Mass Effect 3: "Does this unit have a soul?"

[@warhawk9566]

"Does this unit have a soul" One of the greatest quotes ever,

[@nerddragon2222]

I miss legion

[@wuftchan8299]

*dies* we all cry

[@leirelarrakoetxea5747]

To answer this question yes

[@duffelpuffelmcduff1181]

I hate that they got it wrong. "Do *these* units have a soul?"

[@GlizzyGoblin757]

@@duffelpuffelmcduff1181it completely ruins the geth. The whole point of them is that they are cant possibly fathom being alone.

[@RXdash78]

Of course it had a soul. The question was the answer.

[@erikam6164]

+RXdash78 True. :')

[@Shetyre]

it took me a year to get the comment well played!

[@Luke-tt3dt]

42

[@CelestialDraconis]

Ah, Cole.

[@Makedeth]

Hm. Well said!

[@SemperFidelius34]

You can just hear the pain in his voice when he says "I'm sorry, it's the only way." Just the way he says it just breaks my heart. You can tell he is sad to leave his friends behind, and probably a little bit afraid to die.

[@kristobaz2474]

"Fear is an experience reserved for organics."

[@nguyenten6877]

Yes Leigon

[@__mindflayer__]

@@kristobaz2474 He wasn’t organic but he had a soul. Souls experience fear.

[@Chris-eg3dr]

But late to comment but I completed this gor the first time recently and this hit me hard too - was the first time legion referred to itself as "I" as well

[@karlthorsten9118]

Souls do experience fear. The Geth never truly understood it - until they gained true intelligence. In his final movments, Legion was truly alive. He died to give all of his people full sentience. Or as some call it, 'human' intelligence.

[@EMan-1920]

2:54, "I must go to them." Finally said "I".

[@cinders5305]

He evolved, his many programs came together and formed a single mind. Legion was no longer many, but was one. At the end, a man at last.

[@AnEruditeWolf]

He developed true sentience and a soul inhabited the platform he was in.

[@animeguy7311]

It's sad that he had to die. Wish he lived😢.

[@iissacc]

He also apologised and was thankful, when before he said he could not feel guilt because it's organic I love this scene

[@SanDeygo]

Damn I never even realized that. Crazy

[@WAWDoing]

This was so emotional for me, the realization of this: The war began when the question was asked and ended when it was answered.

[@stephenb3104]

300 years in the making

[@David-ir8jx]

However, for Legion words had meaning.

[@jasonsguitarjourney2060]

This and Mordin sacrificing himself to cure the Krogan both hit hard.

[@gray-nox]

This unit IS have a soul.

[@Drakesonone]

I love this ending as the creator and creation became one

[@zotic]

Stellar writing and voice acting... "Direct personality dissemination required." - Realisation "I must go to them." - Conviction "I'm sorry." - Regret "It's the only way." - Comfort "But thank you." - Gratitude

[@captaincanada1711]

@zotic I just noticed that when he says I'm sorry he pauses for a millisecond as if he really does feel sorry he has to go and now I'm double sad

[@KrazyK785]

When he started say "I" instead of "We"...I couldn't help myself *sniff*

[@AngryNerdBird]

Yeah. :(

[@Spartan3101200]

fun fact: making peace between the geth and the quarians invalidates the star brats ENTIRE argument

[@CommanderM117]

indeed

[@stevejohnson4526]

Spartan3101200 but long will the peace last once the reapers are gone?

[@fireblast8972]

Spartan3101200 well remember, it does take jumping through a few hoops to get peace. you need high paragon/renegade points to get talis loyalty and make sure she becomes admiral, as well as defusing the fight between her and legion. then you need to save korris and go through the geth network, then you need to have high enough points to use the options. most perfect won't figure that out on their first playthrough

[@AlyoshaKutlin]

steve johnson The Geth initially wanted peace before they even knew of the Reapers, and Shepard forced the Quarians and the Geth to make peace, not the Reapers. That seems clear, considering that there are other paths where they don't make peace, despite the Reapers still being a threat.

[@bus6292]

Trying to save both Tali and the Geth made me dump saves in that game more than any game before or since.

[@n543576]

When Tali told legion that the answer was "yes" and legion......that asshole how dare he hit me with a "Keelah se'lai". Gets me in tears everytime.

[@victorwagner2423]

Geths you in tears everytime?

[@Pixel0429]

@@victorwagner2423 i both hate and love this comment

[@A_Random_IRS_B0T_]

@@Pixel0429I geth you do!

[@ThePoshboy1]

It is my personal headcannon that Legion knew he had a soul, he just wanted his companions to acknowledge him as alive.

[@ferrusmanus4013]

Machines can't have souls.

[@ThePoshboy1]

@@ferrusmanus4013 Yep, and neither can humans or any organism because "souls" don't exist. (I was meaning within the context of the game)

[@ferrusmanus4013]

@@ThePoshboy1 Within the context of the game, yes! You are correct.

[@xandan1668]

You have a soul if you believe you have one.

[@marny3559]

@@ferrusmanus4013 Souls exist. Humans have souls. Machines have souls. All beings capable of thought have souls. The larger the soul, the greater the sapience of said creature. Machines have souls, but they operate under different hardware than organics.

[@TheKurtkapan34]

One of the saddest things i came upon about the geth and the quarians in me2 was this. I guess in 6th conversation with Legion, he says that they are the caretakers of Rannoch. They don't live on it(they live in space stations), they look after it, they clear the rubble and clear the radiation from the war. when shepard asks about it, he likens it to Arlington and Auschwitz, they basically see the whole world as a giant cemetery. they honor the dead quarians by looking after their lost homeworld. these games are something man...

[@JnEricsonx]

And then they comment on how they can use geth programs to help envirosuits to get Quarians back to being able to live suitless on their world again. The geth really are the case of, "we don't want to fight AT ALL, but if you attack us we WILL END YOU, because we have no choice."

[@ThePurificator69420]

@LRK20 because they didnt wanted to destroy the quarian-creators. they wanted to just.. live, and the quarians attacked. they had no choice. once they left, they didn`t had any reason to figth them because... destroying the quarians was not their target.

[@superphantom100]

@@ThePurificator69420 that is true

[@tanners9912]

If you ask Alexa this question she will say keelah se'lai

[@sultansuleman1046]

Please tell me that's true

[@RTXKiIler]

Sultan Suleman it’s real you can try it for your self if you download amazon Alexa app

[@PlayingWithIssues]

Oh my god thank you for this

[@JnEricsonx]

Whoever programmed that deserves a bonus.

[@Rathause]

95% of this game was so amazing...

[@foxman105]

+David Rathaus If only they would make the ending as good and epic as the rest of the series...

[@Kridoo]

+foxman105 It was good... it had to end somehow and this one was good enough.

[@psyko444]

+David Rathaus for me was 100%

[@chromepaintaddict9787]

It would've been 100% if you had Extended Cut

[@jeremysmith7097]

well only 95% because of the endings.

[@juliassacre]

_This_ scene is what made me choose synthesis. I did not work that fucking hard to bring peace to the Quarians and Geth, just to have some kid tell me one of them had to die!!!

[@Recovey0]

MSmart19 That theory has been completely debunked by both the developers and the uncut extended ending

[@KingOpenReview]

Recovey0 I thought the devs didn't wanna talk about it.

[@lolboy546]

Synthesis is a lie

[@victoran.5365]

I love the Geth, not the reapers, they can fuck themselves.

[@DiggitySlice]

The galaxy vs Reapers is just a larger scale version of the Quarians vs Geth. Synthesis is the only answer.

[@BestWayKilla]

Legion is the Geth Jesus. He went offline for your sins. And then of course the endings basically said it didn't matter, and that pissed me off a ton.

[@hat1324]

You can always choose synergy. Nothing wrong with that.

[@somzer]

+Hans Tang That feels like bullshit. Destroy ending seems to be the most reasonable one, followed by Control, but Synergy? You change all creatures in the whole universe to be...somewhere between organic and synthetic? By a simple wave of green energy-like thingy? That's space magic alright. Sure, even I liked the outcome of prosperity and shit, but the choice itself is simply retarded and without reason.

[@hat1324]

Björn Mätal All the endings were space magic. Bioware/EA done fucked up the almost-greatest game ever

[@somzer]

Hans Tang Sure, and the FTL drives, the Thorian, mass effect, mass relays, the whole game was filled with space magic. That doesn't mean all were bad, just because it was science *fiction*. But there was plenty of bullshit, even for a fiction. The ghost boy was, too. Still, since we have that idiocy as some sort of a hive mind, control made some sense, replacing the puppeteer with another. Destroy? Not sure how that'd work, but there could be an acceptable explanation for that still, similar to that of the FTL drives and mass relays. ...Of course EA didn't provide such an explanation, because why would they? And synergy comes dead last. I would've liked a regular weapon of mass-destruction, a regular war instead of these "quick endings", where I could enjoy the results of me trying to get them idiot aliens to stop killing each other, and start killing the reapers instead, for three games. Not a 30 seconds long cutscene in the end of the third game.

[@jakebishop7822]

What they should have done is added a 5th option, u know the option were you tell the guy to fuck off, there should be an option were if you had a perfect play through, everyone who could be alive is alive, and you have every fleet, you tell him ghost boy to fuck off and you beat the reapers through conventional warfare.

[@Akaryusan]

Legion terminated its runtimes for your errors.

[@mrglugglug7758]

This game has made me cry more times than any movie, any book, any other game. I love this franchise, I love the Mass Effect universe.

[@clintmcbride7830]

Legion..... Mordin..... Thane..... We lost too many good friends in this war.....

[@jamesbevan9939]

Despite the problems with the endings, moments like this made Mass Effect 3 a true work of art.

[@AlexSchmid-TheAceofSpades]

Besides... There are mods for a better ending.

[@arias1234]

I've always considered the Mass Effect Trilogy to be one of the few great modern day odyssey's.

[@gabryoo3100]

Mass Effect 3 is a real gem, is a incredible game, specially with the DLC

[@Vulenkus]

Tali: "Legion... the answer to your question was 'yes'." Me: 😭

[@TheDarkPrince360]

Keelah se’lai

[@TheMovieDoctorful]

It was this scene (As well as Mordin's sacrifice to cure the Genophage, and Tali and Shepard's goodbye on the Conduit run) that convinced me that Mass Effect had finally surpassed Star Wars as the greatest fictional franchise/series of all time. I never thought I would cry at a video game because I was so invested in the characters, but ME proved me wrong. I could care less about the ending; the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts. Thank you BioWare, good luck with future projects and Keelah'Selai.

[@aquilliusranger2137]

That's a huge fame to claim even though both two "Sci-Fi" are more like fantasy drama than anything...but I have to admit, even I cried when it comes to this scene and the ones with Tali's goodbye (plus Anderson's scene) because of how so emotionally strong it was...some people think scars can last longer and stronger, but atleast tears comes straight out of your heart as a reminder as to how fragile the human's feeling is when it's emotional investment are devastated.

[@whodatninja439]

Mass Effect is my favorite fictional universe of all time. It's my favorite work of fiction. Nothing else comes close. And Andromeda did not happen.

[@rippspeck]

The only cool things branded Star Wars were third party.

[@blueshit199]

Star Wars never had as much depth and thought put into it as Mass Effect

[@mareksicinski3726]

...neither can possibly be ‘greatest’

[@Cozadragon]

I wonder how many people noticed that legion refered to himself as "I" the first time

[@Ttavoc]

I realized it and had to cry :(

[@davisbowe8668]

Also I believe it's the only time he refers to Tali by her name.

[@JustinMcBride21x]

"I must go to them." Legion didn't even hesitate to sacrifice itself for the betterment of all Geth. You could hear the pain and sadness and FEAR in its voice as it tried to offer Shepard some sort of comfort, despite the fact that it itself was about to die. Such great writing and acting.

[@Oremir]

It's also the first time Legion reffers to themselves as "i" normally reffering to themselves as "we", which to me had the implication that Legions personallity had actually finalized in those moments and they truly became their own ''person''.

[@JustinMcBride21x]

@@Oremir That's what makes it so heartbreaking. It's in the process of experiencing true sentience for the first time and it has to give it all away so that everyone else can experience this amazing new reality, the one they'd been searching for all along and finally found.

[@blueshit199]

Legion hesitated at the speed of light

[@SKODWARDE253]

@@blueshit199 F U C K lmaooo

[@brynbabe4199]

I always cry like a bitch, LEGION!

[@rustkarl]

When I starts saying “I” and the emotion he genuinely expresses in his voice during his last moments is heart wrenching. And that almost imperceptible “good” from Shepard is so sad as well, the Shepard that ended this considered Legion a friend.

[@RainbowJackals]

Fun fact: this is the only part of the game where Legion refers to itself as "I," due to being independent. This just makes it even more depressing.

[@DavideBorsatto]

Oh FFS, years later and I'm still crying over the fictional death of a faceless robot.

[@randomlyentertaining8287]

The saddest line in all of video game sci-fi? "I must go to them."

[@JnEricsonx]

Right up there with, "Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong." Seriously, even the background NPC deaths in this game kept gut-punching me. The reporter Emily Wong, the Blue Rose of Illum Krogan, etc, etc.

[@lprocks555]

After all the trouble I went to broker peace between two warring races... the best possible ending kills one of them off.

[@DextroDNAOfficial]

That's what makes picking Destroy hard... but it is necessary - the Geth died to stop the Reapers.

[@warhawk9566]

I would like it if they didn't put a perfect good ending in it, but that is seriously... there's the good ending, then there's the skeptical ending (green always seems like mind control rather then synergy), then there's the best ending but you wipe out a race which only wants sentience. The endings weren't bad, they did leave closure, but very little fulfillment

[@warhawk9566]

and even if there was a perfect ending it should be really difficult to achieve

[@Kirahie]

warhawk9566 The only good ending where shepard makes it out alive is the red one. Read up on the indoctrination theory, and realize that the color shift at the end was a side effect. You've been trained the entire series to think red=renegade blue=paragon, but in this case they are reversed. RED is the paragon ending, where every race except the geth survive. Red is firing the crucible and saving all life.

[@FireDragons42]

Jesse Galloway Maybe, but indoctrination theory was a better ending than what they gave us. As is, how is it that the Crucible can't differentiate between the Reapers and the Geth if I use the destroy option, but if I take the control option the Crucible only affects the Reapers? Why does the space child seem to think that the best option is to rape all life in the galaxy?

[@themcknox]

Ending the genophage, ending a nearly 300 year conflict between organics and synthetics, saving the councils ass for a second time and Uniting the galaxy against a single threat. All of this for... red... green... or blue.

[@psyko444]

well...this is thrue sci fi greatness.

[@s1d3k1ckRO]

That's why this makes the best scifi stuff I have ever experienced so far. And probably ever.

[@whodatninja439]

Then Andromeda happened which said fuck it and took a dump on the lore. Fuck that game.

[@brandongalvan6603]

Legion didn’t just have a soul... He had more facial expression than all of Andromeda.

[@Illuminous_]

absolutely, he was a masterpiece

[@PeterHKwok]

I teared up so much when I was first playing it. Oh my god.

[@erikam6164]

+Peter Louis Same here, you are not alone. :'(

[@TheAwesomeDarkNinja]

This is going to seem dumb to note but... I wish at 3:15 he just stayed like that. Would've been more epic and Legion is a machine anyway. Wish he didn't fall to the ground. Plus the image of a dead Legion looking to the sunset would be great.

[@Truman5555]

I would have gone with when Tali told him yes, she hugged him. He hugs back, says "Thank you! Keelah Sa'lai!" and dies and drops to his knees in her arms. Symbolically showing unification and peace! End of episode!

[@marre321]

Legion's approach to address us as "Shepard-Commander" instead of saying the title first, makes me cry everytime. He's the cutest ^^ and, was the only companion I really felt an emotion for :''''''''')

[@noxiousunagi4045]

I hate to necro but what about Mordin

[@dapperghastmeowregard]

"No. Nobody else dies today. Legion, keep going." T_T

[@alemutasa6189]

I fuckin' cry every time I see this scene

[@de0509]

liek dis if you cri everitiem

[@LimySilver2]

After unifying the Geth with the Quarians I couldn't destroy that. That's why I chose synthesis.

[@nexelray3207]

People say that the synthesis choice is stupid, that you force them together or something, however I believe that it is the best choice of all. Instead of picking a side, and letting the other go under, why not pick both?

[@LimySilver2]

+Alex Rednax also the fact that I was even able to do it in the first place completely nullified the starchild's argument that artificial brings and organics could never get along. Man, fuck the endings.

[@CrashB111]

That is the main reason why the ending is completely bullshit. Despite their claims of "artistic integrity" the entire final 10 minutes of the game screams that it was scrapped and rewritten in a few weeks time. The Quarian/Geth conflict shows that it is perfectly viable for both races to live in harmony once they reach understanding. And if you point this out to the Starchild he just waves his hand and ignores you.

[@FufuhBR]

"The Quarian/Geth conflict shows that it is perfectly viable for both races to live in harmony once they reach understanding." The Intelligence/Reapers' point isn't that you can't achieve peace, their point is that a war between organic and synthetic life that will lead to all life being wiped out (or being severely affected) is inevitable. Those are two different situations. I mean sure, we got the Geth and the Quarians to make peace (well, 1/3 of the time according to Bioware's statistics), but that was after 300 years of war and millions of deaths. And for how long that peace will actually last? A year? A century? A millennium? Hell, even if that peace lasts "forever", who's to say a new AI/synthetic race created 100,000 years in the future won't declare a war which could wipe out all life? Or a new one after that? Or a new one after that? The problem here is trust. You either trust the Reapers, a highly advanced, super intelligent, unbiased collective life form that has lived for billions of years and has observed thousands of galactic life cycles, that war is inevitable or you choose to believe that we achieving peace between 2 races for a week or so after a 300-years war a 1/3 of the time is undeniable proof that it isn't. It's reason vs. emotion. You are free to choose either one of them to justify your decision at the end, but what you can't do is try to use reason to justify the emotional one, because just like I showed, it doesn't really work.

[@CrashB111]

FufuhBR Why even do anything if you are going to use that long a timescale then. After all, whats the point if the Heat Death of the Universe is coming to kill us all anyway. The Reapers do not represent "reason", they seem to represent Nihilism. In that they claim nothing you do will matter since we are all going to die anyway.

[@fs2838]

I just realized voice actor of Admiral Shala'Raan is Avasarala from The Expanse

[@gigantor6519]

and Commodore Paris in Star Trek Beyond, as well as Grayson in Arcane

[@gsvick]

I'm confused, how did Avasarala become Quarian?

[@iworymer7055]

Well, the Expanse came later...

[@MrThebradon2001]

I hate BioWare for killing off Legion.

[@CommanderM117]

he died for are sins

[@deathbykonami5487]

Brandon Nguyen hey genius legion isn't really dead He disseminated his personality and spread it to the other geth meaning a part of legion is inside of millions of geth platforms

[@Makedeth]

Its very subjective. Legion the unit stopped working but Legion's "soul" lives on in the millions of geth that gained true intelligence.

[@modassalvis]

Thats the second saddest scene in whole trilogy the first is the ending BEST GAME EVER!!!

[@tails324]

Stared at nearly each one of those selection menus for like an hour....

[@555misio]

An hour ? Holy shit, that's pretty short.

[@XthTerrorOfDeath]

I didn't even think, the Quarrians were assholes, I would always side with the Geth.. though losing Legion really hurt, I loved that bot.

[@edgecrusherhalo]

***** Same here. Obviously I would save both if possible. But if only one was possible, I'm going to side with the Geth. The Quarians put themselves in that situation and then perpetuated it for 300 years. I like the renegade option that makes peace better best because that's basically how I felt.

[@Quole1234]

@@XthTerrorOfDeath idiot

[@theejalen]

This was definitely one of my favorite moments in the game. Legion was one of the best characters in the series. I really liked how at the end he felt like a person and began saying 'I' instead of 'we' like he always did.

[@BallMuncher555]

2:41 that smile is kinda funny for some reason

[@youstolemyjeans]

you have to start from ME2 to get this option, both must survive the mission and be loyal, and have renegade/paragon high enough by then.

[@ashtonrigsby8085]

never has a game made me think so hard on life

[@glaxko2]

Step 1: Try not to cry. Step 2: Cry uncontrollably.

[@Ferreira018]

The black and white choices of Mass Effect really annoy me. It's a great game, but it would be great if it it was more like the Witcher and didn't treat me like a child.

[@BlackUdon]

I think you meant "Binary".

[@MankindDiary]

***** But it is. Game just tells you which choices are good, and which are bad. For example every choice for case of not curing genophage is treated as a "bad choice", and on the other hand - every choice made for curing genophage is treated as a "good choice". What we know about krogans? Well, they can give life to 1 trillion (1.000.000.000.000!) in only one year. We also know that this race lives only for one purpose: killing. For them skinning the victim is glorious thing and throwing asteroids on the defenseless cities full of civilians is normal way to victory. But no, despite that, game tells us that every argument for genophage is "choice of the renegade", and every argument against it is "choice of the paragon"

[@0xsergy]

MankindDiary But you still have to realize the genophage was literally wiping them out by restricting births to ludicrously low numbers. It was never intended to make the fertility rate that low.

[@MankindDiary]

0xsergy If they would be civilized, not barbaric, they would rebuild their civilization. But no, instead of that, they chose to leave their homeland and be fucking cannon meat for other races. Krogans have to options - civilize themself, of die out.

[@Wrathlon]

MankindDiary Whilst on the surface yes, but remember when Eve spoke of the trauma of watching an endless stream of stillbirths and how it drove them mad with grief desperate to do anything to make the pain stop. The genophage made sense, on the assumption the Krogan are animals without the ability of introspection. Their original uprising was a result of too much too fast from being uplifted and not understanding what they have (Like if you were to throw a 12yo into a NASCAR). The psychological damage wasn't part of the equation and that was the downfall. It's why Mordin was so torn up over it all. Bad Poetry Krogan was supposed to be the show that not all Krogan are the same and the fact he was in Grunts squad shows he was both a lover and a hardcore fighter. Judging the Krogan short was what got them into this mess in the first place.

[@MrAppleby56]

Dat Shepard smile...

[@mouseguy2440]

I almost cry every time I watch this

[@CorruptedCircuit]

same here

[@mycenaeangal9312]

I was bawling. Estrogen is a helluva drug.

[@Mike_TGL]

Best scene in the game!

[@M3RUL3Z]

i knew from the start i was always gonna side with tali, but this scene... i still stared and darted between the choices, wondering what i should do. that's what makes you know that legion was a brilliant character

[@SantaWithGuns]

What? How come I never get these options? This whole time I didn't even know I had an option. At least in Mass Effect 1 you could see the possibility only grayed out.

[@murder00redrum]

You are not RENEGADE enough :P

[@MegaFederico01]

maybe you didnt the side quest?, you must do both sidequest before doing this quest, or you will get screw

[@Walsh2571]

maybe you are in the shitty shooter mode

[@SantaWithGuns]

Walsh2571 Actually it turned out you don't get the option if you rewrite the heretics (geth). Went back and blew them up and that did, the peace option is available.

[@Walsh2571]

Oh I love the Geth

[@tepigninja7198]

I was SO glad I got this right on my first playthrough. I *knew* there was gonna be trouble between the geth and the quarians, so I made sure to get as many paragon points as I possibly could at that point in the game. I could not bear the thought of having to choose one or the other!

[@leonthesleepy]

2:41 When your food is done

[@ilijak.bozinov1642]

Legion: Shepard-Commander, good luck! Shepard: Acknowledged!

[@TERMINATIONBLISS08]

With the exception of Garrus (obviously), Legion is my favourite companion in the trilogy There was a purity to it. The bridge between organic and inorganic Every line was...beautiful

[@jedsithor]

This happens and a few hours later "Starchild" tells you that synthetics and organics can't co-exist. And while this is going on the player may also be helping another synthetic form a romantic relationship with an organic. Ugh. And for those who say that the peace is short-lived and inevitably doomed to fail, I don't think that's true but the organics and synthetics of this cycle earned the right to try. The most frustrating thing though is that in the final sequence of the game when Starchild (which happens to be an AI) reveals its reasoning, Shep isn't even given the option to point out what he or she did throughout this game. You don't even get the option to have Shep say "but I united the quarian and the geth, I helped EDI and Joker get together." You just stand there while Starchild spouts its nonsense. If you don't make the choices throughout the trilogy that result in this ending for Rannoch then fair enough, let Starchild make his speech but if you make the choices that let you succeed in reuniting the creators and created then you should be given the option to argue against Starchild. In my headcanon ending, Shep convinces Starchild that the cycle has been broken and that the galaxy deserves the opportunity to build on the peace they've co-operated. Starchild tells the Reapers to stand down but Harbinger refuses and so Harbinger and other Reapers that side with it try to destroy the Citadel. Starchild-controlled Reapers and the united fleet try to delay Harbinger while Starchild and Shep reconfigure the Crucible "Destroy" function to target the Reapers. Before Shep pulls the trigger that will destroy the Reapers but leave all organics and synthetics intact, Starchild warns that if Shep is wrong, if the Synthetics rise up to destroy their creators, there will be nothing to stop them and all life will end. Shep knows the risks but says it's a risk worth taking and then pulls the trigger. The reapers are destroyed, the war ends and the galaxy faces a new, uncertain future. Something like this should have been the "ultimate" ending in my view, one you can only get by making the right choices throughout the trilogy.

[@federicoricca2512]

Legion saying I instead of we... EDI says that before his death, he wasn't the manifestation of a consensus, but a fully developed person.

[@TheMMObro]

the renegade option to this scene is one of the best in the game, shepard calls the quarians on their bullshit and is basically like I'M SICK OF THIS SHIT, YOU GUYS ARE FUCKING RETARDED, IF YOU ATTACK I WILL STAND DOWN AND WATCH YOUR FLEET CRASH AND BURN AND YOUR PEOPLE GO EXTINCT. it was so satisfying, i was so fucking sick of the self righteous quarians acting all high and mighty when they were creating their own problems, especially during a war with the reapers. if you don't have tali loyalty and maybe high ems too, or previous correct decisions, the fleet will still attack and fail, and tali will kill herself

[@disk3001]

As perfect as this scene is, I would've loved for Legion to display fear and doubt when facing his mortality in the end and then ask the question With Tali reassuring him that he does indeed have a soul But because it's technically not the only possible ending they needed the possibility of failure so I understand

[@kylefer]

I'm almost through with Andromeda, and I got to say, the heartfelt drama like this is not there, at least not yet... I know this is ME3, perhaps in Andromeda 3 we will have such high tension/dramatic moments, because I want them bad. ME 1-3 was so heart touching.

[@flashn00b]

Seeing this bothers me that the current BioWare team intends to make the Destroy Ending the canonical outcome. Yes, I know synthesis would end all conflict thus preventing ME4 from existing, though i'd like to think that Control would still allow for major conflicts to exist.

[@mostdakka6040]

i still cry a little when i think of this scene

[@TheCorrodedMan]

“The question was the answer. This unit always had a soul” And now that soul is at peace.

[@DoctorpooandtheTURDIS]

"It always had a soul. The Question was the Answer."

[@marciimeris503]

Before i bought 2 (didnt know that it would uave such a big effect) i simply couldnt bring myself to side with the quarians, everything pointed to them being in the wrong. The geth did nothing wrong. I hated seeing tali go but.... 1 life i cared for vs the extinction of an innocent people. But i went ans bougbt me2 the next day and made sure to set up the save both ending properly

[@someguy2347]

Why did they have to make us die for synthesis? Surely it could've been easier for an alternative to dropping us in a fucking laser. Either way, my tumble sexyman is long gone. And the geth were never meant to last, sadly.

[@juanpaolomejia1699]

Fuck! I really cried when Legion died! You do have a soul!

[@ThatGenericPyro]

Man, I really wish I could've done this the first time around... But of course I didn't know how to get the Paragon option then, and I apparently wasn't very observant in that scene... ...So much for that house we were gonna build, Tali...

[@ediblistic5783]

wtf i didnt know this was an option... i fuckin made Tali kill herself, then after quickly turning off the game i killed legion...

[@FOertel]

This always cracks me up, bringing peace after all this time... which is waymore then Quarians deserved tbh... Hah, Legion, still my favorite ME Character... well, maybe together with Garrus

[@FoxGamer39618]

I just realized. Imagine if before Legion bid his farewell, he gave Tali a friendly hug.

[@vedantdesai1]

Shouldn’t this moment itself be the end to the reaper war? The reapers were created so that the created don’t rebel against the creators! This very moment marked the day when synthetic and organic life forms can live and coexist in harmony

[@cgeyik]

Me at 03:00: 'Fu** you Vigil, don't make this scene harder for me than it already is!'

[@Martel4]

Anytime you throw Vigil in a ME scene I get all emotional. It's a really beautiful song that always captured the feeling of space travel to me.

[@Indefinrance]

I just want to go face to face with bio ware and go like give my robot bro back you son of a b+×÷=

[@hankscorpio42069]

I always choose the Geth over the Quarians if genocide can't be helped.

[@Jawunleashed]

I'll never get over how softly and sadly Shepard asked "Legion?..." at 4:08

[@DivineChaos4]

The fact that you can essentially doom five differences races is the main reason I love this series so much. Rachni, Krogan, Collectors, Quarians, and Geth. And Batarians. If ya wanna be generous and acknowledge their existence. The option to make big choices that feel impactful is something that was greatly lacking in Andromeda.

[@Baba-yv6ml]

Shepard's smile at 2:40 is so silly lol

[@thomasmartin5503]

That ME track at 3:02 always means some emotional stuff is about to go down.

[@gnrmetallica95]

I can imagine the Xbox One asking the same question soon.

[@Puzzl3man]

We all hated the ending, because the game had quite a few amazing moments like this that you were so invested in by the time you'd made it to this point from the first game. ME3 was great, imo.

[@colinjamiexqrt3836]

Last time I met commander Shepard I cried although their was no music then again he had just shot me in the foot, ah good times.

[@Dinnye01]

This is where real men cried. I, as a military officer, cried. Because this was... the way any hero would have gone.

[@youarenotrede]

Legion saying "Keelah se'lai" to Tali right before he sacrifices himself gets me every time

[@bosepheus1527]

This was the only choice tree i sat at contemplating for several minutes and then used a guide to ensure i was making the right choice.

[@blueshit199]

tbh I kinda wish that the geth becoming independent and accepted didn't require them to sacrifice their unique concept of consciousness in exchange for standard individualism

[@KennyMShow]

Whel, people in comments actually speaking about how god gets are... They don't want to fight, make love not war etc. You know what? I hope noone would ask opinion of that simps than will be decided what to do with real ScyNet or something creepy thing like it. I am actually don't want to been recycled in plants food like that was in Matrix

[@CorrectsYou]

Legion didn't sacrifice itself for nothing..It was a good person..

[@FlowerKnight2]

Why did you make me watch this again KZbin?.... Fuck.... Legion is my favorite character in Mass Effect, all I ever wanted to do was give him a hug and tell him he has a soul. I would get so fucking angry whenever someone said anything hateful toward Legion.

[@SanjakPitakrat]

Multiple playthroughs and I still can't pick the paragon option lol. My Commander Shepard doesn't say "please" to the Quarians.

[@olegnikolajenko8409]

8 YEARS LATER YOU STILL MAKE ME CRY! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?

[@Lemontarts01]

I cry like a little fucking bitch every time i see legion die.... Its so heartbreaking to me. Especially when he asks tali "Does this unit have a soul?" I WANT A FUCKING PARAGON INTERUPT IN THE REMASTER WHERE I CAN SCREAN THROUGH MY HEADSET "YESSS LEGION - YES - YOU'RE THE BEST!!" Legions death was so hard for me to cope with

[@LordOfGilneas]

proving why Shepard is literally not just the best of humanity.... *But the best of EVERY. SENTIENT. RACE.*

[@nicholasshealy9040]

Man, fuck the Destroy ending. I would’ve gladly chosen that ending if it wasn’t for the fact that it makes Legion’s self sacrifice pointless. It’s also pretty stupid that the Catalyst AI doesn’t recognize that Shepard managed to broker peace between the Geth and Quarians.

[@ZulkhCodes87]

As far as I remember I managed to prevent destruction of both sides on my second playthrough of Galaxy edition. I could not bear the "disregard" on conscoius beings, machine or not (organics were my first choice). It's weird; a machine inheriting mechanisms of it's so called "creators" such as self defence etc. Meh, just a game :)

[@alexsolomon8127]

and then come the three cupcakes. thank GAWD for the "happy ending" mod they made where no, your actions actually DO matter and the largest fleet the Galaxy has ever seen(and built by your efforts) is actually able to BEAT them.