Speaking of creepy/erie...also anytime this track kicked in:
Speaking of creepy/erie...also anytime this track kicked in:
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A more earnest answer:
Dealing with the rachni, exploring the derelict reaper, and hearing the banshees at the monastery were the closest things to actual "scary" in the series for me. Especially waiting for the rachni to pop out of their hiding spots, which still gives me a little jolt.
As for sad? Mordin and Thane are tops, but Jack reflecting at the Cerberus facility works really well for me, too.
Mordin is just gold... it's a shame I'm iffy about the genophage. Because that stuff makes the story superior.
I wish there was scary moments for me in ME. I love the krogan and rachni but what I wouldnt give for something like the Xenomorph in a Mass Effect game. A truly horrifying, determined and clever creature "unclouded by conscience, remorse or delusions of morality". Alien:Isolation was danm brilliant I hope ME:Next introduces something really predatory like that. Where you have to use stealth because your super specialness or renegade interrupts is no match. Oh god
Dont need to be the antagonist species though. Id prefer them to be something that just exists.
Saddest: Honestly I think the Ash/Kaidan choice in ME1. I never liked Ash but it was still hard and kinda sad that I had to decide someones fate like that.
Scarriest: None. But the Derelict Reaper was pretty eerie.
Saddest part was to finish the game, knowing there aren't more, it became a memory and just that, one that came close was when Grunt charge against the ravagers and the rest of the team came out safe, I felt a lump in my throat, but then i was relieved to see Grunt get out too. Scariest not so much, but when that husk jumps at the window in Sanctuary and the scream of the banshees for the first time in the monastery.
Scariest: When me and my Shepard and his Squad are strutting around in the dark during the start of the monastery quest and... I hear a can or something get nudged. Que me blindfiring in fear and Tali whispering "Sorry that was me" oh that was embarassing. Did not help I just did the same dang thing in Dead Space 2 earlier that day while in the Ishimuras bathroom. ![]()
Saddest: Staring at the ME3 menu watching the fleet burning up in the atmosphere, listening to that sad melody, and knowing there was going to be no happy ending (well atleast without a certain mod) thanks to one of my moron friends spoiling the ending. However with ME4 looming perhaps it is not quite the end afterall... ![]()
Horrific: Watching that poor girl getting turned into soup during the suicide mission. Thank goodness I didn't make any detours so I was able to rescue my bro's. ![]()
First time I played the Overlord DLC with my surround sound system on a high volume I nearly fell out of my chair when David started screaming. And seeing him hanging in that VI thing was rather sad too, so the DLC fits both I guess.
The banshee sound makes me nervous, first time I heard that and then saw where it came from I turned around and tried to run somewhere else.
Mordins death was the only moment in a video game when I actually had to put down the controller for a minute, Legions death hit me pretty hard too.
First time I did the rachni mission with Grunt (ME3) I thought he died and it felt like a punch in the gut, seconds later I had my krogan back and everything was wonderful.
Saddest part was to finish the game, knowing there aren't more, it became a memory and just that, one that came close was when Grunt charge against the ravagers and the rest of the team came out safe, I felt a lump in my throat, but then i was relieved to see Grunt get out too.
Saddest moment: Corporal Toombs - when for some reason I changed ME1 playthrough around and came to a specific planet a lot earlier than normal as a solo survivor. I couldn't talk Toombs down and he shot himself.
Scariest: hmm not sure about "scary" but creepy (at least somewhat) .. .Beginning of the Collector vessel (was expecting something lurking around the next corner and trying to jump me), parts of the Monastery Mission, parts of Noveria, parts of the Overlord DLC
Creepiest moment was the derelict reaper and the TGS mining facility from Leviathan.
Saddest: I guess I could go with Mordin's death even though several of the background conversations among refugees are even worse like hearing the story of the asari who killed Joker's sister.
But honestly the moment that got to me the most, surprised me because I wasn't even attached to that character, was hearing Grunt thanking Shepard for releasing him from the tank.
Saddest: Anderson's death.
Scariest: The lab part of the mission on Noveria with the spider-scorpions rachni in ME1. I was a little lass back then and when that monster pierced right through that guy's chest... whoa. I'll never forget that.
Saddest was killing Mordin. I felt like such a bastard after that.
Scariest is those people in the Leviathan DLC. They all slowly turn and look at you. You shouldn't be here.
Saddest: deaths of characters I like. Ashley and Kaidan in ME1. Mordin and Legion in ME3. The one that really takes the cake though, was when I accidentally sided with the geth on my first PT, saw Tali, Legion and all the quarian Fleet die. God that was awful. ![]()
Scariest: the Collector ship and Ardat-Yakshi sanctuary. It's always creepy when there are no enemies, just weird ambient noises. Plus, the sanctuary starts with a descent into unknown blackness. I always disliked thorian creepers in ME1 too, so anything with them is unpleasant. Edit: yeah, that Leviathan lab was unnerving too, similar reasons - nothing's attacking you... yet.
In a meta sense, the Rannoch Reaper is pretty scary - 'cause I suck at using the orbital targetting. ![]()
That in the next chapter SP could becomes laced with MP so it becomes unavoidable to dodge MP.
Saddest? Mordin or Anderson. In the earlier games leaving one of the team in virmire or in me2 when you did not go through the omega relay immediately and afterwards realize that you lost quite many people.
Scariest? Not sure really. In citadel dlc the malfunctioning arena fight was quite scary first time since the rounds seemed to keep going and going and then it dumps all the multiple elites on you ![]()
Creepiest? Probably the mutant rachni-queen in me3 if you killed one in me1.
Saddest = Mordin singing at the top of the tower right before it explodes - cried like a kid reading 'Old Yeller'. Also, the very end of ME3 if you choose synthesis and remember all those lost? Legion...that clip they show of him with his little metallic eyebrow going up....GAH! I am still pissed over Legion's death and it makes me sniffle. And sitting with Anderson looking at earth. That whole scene = lump in throat.
Scariest - Leviathan DLC, the guy who is possessed by Leviathan and you talk to him through the glass and his face is half in shadows...then he starts beating on the glass. Freaked me out! Also, the husks in ME2 when you first meet Legion. They just kept coming and it was really freaky. And banshees....eek! Oh, and the prison ship in ME2 when you recruit Jack...that whole ship was scary as hell to me.
Saddest: my initial assumption that Shepard dies in all 3 endings. (the breathe scene was hard to get back in those days)
Scariest: the Derelict Reaper. That ship felt truly alien, even more than the collector cruiser. The angles, the endless cables, the video logs, the lighting, the soundtrack, the husks, the fact that you're aboard a goddamn reaper. Creepy stuff, felt like good horror sci-fi to me.
Horrific: Watching that poor girl getting turned into soup during the suicide mission. Thank goodness I didn't make any detours so I was able to rescue my bro's.
This really is horrific and I literally have to close my eyes and cover my ears because I'm a weed.
But honestly the moment that got to me the most, surprised me because I wasn't even attached to that character, was hearing Grunt thanking Shepard for releasing him from the tank.
I never listened to the whole story because... PTSD. Anyway I read that she could request a gun and you can authorise it at the Spectre terminal but I never listed to the whole damn thing until just now on YoutTube thanks to you... It was awful and now when Joker talks about his family maybe getting off world in time, I'll know there's no hope. Damn you! ![]()
In a meta sense, the Rannoch Reaper is pretty scary - 'cause I suck at using the orbital targetting.
I play on insanity all the time but I've only once managed to kill the 3 husks + Marauder Shields without lowering the difficulty and it took me about 13 times. I hate not having biotics in that moment and I'm a ****** poor shot as it is without the swaying gun.
With the reaper, you have to do a little dance backwards and slightly one way and then once the reapers starts firing the bean in that direction you have to combat role the other way and then fire. Luckily your aim doesn't have to be spot on otherwise I would fail at that too.
Saddest: Bioware's pathetic attempts at heavy handed, one sided moralizing of everything in the genophage and Rannoch arcs during the 3rd game
Scariest: The MoCap on either Miranda or Allers's face. Shepard rapeface gets honorable mention. All are nightmare inducing
Saddest: Seeing an ammo count on my pistol in ME2' prolouge.
Scariest: Looking at my carried over Infiltrator's powees and reallizing hew was now a space magician who used electricity and fire to attack with, and also when I found out the hard way the addition of Tactical Cloak was not the addition of stealth.
Saddest: Bioware's pathetic attempts at heavy handed, one sided moralizing of everything in the genophage and Rannoch arcs during the 3rd game
Scariest: The MoCap on either Miranda or Allers's face. Shepard rapeface gets honorable mention. All are nightmare inducing
I'm a big paragon softie but even I don't cure the geneophage if Wreav is the only one left in charge. Not when he and Eve are basically warning me with every breath that it will be the krogan rebellions all over again. I still hate it though so if the game had given me one reason to hope there would be peace, I would have taken it. So the game isn't completely one-sided on this point.
Miranda has this thing where she can't look directly at you and when she does look in another direction, she has to move her whole head (or even her whole body) instead of just her eyes. EDI moves more like a human than her.

The rape face isn't real is it? It's a digitally altered image. I've never seen this face in game:

Saddest:
The prologue of ME3 when you see the Reapers killing so many people, the crashing debris that looked like a meteor shower, and the awesome background music that goes with it.
So sad, but so beautiful.