (particularly Western ones and ESPECIALLY Bioware's) is that you don't follow someone else's story but you get to decide what Shepard does. In most games you just follow someone else's story, but this feels too personal.
And this may sound clichéd, but I wish Mass Effect 2 had impressive sequences like this. The soundtrack in the first one was also better. Not to say that ME2 wasn't also fantastic, but still...
@mansoor619 Grunt's in ME2. This one is Urdnot Wrex (*cough*BETTERCHARACTER*cough*).
Also, I think any voice that isn't Vigil's sorta takes away from the emotion of this scene, but at least Vigil's the one talking the vast majority of the time, and it's a game, so whatevs.
@mansoor619 I like Wrex because he knows where he stands among his people and is proud of that, but isn't sure what to think about his people as a whole. All that's in Grunt's head is "FIGHT. KILL." I liked how BioWare set up Grunt's character, but I liked Wrex a lot more, that's all.
@thequesogrande Grunt, even if you disregard the fact that he was born in a tank, is probably a child by krogan standards. Wrex's father was in the Korgan Rebellions, meaning Wrex was most likely born sometime near the end of them. Wrex is the old warrior who had seen things in the galaxy long before humans left the Sol system while Grunt hasn't. Besides, young people tend to be less level-headed than their elders. XD
Hey here's an interesting question everyone if the Reapers have been continuing their cycle of extiniction every 50,000 year then howcomes no other species in the galaxy including humanity has never encountered the Reapers. After all they harvested "all" life in the galaxy 50,000 years prior to Mass Effect so how come we and any other species in the galaxy got skipped over last time or all the other times of their so called cycles. Just wondering it just wasn't adding up in my mind.
@KillaD15 On top of that if all life technology and resources in the galaxy was truly harvested us included multiple times over then what the hell kept creating these new civilizations that kept getting harvested? I mean did they always come from another galaxy? Did the Reapers create them and if they did then what the hell is the point of waiting around 50,000 years to come back and harvest them if they could do it right there on the spot after creating them?
@KillaD15 The Reapers require advance civilazations to harvest. But wat it takes excatly for a species to be made into a Reaper form is stil a mystery. Whatever it is humanity won the prize. At the time 50,000 years ago the Protheans were the only space faring race, all other races of ME were in their early/primitive stages in life so the Reapers just ignored them. Theres a story in ME1 that suggest humans were in their early cave man stage when protheans existed. & they studied us.
@KillaD15 To anwser ure other question why civilazations keep getting created to be havested, theres a simple anwser to that "evolution :)" There were other spacefaring species before the Protheans stumbled into space. Im not sure a 100% yet but looking at the Reaper form now I think at some point there were spacefaring squid :P
Upon reaching this point in me1 I was in awe of this part of the story all bases were covered and nothing was left unturned, this was a wonderful point in gaming history and a bench mark for sci fi adventures, now if only we can get a sci fi writer for a new game with the imagination of ASIMOV, this is truly a genius gaming moment.
This is what Mass Effect is all about, this single scene is like the best piece of storytelling in a videogame, perhaps media ever.
Everytime i listen to it be it Youtube or a replay of the game i get goosebumps, tingles down my spine all sorts as i listen to Vigil's story of the Downfall of the Protheans.
The Mass Effect series is probably the greatest videogame ever produced.
I don't know why, but I now understand how well ME1 and ME2 mesh together. This entire scene basically explains the backbone story of ME2! ME3 needs to come out now!
One more thing. I have played Halo 1 and 2. They are great games, but nowhere did I feel that the characters seem that serious that I see in Mass Effect. You can empathize with the characters to deeper level than you did with Master Chief. Master Chief is a hero, but Shepard is a hero, who shows his vulnerability, his loving side. In nutshell, a more complex character. Just great.
@robarcool Yeah, but they're different TYPES of shooter. That would be like comparing Max Payne to Doom, sure you're doing a lot of shooting, but in different ways. There's more room to tell a story in RPGs than you can do with shooters. It falls into the apples and oranges adage.
@uadfa Well, my comparison was based on the fact that the two games have similar stories: Intragalactic playground with an unknown enemy that will destroy all organic life (flood and reapers, though they do it differently) and how the protagonists of both the series are famed commandos. Otherwise, it is true that RPGs and FPSs are two different categories.
The music is breathtaking, the speech so calm yet so emotionally charged. I was touched by the story of the efforts of the scientists and the desperation of the protheans to save themselves, imaginary it is though. This scene summarizes the whole game and in the final part of the screen where vigil says 'there is still time', it shows the determination on Shepard's face to stop the Sovereign.
This and the meeting with Sovreign on Virmire were the massive turning points in Mass Effect. ME3 had better have some more HOLY CRAP moments like ME did. ME2 didn't have any moments like that, other than discovering that the reaper larva was a human.
The first time I played Mass Effect, I got Feros, Liara, Noveria, and then I headed to Virmire. I had just gotten in insane shock with Soverign and sacrificing Kaidan (What a tool he was), and went I went to Vigil, I found I didn't appreciate it too much.
Then my Xbox froze about halfway through the relay run, and I reloaded, and went to Vigil again.
I just cried. I actually cried. I had been cagefighting for years, and had a very tough emotional wall, but Mass Effect shattered it.
"I bet they didn't tell the non-essential staff about this contingency" LOL. I busted up laughing in middle of this heart-wrenching scene when Wrex muttered that gem the first time I played this. Brilliant writing.
I've finished Mass Effect 2 a month ago and although Mass Effect 2 has numerous improvements it lacks one fundamental element for me, story. Although I enjoyed Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect has more depth and emotion, whereas Mass Effect 2 is just one big action flick.
@akumous I agree completely. Mass effect 2 has great characters and the loyalty missions are fun. But the first one was simply epic. Hopefully 3 will have more twists and a more powerful main storyline!
Watching the scene for the first time, I felt I was no longer a game, it was a great experience. Sad, what happen to them, some of the best voice acting, story telling. Makes perfect sense.
I am so glad the PC is an alternative to play this game and the PC version is just graphically amazing. I am currently on Mass Effect 2 but this part/scene from Mass Effect is touching and just brings the story in full circle.
@padawanmage71 Yes the game is amazing. I have a PS3 console and yes I used to own a 360 and I gave it up before this game came out. What I am saying is, for those who haven't play this game they should, all RPG gamers should and gamers alike. The game is ten times better on the PC and steam is having a great deal for both games. I bought it them both just a few days ago for 39.98.
When I talked to Vigil for the first time, I was so moved. The music, voice acting are so amazing. The narration of the genocide is so well put that you feel the desperation of protheans at the time of reaper invasion. This video gives desperation & hope. After the video there is a feeling of " Damn, I gotta save the galaxy from reapers " and the end battle just made this game from great to greatest.
@Harshalcv11 When Vigil talks about what happened to the personnel in the facility, you can't help a lump in your throat. Only a dozen survived? Damn...
@padawanmage71 That has to be like the perfect plot for a movie. The last members of their species, spending the last years of their lives trying to help future civilizations.
its funny, i just saw stephen hawkings comment about not communicating with aliens for our safety. when u hear this video thats a possible scenario of contact
The story of the prothean survivors deserves an entire movie.
I can't imagine how terribly desperate they must have been. They were almost surely the last remaining members of their entire species. Worked for decades to warn and protect the future civilizations. Sending a warning message to the beacons, knowing that this could reveal their position and that there could be no beacons left.
And finally, trapped in the desert citadel, suffering a slow, terrible death.
I would have to say, in my humble opinion, the French voice casting for this game was amazing - for a change - and slightly superior to the English one. Just take a loo- an ear to the "French" Vigil. Sounds even more awesome to me. Same for Sovereign, he sounds more remorseless and intimidating in the French version. Just a thought.
@padawanmage71 Unfortunately, no. I thought it would be easy to find that on Youtube, but it doesn't seem available... I guess you'll have to take my word for it ^^ ' Seriously, I didn't find a French walkthrough or something, unfortunately.
How come he doesn't sound like a Nigerian?
Come on Bioware, lrn 2 continuity.
terk0iz 23 hours ago
@terk0iz Yeah because everyone has to sound the same in a galaxy spanning empire.
Dimensionaluk 21 hours ago
Mass Effect 3 seems like it's throwing out everything that was previously thought about the Protheans. Quite sad, degradation of the series under the facade of game evolution. Disgusting. The leaked script, ugh.
qazxsw13 1 week ago
Ya, mon! Dis be our VI, his name be Vigil. Be be tinkin' it som funneh stuff ta make him talk different from da rest of us Protheans. Rasta!
IamShadowfax 1 week ago 6
This is probably the most epic scene in the Mass Effect trilogy to date. Hopefully we'll see more epic scenes like this in Mass Effect 3.
magnetite2 3 weeks ago 19
@magnetite2 We can hope...
padawanmage71 3 weeks ago 3
@magnetite2 This scene still gives me goosebumps. Truly brilliant. I have no doubt ME3 will be great.
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chrisgonatakethepiss 3 weeks ago
@chrisgonatakethepiss Donald Trump?
padawanmage71 3 weeks ago
@padawanmage71 - How does Vigil sound like Donald Trump?? What's wrong with you?
chrisgonatakethepiss 3 weeks ago
@chrisgonatakethepiss I see the concept of a 'joke' sailed right over your head. =)
padawanmage71 3 weeks ago
@padawanmage71 -Judging by your last comment, ditto.
chrisgonatakethepiss 3 weeks ago
@chrisgonatakethepiss Some jokes are more apparent than others...
padawanmage71 3 weeks ago
This was my favorite scene in either game. Very strong and also sad at the same time.
Fallschirmjager007 1 month ago 5
Dammit, it's 5:48 in the morning. i gotta stop watching this stuff.
ginnoveffect 1 month ago
One of my fav parts of the game.
unstoppablex 1 month ago
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mass effect fanboys metroid rape mass effect verse i love mass effect more than metroid but metroid universe win reason x parasite can only killed by metroid creature that suck energy from another creatures sorry mass effect cannot stand against galactic empire i hate some body say someone rapes someone its so stupid
190shepard 1 month ago
@190shepard Um...what?
padawanmage71 1 month ago 18
@padawanmage71 LOL
CaptainPengu 3 weeks ago
@190shepard wtf are you talking about?
Liberare87 3 weeks ago
reminds me what happened chozo in metroid series x parasite and phazon including space pirates wiped chozo
190shepard 1 month ago
Holy Crap this sounds like the voice in the Fall of Earth trailer..........creepy.
Spock2233 2 months ago
@ikosabre The "lore" is a million times better. But what's sad, is that if they had taken out the covenant entirely, the story (although it wouldn't have existed) would have been a trillion times better. The whole "forerunner" story is interesting, similar to the protheans, etc.
LeafySuburb 2 months ago
I just love how even though this is a AI, which one would expect to talk matter-of-factly and without feeling... this one has emotion.
When you're waited thousands of years for someone to come across your planet so you can tell the tragic history of your species (and to tell them how to avoid the same fate), you gotta make them feel it!
danielhiryu 2 months ago
Halo is a good game and the universe in interesting, but it's very limited. Halo is only about war and a bunch of religious alien nuts killing humans. The universe of Mass Effect is much more complex and varied. I just love browsing through the codex and see how the Mass Effect universe actually "works".
ikosabre 4 months ago 8
I understand that in a strange universe we, the players, will have to have things explained to us, but sometimes the questions Shepard asks make him/her sound like a fucking retard
ikosabre 4 months ago
i was hoping vigil would display a recording of prothean civilization and the scientists' work to disrupt the reapers' return
p90xsteroids 4 months ago
@mansoor619
small boy didn't played ME1 back then (possibly still didn't?) and commented before comment was made XD. Since the comment was 6 months ago, i'll spare you my lecture :D
SupaL33tKillar 4 months ago
@SupaL33tKillar wow i forgot that one :D ok so it was a mistake and humans make mistakes.
Well thanks for no lecture
mansoor619 4 months ago
Respond to this video... padawanmage delete this comment for god sake!:D
mansoor619 4 months ago
@mansoor619
i think its there intentionally lol.
SupaL33tKillar 4 months ago
@SupaL33tKillar hehehe
mansoor619 4 months ago
I love Vigil's voice.
Darkstar263 5 months ago
when i got to this part i was on my wold tv that was going and anything bright on the screen for a while distorted the color and this rly FUCKED it up lol but it was worth it
epyon542 5 months ago
why didnt he said that protheans are turned into collectors? he knew that
KRAUSER0130 6 months ago
@KRAUSER0130 Its unlikely vigil knew about the collectors , dont forget Illos was cut off from the rest of the galaxy there would be no way for them to know what the reapers were up to. The only means of escape was the conduit they built but that only took them to the citadel. The galaxy is a big place :P.
Marcorix2010 6 months ago
@Marcorix2010 yeah,anyway i would like to see in details in ME3 what happened to them,how they looks like(one picture and statues means nothing) how they talked and so on,i only know they are ugly,have some tubes going from mouth and eyes into chests
KRAUSER0130 6 months ago
People at school say Halo is better than the mass effect series. Thumbs up if you think those people are stupid.
GBPacor 6 months ago 7
@GBPacor mass effect rapes halo
swissguy123 5 months ago 3
in some parts ME1 is better than ME2 but in the end you see how story is epic and thats what attract players,not gameplay
KRAUSER0130 6 months ago
I like how Saren's on his way to the Conduit at the moment and yet Vigil jumps in to tell his story.
Talk about bad timing.
RetlocLive 6 months ago
@RetlocLive He had to or Shepard wouldn't know what to do.
derlich09 6 months ago
First time I watched this, I was literally stunned by just about everything. The whole entire story of Mass Effect is one of the best ones i've ever witnessed. This whole entire scene right here filled me in on so much story, so much info about the Reapers and the Protheans, I was just sort of stuck there, thinking about the whole world of Mass Effect and its entirety.
Truly an amazing game, and nothing more needs to be said.
ragnorokh 7 months ago
*cant resist and pets wrex* ^.^
levitan71 7 months ago
I loved this part in me1. It's awe inspiring. me2 was great big gameplay but nothing as epic like this.
joshuaarias100 7 months ago
ME was great ME2 was also great.... no both were just EPIC! i cant decide which is better but they are both good in their own way
SCARZR 8 months ago
I like the ME2 gameplay better. They should have just dropped half the characters and had a small squad that actually interacted with eachother, and it could have been better than ME1.
Madfoot713 8 months ago
"Your survival depends on stopping them; not in understanding them."
"...I don't understand."
*sigh*
Life altering game. Every other title in every other form of media is a disappointment compared to Mass Effect.
1986stevensane 8 months ago
I forgot how long it took the Reapers to wipe out the galaxy. Decades, it seems. I guess there is some hope for Earth in ME3... it'll just be utterly destroyed.
mattg90520 8 months ago
@mansoor619
hahahahahahaha.....no
(Wrex noob :P)
LKSDevils 8 months ago
@LKSDevils yeah Wrex is a noob
mansoor619 8 months ago
Looks like Sovereign has viewed your video and he doesn't like Vigil's tale!
robarcool 9 months ago
Admiral Ackbar: The Citadel is a trap.
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This also reminds me how much ME1 is better than ME2. Mass Effect 2 is just another third person shooter (although incredibly good, atmospheric and polished and I have played 6 time - with every class), but Mass Effect 1 is simply EPIC. I will remember ME1 forever, ME2 already fading. I just hope that ME3 will be like first.
goranarsic 10 months ago 24
@goranarsic ME1 was...majestic, is the first word that comes to mind. This one scene, however simple, sets the tone for the entire game. ME2, although a great game in it's own right, can't come up with a similar scene that is so subtle yet powerful.
padawanmage71 10 months ago 52
@padawanmage71
Im glad some other people feel the same. I loved ME and remember it way more than ME2 (though I played the first 5 times, the second only once so far) I think the first had better "main quests" like this, Virmire, and the finale on the Citadel. The second, while it did have a few, didnt have as powerful an overarching plot. Im gonna replay it soon, hopefully I can appreciate the sequel a bit more.
mattg90520 8 months ago
@padawanmage71 I totally agree, No powerful speech happens, except during the suicide mission, I loved how my MaleShep did a speech right before selecting crew,
StarFanaticCraft 6 months ago
@padawanmage71 I couldn't agree more. The story of the Protheans moved me past what I could ever say, and this revelation was incredible. One of the best moments in gaming history, if not the best moment.
WynneL 1 month ago
@padawanmage71 Majestic... yes, definitely. I think I might even like this scene even more than the very end, which was epic. As Vigil told its story, I couldn't help but think about what it must have been like for those last Protheans. To know they would die out, BUT still tried their best to help those who would come after. It was immensely satisfying to see that their sacrifice was not in vain.
VerdantSF 1 week ago
@padawanmage71
Perhaps it was because ME2 didn't need to. The tone of the second game was different, and it had revelations of its own, delivered with pessimism instead of optimism. Take the scene where Shepard discovered the Collectors were actually Protheans. Would a 20 minute description of that have made it more frightening? The first game was about discovery and hope. The second was not.
Elfrunner 1 week ago
@goranarsic In some ways, I found ME1 better than ME2 as well. ME2 feels more cinematic, more focused and more character-based. The first game is bigger in scale, it feels more important and more epic but at the same time less intense than ME2. I think ME2 is sort of an interlude, getting to know the galaxy you're going to save in Mass Effect 3.
XCVGVCX 10 months ago 2
@XCVGVCX too true
nuitaridark 9 months ago
@goranarsic Ans still it's a Mass Effect universe. ME2 just expands further on the story and stopping the Reapers. The reason why ME1 was so good is that it was an unexpected shock on how good it was.
MrAnthonyDraft 8 months ago
@goranarsic what are you talking about mass effect 2 story line is far more complex. mass effect 1 is fucking awesome and the story line is simple however very predictable. people seem to forget that mass effect 2 is just the starting point and lead up to mass effect 3 and yeah the combat was improved in me2 cause it sucked so bad in me1. i think after mass effect 3 comes out we will all learn to really love me2 story line cause everything will come together. sucks we have to wait another 6 mths
MultiMitch86 5 months ago
@mansoor619 ...um, don't you mean Wrex's voice?
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@LeiFox87 oh god...sorry
mansoor619 10 months ago
The great thing about RPG's (particularly Western ones and ESPECIALLY Bioware's) is that you don't follow someone else's story but you get to decide what Shepard does. In most games you just follow someone else's story, but this feels too personal.
And this may sound clichéd, but I wish Mass Effect 2 had impressive sequences like this. The soundtrack in the first one was also better. Not to say that ME2 wasn't also fantastic, but still...
Larrylarp 10 months ago
@mansoor619
Lol u mean wrex? Grunt is from 2.
dycarbon1 11 months ago
@dycarbon1 oh god...sorry
mansoor619 11 months ago
the planet and music in this part are simply epic beyond a game. i loved seeing some prothean ghosttowns
strontklont 11 months ago
@mansoor619 Grunt's in ME2. This one is Urdnot Wrex (*cough*BETTERCHARACTER*cough*).
Also, I think any voice that isn't Vigil's sorta takes away from the emotion of this scene, but at least Vigil's the one talking the vast majority of the time, and it's a game, so whatevs.
thequesogrande 11 months ago
@thequesogrande yeah it was wrex i mistakened it sorry and how is it betta characta???
mansoor619 11 months ago
@mansoor619 I like Wrex because he knows where he stands among his people and is proud of that, but isn't sure what to think about his people as a whole. All that's in Grunt's head is "FIGHT. KILL." I liked how BioWare set up Grunt's character, but I liked Wrex a lot more, that's all.
thequesogrande 11 months ago 2
@thequesogrande yeah i get ur point. But i think that Grunt is better in combat. Well Krogans are best in combat:P
mansoor619 11 months ago
@thequesogrande Grunt, even if you disregard the fact that he was born in a tank, is probably a child by krogan standards. Wrex's father was in the Korgan Rebellions, meaning Wrex was most likely born sometime near the end of them. Wrex is the old warrior who had seen things in the galaxy long before humans left the Sol system while Grunt hasn't. Besides, young people tend to be less level-headed than their elders. XD
DemonKingAtticus 11 months ago
@thequesogrande - well, that's because Grunt is "the perfect krogan", and Wrex isn't.
lodziklocPL 6 months ago
@mansoor619 Uh...Grunt?
padawanmage71 11 months ago 35
@padawanmage71 uh soory i mean Wrex well i corrected it.Look below.
mansoor619 11 months ago
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alsnevets 2 months ago
@alsnevets It makes sense that the VI has a sense of mortality, regret, and hope.
The VI states that it has its personality from one of the researchers.
It says some very powerful lines... one of my favorites is probably...
"In the end, what does it matter? Your survival depends on stopping them, not understanding them."
danielhiryu 2 months ago
Wrex's voice ruins the relaxing music!
mansoor619 11 months ago
this is one of the most epic scenes in any game i have ever played. such an intense moment. and that music playing in the background. loved it.
edgecrusherhalo 11 months ago 2
Hey here's an interesting question everyone if the Reapers have been continuing their cycle of extiniction every 50,000 year then howcomes no other species in the galaxy including humanity has never encountered the Reapers. After all they harvested "all" life in the galaxy 50,000 years prior to Mass Effect so how come we and any other species in the galaxy got skipped over last time or all the other times of their so called cycles. Just wondering it just wasn't adding up in my mind.
KillaD15 11 months ago
@KillaD15 On top of that if all life technology and resources in the galaxy was truly harvested us included multiple times over then what the hell kept creating these new civilizations that kept getting harvested? I mean did they always come from another galaxy? Did the Reapers create them and if they did then what the hell is the point of waiting around 50,000 years to come back and harvest them if they could do it right there on the spot after creating them?
KillaD15 11 months ago
@KillaD15 They require sufficiently advanced species to use for DNA to create new Reapers. They're harvesting species. That is, REAPING them. Geddit?
TalkinXbox 11 months ago
@KillaD15 reapers kill only those who r really advanced and then they use their techs for their advancement.
mansoor619 11 months ago
@KillaD15 The Reapers require advance civilazations to harvest. But wat it takes excatly for a species to be made into a Reaper form is stil a mystery. Whatever it is humanity won the prize. At the time 50,000 years ago the Protheans were the only space faring race, all other races of ME were in their early/primitive stages in life so the Reapers just ignored them. Theres a story in ME1 that suggest humans were in their early cave man stage when protheans existed. & they studied us.
Crimsonlee2XX 6 months ago
@KillaD15 To anwser ure other question why civilazations keep getting created to be havested, theres a simple anwser to that "evolution :)" There were other spacefaring species before the Protheans stumbled into space. Im not sure a 100% yet but looking at the Reaper form now I think at some point there were spacefaring squid :P
Crimsonlee2XX 6 months ago
Upon reaching this point in me1 I was in awe of this part of the story all bases were covered and nothing was left unturned, this was a wonderful point in gaming history and a bench mark for sci fi adventures, now if only we can get a sci fi writer for a new game with the imagination of ASIMOV, this is truly a genius gaming moment.
METAL1ON 11 months ago
This is what Mass Effect is all about, this single scene is like the best piece of storytelling in a videogame, perhaps media ever.
Everytime i listen to it be it Youtube or a replay of the game i get goosebumps, tingles down my spine all sorts as i listen to Vigil's story of the Downfall of the Protheans.
The Mass Effect series is probably the greatest videogame ever produced.
TheTeej08 1 year ago 3
This music and the original Halo's. Epic.
SSTTEEAALLTTHH 1 year ago
It was at this point that the plot of this game became the best of any
snigadigdig 1 year ago
open the pod bay doors
zzxcvb98 1 year ago
I don't know why, but I now understand how well ME1 and ME2 mesh together. This entire scene basically explains the backbone story of ME2! ME3 needs to come out now!
Litestorm17 1 year ago
"I bet they didn't tell the non-essential staff about this contingency."
I was lulled into a somber mood from the music and Vigil's story and I let out a loud chuckle when Wrex said that
GaMeRuInEr 1 year ago 2
i am guessing i am the only one who support the reapers. :P
kuwashi 1 year ago
The Citadel, as Admiral Ackbar would describe it: IT'S A TRAP!!!
enterprise0709 1 year ago
man, it would be awesome if mass effect 3 shows the quarian homeworld, all the specie's genders, and the size of the reaper fleets
JohnWonYeo 1 year ago
Bioware make the best games. Lucky me they are making the new STAR WARS online game :)
KimPatrickKeber1 1 year ago
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Bleeeeuguguhghgh. Manshep is SOOOOOOO much better.
DownOnMyLuck 1 year ago
@DownOnMyLuck in your opinion
padawanmage71 1 year ago 20
One more thing. I have played Halo 1 and 2. They are great games, but nowhere did I feel that the characters seem that serious that I see in Mass Effect. You can empathize with the characters to deeper level than you did with Master Chief. Master Chief is a hero, but Shepard is a hero, who shows his vulnerability, his loving side. In nutshell, a more complex character. Just great.
robarcool 1 year ago 16
@robarcool well, in this case, her vulnerabillty, her loving side. =)
padawanmage71 1 year ago 2
@robarcool Is Master Chief the same level of hero? I mean, it's not like he had any choice in the matter. He's more akin to a living weapon imo.
Deadboltt 1 year ago
@robarcool Why are you comparing two first-person shooters to an RPG?
uadfa 10 months ago
@uadfa Well, it is an RPG, but it plays a lot like a shooter. That's why.
robarcool 10 months ago
@robarcool Yeah, but they're different TYPES of shooter. That would be like comparing Max Payne to Doom, sure you're doing a lot of shooting, but in different ways. There's more room to tell a story in RPGs than you can do with shooters. It falls into the apples and oranges adage.
uadfa 10 months ago
@uadfa Well, my comparison was based on the fact that the two games have similar stories: Intragalactic playground with an unknown enemy that will destroy all organic life (flood and reapers, though they do it differently) and how the protagonists of both the series are famed commandos. Otherwise, it is true that RPGs and FPSs are two different categories.
robarcool 10 months ago
@robarcool Shepard is a hero, who shows her vulnerability, her loving side. In nutshell, a more complex character. Just great.
Fixed that for ya.
XCVGVCX 9 months ago
The music is breathtaking, the speech so calm yet so emotionally charged. I was touched by the story of the efforts of the scientists and the desperation of the protheans to save themselves, imaginary it is though. This scene summarizes the whole game and in the final part of the screen where vigil says 'there is still time', it shows the determination on Shepard's face to stop the Sovereign.
robarcool 1 year ago
This and the meeting with Sovreign on Virmire were the massive turning points in Mass Effect. ME3 had better have some more HOLY CRAP moments like ME did. ME2 didn't have any moments like that, other than discovering that the reaper larva was a human.
tellisMHS 1 year ago
@tellisMHS Not to mention that the Collector's were actually the Protheans
KillaD15 11 months ago
When I played through this the first time, and Vigil said the Citadel was an enormous relay, but had been sabotaged.. I was like, OH SHIT!
insaneapples 1 year ago
The first time I played Mass Effect, I got Feros, Liara, Noveria, and then I headed to Virmire. I had just gotten in insane shock with Soverign and sacrificing Kaidan (What a tool he was), and went I went to Vigil, I found I didn't appreciate it too much.
Then my Xbox froze about halfway through the relay run, and I reloaded, and went to Vigil again.
I just cried. I actually cried. I had been cagefighting for years, and had a very tough emotional wall, but Mass Effect shattered it.
Iteachu2beninja 1 year ago
That music is hauntingly beautiful, one of the reasons i love mass effect so much.
alpha431 1 year ago 41
@alpha431 Me too. I got hooked when I first popped the game and heard it during the menu setup.
padawanmage71 1 year ago 2
@padawanmage71 It's also the music played when you and Ashley/Kaiden meet up on Horizon again in ME2.
TalkinXbox 11 months ago
I wish we could return to Ilos in ms3 and wake those prothean scientists...
zhaurbek 1 year ago
@zhaurbek True but all the scientists are dead. =(
padawanmage71 1 year ago
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zhaurbek 1 year ago
@padawanmage71 But Vigil said that he had turned off pods of less important(to it) staff to save scientists, didn't it?
zhaurbek 1 year ago
@zhaurbek Watch part 2
padawanmage71 1 year ago
@zhaurbek why does everyone call it MS??? is it that difficult to stick with ME?
str3ss88 1 year ago
@str3ss88 my mistake, don't know about everyone)
zhaurbek 1 year ago
You should be shot for running a Shepard other than the default one.
Papermate123123 1 year ago
@Papermate123123 I like to think outside the box, kid. Then again, it's hard to take seriously someone who's '109 years old', right? =)
padawanmage71 1 year ago
"I bet they didn't tell the non-essential staff about this contingency" LOL. I busted up laughing in middle of this heart-wrenching scene when Wrex muttered that gem the first time I played this. Brilliant writing.
DelicateBlade 1 year ago
You know, Wrex sounds a bit like John Goodman.
auron508 1 year ago
I've finished Mass Effect 2 a month ago and although Mass Effect 2 has numerous improvements it lacks one fundamental element for me, story. Although I enjoyed Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect has more depth and emotion, whereas Mass Effect 2 is just one big action flick.
akumous 1 year ago 2
@akumous I agree completely. Mass effect 2 has great characters and the loyalty missions are fun. But the first one was simply epic. Hopefully 3 will have more twists and a more powerful main storyline!
vegetabtk 1 year ago
second time now he keeps showing the right side to vigil
supervegito2277 1 year ago
vigil is more of a AI
Vdawg1337 1 year ago
I fucking hate this "bass" thing in there
marco1991pl 1 year ago
@marco1991pl What a thoughtful comment. Add cotton in your ears then...
padawanmage71 1 year ago
@padawanmage71 no, i mean i didn't like what they did in there its just goes over and over agian and its pretty annoying :P
marco1991pl 1 year ago
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@padawanmage71 But Vigil said that he had turned off pods of less important(to him) staff to save scientists...
zhaurbek 1 year ago
Watching the scene for the first time, I felt I was no longer a game, it was a great experience. Sad, what happen to them, some of the best voice acting, story telling. Makes perfect sense.
DarkMerchant2222 1 year ago 2
I am so glad the PC is an alternative to play this game and the PC version is just graphically amazing. I am currently on Mass Effect 2 but this part/scene from Mass Effect is touching and just brings the story in full circle.
akumous 1 year ago 3
@akumous True, there's something epic and poignant about the scene.
padawanmage71 1 year ago 2
@padawanmage71 Yes the game is amazing. I have a PS3 console and yes I used to own a 360 and I gave it up before this game came out. What I am saying is, for those who haven't play this game they should, all RPG gamers should and gamers alike. The game is ten times better on the PC and steam is having a great deal for both games. I bought it them both just a few days ago for 39.98.
akumous 1 year ago
@akumous Well, ME2 is coming for PS3, just to let you know. =)
padawanmage71 1 year ago
Vigils voice is so calm and damn sexy
1Lessthanzero 1 year ago 2
No other game, no other movie, no other book, can ever match a scene like this.
champayne17 1 year ago 6
@champayne17 damn right.
When I talked to Vigil for the first time, I was so moved. The music, voice acting are so amazing. The narration of the genocide is so well put that you feel the desperation of protheans at the time of reaper invasion. This video gives desperation & hope. After the video there is a feeling of " Damn, I gotta save the galaxy from reapers " and the end battle just made this game from great to greatest.
Harshalcv11 1 year ago
@Harshalcv11 When Vigil talks about what happened to the personnel in the facility, you can't help a lump in your throat. Only a dozen survived? Damn...
padawanmage71 1 year ago
@padawanmage71 That has to be like the perfect plot for a movie. The last members of their species, spending the last years of their lives trying to help future civilizations.
champayne17 1 year ago
@champayne17 True.
padawanmage71 1 year ago
I cried the first time I saw this. It was so sad...
sErgEantaEgis12 1 year ago 2
@sErgEantaEgis12 True, you get so much on what happened to the Protheans in only words. But the music, tone, etc. really set it right.
padawanmage71 1 year ago
Vigil's like some sort of spirit....
sweenyadam 1 year ago
its funny, i just saw stephen hawkings comment about not communicating with aliens for our safety. when u hear this video thats a possible scenario of contact
praetorian2150 1 year ago
is that keither sunderland as vigil? its sure sounds like him.
sawyerfreddie 1 year ago
@sawyerfreddie, good catch, same q i got too :)
praetorian2150 1 year ago
So haunting...talking to a "ghost" of a species extinct for 50,000 years, to save the Galaxy from the same fate. FUCKING. EPIC.
nuculearbazooka 1 year ago 5
The story of the prothean survivors deserves an entire movie.
I can't imagine how terribly desperate they must have been. They were almost surely the last remaining members of their entire species. Worked for decades to warn and protect the future civilizations. Sending a warning message to the beacons, knowing that this could reveal their position and that there could be no beacons left.
And finally, trapped in the desert citadel, suffering a slow, terrible death.
They saved the galaxy.
EduEnYT 1 year ago 6
I got chills the first time I played through this scene. Fantastic game.
rucklee 1 year ago 4
men mass effect...just lovie it!
gadni1 1 year ago
@gadni1 'men mass effect'?
padawanmage71 1 year ago
everything in the game makes sense when it comes to this conversation!its a masterpiece in storytelling...a milestone in gaming history!
robertbochum82 1 year ago 6
This is the point in the game where I felt truly small, and I realized that the universe was counting on me.
Koshminikov 1 year ago 11
I would have to say, in my humble opinion, the French voice casting for this game was amazing - for a change - and slightly superior to the English one. Just take a loo- an ear to the "French" Vigil. Sounds even more awesome to me. Same for Sovereign, he sounds more remorseless and intimidating in the French version. Just a thought.
palgash 1 year ago
@palgash I don't speak or understand French, but would still like to hear the version you're referring to. Do you have a link?
padawanmage71 1 year ago
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palgash 1 year ago
@padawanmage71 Unfortunately, no. I thought it would be easy to find that on Youtube, but it doesn't seem available... I guess you'll have to take my word for it ^^ ' Seriously, I didn't find a French walkthrough or something, unfortunately.
palgash 1 year ago
@palgash
LOL
I am French myself, and MIGHT have to disagree with you on that. But i will check it out and see though lol
Usually, the American voices are a lot more venerable than the French voice acting.
But i will check it out.
Maybe for once i will be proud of my country? : P
Hehe
P.S
Mass Effect Forever!!!
metalnat28 1 year ago
@palgash oh you silly french..........honestly though is really that good
hamtyl07 1 year ago
Google Audio Transcription (00:40 - My name is Vigil...)
"my name is TJ you want to sit here for the moment but that is going to change to don't..."
m15t4k3n 1 year ago
This is when it hit me that this game was in my top 3 RPGs of all time
1. FFVII
2. KOTOR
3. MASS EFFECT TRILOGY
I consider all the mass effect games as one because your choices carry over so it really is 1 game split into 3 chapters
sauron9990 1 year ago