I *painfully* Recommend This Achievement in Mass Effect 

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As a person who finished all 3 games on Insanity twice... I completely understand your suffering. Hope you will play ME2 as well.❤

While there are a couple of tricky fights, Insanity is actually pretty easy when you learn the do's and don'ts of the combat system.

I am grateful for your mental sacrifice and I wish you luck with all the achievements that will drive you to insanity in the future.

I found that the original ME1 Insanity mode was waaayyy harder than Insanity in the Legendary Edition. I remember having such a hard time beating the first game on Insanity way back when (especially the mission to save Liara), but when I replayed the Legendary Edition, I blew thru the 1st game with no problems at all. The 2nd and 3rd games, however, were still just as nuts as I remember lol

ME1 Insanity was a breeze compared to the other two I swear on time I almost broke my finger trying to defeat the clone from Citadel DLC on Insanity while playing as a vanguard

As someone who has played through the trilogy over 30 times, this put a smile on my face. There is only Insanity and it's waiting for you in Mass Effect 2. Do it, you'll love it :)

I'm just gonna... try and ignore the fact you got Wrex killed in ME1 just to see how you deal with Wreav in ME2/3.

The Lorna Shore joke is so damn true.

The ME trilogy on insanity is pretty damn tough. There were a few moments that were seriously intense

I don't generally hunt for trophies. I've only got about 20 platinums on an account that's been active for 3 generations now. But I made the effort to fully complete the ME Trilogy, all three Insanity trophies, everything else, and like an idiot I still went for a perfect ending run while on Insanity. Those plats are the pride of my collection alongside Ghost Of Tsushima and Persona 5 Royal.

Glad the Krogen got their revenge for killing Wrex.

20:22 Sorry, im gonna be that guy. *Commander, not captain

I did platined the game on Xbox too, and the hardest achievement was doing the sentinel achievement with Aiden… because I had the brilliant idea to do all three games with the Adept class

Yes for Mass Effect 2 and 3. Need to see those Miranda buns.

So here's the secret to easy mode in Insanity mode in ME1: Explosive ammo on shotguns or snipers with hyper rails. It will literally knock down every enemy in the game, except for the final boss and stunlock them into oblivion. Edit: also you can't knock down geth starships either. But that's really only relevant twice in the entire game, once in a sidequest, and once in the main story.

Need this in mass effect 2 and 3

Finally; some good mass effect content

When I beat Insanity back on the Xbox, taht N7 profile pic *NEVER CHANGED* for several years.

am i glad i found this channel, will be binge watching it at work. awesome work.

Saren smoked that Nihlus pack LMAOO , also I was expecting voiy to make his own custom character lol

Your commentary made me laugh so hard I had to pause the video just so I could get air into my lungs. I’ve been debating whether or not I want to do the achievement. ME1 was not really my favorite. However, I thought about trying it on 2 and 3 though.

THE KROGAN HALLWAY ON FEROS HAUNTS MY NIGHTMARES. I put my squad in front and ran way behind them and uses them as fodder, reviving them simply so they can get beat up again while i shoot and use powers 😂

The achievements videos are amazing, George. Wonderful stuff

Voiy looks like he's never had sex with someone that's awake.❤

Man, I absolutely love your Dark humor and the way to comment games! Absolute stunning! 😂😂

Wait until Mass Effect 2 and 3, those are much harder then Mass Effect

Ngl, watching this made me realize how hard this was if you didn’t pick a biotic heavy class. Good on you for doing it and good luck with me3’s insanity (specifically the Grissom academy)

Fun fact you need Wrex to stay alive in order to save his own race plus Wrex and Garrius have the best character growth in the series

I'd love to see more Mass Effect videos! I've actually been playing through the Legendary Edition recently and had to stop watching this vid so as not to spoil anything I hadn't got to yet. Now I'm up to ME3 and might even give Andromeda a try. Love your vids, mate!

I am so glad I've been playing this game for so many years. Insanity on ME1 was a breeze because I cheesed the fuck out of it, got Spectre level gear for me and my companions after a bunch of early game side questing, and abused the hell out of their abilities. ME2 is not so easy to exploit and that was much more difficult.

Mass Effect 1 has a pretty steep difficulty spike after leaving the Citadel. However if you do the Doctors side quest (make sure you talk to her after recruiting Garrus in order to get the quest to trigger the next time you visit) the one where she is being blackmailed. Afterwards she will buy and sell items from you at a significant discount. You can sell weapons to her, then buy them back from other vendors (don’t sell more than 20 items at time or they will be lost forever) rinse and repeat and you will eventually get enough credits to purchase the Specter weapons. These guns make the difficulty spike much more manageable on Insanity.

you got to go for all 3 games!! you got this!!! maybe include a death counter in the corner as well? or an hours played

Oh my God, I almost died. I was not expecting that one. My God, I almost crashed, laughing so hard. “I’m worried Shepard May extinguish another species if he doesn't raw dog an alien or a racist soon”🤣🤣

I played the original trilogy multiple times on Insanity. The comments are correct, Insanity becomes easy once you know the combat. Know what weapons to use to counter what protection, make generous use of abilities and ability combos, and pay attention to positioning during fire fights. Also helps to know what types of enemies are weak to what weapons and abilities, as the Blue Suns for example use a lot of shields so use of Overload or fast firing weapons would work better than say the Blood Pack who tend to favor armor instead. Eventually I couldn't even play it on hardcore anymore because it felt too easy to me. I can't even begin to put into words how much this trilogy means to me. If I could go back and replay it again with fresh eyes and mind... I'd give anything for that.

Played through ME 1 again recently on whatever is below insanity, and fuck me I remember how bad these parts you highlighted were even on that difficulty. Well done, hope to see 2 and 3.

Got bored like 3 months back and decided to play all 3+Andromeda in order on insanity only took me a week to beat

At this point I always play games on the hardest difficulty.

A true enlightened player would do the insanity run on their second playthrough with maxed out gear and running past everything to the next objective.

Believe me,if you think mass effect *1* on insanity is difficult, you are NOT ready for mass effect 2 insanity,it gets actually infuriating,especially when you meet the scion

Oh, never did I expect Lorna Shore getting mentioned in a gaming vid. Love it.

Great video! In my opinion, I believe that Insanity is the only way to play these games. Did the full trilogy on Insanity on the Legendary Edition and it was one of the greatest experiences I've had.

Nothing like alien racism. How else are you supposed to win on the galactic race track?

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The first Mass Effect wasnt too hatd on Insanity, but ME2 broke me, because i was done when i spent 13 HOURS in one Sequence of a Mission

Bastion Sentinel, Ashley and Garrus with Master Assassination, and good sniper rifles and gear, and you'll be fine on insanity

You have to complete the Insanity trilogy!

When you reach wolf 2 mein lebian you'll have to be put in a mental hospital

Lorna shore does hit different

the first game is easy in insanity in 2nd playthrough, but mass effect 2 is a real pain in the ass

I did a insanity playthrough with each class. Overall, sentinel was hardest for me due to the sheer amount of tactical acumen you have to use with your power sets between games and your squad choice is vital

Please do ME2 and ME3, they're amazing. Just wait until you meet Jack, and the quality of the games gets much better. I played through these games probably... 10 or 11 times. Different endings, different squad members surviving or dying, it's just beautiful.

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ME trilogy on insanity is bloody excruciating. There were some points where I'd just pause the game, sit in a corner and wonder why I was torturing myself 💀

Me who did four playthroughs of the Mass Effect trilogy on Insanity, three playthroughs of The Witcher 3 on Death March, and three run throughs of Elden Ring: *_"Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power."_*

I just yesterday got that achievement. I feel like im tactically savvy cuz tactical sh00ters or rpgs are my favorites. Hardest part was that one ship FULL of biotics in ME1, cuz they would all spam stasis, the ship FULL of husks in ME1 cuz they blow up. !!!!!!KROGAN!!! i didnt do that mission with the crates guarded by like 5 atlases, and then in ME3 the Armax Arena at spectre level. That was just insane. And then the Shielded Marauder in the end of game. I feel like playing a normal playthrough was harder at parts somehow. Possibly because on insanity i knew not to fuck around and knew when to split tactics of running to and from cover or just staying in cover. Most enemies were easier with that mindset. Oh and that DLC in 2 with the Batarian prison. Hard because you run out of ammo defeating all of the indoctrinated forces. And you're alone so no power spamming.

One's insanity is another man's entertainment. Keep suffering for us please.

I can't tell if you were joking about not going to feros on insanity but that's literally my first go to every time, lol i thought going there early would always keep them near your level

These Krogan fights on Virmire are actually very easy when you know how to cheese them ( that implies using a " b%%ch tactic " ) . Open the big door that leads to them, but don't go through it. Just shoot them using the sniper rifle, and powers. When your life goes down, go far to the left and let the door close to stop the gunfight ( they never come through it, so you're safe here ) , and put your controller down until you're back to full life again. Make sure to have the armor mod that slowly heals you though ( and to give one to each of your party members too, so that they can slowly heal over time too ) . Once everyone is back to full life, do that all over again. Same goes for the Krogan on Feros. Never approach them, and never stay where you are. As soon as you see them coming at you, run as far away as possible ( they can't follow you too far, there's a limit distance they can't go past, so use that to your advantage to wait for your health to go back to full life too, and then go back ) . The only Krogan fight who can be hard, is the one at the end of Liara's recruitment mission. Because it is a confined space. Can't run away from him. But that fight is a lot easier in Legendary edition though. In the original game, that Krogan was constantly running at you to headbutt you. In Legendary edition, he's running a lot less, which makes that gunfight a lot more easier. Generally speaking, it's the confined spaces gunfights who are the hardest. As long as you can run away from the fight to put the controller down and wait for the health to go back to full, well, no fight is hard. Time consuming, because there's a lot of waiting to do, but, easy. The golden rule when playing on Insanity is that, when choosing your teammates to go do a mission, it's never about who you want to bring with you ( or which characters you like ) , but about " Who's powers are gonna be the most useful for this mission ? " In ME1, the answer is simple. It's always Kaidan and Liara. 100% of the time, they are the most useful on the battlefield. All the others are pretty much useless. They can use Throw to make enemies fly away ( useful for hordes of zombies, like on Feros, or stop a Krogan from charging you ) , Lift ( make an enemy fly in the air, again, useful to have one less zombie on Feros to deal with for a moment, and stop a Krogan from charging you, and also Krogan can't heal while they're in the air, which makes them a lot easier to kill, just make them fly, and use the assault rifle to make maximum damage while they're in the air ) , Stasis ( freezes an enemy for a moment. Can't deal damage to him, but that's one less enemy shooting at you, so that's cool ) , Overload, which is very useful for Geths. Liara has Warp, useful against organic enemies. Singularity, make enemies fly in the air, especially useful for zombies, just let them surround you, and use her Singularity to make all of them fly in the air, making them easy targets to gun down with the shotgun. Ashley, on the other hand, is the exact definition of completely useless on the battlefield, as none of her powers are ever useful. Kaidan and Liara's powers are a lot more useful than anybody else's. Now that you've done ME1 on Insanity, know that you've done the hardest of the 3 games on Insanity ( this is coming from someone who played through the entire trilogy on Insanity dozens of times, so someone who has a lot of experience in it ) . The other 2 are easier, especially if always picking your crew members based on which powers are gonna be the most useful for the mission, and take advantage of the combat system. There will be a few gunfights that are gonna be difficult here and there, but, at least 95% of these 2 games are easy even on Insanity once you understand how the combat system works as well as which powers, and which weapons, are useful against each types of enemies.

Here for mass effect, stayed for the comedy.

Tbh, I've played the trilogy so many times now that insanity isn't hard enough any more. I think my next run is gonna be a Predator pistol only run.

Realize playing insanity and picking adept in 1 and Sentinel in 2 and 3 saved me ripping the rest of my hair out

I have played through ME 1 probably 10 times and I didn’t know you could fight Ventralis and his men on Noveria

If you are going to play ME2 on insanity I have a couple of tips: 1. Go with a soldier with Warp Ammo as a bonus power, with that you only need to level up Disruptor Ammo and Warp Ammo, those two ammo powers cover all resistances in the game, that way you don’t have to use level up points on other ammo powers. 2. Play the little bitch tactic, in ME2 anything can stagger you, and getting staggered on Insanity is a death sentence. 3. Your squad mates WILL inevitably get knocked down, the entire point of picking a soldier is so you can pull your own weight in the damage department and don’t depend on your squad mates. 4. This is THE MOST IMPORTANT, to get the achievement in ME2, you ONLY need to beat the Suicide Mission, you can turn off Insanity after that and complete the rest of the Loyalty Missions. You can still get the whole crew out alive if you know how the Suicide Mission works, that way you only do the missions that are necessary, ideally the ones who are more straightforward and don’t have a huge difficulty spike (like Grunt and Tali’s), missions that you have to fight but are mostly dialogue (Jack and Jacob) or ones that require no combat whatsoever (Thane and Samara). If know how the Suicide Mission works, you can plan out which squad mates have to be loyal to get everyone out alive before the countdown ends. Good luck and excellent narration for this video!

I just completed it on insanity and imo tali and liara are the goat squad choices. Singularity/lift and overload spam. 😅

I’m playing through all three on insanity now. ME1 and 2 weren’t bad except for in the collector base. ME3 is proving to be a bitch! But for some reason it didn’t count ME1 when I played on insanity more so I’ll need to redo that one again.

I never did ME3 on Insanity because I only played through it once, but I don't remember it being that difficult on the first two. If you utilized your squad well and leveled up useful skills only a few of those fights are frustratingly difficult (krogan commander on the lava planet, Benezia)

BTW there is a way to glitch trough the Mako so you can get to were Liara is so you dont have to fight the Armature on foot.

You do realize you can manual save every time there’s no enemies in the area right? So everytime u die u go back a few seconds instead of multiple minutes or hours

Good luck with ME2 and ME3's Insanity. :P I can only imagine the amount of suffering you're gonna experience as ME1 is actually the easiest one when it comes to Insanity difficulty.

If you are going to do Mass Effect 2 here is a little tip. If a man named Jacob volunteers to go into a ventilation system, you let him do it ;)

Haha. I've played these games so much I have to play on insanity or its way too easy. But some particular rooms can still give me trouble and used to be so frustrating when I first started.

I just noticed this, after having played this game multiple times since 2009... when the rachni take over a body, the body blinks it's eyes.... why?

Having Wrex killed is truly insanity

I play on Insanity on all my playthroughs now days. I've also played so much that I know the most obvious braindead strategies. Example: 1: In ME2 going Sentinel might be your best bet. I found it to be one of the easiest. 2. In ME3 go either Vanguard or Sentinel. Sentinel you can get your shields to such a ludicrously high amount that enemies shooting at you will feel like you're playing on easy or story mode. I often found myself walking out in the middle of the field just taking my time shooting. I think it's Ashley, but a squad member will give all other squad members a +15% Shield bonus I think it was. Then spec into shield bonuses. Vanguard has a more fun method. As you charge attack an enemy, then slam to the ground, then charge again by the time your done with the slam. Keep weapons light and your only real enemy are instant kill melee enemies like the Banshee, Phantom, and Atlas Mech. Adepts can be good as well, but require a bit more then Vanguard. 3: Cerberus Harrier and Venom shotgun are busted. Especially the Venom shotgun. A fully charge shotgun shot can and has taken out Brutes and Banshee's in one shot. Harrier is more balanced. There is also the N7 Typhoon which can be great if you go for the heavy duty path. 4: Squads matter. ME2, but especially ME3 has a huge emphasis on your squad selection. I remember how utterly broken Garrus is in ME3 with the N7 Typhoon and Armor Piercing rounds. I also found Javik to be amazing to use for Biotic detonations. I think it's called Dark Channel. But it will stay on an enemy for awhile and act as a slow poison. That's when you launched a throw biotic attack and it will detonate the enemy.

Spoilers below. The thing that stopped me from getting all insanity achievements in the games was the clone dlc mission, he kills you so fast and I was unlucky to get to that part with no heals. I'm going to go back t9 it as all I need to do is beat the 3 game but for right now I'm playing dragons dogma, it's pretty fun.

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Playing through insanity as an engineer was pretty brutal to me

Once i got through that clone fight and the ai malfunction fight on citadel dlc arena on insanity the first time, other difficulties are too easy for the game to be enjoyable.

Leave the room before a bomb goes off…… nah what’s the worst can happen 🤣

Honestly Insanity as a Soldier or Vanguard in ME1 is pretty easy. Going Soldier through the trilogy with fortification as a bonus power + either Revenant (ME2 and 3) or the Typhon in ME3 is even easier.

Here's a tip for when you do ME2. Pick the Soldier class, they have an ability that slows down time and recharges pretty fast, and as you upgrade it you get better damage and resistance while it is active. It makes headshots super easy, and those deal an insane amount of damage. Go for Mordin as your first companion, he'll give you what's pretty much a magnum when you meet him. Combine the two and you'll be almost one-shoting most enemies with a headshot and you can pop 3-5 of those each ability usage, with a cooldown so fast that by the time you finish reloading you'll have it ready again. A few times in the game you'll find an enemy who can kill you even if you do this, usually either a rusher with lots of health or someone firing explosive projectiles at you. Switch to the rifle(you should be able to get the LMG in the collector base, which is even better) and remember to upgrade your heavy weapon so you can quickly kill them. Ultimately legendary is all a matter of knowing when you can pop out of cover to shoot, be smart and careful and you should be fine.

As someone who beat the original trilogy from 1 to 3 using soldier on insanity, trust me, it's easy AF. Even easier on legendary edition bc of the nerfing TL;DR max out adrenaline rush and incendiary ammo in 2 and 3, cake walk. Give garrus the heavy machine gun and level him up on certain skills in 3 to unlock god mode.

My ME insanity run definitely broke me. I haven’t been the same ever since

Ive personally done all 3 games on insanity, and it actually wasnt that bad, although i did them with the new game+ so it may have been a bit easier for me

ME2 was just hell I think i made multiple builds and just got stuck in Horizon, I only managed to beat it by just persevering Kasumi's loyalty mission because of her grenades that can stun Harbringer, also the reaper IFF was a pain as well. ME1 and ME3 had plenty of exploits that makes it a bit easier to beat.

My dumbass when playing this did my first run on insanity as a soldier...... fir all 3 games for those who dont know in the later games its a really difficult time.

Did it only once and I was stupid enough to try and do it with an adept. ... not the smartest way to do an insanity run for the trilogy. But DAMN I felt accomplished afterwards. and While I may find it in myself to do another insanity run but I will NEVER do it with an adept again. lol

Insanity was easier in ME1 than I thought it would be. There was only one part that gave me trouble. When the stalkers was introduced.

I would love to see you suffer this insanity on ME2 only since that's the (spoiler alert for a 13 year old game) Suicide mission and how everything could go so wrong.

I just finished ME on insanity. I died a total of four times. First due to target fixation and getting rushed by a geth destroyer I thought I'd told Garrus to destroy. Second time a krogan ripped my head off cos I was stuck behind cover and fumble fingered my RUN AWAY tactic. Third I got swamped by a horde of exploding rachni green bugs as soon as I opened the door. And lastly I got vaped by a thresher maw because my bloody MACO flipped upside down when I clipped a shed while turboboosting out of the way. Full disclosure it was a max level new game plus with all the best goodies. I wanted to save space racist and the council this time.

The Steam game ME: Legendary edition took me 276.3 hours to get all the achievements and perfect ending for PC.

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'I mean I am no assassin, I have only ran over three people in my life'

I'm so afraid to start this achievement in LE since I've already gotten it for every game in the OG ME trilogy 😅

the achievement of insanity in mass effect 2

I've only played through the series on Insanity once, and only finished a few weeks ago.. The most difficult mission for me, was easily the very last firefight you're in. It's on *Spoiler alert but not really* Earth, as you're trying to protect that missile. The waves of enemies coming from every direction killed me time and time and time again.. So much that I actually stopped playing for a month or so, before coming back determined to finish the damn thing..

I just completed insanity on all 3 games I think the 3nd game was the hardest especially the reaper base on rannoch were you fight the 3 Geth primes but the mass effect trilogy is the only game I have ever wanted to get all the trophies for so I think it was worth it

i know its too late, but explosive ammo works really well on krogan

ME2 is crazy on insanity. It’s really easy if you play as a sentinel.