Post game depression

[Sarah Kerrigan]

Beating Assassin's Creed II and having to await for the new one.

 

[otterhead]

If it was an extremely good game I start it again

Or I play another game in the series

Legend of Zelda is a good example here

Yes. I haven't played a Zelda game in a while but Link to the Past and Ocarina of time have a special place in my heart.

I dust of Parasite Eve II every few years and do some grinding.

 

[Ickorus]

I don't get that feeling with games, I get it with books.

I just start a new book when I finish one or if it really gets me I take a small break[footnote]Normally about a week.[/footnote] then start a new book.

 

[Betancore]

I stare dumbly at the credits until they stop rolling, then I either replay the game in the way I should have played it the first time, or if there is a sequel, I play that. I find it hard to immediately move onto another game.

 

[Spiner909]

I call it the post Mass Effect crash. It's so sad to have it end...and there's only one more!

 

[JokerCrowe]

I don't know if I've been clinically depressed, but I felt sad a long while after I finished Fallout 3. Mostly because of the ending. (before Broken Steel)

 

[Phlakes]

This happens to me after basically every RPG I play. Even the second Paper Mario.

 

[WaysideMaze]

I got post game depression from bioshock.
The game started off so well and really raised my expectations.
Then I saw the final boss fight...

 

[Pontus Hashis]

Metal gear is my drug...
Snake: Metal gear?!


Anyway it dosn't hapen to me in rpg's, cuz i often never finish 'em or i play 'em to death until i finish 'em.

 

[Pontus Hashis]

As said above, books (if they are good) always give me this feeling.

 

[Tallim]

I don't get that feeling with games, I get it with books.

I just start a new book when I finish one or if it really gets me I take a small break[footnote]Normally about a week.[/footnote] then start a new book.

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I always have a book on the go and thanks to my obsessive charity shop raiding I have easily enough decent books to last me over a year now, even if I read one a week. Used to read more, but have a 10 month old baby and games to play.

 

[SatanicJesus]

How do you as a gamer deal with the end of a game, especially ones that take up a lot of time and captivate your attention, become part of your daily routine. RPG's seem to be the main culprit of this.

I always get a massive empty feeling and can't concentrate on something new for a while. Especially if it was a game I looked forward to long before release.

I get that feeling too.

 

[Digitaldreamer7]

I never finish games, because I enjoy them too much and want to try something new

If I DO finish a game, it's either not a particularly fun game that I just whizzed through (COD is guilty of this) or it's a very compelling linear game that pulls me to the end (HL2 is guilty of this)

Most of the time, I restart and do something new (Fallout 3, Total War games and Sims are all guilty of this)

Call me crazy, like, COMPLETELY INSANE

I never got into Fallout 3, or Oblivion, or Morrowind...

I hated morrowind/icewind dale/oblivion Bought fallout 3 cause I thought it would be better and I hated it to.

Loved baldurs gate tho

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I got this when I realised I had done everything possible to do in Fallout 3.

It's hard to believe, but I really think I have nothing left to discover in the game after my 350 hours.

 

[ThaBenMan]

Mass Effect 2. Definitely. I didn't even want to go through the Omega-4 relay, because it would mean that the game will end soon. That game had become a part of my life. Second playthrough just isn't the same.
When the credits rolled, I felt epic, triumphant, but also sad.

This. Fucking this.

For about a month, all I did in all of my free time was play ME2. It got me through a particularly long and rough week at work. It was the last game in recent memory to captivate me so utterly.

Sometime soon, I'd like to play through ME1 again, and then port that game over to 2. But it won't have that magic of the first playthrough...

 

[blax3334]

I finished mass effect 2 bout a year ago, recently i bought it a few days ago and beat it.... i done every single thing you can do in it, now i feel completely bored.. i wish i never finished it, i feel depressed, knowing its not real and stuff..... such a great game.. sad aswell that it ended, i just dont know what to do at all now.. ive been like this for about 4 days now

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Start all over again, either on the hardest difficulty or doing a 100% run.

 

[revolutionaification]

I remember the mixed emotions at the end of my first Mass Effect playthrough. I was proud but disappointed when I realised I'd been so eager to follow the storyline that I'd missed out on all the interesting side-missions (something I've been correcting on every other playthrough) and really rather distraught that even though I could just start it again I'd already know how the plot went, it wouldn't shock me anymore.

Thankfully, even though I know the story, I can still get drawn in by it like nothing else.

I managed to cure the moping by going off and trying to finish other games that I'd started and never played the full way through. Most of these I'd given up on years ago, mostly because I was just too young and unskilled, but it felt good to come back to something that was both familiar and fresh. Good luck.

 

[malestrithe]

I've never felt depressed post game. As soon as I am done with a game, I get another from my ever growing pile and I play it until I am sick of it or I beat it.

 

[Da_Schwartz]

No.. I usually just play another game. Or replay till it makes me sick. (Looking at you Dragon Age.)