Poll: Post-RPG Depression

[Diligent]

I think Mass Effect accomplished that for me.
Also, I felt it coming on in Persona 3...maybe that's why I never bothered to finish it...
(That seems like an illogical way of dealing with the story being over, doesn't it?)

Hmm, Fable III certainly (if you can classify it as an RPG).

You can't.
My dad (who is terrible at games) beat it in 2 sittings, and all I ever saw him do was burp at people.

 

[teisjm]

Yeah, usually with long games, where you grow to like the world of the game.
same when a really enjoyable tv series ends.

 

[PowRightInTheKisser]

i do tend to get wrapped up in games regardless of how immersive they are or not (im looking at you oblivion)

but yeh i felt i was robbed by fallout when it ended how it did. mostly cos i was naive and thought i could finish the main quest and then do the side quests.

ive never been back to it since

 

[MiracleOfSound]

No, apart from games like Fallout 3 where I can't play after I've finished it.

Fucking New Vegas.... grumble grumble

 

[MiracleOfSound]

How long can you last in the above video? Can you make it the full 10 minutes?

I got as far as 'no-one wants to touch someone like me'

So... about 20 seconds in.

 

[Keepitclean]

I get a weird feeling of emptyness after I finish a really immersive game like Mass Effect. I don't know why. The game has to be pretty immersive to havge this effect though. It happened when you finish all you can in Pokémon and Oblivion. It also happened when I finshed the main storyline in Mass Effect 1 and 2, Oblivion: The Shivering Isles, Tales of Symphonia, the Fire Emblem games and Assasin's Creed even if the end was a little anticlimactic.

I got so immersed in Mass Effect 2 that when my sister came to talk to me after I had been playing for 5 hours straight I was surprised when that dialouge thing at the bottom of the screen didn't come up. I sat there for what felt like a long time with no idea how to respond to her. She only asked me if I wanted some caramel slice...

 

[EatPieYes]

I have too many games just waiting for me to finish them. So I'm actually more inclined to feel relief when I'm done with a game. Especially when it comes to RPGs, simply because they take so much time.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

The first time I ended Chrono Trigger. I was happy when my sister explained that there is still a lot of stuff to do after killing lavos.

But I can relate. Depends on the writing in the game though.

SNIP

UNCLE!!

...how long was that...

3 minutes? That is painful!

 

[natster43]

I felt sad when I beat Kingdom Hearts 2, and Fallout 3 Pre Broken Steel.

 

[greyghost81]

Fallout 3 (until I got Broken Steel), but Chrono Trigger, especially when you've gotten the other endings and you know this next one is the last, is probably a text-book definition of this situation.

 

[Akihiko]

For fun:

How long can you last in the above video? Can you make it the full 10 minutes?

I actually watched it when I completed the game, so I did managed to last the full length, somehow. The entire final 'chapter' of Eternal Sonata where they go through the portal ruined the game for me.

Ontopic though, it happens on most RPGs that I found to be good. Hell, even some other games which have good storys, like Assassin's Creed 2(Ending left much to be desired, though).

Also, I felt it coming on in Persona 3...maybe that's why I never bothered to finish it...
(That seems like an illogical way of dealing with the story being over, doesn't it?)

I did that with Tales of Vesperia funnily enough, it came out summer last year in Europe, and I got to the end pretty quickly. But didn't do the final dungeon until about summer this year.

 

[SangRahl]

Though not technically a RPG, I just finished AC:B (99.01% sync; just the tank and one thief race at 50%) and I'm left with a very empty feeling, as well.

Spoiler

...and more than a little dread that they really meant it that Ezio would see Leonardo again some day. (Please, let them move the main storyline out of 1500's Italy. There is so much promise, and so many new possibilities, if they can just jump another century or three in the timeline.)

 

[AlternatePFG]

I feel that way after I beat KOTOR. As far as RPG's go it's pretty short I would've liked it to be a bit longer, but not at the cost of the quality of the game.

 

[Rickyvantof]

I remember feeling really bummed after beating Tales of Symphonia back in the day.
Not because it was bad, but because I couldn't play it any more.

 

[Kris015]

No, apart from games like Fallout 3 where I can't play after I've finished it.

Uhm... Yes you can.

 

[SeriousSquirrel]

I only feel that way after I've beaten a really good game with a great story/characters (KoTOR), becuase you can't re-experience any of the feelings you got the first time around. You can replay it, and sometimes get a vaguely differant tale, but it's a somewhat hollow experience for me.

 

[BreakfastMan]

Only on a few games does this happen to me. Kotor 1+2, Dragon Age, Rogue Galaxy, Earthbound, FF6, and Chrono Trigger all spring to mind.

 

[eggy32]

I know what you mean, but I would never put off finishing a game because of it. I'd hate to get far through a really good game and not get to the end.