Chronicles of Narnia
Also, not technically a trilogy, but the three seasons of Deadwood are pretty much perfect.
Narnia has seven installments though.
That’s what makes it such a perfect trilogy! (I don’t know what I was thinking, as I have the whole set on my shelf.)
Do they hold up? I read the series when I was probably still a single-digit age. I’m wondering if they’re worth re-reading as an adult.
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
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.
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.
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
Dark souls
Quake, Quake 2, Quake Live (RIP)
Quake 4 Life
Haha I should check it out again. The last time I played it was at an internet cafe while dodging work.
I’m desperate for more SP Quake
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.
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.
Half Life, Half Life 2
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 mean Half Life 2 itself could be considered a trilogy
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)
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.
Minecraft alpha, Minecraft beta, Minecraft
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.
His Dark Materials. Best series I’ve ever read, at all.
Still need to watch the BBC show, would yall say that is worth seeking out?
Yes, but nowhere near as good as the books.
Avatar the last Airbender had 3 perfect seasons.
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
Explorations into Microtonal Tuning is a trilogy of albums by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard that follow on nicely from eachother, all very good albums in their own right, and a third thing I can’t think of but would sound rhetorically complete.
