If only we had moments like these in andromeda....

Personally I think ME3 dominates in the special moments because of the buildup the other games established. Mordin's soul searching in ME2 made the genophage ending extra special. As he is my favorite character of all the companions, as well as being the best written, in my opinion, it was both painful and immensely satisfying to watch him go out like he did.

Archon is way better than Kai Leng.

To be fair, Kai Leng isn't so much a real character in ME3 as he is an extension of the Illusive Man that we can actually fight on the field. This is my way of reconciling how much he actually sucks as a character. If he was a true anti-Shepard, he should have been the leader of an actual team that we can whittle down throughout the game until we get to the big guy himself. 

Can't compare a trilogy to a new game. ME1 had a few moments, but nothing big, same as MEA. It's the later ME games that took off.

Yep I feel overall Arrival was a better DLC than people give it credit for and the Harbinger conversation was a good way to end ME 2 and fire up ME 3 (always saved Arrival for the very end of my ME 2 playthroughs before importing into ME 3).  I still wish Harbinger had a bigger role in ME 3.

This.

Watched first twenty seconds of video posted by OP. Could not proceed. Goosebumps too severe from the music alone.

That IS the song from the introduction...... *shudders with awe*

Like someone said it's not fair to compare one game to three. A lot of the MET moments where built up to in a previous game like curing the Krogan or the Geth and Quarians stuff. Killing Ash or Kadian wasn't a big deal because I barely knew them and they are not that interesting.

Yep! I first played the trilogy last year, so it was fresh in my mind when I played MEA, and even though MEA was more like ME1, it had enough character development for me to really fall in love with my team. It's not easy to wrap up relationships in one game, but I got more out of the ones in MEA, then the slow 3-game build-up relationships in the trilogy. By the CItdeal DLC I still didn't feel too attached to some of the crew. Movie night in MEA felt cozy. I can see why they focused on the 6 squadmates and 4 crewmates like DAI did with the companions and advisers.

That being said, more music is needed for MEA. I love their main theme, and the Archon's is great, but music is the key to emotions imo. That was lacking.

I given ME3 a lot of crap but it does have a lot of great moments. Finally giving Tali a home, Mordin's death and curing the Krogan, Tali's suicide(if you're an asshole), the talk with Anderson at the end, heck I thought the kiss with your romance is well done during the final battle (Liara has the best), I even got the feels when Thane died.

"It's the Alliance, thank the goddess!"




Still gives goosebumps.