Favorite Mass Effect Final Sequence/Mission

Wow, I wish ALL was an option. The final pushes in all the Mass Effect games, in my opinion, were absolutely fantastic.

However ME3, prior to going through the beam to the Citadel, I thought was fantastic. A lot of people don't like Priority: Earth, and to an extent I do understand that. However, I'll always remember the feeling i have seeing London in ruins, rushing through the streets fighting the Reaper husks, holing up and talking to my crew one final time. Even running down that hill side while Harbinger was blasting every where around me. Even on subsequent playthroughs, I get a slight chill down my spine as I play that segment. Then as Shepard limps to the finish, badly injured.... The first time I played through that, I remember my hands were shaking and my heart was racing and my emotions were a wreck seeing this character I've played as and grown to love over the course of three games in such an awful state thinking "this is it... they really are going to kill Shepard." What came next.... well.. but up until that time, it was fantastic.

As much as I love every other ending for the franchise, that definitive ending feeling I got with ME3's final mission was something else... I haven't felt like that for really any other video game except for the final mission in The Last of Us and Telltale The Walking Dead Season 1. Once you reach the Citadel everything else started to fall apart, but dang.. ME3's Priority Earth talking to your crew tugged at the ol' heart strings. So for that, I have to say ME3.

If interested, here's a thread about Priority Earth.

I rated ME2 at the top, followed by ME:A. I particularly enjoyed how, in ME2, you could assign specific roles for your squadmates that weren't with you in the Collector base. Made it feel like they were actually doing something meaningful rather than just sitting on the Normandy eating popcorn while you and two others carried the whole mission.

ME2
MEA
ME1
ME3

I think ME2 has the best ending sequence purely for the ability to make decisions based on character skills. It makes you think about who they are, what the advantage to one over the other is, etc. And there is a right and a wrong choice, but it also allows you to kill off characters you don't like. "Get in the tube, Miranda!" I was actually hoping for a ME2-like ending for MEA, but MEA has fewer companions so it probably wouldn't have worked as well.

MEA's ending was the best part of the game, for me. I very much enjoyed the game, but the ending sealed the deal for me. It was (almost) everything I was looking for in the ending. It was challenging, had humor, was dark when it required it, and showed what certain decisions changed for the final battle. It was fantastic.

ME1 You get the option to talk Saren down, allowing himself a slice of redemption. I really liked that. Also the different parts of the ending were just so good. Ilos with Vigil and the race to the Conduit, battling on the empty and sideways Citadel, the final confrontation with Saren, and the space-battle with Sovereign were just incredible.

ME3 I actually didn't have a problem with the ending like a lot of people. I played it after the EC had already come out, however. It was a fine ending. It was fitting and felt like the story was finished. For me it was just not my favorite ending in the series. In all the other games when I get close to the ending I play more often and longer sessions to get there. In ME3, when I get to about the assault on the Cerberus base, I just...kinda forget about it and don't realize I haven't finished my playthrough until a while later. It has great music, great feels, it's a very good ending. It's just not as good as some of the others, in my opinion.

1. MEA
1. ME2
2. ME1
3. ME3 - too dark and tragic

ME2 was hard, epic, emotional, but not so fun (for me), MEA was not so epic maybe, but very emotional, hard and very-very fun!

lets see i would rank them

ME:1
ME:A
ME:2
ME:3

Mass Effect 1 and Andromeda both had good ending sequences for me game play wise. the Race and fight across Meridian to stop the Archon was well done and fun. However nothing beats Climbing up the Citadel tower fighting off everything Sarin throws at you to slow you down. It was my defining and favorite moment of Mass Effect 1.

The Suicide Mission was fun i enjoyed it but i felt the whole making choices really detracted from the game play aspects and seemed kinda pointless concidering it didnt really matter unless you were stupid about who did what or didnt do loyalty missions.

ME:3 was a shame i expected so much more than what we got. That final trench run could have been epic. Instead were stuck with a cut-scene and a lame ass run followed by a hobble and Marauder shields, followed by more hobbling then a conversation, followed by star kid and a red, green, blue choice.

-ME2: great pacing, epic music, choices (teams, specialists) and consequences (deaths).
-ME1: the Ilos race was ok but nothing special imo. What i really liked was the fight through the citadel to reach Saren, as well as the boss fight, probably the best in the trilogy.
-MEA: It was a bit cliche, with every ally coming to help you - a mix of ME1-ME3. Otherwise i think the nomad section had great views (the kett ship for instance), but as we got inside the structure it became more generic and ended up in a mediocre boss fight. Also with too many "fun quips", was hard to take it seriously.
-ME3: the only good thing about this game was Javik, the final mission was terrible.

ME2 was awesome. ME1-3 tied for second. MEA was last. Getting to the vault was fun, inside didnt feel like anything special, and you never actually fight the Archon.

ME2 of course. What kind of question is that. It is the ultimate end mission amongst video games

ME 2 -

ME:A

ME 3

ME 1


On an impactful scale, ME3 is easily at the top. The emotions going through the last portion of not only the game but the entire Trilogy are immense and daunting.

1. ME2
2. ME3
3. MEA
4. ME1

or:
1. ME2
2. ME3
3. DAO
4. DA2
5. MEA
6. DAI
7. ME1