Please help me choose my next trilogy trilogy

Edit: Thanks so much for all your awesome recommendations and feedback. Based on sheer popularity it looks like my next 3 franchises will be Mass Effect (5 votes), Dead Space (3 votes) and Batman Arkham (3 votes). I love Lemmy!

So since picking up my steam deck last year I’ve been slowly but surely working through some old trilogies that I never got round to playing. I’m a very casual gamer who plays when opportunity strikes, so it’s taken me a year to play all 3 bioshock, mafia and tomb raider games. I played them in alternating order of release (bioshock 1, mafia 1, tomb raider, bioshock 2, mafia 2, tomb raider 2 etc) and I must say I thoroughly enjoyed the experience of watching each story unfold and graphics improve.

So as I approach the end of Mafia 3, I’m looking to repeat this exercise. The Assassin’s creed collection just went on sale on steam, so I’m thinking I may start there, so am looking for recommendations for another 2 franchises to compliment (or change up) my playing experience over the next year.

Any help much appreciated!

robmexx,
@robmexx@lemmy.world avatar

Heya, i may be a bit late to the party (as I am with my games, lol) but I can highly recommend the Gears of War Franchise. If you’re into action games with interesting characters and we’ll balanced gameplay, this is perfect for you. Awesome pacing between action and story. I’ve binged through 1-4 in a few weeks. Now I’m a bit stuck on 5 because of that one Boss fight, but so far the series is amazing imo

theCheek,

Thank you, will check it out!

HaphazardFinesse,

Late to the party, but Mass Effect, Dead Space, and the Arkham trilogy are all extremely solid choices haha.

RGB3x3,

How has nobody mentioned the Bioshock trilogy?

1 and 2 are fantastic and Infinite is great, though a huge departure from the first two.

It’s just about my favorite trilogy of all time.

Hyperi0n,

The OP did. Maybe read next time?

RGB3x3,

Is my comment not actually deleted?

I realized after I posted that I was mistaken, so I tried to delete it. And it shows deleted on my end.

teo,

From another thread: The possible trinity lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/1374718

MrBusinessII,

For games that you can download and play right away on the Steam Deck

-Mass Effect Legendary Edition Remastered

-Dead Space

-Yakuza series

-Uncharted Trilogy

-Shadows of Mordor and Shadows of War

I would also recommend Max Payne 1-3, but that I know of the first one, at least, does need a bit finagling.

Also the Borderlands series, not sure if it can be played on Deck as is. 2 is a masterpiece though

I also would also not recommend anything Ubisoft right now with the whole deleting people’s profiles and game libraries right now, even though Black Flag is one of my favorites. With all the other games and series everyone else is recommending, anything Ubisoft made can take a backseat for now imo.

v4ld1z,
@v4ld1z@lemmy.zip avatar

Please do try the Mass Effect trilogy if you haven’t yet. I put it off for the longest time and then just started playing. I finished all three games within a combined 100h over the course of like two months and could not play anything else. It was that good.

anti,

Streets of Rage! Although 3 isn’t very good, but 4 more than makes up for it.

Incidentally, I’ve made <10 comments on this account and the majority have been recommending these games and/or their soundtracks, which should tell you all you need to know.

Nfntordr,

Without a doubt, Max Payne 1, 2 and 3

JowlesMcGee,
JowlesMcGee avatar

Max Payne one works surprisingly well on controller. You'll have to use stream's controller mapping, but Remedy have a configuration already up you can use. I had to modify it a little bit (I especially recommend adding quick save and quick load to the back bumpers of the deck), but overall I got through the whole game with a controller

glau,

GTA 3D universe games: GTA III, Vice City and San Andreas

You can go as deep as you like from just doing the main missions to 100 percenting them. I think they hold up well enough on most fronts, even graphically, but seeing some of the games in your list that shouldn’t matter.

Quazatron,
@Quazatron@lemmy.world avatar

Half-Life 1, 2 and 3. You may have to wait a bit for that last one.

cloudless,
@cloudless@feddit.uk avatar

Ace Attorney Trilogy. I was immediately hooked even though I am not a fan of visual novel or detective games.

JowlesMcGee,
JowlesMcGee avatar

Or, if you're fine with a duology, the Great Ace Attorney. They have more convenience features than the original trilogy (though I also still highly recommend the original trilogy)

datendefekt,
@datendefekt@lemmy.ml avatar

OBJECTION!! But seriously, they’re excellent.

UprisingVoltage,

Batman Arkham trilogy! I only played the first one but it blew me away.

If you’re into jrpgs and manage to set up a switch emulator also the Xenoblade trilogy is unbelievably good

gonta,

How’s the combat system in Xenoblade?

UprisingVoltage,

It’s very satisfying and gets more fun and deep the more you progress. Also it’s quite a bit different in all the three games. I’ll refer to Xeno1’s combat for the sake of simiplicity.

Tldr: this is a good general explaination, also shows some general combat www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_DsUSxDm3M

This is just some random gameplay:

The basic gameplay flow consists in: Engage the enemy > draw aggro to the party’s tank > use debuff skills > use damage skills. Throw in the mix a chain attack when possible, and repeat until the enemy is dead.

The party consists in two characters played by the cpu and one character controlled by the player. Everyone autoattacks automatically, and everyone is free to move around the enemy while doing so. The fun part consists in using the right skills at the right moment (if the enemy has a debuff) and in the right position (some skills hit harder or trigger additional effects if you hit the enemy from the sides or from behind). You have to be mindful of your skills because they (obviously) go on cooldown once used and because if you do too much damage the enemy will target your character (which is something you don’t want, unless you’re playing as Reyn)

gonta,

Wow, thanks for the detailed answer! The combat looks more thorough and fun than I thought :D

UprisingVoltage,

It is! The story is crazy good too and the more games you play, the better it gets. Strongly recommend to give Xenoblade a try and to join me and other folks at !xenoblade

Ookami38,

Yeah, I haven’t played enough of 2 to give any info on it, but once you get invested in 1, it’s all fantastic ride through the end of it. I wholely recommend it.

edythecullen,
@edythecullen@lemmy.world avatar

People have mentioned Mass Effect so a big +1 to those games as well.

SpezHater69,

Yeah I love the story of the first games

clay_pidgin,

Doom 1,2, 3!

Borderlands 1,2,3?

thenofootcanman,

The EA skate trilogy

ivanafterall,
ivanafterall avatar

Elder Scrolls: first complete Daggerfall, then Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim.

taladar,

“Complete” TES games? There are people who don’t get so distracted by side-quests that they never finish the main quest in those?

Quazatron,
@Quazatron@lemmy.world avatar

Wait. You mean there’s a main quest?

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