Post game depression

[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.)

 

[Jak23]

Ima bringing this thread back! But yes I do, the most recent example being the Sly series.

 

[Reyold]

I've gotten that before. It wasn't the only game, but Final Fantasy Tactics A2 gave me that mixed feeling of satisfaction and sadness.

 

[Stormz]

I get it sometimes when the game is really good. I'm a big fan of Gears of War so it happened with me for every one, especially Gears 3 because of the ending. It's the same with both Witcher games. I usually just try to get into a new game and it passes eventually, then I go back and replay them later.

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

I actually feel a sense of accomplishment and joy when completing any game. I could have put the game down for a few months and only take an hour or so to beat the final difficult boss, but once I'm done, it feels great.

I usually leave the game alone for a few days/weeks before I decide to either go through the extra content/DLC or plan to complete the game again, so that it could sink in and feel excited to give it another go.

 

[Vault101]

I dont think ive gotten that...

..well at least not thease days since finishing a game feels like a great acheivment

but there was this one game...

 

[ErwinGodfrey]

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.

Don't know if this counts, but I was very depressed when I went back to my old Ratchet and Clank games and found them to be incredibly boring for me, which was understandable since I beat the first three games more than a dozen times each and I also found that I had literally hundreds of billions of bolts in the second and third game when I booted up my old save from the internal memory card stored in the PS3.

 

[Razentsu]

Gah, I know that feeling. It's happened when I finished Persona 3 and 4, Tsukihime, and most recently, Katawa Shoujo. It's too bad you can never play games for the first time ever again. ):

 

[Guffe]

I have a few endgame thoughts...
One and the one I usually hope it's not is the "phew, finally over"
Most of the time it's, that was a really nice game and while the credits roll I sit and think through everything I've done and experienced during the game and while there is an empty feeling I am sually a bit happy that it ended and I can focus om something new.
And then there's teh empty feeling when I could just have played it for eternity and enjoyed the game so much it was actually sad, this is typical with pretty short but challenging games.

 

[Angie7F]

I get the same feeling for books too. Also Tv series...
But just like a bad break up, i go look for a rebound and I'm ok

 

[MammothBlade]

Play the DLC and maybe get started with the sequels. On the other hand I might move onto a similar game by the same developer.

Yet I finish games so infrequently it's unheard of

 

[Pjotr84]

I can't remember a game that caused a post-game depression. It happens to me all the time with TV series, though.