So does this happen to others? You beat a game and 100% it or uncover all the story, or master the game mechanics or whatever's your flavor…but then can't do another game for days? Sometimes weeks, or even months?
Does it happen to anyone else? How do you deal with it? Is there a go-to title you pick up to ween yourself from one game to the next? Help an user out—I'm trying to kick this sensation hard.
what the fuck are you talking about you nigger
Make it easier?
must be a shit game
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I usually stop playing games again and go into a small depression about the game until I find one that gives me the spark again
Yes.
It's sad and depressing knowing you spent all that time and got so attached to the story and characters only to sit there with your controller on your hands and lap to with a dazed look realise that it's all over unless a sequel comes out and if it does there's a high chance it'll be a fuckup because that's how sequels usually are.
Then you don't want to repeat the feeling again so you take a hiatus for whatever time where you repeat the whole process over again.
It even makes me think what's the point of playing vidya. You play and as quick as you begun, it's all over. The things you do generally amount to nothing; or literally nothing can be erased as easily as selecting delete data, power outage, or HDD failure and you can't help but wonder the sixty something hours on average you waste finishing a game couldn't be spent on something more productive like leveling up your skills in real life and longer lasting.
The same feeling comes when you finish a show you like but that's a different story entirely.
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Enjoy it while you can, it means you found a game you really liked and played it thoroughly. That's not going to happen very often, and will happen less and less as you get older.
Not every game deserves a 100%
Are the experiences really so different? I've never accomplished a major thing I've set out to do so I don't know.
I guess this is kinda true, but not exactly consistent. I probably consume more games than I did when I was a kid, after all. I'm fond of more Gen 6/7 games than I tend to let on.
The only blues I got is I wont fuck a big breasted silver haired woman ever in my life.
It only happens when it's a game I was in love with. It sucks knowing that you won't get that feeling again for a long time.
As much of a fag as it may make me sound like I actually felt bad after beating Persona 3. I didn't want to pick up the next game because I didn't think it'd be able to replace all those characters I learned about and enjoyed. It felt almost like a betrayal.
pls no bully
Lately only Falcom games have been the one to make me kinda unhappy I beat them. I put so much time and energy in to Trails games only to end up having nothing to do for like another month or so but go back to multiplayer games.
I HATE BLACK PEOPLE THOUGH
I also got the feeling after P3. Saying it felt like a betrayal is pushing it a bit, though.
I've had experiences where people whom I thought were friends left me behind to be in someone else's circle, so I guess I can't quite bring myself to do the same.
Happens to me after beating a series occasionally, both in how the last game ended and knowing there's no more main series games left to play for the first time.
>Ending winds up having a massively bittersweet revelation.
>Realize that lorewise you've merely played through one of an infinite number of cycles that all play out the same way.
>Each cycle has to play out the same way to keep time flowing right, and a particular character will suffer eternally for it with only brief reprieves among the people they care about, and for most of those reprieves don't even remember their relationship.
I'll usually dump time into an unrelated game genre or generation. Either that or get to other free time things I've sidelined.
I don't even 100% games I like because usually the bullshit involved in being a completionist is fucking retarded.
With games I like and sent -/+100 hours playing I tend to get sick of them and don't play them again for a long time. If I want more of the same and its apart of a series, I will replay other games in the series. but I've never had "postpartum" depression after playing a good game.
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Are you playing porn games and addicted to waifus? Because this response is unhealthy.
Yeah it happens to me too. Not just with games though. If I play a particularly great game, or read an amazing book, or even finish a great TV series, I find myself without the energy to invest in another one for a while and have a sort of "come down" from the high of the last one.
I'm sure there's a language in the world that has a word for this exact thing.
Yeah, breaking up with a girl. Or losing good friends can be depressing. If video games are serving the purpose that a normal social life should be serving emotionally then maybe its time to put down the vidya for a bit an go outside.
where do you think you are?
you're right the more terrible a game is, the more I play it.
user pls
>>>/r9k/
Can you get one to wear a wig? I'd say dye, but that's a dangerous road ladden w/crazies and hambeasts.
What was her name?
That gives me some hope P3 may have some grit to its story. I've heard some bad tales.
This was definitely me in WA4. I didn't want to do jack-shit afterward because the end of it was so shocking and 180 from what the series is known for. Outgoing MC basically becoming a hermit, his heroine focus not having guts enough to be with him and instead teaching in a village near him, best girl and her goofy love interest going on and out in such a normalfag way; all of which contrasting the "hope still flies over barren lands" themes Wild ARMs is particularly famous for. I didn't want to do much of shit after that epilogue for a while. Also thanks for using spoiler tag, I hadn't a chance to play my copy of WA5 yet.
I will replay other games in the series. but I've never had "postpartum" depression after playing a good game.
See if I can try to draw on some suspects, here. This never happened at all w/platformers—it's more an RPG thing. And it's become more common, I think. PSX gen, there was no burnout to speak of—even when games would go retarded or knock me on my ass w/presentation I'd be able to pick up & go with another title easily. I get too involved w/one game nowadays, I might end up getting funked for a while. It's annoying.
Nope. Honestly I haven't played an eroge in years, despite accumulating quite a few. Waifushit pisses me off because it interferes in characters/plot way too often.
Yeah, WA4's second half winds up kicking Jude in the shin and then kicking him in he groin repeatedly while the poor boy's on the ground. As if the game wanted him to suffer, and HARD. If it was a change in outlook and wanting to get away from anything connected to the past he'd lost, I can get why he opted to go innawoods.
I always try to in regards to stuff like that. I will say that Wild Arms 5 does at least end on a hopeful note, but again, it's still pretty bittersweet the deeper you look.
I only feel sad if that was good but short game.
I have that sometimes. Currently going through it now. I had a bunch of stealth games to play through, moved onto Manhunt and didn't like it, the movement felt way off. Moved onto Tenchu, didn't like that either, moved onto Red Ninja, didn't like that. Moved onto NOLF, didn't like that either. Its left me a bit burnt out but I'm conflicted. I kind of want to play Thief, but I've never really been able to get into it, but I also want to switch genres, to perhaps warm me back up to stealth.
I play ROTK games when I cant playing anything else. Theyre pretty fun turn based strategy games. Just find a game from your childhood that you really liked and play it or similar ones in its genre when you want nothing else. Helps to get you in the mood.
It happened to me for a month after finishing MGSV. That game made me really angry unlike MGS1-3 which were really satisfying.
I've only ever felt this when going for completionist run. Eventually I gave that up cause completionism is fucktarded.
I got depressed when I 100%'d Radiant Historia a few weeks back but that's because I got quite attached to everything within the game even if the golden ending showed that Stocke would reunite with everyone. I don't think I played another game for a couple of days and I know I'm not going to be engrossed like that again for a while.
Good.
It only happens with certain games. If I really like the characters/adventure, when it ends I can't get into another game for at least a few games. I don't even complete it 100%, just the main story/adventure.
Recent games that I noticed it haven't applied to are games like FFXV (shit story, shit characters, shit character interactions, no story impact, etc), Skyrim (just a whole lot of fucking nothing), Uncharted 4 (shit story, decent characters/interaction, shit gameplay, okay adventure).
When I beat FF7 on PSX I just wanted more or some closure. Mind you I was only a lad.
thanks for the waifubait
like pottery
That happens to me all the time. It's because I have very severe depression. At this point, I mostly play games just to occupy my mind, because as soon as I start thinking about things, a ton of negative, self-loathing, despair-inducing thoughts flood my consciousness. When the game is over, I don't have anything to hold that back anymore, so everything I was hiding from returns.
I don't, really. Usually I end up doing some other compulsive thing to avoid my thoughts, like eating a ton of food even if I'm not hungry. Eventually I might work up the will to start another game.
Not one game in particular. When I'm in that "post-game mental crash" state, I usually play games I've already finished that are action-oriented and easy to play with the sound off while listening to podcasts or having a video on in the background. Stuff like Torchlight, Descent, Skyrim, or Doom.
You just reminded me that today was another day I didn't spend as Ivy's sex slave. Damn it.
I only get like this if I do a 100% completion run or marathon a game to completion; I only replay them once a year for that reason.
I usually try to 100% all the games I play unless they're especially bad.
When I think about it in some games 100% completion is the true game.
That's a bad feel man, especially when you love the game so much but have run out of content and there's nothing else like it to jump to
Another weird thing I've noticed lately is that it's not uncommon for me to quit a game to take a short break, and immediately feel like I *really* don't want to play it again, even though I was into it only minutes ago.
I've got handheld games I haven't picked back up for this reason. Just dropped them and wandered off. They were getting good, too.
only game I ever felt post game blues was after getting all endings to Chrono Trigger. Since then most games I've played I kinda just finish and throw away.
Weird. Maybe stop playing no-skill grindfests or cinemaplay garbage OP? Try some games with genuine replayability.
Happened to me twice, with Dark Cloud 2 and Tactics Ogre
After Dark Cloud I was about 2-3 years without touching a vidya seriously. Tactics Ogre, I finished it a couple months ago and don't think I'll grab anything as heavy again
also dat raita-y op
I stop trying to 100% a game when it involves not having fun as a requirement.
You poor soul
For some reason this brings me down every time. It feels like you might as well have let the bad guy end the world because nothing happens after you defeat him anyways. Feels like time has stopped and the world has ceased to spin. Is it too much to ask for a sidequest about having fun celebrating the defeat of the great evil? Ruins my immersion every fucking time.
I think that's just an inherent weakness of open-world games that don't technically "end" when the main plot is done.
Man everytime I see this picture I think of it as incomplete. All i want is to see those yummy toes wrapped around those sexy sandals. AAAAAAAAAA
The moment I beat a game, I can't play it any more.
I never do post-game content, I never go into the virtual missions, I never go back to collect all the hidden stuff I missed out on.
The moment I finish the game and get my ending, that world feels so closed off to me that I can't even force myself to go back to it. It all feels hollow.
I find that if it's a game I really liked, usually for the story, I'll be really mopey the next day because it feels like I've been forcibly ejected from a world I fell in love with. And then I'll probably be a bit spacey for days or even weeks after that, and sometimes I'll grab the OST and listen to it so I can reclaim those same feelings I had while I was playing the game.
But then time passes, and I'll find that once I've moved on completely, I can delete the OST and uninstall the game and move on normally until the next big game I can sink my teeth into comes around.
RPGs and anything with a bittersweet ending really fuck me up.
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I do this on longer games or ones with a really ingrosing story or characters.
Now I do games differently. I play somewhere between 2 to 4 games at the same time, this is helpful for the post game blues.
This is the big one im playing, trying to 100%
Pretty self explanatory, when I play games with others, this is what I play
Usually world builders like rollercoaster tycoon or something like that where progression is tied to the player
But blues is easily beaten by having another hobbie or music