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.
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
There’s a podcast somewhere where a guy narrates uses amazing voice acting and music to deliver the story and it’s an absolute banger of a trilogy. One of the most magical experiences I’ve had. It’s like watching the movies but longer, better paced and way more emotional connection to the characters.
The movies don’t say what the people are thinking and the actors did a phenomenal job to convey it, but the book explicitly saying it is better.
Half Life.
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I‘d say Portal, but I guess we’re in the same boat.
It seems we are left for dead game series ):
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)
I thought you guys were meming with reloaded and revolution playing off the matrix, but now it seems I have some gaming to do this week
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 mean Half Life 2 itself could be considered a trilogy
The Dollars Trilogy as it’s sometimes called. Italian westerns Fistful of Dollars, A Few Dollars More, The Good The Bad and the Ugly
Also called the Man With No Name trilogy.
How to Train Your Dragon Trilogy.
I watched the first one on a ferry, and just hearing the title made me think it was going to be some nonsense. And then it was amazing.
Then they announced a second, and I was thinking what do they expect to do with this and then they gave something intensely heartwarming and heart wrenching. I found it better and deeper than the first.
And then the third. I don’t think it was as clean as the other two, but it closed it off so beautifully I was bawling at the end. Absolutely perfect.
as a functional trilogy the Back to the Future film series is pretty high up there.
Great Scott!
Also, apparently it has an animated cartoon series. Just learned about that the other day
Animated series plus you could consider the Telltale Games BttF the fourth movie, as it was written by Gale and has most of the cast. (MJF makes a cameo, Biff’s actor said his agent never contacted him)
Yeah it’s called Rick and Morty it’s great
The first three Toy Story movies.
There’s no way you all didn’t cry at the end of #3.
A movie can be bad and still make you cry.
Jack Frost anyone?
Click.
The movie Click made people cry?
Yeah it’s got a reputation for exactly this. It’s a terrible movie, but the ending is a completely stupid and unearned tearjerker.
Assassin’s Creed 2, Brotherhood and Revelations aka the Ezio trilogy. I remember playing it when I was quite young and the parkour elements blew my mind. Ezio was a very charismatic character and these games were imo the best Assassin’s Creed games, before Ubisoft went to shit and started churning them out every other year.
Half-Life 1,2,2,2
Half-Life, Half-Life Opposing Force, Half-Life Blue Shift
Half-life 1, 2, *2.1, *2.2
And Half-life 2.3
The Star Wars trilogy.
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?
Which one though
Lord of the rings (Peter Jacksons first run of the series not that shitty hobbit shit) movies extended edition of course. Halo 1-3. Mass effect 1-3.
I second the halo series.
For a brick, he flew pretty good
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.
Lord of the Rings. I have no complaints and am probably one of the few who know why the eagles didn’t fly into Mordor.
Why? (I’ve heard but forget)
I think it’s debated a lot but from what I remember it’s because the sky is a big empty space, the Eagles are sentient and do what they want, the nazgul patrol the sky and dead kings sense the ring. Sauron has an eye that is ever watching. It would’ve been too dangerous and risky to lose the ring for the Eagles while the enemy still lived.
Yeah, flying in after the evil is absurdly weakened is pretty obviously not the same as flying through controlled airspace.
I can’t stand the movies though. They’re like cliff notes of cliff notes of the story.
This is such a simple and succinct explanation. I’m fully satisfied with this and feel like no other explanation is required.
NSFW, if anyone doesn’t know by now.
How is that NSFW?
Not every comic Oglaf is porn
That one’s fine, but anyone who goes from that to browsing the archive should do it outside the office.
Half Life, Half Life 2
The Next Generation Deep Space Nine Voyager
I know that technically doesn’t count but whatever.
