remake chapters pls... they have wrong timing :( Tracklist: 0:00 Leaving Earth (ME3) - Clint Mansell 1:24 A Future For The Krogan (ME3) - Christopher Lennertz 1:45 Reignite - Malukah 2:15 I Was Lost Without You (ME3) - Sam Hulick 3:17 Mass Effect Main Theme (ME1) - Jack Wall & Sam Hulick 4:20 Suicide Mission (ME2) - Jack Wall 5:12 An End, Once And For All (ME3) - Clint Mansell
Weirdly, I actually associate this music more with Elite: Dangerous than I do with the Mass Effect trilogy. I used to listen to this OST (including this very recording) while playing that game for hours on end. I was an explorer, I flew out to Beagle Point multiple times. This music was the perfect soundtrack, many fond memories of jumping from system to system in my Truckaconda, whilst getting profoundly drunk. Thank-you my friend, I enjoy your ebony and ivory, even to this day. It was this, or Iron Maiden and Judas Priest. Both genres work, for some reason. Space is weird.
"Commander...." "We did it" "Yes, we did. It's.... quite a view" "Best....best seats in the house" "God, feels like years since I just....sat down" "I think you've earned a rest...Anderson?" "Hmmm...." "Stay with me, we're almost through this..." "You did good, child. You did good. I'm proud of you" "Thank you sir" "........" "Anderson?"
@@CyberController- I dunno, that ending had some really sinister potential dystopian overtones to it, especially since Shepard's consciousness was going to lose its humanity after a while
@@colshotlp9692 ED-I made it worse when she pointed out that Legion refers to himself as "I". In his last moments, he wasn't just another Geth. He wasn't just a single machine among thousands. He was Legion. And he chose to die. That, in my opinion, is when he found a soul.
@@CyberController- "I know Tali...but thank you....Keelah Se'lai" doesn't matter how many times I play the trilogy. That's always one of the moments, that just crushes me. Worst part is, my first play through...I screwed up. And I had to watch the Quarians die...and in her heart break, I had to watch Tali throw herself from the cliff. And despite the Paragon interrupt...it was no use. Almost made me not want to finish the game. For five minutes or so, I could not stop crying.
@@GodOfWar221 I always get super paranoid during that mission. Even though I've done the maths and I know I have enough paragon to save both, I'm always so worried I'll have to choose.
No matter how many times I hear these tunes, they punch me right in the soul and make me want to replay the trilogy and relive all those wonderful moments. Thank you.
After doing 24th runs of the entire trilogy... it's quite hard to chose XD I love Thane's death, with the prayer with his son, even if i'm a firm atheist, I enjoyed the very spiritual tone. However I guess my favorite moment is the bonding time with Garrus on the Citadel. My bro Garrus and myself enjoying some illegal sniping XD
I'd also put the first dialog with Sovereign's holo. In the french version (That I played mostly), Sovereign is voiced by the french voice actor of Morgan Freeman. With the dark and sinister music, it was OMINOUS to have such an awesome voice.
So many memories in this. Easily the best story and games I have ever played. I know alot of people had problems with the ending. I know i was one of them. But it doesnt take away from the impact of that story. And the music was superb for it.
When I listened to "Suicide Mission" I felt a shiver run down my spine When I listened "An end once and for all" tears welled up in my eyes. This is just wonderful, thank you for for letting me go through it again after many years
The mass effect trilogy made me feel like the hero i wanted to be growing up No other game has managed to make me feel that way I love this It also hurts But in a good way
I played the 2nd game at a young age and I was just a stupid kid who didn't know any better and I watched everyone die. It didn't mean much to me at the time but after I have matured and played through the whole trilogy it brought so many tears to my eyes listening to this video. These 3 games taught me alot. It made me depressed finishing it but I came back around and played it once more through again after a year had passed and at the end of the 3rd one I smiled and cried happily. Listening to this video just brings back so many good memories of playing it. I hope the newest ME game is just as good. "Keelah Se'lai"
Mass Effect was a trilogy that change the expectations about a game can be. Over the three releases, I have lived true emotions impossible to find in the real world. I relived then again with your interpretation. Thank you.
You legitimately made me cry a bit as I remembered what it was like to finish the trilogy in 2012, and then gave me hope when I realised that a remaster is now official and there might be a new game in the works. Thanks a lot, AtinPiano, and stay safe in these trying times c:
I really wish that they added something in the end to make up for the shit ending that ME3 had. IMO the game wasn't finished, they left it unclosed and it's so annoying because no one knows what happened to anyone.
@@RustyTheFoxxo the updated ending was fine, i didnt care how it ended because the journey was a hell of a lot of fun, and since they just announced a new game "not knowing what happened to people" will be fixed more than likely.
@@chungusamongus3141 even with the "fixed" ending it was still bad, but hey! Everyone has different opinions right? I really hope that it is a continuation but I doubt.
This is a song my dad introduced to me as a beautiful piece. To this day, I don't know if it is because I heard it in fall or not, but I have vivid visualisations of a leaf, gliding through a forest, on an autumn breeze. As it swells, it reaches a river, steadily flowing along. The leaf alights upon the water. It races through the rapids until it reaches the calm stream, dancing along the ripples. Suddenly it changes, smoothing out, slowly it languishes a long the quiet expanse. The backdrop is as beateous as it is serene. But alas, it is not long to last, as gradually, bar by bar, the complexity rises. The swell upon which it rises slowly builds. A clearing shows in the distance. As it emerges from the trees, a large, walled, regal city stands in the background, but the song follows the river now. Wild, tumultuous, it flows past the city. The calm is interrupted by the speeding of the water, breaking rapidly around rocks ahead, frothing white, clashing and crashing upon each protruding stone! Finally it is free! Sailing downstream, proudly looking on at the city below it, the sun, setting on the horizon, until The leaf is released, shooting out of the waterfall! Drifting down in the late evening hues, the backdrop of the town below, peacefully dropping, dropping, and landing gracefully atop the quiet pond beneath.
Very few pieces of media make me feel the same sense of urgency, heroism, and hopelessness that mass effect does. And the music plays a huge part in that. One of the best series ever made.
Thank you!!! This was a roller coaster of emotions. It made the piece of myself that I invested in my Commander Shepherd stir and emblazen, like a newborn Phoenix stirring under smoldering coals. AGAIN... Thank you, and God bless you, that is a beautiful way to relive some of my greatest Mass Effect moments!!
I use to play the mass effect trilogy every year until I played andromeda. I keep telling myself I need to play the original trilogy again because I know how good it is. This video brought back so many emotions and memories I'd forgotten about. It's time to save humanity again I think.
It’s always satisfying to watch someone do something extraordinary and make it look easy…. With that being said, who's your favorite ME character besides Shep? Mine is oddly enough Legion
OH MY GOD The cutted part is back ! I've been listening to this so many times, and it has been missing for so loooong, THANKS ! It's even more perfect now !
Hearing this makes me wish I could play the trilogy through for the first time again. For all the issues with the ending, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Still the most epic game series I've ever played through.
They hired some damm genius composers for this series. Mass Effect has always been my goto example explaining why Video Games are a form of art. And the music of the series is one big reason why.
Absolutely. music is an often underrated but oh so important part of both movies and games. And with ME possibly most of all, the music instantly draws me back to the scene it belongs to, triggers memories and feelings even years afterwards. I cannot listen to this without feeling the urge to pick up the game again.
literally cried at 6:26... the memories man.... the memories of the greatest sci-fi story in history. Wish I could go back and experience it all again anew, what a time it was.
"...This is Captain Kar'Danna vas Rayya. We have multiple hull breaches... Rayya's drive core is offline! All ships in range: please assist! Please assist! Escape pods not responding! All hands, prepare for impact!" "I'm sorry..." "Tali, no!"
This is some of the most beautiful music ever created and it was for the sole purpose of a video game score. I love what you did putting it all together. Just hearing leaving earth is enough to bring a tear to my eye. Those 3 notes and booming chords are just perfect for the beginning of ME3. Alot of people disliked the end of it but that game was still a masterpiece, and this music was so well composed and really made you feel the gravity of the story. Thanks for this.
@@MonkeyJedi99 Not true. If you look at the right moment (right about the time Anderson starts yelling about shooting the husks) you can seem him run in to the building where Shepard finds him in the air ducts. I have seen it more than once during game play. And considering Shepard is under player control at that time, I do not think he is a hallucination.
Rest ye weary war weary travelers far from your homelands here on earth we’re not strangers to the displaced, the downtrodden, and the forgotten peoples scattered among the Stars eventually we will honor you and return you all to your ancestral home amongst the stars
Wow! Although I am still playing the Trilogy actively, I am on my ninth playthrough, second infiltrator, your medley gave me goosebumps! At one specific song I almost could hear Tali singing. 😊
"Error, copying code insufficient; direct personality dissemination is required. . . . Shephard-commander i must go to them, im. . .im sorry, it is the only way" "Legion, the answer to your question is yes" "I know tali. . . But thank you, Keelah se'lai"
Legion finally refer to itself not as a collective. In its last moments, it gains full autonomy out of its own actions and the first and last thing it did was to save its people and the galaxy. You indeed has a soul, Legion.
Is it weird to say that I miss tali? I can't just play it again... Well, I do and choose tali but it will be never the same again, I think. I dunno... I miss my... "friends"
Damn, as much as I personally disliked Javik's asshole-ish attitude, I can't help but feel respect for him and that particular quote. Making a heroic sacrifice in the name of nothing but honor doesn't really matter in a war for ultimate survival. And he really knew the meaning of a Total War, where survival of the species was put above all else, every single virtue that the Protheans held dear. I miss Mass Effect now ;(
I'm still waiting on Garrus to join me at the bar. Have a drink, and look back at our most valiant moments. Probably the best triology i've ever played!
Mass Effect is one of the few games that really made me feel I was there desperately battling to save the Earth. Great story line and a strong musical score.
Especially in 2 and 3 where there are limits to your missions before shit happens and hits the fan! Like in 2 (Spoilers beyond please go play the games then come back friends) If you went up to two mission your crew would be fine after their capture but if you did three missions, well let's not dwell on what I won't fuck with ever again.... TIME!!!
I love how after so long people still cover mass effect's songs, it's incredible how each piece is so different but still passes so much feelings through the notes..... Chills, literal chills
That’s how I judge my music, when I hear the Grey Warden theme I feel like slaughtering Darkspawn and doing what’s right, when I hear Leaving Earth I feel like I’m making a promise to come back, an end once and for all feels like fulfilling that promise, when I hear suicide mission I want to slaughter tons of bugs against the odds That is what makes music great
It literally speaks for itself, bioware created an entire, powerful universe... absolutely mind blowing games, I'm still playing the playlist in my car while going to work thinking that one day we will be lucky enough to meet an asari or a turian!
Ludmilla Caesens-Koenig well if Earth officially establishes a lunar colony in 2069 on the 100th anniversary of the moon landing then I’m just going to assume BioWare used their biotics to see the future
@@spacejesus6581 yeah yeah, I think each song is composed to pass a certain feeling to us, like how "leaving earth" makes me super sad and kinda anxious, but what I mean is that different covers of the same songs pass me the feelings of the person playing and it's beautiful how each artist connect with the music, it's incredible......... Also sorry, I'm kinda rambling my passion for music here 😅
I dunno man, ME2 and ME3 really suffered from writing narrative meltdown and inconsistency. Great games though but suffered greatly from various departments meddling with actual developers of the game.
@Alexizonf1re I can tell for him but my concern about AI has go to the roof, since i played this trilogy. And i am a programmer. The Quarian incident is a real posisibility in the future of the humanity. The scary part is most programmer in this field are like the Illusive man and are reallly beleiving that we can control this technology.. And the teamates of the Shadow Broker (Googlle, Facebook, Twitter) are seriouly getting on my nerves. Bur the most troubliing part is this realisation: In the reality, the large majority of people will choose a conforting lie insteat of an inconfortable truth even if it will cause a ton of death, Unitl the problem is on their doorstep ...
@@omegaman7377 I actually always took the Geth as a warning in the other direction - don't assume AI gaining Sentience is inevitably going to lead to violent revolution. The tragedy of the Quarians is that they've spent generations in exile from their home, suffering the biological (weakening immune systems) and psychological (constant mistrust and resentment from other species, constantly worrying about their homes breaking down, growing up with their entire previous civilisation barely being more than a creation myth to them etc) consequences, when ALL they had to do in order for everything to turn out wonderfully was accept the Geth as a new species and politely ask if they'd terribly mind still doing most of the manual labor. That said, the game heavily implies that a big part of the Geth's comparative peacefulness is that they are, by nature, co-operative - a core concept of how they perceive and interact with the universe is the idea that many individuals working together to a common consensus is more beneficial than an individual attempting to do everything themselves/impose consensus on all others. Then there's EDI, who almost feels like a guide to how to make a 'nice' AI - she mentions receiving positive feedback for achieving core directives, such as gaining understanding and protecting/assisting her crew. I found it interesting that unshackled EDI was almost identical to shackled EDI in personality and goals, with the primary change being in her abilities and loyalties - she gives literally 0 fucks about handing every juicy detail about Cerberus to Shep once there are no longer blocks on the information, presumably because her positive feedback is related to her crew while her shackles forced her loyalty to Cerberus. Then there are the Reapers who, as best I understand it, were (despite all their incredibly advanced technology) programmed pretty much just with "Fix this single issue" and not so much as a casual suggestion on morality or how they were meant to do it. Despite EASILY being the most advanced AI's in the game, to such an extent that a single Reaper probably has more processing power and storage capacity than every other AI in the Galaxy combined, I feel like the Reapers have evolved the least - uncountable Cycles after they turned on their creators they're still only enacting the solution they calculated to their initial task. They've arguably developed a rather literal God complex about it in the meantime but, after chatting with a Leviathan, it really wouldn't shock me if they were programmed with it/just emulated their creators. I can't help but feel that if they'd been programmed with a sort of moral framework and given core directives similar to organic ones (learn, love, live etc) then assigned tasks from there, it might have turned out much better than making their core directive a single goal. TLDR: The game heavily implies the key is to program an AI with things that encourage co-operation, then accept it as a sentient being and offer it friendship rather than attempt to enslave/obliterate it.
This trilogy taught me a lot of things. The most important one, though: If you ever find a friend who even compares to Garrus, hold on to them with everything you have.
@@GreyFox909 WHAT that is so fucking cool. I just beat the legendary edition last night and I almost thought it was Martin Sheen again putting on a voice
"Primarch Vakarian...honored war hero! Someone has to put this mess together once this is over...." "Heh...yeah, someone whom knows how to hold a hammer"
