It's scary and exciting to think about how much thought goes into the series from Bioware

You know, when I first got Zaeed, I was pretty disappointed. He doesn't have normal conversation trees, after all. I warmed up to him in three stages.

1. In combat he's a merciless killing machine bad-ass who takes no shit from anyone. And he can have Squad Disruptor Ammo, making him a staple for any geth mission, especially on Insanity.

That's enough to use him.

2. He talks a lot for someone without normal conversation trees. Repeatedly examine anything in his room and you can get a long story about any of it. It's great. More, he always has something unique to say after most missions, which is awesome.

That's enough to actually like him.

3. He has mission-specific dialogue everywhere. From Garrus's recruitment mission (meet the Blue Sun leader) to Samara's, all over the place. He's chatty, witty, and crazier than a shithouse monkey.

He's still a reprehensible lunatic, but I've grown to really like him over time.

Also I started an Insanity run today.

As a Vanguard.

It was prety tough up through Mordin's mission. After that I had Heavy Charge and started putting points in my passive.

I tore through Zaeed and Kasumi's loyalty missions like a bad joke. Since I did Zaeed's so early, I was able to gain his loyalty on the Paragon runthrough - even though I'm mostly Renegade! Now I have the Cain, and I'm taking it in to do Grunt's loyalty mission.

The Arc Projector is almost unfair.

Fear me, lesser creatures! For I am biotics (and shotguns) made flesh!

Dont you feel a sort of geeky joy when you get to name all those people and items and know that lots of people here will know whatyou are talking about?

PS - Well I wont. At least, not yet.

@Khuutra

The Mattock Heavy Rifle does really good damage. I've only used it on Insanity but I had to check the difficulty because it was cutting through enemies so easily. I can see why some people think it's over powered.

Interesting. Do you think it would be useful as a weapon specialization for an Adept?

Hmm....you propose an interesting question. Given it's fire power it should it would strip away defenses pretty quickly. I've been stalling on my adept playthrough. I may have to give it a shot. My Insanity run Sentinel got a kick out of it.

Here's a bit of ME2 humor.

Is Mass Effect 2 too hard? I played only a bit on Normal diffculty and it seemed alright, though some games either become too easy or too hard later on.

Should I go with Normal for my first full playthrough?

If you guys promise there are no ME2 spoilers, I'll read this thread.

I can't promise shit from nothing about that sort of thing. Spoilers are marked when I make them, though.

@marcrosmg:

Normal for your first playthrough should be fine. No, the game's nt too hard. Some parts will be tough until you learn how to do it, but nowadays I play on noting but Insanity because anything else would be too easy.