10 Best SECRETS & RARE Dialogue in Mass Effect Legendary Edition 

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Bringing Legion to Tali's trial is one of my favorite moments in the series

One of my favorite pieces of unique dialogue is with Khalisah in ME2. If you decided to save the Destiny Ascension in ME1, you can choose a Paragon dialogue option where Shepard names off each Alliance ship that was sacrificed during that mission. Pretty cool stuff and probably my favorite piece in the whole series.

Jack's comment about Mordin is touching - it really shows how far she's come as a person, that she could care about a person she only knew for such a brief period of time. Makes me wish that ME2 had the crew conversations that ME3 had. It really makes the ship feel more alive, like things are going on when you're not paying attention.

You can't tell me Mordin isn't one of the best characters of the whole series when even Jack was sad to hear that he died. The absolute GOAT

Wrex's confrontation after you have manipulated him for so long is my favorite. The scene happens out of nowhere when you were just boarding Normandy on a routine visit to citadel unrelated to any main quest. He just charges at you and starts shouting at the fact that you have been lying (killing Mordin, responsible for ensuring the genophage stays uncured and using the remainder of the Krogan army as Cannon fodder). They give you a dialog check to manipulate him further so that you can talk your way out of the situation. But this is one of the few times in the game where that option is there to just fool the player into thinking that you are going to talk your way out of this. And Wrex tells you so! (Also this happens much later in the game when you think you have gotten away with screwing his race over) You are forced to shoot him down and in the news later you will watch "a crazy Krogan got shot down". And people assume it's just a Krogan thing to do to get mad over nothing and end up dying for it. Only Garrus, confronts you on it. And Shepard says nothing. And then Garrus says "...this damn war". (My only renegade playthrough of the trilogy and it was heartbreaking through and through! You can become so evil in this game it's crazy!)

I love the Khaleesa moment in ME3, never felt the need to punch a useless reporter but it felt like the Shepard thing to do to reassure her which is what I wanted to do in ME1 and 2

THERS A GETH RIGHT BEHIND YOU 😂😂😂 always kills me. Like the enemy would just chill and sit with us

There's one other hidden conversation in ME1: After Saren kills Nihilus and you kill the Geth squad near the train station, take a right and you'll see a building that you can unlock with decryption. That building will have three "farmers", though they're actually smugglers, and while I won't go into specifics, I will say that they're related to Powell, if you talk to them before Powell, you'll get unique dialogue, and you should max out Charm or Intimidate as your first skill upgrades

18:20 Nice that Shepard remembers Nihlus. You have to remember Nihlus put their name down as a Spectre candidate.

18:03 "yeah, ash, sorry all your friends died. I watched one guy I'd known for eight minutes get killed in the most hilarious way possible and then left his corpse to rot."

Engineer Shepard has a paragon interrupt during the reactor scene that leads to Aria having unique dialogue in the Omega dlc when Shepard manages to save Aria n Nyreen and Omega citizens on time.

Oh man that line when abandoning Zaeed is so dark. The voice actor's delivery just sounds so dead cold even for renegade shep.

I'm on my 19th playthrough. No exaggeration. I'm still running across new dialogue. It's part of the reason I keep playing.

"You're too rude to be an illusion." Lol that was so funny. I actually got a couple of these on my first play through because I had no idea what order to do anything in. They were interesting surprises.

I didn't think NOT punching al-Jilani was "rare".😂 It seems so comically overboard, my Sheps have never canonically done it.

I'm just cracking up over the pink armor and goggles on Shep in some of those clips.

"We do not intent physical harm at this time" *Sasses in Geth* lol

I think another rare dialogue moment is the timing of when Javik is reading your thoughts on the Normandy after you recruit him, I think during one of my playthroughs I recruited him a bit later on then usual and the dialogue during that moment was different then usual since I usually get him early on.

I had no idea not punching the reporter was a rarity. I mean, my thinking is if a military officer just decked a reporter on live tv that'd be an automatic reduction in rank and likely discharge for conduct unbecoming.

I would add to this list additional dialogues on Noveria after killing Benezia - you can revisit it and some people like turian mechanic would say some lines about her. Also since we're speaking about secrets, unique scene with engineer Shepard on Omega in ME3 And there were some funny lines with Legion in early ME2 that's not available in normal playthroughs. Legion on Jack's recruitment mission would say this banger of a line "There is a high statistical probability of death by gunshot. A punch to the face is also likely". Shame that you can recruit him only in the second half of the game

There is an "Easy" way to get the save Mordin option. If you start a new game in ME3, it just so happens that the things you need to have to trigger that option are pre selected for you. For those of us who don't have the heart to kill Wrex, or not recruit him and miss out on all the riveting "Shepard".... "Wrex" Dialog!

I've often taken Kaidan to Eden Prime in ME3 since he's my favorite character. That said, I definitely didn't know about his potential renegadeness in ME1, that's really interesting

The existence of the Zaeed thing is so crazy! I didn't even know you could recruit team members after the end game. I can't believe Bioware thought to plan for that and added a totally different story outcome that can affect ME3 but only for a tiny % of players.

I knew it! Secret Udina romance dialogue!!!

I've sought out these rare dialogs and scenes ever since I started watching your videos! Only one I haven't personally done is bring Legion to Tali's recruitment/loyalty mission. I always worry I'd be cutting it too close to the point where the Normandy crew will get killed inside the collector base.

One bit of "rare" dialogue i wish they leaned more into for the franchise, is a unique bit of conversation that happens if you play as an Engineer during ME3. During the Omega DLC, you are tasked with shutting off the power of one of the districts, but you end up having to decide to take longer and risk the lives of your two squadmates, or do a Renegade prompt that basicly kills an entire district! However, if you play as an Engineer, you get a unique Paragon prompt as well, and Shepard will counter Oleks taunts of it taking too long to divert power, saying that you aren't just a stupid grunt... I hope the next game will lean into this system more, letting classes solve certain issues with unique solutions!

Man, I am STILL finding new dialog as I play through this, my favorite of all games (series or not). It just amazes me that I am still finding stuff, and not all just little bits. Amazing. And this is one game (the trilogy, now Legendary Edition) I actually do play a good bit. I just don't really ever get tired of it, and it's the only game(s) that this has really happened.

There is also a hidden dialogue in omega, if you take jacob and miranda to omega later in the game they encounter a salarian they both met in the comics. I belive the salarians name is Ish.. or something like that

When taking Garrus through the qz, you also get a bunch of ambient dialogue about his starting to feel a bit off, and commenting on it. Made me laugh the first few times I heard that.

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You can also get a specific cutscene if you beat James pull-up record

I’d say one of my personal favorites is when you save David in me2 during overwatch then in me3 when you save grism academy you and him share a special moment.

Punching Al-Jilani never sat right with me. Her job is to ask the questions no one else is willing to, and to do it out in the open. Granted, her people skills aren't the greatest, but I love her persistence. It's a bit concerning to me that people aren't able to empathize with someone thrust into that position.

The secret Mortin one... I got it once but didn't realize it was a secret/rare one

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There’s another piece of hidden dialogue. If you refuse to invite liara up to your cabin in mass effect 2 and dump her in mass effect 3 the dialogue will be much more harsher.

There are some interesting dialogs when you take Kaiden or Ashley on Tuchanka bomb missions

Surprised you didn't mention some of the rare things that can happen with the Citadel DLC. Like getting James and Ash to hook up, or spending the night with Javik. There's also all of Kasumi's hijinks lol. Good list though.

Honorable Mention: Wrex mentioning Ashley during his confrontation with you at the citadel

I always paragon on Al-Jilani, to have her as war asset is my default in every playthrough

wrex wanting to save the council, interesting

I never knew that the dialogue with Khalisah being nice was rare xD While I have hit the option I've always reloaded bc it honestly it felt wrong. Correcting her and putting her opinions to shame on her own show always felt like the right choice as she has consequences for her allegations but in a way that gives her a chance to grow. She may not be the best person, but assaulting her honestly felt like it proved her point more than protected your own choices through the game.

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Okay. That Kaiden + Wrex thing for the council is so good.

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I've never punched the reporter. I've seen that dialogue every one of my more than 100 paragon playthroughs.

I actually had Ashley and Wrex on the last mission of ME1 in my current playthrough and it played out how Kaiden and Wrex did in this video

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Not exactly rare, but one of my favorite outcomes is the Conrad "bullet" dive. All the choices from ME1 coming together is so satisfying.

In Omega DLC for ME3 I like that one moment when you can resolve a normally very tense moment with hard choice just by playing as a engineer. I dont think there is a moment in the entire trilogy where you character class actually can make a difference in story :D

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I would also add when playing a renegade femshep and doing the UNC: Negotiation mission in ME1, the exchange between femshep and Darius is totally unique and one of the best in the whole trilogy imo

I got that dialog with Khalisah at least once, I wish we could have recruited her as the Normandy reporter.

My favorite will alaways be the ambient dialogue between Tali and Garrus in ME2 when you're going up the stairs to the upper level of Zakera ward.

Zaeed has funny moments but I wouldn't feel too bad about leaving him.

Fun fact: I never punched the reporter, so I saw that scene in ME3 from my first playthrough

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I knew about the not punching the reporter part. She maybe a jerk but I never punched her and in ME3 I got her as a war asset

Another small one is if you chose Spacer origin, Shepard and Garrus will talk (briefly) about Mama Shep after you get him in ME3. I have a video of it on my channel

One of the best games i have ever seen. Do we know something about the next ME? Or we still have that one teaser came out 2 years ago?

Kaidan being more renegade than Wrex is pretty fucking hilarious.

Video idea for you. What are some different play styles to keep replaying the game fresh? For instance, my last playthrough I made the rule of no paragon or renegade options. This made dealing with companions harder and I got to see dialogue that I've never seen before.

Had liaras hallucination on my first playthrough i was actually surprised when she didnt have em in my last playthrough

I never punch Kaleeesi. So I see that dialogue every time.

As far I remember always punch the reporter in ME1 and 2. You can always trigger that dialogue if you don't punch her in ME3 and go for the Paragon response.

These are rare, but there's one I've never found reference to anywhere and is extremely easy to miss, and I was sad I didn't see it here. If you talk with Udina after meeting up with VS on the Citadel for the third time but before the coup, you can actually talk to Udina about making them a Spectre. You can actually weigh in on whether or not Kaiden or Ashley would make for good spectres (and I think Shepard's reasoning for them not makes a lot of sense.)

Mass effect is one of my favorite games of all time it's in my top 5.. I really thought that I seen every dialogue and rare dialogues and once I got notification for your new video Big Dan.. I honestly thought 🤔 that you won't show us a rare dialogue that we haven't seen because I played it dozens of times but you got me on one.. I never knew about that where dialogue with Jack talking about Mordin... Thank you Dan for making this video for us and also there are times where I want to go renegade all the way in all three games but every time that I try to do renegade that I can't go through with it and I start over and going with Paragon... I know that sounds crazy but when I play Mass effect I truly feel like I'm commander Shepherd... I never go with default male or female I always make a different Shepherd... I can make a really beautiful female commander Shepherd but when it comes to male commander Shepherd.. I can only make him look decent in my opinion

You neglected to mention that taking Legion on those missions means you sacrificed the Normandy's crew due to that infamous hidden timer that starts after the mission that lets you recruit Legion.

You can get that conversation with Khaleesa even if you punch her... I definitely got that one but i can never stop myself to punch her. xD

Did not know about the plague related dialogue for Samara, Thane and Tali. I actually got the Liara hallucination dialogue during my very first play through and of the original ME1.

I'm pretty sure I let Zaeed die before doing the Suicide Mission

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The renegade Kaiden I never knew it

Didn't know about Thane, Tali and Samara in the quarantine zone. I play on PS4 glad I got to hear it.

Question for the crew. Wouldn't doing the IFF mission trigger the scene where the crew gets captured after like two missions? I've always waited super late in the story to do it because I don't want to trigger the crew getting captured until I'm fully ready for the final mission. Like if I do it is the crew gonna get captured or is it gonna wait longer for me to do it if I haven't recruited or done some of the other missions.

Legion's design, voice, and and dialogue are so good.

can you still get the extra dialogue for the quaratine zone in the LE version of the game if you use the early recruitment mod?

"I made him a steak!" - damn it Manslay3r... I can't unhear that anymore. 😂 Got me laughing at a veey serious moment. 😂

My rare dialogue moment: I decided with my Renegon FemShep, that I will not reveal the sabotage about the Shroud, but going to tell Mordin about it. Then I told Mordin, that the Dalatrass offered a deal for sabotaging the cure. Then after the "I made a mistake!" moment, I went Renegade and pulled the gun on Mordin. But I skipped the Renegade Interrupt. Longest 10 seconds of my life... After that, Shepard stands down as Mordin enters the elevator, gave Shepard a quiet nod and went up to stop the Sabotage, while Shepard looked down and walked away, tossing her gun away. I personally belive, this was the proper way to let Mordin to cure the Genophage for my Renegon FemShep. And I felt the remorse as well, for almost shooting Mordin in the back.

When curing the Genophage, don’t tell them about the sabotage immediately. Once Shepard is talking to Mordin at the tower, delay him and then miss the renegade trigger. The scene plays out more powerfully in Mordin’s dialogue and remorse, while still letting him complete the cure. They’ll even share an acknowledging head dip before he heads up in the lift.

I never hit al-Jilani in my first playthrough because I was playing straight Paragon. Getting that moment with her in ME3 actually made it worthwhile. It felt real. And it was good to see her finally swayed to Shepard's side, entirely because he had been nothing but kind and professional to her the entire time.

You know learning that you can corrupt Kaiden makes me kinda happy, cause its something i couldn't do with Carth Onasi in KOTOR 1... im giddy for my next fem shepard playthrough now since i rarely romance kaiden or ashley opting for Liara in 1 to get some differing dialogue in 2 and 3 depending on my romance in 2, i always feel like the air is tense as sh*t on Palaven when we go to re-recruit Garrus and they were both my love interests

Zaeed’s loyalty mission…what a wild ride. Meeting the shadow Broker? The takeover?Even crazier. Did a roughly 50%-50% split on the paragon/ renegade thing my last time through the trilogy. Loved it.😊

How about dialogues with Udina and Anderson after each story mission in ME1? I didn't even know about their existence until recently...

12:50 what's funny is I did this my very first playthrough, I didn't know who she was yet and just put her off until she was the last thing so I could focus more on her. so I postponed talking to her and got this dialogue and thought that was just how the mission played out until later.

As much as I love punching Kalissa, the renegade dialogue options are too damn good not to choose. Shepherd puts her in her place so damn well

I never punched the reporter lol But I didn't realize Mordin could be saved in ME3. And wow! I didn't know about a lot of these before #5. That's pretty cool that they thought of these outcomes.

Conrad Verner's dissertation is the best one.

That dialogue from Kal Reeger is hilarious.

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I punched the reporter in the 2nd game and was still able to get that reaction

6:07 i can assure you. You can get this dialog even if you punched her b4