Playlist: • Mass Effect Story Cuts... Mass Effect 1 Sovereign All Scenes Complete. I compiled all conversations and cutscenes of Sovereign(Saren's flagship).
Sovereign: *Long ass self-aggrandizing speech about how he and the Reapers are so great* I just realized why they sent him on his own. Years ahead of everyone else.
@@yourtrappedinmygenjutsu nah, just never told them when they're done with bringing the apocolypse and all that shit and just left his annoying ass there to "be the spearhead"
"Reverse and hold at 38.5" *still image of Sovereign* No music, fanfare or drama. Just an uncomfortable silence and a sinking dread. Masterpiece, this game.
@@MrHalohunter24 Yeah, they never managed to capture the same level of existencial dread like this again, speaking to Sovereign aways makes me unease, there's something about the way he "speaks" that it's just not right. As much as i love ME2 Harbinger is just too cartoonish, and don't even get me started on the Leviathan with that stupid darkness crap
1:06 It was at this moment I knew Mass Effect would be amazing, not just good. That level of detail, showing the turian mannerism for nervousness, just too perfect.
@@gorchakovvs7750one it has been 25 years since first contact obviously mannerisms would mix two he was making fun of humans and their instance on the reaper threat even tho it is terrible politically to even mention it so obviously he would use a human mannerism here
*SW fans to Lucasfilm* "you exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it. Millions of years after your business has fallen apart and forgotten, we will endure""
_MaZ_ Nah man, at least not in the early parts of it. The whole mystery behind Sovereign is that it never really did anything special other than be a massive ship until. DUN DUN DUN Virmire happened and you figured out what it was
"Rudimentary creatures of blood and flesh. You touch my mind, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding" I remember when bioware was good at writing.
You mean before EA bought them out and gutted their studio? Bioware was pinnacle developers until EA did what they do and bleed devs dry while trashing their franchises.
Even without his voice, just looking at Sovereign and knowing HE SEES YOU, knows you and has witnessed a thousand civilizations rise before striking them down without a second thought is terrifying to fathom. His mere presence drives organic beings, from the wisest of asari matriarchs to the most steadfast of Turian Spectres, to madness. For 50,000 years he's wandered the galaxy alone, watching organics build up from nothing, waiting for the right moment to begin the harvest. First seeing him on Eden Prime in the distance was like turning a corner and seeing Hell itself made manifest. The way it flies through space like it's an apex predator from the ocean depths. When it learns of the beacon's use, it's even possible that Saren's outburst isn't his anger, but Sovereign's. His attack on the Citadel is so abrasive and cold, and his final corruption of Saren in a last ditch attempt at kickstarting the Harvest is beyond gruesome. Even the way Sovereign DIES is unnerving as it thrashes about like a wounded animal, unable to contemplate how these primitives could've possible beaten him. And even afterwards, the idea that he's just THE SCOUT for Harbinger and the rest of the Reapers makes it terrifying to even look back up into the sky. What I'm trying to say is... *Sovereign scares me.*
I never appreciated just how good the cinematography was in the original ME trilogy, ME:1 in particular. There are some spectacular shots here... What is that they say? You never realize how much you enjoy something until it is gone. I feel like that. Mass Effect is my Star wars, my Lord of the rings... I hope Bioware finds a way to revive this absolutely amazing universe, it deserves it.
1:47 every player during their first encounter : goddamm it, big ass ship! after playing the entire series :thats the most formidable villlain ever existed!
We really need to petition both Bioware and EA Games to create a Remastered Mass Effect Trilogy (one w/out broken dialogues, better graphics, and include DLC ranging from pre-order to add-ons) to make up for that abysmal Mass Effect: Andromeda.
Is there a website that you can create a petition form that could be sent to both EA Games and Bioware telling them to develop a Remastered Mass Effect Trilogy?
JMC #1 I'm having difficulties working on the petition since we need a decision maker and I for one may have came up w/the idea of petitioning Bioware and EA Games, but I don't feel that I'm the best option for a decision maker. Got any ideas as to who?
I'd say to make up for the cheap ass cop out for a plot in ME3 to..sure theres good thigs in it but that game..all stuff in it thats good!...thats ORganic etc is the none main 'overlooked' stuff aka as ussual only the people EA forgot to whip got a chance to present ther work without it being coruppted
Shepard: what are you? Sovereign: I am beyond your understanding human Shepard: ok yeah but can you give me a vague idea of what you are? Sovereigns you cannot even grasp the concept of our being Shepard: uh ok next question then what do you want? Sovereign: I’m so fucking old dude Shepard: bruh why does this thing not answer a single question I have? Sovereign: we’ll destroy you for reasons I can’t explain k bye
This was the first Reaper we saw, and he was unstoppable. Just to think that there was an entire army of these, it is the proof that you just need to make a villain untouchable, you don't need an army of them or anything like that. Another thing is that Sovereign was just like the other Reapers, the thing that made him different is that he was kinda old than other models, maybe the second Reaper or something
Wasn't the thing that made him unstoppable here was that he caught everyone off guard by using the rules only the Reapers knew about. The Council send their forces around the Terminus where the majority of the Geth were, presumably at the relays using them as choke points so a token force was left to guard the Citadel. To their understanding there was no way to get to the Citadel without going through their blockade at the relay unaware that the Citadel itself is a Mass Effect relay. Ever race the Reapers wiped out fell for the same trick.
@@ARandomGuy24 The Reapers rely on the galaxy being distracted and caught off guard before they attack. A united galaxy prepared for them would likely annihilate them, considering that the Reapers can't replenish losses as quickly as a force with the entire galaxy as an industrial base.
@@youraveragescotsman7119 This is an entire fleet. The alliance only has 9 fleets total. Humanity was considered a pretty powerful nation and here one is pretty much decimating an entire fleet right up until Reaper Sauren is killed and it stops working. In Me2 it's mentioned they're still recouping their losses suffered. That's just from one Reaper that was only killed by it stopping working when it's connection to the Sauren it was controlling stopped. They didn't even beat it, just got beat up on by it until it someone else bluescreened the machine.
9:19 - 9:39 is my favorite scene in the series for some reason. On its own it's nothing special but the music just does such a good job of making it that much more creepy.
Is that another way of saying you like tentacle/giant/beastilliaty/machines/snuff? Not trying to be insulting but thats whats gonna happen if you play with fire!
This was brilliant storytelling, it made the reapers seem like an inevitable threat, like everything you did was a wasted effort that would ultimately lead to nothing. ME3 contradicted everything that the reapers were supposed to be.
"like everything you did was a wasted effort that would ultimately lead to nothing." Bioware possibly realized that such an ending would completely strip the Trilogy of replay value, so wrote a means of defeating them.
@@MrJordwalk Of course, you need a trilogy to have an ending, and the good guys must win but I'm sure many people were left unsatisfied after learning that everything they knew about the reapers was a lie.
@@ezequielmorales4221 yes sr1 is more iconic .but sr2 survived more .has more feats And rly , it's more modern. More powerfuly armed and armored specialy if you count the improvements and upgrades in 2 and 3.sr2 is just a better ship
Not only more powerful, but twice the size of the original one. Both are beautiful, but yes, in the end the SR2 is the better ship. Those Thanix cannons pack a punch.
@@ezequielmorales4221 yep. The thanix cannons and the assari made armor you install in 2 make the sr2 a kickass ship.hell the sr1 is a traditional frigate.the sr2 would better fit into a destroyer-cruiser category
Towards the end, I never understand why killing Saren after he transformed caused Sovereign to drop his shields. Controlling one Turian couldn't have been that taxing for a reaper.
@@connordervoncyberlifegesen8529 Thousands? There looks to be less than a hundred , and that's before most of them get destroyed. And Sovereign didn't just drop his shields, he got completely disabled and rendered immobile and had no offensive ability, which given that only happens a few seconds after you kill Saren, those events are linked, which is actually something to think about. That Sovereign could have beaten the entire fleet and ended the galaxy if he had just waited a few minutes before trying to reactivate the Mass Relay
@@TOONYBOY he was never meant to succeed. If he was he would had the geth just set up AAS and send a bunch of geth chargers, a pain in my pussy, against Shepherd. And they had krogan chargers too too much pain.
I hate how they ended up not using the original idea for the reapers and instead with what we have now. It turned them from trully endless and eternal beings into Edgy teens that mistake a lack of initial knowledge for something you cant comprehend.
The worst part is that Sovereign was not boasting. We see the sheer lengths the Reapers went to for the destruction of all civilization. The indoctrination of the Geth, the Collectors, the Alpha Relay backdoor, and then come Mass Effect 3 when they finally invade and we have every possible advantage we could have over them, they still annihilate all coordinated resistance save the Crucible in the time it took Shepard to escape and return to Earth, which as he put it was “a few months”.
I can imagine this image where this guy is just sitting on a bench and is somewhat indoctrinated, and then there is this bashful as fuck femboy reaver with his pinky around the other guys pinky.
I was surprised that when the Sovereign landed and flew away from Eden Prime, his sounds were different from the Reapers in the third part, it was unexpected but cool)
A lot of new people have been coming to the game recently, and most have them have been loving the whole trilogy. Maybe you just have the opposite of rose tinted glasses for 3
In ME3 citadel DLC, it's stated that the council secretly acknowledged the Reaper threat and were making preparations for their arrival, I have no idea why they still denied it in front of Shepard though, the guy who literally discovered the Reaper threat.
Interesting how they believed in the Reapers at the end of ME1 but not in ME2. I know that things can seem intense in the moment and people can change their minds after processing things, plus there's an element of politics in not wanting the Reapers to be real in ME2. But they really did a complete 180, I can't remember any mention of the fact that the council said "Thank you for saving us from the Reapers" before saying "The Reapers don't exist."
Abraham Drinkin I know right? Like 1000s of other colonists would have seen sovereign, the geth, and Saren... and the council would be like, “no asari, turians, or salarians? Doesn’t count then.”
Does it seem weird to anyone else to call the Reapers soulless machines? Organics gained “souls” over time, and by developing. But the reapers have been around MUCH longer!!! They’ve had time to develop these abilities,
FurryEskimo I am not even sure if they can be classified as machine, while they are synthetic, they are created by DNA harvested from other organic races, the human reaper at the end of mass effect 2 for instance. They are unfathomably interesting.
We never got a really solid explanation on how it all works though. :/ Like why didn’t the human reaper give us a fist bump and invite us to chill? Humans aren’t just killing machines.
Wild Card If that’s how you feel, ok. I felt cheated out of a real story. Too many shows say “you could never understand” and leave it at that. Boring...
What was a HUUUGE let down in the entire trilogy is we didn't get this answer: Were each Reaper independent and had free thoughts and free will? Or was it the Starchild, The Catalyst controlling EVERY Reaper? Was it him talking when we spoke to Sovereign, Harbinger and the Rannoch Reaper? I ignored Mass Effect 4. Don't know if they answered it there but i highly doubt it.
4:31 - “There’s an entire galaxy of races United and ready to face you” So that’s a complete lie at this point in time. Hell the Council doesn’t even believe in Reapers for the first two games
I'm looking forward to seeing how different Sovereign will look with ME Legendary Edition. (I'm aware I'm probably over-hyping it with that statement, and I'm sorry if it's annoying, but I'm looking forward to the game(s) being released)
Would've been interesting if sending in the fleet early to save the council had some more negative effects. As far as I can tell it had no negative consequences in ME2 or 3. Now characters that died, no plots relating to the extra losses, not even a slight reduction in war assets. Seeing some extra nameless ships blowing up in a cut scene doesn't feel like much of an impact. Hell maybe a piece of Sovereign could've escaped.
I saw a video the other day where the replacement Salarian councilor gives you extra war assets that the original one wouldn't, so there may be some little things like that.
Hey Jaguar550 question. Reapers leaves the Citadel and Mass relay so that humans can evolve. Just so they can destroy them. If the humans never found those would the Reapers never have show up? Like Sovereign says the Reapers wanna them in the path of evolution just to extinct them.
Basically what Brett said if humanity didn't find the Relays in time then they would have just been the next cycles empire and the Reapers would have ignored them because since we didn't discover the Mass Relays they would have seen us as "too primitive"
If a race can't even learn to use the mass relays, let alone have the means to traverse the galaxy like the turians, asari, salarians, etc. Then the reapers simply will ignore them as they aren't considered intelligent enough to be harvested. However though that doesn't mean they're safe 100%, the moment they gain the ability to travel via their star system's mass relay and to the citadel is when they'll be noticed and collected during the next cycle of extinction.
I think we're all a little harsh on Udina. I mean he only ever got half the story from Shephard, he was clearly on humanty's side when arguing with the council, the things he did were totally logical and reasonable given the facts he was presented with. Also he's a skilled politician who might actually make a difference on the council, Anderson is just some navy captain, who are clearly a dime a dozen considering the huge number of alliance ships that got blown up like tie fighters shooting sovereign.
Never appreciated the Reapers not acknowledging their creators, seems like they absorbed and harvested them like all the later civilisations so even then they have a beginning as organic life. Even if it was millions of years ago
Awww yes. When shepherd warns everyone about the reapers and......ME3 they then start believing. Krogan: I hope politicians appreciate you shepherd. ... Me: they tried to retire him but ME3 changed that almost immediately.
Sovereign sounds far different than Harbonger. But Reapers are made from BOTH organic and synthetic civilizations. My theory is that Sovereign, unlike Harbinger, is made from a harvested civilization of AIs, and because of that it sounds so metallic and alien. Moreover it loaths Geth (who ironically worship it as their god), not jus because they were not like it, but because they reminded it of its weak, past life before Reaperization.
I think its the only reaper that had a post relevant story with direct affect on the games trajectory so it was the only one with a very Palpable impact and personality, so I guess yeah it was
nope , flawed strategy waste of resources laying into reapers long term..saving whats supposed to be replacebal representants at the expense of un-replacebal hardware.. yes..I always leet them die in evry play XD
Think about it. If you save them, the Alliance fleet attacks the Geth ships while they're distracted with the Ascension and Sovereign is occupied somewhere else. If you don't save them, after the Ascension is destroyed the Geth ships have more than enough time to move into defensive positions around Sovereign. So you can either send the fleet at the Geth while they're distracted, or you can send the fleet at Sovereign and the Geth in defensive positions.
@@DiggitySlice or use the fact the geth ships needs to stay in attack formation to make use of ther current advantage and send your alliance fleet right into what until your arrival was a 'secure' flank and just butcher them swiftly for the price of one complacent council and ther personal flag ship... so that sovergin is alone when the citadel re-opens for the fleet to strike is ship self directly, ;) when it comes down to it ,both strategies are valid from a combat perspective.. but from a long term agenda one , one leaves you with dead weight that partly caused the current situation by doing exactly what the reapers 'scheduled' to happen when they left tech around.. and the other without that dead weight and a nice fresh open spot for allies to reconsider what sort of behavior and agendas the representatives they put in charge of society resources for the next few centuries should have. so its basicly , the aftermath consideration of...save the 'clout' to have political favor...but so to speak 'tainted' meat in the system... or dont save ,no clout and a heap of animosity but on the other hand the best chance for a 'system purge' ..personly simply leans towards the sacrifice one for the simple reason they got explicit warning that things no longer was a sole political question of a rouge agent , and yet they still only took political measures agenst it that speaks of a lack of ability to adapt that only become more lethal the more severe things gets one way or another. after all they could done something like at least a cover 'ghost' re-deployment of some small fleet assets to stay of the radar from the standard citadel defense fleet and hit potential geth invasions in the back when they strike the citadel defense fleet at leat until it either been confirmed the back door into it been secured and powered down , or confirmed none existent. either way , forgot a left a comment here , and never expect anyone to have words for it cheers mate! nothing wrong with saving em...guess i might been suspecting how EA would ruin the franchisee so i took out the frustration in advance of the complacent fictional council XD
