Your Favorite Location in Mass Effect

[bigfatcarp93]

More or less speaks for itself. What planet or station in the Galaxy of Mass Effect was the most atmospheric or awesome for you? Which one did you enjoy visiting the most and why?

DLC Locations allowed.

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

Easy.

Mass Effect 2. Lower Afterlife on Omega.

I could listen to that kickass beat forever.

 

[Uhura]

I love love love Ilium! It's such a gorgeous location and I think it's a shame that it wasn't utilized more in the series. If I remember correctly, Ilium is at its best during the Justicar & the Shadow Broker missions. (I also love the exterior of the Shadow Broker ship, but I'm not sure if that counts as a 'location'.)

 

[Smeggs]

Favorite place? Hmm...

Tuchanka, I think. It just felt like there was such a history there. The first time I went there in ME2, it made me feel like I'd just walked into a spaceport or something, I felt like a total foreigner taking in the sites for the first time.

Other than that, all of the Shadow Broker sections of Illium, as well as the exterior and interior of the ship. I felt like I was goddam James Bond trying to save the world from some evil Doctor Soandso.

But my heart will always have a special place for original Mass Effect Citadel locations. Man, that made it really feel like...I dunno, I was home whenever I returned there in the first games.

The rest of the times it felt like a chore :\

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

I liked the derelict Reaper in ME2. I thought the music and sound design for the area were great for giving it kind of a creepy horror vibe, helped by the video logs of the ill-fated Cerberus science team sent in first. Walking into that ship almost felt a little bit like being a Colonial Marine walking into a Xenomorph hive.

 

[Frankster]

Me1: A draw between the citadel and the prothean colony towards end of game.
Citadel cos it was a nice hub for missions and enjoyed the feeling of grandeur, playing through the prothean colony first time was awesome as the feeling i stumbled upon some long lost secret was very tangible, also seeing the rows of deactivated lifepods was rather chilling and served to heighten the threat the reapers posed

Me2: Afterlife club on Omega, as far as i was concerned it was my sheps official hangout in between running errands for cerberus, just loved the atmosphere of the place.

Me3: The Yakshi monastery, i already have a natural preference for cold and mountainous regions (its my sole reason for trying skyrim despite having never played an ES game before) and am a sucker for spooky atmospheres as the tension built up to the arrival of the banshees.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

Ilium was an awesome place. If only it were more explorable.

 

[MysticSlayer]

The Citadel from Mass Effect 3 was probably my favorite. It just offered the feeling of being away from the war for a bit while also remembering that there was still a war going on that you had to do something about. It was also the only time in the series that the Citadel really felt like a home base for me to go to, relax, shoot some targets, and hang out with my crew. The only other place I got that sensation was the ship in ME2, but nowhere near to the same extent.

 

[NamesAreStupid]

ME1 Citadel, Lots of ME1 planets. Say what you will about the Mako the planets gave the game a sense of scale. A feeling that you were really exploring the galaxy and that you were insignificant. Both ME2 to lesser extent and ME3 were very corridor-y.

 

[natster43]

I forget what the planet's name was, but the optional planet in Mass Effect One that has the asteroids impacting it when you get there. I just liked how that planet looked.

 

[risue]

I always liked Vermire in ME1 and the collector base in ME2. as a side note i realllly wish there had been more missions like the final mission in ME2 that involved more than just the two people you take in your squad

 

[Rebel_Raven]

It's Omega for me. I relished returning to it in 3, even though it wasn't quite the visit I would've liked.

Citadel's coming in a close second, though, thanks to the Citadel DLC.

 

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[Bara_no_Hime]

The Presidium (on the Citadel) in ME1.

Afterlife on Omega in ME2 is a close second.

If I had to pick a combat area... the planet in ME1 with two Thresher Maws.

 

[carpathic]

Without a question of a doubt Noveria.

I have a hard time understanding how they managed to make a building that so closely defines what my perfect home would look like.

Concrete, heated by hot springs but located on a winter planet. I seriously loved it and would want to live there just so I could go into the atrium every day and smile at its perfect corporate bland-lifelessness. I seriously loved that planet.

After that? Shepards apartment.

 

[The Great JT]

I have multiple places I love most in Mass Effect. Specifically, Omega, the Silversun Strip and Virmire.

 

[Beffudled Sheep_v1legacy]

Ilos from ME1 is definitely one of my favorites. It was creepy, haunting and oddly beautiful. Geth aside it was just so peaceful, a true graveyard planet. What remained of nature had reclaimed the grand structures and images of a long dead race. The lack of ambient animal noise, the deactivated life pods, the quiet and somber music all added to the feeling that I was at once trailblazing, discovering and trespassing.

The derelict Reaper from 2 was another one. The endless legions of boring Husks ruined the atmosphere but without them I was kind of creeped out at first. A poster above summed up my feelings nicely. I felt like a Colonial Marine stepping into a Xenomorph Hive for the first time.

Even dead gods can dream.

More generally I enjoyed the smooth and curvy architecture of the Asari (Illium, Thessia, the Monastary) and the Citadel's various incarnations.

Also the ancient Krogan City from 3 was breathtaking.

 

[Luca72]

Without a question of a doubt Noveria.

I have a hard time understanding how they managed to make a building that so closely defines what my perfect home would look like.

Concrete, heated by hot springs but located on a winter planet. I seriously loved it and would want to live there just so I could go into the atrium every day and smile at its perfect corporate bland-lifelessness. I seriously loved that planet.

That's pretty much why I liked it, but I sure wouldn't want to live there! What was amazing to me was how well they made everything feel cold, even when you were inside an apparently heated building. That whole level reminded me of The Thing.

I have a weird fondness for Benning in Mass Effect 3. It's one of the multiplayer maps, where you have to rescue civilians in single player. It seems like what real space colonization would look like - a punch of prefab houses that instead of branching out into a pre-planned city, just kind of stack on top of each other. I loved when the Kodiak takes off and you see that it's an entire city of space-boxes.

And anything in Mass Effect 1 that involved either ice or twin suns with a cool color overlay. I could violate physical law in the Mako around for days on one of those planets.

 

[Shaun Chang-Time]

id have to say virmire and omega