Ever feel sad after finishing a game?

When i finish a game, i know that thats it, once i beat it, i dont know when will be the next time i will replay it (if i will replay it at all).

Im trying to keep my game list short and still there is a lot of good game and i know that im done with most of them for good.

Im only gaming on pc and ps3 sometimes, i cant imagine people with a 5 or more console.

How about you?

I did with L.A Noire I thought "Is that it?" and have not gone back to it.

No, not really.

It's just a game. Sometimes, I'll feel happy that I finally beat it or even disappointed that it finally ended, either longer or quicker.

But sad? No.

I felt sad finishing The witcher 2. It was wayyyyyy to short

I actually find that very common on anything with a good story/good gameplay combo. I'm like yes after 32 hours I have finished it! Oh wait really? :cry:

Finishing Xenosaga Episode III made me feel saddest after finishing. Probably a combination of the following.

• I'd just spent 110 hours with the series and its characters and had gotten attached to them.
• The ending is painfully depressing in just about every way.
• The series got cancelled and there will likely never be a real conclusion.
• Xenogears and Xenosaga are the pinnacle of storyline in RPGs for me, and once it was over I knew it was going to be a very long time before I find another that can match it. Still waiting.

Artistic games in general leave me feeling a bit empty when they're over. Shadow of the Colossus, Silent Hill 2, Okami...

I felt sad after completing FFX. A long game with a sad ending, just wanted it to continue(well it did with X-2, but come on lol).

RDR was another sad ending.

Finishing Xenosaga Episode III made me feel saddest after finishing. Probably a combination of the following.

• I'd just spent 110 hours with the series and its characters and had gotten attached to them.
• The ending is painfully depressing in just about every way.
• The series got cancelled and there will likely never be a real conclusion.
• Xenogears and Xenosaga are the pinnacle of storyline in RPGs for me, and once it was over I knew it was going to be a very long time before I find another that can match it. Still waiting.

Artistic games in general leave me feeling a bit empty when they're over. Shadow of the Colossus, Silent Hill 2, Okami...

Melkari

I completely agree -.- xenosaga series is by far my favorite series :3 and it is the most complex one I can think of... :3

if only people were more sophisticated they'd admire such games for how great they really are, instead of going "oh I don't like the graphics/etc" and giving other various poor excuses all of the time.

When I finished STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl for the first time and realised I had gotten the bad ending ('I want the Zone to disappear'). Had to load a save from like 3-4 hours back and play even longer to get to the good ending. But it was worth it.

Not really, I take the games as what they are. My backlog is extremly big, so I always have something else to play

Yeah i have this bittersweet feeling after i finish a game. But all good things come to an end i guess. ;(Tanya_19

That's how I know if I really enjoyed something - if I feel that bittersweet emotion when it's all over, that I really enjoyed myself, but I'll miss the experience I was engaged in, now that the adventure is over.

Sometimes, especially lately, I feel as if I don't get to enjoy the game to it's full potential before moving on to other games. I feel this way with Fallout New Vegas, I have wanted to go back and make a second character ever since I beat the game the first time, but with so much other gaming on my plate, it's proven impossible.

I'll sometimes put off finishing a game that I really like because I don't want it to end. It makes no sense because it seems like I'd be excited to play it in its entirety.

I do the same thing with candy, incidentally. If there's only a few pieces left, I'll keep them for later because I don't want to be in a situation where I have no candy.... but then it gets old and gross, depending on the type, and I have no candy. :(

Yes I was sad when I fell asleep during the last cutscene of Metal Gear Solid 4.

Games that are truly immersive, have great characters, are very dramatic/emotional, or have very epic stories maygetme a little misty-eyed.

Especially games that require you to put a lot of time into. So really heavy, engaging, epic RPGs would make mefeel that way at the end.

Not really... Though I'm sometimes disappointed that the game wasn't, or that the ending was lame.

I felt sad when finishing Halo 3. Being seemingly quite naieve at the time, i thought that it would be the last Halo i would play (i pictured it being the final chapter of the series). Halo was a huge part of my life. Halo: Combat Evolved was the first game i ever played seriously, and played to the end, and having it being the game that got me into gaming, i developed an emotional attachment to it (for the recordi was 7 when i first played it). For something that had such a big impact on my life, i was sad at the thought of that being the end of it.

Of course, as we know, they went on to release ODST and Reach, so that wasnt the end to the series, although i dont get the same feel out of those as i did from Halo: CE, 2 and 3.

I know, im a nostalgic fool :P

Once you manage to go to the end of the game, then mostly you stop playing that game (atleast for some period). Sometimes a bit sadness is felt but at that time you are also thinking about which game to start now and that's why sadness goes away the moment you got a new game of your choice.

Yea i felt sad after finishing FF 10, even while tidus was my most hated character.

I always get a bittersweet feeling after I finish any Zelda game.bobcheeseball

Same here. I also got the same from Okami. Basically for me it is any game with characters or worlds that you end up caring about. Beyond Good & Evil is another example of a game that did it for me.

I always get a bittersweet feeling after I finish any Zelda game.bobcheeseball

I felt sad when Portal 2 ended. :(

I get sad if its an amazing story driven game! But I also feel good too :)

I think we can agree, that this generation there is only one game you can feel sad about when it ends. METAL GEAR SOLID 4

Red Dead Redemption, loved the ending and the music during the credits added to the tear-jerking.

Klonoa: Door to Phantomile.

It had an extremely depressing ending AND I hate replaying games when I know something major has happened in the story that's not reflected in my next play through.

Like the Megaman Battle Network games, I would save the world from an evil organisation, then the next time I loaded the game up every single person would speak to me as if killing the final boss should be the only thing on my mind, DESPITE already having done it once.

Felt sad after finishing the Witcher series. I didn't really take note of them over the years but after building my gaming rig earlier this year I decided to give the first a shot. ~80 hours later I had finished both the first and second, which I went straight into after the first. It's been a long time since I've been so invested in a game and it's world. Knowing I have to wait for the third game was upsetting.

Edit: Oh! NIER! I completed the game multiple times so I could 100% it and was so sad when I did because I knew there would be nothing like it ever again. I loved everything about it. Everything. Even the things people hated, like the combat, side quests, grinding, item farming and even fishing. The game was pretty much made for me, but I knew it would be a hit and miss game for a lot of people, mostly miss, so I'd never see a sequel, spiritual or direct.

I did with L.A Noire I thought "Is that it?" and have not gone back to it.

CUDGEdave

I remember that for some reason, late in the game, they actually switched the player's character from the fairly interesting protagonist you played for most of the game, to some other guy that was basically a shallow he-man Mary Sue. I can't remember either of their names, but it was one of the worst storytelling decisions I've ever seen.

I've learned to not really give a shit about video game storytelling. If it sucks, that figures because it's a video game, and if it's good, it's a pleasant surprise.

[QUOTE="CUDGEdave"]

I did with L.A Noire I thought "Is that it?" and have not gone back to it.

roguebot

I remember that for some reason, late in the game, they actually switched the player's character from the fairly interesting protagonist you played for most of the game, to some other guy that was basically a shallow he-man Mary Sue. I can't remember either of their names, but it was one of the worst storytelling decisions I've ever seen.

I've learned to not really give a shit about video game storytelling. If it sucks, that figures because it's a video game, and if it's good, it's a pleasant surprise.

i get sad because i dont want the game to end.

I felt sad after completing FFX. A long game with a sad ending, just wanted it to continue(well it did with X-2, but come on lol).

RDR was another sad ending.

ElectricEchoes

Stuff like Deus Ex Human Revolution & Bioshock Infinite make me sad that I've finish them.

Not sad, but I'll get dissapointed when a game ends if I'm really into it.

When i finish a game, i know that thats it, once i beat it, i dont know when will be the next time i will replay it (if i will replay it at all).

Im trying to keep my game list short and still there is a lot of good game and i know that im done with most of them for good.

Im only gaming on pc and ps3 sometimes, i cant imagine people with a 5 or more console.

How about you?

Jane_22

[QUOTE="CUDGEdave"]

I did with L.A Noire I thought "Is that it?" and have not gone back to it.

roguebot

I remember that for some reason, late in the game, they actually switched the player's character from the fairly interesting protagonist you played for most of the game, to some other guy that was basically a shallow he-man Mary Sue. I can't remember either of their names, but it was one of the worst storytelling decisions I've ever seen.

I've learned to not really give a shit about video game storytelling. If it sucks, that figures because it's a video game, and if it's good, it's a pleasant surprise.