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[–] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 72 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 31 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Do yourself a favor and read the books

The movies are fine, they are top notch, but the books are from another fuckin world

[–] tal@lemmy.today 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Literally my first thought was “obviously, lord of the rings”. Opening the comments and seeing those exact words was strangely satisfying.

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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 52 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Half Life.

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[–] BennyInc@feddit.org 26 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I‘d say Portal, but I guess we’re in the same boat.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago

It seems we are left for dead game series ):

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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 33 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The Dollars Trilogy as it’s sometimes called. Italian westerns Fistful of Dollars, A Few Dollars More, The Good The Bad and the Ugly

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[–] Nemo@midwest.social 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] tal@lemmy.today 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 21 points 4 months ago

I personally loved THGTTG from beginning to the end. To each their own :)

[–] Donebrach@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago (3 children)

as a functional trilogy the Back to the Future film series is pretty high up there.

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[–] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] Toes@ani.social 22 points 4 months ago

Avatar the last Airbender had 3 perfect seasons.

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[–] Eccitaze@yiffit.net 17 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

The first three Toy Story movies.

There's no way you all didn't cry at the end of #3.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] jo3jo3@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago

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?

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[–] VaalaVasaVarde@sopuli.xyz 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] isyasad@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Half-Life, Half-Life Opposing Force, Half-Life Blue Shift

[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Half-life 1, 2, *2.1, *2.2

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[–] Spicy@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 13 points 4 months ago (8 children)

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.

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[–] Surp@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] viking@infosec.pub 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Gin. Lime. Simple syrup.

I took some artistic liberties with the title.

Actual answer, John Carpenter's trio

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[–] clark@midwest.social 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 11 points 4 months ago

Half Life, Half Life 2

[–] HelluvaKick@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

The Next Generation Deep Space Nine Voyager

I know that technically doesn't count but whatever.

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Halo 1-3, both the single player story and the evolution of the multi-player.

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[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 9 points 4 months ago (4 children)

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)

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 7 points 4 months ago

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.

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[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The increasingly inaccurately named Hitchiker's Trilogy by Douglas Adams.

John Carpenter's Apocalypse Trilogy (Prince of Darkness, The Thing, In The Mouth of Madness)

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[–] Mascara@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The mass effect trilogy. Yeah, shut up, the ending is great. NEVER had a problem with it. It's a videogame, really expecting that the ending will take into account all the decisions over 100 hours of gameplay and dialogue and give you a very personal ending for you is lunacy. Even real life doesn't work like that. The 3 endings with slight variations depending of your war assets was more than enough for me.

[–] the16bitgamer@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Spyro 1-3. First game set the mood. Second game refined the formula, last game had fun with it. Still play it to this day.

[–] bblkargonaut@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Now hold on here...

X-Men Origins: Wolverine
X-Men
X2

It fully explains Wolverine's power set, explains why he has no memory in X-Men, and puts a pin in the storyline with Stryker by X2.

Folks HATE Origins, and I get it, nobody likes that version of Deadpool. That being said, it's NOT the shit show that Last Stand turned out to be, and with this trilogy, you can safely pretend Last Stand never existed.

The love story with Silverfox was sweet and touching.

The battle by battle history sequence with Wolverine and Sabertooth was great.

Even before the transformation, Ryan Reynolds nailed Wade's basic trait as "the Merc with the mouth" before it all goes horribly, horribly wrong.

The only thing it doesn't really explain is how Sabertooth apparently got brain damage between the two.

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[–] daddy32@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

The Riftwar Saga, by R.E. Feist, starting with Magician. Not LotR levels, but still very pleasing.

[–] rainynight65@feddit.org 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Books:

Wool/Shift/Dust by Hugh Howey. A well written, immersive post apocalyptic fiction that has a satisfying conclusion.

The Passage/The Twelve/The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin. Pretty much the same as above.

The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett. A huge read that spans almost a century (from just prior WW1 to the late 20th century), accompanying the same families from several different countries and embedding them into significant world events of the 20th century. Really well written and enjoyable.

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[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I’m re-reading the Thrawn trilogy by Timothy Zhan and it’s a lot better than I remember it.

Last time I read it, I was 10. I’m now 40 and it’s a much more interesting story now.

Was inspired when I watched Andor and it reminded me of Zhan’s take on the SW universe.

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[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Whenever I think of the answer to this question, I always lament at how many film trilogies or games could have been absolutely immaculate duologies but were, for various reasons, sort of forced into a third installment through fan expectations, studio pressure, or just plain Hollywood/corporate greed.

It usually begins with a film or a video game that is an unexpected success, something that was written off by the execs that turned out to be not just a work of art, but a pop culture sensation. Star Wars, The Matrix, The Terminator, Assassin's Creed, Mass Effect, etc were probably never intended to have a sequel. Their original plotlines all tied up the loose ends nicely and made for a perfectly adequate self-contained story. Then the second film/game in the series comes out and it's another well received installment. Maybe it's because the second rides a bit on the coattails of the first, or maybe because the first walked so the second could run, it's hard to say, but in every case the second always sets the bar too high. The third installment is typically the one that sours the soup, so to speak. I'd wager that even a really well written story can't really live up to the expectations that fans have for the third installment of a well-beloved series. Having the perfect three-peat is a feat rarely seen accomplished, but nobody ever seems satisfied with just two good pieces of media with no plans for a third.

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Order the 6 piece mozzerella sticks. You get 2 mozzerella sticks as a trilogy!

Mmmmmmmm, the perfect trilogy!

[–] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Star Trek II, III, IV

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

His Dark Materials trilogy for me. Both the books and the BBC TV adaptation.

[–] DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 6 points 4 months ago (7 children)

If you're in your teens the original mass effect trilogy, from the storytelling to the going through the different genres of games

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