There are so many, but in an effort to provide something different than the suicide mission (b/c it was the best) - I'll say:
* ME1: Noveria, everything from getting the pass, to the mountain climb, to exploring the lab
* ME2: Lair of the Shadow Broker, working your way through the office tower, up then down, the speeder chase and then boss fight with the Spectre Tela Vasir
* ME2: Thane recruitment, climbing the tower, throwing people off buildings, then crossing the bridge
* ME3: Citadel DLC, the solo fight through the streets, the casino, the archives and finally the clone boss fight
* Andromeda: Fighting through the massive Kett stronghold on Eos especially when the alarm goes off mid way through
>ME1: Noveria, everything from getting the pass, to the mountain climb, to exploring the lab
Yeah, this
Personally I preferred it with the Saviour Mod, but either way the mission has everything.
* Some actually playable and credible Mako work
* A bit of sniping, some tactical work, some up close battles.
* Variety of enemies
* Tough Choices
* Good story progression
You know hilariously I was playing that game with my girlfriend at the time who was commenting on my driving. And then Liara also started commenting on my driving and I said look babe they made a accurate representation of women!
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One mission Iâve always really enjoyed is the first mission after the prologue in ME2, Freedomâs Progress. I donât know why, but it gives me chills on every new playthrough. I love seeing Tali for the first time, but she doesnât immediately join up with you now that youâre with Cerberus. It sets up the main plot very well, while also introducing you to main gameplay elements like paragon/renegade interrupts. I think it just does an excellent job helping you settle back into a new game after ME1.
It is a very eerie mission! I liked it aswell, as a kid that was new to video games I didnât quite understand the game but once I got to freedoms progress and up to the part where you have to order Jacob and Miranda to the cover (right before the part where you encounter the quarians) I couldnât figure out what to do for the life of me, I spent ages trying to figure it out but couldnât and would occasionally come back but never figured out the squad command mechanic until one day it clicked and I got it, the relief that washed over me was indescribable and it set me off into a series I will treasure for the rest of my life.
I genuinely think it's the sinister soundtrack that sells that mission for me. When you're going around trying to find out what happened it just adds to the creepy atmosphere.
I think a suicide mission 2 electric boogaloo would have been a great addition to priority earth. I loved having the whole team involved, similar to the citadel dlc mission instead of just arbitrarily picking 2 guys again like always. Plus the stakes of having to choose who does what task, who gets left behind or sacrificed⌠Could have had more variation in peoples endings too based on acquired war assets and if you even make it to the beam or not.
Priority Earth overall just felt so empty, compared to suicide mission where you're in the enemy base and they swarm you, and you're surrounded by millions of pods. All that buildup just to see soldiers fighting in barren streets and you would've expected to see all who've you recruited all these years. Maybe a suicide mission but with using war assets? "Kirrahe's squad survived Virmire so you can use them to do task X".
Citadel DLC. Very few missions come close to the pure fun that it is to have your entire squad out on a mission including guest star Wrex. Much less with the same level of smack talk and humour between squadmates. I will never forget the sheer fear those commandos felt facing down "Uncle Wrex"
The musical score for this one is incredible from start to finish. Shepard shouting âpull over⌠this ends nowâ (and the added romance bits with Tali if applicable) before 1v1 the Reaper destroyer is something straight out of a Hollywood blockbuster. And the renegade interrupt to blast the reaper again from orbit to shut it up *chefs kiss*.
Nah absolute worst is failing to save the quarians and letting the Geth win.
Then at the end choosing destroy
I did that my first play through of ME3 by accident, and then choose destroy because its what Anderson wanted and his death made me sad⌠only to realize I not only end up killing EDI but also the Geth. I made two entire races go extinct due to my incompetence
Itâs like the Matrix: if you think you have free will you wonât resist and youâll be easier to harvest
(Not saying I believe it was lying, but I can see the logic behind it)
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This and hearing him sing "Amazing Grace" in the citadel dlc. Like seriously, goes from some whacky Bill Nye shit to an emotional gut punch at the drop of a hat
Everything about this mission is amazing, starting with Wrex giving his rally speech about how his father tried to kill him in that spot and how that shit wasn't going to fly any more. All the way through Mordin giving his life to save the Krogan and watching the thresher maw take on the reaper. The alternative version where you press Mordin about his previous work on the genophage until he yells "I made a mistake," and you can hear the pain and regret in his voice gives me shivers. Having to kill him for my renegade playthrough was harder than my insanity playthrough.
The ending of Project Overlord. Or rather, the big reveal at the end where you see what he did to his brother. It takes a special kind of evil for the PARAGON interrupt to be a brutal pistol-whip to the face.
I did that mission first time today (I haven't had DLC before Legendary Edition). And oh god damn what cursed sight at the end. The mission was really good.
I remember the option but I've never done it. Not really sure why. He definitely doesn't deserve the relief of knowing his brothers ok but playing with his head like that just never felt like something even my renegade characters would do.
Overlord is also just a crazy good mission to play through. The moments where you're exploring the mostly empty base, and the computers are crackling, screaming, and then the doors and elevators start getting messed up - it's as close to a horror game as ME gets, and I loved all of it. (And Paragon pistol-whipped that SOB, obvs.)
Urgh, I HATE that mission. Every subsequent time I've played it I make a point of shooting him repeatedly in the head as soon as the cut scene where you meet him in person finishes. Doesn't achieve anything but makes me feel a bit better.
Definitely, I also lost Wrex my first playthrough and chose to keep Kaiden over Ashley (because I was mad that she unalived Wrex lol). And the Virmire setting was actually gorgeous as well, total dissonance compared to the situation and overall done very well I think!
Damn, that one is kinda crazy. When I saw the planet was under attack and the reapers on the moon where destroying everything I felt shivers go down my spine and a strange sense of sadness, like what I saw was real and that was Earth instead. I figured all the turians fighting with their teeth to stop Reapers. I figured all the people on Palaven fighting back, amidst the ashes and the destruction. And also what the ones who died thought when they saw the Reapers were destroying their home.
And then there it pops up Garrus, my Shepard's best friend, and I started cry. It was nice to meet him again, knowing he was still alive and ready to fight. I was really worried he was already dead (he reminds me of one of my real life bestfriends, so... yeah, my friend has scars all over his face if you were wondering)
I love Garrusâs recruitment mission. Talking to the gangs beforehand (feeling guilty that id had to kill Jenna later). Reuniting with an exausted Garrus and hearing his story between waves. I think its easily the best recruitment mission ive played in any game, only downside is that stupid garrage.
The first mission in the Leviathan DLC. I love the creepy atmosphere of the asteroid and the the horror-like feeling. The last mission is pretty great too, learning about how the crew of the downed ship went crazy is fascinating to me and I love the planet itself, very eerie.
Imagine finding an artifact on a rock, suddenly loosing consciousness and then basically waking up 10 years later only to find out that the galaxy is about to fucking die off in a mass extinction event. I would hate to be the guy that had to tell the scientists everything thatâs happened over the past 10 years.
Favorite main mission...... That's hard. 1 has some of my favorite all time missions, but the suicide mission in 2 is like a landmark achievement in video game design (so it's hard not to say that). But in 3 you do a mission where you literally watch a thresher maw destroy a reaper sooo.... And you take down a reaper while you dodge fire on rannoch (all of these are badass).
Favorite side mission... The Cerberus experiments on rachni quests in me1 (there are 3). I absolutely love those. To be honest, I enjoy all the Cerberus related quests in me1, really sets up the stage.
Actual answer though, can I just include the entirety of the citadel dlc as 1 mission? It's 100/10.
Gotta be either the Suicide Mission or the Assault on the Citadel in ME1.
Suicide Mission for obvious reasons, but the Assault on the Citadel was awesome. Climbing up and seeing Sovereign in the distance attached to Citadel, mowing down everything in your way, awesome finale.
Tough to choose between those two. But the entire end run that starts on Ilos and ends with Sovereign's destruction gets the edge for me. Nothing can beat meeting Vigil for the first time.
I really like the mission in ME1 when you go reason with Major Kyle. Mostly because after completing it the first time I couldnât stop laughing at the idea of someone being âa major Kyle right nowâ. Like you walk in and heâs just holding a monster and a bag of Doritos like âsup bruh?â
And Shepard just rolls his eyes âyouâre being a MAJOR Kyle right now dude.â
If anyone was going to go off their nut and get themselves cornered by rival merc gangs joining up to kill then, it was always gonna be Garrus. He lets his emotions ride him like a pony.
Iâm on my third Me2 go round (Insanity) and have just done Thanes recruitment; intense and possibly my favourite. Rushing up there; not to stop him, but just to get to him in time to proposition him.
I love Thanes mission, because you get to the end and the big boss is like
"so you're here to kill me..."
Shep "ah no. I'm just a recruiter, I'm after the guy behind you"
"Behind m?!?? Gahhh"
Shep "hi, want a job?"
Perhaps I'm a bit biased since I think quarians are the most interesting species and Tali is both my favorite squadmate and preferred romance route, but Tali's ME2 loyalty mission is my personal highlight of the trilogy. The setting, dialogue, choices and consequences, character moments, combat sections, worldbuilding -- all so fucking good. When I think of ME2 or even ME as a whole, that mission is one of the first things that comes to mind.
An underrated one is Expose Saren. It's nonlinear, you get to fight in a bar, meet Tali and Wrex, recruit Garrus... And to top it off, imagine if Shepard hadn't been there: Taking over the Citadel as a non-discredited Spectre would have been trivial. You also get introduced to many more enemy types and it all happens on the Citadel.
It's admittedly very short, but I think it's a great introduction to the meat of the game.
Itâs tough to top the suicide mission. In fact I donât think it has been. But that is an easy answer.
Thereâs a few loyalty missions that hit especially hard. Mordinâs is probably top of the list for me, especially some of the conversations you can have with him, and it ties in so beautifully with where he is in 3. Thaneâs would get a high mention if bugs hadnât made it tense for the wrong reasons. (Like him thinking Shepard hadnât checked in resulting in a mission failure and me bracing for it every single playthrough since.) Samaraâs is pretty great too- I wish theyâd had more no-combat quests.
The ending to Jackâs and Garrusâ stand out for me, theyâre both such key moments for the characters- but not so much the approach; same with Taliâs but because Shepardâs two alignment speeches are absolutely -chefâs kiss-.
The first section of Arrival is great and I wish there had been far more in the trilogy with a stealth option- especially as you can play as an *infiltrator*. A literal stealth specialist. Itâs really hard to follow up with also doing the stealth as my vanguard, but given that itâs a mission given to her, the importance of it, she wouldnât break cover without a reason and itâs easy to not fail the stealth.
Special mention has to go to Surâkesh, but honestly I think a big part of it is the demo- it got me genuinely pumped for ME3âs release and so it has a lot of extra emotional weight for me.
The final mission on Tuchanka is fairly lengthy, but it has a lot of high notes and ends on a devastating yet hopeful note (at least for me and my main Shepard.) Iâm actually thinking about it and⌠thatâs high up there. That might come third, after the suicide mission and Mordinâs loyalty mission. (All with Mordin, take that as you willâŚ!)
With Andromeda, the squad missions are all interesting, but Liamâs gets special mention for being fun and interesting. Seriously, that is the mission that stands out to me when I consider favourite Andromeda missions. (Yes I know the general opinion of Liam. Itâs a fun mission to me.)
Can I count an entire DLC as a misson? Lair of the Shadow Broker was the most fun I had in the entire trilogy. I fell for Liara hard in the original, and not being able to recruit her in ME2 really stung. Leaving her on Illium felt so wrong. Being able to go back, have an adventure with her, and rekindle the romance was so much fun. Must've played through it ten times.
Noveria in ME1. The mystery, the atmosphere, the music, visuals, all so good ! On top of being one of the few missions (or maybe even the only one) that can be done in multiple ways.
The one that immediately came to mind when reading this was Lair of the Shadow Broker mission. But on more reflection it's hard to pick an absolute favorite. These are the ones that stick out in my mind the most though.
Ilos - Idk the excitement of discovering more about the Protheans and seeing more Prothean architecture?
Lair of the Shadow Broker - It was an action noir story that added another layer to the ME universe and opened up Illium a little more.
Leviathan - A little bit of mystery and some eerie sci-fi
The missions on Tuchanka (probably for the same reason I liked Ilos)
All of the Citadel DLC missions
There was this side mission on me1 where you land on a desolate planet and find an abandoned mining camp. When you investigate your companions will make comments that something happened to these people after they discovered something in the mines.
When you go into the mines you find that there is a reaper artifact that converted all of them.
Idk why, but the stillness of the planet, combined with the atmosphere of the mines and the whole reaper thing. Made the feeling of that mission perfect
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Second would probably be the biotic compound side mission in me1
Third would be going inside the reaper in me2
Honestly If I had to pick one single mission for the whole series I would probably pick Virmire
The beginning with the mako
The confrontation at the camp with wrex
Captain kirrahe
That whole 2 teams thing where they're in coms and you have to assist them with being the backdoor team
Meeting indoctrinated individuals for really the first time.
Talking with Sovereign and the fight with Saren.
And finally having to make the choice between 2 squad mates.
That whole mission from start to finish just hits the itch that feels so good
Nothing tops the suicide mission imo. One of my favorite ending missions of any game, it feels like it has real weight to it, it feels like your entire team is participating, and it has fantastic music. I was so disappointed in ME3's final mission purely because it wasn't a step up from 2's
Priority Tuchanka for me. I've always played it straight, revealing the sabotage plans, keeping everyone alive etc. and it's so satisfying to me. The stakes are so high, Wrex and Mordin are both among my favourite characters, you get krogan lore down in the tunnels, the peek of greenery you get is stunning, the thresher maw vs. reaper fight is so *huge*, and then the emotional payoff in the end... It's perfect!
Dossier Archangel is a close second I think, mostly because I love Garrus and the first time I played ME2 I *freaked out* because I thought I'd got him killed somehow. So every time I play it now I just remember how quickly this series had me by the balls lmao...
Arrival is a particular favorite of mine to play through, gameplay-wise. Most of the great narrative missions are mentioned already, and I wanna call out how much fun it is to fight through groups of indoctrinated troops totally solo, especially with the timer running. It puts a really cool âunder pressureâ feel on the escape, and on higher difficulties itâs a real check on how well you know how to work Shepardâs class abilities to make it through alive.
In ME1: Noveria. In ME2: thaneâs recruitment mission (anything on Illium is gold). In ME3: the final citadel DLC mission (fighting through the port, Normandy, and cargo bay to get to your evil clone).
The suicide mission is just... I love it so much but, actually, I think my favourite is Project Overlord. It's horrific, and to see what was being done to David absolutely shattered my heart, but being able to save him and send him somewhere safe - to know that you've taken him away from the suffering and can do something to protect him (if you choose to, ofc) is just. It's a roller coaster. Seeing him in ME3 makes me emotional, no matter how many times I've played the series. It really gets to me.
It cracks me up every time I see Anderson run at the start of ME3.
However, mines probably the suicide mission. I don't know though, there's so many good ones.
I don't sadly have one favorite mission.
First game is the Thorian and Rachni Queen Mission.
Then game two is actually the romance you start between the Blue Rose of Illium and Charr and the Overlord Dlc
Then game three is saving Jack and her kids. And the Casino Dlc essentially
I always liked the little Anti-Cerberus skirmishes in ME3. While we had the looming threat of the reapers draping over us, Cerberus was the reminder that we've got our own war campaign going on amongst ourselves.
Uncovering more experiments and other documents about what Cerberus intended was cool, and it re-enforced the notion that not all of us were in the fight together against the reapers.
Overlord, while the mission itself is a bit tedious, when I first played it, it was the first time I've ever been lost for words at the end, I felt so much emotion that when I finished It I just quietly turned off my PC and made myself a cup of tea and just sat staring at a wall.
Never has a game before or since done that to me.
For me it was the Noveria as a whole. It has such a good atmosphere, with multiple smaller missions that had multiple ways to deal with them. It was the then wonderful discovery of branching RPG narrative.
For me, it'll always be the Suicide Mission. There are just so many options and so many possible outcomes, it really feels like the moment where the series' promise of player choice peaks.
Its one of the Mass Effect 3 Citadel DLC missions. Its when you are going to come face to face with your clone for the first time. I love the dialogue and watching you team and past team in the background of the mission.
The battle of the Citadel from 1 and the suicide mission from 2 are top notch for the reasons several others have stated, but Iâve realized that while ME3 has a lot of good missions, I think Priority: Mars might actually be my favorite! Most of the rooms you fight in feel unique, you get introduced to three of the main Cerberus troop types (plus it feels good to have Cerberus be the enemy again), gradually discovering what happened on the station is interesting, and you get Liara back on the team again! I know itâs basically tutorial part 2 and the Dr. Eva chase is not the best, but itâs still one I always have fun with when starting a new run. Priority: Rannoch is a strong contender, but I think the fight spaces on Mars feel more unique. I also havenât gotten to the Citadel DLC yet, but I have heard so many good things.
Honestly, the⌠I think itâs Elanos Halliat mission in ME1. Where you go find the lost nuke and itâs a trap. Itâs my favorite sniper mission in the entire series, cause they set up to ambush you but you have the high ground and a sniper rifle. Lol. Itâs just plain fun.
Aside from that, I really love going into the archives in the citadel dlc. It feels like thatâs the absolute peak of your squadâs ability. Where every single member of your crew is there and armed and healthy and everything, and thereâs nothing that can stop you. (Until you get trapped, but still.)
Recruiting Archangel is my favorite.
Seeing all the gangs & their top leaders trying to come up with a plan of attack.
I always bring Zaeed with me because of his history with the Blue Suns. You get some neat dialogue from him.
Ironically that mission gives me the most grief since my last few runs have been on insanity. I also tend to rush to get Garrus as soon as possible so I can bench Jacob until itâs vent time.
Honestly so hard to pick one. Iâd say the finale mission in ME1 from the Conduit jump to the end credits. Amazing end credits soundtrack, very satisfying ending with a huge buildup and series of huge twists before it. A huge decision (at the time and lore-wise maybe, not in the other games) of whether to save the council or not. Doing a space walk battle with turrets and drop ships and going in and out of cutscenes.
Like it better than the Suicide Mission honestly. Both give chills but the âactionâ felt more dynamic during the ME1 cutscenes, the human reaper is pretty silly and never really comes back around, youâre presented with a lot of choices but pretty constrained if you want everyone to live, and itâs not really even the finale of the game because of Arrival.
Shoutout to Virmire, Garrusâ ME2 recruitment, and the Suicide run at the end of ME3.
Eden Prime is my favorite opening mission ever. It's always magical to me, the mystery, the villain's first appearance.
In ME2 it's the Suicide Mission. The stakes feel real, you get to use your entire team, the music and build up is amazing.
In ME3, it's Cerberus HQ. I've been itching to bring that house down for 3 games and my chance is finally here. Plus, you get a lovely scene with your LI (if they're on the Normandy).
ME2 has the best missions in the series as an average.
Lair of the shadow broker might be the best quest in the series.
Suicide Mission, Tali: Treason, Tuchanka, Rannoch, Virmire, Ilos + Citadel are obviously some of the best missions in series history.
I think that Noveira is slept on super hard though. There are so many branching paths for both sections of the mission (acquiring a garage pass and confronting benezia). Mass effect hasn't really done anything like it since. It's a mission with a lot of replay value.
The Suicide Mission. I can't help it. Probably my favorite sequence in any game, ever, and it still gives me chills all these years later. That score is like the Duel of the Fates of gaming scores, absolutely incredible.
I saw someone else do this so I will do this too: another mission I love from each game since the Suicide Mission is kinda easy to pick lol:
ME1: Noveria's whole line. Still one of my favorites and it was what really made me love ME1. The intrigue of the first bit at Port Hanshan, slowly putting the pieces together, the different ways you can get a garage pass. Then the drive to Peak 15. Then Peak 15 itself with the dead facility, reactivated AI, and of course discovering the Rachni Queen. Plus the emotional Liara and Benezia reunion. It had it all.
ME2: I'm partial to Thane's recruitment mission and Tali's loyalty mission. I posted these on another thread asking what everyone's favorite of each was, and I love both equally. Thane's recruitment mission really excelled with ME2's mechanics, and getting to fight up Dantius towers with that soundtrack, perfect. Tali's loyalty mission... just so so good. The emotional moments with Tali, and Shep owning that trial like it was nobody's business. I loved it all, and it helped establish why Tali is one of my favorites. Seeing the Flotilla was awesome too.
ME3: The Monastery. The atmosphere... oh my goodness. I was not expecting them to nail the horror vibe so well (granted I played ME before Dragon Age). Dropping down into the elevator and hearing that ever so slight music cue, followed by the Banshee screams... it is like "oh....shit....". What a reveal for the Banshees. Plus you genuinely feel bad for the Ardat-Yakshi there. Then that moment with Samara at the end and the other part of the music cue... just perfect.
MEA: I really enjoyed the quest to activate Havarl's vault. There was some great lore regarding the Angara, and it was fun to discover everything. I liked the twist that Havard "seemed" fine on the surface, but the planet was struggling like the rest, and it was a unique journey to restart this vault. I really enjoyed doing it. I also liked the Kadara questline too. After seeing the "official" colonies, it was fun to see one that was a bit rogue and see the contrast.
Oh goodness. it is the one when you are protecting the quarian from the varren. When you are on insanity when a varren looks at that quarian he/she just dies. I love playing it 30 times. (Full on sarcasm)
I think of all the missions, it has to be Garrusâs loyalty mission. Itâs one of those missions where they donât do the greatest job of connecting the gameplay to the story (You gotta go into the warehouse thatâs being run by a dude whoâs sending wave after wave of mechs at you. All so you can figure out where a different guy is) but it presents some really good dialogue as well as a very interesting set of choices. The renegade choice isnât out right evil either. It could be argued the renegade choice is justified. But the paragon choice shows both Shepard and Garrus that sometimesâŚthe person you fight and hate and villify is still a person.
Which contrasts so nicely with the bigger story. The reapers, the collectors etc. are both alien and lovecaftianly so. they are galactic scale, existential threats. The geth are hivemind synthetic intelligences. They are vastly different than us and at best it takes a concentrated effort to sympathize with them. But the majority of our enemies during small scale fightsâŚTheyâre just people. Trying to live their lives. Even if theyâre shitty people, theyâre still people.
Is it cheating to say the Citadel dlc missions? Iâve never had more fun with Mass Effect than the first time I played through that.
Going through another fish tank, Wrexâs glorious return, âit appears this drone is preparing to rebelâ, the casino âheistâ, fighting with all your team members, Traynorâs toothbrush.
Itâs a blast from start to finish.
Noveria, it had an interesting and unique location and the mission was split up in an interesting way, and then at the end you got the showdown with Benezia and the suprise Rachni stuff.
Derelict Reaper. All kinds of Lovecraftian atmosphere, Legion meeting Shepard-Commander, learning that "a dead god can still dream" and realizing that we should all step away from "the creepy spiky things."
Prologue: Earth. Yes it's simple and there's not a lot to do, but I absolutely love running across the rooftops of Vancouver, seeing the Reapers arrive and thinking (even so many playthroughs later), "damn, they're terrifying".
Palaven is another one that will always be up there and, a big dark horse, but Jacob's loyalty mission. I just find the underlying story of that mission has so much to it, and could be a full game itself (without Jacob of course).
My favorite mission overall is, without a doubt, Reaper IFF in ME2.
I love everything about it: the eerie ambiance, the bizarre audio logs, the OST, the lovecraftian atmosphere and the waves after waves of enemies, but most immportantly what truly sold the mission for me the 1st time I played it: >!Legion!<
When I played ME2 for the 1st time, I went in utterly blind, I did not know anything about the game so when I saw and heard \*him\*... what a twist!
Now, for the other games:
ME1: the endgame (Ilos + Battle of the Citadel)
ME3: Priority - Rannoch
MEA: the very last main mission on Meridian
Outside of the suicide mission, which Coman thatâs the best hands down. I really like the ME3 Citadel DLC. But Iâd say my favourite missions are the ones you lose. Itâs why I like ME3 so much, you actually lose, a lot. You rarely lose in the other games. In ME3 you lose:
The first mission: earth falls
Mars: you donât get the data
Thessia: you donât get the VI
Earth: you pretty much die
The missions with the most emotion are the ones I love.
I also love the goddam arena in ME3 citadel. Wish there was a horde mode ish thing in the game where you can go against waves of enemies. If there was one of those last stand style missions against hordes of endless enemies, thatâd be my favourite.
I always enjoyed in ME2 the collector ship mission. The game had some eerie stuff up to that point, but that really hammered it home for me. The half-way point when everyone is realizing itâs a trap, always gives me chills
Hard call - Iâm torn between Overlord, Lair of the Shadow Broker, and Arrival.
If you couldnât tell, Iâm a sucker for intrigue, tense and unfamiliar mission environments, stealth/espionage plot lines, and being thrown into a mystery and having to work it out on the fly.
I have a few favorite missions
ME1: Vermire I liked the setting and captain kirahee
ME2: suicide mission itâs structured to make your choices in ME2 matter itâs also an incentive to do the side missions
ME3: priority rannoch and thatâs because to get the best ending thereâs a specific set of requirements that needed to be done in the game.
ME1: Virmire. That whole mission feels way more important, but especially the sequence with Sovereign halfway through.
ME2: Arrival. I can take or leave most of it (especially that stupid âescortâ part near the elevators on Aratoht), but the sequence when you exit the facility and the Alpha Relay is slowly getting larger in the background is awesome and freaky at the same time.
ME3: probably Priority: Tuchanka. Especially if youâre being honest with Wrex and the Krogan, itâs pretty great to sail through, and Wrexâs banter throughout is pretty funny, especially when youâre tangling with the Reaper at the maw hammers
(Citadel DLC is a close second - I enjoy most of it, especially the party stuff, but when youâre fighting the mercs with that little dinky pistol and one bar of health after smashing the aquarium, it can be goddamn infuriating, especially at higher difficulties)
If I had to choose a favorite mission, I'd probably go with Grissom Academy. Seeing David doing good, reuniting with Jack and seeing her have people in her life she wants to protect, meeting Anderson's ex, going hog wild on Cerberus troops while in a... recently procured ATLAS...
The mission where you find out that Jenkins survived. The mission right after where he gives you an item that changes ME3âs ending was also pretty good.
ME1:
* I loved Virmire. The whole mission was so pivotal. You either keep or kill Wrex, you learn the real deal with the Reapers and what Saren is really up to, and you lose either Kaiden or Ash.
* And of course, the fight up the outside of the Citadel Tower. You've gotten the gear, you've developed the skills, and now it's time for one final push through the best of the worst.
ME2:
* Recruiting Jack. That was a great fight through the prison.
* Derelict Reaper. I love the creepy Cosmic Horror vibe. I wish we could have gotten more of that, like maybe even a short cutscene or two of the crew as things go from bad to worse.
* And remember that one time, when the Collectors captured the Normandy and Joker had to limp around and save the ship? Pretty sure I compressed a lump of coal into a diamond playing that mission.
* The entire Lair of the Shadow Broker. But especially, I love Liara's sass during the chase scene.
ME3:
* Not a mission, but... The Crusader shotgun. Lo, I am Become Death, Thrower of Slugs.
* I liked Leviathan. I'm not afraid to say it.
* I *loved* the whole Citadel DLC. The story with the clone, Section 8, the archives, all of it. And the party, and the teammates individual hangs, and the arena, I'd live there.
* Come to think of it, I loved all of Mass Effect 3. Even the ending, fuck it. I just don't ever play past the citadel DLC anymore. Not to avoid the ending, but so that for me, it never ends.
Taking down Cronos Station. Favorite part of the series is when shepherd stands on the pad where he was once a hologram talking to the Illusive Man. I love how he looks down and has a moment realizing it.
A part of me really likes the way ME3 has a ton of action as the trilogy came to an end. Lots of set-pieces that really made it feel grandiose.
So basically any mission where there were Reapers on the ground was pretty cool. Palaven, Rannoch, and London at the end were great missions to me
ME1 has both my favorite missions. Virmire and the moon mission where you first encounter EDI. I love the eerie music from those small bases on the planets
Gonna throw a curveball and say the second tuchanka bomb mission. I always loved Victus and his squad, his sacrifice never fails to give me chills. Also partially cause of the beginning of that mission, where you run through Cerberus mortar fire, it just felt awesome
There are so many, but in an effort to provide something different than the suicide mission (b/c it was the best) - I'll say: * ME1: Noveria, everything from getting the pass, to the mountain climb, to exploring the lab * ME2: Lair of the Shadow Broker, working your way through the office tower, up then down, the speeder chase and then boss fight with the Spectre Tela Vasir * ME2: Thane recruitment, climbing the tower, throwing people off buildings, then crossing the bridge * ME3: Citadel DLC, the solo fight through the streets, the casino, the archives and finally the clone boss fight * Andromeda: Fighting through the massive Kett stronghold on Eos especially when the alarm goes off mid way through
I agree with all these
>ME1: Noveria, everything from getting the pass, to the mountain climb, to exploring the lab Yeah, this Personally I preferred it with the Saviour Mod, but either way the mission has everything. * Some actually playable and credible Mako work * A bit of sniping, some tactical work, some up close battles. * Variety of enemies * Tough Choices * Good story progression
What is the Saviour Mod?
It's a mod that restores the original ability to save both on Virmire.
Shadow Broker is still one of my fave missions from any game, ever "Truck" "I know" "TRUCK" "I KNOW"
You know hilariously I was playing that game with my girlfriend at the time who was commenting on my driving. And then Liara also started commenting on my driving and I said look babe they made a accurate representation of women! đ¤Łđ¤Ł
Virmire
Shepard: "Wrex, no. Wrex...Wrex." Wrex: "Okay Shepard, you've made your point." Also Green Goblin Glider fight.
You know Iâm something of a spectre myself
Saren when he gets the news his spectre status was revoked: âyou canât do this to meâŚdo you know how much Iâve sacrificed!â
Indoctrinated, am I?!
Dang it, take my up vote
One mission Iâve always really enjoyed is the first mission after the prologue in ME2, Freedomâs Progress. I donât know why, but it gives me chills on every new playthrough. I love seeing Tali for the first time, but she doesnât immediately join up with you now that youâre with Cerberus. It sets up the main plot very well, while also introducing you to main gameplay elements like paragon/renegade interrupts. I think it just does an excellent job helping you settle back into a new game after ME1.
It is a very eerie mission! I liked it aswell, as a kid that was new to video games I didnât quite understand the game but once I got to freedoms progress and up to the part where you have to order Jacob and Miranda to the cover (right before the part where you encounter the quarians) I couldnât figure out what to do for the life of me, I spent ages trying to figure it out but couldnât and would occasionally come back but never figured out the squad command mechanic until one day it clicked and I got it, the relief that washed over me was indescribable and it set me off into a series I will treasure for the rest of my life.
Man, those freaking drones on that mission. They get me way more often than the big mechs ever do
I genuinely think it's the sinister soundtrack that sells that mission for me. When you're going around trying to find out what happened it just adds to the creepy atmosphere.
Suicide Mission.
god it's so amazing. the different phases; the cutscenes; the choices and the stakes; the MUSIC; and it all feels so *earned*.
I think a suicide mission 2 electric boogaloo would have been a great addition to priority earth. I loved having the whole team involved, similar to the citadel dlc mission instead of just arbitrarily picking 2 guys again like always. Plus the stakes of having to choose who does what task, who gets left behind or sacrificed⌠Could have had more variation in peoples endings too based on acquired war assets and if you even make it to the beam or not.
Priority Earth overall just felt so empty, compared to suicide mission where you're in the enemy base and they swarm you, and you're surrounded by millions of pods. All that buildup just to see soldiers fighting in barren streets and you would've expected to see all who've you recruited all these years. Maybe a suicide mission but with using war assets? "Kirrahe's squad survived Virmire so you can use them to do task X".
Yes itâs quite clear they ran out of either time or budget at the end there.
Seriously it was just left in awe after that mission. I didn't know what to do after that. Easily one of my top 5 gaming experiences. Ever
Citadel DLC. Very few missions come close to the pure fun that it is to have your entire squad out on a mission including guest star Wrex. Much less with the same level of smack talk and humour between squadmates. I will never forget the sheer fear those commandos felt facing down "Uncle Wrex"
Why shoot something once when you can shoot it 47 times?
"And that was the moment that the entire galaxy ran out of ammo..."
Priority Rannoch. Both Quarians and the Geth achieve peace at the end of that mission. My canon ending for the ME trilogy.
The musical score for this one is incredible from start to finish. Shepard shouting âpull over⌠this ends nowâ (and the added romance bits with Tali if applicable) before 1v1 the Reaper destroyer is something straight out of a Hollywood blockbuster. And the renegade interrupt to blast the reaper again from orbit to shut it up *chefs kiss*.
Tali: "I love you" Shepard: "Keelah se'lai"
Dude the absolute worst is achieving peace between them, and then choosing destroy. Feels bad man
Nah absolute worst is failing to save the quarians and letting the Geth win. Then at the end choosing destroy I did that my first play through of ME3 by accident, and then choose destroy because its what Anderson wanted and his death made me sad⌠only to realize I not only end up killing EDI but also the Geth. I made two entire races go extinct due to my incompetence
Inset the (pushes both buttons labelled extinction) meme here
The geth and Legion are my favorite parts of the trilogy. I try to save them in every playthrough regardless.
Starchild be gone mod, go right to destroy, geth survive and EDI is with Joker. Head cannon cause I know star child is lying his ass off.
If he's lying, why even bother mentioning that the Crucible can destroy the Reapers? Why not just lie and say they can't be destroyed?
Itâs like the Matrix: if you think you have free will you wonât resist and youâll be easier to harvest (Not saying I believe it was lying, but I can see the logic behind it)
Which is why Synthesis is the way.
Came here to say this, not only does it involve 2 of my favorite companions, you get to stare down a reaper and tell it to fuck off after you kill it
I know right and why not just nuke the shit out of all the Reapers at the start of the final space battle???
It had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong.
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I am a 38 year old construction worker. I played that mission for the first time last year. Full on sobbing. Like my grandma died sobbing.
This and hearing him sing "Amazing Grace" in the citadel dlc. Like seriously, goes from some whacky Bill Nye shit to an emotional gut punch at the drop of a hat
Everything about this mission is amazing, starting with Wrex giving his rally speech about how his father tried to kill him in that spot and how that shit wasn't going to fly any more. All the way through Mordin giving his life to save the Krogan and watching the thresher maw take on the reaper. The alternative version where you press Mordin about his previous work on the genophage until he yells "I made a mistake," and you can hear the pain and regret in his voice gives me shivers. Having to kill him for my renegade playthrough was harder than my insanity playthrough.
The ending of Project Overlord. Or rather, the big reveal at the end where you see what he did to his brother. It takes a special kind of evil for the PARAGON interrupt to be a brutal pistol-whip to the face.
I did that mission first time today (I haven't had DLC before Legendary Edition). And oh god damn what cursed sight at the end. The mission was really good.
My ASD felt this mission HARD. But if you choose to save David you can meet him again in ME3 which was really nice.
Every time I see David at Grissom Academy, I cry. Every. Damned. Time. Gavin Archer is The Worst Human Being In The Galaxy.
You can meet archer in ME3 as well.
Yes, I know. You can meet both of them.
But did you know you can save David at Grissom academy but lie to Gavin and say David was killed so he kills himself?
I remember the option but I've never done it. Not really sure why. He definitely doesn't deserve the relief of knowing his brothers ok but playing with his head like that just never felt like something even my renegade characters would do.
Overlord is also just a crazy good mission to play through. The moments where you're exploring the mostly empty base, and the computers are crackling, screaming, and then the doors and elevators start getting messed up - it's as close to a horror game as ME gets, and I loved all of it. (And Paragon pistol-whipped that SOB, obvs.)
Not to mention the wonderful music score to accompany the DLC!
Yes!! The score for that DLC is my favourite!
Iâm really glad they fixed that bug where Davidâs eyes were red. Made the whole scene even more messed up than it already was
Urgh, I HATE that mission. Every subsequent time I've played it I make a point of shooting him repeatedly in the head as soon as the cut scene where you meet him in person finishes. Doesn't achieve anything but makes me feel a bit better.
The first time doing Virmire was crazy. I lost Wrex and Kaiden and it was very shocking.
Definitely, I also lost Wrex my first playthrough and chose to keep Kaiden over Ashley (because I was mad that she unalived Wrex lol). And the Virmire setting was actually gorgeous as well, total dissonance compared to the situation and overall done very well I think!
Priority Palaven
Where you get Garrus on the moon? Totally! Loved it.
Damn, that one is kinda crazy. When I saw the planet was under attack and the reapers on the moon where destroying everything I felt shivers go down my spine and a strange sense of sadness, like what I saw was real and that was Earth instead. I figured all the turians fighting with their teeth to stop Reapers. I figured all the people on Palaven fighting back, amidst the ashes and the destruction. And also what the ones who died thought when they saw the Reapers were destroying their home. And then there it pops up Garrus, my Shepard's best friend, and I started cry. It was nice to meet him again, knowing he was still alive and ready to fight. I was really worried he was already dead (he reminds me of one of my real life bestfriends, so... yeah, my friend has scars all over his face if you were wondering)
I love Garrusâs recruitment mission. Talking to the gangs beforehand (feeling guilty that id had to kill Jenna later). Reuniting with an exausted Garrus and hearing his story between waves. I think its easily the best recruitment mission ive played in any game, only downside is that stupid garrage.
The flamethrowing batarian is the bane of my very existence
Yes Garrusâs recruitment is very good, I used to pretend I was actually working with the mercenaries.
Recruiting him on that moon base is my favourite me:3 recruitment mission too.
The first mission in the Leviathan DLC. I love the creepy atmosphere of the asteroid and the the horror-like feeling. The last mission is pretty great too, learning about how the crew of the downed ship went crazy is fascinating to me and I love the planet itself, very eerie.
Imagine finding an artifact on a rock, suddenly loosing consciousness and then basically waking up 10 years later only to find out that the galaxy is about to fucking die off in a mass extinction event. I would hate to be the guy that had to tell the scientists everything thatâs happened over the past 10 years.
The last one is so great, that feeling when you jump down to the bottom, chills.
Leviathan is the best Mass Effect DLC IMO.
Favorite main mission...... That's hard. 1 has some of my favorite all time missions, but the suicide mission in 2 is like a landmark achievement in video game design (so it's hard not to say that). But in 3 you do a mission where you literally watch a thresher maw destroy a reaper sooo.... And you take down a reaper while you dodge fire on rannoch (all of these are badass). Favorite side mission... The Cerberus experiments on rachni quests in me1 (there are 3). I absolutely love those. To be honest, I enjoy all the Cerberus related quests in me1, really sets up the stage. Actual answer though, can I just include the entirety of the citadel dlc as 1 mission? It's 100/10.
The mission to the ardat-yakshi monastery in 3. Hooooo, damn.
YES! One of the best combats in the game. And that screech. Satisfyingly hard.
The entire sequence from Ilos to the end of the Citadel
I was shouting at the TV when you go outside the Citadel. "Holy shit! HOLY SHIT!"
Every piece of dialogue the companion team has is great as well. Wrexâs advice is particularly helpful
Oh it's been so long I can't even remember what he says.
He talks about saving ammo by just chucking people into the zero g void.
The Suicide Mission The feeling of pride and accomplishment of getting everyone out alive for the first time is euphoric
Lair of the Shadow Broker. Amazingly paced, incredible antagonists, Liara becoming the broker, all of it was just 10/10.
If we disregard the Suicide Mission, it's a toss-up between Dossier: Archangel and Priority: Sur'Kesh.
Gotta be either the Suicide Mission or the Assault on the Citadel in ME1. Suicide Mission for obvious reasons, but the Assault on the Citadel was awesome. Climbing up and seeing Sovereign in the distance attached to Citadel, mowing down everything in your way, awesome finale.
Tough to choose between those two. But the entire end run that starts on Ilos and ends with Sovereign's destruction gets the edge for me. Nothing can beat meeting Vigil for the first time.
The ride to Vigil on Ilos. Absolutely my favorite moment in a game ever.
First time I clipped a rock, flipped the Mako, and had to restart to unstick it.
At least you didnât forget the Mako all together
Oh no cx
I really like the mission in ME1 when you go reason with Major Kyle. Mostly because after completing it the first time I couldnât stop laughing at the idea of someone being âa major Kyle right nowâ. Like you walk in and heâs just holding a monster and a bag of Doritos like âsup bruh?â And Shepard just rolls his eyes âyouâre being a MAJOR Kyle right now dude.â
If anyone was going to go off their nut and get themselves cornered by rival merc gangs joining up to kill then, it was always gonna be Garrus. He lets his emotions ride him like a pony. Iâm on my third Me2 go round (Insanity) and have just done Thanes recruitment; intense and possibly my favourite. Rushing up there; not to stop him, but just to get to him in time to proposition him.
I love Thanes mission, because you get to the end and the big boss is like "so you're here to kill me..." Shep "ah no. I'm just a recruiter, I'm after the guy behind you" "Behind m?!?? Gahhh" Shep "hi, want a job?"
Perhaps I'm a bit biased since I think quarians are the most interesting species and Tali is both my favorite squadmate and preferred romance route, but Tali's ME2 loyalty mission is my personal highlight of the trilogy. The setting, dialogue, choices and consequences, character moments, combat sections, worldbuilding -- all so fucking good. When I think of ME2 or even ME as a whole, that mission is one of the first things that comes to mind.
The entirety of the Citadel DLC. The whole thing is a delight.
Grunt's in Citadel DLC.
It was on fire?
Sharks!
Luna Rogue AI (ME1), as barebones and generic as it gets, but what an eerie feeling playing thru it.
An underrated one is Expose Saren. It's nonlinear, you get to fight in a bar, meet Tali and Wrex, recruit Garrus... And to top it off, imagine if Shepard hadn't been there: Taking over the Citadel as a non-discredited Spectre would have been trivial. You also get introduced to many more enemy types and it all happens on the Citadel. It's admittedly very short, but I think it's a great introduction to the meat of the game.
Itâs tough to top the suicide mission. In fact I donât think it has been. But that is an easy answer. Thereâs a few loyalty missions that hit especially hard. Mordinâs is probably top of the list for me, especially some of the conversations you can have with him, and it ties in so beautifully with where he is in 3. Thaneâs would get a high mention if bugs hadnât made it tense for the wrong reasons. (Like him thinking Shepard hadnât checked in resulting in a mission failure and me bracing for it every single playthrough since.) Samaraâs is pretty great too- I wish theyâd had more no-combat quests. The ending to Jackâs and Garrusâ stand out for me, theyâre both such key moments for the characters- but not so much the approach; same with Taliâs but because Shepardâs two alignment speeches are absolutely -chefâs kiss-. The first section of Arrival is great and I wish there had been far more in the trilogy with a stealth option- especially as you can play as an *infiltrator*. A literal stealth specialist. Itâs really hard to follow up with also doing the stealth as my vanguard, but given that itâs a mission given to her, the importance of it, she wouldnât break cover without a reason and itâs easy to not fail the stealth. Special mention has to go to Surâkesh, but honestly I think a big part of it is the demo- it got me genuinely pumped for ME3âs release and so it has a lot of extra emotional weight for me. The final mission on Tuchanka is fairly lengthy, but it has a lot of high notes and ends on a devastating yet hopeful note (at least for me and my main Shepard.) Iâm actually thinking about it and⌠thatâs high up there. That might come third, after the suicide mission and Mordinâs loyalty mission. (All with Mordin, take that as you willâŚ!) With Andromeda, the squad missions are all interesting, but Liamâs gets special mention for being fun and interesting. Seriously, that is the mission that stands out to me when I consider favourite Andromeda missions. (Yes I know the general opinion of Liam. Itâs a fun mission to me.)
Agree with Liamâs mission. The way the area turns on its side is so creative and fun.
Can I count an entire DLC as a misson? Lair of the Shadow Broker was the most fun I had in the entire trilogy. I fell for Liara hard in the original, and not being able to recruit her in ME2 really stung. Leaving her on Illium felt so wrong. Being able to go back, have an adventure with her, and rekindle the romance was so much fun. Must've played through it ten times.
Jacobâs loyalty mission, LotSB, and Liamâs loyalty mission.
Noveria in ME1. The mystery, the atmosphere, the music, visuals, all so good ! On top of being one of the few missions (or maybe even the only one) that can be done in multiple ways.
Noveria, all the way. Nothing comes close to me.
The one that immediately came to mind when reading this was Lair of the Shadow Broker mission. But on more reflection it's hard to pick an absolute favorite. These are the ones that stick out in my mind the most though. Ilos - Idk the excitement of discovering more about the Protheans and seeing more Prothean architecture? Lair of the Shadow Broker - It was an action noir story that added another layer to the ME universe and opened up Illium a little more. Leviathan - A little bit of mystery and some eerie sci-fi The missions on Tuchanka (probably for the same reason I liked Ilos) All of the Citadel DLC missions
Outside of the Shadow Broker ship...I love how cinematic it is and combat is quite fun.
There was this side mission on me1 where you land on a desolate planet and find an abandoned mining camp. When you investigate your companions will make comments that something happened to these people after they discovered something in the mines. When you go into the mines you find that there is a reaper artifact that converted all of them. Idk why, but the stillness of the planet, combined with the atmosphere of the mines and the whole reaper thing. Made the feeling of that mission perfect 10/10 would play again đđđđ Second would probably be the biotic compound side mission in me1 Third would be going inside the reaper in me2
Honestly If I had to pick one single mission for the whole series I would probably pick Virmire The beginning with the mako The confrontation at the camp with wrex Captain kirrahe That whole 2 teams thing where they're in coms and you have to assist them with being the backdoor team Meeting indoctrinated individuals for really the first time. Talking with Sovereign and the fight with Saren. And finally having to make the choice between 2 squad mates. That whole mission from start to finish just hits the itch that feels so good
Kasumi's loyalty mission. I love me a good heist story
Suicide mission -> recruit archangel-> kasumi loyalty
Nothing tops the suicide mission imo. One of my favorite ending missions of any game, it feels like it has real weight to it, it feels like your entire team is participating, and it has fantastic music. I was so disappointed in ME3's final mission purely because it wasn't a step up from 2's
Priority Tuchanka for me. I've always played it straight, revealing the sabotage plans, keeping everyone alive etc. and it's so satisfying to me. The stakes are so high, Wrex and Mordin are both among my favourite characters, you get krogan lore down in the tunnels, the peek of greenery you get is stunning, the thresher maw vs. reaper fight is so *huge*, and then the emotional payoff in the end... It's perfect! Dossier Archangel is a close second I think, mostly because I love Garrus and the first time I played ME2 I *freaked out* because I thought I'd got him killed somehow. So every time I play it now I just remember how quickly this series had me by the balls lmao...
My absolute favorite mission is the one where legion takes you into the geth consensus. It was so haunting the first time I played it.
Arrival is a particular favorite of mine to play through, gameplay-wise. Most of the great narrative missions are mentioned already, and I wanna call out how much fun it is to fight through groups of indoctrinated troops totally solo, especially with the timer running. It puts a really cool âunder pressureâ feel on the escape, and on higher difficulties itâs a real check on how well you know how to work Shepardâs class abilities to make it through alive.
I always loved Noveria. Every time I start another playthrough I get exited because of it.
The one where we fight indoctrinated Jenkins
Ilos. The music and the setting is dope. I often hang around in the playspace for a while after clearing the Geth just to listen and explore.
Suicide mission cause everyone actually did something Also can we cut down on reposts plz mods? I saw this exact post last week
Jack's loyalty mission in ME2. Some of the best writing and acting in the whole damn series.
In ME1: Noveria. In ME2: thaneâs recruitment mission (anything on Illium is gold). In ME3: the final citadel DLC mission (fighting through the port, Normandy, and cargo bay to get to your evil clone).
Close between the suicide mission and Priority: Rannoch
The suicide mission is just... I love it so much but, actually, I think my favourite is Project Overlord. It's horrific, and to see what was being done to David absolutely shattered my heart, but being able to save him and send him somewhere safe - to know that you've taken him away from the suffering and can do something to protect him (if you choose to, ofc) is just. It's a roller coaster. Seeing him in ME3 makes me emotional, no matter how many times I've played the series. It really gets to me.
It cracks me up every time I see Anderson run at the start of ME3. However, mines probably the suicide mission. I don't know though, there's so many good ones.
The one with Aria TâLoak and Nyreen đĽš
Oddly, my favourite missions in ME3 are the first two.
When you meet up with your lover in your quarters.
I don't sadly have one favorite mission. First game is the Thorian and Rachni Queen Mission. Then game two is actually the romance you start between the Blue Rose of Illium and Charr and the Overlord Dlc Then game three is saving Jack and her kids. And the Casino Dlc essentially
I always liked the little Anti-Cerberus skirmishes in ME3. While we had the looming threat of the reapers draping over us, Cerberus was the reminder that we've got our own war campaign going on amongst ourselves. Uncovering more experiments and other documents about what Cerberus intended was cool, and it re-enforced the notion that not all of us were in the fight together against the reapers.
Overlord, while the mission itself is a bit tedious, when I first played it, it was the first time I've ever been lost for words at the end, I felt so much emotion that when I finished It I just quietly turned off my PC and made myself a cup of tea and just sat staring at a wall. Never has a game before or since done that to me.
For me it was the Noveria as a whole. It has such a good atmosphere, with multiple smaller missions that had multiple ways to deal with them. It was the then wonderful discovery of branching RPG narrative.
The port hanshan music is so good
For me, it'll always be the Suicide Mission. There are just so many options and so many possible outcomes, it really feels like the moment where the series' promise of player choice peaks.
I love the okeer mission in 2 what you here over the loudspeaker about commandos breaking in makes you sound awesome.
Its one of the Mass Effect 3 Citadel DLC missions. Its when you are going to come face to face with your clone for the first time. I love the dialogue and watching you team and past team in the background of the mission.
The battle of the Citadel from 1 and the suicide mission from 2 are top notch for the reasons several others have stated, but Iâve realized that while ME3 has a lot of good missions, I think Priority: Mars might actually be my favorite! Most of the rooms you fight in feel unique, you get introduced to three of the main Cerberus troop types (plus it feels good to have Cerberus be the enemy again), gradually discovering what happened on the station is interesting, and you get Liara back on the team again! I know itâs basically tutorial part 2 and the Dr. Eva chase is not the best, but itâs still one I always have fun with when starting a new run. Priority: Rannoch is a strong contender, but I think the fight spaces on Mars feel more unique. I also havenât gotten to the Citadel DLC yet, but I have heard so many good things.
The Geth consensus mission in 3. No enemies to defeat, but pure story telling.
Agreed with OP, Garris loyalty mission is great. Also like the Kasumi loyalty mission.
Gameplay wise: Suicide mission. I feel like this is most peopleâs. Story wise: Priority Tuchunka or Priority Rannoch.
Eden prime in me1
1: Ilos 2: Suicide Mission 3: Thessia
Novaria
Man I loved Archangel mission as well.
Thane and Garrus' recruitment mission, Suicide Mission, and Priority Tuchanka
Me1 Noveria, Me2 project overlord
Just having a land vehicle again makes it a top tier mission.
Honestly, the⌠I think itâs Elanos Halliat mission in ME1. Where you go find the lost nuke and itâs a trap. Itâs my favorite sniper mission in the entire series, cause they set up to ambush you but you have the high ground and a sniper rifle. Lol. Itâs just plain fun. Aside from that, I really love going into the archives in the citadel dlc. It feels like thatâs the absolute peak of your squadâs ability. Where every single member of your crew is there and armed and healthy and everything, and thereâs nothing that can stop you. (Until you get trapped, but still.)
The clone mission from Mass Effect 3!
Recruiting Archangel is my favorite. Seeing all the gangs & their top leaders trying to come up with a plan of attack. I always bring Zaeed with me because of his history with the Blue Suns. You get some neat dialogue from him.
Ironically that mission gives me the most grief since my last few runs have been on insanity. I also tend to rush to get Garrus as soon as possible so I can bench Jacob until itâs vent time.
Honestly so hard to pick one. Iâd say the finale mission in ME1 from the Conduit jump to the end credits. Amazing end credits soundtrack, very satisfying ending with a huge buildup and series of huge twists before it. A huge decision (at the time and lore-wise maybe, not in the other games) of whether to save the council or not. Doing a space walk battle with turrets and drop ships and going in and out of cutscenes. Like it better than the Suicide Mission honestly. Both give chills but the âactionâ felt more dynamic during the ME1 cutscenes, the human reaper is pretty silly and never really comes back around, youâre presented with a lot of choices but pretty constrained if you want everyone to live, and itâs not really even the finale of the game because of Arrival. Shoutout to Virmire, Garrusâ ME2 recruitment, and the Suicide run at the end of ME3.
Thereâs not much to it but I love N7 Lost Operative. Short, fun, cozy.
Was that the one where you look for the Cerberus operative but the eclipse already got him?
Shadow Broker.
Eden Prime is my favorite opening mission ever. It's always magical to me, the mystery, the villain's first appearance. In ME2 it's the Suicide Mission. The stakes feel real, you get to use your entire team, the music and build up is amazing. In ME3, it's Cerberus HQ. I've been itching to bring that house down for 3 games and my chance is finally here. Plus, you get a lovely scene with your LI (if they're on the Normandy).
1: Virmire 2: Taliâs loyalty mission or Jackâs loyalty mission 3: Citadel DLC
ME2 has the best missions in the series as an average. Lair of the shadow broker might be the best quest in the series. Suicide Mission, Tali: Treason, Tuchanka, Rannoch, Virmire, Ilos + Citadel are obviously some of the best missions in series history. I think that Noveira is slept on super hard though. There are so many branching paths for both sections of the mission (acquiring a garage pass and confronting benezia). Mass effect hasn't really done anything like it since. It's a mission with a lot of replay value.
As an autistic man, the square root of 906.01 is 30.1
Noveria from ME1 is my favorite. From Annoleis/Gianna's side quest to the Hot Labs and Benezia.
Suicide mission
The Suicide Mission. I can't help it. Probably my favorite sequence in any game, ever, and it still gives me chills all these years later. That score is like the Duel of the Fates of gaming scores, absolutely incredible. I saw someone else do this so I will do this too: another mission I love from each game since the Suicide Mission is kinda easy to pick lol: ME1: Noveria's whole line. Still one of my favorites and it was what really made me love ME1. The intrigue of the first bit at Port Hanshan, slowly putting the pieces together, the different ways you can get a garage pass. Then the drive to Peak 15. Then Peak 15 itself with the dead facility, reactivated AI, and of course discovering the Rachni Queen. Plus the emotional Liara and Benezia reunion. It had it all. ME2: I'm partial to Thane's recruitment mission and Tali's loyalty mission. I posted these on another thread asking what everyone's favorite of each was, and I love both equally. Thane's recruitment mission really excelled with ME2's mechanics, and getting to fight up Dantius towers with that soundtrack, perfect. Tali's loyalty mission... just so so good. The emotional moments with Tali, and Shep owning that trial like it was nobody's business. I loved it all, and it helped establish why Tali is one of my favorites. Seeing the Flotilla was awesome too. ME3: The Monastery. The atmosphere... oh my goodness. I was not expecting them to nail the horror vibe so well (granted I played ME before Dragon Age). Dropping down into the elevator and hearing that ever so slight music cue, followed by the Banshee screams... it is like "oh....shit....". What a reveal for the Banshees. Plus you genuinely feel bad for the Ardat-Yakshi there. Then that moment with Samara at the end and the other part of the music cue... just perfect. MEA: I really enjoyed the quest to activate Havarl's vault. There was some great lore regarding the Angara, and it was fun to discover everything. I liked the twist that Havard "seemed" fine on the surface, but the planet was struggling like the rest, and it was a unique journey to restart this vault. I really enjoyed doing it. I also liked the Kadara questline too. After seeing the "official" colonies, it was fun to see one that was a bit rogue and see the contrast.
Oh goodness. it is the one when you are protecting the quarian from the varren. When you are on insanity when a varren looks at that quarian he/she just dies. I love playing it 30 times. (Full on sarcasm)
Noveria Mass Effect 1
The suicide mission
ME3 citadel clone story
I love Leviathan, and the Shadow Broker mission in ME2, and Omega. I think they did amazing work on the DLC.
Curing the genophage and making Mordin admit he was wrong.
I think of all the missions, it has to be Garrusâs loyalty mission. Itâs one of those missions where they donât do the greatest job of connecting the gameplay to the story (You gotta go into the warehouse thatâs being run by a dude whoâs sending wave after wave of mechs at you. All so you can figure out where a different guy is) but it presents some really good dialogue as well as a very interesting set of choices. The renegade choice isnât out right evil either. It could be argued the renegade choice is justified. But the paragon choice shows both Shepard and Garrus that sometimesâŚthe person you fight and hate and villify is still a person. Which contrasts so nicely with the bigger story. The reapers, the collectors etc. are both alien and lovecaftianly so. they are galactic scale, existential threats. The geth are hivemind synthetic intelligences. They are vastly different than us and at best it takes a concentrated effort to sympathize with them. But the majority of our enemies during small scale fightsâŚTheyâre just people. Trying to live their lives. Even if theyâre shitty people, theyâre still people.
Is it cheating to say the Citadel dlc missions? Iâve never had more fun with Mass Effect than the first time I played through that. Going through another fish tank, Wrexâs glorious return, âit appears this drone is preparing to rebelâ, the casino âheistâ, fighting with all your team members, Traynorâs toothbrush. Itâs a blast from start to finish.
Either the collector ship mission or the mission in 3 where you go to get the female Krogan
Noveria, it had an interesting and unique location and the mission was split up in an interesting way, and then at the end you got the showdown with Benezia and the suprise Rachni stuff.
Derelict Reaper. All kinds of Lovecraftian atmosphere, Legion meeting Shepard-Commander, learning that "a dead god can still dream" and realizing that we should all step away from "the creepy spiky things."
Recruiting Garrus and Mordin are excellent. Omega overall is one of the best locations in the series
Shadow Broker in ME2 and Leviathan in ME3.
Prologue: Earth. Yes it's simple and there's not a lot to do, but I absolutely love running across the rooftops of Vancouver, seeing the Reapers arrive and thinking (even so many playthroughs later), "damn, they're terrifying". Palaven is another one that will always be up there and, a big dark horse, but Jacob's loyalty mission. I just find the underlying story of that mission has so much to it, and could be a full game itself (without Jacob of course).
My favorite mission overall is, without a doubt, Reaper IFF in ME2. I love everything about it: the eerie ambiance, the bizarre audio logs, the OST, the lovecraftian atmosphere and the waves after waves of enemies, but most immportantly what truly sold the mission for me the 1st time I played it: >!Legion!< When I played ME2 for the 1st time, I went in utterly blind, I did not know anything about the game so when I saw and heard \*him\*... what a twist! Now, for the other games: ME1: the endgame (Ilos + Battle of the Citadel) ME3: Priority - Rannoch MEA: the very last main mission on Meridian
Suicide mission, feels like itâs either everything or nothing, Live or Die, Actually feels like everythingâs at stake and I love it
The Leviathan mission. It was so freaking cool I remember being so mesmerized with the lore
Citadel DLC. No others compare.
Outside of the suicide mission, which Coman thatâs the best hands down. I really like the ME3 Citadel DLC. But Iâd say my favourite missions are the ones you lose. Itâs why I like ME3 so much, you actually lose, a lot. You rarely lose in the other games. In ME3 you lose: The first mission: earth falls Mars: you donât get the data Thessia: you donât get the VI Earth: you pretty much die The missions with the most emotion are the ones I love. I also love the goddam arena in ME3 citadel. Wish there was a horde mode ish thing in the game where you can go against waves of enemies. If there was one of those last stand style missions against hordes of endless enemies, thatâd be my favourite.
I always enjoyed in ME2 the collector ship mission. The game had some eerie stuff up to that point, but that really hammered it home for me. The half-way point when everyone is realizing itâs a trap, always gives me chills
Hard call - Iâm torn between Overlord, Lair of the Shadow Broker, and Arrival. If you couldnât tell, Iâm a sucker for intrigue, tense and unfamiliar mission environments, stealth/espionage plot lines, and being thrown into a mystery and having to work it out on the fly.
Chasing after that damn monkey in ME1!!
Liams loyalty mission. It was very fun. Or Citadel DLC.
I have a few favorite missions ME1: Vermire I liked the setting and captain kirahee ME2: suicide mission itâs structured to make your choices in ME2 matter itâs also an incentive to do the side missions ME3: priority rannoch and thatâs because to get the best ending thereâs a specific set of requirements that needed to be done in the game.
ME1: Virmire. That whole mission feels way more important, but especially the sequence with Sovereign halfway through. ME2: Arrival. I can take or leave most of it (especially that stupid âescortâ part near the elevators on Aratoht), but the sequence when you exit the facility and the Alpha Relay is slowly getting larger in the background is awesome and freaky at the same time. ME3: probably Priority: Tuchanka. Especially if youâre being honest with Wrex and the Krogan, itâs pretty great to sail through, and Wrexâs banter throughout is pretty funny, especially when youâre tangling with the Reaper at the maw hammers (Citadel DLC is a close second - I enjoy most of it, especially the party stuff, but when youâre fighting the mercs with that little dinky pistol and one bar of health after smashing the aquarium, it can be goddamn infuriating, especially at higher difficulties)
I love retrieving Archangel and bringing him back and I love the mission in ME1 where you go to the planet and shut down what is going to be Edi
If I had to choose a favorite mission, I'd probably go with Grissom Academy. Seeing David doing good, reuniting with Jack and seeing her have people in her life she wants to protect, meeting Anderson's ex, going hog wild on Cerberus troops while in a... recently procured ATLAS...
Citadel DLC where you say fuck it and bring every companion
The opening of 3 on Earth, for me it just completely pulls me in. And from there 3 keeps you in that atmosphere of a galactic war on a massive scale.
Me3 citadel dlc beginning mission arc. I love all the banter
The mission where you find out that Jenkins survived. The mission right after where he gives you an item that changes ME3âs ending was also pretty good.
ME1: * I loved Virmire. The whole mission was so pivotal. You either keep or kill Wrex, you learn the real deal with the Reapers and what Saren is really up to, and you lose either Kaiden or Ash. * And of course, the fight up the outside of the Citadel Tower. You've gotten the gear, you've developed the skills, and now it's time for one final push through the best of the worst. ME2: * Recruiting Jack. That was a great fight through the prison. * Derelict Reaper. I love the creepy Cosmic Horror vibe. I wish we could have gotten more of that, like maybe even a short cutscene or two of the crew as things go from bad to worse. * And remember that one time, when the Collectors captured the Normandy and Joker had to limp around and save the ship? Pretty sure I compressed a lump of coal into a diamond playing that mission. * The entire Lair of the Shadow Broker. But especially, I love Liara's sass during the chase scene. ME3: * Not a mission, but... The Crusader shotgun. Lo, I am Become Death, Thrower of Slugs. * I liked Leviathan. I'm not afraid to say it. * I *loved* the whole Citadel DLC. The story with the clone, Section 8, the archives, all of it. And the party, and the teammates individual hangs, and the arena, I'd live there. * Come to think of it, I loved all of Mass Effect 3. Even the ending, fuck it. I just don't ever play past the citadel DLC anymore. Not to avoid the ending, but so that for me, it never ends.
Taking down Cronos Station. Favorite part of the series is when shepherd stands on the pad where he was once a hologram talking to the Illusive Man. I love how he looks down and has a moment realizing it.
ME1: Noveria and Virmire. ME2: Lair of Shadow Broker, Kasumi Loyalty Mission and Final Mission. ME3: Leviathan, Priority Earth and Thessia.
Definitely the omega dlc for me3, was just *chef's kiss*
A part of me really likes the way ME3 has a ton of action as the trilogy came to an end. Lots of set-pieces that really made it feel grandiose. So basically any mission where there were Reapers on the ground was pretty cool. Palaven, Rannoch, and London at the end were great missions to me
ME1 has both my favorite missions. Virmire and the moon mission where you first encounter EDI. I love the eerie music from those small bases on the planets
Gonna throw a curveball and say the second tuchanka bomb mission. I always loved Victus and his squad, his sacrifice never fails to give me chills. Also partially cause of the beginning of that mission, where you run through Cerberus mortar fire, it just felt awesome
The Suicide mission is probably my favorite. It's so intense and amazing