I like how with the ME1 menu they had the squadmate faces appearing then fading, was really unique. Kinda missed that in me2 menu, just had the picture of the collector base area basically.
Amazing how much Hope Vigil gives me and my companions whenever I talk to him, it's like talking to a forgotten link to the past...Hope in it's simplest form.
@RecoverRedeem Vigil isn't "Like" that. He IS a forgotten link to the past.
And the conversation with him is easily the most depressing, yet motivating conversation I encountered in this game.
Hearing his account of what happened to the Protheans is just... so harsh. It makes me all the more determined to finish the game and stop Saren and Sovereign.
@Goatmon I am SO with you on this. Simultaneously depressing *and* motivating is the perfect way to describe that scene. The sacrifice of the final Protheans was just incredible. To lose everything and YET still do their best so that others could avoid that fate says so much about them as a people. After meeting Vigil I was determined not to let that sacrifice be in vain!
I get a bit sad whenever I hear this music. It stands for everything the first game was about: A deep and well-constructed universe, heavy focus on storytelling and the humbling experience that humanity is in fact just a small fraction of a much bigger, interstellar community.
Sadly, the recent Mass Effect 3-Trailers don't really give me the same feeling with all these Earth-centric battles going on. I really hope Bioware avoids getting all Pro-Human in the finale...
@MarvinTobisch Nah. That's not the point of Mass Effect. The point is to show how little humans are in the universe. How... insignificant. How necessary it is for all of the universal races to unite rather than clash. To become Pro-Human is to destroy the message.
While taking earth back is the slogan for the game, you will have to unite the galatic community to stand with humanity TOGETHER and fight the reapers.
@zeratul1356 Completely right. Regardless of how Bioware and EA changes the game, better or for worse, Casey Hudson would not tolerate losing that one element in the game. That humanity needs every single living being, even other species, to survive. If we got the choice in the game, I would save the Citadel over Earth. Whilst Earth hosts our own people, the Citadel contains Humans and nearly every type of Species alive. I just hope the 5 years of playing ME will be worth it though...
@MarvinTobisch Well, I think that the whole ME series is much about humanity. Right from the start as Shepard, you are supposed to be working for humanity and as "humanity's good representative" as the first human Spectre. And although I agree on that the game does redirect you to the fact that humanity is just a small fraction, it gives also a perspective of that humanity can still play such a big role in the galatic community despite the species' size just because humanity is unique.
@MarvinTobisch Pro-human? What do you want them to get all anti-human or something? Well in Mass Effect 3 your going to be rallying up all the other alien races in the galaxy to combat and defeat the reapers, that doesn't really sound very Earth centric to me...
I could see that happen, but I think that since most of the trailers also show Earth getting the carp kicked out of it it won't be as pro-human as it could be.
But I get what you're saying, and I hope that it doesn't happen.
@MarvinTobischI I think the whole idea of ME3 is that while the Reapers take control of Earth (due to its high human count), Shepard & friends will be flying around the galaxy repairing race relations and such between quarians and geth...salarians and krogans...all that jazz. So for the majority of the game you will actually be spending a lot of time around aliens.
All this earth stuff is just like the suicide mission in ME2, a lot of advertising, but it only ends up being in a bit of the game.
@MarvinTobisch In the demo you are working along side Salarians to save a Krogan fertile female from Cerberus (Humans). I'd say Bioware has it covered. It is pretty hard to forget the focus of your content, even for a company as large as Bioware.
@MarvinTobisch I totally agree, this song suits ME1 so much.... I wish they had stuck more to the original games roots.. Hopefully ME3 will include some of these songs for old fans sake.
@MarvinTobisch You really should watch the original Mass Effect trailers again, dude. They're pretty action-packed too. The point of trailers is to be exciting so people get excited for the product.
@MarvinTobisch Well, the game is fundamentally about uniting and rallying all the species in the galaxy to fight the Reapers together. So I wouldn't worry about it.
The conversation with Vigil was probably the best experience I've felt throughout this game. It felt like I was being blessed by something that I can't even describe and gave me a true peace of mind. I almost didn't feel like leaving that room. But at the same time, during that moment, it made me want to see the rest of the battle through until the end. Thank you BioWare, for putting this epic game together.
I agree. Playing this game through for like the 8th time, talking to Vigil is the best part, even after all that time, I still love listening to him describe the last days of the Prothean Empire, and what the last of the Protheans did, selflessly, to save the next group of organics. The music, the dialogue, is awesome. It sets you up for that last dash to the finish line.... beat Saren or everything is gone.
@agentorange55 same here. I've played ME1 3 times now, and every time I get near the end, I usually get excited to start a ME2 game, but every time I go into Vigil's room, I listen to everything he has to say. I can't explain why, but it's so captivating.
Skyrim is cool and all, but the Mass Effect games are freaking epic, both had some of the most engaging and epic stories ever told. The characters are awesome and funny and complex, it's my all time favorite RPG ever.
If they put this in the final scene of ME3, if you failed to stop the Reapers, and they succeed in galactic genocide, and you watch as Shepard and your team get slaughtered by Harbinger, I think this music should be in that scene, for some reason.
@xdarkherox93 Actually i think it was, during the reunion with Wrex (if you didnt kill him) in ME2, and I believe also with a reunion with Ashely/Kaidan.
I like it how you can clearly hear the influence of Blade Runner's opening theme at 0:38. Mass Effect clearly is the best series of games ever made, and this comes from the Netherlands' biggest Halo fan. I can't wait to play Mass Effect 3.
Favourite song in the whole game for me and it answered so many questions from the rest of the game
my dad got this game it looked borings i was like nah but id finished all my games so i thought ille try it ive been hooked ever since prefer ME1 to ME2 hence why ive completed ME1 10 times+ n ME2 twice lol
The conversation with Vigil in ME1 was easily the most epic conversation ever. If you play ME1 and reach that part then the plots of ME2 and ME3 will be explained.
Yeah, but conversing with Sovereign is up on the epic scale too, in that foreboding sense. Mass Effect delivers the epic for anyone who sticks with the game long enough to get off the Citadel for the first time. Opening the Galaxy Map, picking a system, and just exploring, few games make even rudimentary exploration feel epic. At least until you have to drive the Mako, but I can overlook that in light of everything else the game has to offer.
@XoRandomGuyoX I'm just saying that the Vigil conversation was the best because it warns Shepard about just who the Reapers are and just how close to destruction the galaxy is in. Then at the end of ME1 and throughout 2 and 3 Shepard does everything he can to stop the Reapers which is why that conversation was just so important to the story. The Sovereign one was also good but the Enviroment, Music hell even the Hologram just don't make it feel as satisfying as Vigil's.
To be fair, Sovereign's conversation mentions all that stuff too, about the galaxy being wiped clean multiple times. And that his kind will 'darken the sky of every world'. Plus you have that famous line, "You exist because we allow it. And you will end because we demand it." The conversation also helps build up the final sequences of the game, where you see Sovereign nearby, menacing you with its presence.
@Stiglitz51 The sheer domination Sovereign had over your conversation with him kinda tips it in his favor if you ask me. I mean he just dumps ominous exposition and threats at you (in a good way), then boldly states "This conversation is over."
This song really epitomizes the feel of the first Mass Effect game for me. It's a pretty slow game by Action RPG standards and it had a good sense of ancient mystery going for it. Mass Effect 2 was a very high quality game, but it really fazed out a lot of the qualities I enjoyed Mass Effect 1 so much, focusing more on the action and characters than the plot and feel of the universe. It's pretty jarring to go back to this music after playing the second game. Still, damn good series.
@petarded3 Indeed, I share your thoughts. Although I must say that Mass Effect 2 introduced some new fresh and interesting characters such as Legion, I can't help but think that somehow, as you already stated, ME2 lost something that which ME1 had - the atmosphere.
To me, ME2 was more of a tactical shooter rpg, the stress being on the word "shooter" whereas in ME1 the stress was more on the word "tactical". Of course, the plot is great in both of them, as well as everything else.
Everyone says that suicide mission is the best me song but this is the best in my opinion as it just sets the mood perfectly and is just amazing, dont get me wrong suicide mission is a great song but I would rather this
When I booted up the game for the first time, I had a pretty big feeling that this was going to be an incredible game just from the main menu. I was correct :)
Vigil was way awsome too it was too bad that you only get to talk to him once in the entire series of the game, I wonder if that would be what all the protheans would have been like, sad..
Mass Effect 2 should have stuck with the original music I love ME1 all around a little bit better then ME2. I hope ME3 Goes back to the origins of the game :)
@alsnevets if they mess up mass effect 3 the way they messed up dragon age 2 i will personaly go to EA's hq and murder its president (or whatever you call the dude who's in charge)
@LAdave2007 I couldn't stand fallout. The graphics were average, the combat was awkward, the plot was generic, the armor/clothing was pretty ugly (save for a select few pieces) and its replay value was nonexistent.
@LeafySuburb If you're talking about 3, sure, that should not have been called a Fallout game. New Vegas is better all around, and more in line with the original games.
When you come up to the energy wall and hear the music as you slowly make your way to the entrance where you meet Vigil reminds me of Mission To Mars when they are inside the giant face.
Everytime I start up mass effect and listen to this music on the starting menu I get the distinct feeling of awesomness. Even the sound after you press start is amazing.
@cillo94 I know what you mean, whenever I listen to this song, I get a feeling that I'm watching through the windows of a spaceship, Damn that feeling is awesome.
After experiencing Mass Effect, all other games I've played since just feel inferior. In other words, Bioware has hindered my wide range of video game enjoyment
Even though this song was first used in ME1, when I listen to it, it reminds me of the reunion with Alenko in ME2. The music fit perfectly there, sadness that Kaidan and his love from years ago hadn't been in touch after the accident, happiness and relief that Shepard is alive and... hope for renewing the romance in ME3 :-)
This melody really gets to me. It's the harmony of the dead, it's gracing sounds bounce against each wall of Illos making me want to help those who cannot be helped. The whole setting of mass effect is in space, so when I say this song is "out of this world" I hope you'll understand what I mean.
From all sci-fi fans who immediately enjoy slow and mysterious carl sagantric tunes with gigantic vastness of void on the background to our beloved earth-clan developer Bioware; thank you.
@Nineteen1900Hundred You have to thank both. The conversation with Vigil wouldn't have had the same weight without this music, and contrary-wise, the music wouldn't have meant much on its own without the emotional resonance of the conversation.
When I borrowed this game from a friend and put it in my 360 for the first time I remember thinking this is going to be average and generic. But when the start up menu came up and this played with the planet in the background I knew I was very. Very wrong
When I listen to this song, I see my character sitting on a chair staring at the floor wondering if everything is worth it. Whether the sacrifices that are made for the sake of all living beings can be justified.
when i hear this, i think of some future civilization coming across the final, decipherable records of humanity after we turn this planet into a flaming ball of shit
I just wanna ask u guys something. If u could, would u let a scientist cryo-freeze your DNA, and let someone re-animate u 200 years from now? I said no to the question. My friend Glenn said he would. Do u wanna come back, to see how our future looks here? Is it worth living through the ups and downs? Seeing loved ones die? Maybe they'd live, I don't know.
Sounds to me he replyed to the wrong guy. That and he sounds atheist... you know Ignorant people on the planet who takes a dump on the world's culture.
@MrStuDubb ME2 had a story? The only think of significance I recall was doing a bunch of random recruitment missions, and then killing a giant Terminator wannabe.
Kinda shitty in comparison to saving the universe no?
@MrStuDubb Well Mac Walters is still the lead writer, ever since Drew left the franchise the story has been going downhill. We'll have to see I guess.
Saving the universe is yet to come. Consider the entire series a story, not each game separately. Mass Effect 2 is the part where the protagonists get strong enough to have an epic battle in the culmination. And that's fine. Hell, the continuity of the games is pretty much a selling point, with carryover saves and all.
If I recall correctly... Isengard falls in the second part of LotR. Huge epic battles and destruction of the ring come in the third. Like Collector base and Reapers.
@Minnakht23 I'd agree if the collectors were an enemy in the first one. But it felt like they just made a new enemy (although they were in the novels, etc.) just for the second one, and justified it with a loose connection to the Reapers, who could probably just do better without a middleman of collectors.
@laniergs There has been a two-year timeskip. The Collectors could have become active only after they had to, with Sovereign being botched... in the first game, they just were dormant past the Omega-4 Relay, intending to play a part in the attack once the Reapers come. But, with disturbances implemented, Harbinger had to direct the matter of the return personally...
@STRING3R Actually I think it had a great story. From my interpretation, all the character believed that they were going on a suicide mission and they wanted to do one last thing before that happens. This is how I interpretated it.
@deathwaitsfornoone Yeah most games have soem kind of letdown in the second part of the trilogy,with usually the third being a very awesome mix.THats why i think ME3 will feature an amazign story(hell THIS one has all the right to have one),awesome RPG(ME1 style) and the refined ME2 combat.Add Coop and this game can easily get multiple GOTYs
It burns the soul... in a good way.
Webzlinger 20 hours ago
My only complaint about this song is that its too short!!
MagiUser5000 23 hours ago
Are there any guitar tabs for this song? I can't find one anywhere and I really want to learn this!
truegamer88 1 day ago
@MarvinTobisch Well the whole point of ME3 is for Shepard to unite all the races, I doubt it will be Pro-Human
traphixx561 1 day ago
This song gives me chills everywhere.
CummanderLovewhore 2 days ago
I'm imagining humanity in a crib as an infant unaware of all the challenges it must face when it grows and discovers new things about life.
inphasesith 2 days ago
Ever noticed that in the main menu of the demo in ME3, you can hear this song in the background if you listen closely?
EmperorHelix 3 days ago
@EmperorHelix Hmmm! I thought I could here it - I'm still not sure, but I think a couple of notes peek out!
jacksonbiscuit 1 day ago
Calm before the storm
that1dude0092 3 days ago
When I hear this, I remember the first time I started mass effect on my PC.
And sometimes I wish there was some way to forget that I played this game, just to play it for the first time once again.
TheBIOPRINCE 3 days ago
MASS EFFECT 3: FINISH THE FIGHT
lol
Viratic 4 days ago
I like how with the ME1 menu they had the squadmate faces appearing then fading, was really unique. Kinda missed that in me2 menu, just had the picture of the collector base area basically.
swertooo 6 days ago 2
Ah, yes! 'Vigil' - The Prothean Hologram from ruins of Ilos. We have dismissed that claim.
AlexZebol2 6 days ago 6
The secret of ME1:
SUBTLETY
In everything. In setting, in story.
In fucking music.
SUBTLETY => ATMOSPHERE
Hearing this music in the beginning of the game then driving on the Mako through the secret Prothean planet?
Ho. ly. SHIIIT.
DestructoMonkey 1 week ago 7
The first few notes are like a space whale singing, and it's all like "dude, it's chill, imma teach you about how Shepard will save us all".
Theflarger 1 week ago
Amazing how much Hope Vigil gives me and my companions whenever I talk to him, it's like talking to a forgotten link to the past...Hope in it's simplest form.
RecoverRedeem 1 week ago in playlist Mass effect
@RecoverRedeem Vigil isn't "Like" that. He IS a forgotten link to the past.
And the conversation with him is easily the most depressing, yet motivating conversation I encountered in this game.
Hearing his account of what happened to the Protheans is just... so harsh. It makes me all the more determined to finish the game and stop Saren and Sovereign.
Goatmon 1 week ago
@Goatmon me too, makes me feel sorry for how the protheans never had a chance to fight back and win
EmporerAaron 1 week ago
@Goatmon I am SO with you on this. Simultaneously depressing *and* motivating is the perfect way to describe that scene. The sacrifice of the final Protheans was just incredible. To lose everything and YET still do their best so that others could avoid that fate says so much about them as a people. After meeting Vigil I was determined not to let that sacrifice be in vain!
VerdantSF 1 week ago
If you listen closely to the menu music of ME3 (demo), this music plays in the background softly.
deathwishy 1 week ago
I'm really hoping the music in ME3 is more like this. The music in the first Mass Effect was fucking awesome.
deekante 1 week ago
I get a bit sad whenever I hear this music. It stands for everything the first game was about: A deep and well-constructed universe, heavy focus on storytelling and the humbling experience that humanity is in fact just a small fraction of a much bigger, interstellar community.
Sadly, the recent Mass Effect 3-Trailers don't really give me the same feeling with all these Earth-centric battles going on. I really hope Bioware avoids getting all Pro-Human in the finale...
MarvinTobisch 1 week ago 55
@MarvinTobisch Nah. That's not the point of Mass Effect. The point is to show how little humans are in the universe. How... insignificant. How necessary it is for all of the universal races to unite rather than clash. To become Pro-Human is to destroy the message.
wkunzelman1 1 week ago in playlist Mass Effect
@MarvinTobisch
While taking earth back is the slogan for the game, you will have to unite the galatic community to stand with humanity TOGETHER and fight the reapers.
zeratul1356 1 week ago 7
@zeratul1356 Completely right. Regardless of how Bioware and EA changes the game, better or for worse, Casey Hudson would not tolerate losing that one element in the game. That humanity needs every single living being, even other species, to survive. If we got the choice in the game, I would save the Citadel over Earth. Whilst Earth hosts our own people, the Citadel contains Humans and nearly every type of Species alive. I just hope the 5 years of playing ME will be worth it though...
MattyCody 5 days ago
@MarvinTobisch agreed.
georgek19 6 days ago
@MarvinTobisch Well, I think that the whole ME series is much about humanity. Right from the start as Shepard, you are supposed to be working for humanity and as "humanity's good representative" as the first human Spectre. And although I agree on that the game does redirect you to the fact that humanity is just a small fraction, it gives also a perspective of that humanity can still play such a big role in the galatic community despite the species' size just because humanity is unique.
Terminator6385 6 days ago 2
@MarvinTobisch Krogans, Salarians, Drell, all will help us save earth...
darthjump 5 days ago
@MarvinTobisch Pro-human? What do you want them to get all anti-human or something? Well in Mass Effect 3 your going to be rallying up all the other alien races in the galaxy to combat and defeat the reapers, that doesn't really sound very Earth centric to me...
TacticalPickle 4 days ago
@MarvinTobisch
I could see that happen, but I think that since most of the trailers also show Earth getting the carp kicked out of it it won't be as pro-human as it could be.
But I get what you're saying, and I hope that it doesn't happen.
PhormalityMusic 3 days ago
@MarvinTobisch u couldnt be more wrong. U seems to be a ME new gamer. Hmm...
Zargator08 3 days ago
@MarvinTobisch
I agree with you, but I still hope story of ME3 will be such good as in previous Mass Effect games.
KONDZIOREK07 3 days ago
@MarvinTobischI I think the whole idea of ME3 is that while the Reapers take control of Earth (due to its high human count), Shepard & friends will be flying around the galaxy repairing race relations and such between quarians and geth...salarians and krogans...all that jazz. So for the majority of the game you will actually be spending a lot of time around aliens.
All this earth stuff is just like the suicide mission in ME2, a lot of advertising, but it only ends up being in a bit of the game.
acidrain92 2 days ago
@MarvinTobisch In the demo you are working along side Salarians to save a Krogan fertile female from Cerberus (Humans). I'd say Bioware has it covered. It is pretty hard to forget the focus of your content, even for a company as large as Bioware.
imooumoo4 2 days ago
@MarvinTobisch I totally agree, this song suits ME1 so much.... I wish they had stuck more to the original games roots.. Hopefully ME3 will include some of these songs for old fans sake.
alsnevets 2 days ago
@MarvinTobisch The ending will only be "pro-humanity" if you want it to be (the Renegade ending).
CosmicMario9987 1 day ago
@MarvinTobisch You really should watch the original Mass Effect trailers again, dude. They're pretty action-packed too. The point of trailers is to be exciting so people get excited for the product.
jacobkosh 19 hours ago in playlist Space (ambient)
@MarvinTobisch its just marketing.. you should really listen to the new soundtrack its almost as good as this one
Azael1991 19 hours ago
@MarvinTobisch Well, the game is fundamentally about uniting and rallying all the species in the galaxy to fight the Reapers together. So I wouldn't worry about it.
WalleWildberrie 2 hours ago
The conversation with Vigil was probably the best experience I've felt throughout this game. It felt like I was being blessed by something that I can't even describe and gave me a true peace of mind. I almost didn't feel like leaving that room. But at the same time, during that moment, it made me want to see the rest of the battle through until the end. Thank you BioWare, for putting this epic game together.
Unsung0101 2 weeks ago 6
@Unsung0101
I agree. Playing this game through for like the 8th time, talking to Vigil is the best part, even after all that time, I still love listening to him describe the last days of the Prothean Empire, and what the last of the Protheans did, selflessly, to save the next group of organics. The music, the dialogue, is awesome. It sets you up for that last dash to the finish line.... beat Saren or everything is gone.
agentorange55 1 week ago
@agentorange55 same here. I've played ME1 3 times now, and every time I get near the end, I usually get excited to start a ME2 game, but every time I go into Vigil's room, I listen to everything he has to say. I can't explain why, but it's so captivating.
Br0k3nL1m1ts 1 week ago 4
Skyrim is cool and all, but the Mass Effect games are freaking epic, both had some of the most engaging and epic stories ever told. The characters are awesome and funny and complex, it's my all time favorite RPG ever.
BlazingWarrior117 2 weeks ago 4
If they put this in the final scene of ME3, if you failed to stop the Reapers, and they succeed in galactic genocide, and you watch as Shepard and your team get slaughtered by Harbinger, I think this music should be in that scene, for some reason.
MyGamer125 2 weeks ago
@NATIVE231000 It is not the end yet my friend
XxDarkMarinexX 2 weeks ago
"Shepard! My friend!"
Liberare87 3 weeks ago 63
@Liberare87 "MASS EFFECT MY BUDDY!"
IcePickSnowmanzzzz 2 weeks ago
@Liberare87 "Wrex! Last couple' years treat you right?"
Still think there should've been special dialogue there if you have Garrus and Tali with you.
Dragonrider202 1 week ago
@Dragonrider202 Yea, I was hoping for a secret dialog too :/
Liberare87 1 week ago
This is the best piece of music on a game soundtrack in my opinion.
Shame it wasn't used much on ME2
xdarkherox93 3 weeks ago
@xdarkherox93 Actually i think it was, during the reunion with Wrex (if you didnt kill him) in ME2, and I believe also with a reunion with Ashely/Kaidan.
3GxX 3 weeks ago in playlist Mass Effect
@3GxX Right wasnt used 'much' ... missed that part.
3GxX 3 weeks ago in playlist Mass Effect
This song makes me smile all the time.
Anthropyification 3 weeks ago 4
i will never forget hearing this for the first time on the menu screen
For a while i was starting to wonder what great series was gonna come out and just amaze everybody
Im glad i was able to experience mass effect from begining to the end
NATIVE231000 4 weeks ago in playlist Chillaxing 6
This is the soundtrack of hope.
MuzeecX 4 weeks ago 5
Just got goosebumps listening to this, such a great song :)
highflyingdwarf 1 month ago
I like it how you can clearly hear the influence of Blade Runner's opening theme at 0:38. Mass Effect clearly is the best series of games ever made, and this comes from the Netherlands' biggest Halo fan. I can't wait to play Mass Effect 3.
TheBlackWasp 1 month ago
@TheBlackWasp
Hell yeah man, Halo+Mass effect=AWESOME
zeratul1356 2 weeks ago
this music reminds me about chozo from metroid they were peaceful race
190shepard 1 month ago
thubs up if you hate miranda
MagnifiqueMONSTER 1 month ago
@MagnifiqueMONSTER Ugh I did, Thumbs up for sure!
TheParanormalPirate 1 month ago
@MagnifiqueMONSTER Fuck you.. that is all
iamBIGBROOX 1 month ago
Favourite song in the whole game for me and it answered so many questions from the rest of the game
my dad got this game it looked borings i was like nah but id finished all my games so i thought ille try it ive been hooked ever since prefer ME1 to ME2 hence why ive completed ME1 10 times+ n ME2 twice lol
DmkRobert 1 month ago in playlist Mass Effect Soundtrack
The conversation with Vigil in ME1 was easily the most epic conversation ever. If you play ME1 and reach that part then the plots of ME2 and ME3 will be explained.
Stiglitz51 1 month ago
@Stiglitz51
Yeah, but conversing with Sovereign is up on the epic scale too, in that foreboding sense. Mass Effect delivers the epic for anyone who sticks with the game long enough to get off the Citadel for the first time. Opening the Galaxy Map, picking a system, and just exploring, few games make even rudimentary exploration feel epic. At least until you have to drive the Mako, but I can overlook that in light of everything else the game has to offer.
XoRandomGuyoX 1 month ago
@XoRandomGuyoX I'm just saying that the Vigil conversation was the best because it warns Shepard about just who the Reapers are and just how close to destruction the galaxy is in. Then at the end of ME1 and throughout 2 and 3 Shepard does everything he can to stop the Reapers which is why that conversation was just so important to the story. The Sovereign one was also good but the Enviroment, Music hell even the Hologram just don't make it feel as satisfying as Vigil's.
Stiglitz51 1 month ago
@Stiglitz51
To be fair, Sovereign's conversation mentions all that stuff too, about the galaxy being wiped clean multiple times. And that his kind will 'darken the sky of every world'. Plus you have that famous line, "You exist because we allow it. And you will end because we demand it." The conversation also helps build up the final sequences of the game, where you see Sovereign nearby, menacing you with its presence.
XoRandomGuyoX 1 month ago
@Stiglitz51 The sheer domination Sovereign had over your conversation with him kinda tips it in his favor if you ask me. I mean he just dumps ominous exposition and threats at you (in a good way), then boldly states "This conversation is over."
timelessoneak 4 weeks ago
I always think of this song as a kinda calm before the storm
Sworn69 1 month ago
When I think of the original Mass Effect I think of this song.
Tordenelgen 1 month ago 2
This song really epitomizes the feel of the first Mass Effect game for me. It's a pretty slow game by Action RPG standards and it had a good sense of ancient mystery going for it. Mass Effect 2 was a very high quality game, but it really fazed out a lot of the qualities I enjoyed Mass Effect 1 so much, focusing more on the action and characters than the plot and feel of the universe. It's pretty jarring to go back to this music after playing the second game. Still, damn good series.
petarded3 1 month ago 3
@petarded3 Indeed, I share your thoughts. Although I must say that Mass Effect 2 introduced some new fresh and interesting characters such as Legion, I can't help but think that somehow, as you already stated, ME2 lost something that which ME1 had - the atmosphere.
To me, ME2 was more of a tactical shooter rpg, the stress being on the word "shooter" whereas in ME1 the stress was more on the word "tactical". Of course, the plot is great in both of them, as well as everything else.
TheTwilightUnicorn 1 month ago in playlist Mass Effect
Everyone says that suicide mission is the best me song but this is the best in my opinion as it just sets the mood perfectly and is just amazing, dont get me wrong suicide mission is a great song but I would rather this
iambessel 1 month ago
I remember looking at this game for the longest time and not buying it like an idiot.
TheChapelx 1 month ago
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@TheChapelx lucky you, I actually bought it and didn't play it for months
haqlges 1 month ago
@TheChapelx I picked this game up at by accident thinking it was another game in 2009........................... BEST ACCIDENT EVER!
CeMDRAGONify 1 month ago 3
Of all the songs in Mass Effect, this one conjurs up the most feeling. What a great game; what a great tale.
oniforo 1 month ago
I don't know about you guys, but when I hear this song it makes me wonder whats really out there.
iareaburrito 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
Every time I hear this song, I get perma-goosebumps.
lynksis009 1 month ago
This plays when you enter Heaven x)
DaManBearPig 1 month ago
When I booted up the game for the first time, I had a pretty big feeling that this was going to be an incredible game just from the main menu. I was correct :)
FoxMcCloud2364 1 month ago 2
@FoxMcCloud2364 Same :)
Akarel 1 month ago
i love this song when i play it on xbox
spockyy1231 1 month ago
Thumbs up if you want this played at your funeral.
irllcd13 1 month ago 5
@irllcd13 I won't care when I'm dead.
Fredvdp 1 month ago 7
Vigil was way awsome too it was too bad that you only get to talk to him once in the entire series of the game, I wonder if that would be what all the protheans would have been like, sad..
alsnevets 2 months ago
Mass Effect 2 should have stuck with the original music I love ME1 all around a little bit better then ME2. I hope ME3 Goes back to the origins of the game :)
alsnevets 2 months ago
@alsnevets if they mess up mass effect 3 the way they messed up dragon age 2 i will personaly go to EA's hq and murder its president (or whatever you call the dude who's in charge)
warbossgrotsmasha23 2 months ago
When I first started Mass effect and this theme played in the menu I sat for like 2 minutes to take it in. This got me prepared for adventure!
Chickenfodder09 2 months ago 3
@Chickenfodder09 I spent about thirty times that long on one occasion :)
Standuble 2 months ago
I use to fall asleep with this music on. Everytime I hear it I want to play the first game again. :()
unholyd 2 months ago
*Ding!* *Establishing Secure Connection, Secure Connection Confirmed* *Please Log in to access your profile* *Warning: Data Corruption* *Warning beeps* *Please Reconstruct Profile* *Confirm Pre-Service History* *Confirm Military Specialization* Classic.
Scootagoose 2 months ago
@LAdave2007 I couldn't stand fallout. The graphics were average, the combat was awkward, the plot was generic, the armor/clothing was pretty ugly (save for a select few pieces) and its replay value was nonexistent.
LeafySuburb 2 months ago
@LeafySuburb If you're talking about 3, sure, that should not have been called a Fallout game. New Vegas is better all around, and more in line with the original games.
mysticblade35 2 months ago
@mysticblade35
Indeed. New Vegas is far better all around.
But, in general, I find both Fallout and Mass Effect to be two great franchises worthy of their fame.
TheCanadianPrairies 2 months ago
When you come up to the energy wall and hear the music as you slowly make your way to the entrance where you meet Vigil reminds me of Mission To Mars when they are inside the giant face.
Chicano3000X 2 months ago
Everytime I start up mass effect and listen to this music on the starting menu I get the distinct feeling of awesomness. Even the sound after you press start is amazing.
Grivahri 2 months ago 33
Reminds me of Carl Sagan
kiball09 2 months ago
@kiball09 RIP to a great man.
Standuble 2 months ago
Sovereign and Harbinger disliked this video
myshitez 2 months ago 96
@myshitez Just wait, Udina and the Turian councilor will be joining shortly. X(
psykokimera 1 month ago
@myshitez Saren disliked it now too ,,, 3 dislikes <.<
Greysterization 1 week ago
@myshitez Don't forget the collectors.
Mordragz 1 week ago
@myshitez and the illusive man too :D
rohanmystery 1 week ago
@myshitez and... indoctrinated Saren
aseticelite 1 week ago
This song makes me hard.
irllcd13 2 months ago in playlist Mass Effect
Saren Sucks
fapturbo7 2 months ago
World By World... System By System
fapturbo7 2 months ago
I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favourite song on the extranet.
Thomsn0w 2 months ago 5
this song takes you mentally in other worlds ...
cillo94 2 months ago 2
@cillo94 I know what you mean, whenever I listen to this song, I get a feeling that I'm watching through the windows of a spaceship, Damn that feeling is awesome.
FOXHOUNDCRO1980 2 months ago
How is this kind of music called? Genre? Whatever information will be useful, thank you
JotyCauldron 3 months ago
@JotyCauldron That's a very good question. I would just call it ambient electronica.
AmongPatriot 2 months ago
After experiencing Mass Effect, all other games I've played since just feel inferior. In other words, Bioware has hindered my wide range of video game enjoyment
MrStuDubb 3 months ago
@MrStuDubb You obviously have not played Fallout.....
LAdave2007 3 months ago
@LAdave2007 I have. Melee attacks are horrible, combat is average. Story is decent. Character doesn't speak. Doesn't come close to Mass Effects
MrStuDubb 3 months ago
@MrStuDubb Signed, Fallout 3 is outstanding, but Mass Effect is in a league of its own.
LeutholdJR 2 months ago 2
@MrStuDubb Have you played STALKER or Metro 2033? That's some immersive shit right there.
mysticblade35 2 months ago
Even though this song was first used in ME1, when I listen to it, it reminds me of the reunion with Alenko in ME2. The music fit perfectly there, sadness that Kaidan and his love from years ago hadn't been in touch after the accident, happiness and relief that Shepard is alive and... hope for renewing the romance in ME3 :-)
CushyLifestyle 3 months ago
This melody really gets to me. It's the harmony of the dead, it's gracing sounds bounce against each wall of Illos making me want to help those who cannot be helped. The whole setting of mass effect is in space, so when I say this song is "out of this world" I hope you'll understand what I mean.
Jackoooist 3 months ago
Youtube, when you can find dick jokes on other ME music video, but when you come to ''Vigil'', it's all about philosophical and intelligent comments.
I love you Youtube guys :)
sErgEantaEgis12 3 months ago in playlist Mass Effect
From all sci-fi fans who immediately enjoy slow and mysterious carl sagantric tunes with gigantic vastness of void on the background to our beloved earth-clan developer Bioware; thank you.
1vaultdweller 3 months ago 130
@1vaultdweller +1
zigma37 3 months ago
@1vaultdweller
Don't thank Bioware. Thank Jack Wall.
Nineteen1900Hundred 3 weeks ago
@Nineteen1900Hundred You have to thank both. The conversation with Vigil wouldn't have had the same weight without this music, and contrary-wise, the music wouldn't have meant much on its own without the emotional resonance of the conversation.
Khyron56 1 week ago
@Khyron56
I dunno the music is pretty fantastic on it's own in my opinion. But yeah your right the whole thing is a masterpiece of science fiction.
Nineteen1900Hundred 1 week ago
It's never going to be a another "first time" to play this game, and hear its music again...
TheBIOPRINCE 3 months ago
When I borrowed this game from a friend and put it in my 360 for the first time I remember thinking this is going to be average and generic. But when the start up menu came up and this played with the planet in the background I knew I was very. Very wrong
thatrabbitguy 3 months ago
i dont know why i am getting a feeling of nostalgia even though this game is only 4 years old.
halodystroyer44 3 months ago
This music speaks of old forgotten things. Of an era long lost. Of a Time long past.
SardaukarPrime 3 months ago
When I listen to this song, I see my character sitting on a chair staring at the floor wondering if everything is worth it. Whether the sacrifices that are made for the sake of all living beings can be justified.
kashmira6 3 months ago
when i hear this, i think of some future civilization coming across the final, decipherable records of humanity after we turn this planet into a flaming ball of shit
NYG5 3 months ago
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PvtCaboose1985 3 months ago
If Shephard dies, this is the music that should play.
mamobster1500 3 months ago
Remember when I first played it and this was playing on the main menu with that picture of Wrex in the background.
CompyRex 3 months ago
one of my favorite songs from any game. i wish it wouldnt end
Xboxgamer242 3 months ago
I used to play the crap out of Mass Effects 1 and 2 but stopped to play other games. I need to start playing the crap out of them again.
Kaweebo 3 months ago
THIS IS MASS EFFECT.
Iakkons92 4 months ago
Most incredible game, most incredible music.. most incredible Shepard!
Aidaaan182 4 months ago
I can listen to this repeatedly and never grow tired of it.
congokong87 4 months ago
Oh shut up about ME2 & ME3 and listen to this beautiful music
Killer1260 4 months ago in playlist Foretrukne for Killer1260
Good relaxing music. Good for sex too.
TaePoDongIII 4 months ago
Ahhh i love this song. If i were to ever go to space i would listen to nothing but this soundtrack
NlNJAPRlME26 4 months ago
mass effect 2 should have had a tune like this on the starting menu because of this i will never forget the first time I played the game
TheChunkBoi 4 months ago 41
Exactly. We only assume things would be all nice and high tech, like these Sci-Fi games and movies.
dupree82 4 months ago
I fall asleep to this song. And become Commander Shepard in my dreams.
Fiction915 4 months ago in playlist Writing Music
I just wanna ask u guys something. If u could, would u let a scientist cryo-freeze your DNA, and let someone re-animate u 200 years from now? I said no to the question. My friend Glenn said he would. Do u wanna come back, to see how our future looks here? Is it worth living through the ups and downs? Seeing loved ones die? Maybe they'd live, I don't know.
dupree82 4 months ago
@dupree82 Only if the word turned out like Mass Effects world. Sucks being born in the wrong time period.
551Music 4 months ago
man the song is a good prelude to me 2 suicide them music play them back to back this one first
boatpro1988 4 months ago
during when i loved my 360 so much and played this game soo much....to bad ps3 will never touch this... or get it.
rellik619555 4 months ago
Way too short for it's epicness :o i agree with the extended version.
mikemoos 4 months ago
@mikemoos
Go kill yourself you fucking piece of worthless religious dogshit. Useless cunts like you are a waste of our oxygen and need to fucking die slowly.
MrOpenGamer 4 months ago
@MrOpenGamer
what the fuck is wrong with you? i am saying that there should be a longer version of this song.
mikemoos 4 months ago
@mikemoos
Sounds to me he replyed to the wrong guy. That and he sounds atheist... you know Ignorant people on the planet who takes a dump on the world's culture.
brenndon1 4 months ago
@brenndon1 That comment wasn't much better.
PzGrenadiere 4 months ago in playlist Mass Effect
@PzGrenadiere
I am just pointing out the obvious... A Ignorant atheist replying to the wrong comment.
brenndon1 4 months ago
@brenndon1 Broad generalizations are never good mkaaay?
cooldude1178 4 months ago
@MrOpenGamer I think you need to check to who you are replying too.
CeMDRAGONify 4 months ago
Anyone else prefer ME 1 story to ME 2?
MrStuDubb 4 months ago 67
@MrStuDubb ME2 had a story? The only think of significance I recall was doing a bunch of random recruitment missions, and then killing a giant Terminator wannabe.
Kinda shitty in comparison to saving the universe no?
STRING3R 4 months ago
@STRING3R Well said. I completely agree with that. Do you have high hopes for ME3 from a story perspective?
MrStuDubb 4 months ago
@MrStuDubb Well Mac Walters is still the lead writer, ever since Drew left the franchise the story has been going downhill. We'll have to see I guess.
STRING3R 4 months ago
@STRING3R
Saving the universe is yet to come. Consider the entire series a story, not each game separately. Mass Effect 2 is the part where the protagonists get strong enough to have an epic battle in the culmination. And that's fine. Hell, the continuity of the games is pretty much a selling point, with carryover saves and all.
If I recall correctly... Isengard falls in the second part of LotR. Huge epic battles and destruction of the ring come in the third. Like Collector base and Reapers.
Minnakht23 4 months ago
@Minnakht23 I'd agree if the collectors were an enemy in the first one. But it felt like they just made a new enemy (although they were in the novels, etc.) just for the second one, and justified it with a loose connection to the Reapers, who could probably just do better without a middleman of collectors.
laniergs 4 months ago
@laniergs There has been a two-year timeskip. The Collectors could have become active only after they had to, with Sovereign being botched... in the first game, they just were dormant past the Omega-4 Relay, intending to play a part in the attack once the Reapers come. But, with disturbances implemented, Harbinger had to direct the matter of the return personally...
Minnakht23 4 months ago
@STRING3R Actually I think it had a great story. From my interpretation, all the character believed that they were going on a suicide mission and they wanted to do one last thing before that happens. This is how I interpretated it.
kashmira6 3 months ago
@MrStuDubb 100% ME story was great, to be honest, Me2 was somewhat average and was more of a setup to ME3.
deathwaitsfornoone 3 months ago
@deathwaitsfornoone Completely agree. ME2 was a letdown compared to ME as far as the story is concerned. Gameplay was amazing in ME2 though.
MrStuDubb 3 months ago
@deathwaitsfornoone Yeah most games have soem kind of letdown in the second part of the trilogy,with usually the third being a very awesome mix.THats why i think ME3 will feature an amazign story(hell THIS one has all the right to have one),awesome RPG(ME1 style) and the refined ME2 combat.Add Coop and this game can easily get multiple GOTYs
cyclopsdias 3 months ago