This is still one of the best moments I have experienced in a game. So good, this was when Bioware was peak.

at these moments the game strongly resembles alien

ME1: this ME2: “this hurts you”

Anyone else realizing this is an analogy of mankind’s current state

There's a slight hole in this story. Why did the Protheans conduct their research into building the Conduit and mass relay technology in secret? They didn't know about the Reapers or did they and if they did why wasn't that revealed during this conversation? This feels like a contrivance and I can't explain my way out of it.

This conversation made me realise another possible flaw in the reaper's harvest cycle, besides the reliance on sovereign not getting found too early and killed/ the signal not working, is that, what if the new races develop way earlier? So, based on Virgil's comments, and other suggestions, the harvest cycle was supposed to start before the Rachni war, and that Sovereign has been busy trying to start it for over 1000 years. Imagine is, the Protheans failed and the cycle went on as intended. All races in Mass Effect, expect humans, were harvested and their existence wiped clean. Humanity being too young and not developed enough, wouldn't likely been left alone, but, we still would've eventually found the prothean data on Mars that eleveated our tech to the point it was at when human's first entered the greater galactic community, and that would've only been around 1000 years after the last harvest, meaning, if the cycle goes on every 50k years, mankind would've had around 48-49k years in space, and would've been largely uncontested for long enough to become too powerful for any other species to threaten all that much (possibly) and more importantly, would've had plenty of time to find the crucible plans on mars, the beacons in this game, Javik on Eden Prime, among potential others, like the VI on Thessia (assuming that wasn't found and destroyed by the reapers). I don't know where I saw it, but apparently, given the rule of sharing Prothean tech, humanity stopped digging on Mars until some time before Mass Effect 3, so imagine that rule doesn't exist, how quickly mankind would find what they needed to be aware of the reaper threat, and a way to stop it. Just a fun little theory I have.

We don't have much time, talks for 15 mins

Protheans are true chads. Theyve done everything so next cycle could survive. Took other races under the wing, taught to them so theyd be prepared later on. Doesnt matter how imperial they were. Reapers couldnt even make a ship from them. Asari completely betrayed to them almost caused entire cycle to be lost. Salarians deserved to be wiped out by Krogans by not helping at all.

The gameplay was so horrible!!! But the story was the best I’ve ever heard

Probably the most profound moment in the videogame history

This is my favorite part of the first game. Before I looked it up, I was convinced that Vigil was voiced by a very subdued Kiefer Sutherland.

The conversation with Sovereign was utterly terrifying as this god-like entity coldly informs you that you are going to fail and everything you’ve ever known will die with you. The conversation with Vigil is inspiring moment where you learn that the very last members of a dead civilization sacrificed everything so that someone, anyone has a chance to pick up that torch and save the galaxy. And finding out that you are that person. Not because of some pre-ordained prophecy. It’s simply because you fought to get this far and succeeded. It’s a message of hope that travelled 50,000 years to reach you and every aspect of this scene conveys that feeling.

I would like Saren to get an exit in meme space. Not at all mum race, I'm as selfish as they come. I'm only protecting myself always have been, always will. 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

Tonkies Ommus. 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗 Your actions did give us a fighting chance. 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

2012 only had 480p?

It’s really depressing and heartbreaking how a fictional super advanced Ai’s story is about explaining how his creators mass extinction happened.

Seemingly benign caretakers (the keepers) that were never bothered by any civilization that controlled the citadel is the biggest mistake all cycles made. Honestly if humans were the first to find the citadel instead of the Asari, knowing our nature - we would have dissected every Keeper and exterminated them because they look different. The reapers would have never stood a chance against such an enemy

Something about the scene changing to show the seemingly infinite rows of staris pods. Gave me a feeling of awe. Nothing good or bad feeling. Just pure awe

This is the moment I fell in love with this series.

Vigil's theme in the background just conveys the sheer gravity of the situation perfectly. It feels like utter desolation in the wake of overwhelming galactic odds, but that it's somehow peaceful. I think my favorite part of this convo is @ 6:11. Mark Meer really sells the delivery of how it boggles Shepard's mind why the Reapers repeat this galactic genocide. And Vigil is exactly the motivation you need to DESTROY them, as it always was intended.

5:08 This is probably my favorite line in the whole conversation. Most writers, especially ones that make sci-fi , fail to invoke the any actual sense of scale into their worlds. But to hear that the Prothean empire was so massive that it took literal centuries for the genocide to be completed really sells the idea how of big the galaxy truly is. You could be born halfway through the reaper invasion and still end up dying of old age before they ever even made it to the planet you lived on.

6:30 unintentional accent always makes me laugh. In the end what does it MATTA....eyyyyy (italian hand gesture)

Listen and learn

Vigil seems to tell Shepherd to do the "destroy" ending...

this convo is where it all came together for me

So because of the protheans, the turians, salarians and asari survived beyond their cycle and into humanity's........... So they're the reason shepard has to put up with the council......... THOSE SONS OF BITCHES

This moment is one of my favorites in any video game. 16 minutes of exposition where we hear how the slow extinction of a race was. It is shocking to think about the idea that those cabins that we see in the corridors are coffins 50,000 years old. Mass Effect is not a horror game, but just this conversation seems to be taken from a game of such a genre. One of the best games ever.

I'm playing the legendary edition on the ps 5 and gawd I miss this game, it was well put together, and the remaster was even better having all dlc included with the game gave new players the full scope of such an epic rpg, this truly is the pinnical of this genre of gaming

Sovereign + Vigil The 2 most face-slapping talks in the whole Trilogy. Those 2 talks completely changed the whole story, the world-building and the stakes. It felt as powerful as the Matrix: the World you "know" has a whole new horizon.

This part explains why renagade is the true ending in 3 "your survival depends on stopping them not in understanding them"

My favorite series (though 3 went off the rails). ME1 and 2 are nirvana.

Sounds like the CCP.

This scene, together with the music, gives a sense of... idk, peace? It's like a deep sigh. When Vigil talks about the harvest's end, what happened to the scientists who used the conduit and what they managed to accomplish, it just paints an image of a new sun rising over a galaxy devoid of intelligent life for another 50,000 years. Like, despite the horrors of the genocide, at least some of them managed to find some peace before their death.

Literally could have proved vigil existed just by wearing a body cam, god damn council 🤣

It's a shame Mass Effect 2 and 3 didn't seem to follow in this game's footsteps. There was a big creative change behind the scenes and we didn't get moving scenes like this.

Ilos was spared; they severed communication; and the Reapers "retreated", but yet, can't quite find a way to bring people back to life, or push existing knowledge into the "weaker" races. "My actions are the only reason why some hope remains": my dick wants to laugh. This is some total BS.

Mindblowing song,scene,game and saga

Mass Effect 1 had the best story and world building. Mass effect 2 has better gameplay and side content.

I just played mass effect one for the First Time and i Must admit that this conversation with vigil made me cry just exceptional

One thing I've always wondered... How did the extremely thorough reapers overlook the mini mass relay (The Conduit) just sitting there on the citadel during their harvest of the Protheans?

Is Mass Effect about marriage?

"No offer of surrender was ever given" always chills my blood.

Echoes of an ancient and terrible grief… This is one of my favorite moments from the entire trilogy. The music, Vigil’s story, and the dawning horror of what occurred and what could very well occur again. Awesome scene.

This conversation is what took the trilogy from great to Masterpiece

This conversation was a mixture of emotions for me the first time I experienced it. Terror for what is about to happen and you may not be able to stop it. Sadness for what happened to the Protheans including the final scientists that headed through the conduit to make the modifications to the Citadel relay signal. Determination to do whatever it takes to stop Sovereign and end the cycle of extension. Truly one of the greatest scenes in video game history and it gives me chills and goosebumps every time.

one thing i found subtle but horrifying is after they awoke they spent decades knowing there race was doomed before going to there deaths thats so dark to think about living decades of your life knowing your race has been destroyed

@12:16 that didn't happen in mass effect 2 pal!

Part of what makes this scene so surreal is the fact that it is outside the scope of what human beings typically experience in our lifespans. The average human lifespan is only around 80 years, up to about 120 if you're lucky (40 if you're unlucky and/or from a society/civilization stuck in sustenance agriculture/hunter-gatherer system). 80 years is a lot of time to us, but for the existence of the Universe, whole lines of heritage from ancestors-to-descendants in a species, or whatever gods that exist, it's less than the blink of an eye at scale. Many aspects of life (and the universe) operate on a scale far beyond that of a single lifespan. So an eldrich horror alien capable of existing for tens of thousands of years and laying and arranging and carrying out plans for galactic genocide with greater patience than Otto Von Bismarck balancing power in Europe makes for a pretty intimidating and enthralling narrative.

the music especially is the core to feel with the trilogy, one of the awesomeness ost ever listen to

This felt like talking to an angel.