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never played ME2 and given my likely future PCs' strength, i doubt i ever will. however...

CasanovaZelos posted...

Being the middle episode of a planned trilogy can come with some issues. The first episode gets to capture our imaginations with whatever new world the story is introducing to us, while the third will hopefully be able to tie together all those concepts established in the earlier entries. The second entry is essentially the load-bearing beam, sometimes serving as an extended second act. In something like Mass Effect, this second episode has to build up the threat established in the first game while doing little to truly advance the resolution.

this is an interesting point! while i'm not sure which of the following are planned trilogies, i think that the second entry of many series is often considered excellent! here i'm thinking of empire strikes back, godfather part ii, the two towers, catching fire, dead man's chest (it's better than AWE for sure!), MGS2... like in theory, i agree with you, but i kind of feel like in practice there are lots of counterexamples?

(edit) and not that counterexamples make the rule wrong, but i almost feel like counterexamples are more common than the alleged (intuitive) rule!

(and yes i also just realized that i named only one game series, which clearly wasn't a trilogy)
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