When the credits roll and you get left with that empty feeling
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Yep. I can distinctly remember feeling down about it ending as a kid and I didn’t know why. Which I guess is what OP is trying to get at but when you really think about it everything about Mario 64 is nonsensical. I honestly think Nintendo music (and Japanese game scores generally) has something to do with it. shyt hits differently.
When I actually finished RDR. I'm shocked at how many folks didn't know the game wasn't technically over when you took control of Jack. That "real" ending? Jesus. Such a tragic story. Those end credits didn't help.
I don't get that feeling because I don't view games that kind of way or finish games with no replay value, if I find myself forcing myself to play a game and just delete it and move on because it's worth my time, games are meant to be played, so you can get that feeling anytime you feel like just by playing the game
The thing about the golden era of gaming, stories in games were side stuff like seasoning on food, you would have to read the back story in the instruction book or they would have some brief synopsis at the beginning scrolling up the screen, but mostly the story was told with no words just visual cues, and you could use your imagination to feel in the blanks or even create your own story, that's why media suffers today it's been decades since kids had to use their imagination no music, movies, everything has suffered from it, and games have become interactive movies not games.
If you can't just turn a game on a play it without worrying about any type of story progression it's not a real game to me.
The thing about the golden era of gaming, stories in games were side stuff like seasoning on food, you would have to read the back story in the instruction book or they would have some brief synopsis at the beginning scrolling up the screen, but mostly the story was told with no words just visual cues, and you could use your imagination to feel in the blanks or even create your own story, that's why media suffers today it's been decades since kids had to use their imagination no music, movies, everything has suffered from it, and games have become interactive movies not games.
If you can't just turn a game on a play it without worrying about any type of story progression it's not a real game to me.
I can't speak for games but as far as movies, one of the last was Avengers: Infinity War, end of the movie half of your favorites are gone to who knows where, good guys do not win, Thanos has completed his mission, whole planet is left a mess. The ultimate cliffhanger and gut punch IMO. Had to wait damn near a year for the sequel to find out what happens.
It was Mass Effect for me, too. 
Legit always feels like saying goodbye to friends for real. Still the GOAT videogame trilogy, imo. I don't think any game has made me feel quite as hallow over the conclusion of a game as ME has on each and every single playthrough. Last one hit really different considering I'd been nearly purely renegade up until the last third of the game. Something about Shepard softening up to a near Paragon towards the end in order to prioritize those around him as opposed to the mission and coming to terms with his mortality (I took the ending where there's no chance for his survival) that made the renegade playthrough beautifully depressing.
Legit always feels like saying goodbye to friends for real. Still the GOAT videogame trilogy, imo. I don't think any game has made me feel quite as hallow over the conclusion of a game as ME has on each and every single playthrough. Last one hit really different considering I'd been nearly purely renegade up until the last third of the game. Something about Shepard softening up to a near Paragon towards the end in order to prioritize those around him as opposed to the mission and coming to terms with his mortality (I took the ending where there's no chance for his survival) that made the renegade playthrough beautifully depressing.
Bryan Danielson
Jmare007 x Bryan Danielson x JLova = King Ghidorah
RennisDeynolds
I am untethered and my rage knows no bounds!
tripleaamin
All Star
Witcher 3 and Trails to Azure were the last two games that I recently played that gave me this feeling.
Jim Cornette
The Cult of Meat with Extra Cheese...
Assassin's Creed Origins no doubt...
shyt I wish it had a ps5 upgrade. I wish I could play this again
shyt I wish it had a ps5 upgrade. I wish I could play this again
Legend of Zelda: OoT made me feel legit empty. Finished the game on an early Saturday morning, and just was
for the entire weekend.Like, I put in almost 100 hours of work getting everything, finished all 10 dungeons, jumping through 2 time periods to set things right, and the main character Link himself never saw the good future of Hyrule after slaughtering Ganondorf. That made me feel all
because not every hero sees the results of years of selfless hard work pay off....
Spider man 3 with tobey maguire
Cold Steel IV left me feeling that way. I mean everybody who was anybody was accounted for.
I beat Azure after Cold Steel II but Before III so it really didn't feel like an ending. IV felt like it closed the book on everything before it.
All those clickers as Abby wore me down. At that point I had played the game a longer playtime than the entire first game. Part of the problem is the game reached a crescendo as Ellie and everything resets and you're forced to go through the other side of the events. I didn't care about Abby or those kids or any of her people. They were just some a$$holes I killed on the other side of the story.
Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
Man, i ain’t trying to hear all that go finish the game.
Report back and tell me how it all came together in the end
