Clinton Darryl "Clint" Mansell, (born 7 January 1963) is an English musicia… Read Full Bio ↴Clinton Darryl "Clint" Mansell, (born 7 January 1963) is an English musician, composer, and former lead singer and guitarist of the band Pop Will Eat Itself.
After the disbanding of Pop Will Eat Itself in 1996, Mansell was introduced to film scoring when director Darren Aronofsky, hired him to score his debut film, π. Mansell then wrote the score for the next Aronofsky film, Requiem for a Dream, which has been well received. Mansell's composition for The Fountain was nominated for Best Original Score at the 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards. His other notable film scores include Moon, Smokin' Aces, The Wrestler, and Black Swan. Mansell's score for Darren Aronofsky's π was followed up by his score for Aronofsky's next film, Requiem for a Dream, which became a cult hit. Since their first collaboration in 1996, Mansell has composed the music to every Aronofsky film. Other notable achievements include the theme for the film The Hole, the music for the pilot episode of CSI: NY, and the score for Aronofsky's later films The Fountain, which was nominated for Best Original Score in the 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards, and The Wrestler. Mansell has also contributed the score to HBO's Voyeur. The song was also used as the base theme for the song "Throw It Up" by Lil Jon. His most recent work has been on the soundtrack for Black Swan in 2010. Mansell's theme tune for sci-fi movie Moon also appears on the trailer for the film The Iron Lady. Mansell also contributed music to Lord of the Rings. The trailer for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers contained a rearranged version of the track "Lux Æterna", using a full orchestra and choir. The piece, named "Requiem for a Tower", was recorded especially for the trailer. The orchestration was arranged by Simone Benyacar, Dan Nielsen, and Veigar Margeirsson. "Lux Æterna" has since become popular, with both the original and the "Requiem for a Tower" version having appeared in a wide variety of advertisements and trailers, including the trailer for the Red Sox–Yankees games in the 2007 Major League Baseball season, and trailers for the films Zathura, The Da Vinci Code, Sunshine, Babylon A.D. and the TV series Lost and Top Gear. It was also used on Sky Sports News and as the theme for Soccer Saturday from 2007-2009. In 2006, the theme was used in EuroSport LIVE trailers. The theme was also used by America's Got Talent as an introduction of the judges before being changed slightly. The new variant is now a regular piece on the show. Another well known trailer cue is "Death Is the Road to Awe" from the score for The Fountain which was featured in a trailer for the 2007 film I Am Legend, the trailer for the film The Mist, as well as the trailer for the film Frost/Nixon, and toward the end of 2007 The Final Cut trailer for Blade Runner.

Scoring credits

Pi, 1998
Requiem for a Dream, 2000
World Traveler, 2001
The Hole, 2001
Knockaround Guys, 2001
Rain, 2001
Abandon, 2002
Murder by Numbers, 2002
Sonny, 2002
The Hire: Ticker, 2002
11:14, 2003
Suspect Zero, 2004
Sahara, 2005
Doom, 2005
The Fountain, 2006
Trust the Man, 2006
Smokin' Aces, 2006
Wind Chill, 2007
In The Wall, 2007
Definitely, Maybe, 2008
The Wrestler, 2008
Blood: The Last Vampire, 2009
Moon, 2009
L'affaire Farewell, 2009
The Rebound, 2010
Black Swan, 2010
Last Night, 2010
Faster, 2010
United, 2011
Mass Effect 3, 2012 (TBA)
Filth, 2013

http://www.clintmansell.com

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Most interesting comments from YouTube:

krix pop

2y↑2

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Callum Kristofer

2y↑1

This is honestly why i prefer Mass Effect's story telling to Halo's... Halo is a very bleak universe. Yet the games are so grandiose. Almost all the time. I feel like those very few sad moments. Don't do how bleak it really is, justice. What it does have, is iconic. Sure... but really? I think what you see in ME 3's intro, is better than what you get in Halo. Save for maybe the deaths and glassing scenes in Reach. But it still feels underwhelming. Barely scratching the surface. While Mass Effect really does the bleakness of it's universe justice.

Halo 3 lets you know that humanity only has most of Earth left. From some dialogue in a scene.

Mass Effect 3 shows you how humanity loses everything but a few scraps of their own species.

Halo Reach and a few scenes in the other games. Are the only things in the games. That barely even scratch the surface of just how fucked up everything is... The games don't tell you about the flood cannibal cults... the games don't really even tell you just how many people died in the human covenant war... etc... that's all in the books.

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Crimson queen

3y↑2.5K

Playing the legendary edition is like meeting an old friend

Kirby Krios

Legendary Mass Erect (^_^)/

Neil Rickoff

Fucking facts, thank you for saying that

alexander

1y↑1

@The Acid Tongued Conservative same here its like changing history i still have 1,2,3 on my 360 so i just play that

The Acid Tongued Conservative

1y↑1

They censored Miranda. No buy from me.

Phil Battiste

Playing the legendary trilogy was like seeing old friends again, then feeling the heartache of having to say goodbye again.

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ToastTitan

3y↑1.6K

This music is the most “we’ve already lost” sounding music of all time

Trippy_Liberty

Broke my brain with this comment... Damn........

Abysswalker

Well Yh the reapers took earth in like what 5 10 minutes

evey0259

@The Spartan-Sangheili I'd say the music from Lone Wolf is perhaps as sad and hopeless as this, but there's acceptance in it.

Sorren Blitz

2y↑3

@SagaciousNemesis you also gave her her planet back dude so like quite honestly let her and Shepard love if they want to. Tali was my choice through my first playthrough back in the day, she was Tough, Brilliantly intelligent, and had a fire in her. Ashley is a racist, and Liara will outlive most of humanity. Also Tali can't get pregnant with Human genetics, their DNA is different like Turians, so for child free people Tali's the GOAT. Also as far as her life being in danger goes, it was in danger from the moment she was mentioned in conversation in ME1, and continued to be in danger from that point up until the Crucible in ME3. Her immuno-deficiency issues are not as big a concern as the entire galaxy being eradicated by the Soylent-Green Robots. She flat out tells you she'd rather risk an infection touching you with her actual hands than to die not knowing that feeling, and doses herself up with a ton of vaccinations and antibiotics to feel love at the end of everything.

These days I'm trying a playthrough with Miranda as the love option.

Peeled Apples

@SagaciousNemesis Tali is only 5 years younger than Shepard, you weird person

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ChickenDraws Dogs

5y↑3.1K

"Stand in the ashes of trillions and ask the ghosts if honor matters! The silence is your answer."

Zabor 2000

Im your 3k like

Rick

Sounds like Javik.

sabbywins

2y↑2

@Jill Grimwater "Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong."

Alfisyar

That Javik's line is fucking slap my full paragon Shepard.

Jasper Zanovich

@fff Not at all, the golden path is the best one.
Be good to your friends and allies and kill everyone who stands in your way.

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Shibli Noman Alif

4y↑1.7K

This is 2020 and this game is still masterpiece to this day

Huwhite Death

@Gilgamesh Exactly. It's astonishing how much people are in denial of how much it actually ruins. And the Extended Cuts actually makes it even worse. I will never be able to wrap my head around how someone saw the Extended Cut as an improvement.

Mysterious Nobody

I wish there was like a re-imagining of mass effect 3 where they actually make a good and bad ending and you get the good ending by doing absolutely everything just right.

classical715

@Jeremy Villaroman ending was perfect

Local_Brain_Error // Synaptic_Misfire_Detected

2y↑1

Absolutely. No other game like this. I absolutely loved the legendary trilogy. This game was so adventurous and amazing. I became so attached to my commander Sheppard. They don’t make them like the trilogy anymore. People talked shit about part 3 but part 3 makes todays games look like shit.

Negativvv

ME3 was no masterpiece, 1 and 2 were excellent but 3 falls short. EA forced Bioware to cut corners and rush, the game lacked that final bit of polish to make it great. I've never replayed 3 but have done so 1 and 2 countless times. Shame as it still had some great individual scenes...

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Detzuh

3y↑561

The emotion this piece invokes is unmatched

Ardent Shopper

2y↑3

I was bawling at the end. The scene and this score sent chills down my spine.

LRN

2y↑2

I dunno, "And Ever We Fight On - Killzone 3" is simply equal to me.

Moise Mensah

3y↑5

As I finished the game, my eyes reddened!

A Z

3y↑6

I Agree

Jadefeather

3y↑672

This song just fits so well in game. You're scared. You're helpless. You're running from behemoth beyond your reckoning. You don't even need the visuals, this song alone tells you how terrifying the reapers are.

Marcus Costa

2y↑7

@Augusto Henrique or going back to 2005 ... War of the Worlds tripods sound 🙂

Augusto Henrique

3y↑4

@Sorren Blitz That's interesting, oddly enough has a very similar sound to those big ship horns.

Sorren Blitz

3y↑14

@Augusto Henrique the sound of the reapers has been the same since 2008, it's actually something being thrown into an empty metal trashcan according to an interview I read.

Augusto Henrique

3y↑7

This theme was made when the Inception movie was lauched, those early sounds are very familiar.

Prismanic

3y↑33

We have dismissed that claim.

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RJ

3y↑438

A lot of games have a sad ending, but not all have a sad intro...

Callum Kristofer

@Anonymous User I myself never liked reach all that much. I just didn't like the vehicles in it at all, never played it much, but i have seen playthroughs.

Anonymous User

2y↑2

@Callum Kristofer This is why reach is my favorite Halo game, yet everyone seems to forget it.

Callum Kristofer

2y↑6

This is honestly why i prefer Mass Effect's story telling to Halo's... Halo is a very bleak universe. Yet the games are so grandiose. Almost all the time. I feel like those very few sad moments. Don't do how bleak it really is, justice. What it does have, is iconic. Sure... but really? I think what you see in ME 3's intro, is better than what you get in Halo. Save for maybe the deaths and glassing scenes in Reach. But it still feels underwhelming. Barely scratching the surface. While Mass Effect really does the bleakness of it's universe justice.

Halo 3 let's you know that humanity only has most of Earth left. From some dialogue in a scene.

Mass Effect 3 shows you how humanity loses everything but a few scraps of their own kind.

Halo Reach and a few scenes in the other games. Are the only things in the games. That barely even scratch the surface of just how fucked up everything is... The games don't tell you about the flood cannibal cults... the games don't really even tell you just how many people died in the human covenant war... etc... that's all in the books.

Valek Z

3y↑5

The last of us 1 intro its depressing like this one

A Sponge

3y↑1

Literally every single fucking AAA game has a sad intro

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Miki M.

4y↑1.9K

ME 1 was like "hey, this is a new, well-done universe that is waiting for you"
ME 2 was like "hello again my friend, you will have a fu****g great time"
ME 3 was like "so my friend, this is the last time that we meet. say goodbye because it's over"
And because of ME 3 I can't play trilogy anymore. This is not a game. This is a memory. Memory of a great time that you had over a few years with your friend. And now you don't have a contact with this friend. He's gone or something. This is how I feel about ME. It's really something more than a game.

TheJjiibbChannel

Cringe

Gay V1nce cuh

Well said

fernando13e

1y↑1

I remember the first time i played ME unfortunately i didnt do it in chronological order and actually began backwards, started with ME3 then ME2 and still havent played ME1 but yeah... Not a single disappointment with every game, all of them were so badass for their time.

thisrandomgamer

1y↑1

Oh I see what you mean

Miki M.

@thisrandomgamer I know. But it always can end up being andromeda level of shitness. That's what I meant by "another andromeda"

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MR. ICE

3y↑126

The single most beautiful soundtrack I have ever heard. The gentle, sad melody intertwined with the reaper horn is spine tingling. I will never get over how amazing this music is. This tops every soundtrack I have ever heard.

Writing Eagle

You ever heard silent hill 2 soundtrack ore the heavy rain soundtrack? It is also brilliant 😉

Lint Nomiel

Да, согласен, очень мало композиций, которые, хоть как-то, могли б сравнятся, с этим шедевром ...

Galactus33

5y↑429

This is the best video game trilogy ever created... EVER. Fight me.

TheJjiibbChannel

Skyrim 1 2 snd 3

MiSmallVids

No need to

kanye north

Mordor could've been one

krix pop

2y↑2

Lam Pham

Lord of the ring: best trilogy movie
Mass effect: best trilogy game

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AM

6y↑466

Half a decade has gone by. And still I come back to this.

Obi-Wan Kenobi

2y↑4

Crazy how time flies…

Elit3

2y↑4

Over a decade

teneil washington

Been doing play threws of this trilogy since 2012 myself. Still an all time fav and most played. So I feel u on that one

0transcendence9

And you still have no family kids or decent job to have time and come back and play 200+ hour game in your 30s 40s well that's pathetic.😄😄

AM

3y↑7

@Fabian Ruiz I'm still here and I'm alright my dude 👊🏻
Can't wait for the Legendary Edition to come out and forget my worries for a while

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Quish

2y↑27

Any game you play you think to yourself “the good guys will overcome the evil” this is the only franchise where the hope for a good ending diminishes the further you go

kanye north

Shadow of war too

Scott M

The mission to Thessia showed that perfectly.

LRK20

Perfect destroy. Bittersweet but needed. The whole game as we know it soon with the teasing of mass effect 4 will be flipped on it’s head shepard lives with high enough ems

BluelightTV

10y↑2.4K

Sometimes the most powerful songs have the fewest words

Anthony Ellison

Faxx

ΛutistiЄ

No, the most powerful songs have the fewest words.

It's just fact.

Moise Mensah

Hans Zimmer understood it and made a career out of your comment.

peidoatomico

And more reaper horns

The Antagonist

5y↑3

But there are no words.

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Bayleigh Resta

3y↑108

This scene when the reaper destroys both ships along with the child makes you realise how evil and brutal the reapers are.
“ No matter how hard you try. You can’t save them all.” 😢

airjersey89

Few days ago I saw a theory where that kid id just Shepard's imagination and it could be something common with it.
Look at the moment when he's getting on the shuttle. No one notice he's there and how he disappeard in that air conduct in just blink of an eye

deighton13601

Replaying it but doing a renegade play through. Though Iove edi I can’t bring myself to not destroy the reapers they’re evil sob’s

SagaciousNemesis

2y↑2

@S0P0R Machines? Reapers are Cyborgs, they are part biological so morality is a concept they understand.

Maulvath

2y↑2

I recommend reading about Emily Wong last text messages, she reports on earth in california about the reaper coming, and gets to see some chilling sight, amongst them a school with husk spikes in the basketball field

S0P0R

2y↑3

Machines can't be evil. Brutal... definitely, but evil? No at all.

Alexis McCall

3y↑59

0:25 That sound never fails at giving me chills; it's truly something else. The best way to describe it is that I literally feel it (the sound) down in my bones. Even hearing it imitated on instruments fills me with the same sense of dread.

ferrous719

If I remember correctly it was a bear proof trash can lid

Spina

3y↑1

When i was a kid THIS sound scared me,now i have 14 year old and finally not scare me🤣(Sorry for the grammatic,im not english)

Insoenmer Insoenmer

1y↑9

На слезу пробивает.. Шикарная трилогия. Шикарная музыка 3й части. 🥺

Jacob Ford

3y↑27

2020 and this song alone still breaks my heart....what a masterpiece this trilogy is.

Philippe SAIZ

Now you can listen to it again, as you picture a ukrainian soldier on february 22, watching cruise missiles over his head... 🥺

STATHIS

3y↑80

Just finished the trilogy yesterday and I can't stop crying! What an incredible game! Can't wait for The Next Mass Effect!

SagaciousNemesis

Crying? lol

Ardent Shopper

2y↑1

Finished it yesterday. I was bawling at the end. This game is just so good.

ᄆᄂ

2y↑2

@ArcelloV andromeda, anthem, BioWare is no more. None of the original members of the trilogy remains. Inquisitions success gave BioWare the wrong idea that they will make it work regardless of the circumstances

ArcelloV

2y↑3

There will be no such good Mass Effect. I don’t believe in today’s Bioware anymore.

Charlie Runkle

3y↑1

@GuapoCat I'm on the third game now and loving it.

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ZaxReg64

5y↑698

"Go back and build yourself a home", "I have a home" 😭

DreamsScream

@Captslayer21 for me it's femshep and Garrus 😢 😭 I don't usually get so emotional but I nearly cried

RPWDEC 99

@Captslayer21 😭

Captslayer21

2y↑6

I fucking bawled so hard
I'm so fucking mad that my Shepard and Tali won't have a happy ever after

RedVelvet

3y↑14

@luc jazz Happiest day of my fookin life mate. Mass Effect will bless our souls.

Hal.K

3y↑18

@luc jazz i saw that, FINALLY AFTER WAITING FOR YEARS

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Robert Johnson

3y↑29

I remember the first time I played this game, the sounds the reapers make still send shivers down my spine.

Scott M

@SagaciousNemesis Probably is

SagaciousNemesis

2y↑1

Sounds like a Cargo ship horn lol.

Reacherfan

1y↑3

I appreciate that the song is a masterpiece, it really is. But I feel that you need to have context to FULLY understand this song. You need to know the point at which this song is played in the game. You need to understand what the situation with the galaxy and the Reapers is. You need to know everything that has lead up to this moment. You just need that scene of all those ships leaving earth, with the Reapers obliterating everything in sight to fully understand the song. A true Masterpiece.

Fabian Ruiz

3y↑28

I wish I could play this trilogy for the first time again...the amount of nostalgic emotion that I feel listening to this is overwhelming

AdeptN7

5y↑305

Its amazing how wide this song has become. I was just watching Game of Thrones behind the scenes of Season 8 episode 3 and this song came on...just first hit on the piano and i knew

ferrous719

That is fucking wild hahahah I can't remember if I watched that episode of bts or if we were binging that season.

Whiteythereaper

@ThatBloomer I was about to mention that lmao. Season 3's recap trailer on Netflix had it

ThatBloomer

Daredevil had it too.

Anton Hallergren

3y↑1

@Journey95 Far Idk I like the extended cut ending with destroy. Yeah imo that should have been the only ending since all others end in the opposite of the goal of the games: reapers still live. But as long as you destroy them and have the extended I have 0 problems with it

AdeptN7

3y↑1

@TheHiddenNarrative Laron was an actual Husk tho...you heard his laugh, lol

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Songato Redenscio

4y↑19

For a month I have been playing this trilogy, it has touched me on a deep level. When I play I really feel that I am the one who fires the trigger that kills a being or who finds the medal of a deceased husband and returns it to its enduring owner. I have left the ME1 with some incomplete secondary missions, and although I barely go in ME2, I cannot and do not want to go back because in "real life" it cannot be done, but neither to go forward and avoid the loss of a friend. I feel more "me" in this series than in any other, perhaps almost as "me" as in real life. I LOVE this saga.

Olzhas Ibragimov

4y↑1

ME is too good and I can`t play it anymore. Just... it`s too painful and sad being Shepard, loving Tali, having fun with Garrus and Rex because you know the end. You know how it ends... Shit, idk how i will be playing another games....

JPVNG67

4y↑2

yeah..Shepard story its like..being part of a movie..you live it. You are Shepard

jackspedicey 2.0

5y↑18

this game takes the spot at the top of my favorite games list. emotional soundtrack, strong characters, good story... the ending had me in tears. first game to ever make me cry.

BULLETSCARER22

2y↑6

I just beat ME3 for the first time with the Legendary Edition (bought it months ago, and never played the series till like 2 weeks ago) and damn. The Mass Effect trilogy has shot up there as easily one of my favorite game series out there.

The whole time when the Reapers were showing up, and this was playing, you can almost just feel the dread that Shepard does. And it shows how dangerous the Reapers are and how they need to be taken out. Also, can we just talk about how this song is similar to the one at the end of the game when you finally defeat the Reapers? Like, damn.

BULLETSCARER22

@MiSmallVids Yea, like, I replayed the trilogy like 3 times. And every time I start 3, and this shows, even tho I know what's gonna happen to Shepard and everyone else, this still hits hard, which goes to show how good this is and how great the replay is on the series.

MiSmallVids

Man same though I haven't even finished ME3 and I already want to play the trilogy again

Sigma0283

3y↑23

Seeing this scene for the first time and seeing the remains of the fleet defending Earth, I couldn't help but quote General of the Army Douglas MacArthur: "I shall return."

Agent Gentlemen

3y↑34

When I saw Shepard's expression witnessing what could have been a safe departure for many people he's sworn to protect, that hits me, so hard. This soundtrack is always emotional. God, I can't wait to experience such feeling again in the next ME.

MULDOONE

2y↑2

Mass effect is, and forever always will be a masterpiece. the entire trilogy is something i can't forget and everytime i have re-experienced it all. I feel more strong about it each time. I love it all, no complaints, nothing wrong with it. I honestly dont understand how people can complain about this in the slightest, no matter the excuse behind it. I believe that some things are just meant to be the way it is. and this is one of those things.

Vatian

8y↑757

Its ending may be not as expected, but Mass Effect 3 succeeded in reflecting a dreadful and hopeless war in galactic scale. That's what I love about this game. It makes you feel like there is no hope against the Reapers at all.

Callum Kristofer

2y↑1

AAAWUBADAUGH

@Youtube Commenter Well you have refuse for that

Youtube Commenter

The end should have been utter annihilation. Reapers win.

Марк Гацко

@M. Woller Yes, I'm typing from Afterlife.

Марк Гацко

4y↑1

@M. Woller The way you are wording your sentences could kill a human.

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Eduard Althamer

2y↑5

A decade has gone by, a friking decade... and this piece still brings tears to my eyes.
Althought the ending is what it is, the trilogy was about the journey to me, not only the destination.
I've replayed it at least once a year, every time it touches my soul.. and now with the new Mass Effect in works, I hope with all my heart that it will touch my soul at least half of how the original trilogy did.

Keelah Se'lai Commanders.

JWonderful Success

2y↑3

Mass effect is one of the best sci-fi titles ever made!

Daffydd Price

5y↑12

It doesn't matter how many times I listen to this song it still makes me feel like I'm gonna cry

Darth Mordax

2y↑1

@1:00
I'll never forget the overwhelming emotion I felt as a kid playing this for the first time. Sheperd's face as he turns away, Normandy barely escaping the carnage, massive behemoth alien AIs utterly decimating Earth's defenses... man this score really hit hard. I had never felt more motivated to play a game in my entire life.

Smythe

1y↑5

Just finished the trilogy for the first time. What an amazing journey :')

Optic Midnight

3y↑22

This scene will always make me tear up.. along with the music..

SlayKing

@Optic Midnight Finished my first play through recently. I mostly played paragon with a bit renegade usually I just act how I feel in my first play throughs but I did want to be the hero and win. Tho I did kill counselor udina just cause I felt like it lmao but I ended up picking control ending and used the reapers to help further the galaxy. I definitely was happy about it 60-80 hours well spent.

Optic Midnight

3y↑1

I always play Paragon, can't seem to play the renegade

SlayKing

A satisfying end for a great trilogy at least my end was good

Jon Harper

4y↑11

That opening first mission hit me like a mule kick to the gut. It was perfectly executed.

Abhinav Saxena

5y↑18

The days when the story itself was more important than the gameplay. I will never forget this game.

Andrew Davis

9y↑7.4K

I hate when people disregard mass effect 3 just from the ending....yeah it could have been better but the game itself is brilliant

Thy Brosky

I used to think the ending was bad to. But after so many play through I realized, when something like the reapers threaten the galaxy, and you're in this kind of fight. Even if you win the ending can't be perfect.

Saren Arterius

I love me3, but all the political garbage agenda, with lots of new faces no one cares, not the loved faces and the terrible end killed the game, really.
But using mods, I changed almost everything wrong in the game: changed the final, using the old pals in missions, banned the retarded Kai Lang, etc and now the me3 is almost perfect :D

aarussel0

2y↑1

its still one of the best games ever...including the original ending. sometimes life doesnt pan out the way you thought. sometimes you only have 3 shitty choices and none of them you want. the game was perfect as it was

Richard Larsson

2y↑1

If your first time is or was the Legendary Edition the ending is great

Tye Joyce

I unfortunately fell in to this category and refrained from paying ME3 for 10 years!! Now having just played it, the loss was entirely mine. What a masterpiece this game is.

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uhOBme

3y↑13

All these years and it still hits.

littlemouse

3y↑10

This is one of the most heartbreaking music ever it moves me even after all this time. The ME trilogy music should have more recognition than it has it's epic and it's as recognizable as the games. I really hope there will be a ME4 the problem is that ME as the story of Shepard was always meant to be a trilogy so it's very difficult to continue the saga without him/her. And please stop hating on Andromeda it was a good game I liked it but it had the impossible task to follow such masterpieces. It's no coincidence that to this day nobody has been able to make a sci-fi game comparable or even remotely similar to ME.

Gooner

2y↑2

So glad I finally decided to play the trilogy via the Legendary Edition, best decision I've ever made! Became my favourite series of all time.

Casey D

3y↑5

I might be insane, or maybe Legendary Edition was a drastic difference in experience, but ME3, in my opinion, had my favorite opening, the best combat, some of the best comedy, character moments, and a mostly satisfying buildup to the end, keep in mind I said BUILDUP. Some of the best moments of the trilogy are there, and some of the worst, and although ME2 is probably objectively better, ME3 captures the finality of the trilogy in a climactic, yet gut wrenching way. And it all started with this beautiful piece of music.

LuisXGP

7y↑863

One of the most epic songs in the history of videogames.

Bh Bh

@Megan B. Search the death of Ghost
That's the best Cod moment

Megan B.

@Joint Lucas Who peed in your coffee cup? I hope life's treated you better than when you fired off this burn 9 months ago. :/

Megan B.

@XpPanda I've never heard of CoD soundtracks or CoD having a storyline. Care to link a let's play story-based series and/or a soundtrack?

burrito

@Joint Lucas way to be an asshole for no reason

garrison bush

LuisXGP mass effect 1 and 2 had the best, but this feels futuristic war-like

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Dédale

3y↑5

The first Reaper noise is so well integrated into the track. You can picture it breaching the sky suddenly.

Geralt of Rivia

4y↑5

Mass Effect 3 started out so damn well. The attack on Earth was so emotional and the soundtrack is easily the best in the series and one of the greatest ever. But as the game went along, more and more inconsistencies and plot holes kept appearing. And then the godawful ending happens.

Razgriz❶

Two years of development for a game like Mass Effect is way too damn short, but at the least the game is still fun to play, in my opinion only the ending was the bad part, but the last parts of the game was obviously rushed.

ApocalypticOasis

5y↑11

I loved these games so much, I am glad I experienced it the first time myself and didn't watch any of the playthroughs. Such a good experience. No matter what people say about Mass Effect 3's ending, it was still a great game and still was a great game series.

Local_Brain_Error // Synaptic_Misfire_Detected

2y↑4

No other game like this. I absolutely loved the legendary trilogy. This game was so adventurous and amazing. I became so attached to my commander Sheppard. They don’t make them like the trilogy anymore. People talked shit about part 3 but part 3 makes todays games look like shit. This game and very few hold a special place in my heart.

Pedro Brazon

3y↑6

Even after all these years, it still shakes the very core of my soul. This embodies such hatred, fear, helplessness, all at the same time.
I love you Mass Effect, thank you for existing :)

Flipyap

3y↑2

Yo that's ending may not have been great but I can't tell you how excited I am to do one more play through. Me3 is the culmination of what you loved doing from both games the game play alone carries it

TEXAS FALCON

2y↑6

In 2014 I played this song at my grandma's funeral she actually watch me play the trilogy from start to finished and she loved the game this song is more emotional because of that

Shalryma

3y↑7

I wouldn’t be where I am in life if it wasn’t for this game. I wouldn’t have my partner, many of my friends, my job... I’m forever grateful that I got a chance to play this game when it first came out. This track is such a beginning mark for me. My old life ended when I heard it for the first time.

BigJamez21

9y↑1.2K

I know its just a game, but I'm sure I'm not the only one that felt it when that kid got blasted by the reapers.

TWW

@Daniel Rodriguez grown man and I had a genuine tear in my eye during the Thane death scene.

SagaciousNemesis

The only thing I felt was how stupid I thought those Alliance shuttle pilots were for doing a pickup right next to a repear.

Siren Melkherisa

Oh I was frozen for a few minutes when I saw that like nooooo y’all did not let the kid die like that 😢

FurryMcMemes

I felt it, I felt it having to leave Earth behind as well.

V3RYM3GAFUN

Indeed

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marylain69

6y↑19

In time, you will know what it's like to lose. To feel so desperately that you're right. Yet to fail all the same. Dread it. Run from it. Destiny still arrives.

Nic Walker

3y↑2

This’ll probably seem weird but Mass Effect 3 was the very first ME game I played. I remember getting it for Christmas (even though I don’t think I asked for it) and I looked at the game cover and I was like “this seems kinda cool” so I gave it a try. When I first watched this scene and heard this song play I remember thinking that this game would be something special. I eventually beat it and was a bit disappointed with how my play through went because I didn’t do a good job at gaining allies and I didn’t understand how the Paragon/Renegade system worked. Many years later and here I am. I’ve now played through ME 1 and 2 and I now understand most of the story and why so many people love this series. I’ve been a Halo fan for most of my life and I never thought a series could really rival it… until I saw my friends like Kaiden, Mordin and Legion all sacrifice their lives for galactic peace. How I kept smiling when I reunited with old friends like Wrex and Liara. I’m not entirely sure how my current play through will turn out but whatever the ending might be, I’m just glad I was finally able to truly experience this trilogy. Halo may be my first love, but Mass Effect comes at a very close second 🥺

Morgan Fitch

3y↑1

Mass Effect 3 was my entry into the series. So many years ago... This track has stuck with me the whole time. Even with the way the trilogy ended, I love it with all of my heart, and I am so scared yet so excited to see where Bioware takes it in the next game.

Mark Morgan

3y↑8

This music always gets me, it is beautiful and the tone is also haunting...

LuckyAeronaut

10y↑112

This song, along with An End Once and For All, almost make me want to cry. Mass Effect is one of the best series I've ever played, and I can't wait for the next one, even if Shepard doesn't return :(

Todd Kenton

6y↑2

Boy do I got bad news about the new one lol

Rico Goudt

10y↑1

i dont really mind though, shepards story is over :) it was good as fuck. i'm curious what new idea's and storylines they got.

Dafydd

10y↑12

Yeah I know what you mean. I going to really miss the old crew apart from Jacob. I think I'll miss Tali the most but i'm sure the new bunch will be just as good and maybe even better.

Novuh X

6y↑1

The memories I have playing this game are more intense then any other. I get chills when I hear this track. And I get tears thinking about this trilogy and what a fantastic experience I had playing it. The sound track for all of them gives me chills like nothing else can and it's sort of sad that a game can do this but I am so happy it can. Just a fellow nerd sharing his story...

FlibbityFloop

2y↑4

Wow. What a franchise. I remember doing a 1st play through of this games campaign and almost wept when this scene was running. To think the whole of united humanity couldnt stop one single species and yet we still continue to fire missiles at each other... Scary...

Durando Angiulo

3y↑1

I was too young when these games originally came out, (got my ps3 a yr before ps4 came out) and after finishing my first run through of the legendary edition, I only have one word.

Masterpiece.

I haven't had a story/characters move me like this is a long time. It's kind of startling but I won't forget these games any time soon.

Dr.Tursko

1y↑2

I’ve played thousands of hours of video games, yet I don’t think an opening has ever hit hard as this for me.

ThePat

3y↑10

Just finished playing the trilogy. Pretty good games 👍

Ken W

2y↑2

Part of this song is played during Season 1, Episode 4 in Buried Secrets of WW2. It's about 36:50 into the episode when they are scuba diving around the USS Arizona. The show is on Hulu. It's very brief, but I immediately knew it was Mass Effect!

Guns

2y↑22

The sound of loss and grief.

Scaribou

3y↑10

Man this game coming back to us is like the best thing that could happen in the year

CPGrace

3y↑8

What can I say, the best game series ever made.

Moise Mensah

Final Fantasy says hello!

The Senate

2y↑3

The quote from Halo: Reach "I know we're losing, I want to know if we've already lost" I think fits perfectly with this song and the scene it's used in. I know its from a rival Sci-fi franchise but still.

Batman

5y↑8

I cried at this scene. Just a powerful and emotional scene with this music playing in background.

Bruno

4y↑2

No matter what scars you bear, whatever uniform you wear. You can fight like a Krogan, you can run like a leopard but you'll never be better than commander shepard! Damn , this trilogy is so much fun en amotional. Music is simply masterpiece. Gampplay, character development, relations, sidequests, ship, planets, bosses, enemies, almost everythin in the game is top-notch, or at least was for me at the time. i played me3 multiplayer for YEARS after it became forgotten by 99% of people and was still fun. None other game made this. Campaign was incredibly engaging. you really get into Shepard's skin, as he became the ultimate hero for the universe

The Adjective Purple

10y↑48

Best track to listen to when your ship in FTL is about to explode

Libertarian Pasta

10y↑14

@TicTacPilgrim The worst part about that is the fact those crew members didn't even willingly sacrifice themselves, that blood is on your hands man. Pixelated digital blood, but blood nonetheless.

The Adjective Purple

10y↑20

Actually an epic thing happened during FTL on the last part of the final boss. I was listening to this track in the background and I was one hit away from dying. But in five tries my ship dodged every hit from the bosses super weapon. I picked away at his shields with a burst laser then fried a pike beam. I had two crew men teleported on the boss ship and their was no time to beam them back because of the cool down time for the teleporter and the boss was about to fire the super weapon soon. His shields were down so I made a choice and took the boss down with a pike beam while two of my crewmen were still in the ship. I won, the battle ended and I was in shock.

Hunter Mosher

10y

Oh. Ok. I knew it was a game but did not know the title. Thanks @Tomáš Unavailable !

Hunter Mosher

10y

What is FTL?

Kane NUFC87

2y↑1

1:11 always gives me goosebumps from the reapers landing..

Holo Pilot

5y↑8

I remember the day I got Mass Effect 3, after all the build up of the Reaper invasion through the first two games, and developing bonds with my favorite characters, I was genuinely afraid of what was going to happen in Mass Effect 3, I was afraid for my favorite characters, for the crew, for Shepard, and the universe I had come to love so much.
I had butterflies in my stomach during the first cutscene when the Reapers had reached the moon.
And during this part of the game I knew things were going to get pretty crazy.
What an absolute journey these games were, I will always cherish them.

Razor Calahan

5y↑874

Reaper 1: "You know what would be awesome?"
Reaper 2: "No, what?"
Reaper 1: "If we had our own badass soundeffect when we're coming for the mortals so they know they're in deep shit."
Reaper 3: [walks by] 0:24

Nicmadis

3y↑1

Reaper 1: "I guess farting works?" 0:30
Reaper 2: "Well, it did seem to scare the mortals, so..." 0:42

Dana.

3y↑10

Those Reaper sounds are absolutely terrifying. The developers did such an amazing job on delivering the size of threat that those machines were.

Eric

3y↑3

Reminds me of the tripods from war of the world's

Eternal Eternus

3y↑1

LOL yeah

Frank Cayseron

3y↑3

that sound woke me up from drunken stupor when i was 19.

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Forrest Penrod

5y↑1

I didn’t play ME when the ending controversy happened but having played the trilogy multiple times since then, the ending has never bothered me.

I remember feeling depressed the first time I beat 3 and that made me love the games even more. Just goes to show how effective the storytelling was that fictional characters could elicit such an emotional reaction.

However anytime I play through since I just consider the Citadel DLC the real ending and pretend it’s set after the Reapers are defeated. If there was any mistake with the ending as is, it’s that there was no “canon” happy ending option.

TBurianOnline

8y↑772

This game is worth it just for this song alone. Always tears me up.

Anthony Corrigan

8y↑3

The music alone can make me cry, this track, I am proud of you, I was lost without you, they all make me tear up without even playing the game. I have played through the series so many times, and everytime I care as much about the story and the characters (to the point my Shepherd always looks the same, is always Jenifer Hail and always falls in love with Liara, I did one run to get the other trophies but always go back to this story).

I really hope the new one can do justice to this serie

TheUberpeter

8y↑6

just heard this on top gear (they tend to use it once every season or so), and now i'm in for a three hour marathon of leaving earth on replay and some crying, no biggie.

Senhara

hey +Commander Shepard how has the rebuilding of the relays going with the reapers?

LS GANGSTA 83

ikr when the kid dies

Handsome Jack

8y↑3

Me too!!! So much emotions

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Gabe Newell

5y↑6

One of the greatest soundtracks of all time.

V H

2y↑1

Played the trilogy the first time this year, and what should i say, it was the best gaming experience ever. Was so in love with it that i had to play it a second time when i was done. And i know for sure that i will play it lots of times all over again

Baalrunner

6y↑8

One of the greatests OST I've heard in a game... Clint Mansell never disappoints

El'dranesh

4y↑5

Я заплакал ... С момента смерти масс эффекта прошло почти 8 лет ...
I cried, almost 8 years have passed since the death of the mass effect ...

futureshock

10y↑63

I can't wait for the 4th game but I am going to miss Shepard

usaa300

@TenshiCZ God I hope not. Enough fucking reboots. Give it at least a decade, so they have a much better engine to run it off of.

Władca Wymiaru

Mass effect4 - first contact.
Fight aganist Turians
XD

Zet

10y

@futureshock They might just reboot series. Would make most sense imho.

futureshock

10y↑1

@Patrick Knezevic
Why did I spoiler? If you have not played the game don't come here and learn grammar too

Patrick Knezevic

10y

You fucking son of a bitch,why did you spoiler -.-

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Bobo Dog

2y↑1

Playing through all 3 mass effects in legendary edition was my absolute highlight of 2021

Yellow King

4y↑18

This song is what it feels like to play the ending for the first time.

Edward Chepuneli

2019, and still listening to it. The best soundtrack I've ever heard

phenompy

3y↑8

This game had one of the best composers ever, the hype of a decade behind it, and even though the game was amazing until the last few minutes, all people will remember about it is those three colored cursed endings.

TheBrownMamba

3y↑1

Deservedly so. I mean, half a decade of build up. Millions of innocent lives sacrificed. Tens of tough decisions involving millions of people's lives being made. And the only thing that you get in the end is a different color. Minimal closure, with little to no epilogue. For a franchise as big as the original Mass Effect trilogy, it deserves a proper epilogue like what Red Dead Redemption 2 has.

Александр Смирнов

3y↑3

There's four, actually. In Lgendary Edition you can shoot the Catalyst.

"So be it. The cycle continues."

Ian Fraser

10y↑32

Despite the ending Mass Effect 3 is still one of the greatest games of all time. The characters, the atmosphere, the fighting, etc. All of it cannot possibly be replicated.

chiffmonkey

10y↑3

@Havok0159 By "Starchild" you mean an AI.The inaccessible Citadel control core is referenced in ME1 by Avina, and if you visit Klencory in ME1 or ME3 you'll see reference to Beings of Light, created at the dawn of time (hint: by the leviathans), to stop the machine devils. And no machine devils does not mean reapers. The reapers are a LESSER evil. ME3 does not explain what the greater evil really is, but by breaking the cycle, the ending is left open for it. The reapers employed crop rotation (reaper, collector, harvester, even shepard are all farming metaphors), destroying a part of the population infrequently to protect the rest most of the time. People say this is bad logic. To a human it is. To an AI, it's simply the result of a poor application of Asimov's laws.

Havok0159

10y

@***** Here's my problem: when I played this game on the EU release date, I was fully immersed in the universe, I had timed it all perfectly and just finished ME2 again when I could finally play ME3. I played the game in full exploration mode and took it all in, enjoyed every second of the gameplay and story and then I come up to the end, once the starchild finished talking I'm just standing there thinking: "What the hell now?". Eventually I went ahead and chose synthesis because I couldn't imagine a world where Jeff and EDI couldn't be together and after the end credits I was simply sad. Not "so impressed by the story that I can't believe its over" sad but plain old dissappointed and depressed. The only thing I could do was go to bed. I've replayed the game since then, with the ending dlc but since I kinda knew how it ends, I was ready for it and I didn't care anymore and just chose to blow the reapers up. Bioware made us care and I applaud them for that, but I don't trust them anymore.

tissot233

10y

@hoodfigga33 I can easily understand why people don't like it, but I don't quite get being mad at the game and makers. It just feels very much like the "gamer crowd" and teenager reaction to it all. I got a feeling it also depends on how you play these games.
I play these games very much for the story and maybe even more for the atmosphere. The wrap-up isn't as important as the road to it imo.

I was way more sad about the game ending, than I was about the ending. It wasn't about the ending why I played the game.

tissot233

10y↑6

It is. I have unfortunately become very picky with my games as I have gotten older.
ME was the first game/game series in 6 years that was on my mind all the time and I was experiencing similar stuff as you would do as a kid playing games.
Hell, ME series, Dragon Age, Fallout and Mario Galaxy are the only games in my adult live I have bothered to play all the way.

SEHTLIMBO

2y↑3

Watching the Normandy ascend into the sky is really crucial for this song because Shepard and the Normandy are the last hope earth has.

Tiny Miracle

5y↑2

I was recovering still after 3 years this stuff hits me with max feels

Snupaboo

2y↑2

Say what you want about 3 but this song perfectly captures the terror and sadness that would be an alien invasion

TheArgusApocraphex1

6y↑6

I remember playing that opening sequence clear as day. Having to leave Anderson and watching Earth be ravaged and those people burn... And having to just turn your back and leave for the greater good of HOPEFULLY, MAYBE returning with some kind of fleet. I remember in that one moment valuing to kill every. Single. Reaper. The song gets me every goddamn time.

Alfisyar

2y↑3

"Amonkira lord of hunters, grant that hands be steady, my aim be true, and my feet swift, and should the worst come to past grant me forgiveness."

SirNutcase

1y↑2

Commander Shepard, story of my life. Fighting off the bad things and in the end paying for it :(

The Real Rouges

4y↑55

Best trilogy of all time, period.

Skipper The Eye Child

@Alonne Not while Dark Souls 2 exists.

The Real Rouges

3y↑3

@Alonne hell no, ovverrated asf

Alonne

Dark souls says hi

The Real Rouges

@Skipper The Eye Child Metroid Prime is awesome, too

Skipper The Eye Child

Metroid Prime says hi.

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airjersey89

2y↑1

no other game touched me so much. I mean, that feel like "damn, we're doomed, reapers are here. They will destroy everything and we won't survive."

That attack at the beginning and reapers all around? One of the greates game experances I've ever had.

JuriAmari

10y↑21

They just used this song on an episode of Homeland. I nearly jumped around the room when I heard this.
Surprisingly, this is not the first time this has happened. I heard ME2's love theme on a Food Network show in the elimination section of choosing the next executive chef. I guess EA needs some extra cash... and some indirect gaming product placement.

djreese00

10y

@*****
It wasn't in an episode but for the preview for the season 3 finale.

Zapix

10y↑2

The main theme for Saints Row 4 was used a couple of months ago by Cinemax for their fall preview or whatever it was. I was pretty shocked considering the game had barely been out for long. Was cool hearing ME3 last night, glad other people spotted that lol

Mechagirl Sachiko

10y↑2

Oh, really? Which episode was it? If you don't mind telling, of course. I haven't seen that series, but this has picked my curiosity.

jarmoksvk

10y↑7

Wasn't expecting Reapers to invade Homeland.

djreese00

10y↑3

It was a treat hearing this last night during the promo.

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Dead Robot

5y↑1

After all these years it still brings tears to my eyes
it was one hell of a rid

Nathan Loughran

3y↑1

I bought the legendary edition last week, my first ever time playing this incredible series and man ME1 blew me away! I finished it and I’ve just started ME2 today. Really loving this series so far and really annoyed at myself for sleeping on these games for so many years but also kinda glad I waited to play the best version possible.

Vvardenfell

4y↑2

This song is so incredible. It literally makes my eyes well up just listening to it.

FanOfGoodMovies

5y↑3

When I was playing this game for the first time, even though I kinda knew what to expect, this scene still gave me fuckin' chills. Invasion of Mechanical Horrors, sight of explosions everywhere, and that unmistakable, powerful sound which filled your nightmares ever since you saw Sovereign for the first time...
It makes me wonder, if we didn't made biggest mistake ever, sending these probes with golden disks off into dark space.

Steven Forde

10y↑196

The ending may of been suck-ish, and controversial;
But, Mass Effect- is, and forever will be, one of the most magnificent game franchises I've ever played. ME, ME2, and ME3 are three of the best games I've ever played.
Bring on Mass Effect 4, I'm ready!

chinochimp

Too bad mass effect 4 was a giant let down

Jimmu

Steven Forde so innocent yet so naïve

Aeureus

7y↑1

+jhett7 You do realise, this star child is probably the main character for mass effect Andromeda?

jhett7

10y↑1

@***** This is an old topic, but if you think it was about shepard dying, you are dead wrong. It was just about how lazy the ending was. The biggest thing everyone hated was the 'star child'. It was almost like they writers wrote this big epic tale, and by the end of it, they were just like, "I'm so fucking tired of this thing, someone just scribble something down so we can be done with it." It was god awful.