Order of playing on Insanity

[Aznjesus990]

Question: Should I play all three ME games on a lower difficulty and then play all 3 on insanity or should I stagger it (like play ME1 on Veteran and then Insanity and then move on to ME2)? 

[KentisPL]

I would honestly recommend to go for insanity straight away. ME1 on insanity is quite easy (easier than original) and importing your character into the later games gives you a nice lvl boost at the start (especially ME2 -> ME3).
However, if you're already set on playing the trilogy more than once then I would play all 3 and then go through them again. This way you can make your choices, see how they impact later games and then go back and do things different way.

[Aznjesus990]

Follow up question: How does the ME2 Import work? I already started ME1 on vet and planned on doing the insane run later. If I were to say do the insane run right after the ME1 vet run, will that mess up the import to ME2? Should I have a backup save ready for my vet run to import into my ME2 game?

 

For the insane run, I plan on skipping all the side quests and go straight story. For the vet run, I do everything.

[Suporex]

import is about decisions you made, nothing to do with difficulty or your character class. you can change them between games.