I have no complaints about the Deptford trilogy
Dark souls
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
Yeah it’s called Rick and Morty it’s great
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)
Everyone’s giving you answers you already know about because it’s all pop media, so here’s one you might not know. The Psychomech trilogy by Brian Lumley!
It’s kind of a power fantasy type of read, but very entertaining.
Bonus Lensman series. It’s not a trilogy though.
Matrix 1-3
The 4th one doesn’t exist in this house
There is only one Matrix in this house.
What you got against True Value Morpheus?
What about the Animatrix?
The what now?
It’s the best “matrix” since the first one, for sure.
You are in for a little treat 😊
The Matrix creators released an anime miniseries called the Animatrix. It explores a lot of the context of their world.
croissant, butter, jam.
Croissant, egg, and cheese, too
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.
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.
That’s… not 3?
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…
We got one of them counters here
I’m OCD like that xd
First 3 Fatal Frames.
And Portal. Even if there’s only two, they were great lol
First 3 Fatal Frames
My man! Some of the best horror content ever created! Best part is nowadays there’s efforts going on to reverse engineer them!
There are some good emulators/roms for the PS2 version!
I would love for them to get the remake treatment, but I doubt they’ll do that lol
Portal Revolution to me is the third game. Not the best, but considering it’s free it fits as a way to complete the series.
Halo 1-3, both the single player story and the evolution of the multi-player.
Single Player on Heroic or below.
Came here to say exactly this. My favorite video game trilogy of all time, played through each campaign countless times and multiplayer on MCC from time to time. Never gets old.
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
Mass Effect 3 forum flashbacks
Hard science fiction: Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. What would terraforming Mars be like?
Video games: the three Castlevania games for Gameboy Advance, and the three for Nindendo DS. Not trilogies per se, but they came in threes :)
those books have been on my shelf forever. I should really pick them up after I finish this Expanse reread
Ah, I need to get ahold of The Expanse.The TV shows were good, but they seemed to end right when something interesting was going to happen…
the books are fucking exceptional.
all queued up, just 8 Expanse books to finish first
The Phoenix Wright trilogy–the first three original GBA games/DS re-releases. They set up and develop so many arcs that pay off both within each game and across the entire trilogy. I would even go so far as to say that Phoenix Wright 3 is one of the best visual novel games of all time.
And the story is only one of many great things! The game art is gorgeous and the soundtrack is full of bangers that serve their purpose well to complement the story.
I love Ace Attorney.
I will argue House in Fata Morgana is the best visual novel of all time.
But then I will argue the Great Ace Attorney Chronicles 2 cases 3-5 are the greatest (hoo wee what a ride). If you can get through the slow pace of the rest of it it’s worth it.
Otherwise I’ll agree the Phoenix Wright trilogy is the ultimate power fantasy of seeing people in high places actually getting convicted of their crimes.
To add my own take, I think Umineko is actually the greatest visual novel. But DGS2 is a respectable choice.
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.
Is there anything else you’d like to insinuate I said that I didn’t actually say?
I’m with you on this one.
Also, brackets in speech.
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.
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.
I honestly preferred Altair’s actual assassin gameplay but Ezio was still a ton of fun.
Mass effect for video games, Rebuild of Evangelion for movies, and Old Man war for Books. I know only mass effect is a trilogy (Andromeda doesn’t exist) but I feel like all three stayed with me after finishing them, and the character development and plot lines all had satisfying conclusions.
How dare you disrespect the enigma that is Marauder Shields
Loll, his sacrifice was not in vain. I’ve still haven’t seen the extended endings because I was satisfied with the original.
There’s not much else to see. Honestly the best ending is the little citadel get together you play sometime in 3. Most of the characters you’ve come to know and love all gathered for a small, low key house party. Everything about the battle for earth and the citadel ghost can eat my shorts.
