Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "MASS EFFECT TRILOGY LEGENDARY EDITION - CHARACTER TIERLIST"

Episode Date: November 8, 2025

Linktree: ⁠https://linktr.ee/Analytic⁠Join The Normandy For Additional Bonus Audio And Visual Content For All Things Nme+! Join Here: ⁠https://ow.ly/msoH50WCu0K⁠Analytic Dreamz dives deep into... the Mass Effect Legendary Edition in this Notorious Mass Effect segment. Join Analytic Dreamz as he analyzes his favorite characters from the iconic trilogy, exploring what makes Shepard’s crew unforgettable. From Garrus Vakarian’s loyalty to Liara T’Soni’s intellect, Analytic Dreamz breaks down their arcs, impact, and Legendary Edition enhancements. Discover why these characters define the series for Analytic Dreamz and fans worldwide. Perfect for Mass Effect enthusiasts craving in-depth character insights. Tune into Notorious Mass Effect with Analytic Dreamz for expert gaming breakdowns. Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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Starting point is 00:00:00 So with that being said, let's get into the tier list of the best Mass Effect characters. Now, after that, we have the doctors. I believe it's Dr. Chakwicz, if I'm not mistaken. Dr. Chakwas, I haven't used to spell that. What in the world? We need auto correct for that one. Yeah, okay, Dr. Karen Chakwis. Hold up now.
Starting point is 00:00:22 Karen, I ain't know if she was all that. But, hey, we're going to lay a slide for this one time. So as far as the nurse, it does say. mass effect trilogy so you know keep in mind what she does throughout the whole trilogy i feel like she's a be less character compared to the rest i don't want to just give out a's or s's just yet it may rearrange as far as once we get through the list but as of right now i'm gonna put the nurse and at b you know she's definitely an important character but she doesn't make the make or break the storyline now samara samara's next up when it comes to samara i do believe she has an integral part
Starting point is 00:00:58 of mass effect too because of course spoiler alert throughout this whole tier list but when it comes to Samira I do believe that or no I do believe it's definitely a fact that she could be killed and swapped out with her sister I believe or whoever that is and people can't tell because it's like our identical twin I believe so I think the only person who could tell is like Kusumi but I'm not don't quote me on that so as far as Mass Effect too is her being like a great character I would say she's a little bit above the nurse I really liked her character art and of course
Starting point is 00:01:31 I think she's a great character reminder I could re-erage this towards the end I just don't want to give out A and S is left and right so now we have the geth guy
Starting point is 00:01:42 I forget his name ain't okay Mass Effect Let me see This is squad mate I think his name's Legion It's not pulling up I want to make sure
Starting point is 00:02:01 Oh it is Legion Okay cool Legion Legion I do like Legion I think he's an A tier of character I'm not gonna lie to you I like Legion and the way that the mass effect two storyline plays out to where you really can't play this character for a lot
Starting point is 00:02:15 which makes him more intriguing the only way you could play him a lot is if you want to kill off everybody and i mean everybody because once you get legion you have like a one to two mission cushion before the normity people that the reapers capture die so the reapers come in after you get legion still a lot of your squad mates if you keep doing missions after that all those people can die So it kind of plays into the worst ending. So if you don't care about people dying and you just want to see Legion's gameplay, you can play with him a lot. But because of his storyline being so integral, they sweep in, take out people from your normandy.
Starting point is 00:02:55 And then you have a mission or two type of cushion before you have to play the suicide mission and get them back. So I think Legion is an A plus character because of how he played into the story. Now, I forget this man name. Let me see, Mass Effect. Do they have the names on here? I don't think so, right? No, I don't. Okay.
Starting point is 00:03:22 I remember what he does, but I forget his actual name. I remember Anderson, of course, but, you know, I actually won't look at his name. Okay, so, uh, what was the character list? Oh, yeah, see, that's why I know his name. Danielle Udina. I think they called him Udina throughout the whole story. So I think, you know, it's going to be a hot take, but I actually liked his character.
Starting point is 00:03:53 I feel like he was one of the people you need on your squad to be the, devil advocate. Because Shepard Anderson whole time but saying out throwing out theories that could be right, but if it's wrong, it could lead into humans not being as higher up as far as getting to the spectra's status
Starting point is 00:04:08 because if you remember in Mass Effect 1 they were accusing a specter of being a traitor with no proof whatsoever. I was taking it to myself, hold on now. That's definitely a plot hole because literally when they was
Starting point is 00:04:24 looking at the camera footage when the when the soldiers were dying, they had a snapshot of the Reaper ship. Now, of course, it happened to Mass Effect once, you know, kind of got to give them some leeway, because of course, that's just, they didn't know how big it was going to be. But I believe that was camera footage, because when the soldier died, the Reaper thing went away. Because when they accused Saren of being a spy for the reapers,
Starting point is 00:04:50 the council was like, but what, like, what reapers? You're talking about visions that Commander Shepard, had in his head after the first mission, I would be like, hey, look, look, this is what we captured on body cam footage. It's a whole Reaper ship. Explain this. And then they would have been like, all, okay, well, y'all showing this something we've never seen before.
Starting point is 00:05:07 So maybe we should listen more about Seren being a traitor. But, you know, obviously, at the end of the Citadel mission, they proved it. But I thought there was a little loophole after me playing the game. I was like, hold on now. That's a whole Reaper ship caught on camera. So anyways, as far as Udina,
Starting point is 00:05:24 uh udina i put him as two i ain't gonna cap to you i like udina i know that's a hot take i do like him as an integral part of the story so anyways um i definitely forgot this girl's name um let's see why not give me the entire list because i remember i think she a part of mass effect three uh let's see they don't have the pictures with it yep the names without the pictures is not going to help me all right can't go cap to you at all you know what we gonna do hopefully okay don't work like that let's do this zoom man and then get drivers to help us how about that i literally had drivers pulled up for this reason because i forgot her name and i don't know what uh to actually type in to pull her name up
Starting point is 00:06:25 because i believe she's on mass effect three but i don't know do a little mickey research not too crazy ladies and gentlemen they didn't told me this is miranda who on the world elin this is why i have multiple this why i just call it uh drivers because i got multiple sources I ain't got to you. Okay, so Elon's version of drivers to not help. All right, cool, cool, cool.
Starting point is 00:07:18 That's what so. Well, dang. Yeah, nobody's giving me like a real answer. I actually, I would know if I see it, but I know they're not giving me the right name. If I can't find that, I'm going to put her a D tier because I ain't okay.
Starting point is 00:07:52 If I can't remember it, then she probably wasn't an important part of the story. Okay, I don't know kept to you. I think she shows up in Mass Effect 3 because I believe the Citadel mission, she has something to do with the toothbrush I think the toothbrush the toothbrush thing
Starting point is 00:08:15 is from the Citadel mission I do believe that's what it's from so if I was to look at the Citadel Citadel mission Character list Yeah she's going in detail I can't even remember what she does I ain't okay to cap to you
Starting point is 00:08:29 just off a pure ignorance Yeah I'm doing way too much research for a character I don't even care about Yeah I don't know who this is Detier Kasumi It's gonna be another high She is one of my favorite characters. I'm not going to lie. I love her her toolkit as she's able to go invisible.
Starting point is 00:08:55 I think her loyalty mission is one of the most unique. I'm not saying the best, but one of the most unique as far as from a 007 meets mission impossible type of way. Right. So as far as having her in the squad, I would say she's definitely a tier. I'll probably put it right here. all right so this guy this um i want to say hawkins was a hawkins it's a mass effect no i remember the a i'm trying to think of the a i would they be saying every time you come on to enormity something something something press i think it's pressley like because every time you come on as like commander presley is it's something something to have the debt right oh no that's somebody else don't tell me he the alliance dude he's a guy who be giving you all those missions i ain't gonna lie to you hold him now
Starting point is 00:09:54 Every time I go on the mission, and that's who this. I was like, I know his face. Every time I go on to Normandy, I go, I travel somewhere in Mass Effect 1, 2, it don't even matter. This man pop up. He's like, hold up now. Don't forget you a human. I'm like, hold on now. Why he's so aggressive?
Starting point is 00:10:10 You guys. See, that's the problem. Because if he chose a renegade option, it would make sense why he's so aggressive. But at the beginning, you know, I'm being the paragon. I'm being a nice soldier, you know what I'm saying? And this man trying to get me a lecture on not forgetting I'm human. Like, I know you expect you. Don't forget where you came from.
Starting point is 00:10:25 He's giving me one of them type speeches that let you know you made it. And the whole time I'm like, hey man, I'm going to help you all out. But you got a sub all that, you know what I'm saying? That, that prejudiced. You know what I'm saying? Because he's like, oh, you want to help out those other people. I'm like, hold on them now. What you mean about that?
Starting point is 00:10:40 I know that ain't who I think it is. So yeah, this is a dude who's always like, don't forget you a human. Let me see. Alliance. Commander. Let's see. Okay, so I do believe I forgot this man named too
Starting point is 00:11:11 It's crazy Is it hack it? I'm doing all this off the dome This is how you know This is gonna be a long track Because you know we're getting into Master Fex So you know we just celebrating N7 day No cap
Starting point is 00:11:24 Oh for people watching in the future We recorded this on the N7 day So you know what I mean don't get it twisted Let me see let me see Okay So I got so many tabs open It's not funny Oh let me close some of these
Starting point is 00:11:38 okay uh let's see science yeah i think that's the name uh yeah there we go okay yeah admiral stephen hackett so i'm not gonna lie as far as admiral stephen hackett i do believe he was the integral part of the story i don't think he's that important like he gives you a lot of missions but you know anybody can give you missions he's just one the main human commander so it's like you have to pay attention to him so i'm gonna put him at b right behind uh samara so Who is that? They can't be putting these random... Like, who in the world?
Starting point is 00:12:32 Who this is? Am I tripping? I'm not even trying to figure out who that is. Like, if I don't recall who the character is, it probably wasn't that important. You're going on in detail. Hold up now. I know that ain't who I think it is. Shepherd.
Starting point is 00:12:45 Nah, I know that ain't who I think it is. Shepherd. Just look at the state of gaming. Like, what is going on? Sometimes I look at the state of gaming, and I just think to myself, if only we had a Leara level character to grasp. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:13:02 The quality, the evolution of the storytelling, the evolution of the character art, it's just top tier. Really can't be compared to any other character, really one of the most well-written video game characters of all time. No, I got to keep it eight more than 92, because when it comes to Lear, safe to say, this is one of my favorite,
Starting point is 00:13:29 if not the favorite character for me in video game history. So if there was a higher tier, as far as S, I don't even want to put him next to Lear. Let's see, he got to move down now. Now, Lear on her own tier, that's what I'm saying. I got to rearrange it. So yeah, Lear is on her own tier.
Starting point is 00:13:46 I ain't okay, but I wish I could make another one. Can I make another one? Add a row above. There we go. Hold on. Can I make this blue? Is this blue? You know I'm Paula colorblind.
Starting point is 00:13:57 Y'all don't laugh at me. Paula colorblind now. It's not good to make fun of people. I think that's blue. I don't know if it's not. You know what I'm saying? If it's not, I'm Pauline colorblind.
Starting point is 00:14:08 Don't laugh at me. There we go. All right, anyways, let's get back into it. So, and then we have Saren. I'm not going to lie. Seren is straight S tier. It's really kicked off Mass Effect in a phenomenal way
Starting point is 00:14:26 because every Spider-Man needs his venom. And Saren at the end of the day, which is trying to save everybody too, because he was like, bro, we can't beat these reapers. We need to join him. The whole time, they then indoctrinated this man to the point where he
Starting point is 00:14:46 lost his soul, man. Seren used to be a good guy, but then the reapers got a hold of him. So I'm going to put him on the S tier. I ain't a lie, Udina's not looking right in that S tier. I'm going to have to pull him down. Let's put him right there. Okay.
Starting point is 00:15:07 back to what we was doing um matriarch benazia you say it yeah uh as far as benizia it's so funny i showed y'all the clip let me show it again because i'm probably going to splice this up and put it out for people after the fact as far as me specifically ranking the characters in the mass effect trilogy let's not pull it up try the skin okay cool
Starting point is 00:15:35 so as you already know i finished the matriarch benezia mission you know for my NME plus subscriber shout to y'all who already subscribed to the uh NME plus subscription tier of the platform i really appreciated the support but of course if you haven't seen it here here's a little clip from it so i play masterfic legendary edition as you can see right here we're having a wonderful a swell time just taking out her mother shout to uh harish 57 on twitch for following shout to you let's ask one more time what about your daughter. All right, ladies and gentlemen.
Starting point is 00:16:17 So that, yeah, just showing y'all a little sneak peek. So, uh, let's just say she's also S-tier. I would say she's better than S-T, but she doesn't have a lot of screen time. She's definitely S-tier. She doesn't have a lot of moments, but of course she gave us Liar. So if Matriarch Bonesia didn't exist, if Liar was just somebody we had to save and didn't have any integral part to the story, like Maitriarch Bonesia gave her. through the first mission, I know, through the first game.
Starting point is 00:16:45 And I don't think Learre would be the same character that she's regarded as today. Because coming from Matriar, Benazia, and then coming into her own as far as the shadow broker, as far as being a complete asset to the point in Mass Effect 3 to the point where she was very helpful, all type of connections because of what she was doing in Mass Effect 2. And I'm still, still sad we wasn't able to play with Lear throughout the entire game. but you know, hey, the Shadowbroker D.L.C. definitely made up for it. A little bit. Only because I wanted more.
Starting point is 00:17:18 So anyways. This guy I was looking up earlier. I totally forgot this guy. Was it Presley? Presley. Yeah, this is Charles Presley. And every Mass Effect player already knows. Every time you get on that Normandy and they say to you,
Starting point is 00:17:38 Commander Shepers, on the deck, Presley is relieved. to see commander shepherd on the deck or something like that you know me so that's the only thing i remember from this man but i would say it was pretty memorable so i put him at sea um who in the world who's that i'm trying to think who in the world that's from or three i want to say that's from two i want to say she's from two god uh let's see oh man so fake i want to say that the crogan queen is i don't know her actual name I think she, they used,
Starting point is 00:18:25 well, let me not say that. Basically, she helped repopulate. I believe that's one of the things she did. Okay. Because I remember, that's when you get grunt, right? Because then you run into, I totally forgot her name. Anyways, she definitely played a pivotal part
Starting point is 00:18:50 because I believe that goes into their back and forth with the Solarians. That's another thing. Throughout the Mass Effect game, you come to realize there's so many different beefs, whether it's the humans, with the Patarians, whether it's the Krogans,
Starting point is 00:19:00 with the Salarians, whether it's the Geth versus the, the aquariums i mean that's the top tier one in my opinion um when it comes to uh when it comes to uh when it comes to well yo why am i blanking on that um see okay i don't know why i blink on that when it comes to the turrians i can't remember what their who the beef was i don't think it was the crogans maybe it was also the humans i don't think people really messed with the turians like that i think they was uh always regarded as like the best combat species so I think the Torians and the Salarians were the first ones to be on the Citadel.
Starting point is 00:19:43 Maybe it was a sorry. I think those was the top three. Anyways. So when it comes to this, no, okay, I think I remember now. I think the Torians was let on to the council because of the way they was able to fight as far as combat. I know what you're probably saying like as far as the first contact war. Obviously Torians are beefing with the humans. But after that, humans had real beef with the batonians.
Starting point is 00:20:11 It was like bloods and cribs. I was like, hold on now. They're like capturing whole humans for no reason. So. And no other reason than they just hated the humans. Like, but Terians just hated humans for no reason. So I said all that to say that I don't remember this character too much. I do remember the genophase and all that stuff was very important.
Starting point is 00:20:28 But it may be an unpopular opinion. I want to put Han D Teer, but I don't want to disrespect it too much. We just going to put it right there. All right. And then, oh, hold on now. Is that me? No, just play. But we have the Mass Effect.
Starting point is 00:20:42 This is the Mass Effect, right? I believe this is Superfan. Superfan. Mass Effect. And spoiler alert for people ain't played. Well, I guess it's really, there's no need for me to say that. But let's just say, here's a great art. I do like the fan.
Starting point is 00:20:59 Yeah, I think it's Conrad. Conrad Vernier. And Werner? Werner. I don't know. I think it's Werner. So Conrad. Superfan of Mass Effect, not really too important to the series.
Starting point is 00:21:11 but because I want to give him super respect I'm putting him right here actually that's not playing I mean I mean he's an integral part of the story but come on now like the super fan is just
Starting point is 00:21:24 you know it's just to add some comedic relief really ain't had too much importance in the story uh Anderson you already know come on now drop a ball for Anderson y'all already know how Anderson like that man was the first
Starting point is 00:21:41 brother in video game history to not cause any racial war. Now of course I was only a wee little lamb when Mass Effect 1 came out but I do not recall any or anybody coming out and being completely racist to the point where
Starting point is 00:21:56 Anderson had the whole Spector arc. Nobody said anything about it so I think Anderson is one of the first black video game characters to come out and nobody said a peep as far as wise this man black. Shout out to that. I know that ain't who I think it is. Shout to that man. Shout to
Starting point is 00:22:13 to Mass Effect fans for not being a racist. So as far as Anderson, you know, to all jokes aside, let me close up some of these tabs. I got so many tabs open. I kid you not, it's a creedious right now. As far as Anderson, my favorite moment is definitely the Citadel when he gives you his crib. It's pretty solid.
Starting point is 00:22:32 You get to listen to his voice notes as far as his background and his family upbringing and stuff like that. One of the ideas that I did have as far as maybe having his son or daughter be a part of the future. Mass Effect games, I think that would be fired because I feel like you always need ties to the original to make people accept the future, if that makes sense. Like, you have to keep people who are tied to the original to make people be like, okay, let me give this new trilogy a try, right?
Starting point is 00:22:58 I think that's where Indromeda messed up on. Like, can you even name one OG character from the Mass Effect trilogy that was in Indromeda? Like, a lot of that he hit, especially when you're under the weather. Anyways, so yeah, when it comes to Anderson, some way, somehow we need a tie, into the future games whether it's his daughter whether it's his son whether it's his younger brother we need something as far as being able to play him or her and you can easily make it like you know 2k does it all the time you know just have the you know the couple that dr ummar hates have the black
Starting point is 00:23:35 man white girl if you want to make your own character and you can make them any race right is that how it works that's not how it works but yeah i get the point maybe don't even show the mom right be like oh the mom died in the explosion and so you can make it's not how it's a lot you can make whatever character you want. But anyways, basically what I'm saying is we need some ties to Captain Anderson. All right, so this one, I don't think this is Commander Shepard. I think this is the Citadel mission
Starting point is 00:24:00 because it's two of them. Is Commander Sheper over here? Oh yeah, he's right. Yeah, Commander Shepard's right here. So when it comes to the Citadel mission, I'm not going to lie, this is another outing where the Mass Effect team was in their bag. Like, it literally felt like
Starting point is 00:24:15 and not to disrespect the OG writing team, but it literally felt like they brought in a whole new writers for the Citadel mission or or the Citadel mission was given a different tonality before they started writing like they was like hey everybody dying in Mass Effect 3 we need y'all to be a little happy go lucky with this mission and I think the writers switched up completely as far as all of the dialogue but still stay true to the Mass Effect trilogy so I'll put this uh put this on S tier putting it above serran it's kind of tough That's not put it above, sir.
Starting point is 00:24:52 Retropping. But it is, it is S-tier. Definitely S-tier. All right. Garris, you already know how I feel about Garrys, man. Drop a bomb for that man. That man was in the field like Shepard. Tell me what to do.
Starting point is 00:25:08 Should we kill him or not? Should we spare him? I just don't know how to go about these situations. I just want to switch them. And whether he was the paragon or a renegade option, Garis basically, regardless of your decision, turn into one of the most.
Starting point is 00:25:26 ruthless combat. Combat tees? Is that word? Anyways, combat efficient Torrians we've ever seen. To the point where they gave this man a gangster name, they said, nah, that's not Garious.
Starting point is 00:25:41 That's Archangel. Shepherd, just look at the state of gaming. Like, what is going on? So I ain't going to lie. That's tier. And I will put him above Anderson, but I ain't going to cap. Anderson is still above Garis, in my opinion.
Starting point is 00:25:54 But Garris is definitely one of the best characters, if not the best in the whole mass effect trilogy. All right, so is this supposed to represent the reapers? Or is this the, uh, the Prothians? There's four eyes. It seems like it's the proteins. Proteins. How you spell that?
Starting point is 00:26:12 Oh, there we go. I spelled it right. Cool. All right. So that was the ancient race. Um, it was before the Reapers, I believe. I believe they created the Reapers, something like that, like over 50,000 years ago. And I ain't on cap.
Starting point is 00:26:23 I want if they have the actual dude in here who's a protein. Yeah, this man right here, S tier. I'm not going to have to you. The way he was talking, you would thought it was Jesus himself. This man was like, hey, bro, I've been here. This is how it's going to go. This is how it's going to happen. I know we're skipping around, but we're talking about the proteas right now.
Starting point is 00:26:39 This is how it's going to happen. All that short-term grieving and all that stuff. I got cut that out because the reapers are here. They're going to kill you. But this is maybe a way you can get over it. Because the way the Javik was talking, he was basically like, bro, we've been through this. They're going to kill y'all. The reapers are going to kill you.
Starting point is 00:26:55 They're going to officially take you out. but you know he still helped you as far as overall mission so when it comes to that um the evil proteans i will say they were not better than serberus but it did add a nice experimental villain as far as taking our focus away from the reapers now we did learn that they was under the reapers because of course once they killed all the proteans they mind controlled them and that's why you was fighting a lot of them in mass effect too you realize it was controlled by the reapers So because of that, it does have to go into A tier. So I'm putting at eight tiers.
Starting point is 00:27:34 Not necessarily S tier. But I believe the Proteins served as a fantastic misdirection to getting back into our fight with the Reapers. And, you know, Mass Effect too is my favorite. So the Proteins adding that level of mystery was phenomenal once we found out that the Reapers was controlling them the whole time. Like imagine, you fighting the Reapers. and the thing you're trying to stop, they already been doing 10 times over with other species and just mind controlling
Starting point is 00:28:04 them to do their bidding after they defeated them, right? So it just made the reapers even more, um, even more of a respectable foe. So anyways, then we have grunt. Now, I ain't gonna cap to you. When it comes to grunt,
Starting point is 00:28:20 some would call him an off-brand rex, but to me, not saying I wasn't fond of Rex, but he wasn't my fond of Rex, But he wasn't my favorite like he is with a lot of other people. I do like his dialogue with other people in the elevator, a mass effect one. But did I use him a lot? Of course not.
Starting point is 00:28:36 Most times I'll be using Liar, Garris, Learra Talley, or Garrison Talley. And even from that, that's when I went into the CDE team, right? So Rex was a part of that. So for me, he didn't hold too much of a priority as far as who I pick his squadmates. But I will still say Rex is better than you. grunt so i will say grunt probably goes in the c tier now morden that's the name right morden let's see that's the that's the uh that's the prothian dude i'm tripping this a man name hold up salarian
Starting point is 00:29:17 song mass effect um i don't know his name is morden when the world why do they show the picture of the prothian yeah this is why people be using the a i mean i i kid you not i literally typed in the right name Okay, cool. So, Morden, one of the smartest, if not these smartest characters in the whole show. I'm a little biased because I love when smart characters are written well, because if you're a bad writer, you have no business writing an intelligent character because the plot holes are going to be through the roof, right? So for Mass Effect, to be top tier in the way that they was writing, to have Morden break down specifically what should happen and who should do it as far as in the the suicide mission.
Starting point is 00:30:14 I think that was a great attention to detail as far as showing how smart he was. Now, of course, when he came to the Genofe's thing, he had a lot of things that he regretted, which is why, you know, he had to go out in a blaze of glory, right? Or I believe you could save him if you do a lot of decisions that nobody would even think of, which, you know, overall as to the Mass Effect trilogy, because of course, you're going through Mass Effect 1, not thinking that one of the decisions in Mission 2 would end up in the ending of the Genifacee. affecting Morden's decision whether you can save him or not and even if you do save them
Starting point is 00:30:47 you're doing something very horrendous as far as the overall of faking the cure for the Jenephase I think that's what it was because Morden was trying to cure the Genofe's because the Geno face killed the Krogan's I believe if you saved Morden I believe he didn't cure the Krogans so basically there's a lot of decisions that leads up into being able to have more than side with you and not curing the genophase and just act like it never happened but you have to do a lot of things throughout the whole trilogy like if you were thinking you could you know save him in in mass effect three he's sadly mistaken so anyways i say all that to say more than i want to put him an s tip but man we got so many characters to go i really like more i really liked our conversations for more than mass I keep saying mass effect two is my favorite game so a lot of mass effect two characters I hold in high regards so this what I'm gonna do I'm gonna put more than an S tier who that don't that don't look right I don't care I don't know man
Starting point is 00:32:05 that may be changing that may be changing that may change but I'm gonna keep it for right now I'm not mad at it I'm not mad at it right now remember this is my list so you can always make your own list for the people watching in the future comment your list below or who you think is the top three or bottom three but right now you know it's my list and as you can see it's gonna change throughout the rankings okay so when you come to uh what was it eva eva let's see yeah eva right that was the name right let me make sure these pictures on the internet be crazy okay no eva is like literally somebody i don't even who in the world who in the
Starting point is 00:32:48 world is that oh ed okay my fault my fault my fault all right another uh another hot take angle cat because i like more than i also like ed i do like how she helped out in the the uh elusive man mission in mass effect too if you had her on your squad um i believe i think you may have had to have ed on your squad because she knew she knew the ends and out but don't quote me on that so when it comes to ed i believe she's a very underrated character in my opinion i like the way that her character evolved into something greater it's almost like marvel's vision but but but in Mass Effect for him, because the way that Edie evolved
Starting point is 00:33:32 and began to be a real asset to the team, what am I talking about as far as Mass Effect 2? I think in Mass Effect 2, the Elusive Man, EDI helps you hack a lot of things to get to Alucanman. That's what I'm saying. I'm not talking about this version, because I don't think this version came until Mass Effect 3, I believe. Actually, let's look that, though.
Starting point is 00:33:53 Let's do some Mickey Research. Can't be doing fake news over here. Give me enough for him. All right, after doing it on Mickey Research, we found out that Edie acquired her humanoid form in Mass Effect 3 during the main story mission priority Mars. Okay, so I am right. Okay, so when Mass Effect 2 happened, she helped out as being able to hack certain things in Mass Effect 2, but she didn't have any physical mobility. Okay, yeah, that's what I thought. So anyways, Mass Effect 3, I'm not going to lie. I did like
Starting point is 00:34:37 her evolution as far as getting the humanoid form. And her romance with Joker goes back to my vision point even more. The vision is Scarlet, Edie and Joker. I thought it held both of the characters as far as the overall story throughout the trilogy. So I'm going to say Edie is a strong A. Okay. I think this is Jamie. Let me see. Jamie Mass Effect. Okay. Jamie Mass Effect. Let's see. Why is it pulling up in Dramida? If I'm not typing a right person it's mass effect three right oh it's james okay james vega all right so james vega not gonna cap he may be the worst squad may ever because i believe he could be on your squad which you know don't know why that is why is he taking up a slot when he is this boring of a character
Starting point is 00:35:43 like i believe they was trying to go for like maybe uh actually let me figure it out before i just say uh let me see okay so essentially i'll figure it out um yeah ain't okay to cap t I'm looking at his backstory. I was like, maybe I'm missing something. But then again, I don't think I am. He's probably the worst character. I ain't going to cap to you. Anyways, on to Joker, big Joker.
Starting point is 00:36:17 You know what I'm saying? Isn't it crazy that you had such a great story art? But there's a Joker in D.C. That you already know has one over on you. Now, I just got to keep it 8 more than 92, because, of course, you're a phenomenal Joker. he's just not the best joker but in mass effect you're the best for me pulse you guys see that's the problem so as far as joker um definitely s tier there's no question about that i'm just trying to see
Starting point is 00:36:50 where i put him at s tier so i'll probably put him right here in mass effect one he doesn't have a lot of dialogue um intricacy as far as the layers but at mass effect two with ed and mass effect three with ed i think it helps that even more especially the way that he helps out in mass effect 2 when the reapers are coming in to take some of Normandy members so Joker definitely made up for the
Starting point is 00:37:18 Mass Effect 2 a lot of moments of Mass Effect 2 I think grew his overall arc. Oh the Ninja dude, he comes in Massifact 3 right? That's who the hate man. What's that man name? Elusive Man, that's who he sent to come after us.
Starting point is 00:37:33 I think Ninja Man. I'm just going to type of it here. Man. Mass Effect 3. Not going to lie. I may be kind of biased with this one. So it's Kyle Lane. Now, I just told y'all how much I like Thane as a character.
Starting point is 00:37:48 So when it comes to Kyle Lane, I'm not too happy about his character. I look at Serran up here. I look at, hold on there, do they have the Reapers on here? Is that the Reapers? I look at the Reapers right here. Automatic S-tier, right? So when it comes to Kyle Lang being the, technically wasn't a main villain. He was like a sub-villain, but still,
Starting point is 00:38:08 Serran was technically also a sub-villain when you compare it to the Reapers. Seren is S-tier. Kyle Lang is nowhere near that. But he wasn't terrible. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to put him on B. I'll put him on B. I believe his character arc wasn't the greatest. I may put him on C, actually.
Starting point is 00:38:28 Let's put him on the end of B. His character arc wasn't the greatest. It's really, really bland, in my opinion. He was serviceable. Elusive man was sending him, but that was it. so that's why i'm not putting him on a a or s tier all right uh i don't know who in the world this is this kelly i ain't okay i really just randomly said that name kelly mass effect oh hold up now score one for me yes sir look at me getting my uh mass effect knowledge of a little test
Starting point is 00:39:02 that's crazy all right so yeah kelly chambers is commander shepherds or normally uh when did she come in though Mass Effect 2 and 3 I don't remember a lot about Kelly What does Kelly do? Primary job to keep Under Normandy to keep Shepernandah New emails
Starting point is 00:39:21 Okay Offering input on missions And outcomes I don't remember that So my man Presley just got replaced Is that what I'm hearing? Well I guess because of server is I guess that makes sense
Starting point is 00:39:38 I'm trying to say I don't know I don't know How I feel about this Oh, she became a dancer for Shepherd. See, that's why I like reading through this. I had no idea. Okay.
Starting point is 00:40:41 Okay. So when it comes to Kelly, as you can tell, I had to do a lot of reading for that origin. Because I don't remember her arc at all. When it came to her art, I do remember that some people using her as like a romance option. I just found out that she could dance in Shepard's quarters if you go with the romance option. So, I mean, that's something. if you end of that. But it just seems like she's a better replacement of Presley.
Starting point is 00:41:08 So I will put her right here. I don't know if I feel right having these two ahead of the queen, though. Like I don't think the queen had the biggest impression on me, but I think she was still better than these two. Anyways, all, let's keep going. This, bro, it's all humans at the bottom of my list. But not all of them. Because soon he's technically a human.
Starting point is 00:41:30 anyway who is this man this was this was a Jake this definitely was Jake let's see Black man Black man Mass Effect 2
Starting point is 00:41:41 I forgot his name Squadmate We're gonna find this Black man Mass Effect 2 squadmate What in the world Why come they ain't We don't have a lot of black people As a squad mates
Starting point is 00:42:03 Why ain't that pull up? We go Mass Effect 2 squad mates Here we go here we go Jacob That's his name Ah Jacob Jacob Jacob
Starting point is 00:42:13 Jacob Oh you already know where you going I forgot your name completely I'm not going to lie though Your loyalty mission Was very solid You see you thought I was going to say top tier Now I was just solid
Starting point is 00:42:26 Because I was going to put you in the D tier But Because of your loyalty mission being solid I'm gonna put you right here I think that's solid Yeah I think I think that's what's up Actually let's spice it up a little bit
Starting point is 00:42:39 Put you closer to the C tier You know what I'm saying There we go So that little C plus maybe. Anyways, the Reapers. Hold on now. I don't want to give Reapers no kudos. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:42:58 You know, put my personal biasedness to the side. Hold on, is this the Reapers too? What is this? Hold on. What's the difference? What's the difference of these two? What's the difference of this? This is the Reapers?
Starting point is 00:43:08 What is this? I don't know the difference. This looks like it's from Mass Effect 3. This looks like it's from Mass Effect 3. I don't know the difference. Um, not gonna cap to you. Don't know the difference. Are they trying to have me talk about the last,
Starting point is 00:43:38 the last Reaper compared to like one of the first reapers? Okay, so I'm not sure if the Reaper showed up and, okay, I'm so confused. I don't know what that, I don't know what that means. I think if I had the guess, give an educated guess. I will say that this is one of the last appearances of the Reapers, like Mass. effect three and then this is one of the first appearances of the reapers like in mass effect two i think i don't know so all i'm gonna say is if this is the last appearance of the reapers yeah they should just had the reapers on here it's just one entity like trying to think back yeah there's just one
Starting point is 00:44:23 entity that's controlling like a whole civilization maybe i'm tripping okay so let's just do mass effect three reapers mass effect one and two reapers let's just do it like that because i don't know what this means so as far as mass effect three reapers You already know there has to be S tier. I ain't okay to you. I mean, the whole, the whole reason for the, for the, for the story. You know what I mean? We have to stop the reapers, the whole reason.
Starting point is 00:44:51 I mean, there's no other reason. Shepard been trying to get the council to understand that we've been fighting the reapers all this time. And they look at us and saying, I'm like, hold on now. Don't y'all know the reapers can kill us? Council like, who do need to? I'm like, hold on now. Don't y'all know the council just brainwashed.
Starting point is 00:45:13 your favorite Spectre? And they said, Who do dee do? We beat them? We beat them. We go for them. It wasn't even saying we can beat them and go for it. They was basically saying, we don't believe you. You need more people. So, anyways, uh, Reapers definitely S tier. Um, okay, so Shadowbroker. Um, I ain't going to cap to you. Shadowbroker is definitely S tier. I'm not going to lie. Everything that revolves around Lear has to be S tier. So as far as Learer getting her shadowbroker status
Starting point is 00:45:46 about fighting whoever this was and that ain't gonna cap there was nobody you ran into like this so whenever because in Mass Effect 1 they hyped up the Shadowbroker at Mass Effect 2 they hyped up
Starting point is 00:45:59 the Shadowbroker you're thinking the shadow broker is going to be the biggest of the bad right so to run into him that doesn't look like any of the other species technically I would kind of say he's Batarian but I still don't know what race he is I think that's phenomenal.
Starting point is 00:46:14 So definitely going to S-tier. Probably towards the end of the S-tier list, but definitely S-tier. So, should I put him over, Matriarch Benazia? I probably put it right here. All right, cool. I think that's a solid placement. Okay.
Starting point is 00:46:41 Ashley, uh-oh. Hot take. No, just play. Not really hot take. I like Ashley as a character. Aside from Horaceous tantrums. I ain't okay to you. She had a lot of moments.
Starting point is 00:46:53 But she was just throwing out racist rhetoric left and right. I mean, talk about, oh, you want to have all these species on our Normandy when you already know this is a human spaceship. And the shepherd had to say, hold up now. First off, that's racist. Second off, they helped us build this ship. So they deserve to be on here just as much as we do. do. And guess what Ashley said? Woot they do? And we beat these folks? What do they do? We beat them. We go forward. Ashley
Starting point is 00:47:29 wasn't going for none of that. So certified races as far as Ashley, but guess what? I still liked her character overall because she kind of came around. She wasn't as blatantly racist. But at the end of the day, she was one of the best human soldiers. I ain't okay to you. I did. She was definitely top tier as far as the B or C team. Like I said, I always took Learra and Garris, Leara and Talley, I never really took Ashley on a bunch of missions. But I did switch her in every now and then. She made it on the team more than Caden and more than, I would say maybe more than Rex. Her and Rex is probably tied.
Starting point is 00:48:08 Anyways, so for Ashley, I will say Ashley is a strong, I would say Ashley is a B plus. I'm going to get to me. I'm looking down my list right now. I'm not mad at that. Ashley is a strong B plus. y'all let me know I don't even know where to start with this man who in the world
Starting point is 00:48:39 who in the actual is this am I tripping I don't even want to look up who this is I ain't okay bro we even have this we even have this much trouble with the girl with the toothbrush yeah this is gonna put him at detail
Starting point is 00:49:07 I don't know who in the world that is oh hold up now now I told you about my NME plus subscriptions here right as far as it something for I'm like something fell I whatever back to the show so um I told you all how I had my enemy plus subscriptions here right so when it comes to that um I do have a lot of different mods as far as what I'm playing because I'm playing on PC so I was able to implement a lot of different mods and the reason why I'm saying that is to lead up to something that would be a spoiler right
Starting point is 00:49:50 but I wanted to mention that at a very particular time in the covering of this tier list just the case you wanted to join the subscribers and join the normandy as far as watching my entire mass fake legendary edition play through so anyways uh getting into caden uh katin i think he's a very underrated character i believed if he would have more time to shine if they didn't give us the ultimatum between ashley and kad i think he would have been a higher tier character so what i'm a do is i can't i can't rake him off potential i never really experienced kad in mass effect two and three but what i will do i will give him more respect than the seat here, right? So I'm gonna put him right here. I think that's solid. Yeah, we're gonna put Caden right there. And then of course, when it comes to Miranda, you already know.
Starting point is 00:50:46 All right, my fault. You know what I'm saying? I got, I got to chill out. I got to watch my words with Miranda. You know what I'm saying? All right. Let's just say Miranda is a valuable character. You know, sometimes in the company, you know, you need certain assets to make the company more appealing so you bring in more revenue, right? Miranda is that asset for the company. So when it comes to being one of the greatest assets to the company of Mass Effect, safe to say,
Starting point is 00:51:21 has to be S-tier and I'm not going to cap to you. Has to go over Garris. I know what y'all saying. That's a, that's a hot take. It is a hot take. But at the end of the day, she can never be Liarre, but she can always be Miranda. does that make sense? The world may never know. So yeah, Miranda's definitely going to ask here. And, you know, all jokes aside.
Starting point is 00:51:44 From a gameplay perspective, her biotics reminded me a Learra. From the romance option, you already know how that went down. From the storyline option, she was very tied to elusive man, really like his right-hand woman. And then from her sister arc in Mass Effect 3, that is where I feel like they dropped the ball. Leara and Miranda should have been an actual playable squad mate in Mass Effect 3. Why did they not do that? It kind of made sense as far as... No, actually, hold up.
Starting point is 00:52:22 We got to do some Mickey Research right quick. Hold on, hold on, my fault. Shout out to Dino is the Starz 90 for Fallin on Twitch. Drop a bond for that one. All right, let's get back to our Mickey Research. Alright, after talking to Jarvis I just thought of something, but I had a fact checker because, you know, I didn't want to, um,
Starting point is 00:53:07 can't be spreading fake news. So, let's see. Okay. Okay, yeah, so that, that theory was, uh, not proven. Okay, cool. Well, I don't know why Miranda wasn't more in, uh, mass effect three.
Starting point is 00:53:41 I believe, maybe it was, because I, I heard a theory before. But maybe that's, Maybe that was about Lear. Okay. Whatever. So, she did have, uh, well, I asked Lear's voice actor.
Starting point is 00:54:18 So anyways, as far as Miranda, that's the only, uh, side tangent I would go on. I feel like Miranda should have way more time as far as being in Mass Effect 3. And if that's my only critique of me one and more of her, then you already know that she was one of my favorite characters in the show. So easy S tier. Easy, easy S tier. Um, so. Let's see. All right.
Starting point is 00:54:44 I believe this is the guy from the first mission that completely dies to Sarah. At first, I thought he was going to be like the guy who turned on us, but he was actually pretty cool. So, you know, sad that Seren murdered him in cold blood. You know what I'm saying? Sad day in history. So anyways, because he has limited screen time, I can't lie to you. He has the pivotal part in the story, but you can't, you can't play some that high.
Starting point is 00:55:15 So I'm going to go low seat here. all right so now uh what in the world hold them now hey man call me a fake mass a fake fan who is this who is this
Starting point is 00:55:41 okay man as jarvis jarvis don't even know how to pull up the pictures that's crazy I don't cap to you uh if I can't remember you you probably wasn't that important to the story so you're gonna have to uh you probably got to go detere
Starting point is 00:55:57 not gonna cap to you uh we'll put you yeah we'll put you right here next to this other guy I don't know who in the world that is um anyways this is a girl from the omega dc i believe i forget her name but omega dc this was one of the greatest um one of the greater uh uh dc for uh pieces of dlc for mass of fit so i forget who you who you played with i'm trying to see what was the actual name was it nirene uh let's see oh oh Nirene is from the Omega DLC?
Starting point is 00:56:55 Huh? I'm developing... Okay, okay, my fault. I'm reading it. I'm not even telling you y'all. I forgot, you know, there gotta be a show. Aurea to Loke, which is the person we're about to get into now, I believe. Let me make sure.
Starting point is 00:57:14 All right, to Loke. Mass Effect. I was like, who was that character? Alright, we're gonna get back to her in a second. Okay, so... After I close out all my 100 million times, there we go. All right. So this girl right here, the one now moving? Apparently, Aria Toloke, who's right here, took an interest in Candrose, which is her name, and essentially helping her hone her biotic talents while developing her military experience. Aria also allowed Narene the time she needed to reconcile with her new way of life and her unexpected and,
Starting point is 00:58:00 initially unwanted abilities. The two developed a relationship, but eventually parted ways due to irreconcilable differences. Nareen renamed Omega, unbeknownst to Aria, and went on to assume control of the talents.
Starting point is 00:58:28 So she's like the main boss of the Omega stuff. Noreen's got some hair. She's and said right. Okay, so that's why I don't remember her. okay so i guess she was a part of omega dlc i don't remember her story though across her dutarian when did she fight shepherd i want to know what she let me just type in shepherd what oh oh so nirene was originally envisioned as an sorry gang okay so nirene was originally envisioned as an asari gang lord nirine is the first female
Starting point is 00:59:12 turian to appear in the mass effect game in addition to voicing also provides one of the voice female inquisitor, BioWare's Dragon Age Inquisition. Okay, so the voice actor for the first female torian also voiced the female inquisitor from BioWare's Dragon Age Inquisition, okay. In a conference in a conversation with Shepard shortly before setting out to shut down the Cerberus Forthfields on Omega, Nireen made quote, a great human who once said, To thine own self be true. This is a line from Act 1, scene 3 of Hamlet.
Starting point is 00:59:57 Okay, so it seems like she was a good guy. Okay, I'm not going to cat to you. I still don't remember her. So she's going to stay right there because ignorantly, I don't know her like that as far as my play-through. It makes sense that she was part of the Omega D.O.C. But guess who I remember? This person right here. So she definitely has to go higher on the list because I do remember her a lot.
Starting point is 01:00:26 because I do remember her a lot throughout the old mega DLC and as far as how high, that's a good question. I would probably put her above, uh, let's see. Let's see.
Starting point is 01:00:47 I'll probably put her ahead of the assassin. I'm gonna keep to you. I'm trying to see what and well. While I forget her name, was Akami? I told you, man, I'm 25 going on 80. I'll be forgetting names left and right. Is it Kami? Man, it's up right.
Starting point is 01:01:11 Sweet. uh casumi okay i'll keep her name that is kind of a tough name though yeah casumi uh she she's gonna have to go ahead of her so that's what i'm gonna say so i really liked aria uh as a character and then when the omega d oc came like she was really uh prominent as far as her presence in a lot of the dc as far as her being a commanding force and then of course you already got commander shepherd who got all type of uh accomplishments under his belt by this time so those two was like It was like Kobe and Shaq during the Omega DOC. Like, they was going crazy.
Starting point is 01:01:48 So, anyways. That being said, elusive man. Now, you already know when it comes to elusive man, this man also added on to the overall reapers taking over. And the reason I dropped a bomb for that one, because if it wasn't for elusive man, I don't know if Mass Effect 2 will be held in such high regard by me. Because Alucan man added.
Starting point is 01:02:16 another layer of quality storytelling that really wasn't present in MasterFake 1. Yes, they did touch on Cerberus as far as as side missions in Mass Effect 1. But I do not believe elusive man was ever even named during Mass Effect 1.
Starting point is 01:02:32 So a completely new addition and we already know as far as Endromeda. Whenever they try something new, it doesn't always hit. So a completely new addition to the overall legacy of Mass Effect, which is the elusive man, playing out like it did, as far as it adding on to the quality of the story in a very pivotal way,
Starting point is 01:02:51 I have to put a luce man in S-tier. So we're going to put a luce man right here. So I say all that to say, my favorite scene with a lusoleum man is when he basically is like, hey, listen to here, shepherd. I got all the money in the world. I got all the resources in the world. And you're a shepherd.
Starting point is 01:03:15 You've been doing this on the, council budget the budget that they've been giving you but guess what with me there is no budget and i know he was evil i'll stick it to myself man that's a great case and then not even to mention elusive man brought uh commander shepherd back to life i mean if it wasn't for you know i mean mass effect wouldn't even existed if it wasn't for elusive man bringing shepherd back to life who was going to bring shepherd back to life like honestly that man came back to life of mass effect too and miranda was sitting over. I'm like, oh, hold up now. Alucaman, all the billions you spent
Starting point is 01:03:55 to put Shepard back together, like, think about it. All the races on the planet. And then after what Shepard did in Mass Effect 1, the Reapers was like, no, bro, we got to get you up out of here. And Elusive Man spent billions of dollars
Starting point is 01:04:11 putting Shepard back together. And then just to have him turn on him, I know he was evil, but Lucan man, he had his feet, man. He had his feet. so he brought he brought shepherd back to life so elusive man even though he was a villain he was always good in my book all right
Starting point is 01:04:29 anyways and then now we have uh let's see oh this is actually Samara where in the world hold on now hey I didn't fell for
Starting point is 01:04:41 I didn't fail for a twin sister all right so this is actually Samara I believe so I mean it still stands the same they're a part of the same story so yeah I think I think this is a twin sister and this is actually Samara. So with that being said,
Starting point is 01:04:57 Samara, honestly, we just go right next to her twin sister. I mean, I guess, I guess technically, our twin sister should go lower on the list since she doesn't have that much air time,
Starting point is 01:05:08 but I mean, it's basically the same person. Like, if you kill Samara, her twin steps in, it literally says all the same dialogue and it's the same voice actor. So it's like,
Starting point is 01:05:18 it's like, nobody's going to be able to tell that that's a whole new person. So yeah I'm not mad at them being saw by side Literally twins With that being said Now we got the goat
Starting point is 01:05:29 Hold up Now we got the G O A All y'all get the point right But T And y'all already see the banner Y'all know who's in the background
Starting point is 01:05:47 Hold on now Y'all know who is in the background Hold up now I mean Can I get an A man Shepard Just look at the state of gaming Like what is going on
Starting point is 01:05:59 I look at the state of gaming I just say to myself Man they don't make characters like they used to man They don't make characters like they used to I know that ain't who I think it is So not gonna cap to you
Starting point is 01:06:10 Learra does have her own tier But I may have to put Shepard up there If I put Shepard up there I can't label this Liari anymore That's tough That's tough I mean technically
Starting point is 01:06:30 In my playthroughs We was always with Learre. You know what I'm saying? There's really no other species that we, you know, would they be saying when they marry, we ain't have our eyes on nothing else. I just got taken away. So,
Starting point is 01:06:43 we're just going to put a shepherd on our S tier. So anyways, who is this? Okay, so I'm not going to mind to you. As far as the Reapers, I'm just going to assume this is the Reapers and Mass Effect 3. I'm going to assume this is the Reapers
Starting point is 01:07:00 from Mass Effect 1 and 2. because I don't know why in the world they're on here twice. So, with that being said, I do believe that they should probably just go side by side, honestly. Because the Reapers are still the Reapers.
Starting point is 01:07:16 It don't matter when they showed up. I ain't going to kept to you. So we're just going to put them side by side. We're going to do what we did with us, Samara. I feel like the people who made this, they should have put more labels on the pictures that look similar. Like, what are we supposed to take different from this?
Starting point is 01:07:29 anyways uh let me find out who in the world this who is this who in the actual boy i ain't even gonna take the time to look you up i know you wasn't important oh who is that who is that bro oh are these just the squad hold on let me not be disrespectful let me let me make sure i think these are the people that just salute you around enormity and if y'all didn't know i mean it's the reason why i end every stream doing this so it's literally because of that so um i think this just maybe this represents all the different people on the normity that be uh helping out that be helping out shepherds so we're not going to disrespect them we're just going to put them let's put them why ain't a lot if this is a representation which it may
Starting point is 01:08:21 it may not be but this is a representation for every person on the normity they have to go a tier but i don't know if this is what that represents i don't know if it represents a single person or the people in the normity that makes it i'm saying because it's like udina like without udina in the story like you know it doesn't have the story beats that makes the trilogy a classic like it's present throughout the entire trilogy so that's tough that's tough i'm gonna put them right here i think i think that's fitting that's fitting right that's solid all right anyways then we got jack so when it comes to jack i know she a fan favorite and guess what as far as her fighting abilities she's top two to me drop a bond for that one but when it comes to everything else i was really viving with her like i was
Starting point is 01:09:18 like hold up now this girl crazy you guys see that's the problem and I know that was a whole character art being crazy and things of that nature but she was too crazy for me and then mass effect three when it came around and she was actually teaching kids and giving them like actual training I was like oh okay so she's making the 360 as far as a character art so I ain't a lot she is one of the best squad mates I say all that to say she is one of the better squadmates so I would probably put her I didn't use her a lot because obviously I use Miranda and Garris a lot. So as far as Jack,
Starting point is 01:09:57 Jack to me didn't play that much of a pivotal role. Like she was the most powerful biotic, which is why you recruited her. That's another thing about Lucille, he gave you all the resources. Like, yeah, you want the most powerful biotic? Go right here. You want the most powerful Turian?
Starting point is 01:10:08 He didn't even know it was Garris at the time. Go right here. Oh, you want the most powerful Krogan? Well, they took like Rex's DNA or somebody DNA and made like the Super Krogan. So go right here. like the elusive man was really on point that's why that's why he's up here so anyways um but still as far as the storyline i don't really care too much for jack i'm gonna put her next to ashley
Starting point is 01:10:32 i know that's gonna be a super hot take i know y'all probably irrate you're like hold up now what ain't no way you put jack below ashley i liked ashley because you know as a black man in america i feel like we need representation of the whole spectrum of humans and yes there are more racist than you would you know be inclined to believe so Ashley being a racist but also having that character evolution to be like you know what these people not that bad
Starting point is 01:11:00 like I like the overall loop I was like hopefully people in real life could you know take some of that but obviously they didn't so anyways uh yeah I'm putting Jack behind Ashley I know that's a that's probably the super hot take of the of the tier of us all right and then we got the goat
Starting point is 01:11:13 we got Talley you already know Tally one of the greatest squad mates I'm not even close so as far as Talley, she added so much to the overall trilogy. She added so much that I may move Legion up, honestly.
Starting point is 01:11:31 That's how high I'm going to put Talley. Talley is actually top tier. I don't know. I think I may put Tally right there. I think that's fine. Because she's easy S tier. As you can see, it's a bunch of S tiers,
Starting point is 01:11:56 but this is my favorite trilogy of all time. So with that being said, I will say Talley Not only The battle with the Geith and had her dad was like one of the high ranking members to where when you went on that mission
Starting point is 01:12:12 it was very pivotal for the overall war between the Geith and Aquarians But this is why I go back to my Legion take when you take Legion on that mission right? Because they give you a mission
Starting point is 01:12:25 a two type of cushion to get through to the main mission if well they give you a mission or two if you wanted to sacrifice fights people from your ship. But for the most part, you should just go straight
Starting point is 01:12:36 to the ending mission, right? That's what I love about Mass Effect too, because play that for the first time, you know, you have no idea what's about to happen to you. You pick up Legion, you think it's happy go lucky, man, we got a whole geth on our team, and guess what? The Reaper swoop in. There's like, hold up now. These people
Starting point is 01:12:53 are getting a little too strong. So the Reaper swoop in and you have to go straight to the last mission. But of course, once you replay it, you realize that you realize that you have to hold that mission for the last, as far as getting Legion. But if you don't care about sacrificing people from the Normandy, bringing Legion on the Talley versus the Geh mission is some of the most hilarious banter I've ever heard in video game history. To the point where we got to do a little Mickey research and I got to show you all exactly
Starting point is 01:13:23 what I'm talking about because I don't think I understand how hilarious some of this stuff is. Alright here we go. Let's do this one. Let's pause the music right quick. All right. Let's go with this one right here. Can you tell I'm a huge master? a pig fan. I don't know if y'all can tell by now. So shout out to this man. Showcase exactly what happens when you bring Legion on the mission with Talia. I ain't going to cap to you. This is some of the most hilarious dialogue you are ever seeing video game history. What happens if you bring Legion to the migrant fleet for Talley's trial in Mass Effect 2? Find out in today's video. What's up everyone? Big Dan.
Starting point is 01:14:09 Shout to Dan. I watched a lot of his videos. I ain't go to cap to you. Actually, let's hit the light button. You know how content creators always say hit the like button? You got to practice what you preach. That's been putting out phenomenal Mass Effect coverage. Anyways, let's get back into it. In Mass Effect 2, the main story is nearly over. So many people made, but if you wait to do Talley's mission and basically saying the same thing I'm saying about Legion being there. If you take Legion on other missions to people on your Normandy dies, that's basically what you're saying right now. Instead of a court with weapon. Look at Shepherd. He just slapped a, he's like, hold on now. Get that on my face. Boy, don't you know a Shepherd? It's Big Shepherd in here.
Starting point is 01:14:48 Shepherd. Yeah, Big Shepherd. keep before you I gotta yeah I gotta remember there's a whole war between the geth and the corians literally
Starting point is 01:15:02 the quarians are on the ship because they're planetless no they're not apartmentless they're not homeless
Starting point is 01:15:11 they're not complexless they're planetless they don't have a planet because the get took over and killed
Starting point is 01:15:19 all of them but they had to escape on ships so now they live on ships literally the Corians are like the project babies of the Massific universe.
Starting point is 01:15:29 It was all due to the death. So bringing Legion on this mission, this is why they're acting like that. You're defending your ship. I respect that. But don't try to intimidate me, Captain. Look, Shepherd don't care about none of that logic. Or why? See, they'd be talking to Shepherd crazy.
Starting point is 01:15:48 Or I take off this mask and breathe germs all over your nice, clean ship. Savage. a favor to Tali. The gate is too much. I told y'all. It's tough. If Legion gets out of the line, I'll take him out myself. If you know my record, you'll know I've killed hundreds of them.
Starting point is 01:16:06 You know my body. But, Captain, if Legion acts suspiciously, I'll kill it. Yeah. Tally's aura, you never stop causing me trouble. Oh, yeah, I forgot. That's her dad, by the way. Wait, is that her dad? I think that's her dad.
Starting point is 01:16:19 But given the charges against you, Tally, you're doing this. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Her dad died. This is just somebody random. Self no favors. What do you mean? They're charging you with bringing active get into the fleet as part of a secret project. That's insane.
Starting point is 01:16:33 I never brought active geth aboard. I only sent parts and pieces. As you walk through the ship, you will overhear other quarians in total disbelief that Talley is just casually hanging out with- walking out. I'm walking with a get. Tally's order arrived with a get. What more proof do the admirers need? Like they just like bro, this whole, this species wiped us out to the point where we're like planetless.
Starting point is 01:16:59 We're on the ships, living off ships. And it's because of them. When the trial starts at the hearing, Death is present in the courtroom. Does Tully Zora think to affect this hearing? Again, usually Admiral Corus objects to Shepard's presence at the hearing, but this time he will protest against Legion instead. Security.
Starting point is 01:17:22 A death is. present in the courtroom does tally soarer think to affect this like i get them up out of here roe shout shout to uh say lymah for following on twitch man hopefully you enjoyed that little flashback but yeah hey a a a no cap to you tally one of the goat squarmates of mass effect so that's all i was thinking about putting um i was thinking about putting um legion higher on this list because of tally's status like tally is really a one of one an cap to you one of the greatest characters ever written in uh video game history so uh i would probably say i probably leave legion right there because he has such short time that i think this position is
Starting point is 01:18:06 pretty solid for uh for him anyways back to javik i ain't okay javik was talking all type of mess because his race is the one who came before and got wiped out by the reapers so he had all type of knowledge right that's why mass effect three he was one that standouts to me as far as the additional squad mates. So, let me see. Actually, I was trying to see. Doing a little Mickey research, but this one shouldn't take too long.
Starting point is 01:18:52 Okay, anyways. So when it comes to Javik, I do believe he should be high, but not too high, because he had a lot of knowledge. You're dropping gems throughout the whole Mass Effect 3. He's basically like, bro, I know you're Shepard. I know these people adore you. I know you already got a crazy track record, but hey, bro,
Starting point is 01:19:09 let me tell you right now. my whole civilization got wiped out by the reapers and mine controlled them and turned them into their own army what you think you're about to do and shepard said we're gonna try how about that who don't they do and we beat these folk what do we beat them we go forward it's basically with uh sheper totem so javik was dropping all type of gym
Starting point is 01:19:28 so he's one of my favorite squad mates as well and I believe he's such an integral part of the story because he's so unique that he has to go high on this list I don't believe he deserves to be S tier But Oh wait hold on you already seen I put the enemies The enemy protein is up here
Starting point is 01:19:47 So it's only right I don't know if it is he over edy I don't know if he's over ed though Okay but this is the enemies These are the enemies you run into to where they gave you like a nice distraction from the reapers Javik was a nice additional protein squad mate But his impact wasn't as a
Starting point is 01:20:10 as great as the protein enemies, if that makes sense. So Javik just by himself, I would say, I'll probably say he's right behind Ashley. I ain't gonna kept to you. So yeah, I give him like a B plus, honestly. And then Thane, hold him now, drop a bomb for Thane. And then pour one out for Thane. Shepard, just look at the state of gaming.
Starting point is 01:20:49 Like, what is going on? As far as the squad mates, I would have loved the sacrifice. But for Thane, there was an extensive list. Pause. You guys. See, that's the problem. So when Thane died, safe to say, I was irate. I was looking at this.
Starting point is 01:21:09 What, where's he at? I was looking at this off-brand G.I. Joe Ninja. Wondering why did he take away one of my favorite characters? And safe to say, I couldn't find an answer, man. Shepard. Just look at the state of gaming. Like, what is going on? I couldn't find an answer.
Starting point is 01:21:27 so because of that Thane has to go high on my list because I'm a little biased I really like Thane as a character to the point where he almost climbed the ranks higher than me or higher than Garris to me but to be fair
Starting point is 01:21:43 Garris and Serran is in a nice spot an interesting spot because I don't want to put him in front of Seren but I don't want to put him too far behind Garris Italian is the goat and Joker
Starting point is 01:21:58 Joker's also to go. I ain't on captained you. Hold on now. We may have to slide this man down a little bit more. Actually, let's just put him in front of sort of. Shout out to Denny Reyes
Starting point is 01:22:14 for following on Twitter. Shout to you, hopefully, enjoying this massive fake breakdown. Not too crazy. So when it comes to Thane, I'll probably put him in front of Morden. Yeah, I really like Thain as a character and he was becoming my favorite, but it's just so short that I have to put him
Starting point is 01:22:31 lower on the edge. S-tier, but he's still S-tier, which to show you how much I really enjoy the character. It's just I can't put him higher because, you know, limited screen time. Even though you do get to play with him a lot of mass effect too. It's just a lot of these other characters that's ahead of them, even some of them behind, or throughout the entire trilogy. Really, all the other ones ahead of them is like throughout the whole entire trilogy. So when it comes to that, now we got the boy, you know, we got the boy Rex.
Starting point is 01:22:55 Hold on now, drop a bomb for Rex. Because you know that Rex only respects violence. And as far as respecting violence, let me just shout out to the live audience one more time. Shout out to the 400 plus we have across all platforms. If you're new, just know you can click my link to my bio to, oh, I said it backwards.
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Starting point is 01:23:50 Shepard. Not only Mass Effect coverage, but celebrating in seven day. Shepard. Just look at the state of gaming. Like, what is going on? And last, but definitely not least, have Rex. Rex definitely has to go towards the top. So I will say, and that's some characters
Starting point is 01:24:10 missing that I can't, I can't really, what character do I feel like is missing from this whole list? Because there's certain people, I'm like, why are they not part of this list? Like, the council, where's the council at? Hold on now. We can't rank the, we can't rank the council. You could have all three of them in the picture. That's tripping. They tripping. I'm trying to think there's other characters too. I'm like, hold on. I don't know about this list, but, you know, it's tiered list. I didn't feel like make it my own. Like I said, it was last minute. So anyways, we rank what we have. Rex. Rex goes towards the top. Not going to cap to you. He may be, I want to say, so for me, I've already said multiple times that Rex wasn't like a standout to me, but I know how important he was.
Starting point is 01:24:56 So to be fair, I would probably say that he's right behind the Prothian enemies. maybe a hot take but it's my hot take so I'm trying to think of other people besides the council the council not being on this list is a crime right are you dealing with a real mass effect fan
Starting point is 01:25:21 not having the council on the mass effect trilogy characters list like honestly I know you can kill him off early but guess what so so you can't you can also kill off Canaan and he's right here
Starting point is 01:25:36 so I think the council should have been on this list trying to think of other standouts in mass effect because the council probably would have win the s tier honestly but you have the council who else um that's probably it honestly as far as the main characters the council is one that they really missed looking at this list i can't tell any anybody else that they really missed as far as trying to think of all the squad mates if they missed anybody who i cared about okay they got to
Starting point is 01:26:20 all the squad made some of my opinion. Oh, hold on now. Where's the reporter? You know what I'm saying? Shepherd. Nah, I got to let them know. I need a name, a list of emails or names,
Starting point is 01:26:39 however you want to choose it, of the people who slapped the reporter because I'm snitching. Never in my 25 going on 80 years of life on planet Earth did I think slapping the reporter
Starting point is 01:26:53 would have went so viral on social media. What do they do? So as far as the reporters, you know, technically, if Commander Shepherd was a woman, you know what I'm saying? I guess it's woman on woman violent. But for the male shepherds out there, hold on down.
Starting point is 01:27:10 I had a lot of hatred in your hearts for that reporter. And y'all was taking it out. I was like, hold on, hey. I had to pinch myself. I was like, am I on planet Earth? What has it become? acceptable to shepherd all right y'all get the point right they was hey they were celebrating slapping that
Starting point is 01:27:28 reporter i was thinking to myself day i never slapped a reporter am i like am i one of the nice people on the planet i was like hold on now so i like the reporter uh i okay to you reporter should be on this list um i probably keep i could go on for like literally uh days talking about mass epic so i like this list uh i think it had enough of the characters to really have an extensive conversation like we already just just just had so if my love for mass effect didn't come through or then they exude throughout this whole video pulse you guys see that's the problem they don't know what will so uh finally to give you the full list as you can see right here mass effect uh trilogy characters tier list as you can see um
Starting point is 01:28:16 this is why ranked everybody so i ain't okay i'm gonna take a little screenshot myself because i did you know i took my time breaking this down so you don't take a little screenshot myself I'm a little mass effect connoisseur myself you know what I mean always good to savor the moments I ain't got to cap to you because that's a mass effect fan I don't really break down the tears too often so I'm definitely going to keep this in the tuck tier list breakdown
Starting point is 01:28:39 breakdown mass effect yep there we go so anyways um as you can see the one and only no you know I got to let him know the one and only Liar has a tear of all because that's you know It's just one of, if not the greatest character in video game history.
Starting point is 01:29:01 And then of course, starting off S tier, you already know that we have Shepherd. Oh, hold on now. Where's Female Shepherd? Am I tripper? Is this Female Shepherd right here? No, I can't be, because she has her own picture. Anyways, we're just going to act like this is the male and female shepherd, because they probably would have both been up here. I probably would have put the female shepherd ahead of him just because, you know, I feel like,
Starting point is 01:29:40 that's the most popular for other people. So I was just like, you know, for me, I don't care which one goes in the order. But anyways, yeah, anyways, starting off the S tier, we have Shepherd, both male and the female version. And then right next to them, we have the Reapers, of course. I don't know why they have two pictures, but anyways, we put both of them in the S2. Right after them, we have Captain Anderson, salute the black man. After him, we have elusive man going crazy. We have Miranda, Garris,
Starting point is 01:30:12 Sarin, Talley, Joker, Shadowbroker, Thane, Morton Solis, the Citadel Enemy, which is basically a shadow clone, and Matriarch Bonnesia, because of her ties to the one and only Lee are. So that rounds it off for the S-tier list. Getting into the A-tier, we had the enemy proteins that showed up in Mass Effect 2. We have Rex. We have ED. Keep in mind, this is in order.
Starting point is 01:30:41 We have Udina. counselor udina we have uh legion we have uh what was this girl name aria t loke from the omega from the omega d oc and you know from mass effect two i believe she was in mass effect two or three she i think she was in two and then we have cosumi which i think consumer is probably the biggest hot take out of this whole tier list i don't think a lot of people really put respect on consuming name like that but you know that's just me uh ashley oh my fault so that rounds it off for the a t A list, right? The A tier. The B tier. We have Ashley, Javik, Jack, which I already know this is a hot take, a scorching hot take, because people love them some Jack. I don't cap to you. We have Samara. We have Samara's twin sister. I just assume that this person is all of the members on the Normandy. I don't know if this is the actual specific human or not, but we just put this person as a representation of everybody on the Normandy. So that's what we have.
Starting point is 01:31:45 We have Hackett, Commander Hackett, the guy who will be giving you all the human missions for the alliance. We have Dr. Chakras, and then we have the off-brand G.I. Joe agent right here. You know what I'm saying? Not too crazy. So that wraps it up for the B list, the B tier. Now for the C tier, starting off the C tier. Oh, we got our boy C-Dan. Shout out to him for making the high than other people on this list. We have Grunt.
Starting point is 01:32:11 We have, dang off a guy's name. I'm not even trying to be funny. Who's name James? Jaden? If I type in Black Man again, it don't pull it up. So, all right, let's ask Jarvis. I'm not being funny. I totally forgot his name.
Starting point is 01:32:39 I totally forgot his name. That's why he's so low because I just don't remember too much about him. Except for his loyalty mission. His loyalty mission was solid. Anyways, we found it. All right. So Jacob Taylor. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I put him on seat here
Starting point is 01:32:54 because even though his loyalty mission was pretty, pretty solid. Overall, compared to the rest of the characters, he just wasn't doing it for me. So, as you can see, I'm keeping it eight more than I, too,
Starting point is 01:33:05 because Anderson's is straight eight tier, right after Shepard and a Reaper. So, oh, Anderson in very high regard. But Jacob, Jacob's character could have used a little bit more help. All right, so the C tier had Caden, Grunt, Jacob, the queen of the Krogans, I believe.
Starting point is 01:33:26 What was her name? name. Cassie, Katie. Katie got bands? No, I'll just play. I told her forgot a name. I think it was Kelly. You see Kelly. Mass Effect. Ah, Kelly Chambers. That's what it is. Okay, so apparently she could, she could like dance in your quarters of Mass Effect, too. I had no idea.
Starting point is 01:33:46 I didn't know she was such a, you know what I was saying? She was such a. Shepherd. All right, my fault. I ain't going to say it. So anyways, um, when it comes to Kelly, she was in my seat here. When it comes to this man, totally forgot his name. From the first mission in Mass Effect 1, got completely murked. got just switched down by that man sarin so he was still a serviceable character though so i liked him he proved a pretty important point as far as the overall gameplay in the story loop and then we have um presley i think there's presley right yeah when they be like commander
Starting point is 01:34:16 presley is it's pleased to see you on the deck or something like that uh detere these are the complete obscure characters that i could care less about and i say that as i'm about to say super fan i do like the superfan though i ain't okay i'll put i'll only put him at detail because come on now what he really what does he really mean to the story it's really just a comedic relief so he's not a bad character he's just forgettable and that's how i ranked this list so we have the superfan from mass effect this girl with the two brush totally forgotten name i don't even know who this person is i ain't okay i got to put her at the end what in the world i don't know who this is so she's definitely going to be the worst um james vaguer i believe
Starting point is 01:34:55 that was his name still don't know who this man is got to put him at the end don't know who in the these two people are right here um and then we have the first female torian which of course showed up in the omega dLC but you know another shameless plug i am playing the entire mass effect legendary edition on my nm e plus tier as far as my my platform so when it comes to my mass effect legendary edition play through that you can find on analytic dreams video on spotify shameless plus i use the mod to where it's more inclusive as far as how to how it's more inclusive as far as having a lot of different female turians. So I,
Starting point is 01:35:33 even in my original playthrus, it didn't really dawn on me that there was no female turians because, you know, the aliens, like, I don't know. Like, even in the Krogan's, they had a female Krogan, it looks same as Rex.
Starting point is 01:35:45 So I didn't really think they was going to look too different. Which, you know, technically the slimmer in the face or whatever. So that's whatever. Yeah, at the end of day, I will say very forgettable. So that's the D list, man.
Starting point is 01:35:58 Very forgettable. basically so as you can tell analytic dreams mass effect character tear list breakdown drop off the end of the day click my link to you in my bio let me know one of my social media's what do you think about my mass effect trilogy characters tier list what do you think about the yard just being completely uh leaps and bounds above the competition when it comes to one of the best video game characters of all time and what do you think was the worst placement or the best placement of a character on my list. Shepard, just look at the state of gaming.
Starting point is 01:36:40 Like, what is going on?

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