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GoOnKid on 09 February 2022
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One of the latest games I finished was Lightning Returns Final Fantasy XIII and I really enjoyed it. I went through the game quite well and smoothly, but then the final dungeon had some extra challenges which were super difficult and made me question my playstyle a lot. It was a sudden and harsh spike of difficulty. Eventually I overcame it, though. Once I managed those challenges it was time for the final boss, and ... what can I say, it was another difficulty spike! He beat me over and over. I kept trying over and over. Somehow I made it to his final form and ... I was unable to beat him again as I couldn't figure out how to handle him. Eventually I gave up and watched videos and read walkthroughs. The key to beat him was always there, I just had to manage my equipment better, and then I finally made it and ripped him to pieces. That was an amzing feeling! All in all, it's quite a good game actually, and with the knowledge I received from this final boss, I was very inclined to just start a second run and see how much better I could have been during the whole playthrough. Anyway, I watched the ending and the credits and it felt great. It was awesome.

So, that was a positive example. A negative example is going to await me soon, I think. I'm forcing myself through Sonic Colors every now and then but ugh, I can't get used to the wonky jump physics at all. I can't play this for longer than twenty minutes. Sonic games are just not for me, I guess. I will finish it eventually, no doubt about that, but I will be glad it's over.

Dulfite said:

A good game? Probably content and ready to move on.

A great game? A little sad it's over but excited to see where it falls on the rankings.

Project X Zone? I want to go back in time and prevent the gaming industry from ever happening. May be a slight overreaction, but that's how much I hated playing and beating that game.

Sell your copy to me! I'd be glad.

Darashiva said:

If it's a particularly great game that genuinely resonates with me on a deeper level it can leave me feeling empty for a while because the experience I was enjoying has come to an end. That usually means that I don't want to start any other game for a little while.

I know this feeling very well. Sometimes it takes a little while before I can be ready for another game.

Spindel said:

I've been playing Civilization for 25 years and I'll never finish that, version numbers might change mechanics have evolved but I'll never be finished with Civilization. Sure sometimes I take a brake and don't play Civ for 2 years. But I always come back.

Aside from Civ, I usually feel pretty content and just quit, there are quiet a few games that I have to force myself to finish because I feel content before the actual end.

Only game (in the past 20 years at least) that have left me kind of empty was BotW. The feeling I miss is the exploration when the world was new to me. And that game was as above, I mucked around a lot and explored and then I beat Ganon and then mucked around a bit more but just finally felt "done" with the game. I've tried to pick it up again, but the awe of exploring a brave new world simply isn't there any more for me, so I leave it up to the memories of exploring the game initially and a bit sad feeling that it will probably be another 20 years before another game like that appears.

...and yes, that happened to me, too. I wish I could experience this journey once again for the first time as it lost its magic after I was done with the Hyrule saving thing.