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5 Reasons Game Trilogies Suck

Gamers often get treated to the line that a story is "too big" to be contained in a single game, and therefore needs an entire trilogy to handle it. We see it with games like Halo and the upcoming Mass Effect. More often than not, it all ends up being a load of crap. Here are five reasons why players should groan in despair whenever a story needs to be continued.

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The BS Police - 819 days 23 hours ago

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1 - I wouldn't say they all suck.

I think Halo is an exception when it comes to alot of these complaints... and just to point out the irony, we had to wait forever for all 6 films in both Star Wars Trilogies.

Let alone the special effects in Episodes 1, 2 and 3, were better than Episodes 4, 5 and 6 of the Star Wars series.

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Cartesian3D - 819 days 18 hours ago

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1.1 - u r right

but SUCKS doesnt mean REALLY suck..

Halo 1 was a good game and NEW and FRESH game..

but Halo 2 was just a good game ...

thats the point.. imagine Bioshock 2 .. it will be a good game in another location with new graphics and story..and blahblah.....but not as FRESH and NEW as Bioshock 1 ..

anyway Developers can make second and third part better in all terms, but they cant make them as Fresh as first one, imo its almost impossible..

I think COD4 and MGS4 are exceptional... because they are 4 not 3 .. lol completely new Location and story in new platform...

jk but they are same..

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ASSASSYN 36o - 819 days 22 hours ago

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Here we go with halo series sucks disguised in a article. I thought we ran out of these articles and kaaboom another. I can not wait until this game is walked out of the stores by gamers. And the sells blast through the roof and the doubters shut the FCK up for the third time!

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MK_Red - 819 days 22 hours ago

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I know what you mean but I didn't change a thing with article. This is original article's title and it featured Halo 3.

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MK_Red - 819 days 22 hours ago

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The thing is that we don't have as much trilogies as movie industry. MGS is no longer a trilogy as well as RE and others. Cinema has LOTR, Matrix, Star Wars, Pirates Of Caribbean, Spidey and many more while gaming's most notable trilogy is Halo. Mass Effect & Too Human are just at game one.

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computer - 819 days 22 hours ago

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There are always exceptions to the rules ;)

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ShiftyLookingCow - 819 days 17 hours ago

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Mass Effect? Half Life 2? This is blasphemy. Steven Wong sentenced to humiliating teabagging and multiple deaths in Halo 3.

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ShiftyLookingCow - 819 days 17 hours ago

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6 - "5 Reasons why Logic sucks"

Number 1 in that list "Because Logic is used to make a gazillion 'X Reasons why blah blah blah' lists"

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machine - 819 days 17 hours ago

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i think this more applies to movies then games.
with great games, this whole trilogy thing only allows the game developers to tie up tired plot points to allow future installments to try new things and bring in entirely new plot and gameplay elements that would have been otherwise be seen as out of place.

you know that there will be a halo 4 and another metroid game, for example.

look how well resident evil 4 turned out. there are many more games like this as well.

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FeralPhoenix - 819 days 16 hours ago

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8 - hmmm.........

I disagree for many reasons but overall its seems that all his "5 reasons" suggest that you are not getting a complete game for what you paid for just because its a trilogy. Yes each game is a continuation of its predecessor but if their good they should stand on their own and if its good enough to make you want the next one then so be it. I don't ever remember even hearing or knowing anything about Halo was going to be a trilogy back in 2001 before I bought it, but the point is whenever you buy any product or see any movie the only expectation/question you should have is will this 1 game or movie be a worth my $60 or $8. Also in Halo's case as with many other sequels and trilogies; the fanbase is the reason why the devs create more of them, or in other words how can you say that sequels are bad for gamers if they are the very ones asking for another game? -Although I do think at some point devs have to end the franchise or risk becoming stale.

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Imalwaysright - 819 days 14 hours ago

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This industry is pretty much made by franchises so all that ranting is worthless

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Waffle-boy - 819 days 11 hours ago

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Im sooo tired of all these games coming out. Like, i have to buy the same game three times!!!11!

Not.

Thats just silly. If you get into it, like many people with Halo, you'll want more games. Its not like its the same game over and over - they improve naturally.

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