Mass Effect and Dark Souls are my favorites when it comes to gaming.
Hitchhiker’s Trilogy
If you mean The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, man, I have a completely different take.
I use that as one of two prime examples of a series that I love the first book of but steadily like less-and-less as the series goes on. The other example is Dune.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy starts out funny. Okay, yes, black humor, but it’s funny. And it gets steadily less-pleasant and grimmer over the course of the series. I’m not really enjoying it towards the last book or so any more.
Maybe a third series would be the Calvin and Hobbes comics, though I don’t know if you can call that a series. Late Calvin and Hobbes, if you’ve ever read through a complete compendium, is very rarely funny, just kind of unhappy and cynical. The early and mid stuff, by contrast, is my favorite comic.
EDIT: Well, at least Watterson did leave it on a positive note with the final comic:
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/c45362c0-e85d-40b2-a54e-f94bd3308768.webp
I personally loved THGTTG from beginning to the end. To each their own :)
Half Life.
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I haven’t played it, but doesn’t Half Life: Alyx effectively qualify?
It kind of falls out of there, being released out of order, and being VR-exclusive.
I‘d say Portal, but I guess we’re in the same boat.
You could say Portal Revolution is the third game (it’s free direct from Steam, and while not wildly unique it will still have you scratch your noodle until you realize how obvious it is).
So I vote Portal in that case.
See also portal reloaded for new portal concept in time (like that one level from titanfall 2)
It seems we are left for dead game series ):
I mean Half Life 2 itself could be considered a trilogy
The Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson. The original one that is, the second trilogy in the same universe not as much.
A good example for a writer who managed to place two consecutive trilogies in the same universe is Trudi Canavan with the Black Magician & Traitor Spy trilogies.
I’d say the second trilogy (well, quadrilogy) is also great.
The Star Wars trilogy.
Which one though
Definitely not. I’m a huge fan of the originals since I was a kid, but there’s no way Return of the Jedi finished out a perfect trilogy. No way. Not even close.
EDIT: It’s by far my favorite, no other trilogy comes close for me. But it is not perfect.
You didn’t think the right note to go out on was with Ewoks doing fat rails and partying to that banger song Love The One You’re With?
Obviously, the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Mainly movies for me because I haven’t read them. Extended editions, obviously.
But also, I adore the mass effect trilogy. Yeah, the rpg elements get gradually watered down, and the third ones ending isn’t the best, but it’s still an absolutely amazing Trilogy that I replay yearly. And it all came out in 5 years! Nowadays, single games have 5 years of dev time, at least. In my eyes, it’s as perfect as it can be…Once it’s been modded a bit.
Do yourself a favor and read the books
The movies are fine, they are top notch, but the books are from another fuckin world
I don’t know.
So, I read the books. And they are very good. There is a reason that the series is so influential.
And there are definitely some things that I do not like about the movies. The shield-surfing, for example.
But as movie adaptations go, it is pretty darn faithful to the original. Like, I’ve seen a lot of movie adaptations where you’re going to miss a lot of material if you don’t do the books, but they kept all the significant stuff in. They streamlined it a little, and no Tom Bombadill, but I seriously think that it does a solid job of capturing the original.
Like, if there’s any book or series where I think that watching the movie would get you a pretty good approximation of the material and still be a really good movie, Lord of the Rings has to be near the top.
I almost brought up the shield surfing 🙂. I decided not to. There were some little warts like that, and “I am no man” and etc, but overall the movies are awesome + about as faithful as you can get without making it into a miniseries that spans decades of production or something.
After watching the movies, I can’t read the books any more. Tolkien was many things, he’s great at world building and mythology, but storytelling is not among his greatest qualities.
You’ve got be joking right? The most influential, most loved, most well regarded fantasy trilogy of all time is not a good story actually? I get that it wasn’t your style for whatever reason but to call it bad storytelling is just asinine.
Literally my first thought was “obviously, lord of the rings”. Opening the comments and seeing those exact words was strangely satisfying.
Video games, Movies, Books
It has 3 solid GameCube games
It has 3 soild movies
It has 3 solid books
The Dollars Trilogy as it’s sometimes called. Italian westerns Fistful off Dollars, A Few Dollars More, The Good The Bad and the Ugly
Also called the Man With No Name trilogy.
Double Dragon.
Yeah, if we’re talking NES games, Mega Man 1-3, Ninja Gaiden 1-3 and Castlevania 1-3 all belong on this list
Movie trilogies: Guardians of the Galaxy, Tom Holland Spiderman, Deadpool.
Guardians of the Galaxy should get more love.
The second movie was the weak link, but it still had some of the best moments of the trilogy, like the introduction of Mantis. And Yondu’s Mary Poppins moment. Right in the fucking feels.
Movie: The Lord of the Rings, Back to the Future
Game: HL2 + the two episodic, Metro 1/2/exodus(exodus not my favorite but still great), Halo 1/2/3
Book: Physics/Biology/Chemistry(idk i don’t read book)
I do have a pretty solid complaint about back to the Future part 2, because if Marty goes into the future he should arrive in a future where he disappeared back in 1985.
They really should have introduced a new protagonist just for that section, otherwise it’s not internally consistent with itself.
Half life wise, could you also consider HL2, HL2 all episodes, and HL Alyx as a trilogy?
Hmm, i haven’t played Alyx so I couldn’t comment, but for trilogy i’d like to only stick to same protagonist in the same set of storyline, and since HL1 have different tone and set in different time and place and isn’t flow so well into HL2, and Alyx feature a different protag, HL2 and the two episodic is just the perfect 3.
SOAD albums Mezmerize and Hypnotize.
Not all their best songs on those two albums, and some of them kind of sucked tbh.
However. How the fuck ever.
Listen to the entire pair, all the way through, in order, longhand. I don’t care, just do it.
When you get to the last track, Soldier side, it pulls together all the themes that have been foreshadowed and hinted at across two entire albums, and oh holy fucking shit. When it breaks, your jaw will drop.
That’s… not 3?
We got one of them counters here
I’m OCD like that xd
Trilogy started out meaning three works, but in common usage it generally doesn’t any more.
I respect you for this incredibly outlandish take. I will start saying a few but only meaning two. A couple? Could be anything. Several will now be seven only.
Who are you and what did you do to the real TheBananaKing?
Pretty sure I’ve been the only thebananaking since like 2009…
SOAD had two great albums, and they most certainly were not Mezermize/Hypnotize. And Steal This Album wasn’t even a real album.
like I say, they definitely weren’t their best songs. But the way they slowly lead up to Soldier Side was fucking genius.
Order the 6 piece mozzerella sticks. You get 2 mozzerella sticks as a trilogy!
Mmmmmmmm, the perfect trilogy!
Gin. Lime. Simple syrup.
I took some artistic liberties with the title.
Actual answer, John Carpenter’s trio
Some people will disagree, but this is the closest perfect trilogy that I remember to play.
Danganronpa 1, 2, V3
Muv Luv is a better trilogy in that regard.
