Xbox 360 Fanboy

exactly, dice is awesome, but i have exactly 0 interest whatsoever in this game, and neither do many people. people thought ms going for a halo trilogy was risky, this game wont even make it past the first crappy iteration.

nobody wants to play as an invincible skinny dumb asian girl that jumps from building to building

You mean Halo?
Oooooohhhh! I said it.
Seriously though, as much as I love my Xbox, Halo doesn't show it's good side. The first one is the only one worth getting IMO.

Actually, I was talking about the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. But yeah, I guess Halo 2 also works as an example.

i think it's a given that the Matrix movies be compared to this as well.

Thats all good and well... however, what you fail to see is, that *is* the whole point of a trilogy. i.e. a story that spans 3 works (or 5 if it happens to be hitch hikers guide).

If the games were stand alone, they would be as much are trilogy as any 3 works sharing the same name.

How crap would star wars been if they managed to save the day after each movie? The only downside is most trilogys are just an excuse to triple dip into our wallets.

Well, Gonemad, the problem there is that just because Star Wars pulls it off (yes, they did the exact same thing I'm talking about) doesn't mean everyone else should too. In fact, I should probably just call that "Empire Strikes Back Syndrome." But like so many things, what was once an interesting strategy to ensure momentum keeps going between the second and third entry, has become a lot less novel and more obnoxious. These things happen after 25-30 years of everyone else doing it.

I'm not saying stories can't be connected in a series, obviously, but it's always a turn off when it looks more like part 1, part 2a, and part 2b instead of 3 distinct parts.

For instance, Lord of the Rings was a great trilogy, because it was all planned together from the start. But it's not like Tolkien tried to say "Hey, everyone loved The Hobbit, so here's The Hobbit 2, and The Hobbit 3, and The Hobbit 4." Everyone expecting The Fellowship of the Ring to be as complete and self-sufficient as The Hobbit was, would have been pretty put off.

The Prince of Persia trilogy was also a good example. Yes, there was a lead-in to the third game, and they tie together into a greater narrative, but the second game had a cohesive story on its own.

Jak and Daxter went off in a wildly different direction after the first game, and managed to grow the story and have each game build upon the previous, but they also had their own stories and their own unique qualities.