Mass Effect - Noveria: Port Hanshan Plaza (1 Hour of Music & Ambience) 

I have re-created this video for the Legendary Edition ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_JJo7D5YY3s.html

I've got this strange obsession with places that are only meant to passed through. Airports, train stations, highway rest stops, that sort of thing. Port Hanshan captured that vibe perfectly.

"You can't bludgeon your way through bureaucracy, Shepard. " I can bludgeon pretty hard

God damn I love this. ME1 had such amazing ambiance.

I don't know about you guys but for me Mass Effect 1 had a very special vibe, different from 2 and 3. It's peaceful and melancholic through and through. I honestly don't know how many times I played through it but I would guess 50 at least.. And the vibe still to this day grabs me every time. It's one of the beauties of the internet that we can all come together here and share our thoughts :)

The Noveria theme is comforting.. I like the feeling of being all safe inside while the weather was just pounding on the complex. It still looked cold inside that place but better than being outside!! I always listen this music when the weather gets extreme..Or when it's windy and the skies are clear. (14 year old ipod died since then)I used to listen to it under the stars in the backyard with my massive telescope scintillating my eyes with the light of the stars and interstellar space... _Do recommend._ Get a telescope, you wont regret it.

ME was a masterpiece.

In college in Minnesota I remember studying for finals in the library during a snowstorm, I played this on loop as I sat by the windows.

Playing Mass Effect is actually what initially inspired me to enlist in the Systems Alliance. I am now an N7 operative.

"'Surface access' you say?" "'Cut OFF', I said."

when Mass Effect returns it need to go back to this retro art style and classic scifi ambiance music

This is a very strong and epic track of Mass Effect , people who really love Mass Effect? Will never forget this track. Hackett out.

Atmosphere never fails in this trilogy.

Those damned guards won't talk to me..

When you play this at home and outside the house it snows. the feeling....

Ahhh, Noveria. What a cool place and fantastic ambience. Reminds me of administrator Anoleis getting his ass dragged out of his office by Gianna Parasini. Good old times!

It's a shame there was a blizzard at the time. Port Hanshan's views must have been spectacular.

In my opinion, there will never be another trilogy as good in history.

the whole trilogy was great, each game for its own reasons, but ME1 was by far the coziest game of the 3. the atmosphere was so relaxing and immersive, i really felt like i was exploring space. space is freakin huge! even if there's civilization, you're gonna have tons of quiet down time, and the soundtrack made that down -time wonderful in this game.

Newer games tend to overlook the importance of ambience aka the feels..or their newer target audience simply doesn't care. **sad face**

Hanshan means Cold Mountain(s) in Chinese -- the Port of Hanshan, if there were such a place today, would likely be "Hanshan Duankou" (漢山 端口).

ME1 has the best Story of all ME's. I love the Twist with the citadelle and the Reaper!

How has it already been 13 years since this masterpiece was new? 😔

Mass effect 1 has possibly the best ambient trance like yet still somehow also exhilarating soundtrack ever.

For me this was the best mission in the entire trilogy. Nothing ever captured this magical mysterious vibe again. Not to mention the crazy snow blizzard outside and the incredible vague atmosphere. The music made it feel like it was 80's sci-fi or something very futuristic and otherworldly. Awesome that we get to revisit Noveria in ME3 but it was just more of a small cameo side mission rather than a huge plot important thing. Liked that they kept most of the content on Noveria in ME1 and made so many good quests on it because Feros was not my favorite part of ME1. You feel like you are in this corporate world. I just loved how everything felt so alive. The Citadel pales in comparison.

So I always thought Mass Effect 2 was my favourite but I've been playing the remaster this week and 1 is actually my favourite. The music, writing, tone and atmosphere is much better in 1 compared to 2 and 3.

One of my favorite locations in the entire trilogy. Thanks for uploading it!

Matriarch Benezia is out at peak 15- but the road is closed down there's a huge storm.

Rest in peace BioWare.

Mass effect is such a vibe. The aesthetic, the ambience, the story. It’s just so cohesive

This song is a beautiful masterpiece in gaming history

Ah,. Port Hanshan. Corporate espionage and a nice chat with Lorik Qui'in in the bar while the wind and snow is howling outside. I always love coming back here.

Hearing this makes me happy & sad at the same time. Knowing the trilogy of Shepard is over. However I also feel blessed to experience these games. That music tho. Mass Effect 1 exemplified the proper atmosphere & fit perfectly with the worlds. Will never forget this beauti.

Im playing Legendary Edition i haven't played ME1 in 10 years and it's like my first time again. The days of beautifully made games with detailed stories are over.

I always got the feeling that even though the interior for Port Hanshan is cold and bare-metal that it was a warm place - like the had the heating on full blast and it was snug inside.

You're a gentleman and scholar for posting Port Hanshan. It would be so cool to sit next to the running water and chill out.

I've finished the first ME recently. Decided to play it after seeing lots of good ambience on this channel. It was totally worth it! That this place and music are one of my favorite in the game. I was playing the game while being at a ship in the cold polar waters, with strong winds blowing outside. It made this level even more special for me.

I think the original Mass Effect will always be my favorite. How new and amazing all the people, species, and environs felt, especially when complimented by amazing tracks like this, really just sold the universe and made it feel real. I love the other games, but no other has ever quite recreated this feeling like the original did. I remember just sitting places like Hanshan and the Citadel and just reading the Codex for ages. Good times.

Noveria is honestly the planet I look forward the most to playing in the remastered version. Always loved the ominous, serene atmosphere.

The games of old... System Shock, Unreal 1, Deus Ex 1, Mass Effect 1... All of them used these somewhat simplistic but beautiful morphing ambient music loops that made the immersion into their worlds complete. The skill that seems to be lost among the modern game makers. Or maybe, it's just me getting old and nostalgic. :)

Noveria had the Lilitheriax, known as LI. Another interesting NPC on some corner you would just keep chatting. Mass Effect was the best sci-fi rpg and no one took the crown just yet, more than a decade later.

This very video and ambient song helped me to get through long days working a dead-end 9 to 5 job, then college when I went back to school, and even my externship. Listening to this soothing but uplifting background music helped give me an extra push to give it my all. I now work as a surgeon assistant at a kidney clinic and still sometimes come back for a visit when finishing my end of shift tasks by myself in the lab.

this is not music, it is a relaxation magic. I always imagine this ambience taking place in a spa high up the snowy mountains with a gigantic glass front with gives view to the surrounding mountains and the snowy winds.

The ambient music for Noveria composed by Jack Wall (the BEST sci-fi composer in recent time) is the second most iconic song in the ME series in my opinion. The only other soundtrack that absolutely everyone remembers and still uses abundantly to this day is the Galaxy Map Theme by Sam Hulick.

Mass Effect 1 is like the strong memory, sad but prolonging

Слушаю саундтрек и вспоминаю уют, покой и умиротворение от музыкальной темы этой планеты...

I wish I could get back into this universe again. But I have no confidence that EA or Bioware have the talent or desire to immerse us in such a deep story again.

The ambiance of this music combined with a station with a heavy blizzard raging outside the windows is one of the most memorable environmental sections I've ever played in a game. ME1 is full of stuff like this too. Just so ahead of its time in 2007 in so many ways.

Noveria was one of my favorite ME1 locations because of this music . Thanks for uploading all of these extended tracks :)

You know what I could go for right now? A donut.

Hands down my favorite ambience from the first game. So peaceful and nostalgic... thank you!

Port Hanshan is literally what got me into modern & brutalist architecture. I couldn't even fathom what was attractive about it until Mass Effect 1 and these feels right here.

I remember July of 2014 I was doing a 100% run of the series and even in the middle of a blistering hot Mississippi summer, Noveria made me feel cold

Thank you for this piece! I've been listening to it for hours while preparing to exams and passed with flying colors.

Both ME2 and ME3 were amazing games but only ME managed to make me relive the levels just by listening to the music. Everything was so unique, so stellar, so... alien. And wonderful :)

Its the winter in chicago. Below zero weather. Slipper roads and snow everywhere. This song fits the vibes right now perfectly.

Who's ready to come back to Noveria in Spring 2021?

I practically lived in these games back then.

Mass Effect 1's strongest point is neither the story nor combat, it's the ambiance. While the story is brilliant and well written, and the combat is showing it's age, ME1's god damn ambiance stands undefeated to this very day.

14 years & still unbeaten. Characters, story, art style, music, atmosphere...masterpiece, always will be.

I forgot how much I wanted this

There is a something about the atmosphere in ME1 that I absolutely love and I have no clue why, which is good. Thank you for this epic track!

Always makes me think of the scene just before the Geth fight in the hanger where the gaurd lady says "YES THAT'S GENUINE" in that bizzar abrupt & jarring way.

My favorite place, my favorite track. I can't describe what exactly makes this so special, I just found something I never knew I would love so much: an alien spacestation, brutalism, retro vibes, the overall weirdness and loneliness.

Thank you for adding the conversing salarian to this mix.

Hearing this makes me nostalgic not only for Mass Effect 1, but also for Mass Effect 2 (this track is the one I always pick to play in my private quarters on board the Normandy SR-2).

A future feel to it, just can’t believe I didn’t realize how good it was until now

One of the reasons Noiveria complex is so amazing is that its architecture strikes back to the european skiing complexes built in the 70s and the 80s where its cold and brutalist, but the outside is even colder, and after a tiring day of skiing and being in the cold there's nothing quite like getting into this somewhat ugly building. This large clearly man made structure where you are safe from the elements, where the heating is always on full blast. It's very cozy and inviting, and you can just sit down and relax with a nice cup of tea and watch the snow outside, and not worry about anything.

Ready for the remaster to come out.

Mmmmmmm right in the nostalgia

Ah I miss the memories this game gave me. Noverria will remain one of my favorite places in gaming for some time to come, thanks Mass Effect. I always loved this song for reminding me of the peaceful yet ominous feeling of Noverria, similar to Ferros where things are... just slightly off. That calm before the storm where you have a moment. It radiates ME1 all over and that's partially why I loved this game so much when I actually played it for the first time.

"You are not gonna shoot us !" Wrex: You are right they are actually gonna let me eat you.

When I hear this song I think of a very secret base in Antarctic with security guards and a special operation which try to access to this building without getting noticed .. very precise haha

This ambience and music is life. Something about this cuts right through to the soul and consciousness itself. I've been entranced by this ever since 2007.

Here after playing this mission again in Legendary Edition

Noveria made me feel..... sad, confused, alone, safe "but just barely"... something about this music and the location.. The winds howling and snows battering the large lookout windows... You felt trapped and isolated in a game that offered you access to an entire galaxy... Noveria; A hauntingly beautiful, yet strange and mysterious place.

This is my favorite track from the Mass Effect trilogy. It gives me pure nostalgia and this feeling I can’t explain from being 9 again, all the way through my teen years and into my 20s. It’s a score that’s been there throughout every year of my life when I watch videos about Mass Effect, or if I am replaying the game myself. So it can make me feel many different forma of joy. Noveria was the perfect Mass Effect mission and always the highlight for me, so where I love the sounds of the Citadel and other tracks such as Uncharted Worlds, the eery yet futuristic tone of Port Hanshan always had my number 1 spot. Something about it being a place you’re just passing through made it even more special. Also, this song fueled my dissertation. I’d put this loop on for hours while working on the final few months of my degree, I think I listened to it for 4 hours of an all-nighter last March. These Mass Effect tracks are so good to work to. It felt nice working on my Computer Science degree with this background music, working on my special dissertation project that only I was involved in. Suppose it made me feel like I was working on Peak 15, haha.

I just came across your entire channel full of the 1 hour sessions of the music and scenes from these locations and I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. I'm running a DnD campaign that follows the Mass Effect storyline like a DnD module, and writing it from scratch is a pain. But with this music and these scenes to cast as background for my players, it makes it all worthwhile to see them experience those emotions that Mass Effect brought to me over a Decade ago.

Anoleis: "Businesses have come here to avoid the second guessing of galactic law." Shepard: "And I represent the second guessing of galactic law." This is why I miss Shepard because of lines like that.

I started a ME1 playthrough last week, and I just got to Noveria last night... the same day it started to flurry at my house. Beautiful.

For as much as I hate replaying Noveria, the music is always what keeps me going.

Brilliant. Port Hanshan is one of my favorite ambient locations in the ME trilogy

I won't EVER understand, why there are people outside, voting with thumbs down in such Videos. I mean WTF DO THEY EXPECT HERE????? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

This soundtrack does remind me of the airport.

I'm commander shepard and this is my favourite track on noveria

"I hate the cold." - Wrex Urdnot

Such a chilled out theme. That conversation between the Human and Salarian must have been riveting for them to stand there like that for such a while. Also, in all my time playing the Mass Effect games, I never thought about this, which is how Salarian's would make wicked runners. Their legs are the same shape as Ostriches ; )

Noveria was really a moment of my life...

Before these videos came along a man would have to just leave his 360 and tv on while keeping shepard standing still on this stage to listen to this music without interruption.

Coming back and listening to all these brilliant tracks whilst waiting for the trilogy remaster! May 14th!!

Damn you, Anoleis!

Can’t wait to experience Noveria again for the fifth time.......with the recent announced Legendary Edition Remaster......

These game videos are great. The raging storm outside and the cozy yet dense feeling inside is quite the experience when playing the game.

I like to listen this track when I am going for a walk in the winter evenings)

This is something Andromeda severely lacked, a strong, associative track with arguably 3 exceptions: "The Jardaan" (plays on Veold, some Vaults), "A New Beginning", and the Cluster Map theme which is basically a remix of Uncharted Worlds. ME1 and 3 especially had great themes to each planet.

Imagine the future of humanity. You are traveling to Mars for business or study purpose. You are entering into spaceport and going to the registration desk, and you seeing aliens and humans talking to eachother, discusing their routine stuff.

Mass Effect 1, 2, and to a lesser extent 3, all had such evocative music. It really helped sell the atmosphere and transported the player into the universe. And they always incorporated the perfect amount of space opera cinematic flair. I will never forget the opening sequence, the reveal of the Citadel, the resurrection of Normandy, the first time I set foot in the nightclub on Omega... These games created good memories. Something many games these days seem to fail at.

"This one will ask you to leave now."

Such amazing ambience. I have it running in my headphones at work, with the snow falling outside my window and it makes the whole workplace feel more alive really.

I used to chill here watching the snowstorm outside