The saddest part is even if replaying the game or rewatching that anime or rereading that book is fun you never do get to experience those things for the first time again with those characters its more like looking at a photobook of memories with them instead of actually experiencing life with them. It's lonely like they've moved on to the future without you.
@@legrandliseurtri7495 probably depends on the kind of book youre reading and what kind of game you play. If the game isnt heavy on the story or the story isnt really that complicated youll probably remember everything that happens
@@legrandliseurtri7495 I've experienced both situations actually and it really depends, I've found any kind of mystery story even if the mystery element is more of a subplot and not the main focus often results in what you describe whereas slice of life stories and even RPGs tend to be more what OP described. On a similar note on occasion it can be more enjoyable to consume stories that have been spoiled for pretty much the same reason you like rereads because it makes all the subtle details more noticeable.
My mom watched me beat final fantasy 9 as tears silently rolled down my face and asked why I was sad. I couldn’t explain that I spent months with a squad of characters who faced war, heartbreak, depression, existential dread, loss, all moving on from this grand adventure to pick up the pieces of what was left of the world. I read the final words of a child who’d spent months shaking in fear of him dropping dead, peacefully accepting that his friends would live on without him. I watched every character move on from the events of the game and realized I had to do so myself
I had to come back and re-watch this video since Persona 3 Reload left such a hole in my heart, it's themes were more impactful than any game I've ever played.
Omori seriously hit hard. I've felt post-game emptiness lots of times before, but Omori just hit a side that hadn't been touched. Like, I was planning to go back and try to 100% the game after I finished it, and then got hit with the ending. I miss the game, but one part of me doesn't want to go back. Not while knowing that there is nothing I can do to help the characters in it, and boy I can't even stand thinking about Hero. My heart just shatters. Such a good game, fkn hell.
It's been 2 years since I first completed Red Dead Redemption 2... And whenever I think of that game, I go back to those feelings of sadness and being homesick... man what a game
yeps that me when my first time play red dead redemption 2 but i just realize i knew whole story because last years i cant play in my potato rigs and i just watch full gameplay and story explained and now i regret it
@@DarylTalksGames Probably shouldn't be doing this to a fellow persona 5 fan, but Persona 5 strikers is basically a full-on sequel. If you really want to delay that post-game blues this game is there for you
I read a book recently where one of the main characters lost all of his memory and the main character left them for their own good. The main character was the cause of them losing their memory which just made it worse. They didn't even die and I still literally found it hard to pick up the book again
Persona 5 for me has left perhaps the biggest hole in my heart after beating it. The cast felt like living breathing people that I’d grown and built relationships with so having that taken away from me felt really lonely for a little while.
I completely feel the same way. I got so invested in the story and identified with the characters. But on the bright side, I was a new person after beating that game. It helped me with some mental health issues I was going through and made me a total weeb (for better or for worse........)
As a person who didnt get to experience highschool like one of the lucky ones, this felt like a second chance for me. I got to for a few hours a day feel that experience of having friends, going out, sharing common hobbies and feelings. Experiencing romance at that age. It was nice. When it ended it felt really sad for me. But so it goes.
You said to comment it so... My post game depression came about after finishing Persona 5 and happened again when I finished Persona 4... it left me needing more and I was obsessed with the series
@@PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Don't give him ideas... Persona 3's ending is so incredibly sad bro... It's been one month since I beat it and I still haven't gotten over it
I finished all the royal endings last week and i cried during the (unskippable 💀) end credits :') now i plan on replaying it since i missed some stuff, get strikers, hopefully find persona 4 quickly 💀
So, my first time playing Persona 5 was during a series of Twitch streams, meaning I got to get all my reactions to the game live, I went through the game, giving all the characters a voice, experiencing as much of the game as I could with my audience, who would influence certain decisions I made during my playthrough. Due to life circumstances, the series was on and off hiatus a couple of times, so it essentially took me about a year and a half to play through. I get this feeling of emptiness a lot, especially the more time I sink into something. But I sobbed when I finished Persona 5. Not because I thought the ending was beautiful or anything, but because it was the end of an adventure not just with the characters I had grown to love and care for, but it was like the end of an era for my audience as well, for new regulars that joined during the course of the playthrough, and people that had been there for years. It's powerful stuff, video games.
Ngl I felt the same way about finishing spm and maybe ttyd but spm made more of an impact because it helped gone through so much and made believe in love again. (Also hey charri I hope you having a good day :)
The saddest part for me is when a game gives you memories of where you were on a certain day, what you were doing, and how you felt while playing that game that you only start to remember after finishing the game and watching the end credits. I remember on the 4th of July this year I woke up, had a cup of coffee, got every ace rank medal in Neon White mission 6, and then went to an amazingly fun party. When you sit on the title screen that one last time before closing and uninstalling the game you realize those moments will only exist in your memory.
@@Atlessa ... Maybe I shouldn't have started playing both of those as my first visual novels. Man, Doki Doki Literature Club caused my depression to relapse for about a week or two.
It happened to me after finishing Final Fantasy VII Remake, I enjoyed every single bit of it and I am super sad that I will not get to experience that first playthrough ever again. It was absolutely magical to feel like I was part of something big like saving the planet. I am glad that I will get to experience Part2 and 3 when they will be released. Right now I am pretty sad but it will get better.
@@HibiTeamQueso it got a mixed reception by the purists wanting the exact old game in the sense of story. Not to mention people complaining about minuscule details, like the texture of a door not being correctly loaded. Thanks to all that nonsense, it got rated lower than it should've been, so i guess underrated is a deserved title.
@@Rihcterwilker ??? no. An 87 on metacritic is not underrated and 8 user score lol. 5+ million copies sold too. It's a small minority that cries about everything. It's definetely not underrated
@@phillemon7664 I haven't played persona 5 but I do owe strikers on pc. Its on my I'll play it sometime list. Whats persona like? I've played shin Megami tensei and I have a feeling persona is nothing like that.
@@arishkhan5918 I wouldn't play strikers if you haven't played 5. It's a direct sequel and they pretty much pick up where they left off without explaining much of anything. Its main systems are only inspired by persona, and is very much its own thing. You might have fun with the gameplay but the story would probably lose 90% of its impact. I would play P5 Royal first, as it's the definitive and best version of the original. As for what the game is like, it's essentially half an SMT game, where dungeons are based on the psychology of characters, and half a daily life sim where you go to school and junk. The story follows a very long, almost TV show-esque structure with multiple isolated arcs, with the overall stories being very front and end-loaded. The game works on a calendar system, where each action takes up a segment of the day, and dungeon completions have deadlines. The main feature of this is hanging out with friends, each of which has their own side-story. This system is the key to persona, because hanging out with friends makes you stronger in dungeons and gives you unique abilities. For example, playing shogi with the weird girl at church allows you to switch party members mid battle. Some people require certain social stats to hang out with, which are built by doing various everyday tasks. So the challenge is planning out and balancing when you improve yourself, hang out with friends, or go into a dungeon, because each of them takes time. You have from April to ~Christmas to do all this, so yeah these games take a LOOOONG time and very easily take over your life. The characters are great, the stories are surprisingly mature, the battles are fun, the music is god-tier, its style is unmatched, but it's really about the experience as a whole that people get so addicted to, and is exactly the kind of setup that prompts post-game-depression since the endings are always definitive with no content after the credits.
@@ChibiMalzahar I see... you're really passionate about persona huh? Well I don't own a ps4. Will emulating the game with a ps3 emulator work? I live in Pakistan so stuff like this is pretty expensive. For example because of how weak the currency is here, if I want to buy a ps5, or 4, i'd have to pay double the amount.
Imagine the young, impressionable high school freshman picking up Persona 4 for the first time about 8-9 years ago and legitimately getting chills down his back during certain scenes and feeling like the experience was going to last forever
Holy SH*T i just experienced this phenomenon with P5R, and the whole game felt as if all the characters were almost people. And after the credits rolled I felt the same feeling as when a “surprise death” of a character in a piece of media happened. I thought it would continue after the main story, is done and I was definitely planning on playing it on for a hundred for hours; when I went to play P4G afterward it felt like I left behind persona 5. When I put on new game plus, seeing sojiro as “manager” felt empty as you described it. All those things I did in the first playthrough is gone. This game was a memory I will never forget, and the very unique experience of feeling as I was apart of this story that unfolded before me.
"Feeling empty when you finish a game" Me playing the same game over and over, like an alcoholic going to the bar every Thursday, trying to feel 'full' again: What?
You feel empty but also complete at the same time. When you reach the end of those videogames you just know the experience will stay with you and in a way changed you as a person. I love that.
I cried, got depressed and empty at the ends of Red Dead, Witcher 3 and basically all Zelda games. I dunno, the adventures, experiences and relationships that the characters undergo in those games really struck a cord with me - especially Zelda, because it is a franchise that I’ve deeply adored ever since I was a kid. I know I’m probably going to be depressed for ages after I finish BOTW2. I’ll make sure to enjoy every moment I have playing it when it eventually comes out.
Same for zelda man i just finished botw for the second time 3 years later and i feel empty asf but knowing that tears of the kingdom is coming dont really help me as i know a lots of characters from botw (like daruk , urbosa , etc...) wont be there
I think what makes Red dead redemption(2) and Witcher 3 depressing after finishing it, is the point where the NPC´s we got through an epic adventure full of emotions, come to their routine where they repeating themselfs when we speak with them. It feels like their lifes got sucked out of them.
TOTK is very close. Not long now. Idk 'bout you, but I'm gonna take my sweet ass time with that game and complete everything I can until there nothing left to the fill the empty void of my undead soul.
Dude I just beat the witcher 3 for the 3 time, the first time I didn't feel shit, but the 3rd I got the Empress ending, told ciri that we'll never see each other again (which is kinda true), she cried and now im depressed asf
How do we have the same likes.I got the best ending in Witcher 3 first time i played it but still felt empty.Same with red dead 2.I finished Minnish cap,botw,ocarina of time and Twilight Princess and all of them made me feel empty.I now realise i have experienced masterpieces and I'm lucky for that
Ah, the game ending that inspired me to walk out on my shitty job that I hated. "A future is something you must make for yourself" and as menial as quitting a job may sound, I don't think I would have without those damn pods. I have no regrets.
I come back to this video from time to time after beating a game that has done this to me. A nice reminder to not let the deep seated big sad take over my sense of self and talk to friends/discuss/write/journal about the experience.
Honestly, I think nothing does this quite like RPGs, and from what I can tell, the comments agree. Persona, NieR, Omori, Fire Emblem, Mass Effect, etc., games that you spend a large amount of time interacting with other characters in a fictional world, those are the games that hit the hardest when you finally finish them and realize you'll never be able to play them again for the first time. It feels like an entire chapter of your life is over. That's why RPGs will always be my favorite genre.
Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal, when the credits roll and you realize you won't have another adventure with all this great characters ever again... :(
The Outer Wilds did this to me most recently. For a game with so few living characters, and the majority of the rest of them long-dead, the experience of going through all that history was haunting, and then wistful as it all ended.
One of the saddest feelings for me is when you're working towards the sweet platinum trophy playing the game for weeks or even months, watching guides on TH-cam and then after getting all trophies, grinding everything to 100% you accomplish everything the game has to offer. You are happy and glad but then immediately after all that excitement comes the sad thing. You wanna close the game, you sit at the title screen that greeted you everytime you started the game over the last couple of weeks/months, you listen to the music one last time and then you close the game one last time. It's a goodbye, ok maybe not forever but who knows when you're gonna play the game again? But for this moment you move on.
There's a slightly different weird experience when you leave a game just barely unfinished. I have a Stardew Valley save at 99.9% perfection. It has one incomplete special order that, for peak efficiency, I would just sleep cheese until it spawns and then do it. I could finish it, but realistically it's the end for me, as I'm not really into the aesthetics stuff, so there's not really any more fun gameplay to be had, at least not on that save. What's different is that because I basically put that goalpost down, and didn't do it long in advance, there wasn't even really the climax from definitely being done. I just kinda wasn't interested in doing the sleep cheese or finding stuff to do while I waited, so I just...stopped. It led to the same low without the same high.
this happened to me big time with infamous second son. i loved the hell out of that game but the second i hit 100% completion i knew i'd never play it again. i still get the urge to play it every now and then but... why? i've done literally everything there is to do.
It's not. Fictional media is, at the very core, tailored experiences created by human beings like you. You can experience immense pain, sadness, and joy through a fictional story because it contains real emotions poured in by the author. Tears in Heaven is a depressing song because it was written/played out of Eric Clapton's raw grief.
As a writer... I promise, it's not as artificial as you think. Just because I changed the names and a few things here and there or the settings or something, it doesn't change the fact that you often are reading or watching or playing a recreation of real things that people have actually experienced or felt. If we make you cry. We've done our jobs :)
I've consumed many a story and played many a game and the only time I've felt genuinely depressed as opposed to say intense but ultimately fleeting sadness was when I got back to a game after a hiatus and found my one time main had been reworked into something unrecognizable, it felt like dropping in on an old friend only to have them drop dead mid conversation, it was horrible, I still have difficulty maintaining composure thinking about it! It's also excrutiating to explain to any normies and even people who know the game and don't require all the terminology and such explained rarely seem to get it, which really doesn't help matters.
This is how I felt after I finished Zelda Twilight Princess for the first time. The credits rolled, Midna destroyed the Mirror of Twilight, and I just felt this emptiness knowing that there were no more dungeons to unravel and no more adventure to uncover.
Actually that captures for me why BotW and TotK left me cold and uninterested. For me, there was just nothing to get attached to, and nothing to lose when the credits rolled.
i cried for the first time in a game recently playing final fantasy 7 rebirth, the death of my favorite character had me in tears and i didn't feel anything for 2 days, i felt depressed even knowing it wasn't real, i still felt depressed even after telling myself that, there is something so special about games and how you can connect with characters and when they're gone you feel like there is a hole in your heart.
The game that made me feel the most empty was honestly Persona 5 - I felt genuinely depressed after spending 100+ hours with this gang of friends. It took about a week or so before I started feeling okay again. What is my life?
"-and be sure to tear up when you randomly hear your favorite music from the game on a playlist a few weeks later." *Me who listens to Our light, Sealed vessel, and OMORI - OMORI on the reg cause I'm a masochist for sadness* "I got'chu homie"
I have returned to this video after having finished FF16 yesterday and it's still hitting me hard. As someone who feels this often at the end of a FF game, it's hitting harder than any other has. FF7 was always my favorite, but it's been dethroned. The story plans to kick you in the feels so damn hard and they executed it so perfectly that I'm just in a hole right now. I know I will pop out of it before long but this one is going to be a story full of characters I will always love and miss.
You guys have the wrong mentality. The fact that a video game can make you feel so strongly is a beautiful thing. Embrace it and cherish it, don't be afraid. When you put off finishing the game, you lessen the emotional impact of the ending.
„I’m really doing this video for me“ Nah man, your timing was way too perfect. You did that for me. I just finished Nier Replicant with all of its endings today and was mindlessly scrolling through TH-cam because I felt so damn empty. Your video in my subscription box felt like you waited just for me to finish it. Thank you, you described the feeling perfectly and I got a bit teary. Enjoy your time with Persona 5 Royal to the very end. It deserves it and you deserve it as well
I think the first time I actively cried after finishing the game was when I got to the end credits of Nier:Automata. The whole experience of all the shit that the characters had gone through along with the music and the big old end credits trick made me cry. I'm not sure if it was out of sadness, happiness, or just having too many emotions but damn. Sometimes I wish I could forget my favorite works of fiction so I could experience them for the first time all over again.
Even though im really not a fan of that game, i did still complete it and got ending E. Once i realized that the ''end-credits-shooter-minigame'' is fucking impossible to do on your own, i broke down in tears as other real life people sacrificed their save data to help me achieve the real ending. To receive such a kind gesture from people who have never met me as they lose everything they did in this game was too much for me to handle.
@@Da1337Man Honestly choosing to sacrifice my own data at the end of my first playthrought was the most euphoric game ending I ever experienced. Knowing that the journey I went on might actualy help someone out really did it for me.
...bro. I've just started my very first playthrough for that game. Idk what tf I'm doing but I just know that it's gonna hit different once it's over. Or should I say.... Nooooover!!
Hades made me feel this way. I didn’t expect to come onto the true ending so quickly and I really missed going to visit the post final boss area. I didn’t realize how calm it made me feel, hearing the music and just sitting in the environment, until after I wasn’t able to visit again.
Not hades specific but supergiant itself Both bastion and transistor gave me that feeling, mainly because it feels like a interactive movie, a short but beautiful story in each game
The game my mind refuses to forget is OneShot. I played it roughly around 2017 and my brain cannot remove the idea of helping that adorable cat to see their family again. Not going to spoil anything, but it really hits hard when you learn there is a third ending.
Oh my gosh I was going to say the same thing! My friend introduced me to it and I literally couldn't stop thinking about it (still cant, I played it last November) but i guess that is the point that Niko (you know who I mean) brings across in the final ending.
It's funny how much you want to meet just a pixelated cat and just give him a hug. I've never had a game that wanted me to know this character personally. Everything about that game doesn't leave my mind
@@rocketboy25 I agree! I really wanted to know what their world was like and what they were like. The dream sequences did really well to make sure you got attached to the character
@@kaitlinwagoner8782 when he talks about his home and how he expresses how great it is, makes me think about how I've expressed things that I like and enjoy so much. The way he looks up to you even though he hasn't seen you before says a lot about how genuine this character is
The Splatoon 2 Octo Expansion had me bawling my eyes out when I had family over. I still cry every time I hear the end credit music 2 years later. Nothing has ever made me feel the way this funny squid game has.
Here a year later to write a love letter to The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles. I cried all through the credits and must have stood motionlessly in front of my screen for about two hours after. Such vivid characters and a beautiful storyline, leaving you with a complete sense of longing after it was done. The game being a duology wasn't making things any easier either, seeing as we spent so long with these characters, felt their grief, watched them come and go. But what was most profound, wasn't about how I felt: it was looking back at the beginning of their journey to realise how much they've changed. As if you're watching something or somebody real grow to become a different person... Edit: spelling, gross ;-;
Thank you for sharing your experience. Tbh you're a lot braver than I am, I admittedly paused my game at the very last cutscene, afraid of letting go of the cast. I adore Ryuunosuke and everyone's journey, and am still not ready to let go. From the banging music, the surprised laughters from the cast's antics, all the way to the tensions and the plot twists, I'm still putting things on pause, afraid of letting go of that piece of happiness. This video helped me come to terms with it though. I'll surely make my way to finishing the last cutscene. But for now, I'm still gonna lay and express a little bit of my selfishness of still wanting to keep the characters still with me
Mood- tho i haven’t gotten to finishing my playthrough cuz im getting scared of getting a bad ending- i’ve watched gameplay tho......man....it’s a beautiful game....
Endwalker's MSQ basically centers this idea as a major theme in the plot, the idea that you love something despite it inevitably coming to an end, and no matter how soon or late that end comes, it is still worth experiencing. The pain we feel after is the price we pay for the happiness we get to experience
Every time I finish a game or a series, I always feel like that D: And when I know that the end is near.. I often postpone it cause I don't want it to end. When it does, I am looking for so many videos, memes etc., just different opinions and views since I don't wanna leave the characters behind. They deserve more of my attention ;_; :D "How did you grow?" I always ask myself that and Persona 5 definitely changed me the most. Or a different example would be Danganronpa V3 (nice to see Danganronpa THH!). That blew my frickin mind for reasons I don't want to spoil 🤯
I do the same! As soon as I get close to the end, I pump the brakes real hard. I gotta savor the last few bites haha. And dude, Danganrompa THH has been wild, been streaming it actually and it’s a ride haha.
There's this one series I really liked to watch. It was a horror series about this daycare worker who abused her kids and got away with it. It really made me invested, I liked the characters, I felt terrified for them and the kids. So when it came to end with a happy ending, I was happy. But also incredibly sad that it has ended.
I just finish Tears of the Kingdom, and this is exactly the feeling that I have now. Even though you can continue to play, you know that the story is over.
Pokemon black was a game which made me that much emotional at the edge of crying when I was surrounded by seven sages of team plasma. My pokemon needed healing. Then a music plays and all the gym leaders come in and take them for me. It almost made me cry. After the game ended. I missed my favorite game.
My first experience with this feeling wasn’t through a game, it was when I finished the last book in an eight book saga. I’d been following this series since the third book released and I was devastated that I’d no longer get to live alongside my characters. I couldn’t pick up another book for weeks. But that series helped me find my passion for storytelling so I’ll always be grateful to it.
@@book-hoarder5664oh, thats a banger, and even then I feel ashamed Speaking of this boom, I don't know why, it seems like a generic or princess series or whatever, but seriously, I only read the first book and I was hooked to read it until the end
This happened to me while playing Omori in a recent time. I loved every aspect of it, the characters, the mechanics, the themes, the music, everything connected with me. I could see myself in some of the characteristics in the game. But what most striked about it is the topic of "Friendship" and what transpired of it. Not going into spoilers but it just stuck me. Once I finished it, I just cried because of that massive ending. It was the perfect way to finish it, but it left me with that feeling of sorrow and emptiness, I spoke to close friends and reminded them that I loved them. It was such a massive road, I've been since them picking up the Ost, seeing a lot of memes about it, all the theories. Maybe I'm still coping with the end, but now it is a great memory and part of who I am
Going to this video right now and I am glad I’m not alone. Omori really made me think about loss, friends, family, and trauma a lot more. I was really in love with the characters they felt so real. I also wanna hug my friends and tell how much I love them.
after finished omori i was super depressed, one full week genuinly depressed, and couldnt understand why, i was like "dude whats wrong with you? is just a game" it turns out, it wasnt "just a game"
I know that feeling with Persona 5, I had just come out of a long, dark time in my life and while I was happy, I was lost and didn't really know where to go from there. Had P5 for a couple years at this point and just never touched it, felt like the right time and I not only gained such a connection and love for the characters, but also regained that desire to be social again and gain some new skills after basically just shutting myself indoors for some undetermined amount of years. I was so sad and didn't want to say goodbye (and I fucking didn't, Royal came out a couple weeks later and I put over 700 hours into it xD), but it helped me out mentally, I started being more active with friends and I even met some new people through the Persona fandom, who then recommended me new things to read and music to listen I'd not have thought to ever try before, it really did just feel like a fresh start. Cannot overstate how much this game means to me and I still get the urge to replay it to this day, but I have a very large backlog of games I need to play including older Persona games so I can do this shit all over again xD That was a long ass way of saying "same bro" but I will never forget the impact this game had on me
Yeah same here this P5R I just finished it during my spring break and I just don’t know what to do in my life. Especially since I messed up with Maruki and didn’t get to do the DLC stuff.
this is why i dont often finish shows or games. if it’s a show i binge watch the first 3/4 of it then completely stop because i want the joy that came from it to last just a little longer, and i dont like the feeling of my fav piece of media being over
This was me with cyberpunk 2077. I got so damn attached to the whole main cast, especially Johnny, and when the credits rolled I was just empty. Listening to never fade away just sucked the soul out of me. For a solid month I couldn’t bring myself to replay it. Since the end of my first play through I’ve replayed it three times all to varying degrees of completion but I still can’t bare the thought of letting go of any of the characters again. It’s a spiral I can’t escape and I kind of don’t want to.
Have the same problem with cyberpunk. The game absolutely floored me the first time I played it and now I become an emotional wreck just after passing the point of no return every time I try to complete it again. The story and characters are just too good. And now edgerunners has come out i spiral into an emotional wreck with that too. Best game, best series
@@amsdelete8762 I've just posted about this and CP2077 as well. I'm crushed about finishing the game, especially the Star ending with Panam. I wish I didn't feel this way. CDPR did a great job bringing all the characters to life. As soon as I started the Panam side quests I just had to see that through, and now I can't bring myself to do any more side missions or start again. Genuinely in a period of mourning for this game.
i bought CP 77 when it came out, so excited, but i never played it, was just going through a rough time in life, then fast forward to when the anime edgerunners dropped, i watched it, died inside, decided to finally play the game, because a lot of people said if you haven’t played CP yet, watch the anime of it first, it makes it better, it did but, i just finished it an hour ago and i can’t stop crying ;-; i feel dead inside.
I'm feeling this so hard after finishing Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. Never cared about video game characters as much as I did playing this game. Rewatching the Aerith skywheel scene just melts my heart every time
So I’m watching this video like anyone else, because these videos are amazing. And then I see my video recommended at the end. My jaw dropped on the floor. I picked it up. And wrote this message. Thank you so, so much.
Oh my god Red Dead genuinely had me hollow for weeks after. I beat red dead right as I was graduating high school and it truly had me wrecked. I finally understood why everyone said they wish they could play that game for a first time again. Also do you recommend Ghost of Tsushima? People told me that if I enjoyed red dead I’d enjoy that game.
There's something about games that come off as underwhelming then sneak into your heart and take you on an unforgettable adventure that you never know what's happening next. I feel like I'll never get to experience another game like that again. I feel like im going to have a wandersong shaped hole in my heart my whole life.
This happened with Nier:Automata for me :> I was overwhelmed with emotion ESPECIALLY during 9S route and afterwards. I soothed myself by watching videos on the communities' positive reaction to its existence, its philosophical messages, and even watched the director's interview on how he wrote the story. I found much love and appreciation for taking the time to play and indulge in the game and in the content surrounding Nier:Automata :)
The moment in this video when a man gets hit by a truck with Nier Replicant on it is exactly what happened to me after wanting to get more Yoko Taro content
It was Persona 4 for me. The game spent countless hours getting me attached with the characters through the good times and the bad, the game was there for me for several months of my life, helping me cope through what ever difficulties life threw at me. When it ended, I felt a void. The get happy button that got me through a lot of bad times suddenly stopped working.
I guess this is the main reason why I gravitated towards gacha games like Fgo and Genshin around 2 years ago, even when a character’s story is finished that doesn’t mean you won’t see them again,I think that the feeling of maybe well meet again somewhere is stronger in these games by nature like when a rate up for a certain character there is the chance that they’ll appear again in an event story for example. Not only that but the player will probably play the game in a daily manner even if it’s just to log in for rewards and they see their favorite character on the screen the minute they open the game for that extra punch.
Bruhhh I was defo hella depressed after finishing Persona, like I felt so empty after hearing the end credits music, like for a good while I couldn't touch my PS4 and felt like I was missing a part of me
P5R was my most engaging, relatable, and time consuming experience I ever had. I couldn’t help but get lost in that world and even my subconscious blocked out that it was all just a fictional story filled with fictional characters. If only I could get back those 100 hours of gameplay just to relive those moments again.
Which is ironic because the world of Persona is basically just the real world just with people who actually want to talk with you. That’s not meant to be vitriol at all. I had a very similar experience with P5 and P5R… and then P5S… and then P4G… -Ya know, quarantine was kinda perfect for long ass JRPGs and especially Persona cause it lets you live a “””normal””” life when the world was anything but.
I will still remember when i first played Hollow Knight, and there was this sense and feeling of wonder and excitement when i first entered Greepath or when i discovered the Monarch Wings, although when it all wrapped up and came to an end it felt so similar to when i was forced to say goodbye to old friends of mine because i had to move on with my life and so things for myself and my family members. I am so dang glad that there are so many people out there who have these same feelings as i do, i have to say that it really sucks when you finish or complete a game that basically gave you a ton of emotion. But dont worry cus you should always appreciate and love the games that gave you these feelings
Honestly everytime i finish a game i feel really happy! I feel like the time i spent on it was worth it! However... when i finish a BOOK I DEFINETLY feel empty..
For me, that series is the Mass Effect Trilogy. I’ve played through it straight through at least 15 times. That’s over 150+ hrs for me, and every time I get to the Citadel DLC I cry my eyes out when I finish it. I’m never able to say goodbye to my squad mates knowing full well it all ends in less than an hr. After I finally finish the ending of the trilogy I have to tell myself “Don’t be sad it’s over, be happy that you’ll always have the memories”. I think the thrill of enjoying masterpieces in gaming is getting attached and losing yourself in it if only just a moment. Then when it’s over you relive the memories of game as if the mc was you
I haven't played ME series for about 8?-ish years. Did a replay this past week with Legendary Edition. Got to do the Citadel DLC for the first time too...wow. It was more than fan-service. Solid experience with the crew, and was sad to finish the game again. Such a high-stakes narrative/outcome, I really leaned into the character this time. Now I'm going through Mass Depressed.
“Know that the heartbreak doesn’t last and with a little bit of time you’ll be back on your feet and ready to throw yourself headfirst down a waterside of a game gleefully headed towards the exact same destination that you’re at.” *Albert Camus liked that*
My moment was with the Red Dead Redemption 2 main story. I usually play games for gameplay alone, but that was one of the only games that really made me care for the characters.
i haven't played red dead redemption 2, but it does look like it has a lot of moments western games kinda just leave out. small things that make you bond with the characters and world.
Head canons and making my own fan fic had definitely been some of my go-to things to do immediately after shows - I guess that might’ve helped me manage the post-series depression
I am gonnna replay the series. The last of us 2 traumatized me. I tried so hard to be open minded. I would have been fine if it wasn't as good as the first but once you play as abby. Oh man the game tanks. I know they could have done good i i cared about all the side characters just not Abby. I say uncharted is one of the most consistently good game series ever
Only games I've felt that really hard for was Xenoblade Chronicles and Persona 5. Both of those parties became my friends at different times in my life: Xenoblade during the summer after I graduated from hs, and Persona during fall 2022 semester my sophomore year of college. Miss my squads man cause college has been lonely for me, so having the Phantom Theives to hang out and go on adventures with was something that helped me through for a semester.
The saddest part is even if replaying the game or rewatching that anime or rereading that book is fun you never do get to experience those things for the first time again with those characters its more like looking at a photobook of memories with them instead of actually experiencing life with them. It's lonely like they've moved on to the future without you.
Facts that’s why i honestly want too somehow remove a memory of me playing Persona 5 and just play it blindly like in the beginning.
Omg youre so right
Really? My second read of a book is often the best, cause I notice so many things I didn't notice the first time.
@@legrandliseurtri7495 probably depends on the kind of book youre reading and what kind of game you play. If the game isnt heavy on the story or the story isnt really that complicated youll probably remember everything that happens
@@legrandliseurtri7495 I've experienced both situations actually and it really depends, I've found any kind of mystery story even if the mystery element is more of a subplot and not the main focus often results in what you describe whereas slice of life stories and even RPGs tend to be more what OP described. On a similar note on occasion it can be more enjoyable to consume stories that have been spoiled for pretty much the same reason you like rereads because it makes all the subtle details more noticeable.
“Did I beat the game or did the game beat me?”
probably both
Dark souls in nutshell
Whoa....that's deep
I may have beat the game, but it was I, that was defeated
dark souls iin a nutshell
My mom watched me beat final fantasy 9 as tears silently rolled down my face and asked why I was sad. I couldn’t explain that I spent months with a squad of characters who faced war, heartbreak, depression, existential dread, loss, all moving on from this grand adventure to pick up the pieces of what was left of the world.
I read the final words of a child who’d spent months shaking in fear of him dropping dead, peacefully accepting that his friends would live on without him.
I watched every character move on from the events of the game and realized I had to do so myself
The worst part about it is when the thing that your enjoying doesn't even have a community so you literally have no one to talk to about it
Thats Dragon star varnir for me
Bug Fables BROOO
Sometimes that's actually for the best, trust me.
@@yaeven4943 No, I do not trust you
@@jabariwiththebois5765 just look at the undertale fandom
"The fast of us" - Sonic Team
Wow, 900 likes with no replies... Lemme change that.
@@IdOnThAvEaUsE69bot dialogue 😂
@@Watamanee I've gotten better and no longer make stupid replies like that lol.
I had to come back and re-watch this video since Persona 3 Reload left such a hole in my heart, it's themes were more impactful than any game I've ever played.
Same here, that ending devastated me
Good to know I'm not the only one. Man this game really is something, still not done but the feeling when it all ends will hit hard lol
Same here, just finished the game and now I'm just broken inside. That last cutscene with Aigis really caught me
Atlus broke my heart…
FF16 hit me like that, first one in a solid like 10 years that hit so hard lol.
_“It hurts because it matters.”_
"Don't fuck with us Omori fans, We're all collectively traumatized"
Sincerely, 90% of Omori fans
How about the other 10%?
@@ohhai9309 they didn't beat the game
@@Boomerkbom57 I guess I know which percent I'm at
Ayyyy someone else mentioned omori!
Omori seriously hit hard.
I've felt post-game emptiness lots of times before, but Omori just hit a side that hadn't been touched. Like, I was planning to go back and try to 100% the game after I finished it, and then got hit with the ending.
I miss the game, but one part of me doesn't want to go back. Not while knowing that there is nothing I can do to help the characters in it, and boy I can't even stand thinking about Hero. My heart just shatters.
Such a good game, fkn hell.
It's been 2 years since I first completed Red Dead Redemption 2... And whenever I think of that game, I go back to those feelings of sadness and being homesick... man what a game
Tbh, If you replay / rewatch a series after 6 months it's still decent but 2 years would still be a great experience to replay it
As much as I hate feeling empty after a game, I think I despise feeling empty *while* playing a game
That was honestly me when for Portal 2 Chapter 6 The Fall
yeps that me when my first time play red dead redemption 2 but i just realize i knew whole story because last years i cant play in my potato rigs and i just watch full gameplay and story explained and now i regret it
I finished a book a week ago, and a character died. I just sat there for a day.
Lmao my wife did like the exact same thing reading one of her books like 2 weeks ago
Which book was it? Or… is that a spoiler?
@@pinkajou656 It's a spoiler
@@DarylTalksGames Probably shouldn't be doing this to a fellow persona 5 fan, but Persona 5 strikers is basically a full-on sequel. If you really want to delay that post-game blues this game is there for you
I read a book recently where one of the main characters lost all of his memory and the main character left them for their own good. The main character was the cause of them losing their memory which just made it worse. They didn't even die and I still literally found it hard to pick up the book again
Persona 5 for me has left perhaps the biggest hole in my heart after beating it. The cast felt like living breathing people that I’d grown and built relationships with so having that taken away from me felt really lonely for a little while.
Persona 4 Hits also different
I thought I lost friends when I finished persona 5. The feeling was waayy worst after playing p3 and specially p4.
I completely feel the same way. I got so invested in the story and identified with the characters. But on the bright side, I was a new person after beating that game. It helped me with some mental health issues I was going through and made me a total weeb (for better or for worse........)
As a person who didnt get to experience highschool like one of the lucky ones, this felt like a second chance for me. I got to for a few hours a day feel that experience of having friends, going out, sharing common hobbies and feelings. Experiencing romance at that age. It was nice. When it ended it felt really sad for me. But so it goes.
I wasn’t prepared to be called out so quickly with the Simpson clip with Claude edited in
OH SAME. I havent touched FE3H in so long now bc like. I married Claude what else do I need to achieve?
Me: finishes OMORI
Daryl: You need this
Oof
same, same
exactly the same!! OMORI is so good, I still feel empty
Same. Also after I finished the demon slayer manga.
You said to comment it so... My post game depression came about after finishing Persona 5 and happened again when I finished Persona 4... it left me needing more and I was obsessed with the series
There's still Persona 3, so it's not over yet. Ik when I beat that game for the first time, I felt pretty empty....especially because of that ending.
Dude stop I’m literally on the last palace of persona 5 royal right now and I’m about to cry, I don’t want this game to end
@@Alexis-no4yj Yo, if you've got Royal then there's a certain other Palace left to complete...
@@PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Don't give him ideas... Persona 3's ending is so incredibly sad bro... It's been one month since I beat it and I still haven't gotten over it
I finished all the royal endings last week and i cried during the (unskippable 💀) end credits :')
now i plan on replaying it since i missed some stuff, get strikers, hopefully find persona 4 quickly 💀
Daryl: uses the sad track "Emotion" from Pokémon Black/White
Also Daryl: uses the Siivagunner remix of "Emotion" that contains the coffin dance song
i was so fucken mad when i realised that
So, my first time playing Persona 5 was during a series of Twitch streams, meaning I got to get all my reactions to the game live, I went through the game, giving all the characters a voice, experiencing as much of the game as I could with my audience, who would influence certain decisions I made during my playthrough. Due to life circumstances, the series was on and off hiatus a couple of times, so it essentially took me about a year and a half to play through.
I get this feeling of emptiness a lot, especially the more time I sink into something. But I sobbed when I finished Persona 5. Not because I thought the ending was beautiful or anything, but because it was the end of an adventure not just with the characters I had grown to love and care for, but it was like the end of an era for my audience as well, for new regulars that joined during the course of the playthrough, and people that had been there for years.
It's powerful stuff, video games.
Ngl I felt the same way about finishing spm and maybe ttyd but spm made more of an impact because it helped gone through so much and made believe in love again. (Also hey charri I hope you having a good day :)
Beautiful
Me too! If you want another persona 5 experience please but please play persona 3 and 4 (4 is my favorite)
I can't escape it. I finished the entire trilogy
@@BitchChill Try the rest of the MegaTen series then.
The saddest part for me is when a game gives you memories of where you were on a certain day, what you were doing, and how you felt while playing that game that you only start to remember after finishing the game and watching the end credits. I remember on the 4th of July this year I woke up, had a cup of coffee, got every ace rank medal in Neon White mission 6, and then went to an amazingly fun party. When you sit on the title screen that one last time before closing and uninstalling the game you realize those moments will only exist in your memory.
Exactly like me
Maybe not everybody liked far cry5
But i started playing when most of the people that I loved were there for me
“Every Journey has its end. Don’t rush”
-Zhongli
I legit read it in his voice
Cringe genshin impact unbased
@@ilovesonica4589 based decision to declare something not based (I am in your walls)
@@ilovesonica4589 spoken like a true bandwagon zoomertard edgelord
Or maybe do rush to experience more? :)
Any person who's played any Visual Novel knows this feeling all too well.
There's only two that really gave me this: Katawa Shoujo and Doki Doki Literature Club
@@Atlessa ... Maybe I shouldn't have started playing both of those as my first visual novels. Man, Doki Doki Literature Club caused my depression to relapse for about a week or two.
@@ashtentheplatypus same
But for longer
steins;gate :'((((
It happened to me after finishing Final Fantasy VII Remake, I enjoyed every single bit of it and I am super sad that I will not get to experience that first playthrough ever again. It was absolutely magical to feel like I was part of something big like saving the planet. I am glad that I will get to experience Part2 and 3 when they will be released. Right now I am pretty sad but it will get better.
That game is so underrated. It's so damn good
@@LeeEverett1 I don't think it's underrated 😂
@@LeeEverett1 agreed
@@HibiTeamQueso it got a mixed reception by the purists wanting the exact old game in the sense of story. Not to mention people complaining about minuscule details, like the texture of a door not being correctly loaded. Thanks to all that nonsense, it got rated lower than it should've been, so i guess underrated is a deserved title.
@@Rihcterwilker ??? no. An 87 on metacritic is not underrated and 8 user score lol.
5+ million copies sold too.
It's a small minority that cries about everything. It's definetely not underrated
Really looking forward to Daryls Persona 5 obsession arc
Persona 5 does that to a man
@@phillemon7664 I haven't played persona 5 but I do owe strikers on pc. Its on my I'll play it sometime list. Whats persona like? I've played shin Megami tensei and I have a feeling persona is nothing like that.
Im the weirdest teen ever arent I?
@@arishkhan5918 I wouldn't play strikers if you haven't played 5. It's a direct sequel and they pretty much pick up where they left off without explaining much of anything. Its main systems are only inspired by persona, and is very much its own thing. You might have fun with the gameplay but the story would probably lose 90% of its impact. I would play P5 Royal first, as it's the definitive and best version of the original. As for what the game is like, it's essentially half an SMT game, where dungeons are based on the psychology of characters, and half a daily life sim where you go to school and junk. The story follows a very long, almost TV show-esque structure with multiple isolated arcs, with the overall stories being very front and end-loaded. The game works on a calendar system, where each action takes up a segment of the day, and dungeon completions have deadlines. The main feature of this is hanging out with friends, each of which has their own side-story. This system is the key to persona, because hanging out with friends makes you stronger in dungeons and gives you unique abilities. For example, playing shogi with the weird girl at church allows you to switch party members mid battle. Some people require certain social stats to hang out with, which are built by doing various everyday tasks. So the challenge is planning out and balancing when you improve yourself, hang out with friends, or go into a dungeon, because each of them takes time. You have from April to ~Christmas to do all this, so yeah these games take a LOOOONG time and very easily take over your life. The characters are great, the stories are surprisingly mature, the battles are fun, the music is god-tier, its style is unmatched, but it's really about the experience as a whole that people get so addicted to, and is exactly the kind of setup that prompts post-game-depression since the endings are always definitive with no content after the credits.
@@ChibiMalzahar I see... you're really passionate about persona huh? Well I don't own a ps4. Will emulating the game with a ps3 emulator work? I live in Pakistan so stuff like this is pretty expensive. For example because of how weak the currency is here, if I want to buy a ps5, or 4, i'd have to pay double the amount.
Imagine the young, impressionable high school freshman picking up Persona 4 for the first time about 8-9 years ago and legitimately getting chills down his back during certain scenes and feeling like the experience was going to last forever
Literally me 4 months ago
Dude, how did you perfectly describe my experience 6 years ago.
True. Persona 4 has the best story flow I've ever seen. Every day felt special, every day I had something new to do.
Started persona 4 recently
I actually had to stop playing 2 weeks before finising p5R, should i wait for something similar?
Same but with Persona 5 three years ago, then with Persona 3 the last year and know with Persona 4 a few weeks ago
Holy SH*T i just experienced this phenomenon with P5R, and the whole game felt as if all the characters were almost people. And after the credits rolled I felt the same feeling as when a “surprise death” of a character in a piece of media happened. I thought it would continue after the main story, is done and I was definitely planning on playing it on for a hundred for hours; when I went to play P4G afterward it felt like I left behind persona 5. When I put on new game plus, seeing sojiro as “manager” felt empty as you described it. All those things I did in the first playthrough is gone. This game was a memory I will never forget, and the very unique experience of feeling as I was apart of this story that unfolded before me.
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." -Dr. Seuss
im balling my eyes out
That made me wanna cry...lol but its so true.
Dr Seuss was an asshole just sayin
@@myon9431 that doesn’t invalidate the beauty of this quote tho
I remember this every time I think of my best friend. She passed away 10 years ago. Still makes me smile thinking of her.
"Feeling empty when you finish a game"
Me playing the same game over and over, like an alcoholic going to the bar every Thursday, trying to feel 'full' again: What?
"Happily ever after you craved"
Drakengard-NieR fans: *laughs in a pool of tears*
You feel empty but also complete at the same time. When you reach the end of those videogames you just know the experience will stay with you and in a way changed you as a person. I love that.
This! I love feeling the depression from ending a good game and thinking about it over and over again, trying to understand why it caught me so much.
This is why the undertale fandom exists. Because we can't get enough of the characters, so we just make more material ourself.
Yeah
Just play other game, or read a book
Undertale fandom is cringe
@@DannyLopez07 cringe is good
@@DannyLopez07 it is a good game, just not THAT good 😕
I cried, got depressed and empty at the ends of Red Dead, Witcher 3 and basically all Zelda games.
I dunno, the adventures, experiences and relationships that the characters undergo in those games really struck a cord with me - especially Zelda, because it is a franchise that I’ve deeply adored ever since I was a kid.
I know I’m probably going to be depressed for ages after I finish BOTW2. I’ll make sure to enjoy every moment I have playing it when it eventually comes out.
Same for zelda man i just finished botw for the second time 3 years later and i feel empty asf but knowing that tears of the kingdom is coming dont really help me as i know a lots of characters from botw (like daruk , urbosa , etc...) wont be there
I think what makes Red dead redemption(2) and Witcher 3 depressing after finishing it, is the point where the NPC´s we got through an epic adventure full of emotions, come to their routine where they repeating themselfs when we speak with them.
It feels like their lifes got sucked out of them.
TOTK is very close. Not long now. Idk 'bout you, but I'm gonna take my sweet ass time with that game and complete everything I can until there nothing left to the fill the empty void of my undead soul.
Dude I just beat the witcher 3 for the 3 time, the first time I didn't feel shit, but the 3rd I got the Empress ending, told ciri that we'll never see each other again (which is kinda true), she cried and now im depressed asf
How do we have the same likes.I got the best ending in Witcher 3 first time i played it but still felt empty.Same with red dead 2.I finished Minnish cap,botw,ocarina of time and Twilight Princess and all of them made me feel empty.I now realise i have experienced masterpieces and I'm lucky for that
*Nier Automata: Ending E*
It made me go to the gym more than ever and do fundamental heavy weightlifting with my shakey nerd arms. I was like "FOR THEMMM"
Yes, remind me of the pain once again...
Still waiting for the day that Daryl plays Nier: Automata!
Ah, the game ending that inspired me to walk out on my shitty job that I hated. "A future is something you must make for yourself" and as menial as quitting a job may sound, I don't think I would have without those damn pods. I have no regrets.
I have experienced it last year and then went for HL: Alyx, and Persona 5: Royal - now I am barely playing other singleplayer games...
"Don't be sad it's over, be glad it happened" was my exact reaction to hearing the news about Berserk's creator, Kentaro Miura. Rest in peace, legend.
wise words.
I come back to this video from time to time after beating a game that has done this to me.
A nice reminder to not let the deep seated big sad take over my sense of self and talk to friends/discuss/write/journal about the experience.
Honestly, I think nothing does this quite like RPGs, and from what I can tell, the comments agree. Persona, NieR, Omori, Fire Emblem, Mass Effect, etc., games that you spend a large amount of time interacting with other characters in a fictional world, those are the games that hit the hardest when you finally finish them and realize you'll never be able to play them again for the first time. It feels like an entire chapter of your life is over. That's why RPGs will always be my favorite genre.
Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal, when the credits roll and you realize you won't have another adventure with all this great characters ever again... :(
just finished undertale and deltarune, I can relate
me after 300 hours binge of trails games
@@panzerkampfyoutubekommenta4947 Yep, Deltarune is the entire reason I checked out this video due to my OBSESSION over it.
Witcher 3, still hurts tbh
I'm just glad there's a scientific reason that I have so many fictional crushes lol. I thought I was just weird
Lol dude same
felt this comment a little too personal
Hit WAY WAAAYYY too close to home
Having some fictional crushes: ok.
Having *so many* fictional crushes: weird.
@@GabrielFerCav you must be fun at parties
The Outer Wilds did this to me most recently. For a game with so few living characters, and the majority of the rest of them long-dead, the experience of going through all that history was haunting, and then wistful as it all ended.
One of the saddest feelings for me is when you're working towards the sweet platinum trophy playing the game for weeks or even months, watching guides on TH-cam and then after getting all trophies, grinding everything to 100% you accomplish everything the game has to offer. You are happy and glad but then immediately after all that excitement comes the sad thing. You wanna close the game, you sit at the title screen that greeted you everytime you started the game over the last couple of weeks/months, you listen to the music one last time and then you close the game one last time. It's a goodbye, ok maybe not forever but who knows when you're gonna play the game again? But for this moment you move on.
you perfectly described what i did when i got the platinum for ghost of tsushima
There's a slightly different weird experience when you leave a game just barely unfinished. I have a Stardew Valley save at 99.9% perfection. It has one incomplete special order that, for peak efficiency, I would just sleep cheese until it spawns and then do it. I could finish it, but realistically it's the end for me, as I'm not really into the aesthetics stuff, so there's not really any more fun gameplay to be had, at least not on that save. What's different is that because I basically put that goalpost down, and didn't do it long in advance, there wasn't even really the climax from definitely being done. I just kinda wasn't interested in doing the sleep cheese or finding stuff to do while I waited, so I just...stopped. It led to the same low without the same high.
this happened to me big time with infamous second son. i loved the hell out of that game but the second i hit 100% completion i knew i'd never play it again. i still get the urge to play it every now and then but... why? i've done literally everything there is to do.
Me after final fantasy 15
Me with bloodborne and sekiro
It’s weird how artificial pieces of media can make us feel genuine emptiness or sadness but a different sadness from depression
It's not. Fictional media is, at the very core, tailored experiences created by human beings like you. You can experience immense pain, sadness, and joy through a fictional story because it contains real emotions poured in by the author. Tears in Heaven is a depressing song because it was written/played out of Eric Clapton's raw grief.
As a writer... I promise, it's not as artificial as you think. Just because I changed the names and a few things here and there or the settings or something, it doesn't change the fact that you often are reading or watching or playing a recreation of real things that people have actually experienced or felt. If we make you cry. We've done our jobs :)
Because fiction are inspired by real life, made by real human beings, so the emotion you get from them is just as real
I've consumed many a story and played many a game and the only time I've felt genuinely depressed as opposed to say intense but ultimately fleeting sadness was when I got back to a game after a hiatus and found my one time main had been reworked into something unrecognizable, it felt like dropping in on an old friend only to have them drop dead mid conversation, it was horrible, I still have difficulty maintaining composure thinking about it! It's also excrutiating to explain to any normies and even people who know the game and don't require all the terminology and such explained rarely seem to get it, which really doesn't help matters.
it drowns you in an indescribable emptiness once you're done basically
This is how I felt after I finished Zelda Twilight Princess for the first time. The credits rolled, Midna destroyed the Mirror of Twilight, and I just felt this emptiness knowing that there were no more dungeons to unravel and no more adventure to uncover.
@t u r n e r TP is my all-time favorite too. I hope TotK takes some influence from it.
Actually that captures for me why BotW and TotK left me cold and uninterested. For me, there was just nothing to get attached to, and nothing to lose when the credits rolled.
I genuinely love that you’re such a weeb. Makes me feel right at home
yep me too
Reading this makes it feel more okay to be one 😅
@@DarylTalksGames yup
Gamer weebs unite!
@@Ahsoka_Hyrule of course what are we waiting for?
"Your feelings for her... are not real"
"THEY ARE REAL TO ME!"
-16 Y/O Me in Persona 4
i cried for the first time in a game recently playing final fantasy 7 rebirth, the death of my favorite character had me in tears and i didn't feel anything for 2 days, i felt depressed even knowing it wasn't real, i still felt depressed even after telling myself that, there is something so special about games and how you can connect with characters and when they're gone you feel like there is a hole in your heart.
The game that made me feel the most empty was honestly Persona 5 - I felt genuinely depressed after spending 100+ hours with this gang of friends. It took about a week or so before I started feeling okay again.
What is my life?
*"With The Stars And Us"* stars playing.
Me; 😭
@@kieroncampion120 our light made me feel more empty than stars and us
@@enzoidd Haven't played Royal yet but I keep hearing how great Our Light is.
"-and be sure to tear up when you randomly hear your favorite music from the game on a playlist a few weeks later."
*Me who listens to Our light, Sealed vessel, and OMORI - OMORI on the reg cause I'm a masochist for sadness*
"I got'chu homie"
I have returned to this video after having finished FF16 yesterday and it's still hitting me hard. As someone who feels this often at the end of a FF game, it's hitting harder than any other has. FF7 was always my favorite, but it's been dethroned. The story plans to kick you in the feels so damn hard and they executed it so perfectly that I'm just in a hole right now. I know I will pop out of it before long but this one is going to be a story full of characters I will always love and miss.
This feeling is exactly why I put off finishing books, games, TV shows...
That wrong.
A good ending is what make stories rich. And it would stay with you forever.
The amount of games I haven't finished because I don't want them to end is wild.
You guys have the wrong mentality. The fact that a video game can make you feel so strongly is a beautiful thing. Embrace it and cherish it, don't be afraid. When you put off finishing the game, you lessen the emotional impact of the ending.
Same. It’s also why certain things I only watch/read/play once despite loving them.
SAME
„I’m really doing this video for me“ Nah man, your timing was way too perfect. You did that for me. I just finished Nier Replicant with all of its endings today and was mindlessly scrolling through TH-cam because I felt so damn empty. Your video in my subscription box felt like you waited just for me to finish it. Thank you, you described the feeling perfectly and I got a bit teary. Enjoy your time with Persona 5 Royal to the very end. It deserves it and you deserve it as well
I think the first time I actively cried after finishing the game was when I got to the end credits of Nier:Automata. The whole experience of all the shit that the characters had gone through along with the music and the big old end credits trick made me cry. I'm not sure if it was out of sadness, happiness, or just having too many emotions but damn. Sometimes I wish I could forget my favorite works of fiction so I could experience them for the first time all over again.
Even though im really not a fan of that game, i did still complete it and got ending E. Once i realized that the ''end-credits-shooter-minigame'' is fucking impossible to do on your own, i broke down in tears as other real life people sacrificed their save data to help me achieve the real ending. To receive such a kind gesture from people who have never met me as they lose everything they did in this game was too much for me to handle.
@@Da1337Man Honestly choosing to sacrifice my own data at the end of my first playthrought was the most euphoric game ending I ever experienced. Knowing that the journey I went on might actualy help someone out really did it for me.
...bro. I've just started my very first playthrough for that game. Idk what tf I'm doing but I just know that it's gonna hit different once it's over. Or should I say.... Nooooover!!
Exactly. As the ending song lyrics go "you feel like you're carrying the weight of the world."
Was waiting to see nier being mentioned
Hades made me feel this way. I didn’t expect to come onto the true ending so quickly and I really missed going to visit the post final boss area. I didn’t realize how calm it made me feel, hearing the music and just sitting in the environment, until after I wasn’t able to visit again.
I feel the same
Not hades specific but supergiant itself
Both bastion and transistor gave me that feeling, mainly because it feels like a interactive movie, a short but beautiful story in each game
I feel this, I've beaten it a few times now and know it'll only be a couple more times until I finish the story but I don't want it to be over
same
Same, I just finished it completely two days ago and I feel it, too.
The game my mind refuses to forget is OneShot. I played it roughly around 2017 and my brain cannot remove the idea of helping that adorable cat to see their family again. Not going to spoil anything, but it really hits hard when you learn there is a third ending.
Oh my gosh I was going to say the same thing! My friend introduced me to it and I literally couldn't stop thinking about it (still cant, I played it last November) but i guess that is the point that Niko (you know who I mean) brings across in the final ending.
It's funny how much you want to meet just a pixelated cat and just give him a hug. I've never had a game that wanted me to know this character personally. Everything about that game doesn't leave my mind
@@rocketboy25 I agree! I really wanted to know what their world was like and what they were like. The dream sequences did really well to make sure you got attached to the character
@@kaitlinwagoner8782 when he talks about his home and how he expresses how great it is, makes me think about how I've expressed things that I like and enjoy so much. The way he looks up to you even though he hasn't seen you before says a lot about how genuine this character is
OneShot hurt my feelings, the decisions were already frustrating enough. I felt so hard for Neko.
Suffering from post game depression after finishing BG 3
I’m feeling that rn 😢
Idk what to do 🥺😭
You’re not alone.. I feel it so hard rn- I just beat the elder brain like an hour ago
Also just finished BG3 and I'm having a hard time lol
I cried EVERY time when hearing "Weight of the world" for a fucking ear after finishing Nier Automata.
This
**ugly cried and had a complete breakdown
The Splatoon 2 Octo Expansion had me bawling my eyes out when I had family over. I still cry every time I hear the end credit music 2 years later. Nothing has ever made me feel the way this funny squid game has.
Here a year later to write a love letter to The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles. I cried all through the credits and must have stood motionlessly in front of my screen for about two hours after. Such vivid characters and a beautiful storyline, leaving you with a complete sense of longing after it was done. The game being a duology wasn't making things any easier either, seeing as we spent so long with these characters, felt their grief, watched them come and go. But what was most profound, wasn't about how I felt: it was looking back at the beginning of their journey to realise how much they've changed. As if you're watching something or somebody real grow to become a different person...
Edit: spelling, gross ;-;
You seem like a beautiful, empathic soul :)
...I think....we did good then. :)
the end credit music being a mash up of various tracks we heard along the way... doesn't help 🥹
Update for this game, I'm halfway through game 1 and I already don't want it to end
Thank you for sharing your experience. Tbh you're a lot braver than I am, I admittedly paused my game at the very last cutscene, afraid of letting go of the cast. I adore Ryuunosuke and everyone's journey, and am still not ready to let go. From the banging music, the surprised laughters from the cast's antics, all the way to the tensions and the plot twists, I'm still putting things on pause, afraid of letting go of that piece of happiness.
This video helped me come to terms with it though. I'll surely make my way to finishing the last cutscene. But for now, I'm still gonna lay and express a little bit of my selfishness of still wanting to keep the characters still with me
Me when Omori. Its been 4 months and i still have brainrot
Omori was an... experience. It made me realize I needed to take Agency: I couldn't just keep running forever...
I am waiting for discount to play it (my taxes for puechasing online are 65% + teen without money)
@@henrriquetordoya1637 don’t worry, it’ll be worth the wait :)
Mood- tho i haven’t gotten to finishing my playthrough cuz im getting scared of getting a bad ending- i’ve watched gameplay tho......man....it’s a beautiful game....
Holy I you've just made me realize. OMORI's almost half a year old, good lord how time passes
Omori was my game, caused me so much pain and happiness at the same time.
solidarity
Endwalker's MSQ basically centers this idea as a major theme in the plot, the idea that you love something despite it inevitably coming to an end, and no matter how soon or late that end comes, it is still worth experiencing. The pain we feel after is the price we pay for the happiness we get to experience
Every time I finish a game or a series, I always feel like that D:
And when I know that the end is near.. I often postpone it cause I don't want it to end. When it does, I am looking for so many videos, memes etc., just different opinions and views since I don't wanna leave the characters behind. They deserve more of my attention ;_; :D
"How did you grow?"
I always ask myself that and Persona 5 definitely changed me the most. Or a different example would be Danganronpa V3 (nice to see Danganronpa THH!). That blew my frickin mind for reasons I don't want to spoil 🤯
I do the same! As soon as I get close to the end, I pump the brakes real hard. I gotta savor the last few bites haha.
And dude, Danganrompa THH has been wild, been streaming it actually and it’s a ride haha.
There's this one series I really liked to watch. It was a horror series about this daycare worker who abused her kids and got away with it. It really made me invested, I liked the characters, I felt terrified for them and the kids. So when it came to end with a happy ending, I was happy. But also incredibly sad that it has ended.
Danganronpa V3 is truly a heart piercer
@@DarylTalksGames ye ye savor THH then try the sequel then V3. It'll be the best trip ever
You saying that has reminded me. I need to finish Bioshock, I'm like 20 minutes from the end
When I finished persona 5 for the first time I cried and then inmediatly started again
Me too if u truly wish to suffer play persona 3 no doubt wayyyyyy sadder but also wayyyy better
I just finish Tears of the Kingdom, and this is exactly the feeling that I have now. Even though you can continue to play, you know that the story is over.
Pokemon black was a game which made me that much emotional at the edge of crying when I was surrounded by seven sages of team plasma. My pokemon needed healing. Then a music plays and all the gym leaders come in and take them for me.
It almost made me cry.
After the game ended. I missed my favorite game.
After my P4G depression the only thing that eased that empty hole was 5, but created anew.. these Japanese love this feeling
My first experience with this feeling wasn’t through a game, it was when I finished the last book in an eight book saga. I’d been following this series since the third book released and I was devastated that I’d no longer get to live alongside my characters. I couldn’t pick up another book for weeks. But that series helped me find my passion for storytelling so I’ll always be grateful to it.
Which series?
@@indulgencerofindulgence5970 something terribly cringy… throne of glass
@@book-hoarder5664oh, thats a banger, and even then I feel ashamed Speaking of this boom, I don't know why, it seems like a generic or princess series or whatever, but seriously, I only read the first book and I was hooked to read it until the end
4:11 "Talking about parasocial relationships."
Ludwig fans: "Hey I know that word!"
Didn’t expect to see a Ludwig name drop in the comments section.
@@spaghettimonster1508 Dream fans: "Hey I.... don't"
This happened to me while playing Omori in a recent time. I loved every aspect of it, the characters, the mechanics, the themes, the music, everything connected with me. I could see myself in some of the characteristics in the game. But what most striked about it is the topic of "Friendship" and what transpired of it. Not going into spoilers but it just stuck me.
Once I finished it, I just cried because of that massive ending. It was the perfect way to finish it, but it left me with that feeling of sorrow and emptiness, I spoke to close friends and reminded them that I loved them.
It was such a massive road, I've been since them picking up the Ost, seeing a lot of memes about it, all the theories. Maybe I'm still coping with the end, but now it is a great memory and part of who I am
Going to this video right now and I am glad I’m not alone. Omori really made me think about loss, friends, family, and trauma a lot more. I was really in love with the characters they felt so real. I also wanna hug my friends and tell how much I love them.
Rewatching this after finishing Persona 3 Reload really helps thanks a lot daryl
Man you can’t put THAT scene of FMAB in and not expect me to cry
FMAB is probably the one non-visual novel-based anime that hits me the hardest...that scene being up near the top.
after finished omori i was super depressed, one full week genuinly depressed, and couldnt understand why, i was like "dude whats wrong with you? is just a game"
it turns out, it wasnt "just a game"
solidarity
I'm feeling this after completing telltale the walking dead series 💔
same dawg. Clem was my kid as much as she was for Lee
And this is why every single fictional character I get attached to lives rent-free in my head
Oh hey same hat. They have apartments and sometimes we do a pot luck it's great! Ahahahh... haha... //sobs into hands.
I know that feeling with Persona 5, I had just come out of a long, dark time in my life and while I was happy, I was lost and didn't really know where to go from there. Had P5 for a couple years at this point and just never touched it, felt like the right time and I not only gained such a connection and love for the characters, but also regained that desire to be social again and gain some new skills after basically just shutting myself indoors for some undetermined amount of years.
I was so sad and didn't want to say goodbye (and I fucking didn't, Royal came out a couple weeks later and I put over 700 hours into it xD), but it helped me out mentally, I started being more active with friends and I even met some new people through the Persona fandom, who then recommended me new things to read and music to listen I'd not have thought to ever try before, it really did just feel like a fresh start. Cannot overstate how much this game means to me and I still get the urge to replay it to this day, but I have a very large backlog of games I need to play including older Persona games so I can do this shit all over again xD
That was a long ass way of saying "same bro" but I will never forget the impact this game had on me
Same bro. P5 changed me.
P5R is my favorite game of all time so I get this brother it was unhealthy beating it in 2 weeks lol
Seven hundred? How? I only spent like 150
@@jbear3478 i played through like 11 times lmao, first playthrough was 120ish, up to 900 hours now, tempted to play again ngl
Yeah same here this P5R I just finished it during my spring break and I just don’t know what to do in my life. Especially since I messed up with Maruki and didn’t get to do the DLC stuff.
this is why i dont often finish shows or games. if it’s a show i binge watch the first 3/4 of it then completely stop because i want the joy that came from it to last just a little longer, and i dont like the feeling of my fav piece of media being over
I do this too
Doki Doki Literature Club hit me so hard. Never have found a game quite like it.
Play omori
Seconding Omori, although it has some bad pacing issues.
@@myon9431 agreed. I found myself rushing through the headspace sections just to get more story/hard fights. Still a 10/10 game.
Game hit so hard it almost gave me secondhand truama and depression.
@@carboneticmarshmellovv3622 Yup. And it all seemed so innocent at first.
This happened to me with fire emblem three houses and persona 5 royal. Makoto, you will be missed.
I’m currently experiencing this after Uncharted 4. 😢
What a masterpiece.
7:59 I could hear Arin's sound-clipping screams of joy on that clip, nice touch
This was me with cyberpunk 2077. I got so damn attached to the whole main cast, especially Johnny, and when the credits rolled I was just empty. Listening to never fade away just sucked the soul out of me. For a solid month I couldn’t bring myself to replay it. Since the end of my first play through I’ve replayed it three times all to varying degrees of completion but I still can’t bare the thought of letting go of any of the characters again. It’s a spiral I can’t escape and I kind of don’t want to.
Have the same problem with cyberpunk. The game absolutely floored me the first time I played it and now I become an emotional wreck just after passing the point of no return every time I try to complete it again. The story and characters are just too good. And now edgerunners has come out i spiral into an emotional wreck with that too. Best game, best series
@@amsdelete8762 I've just posted about this and CP2077 as well. I'm crushed about finishing the game, especially the Star ending with Panam. I wish I didn't feel this way. CDPR did a great job bringing all the characters to life.
As soon as I started the Panam side quests I just had to see that through, and now I can't bring myself to do any more side missions or start again. Genuinely in a period of mourning for this game.
i bought CP 77 when it came out, so excited, but i never played it, was just going through a rough time in life, then fast forward to when the anime edgerunners dropped, i watched it, died inside, decided to finally play the game, because a lot of people said if you haven’t played CP yet, watch the anime of it first, it makes it better, it did but, i just finished it an hour ago and i can’t stop crying ;-; i feel dead inside.
@@carrma3 join the club 😭😭😭
@@amefuyuu I HATE IT HERE
I'm feeling this so hard after finishing Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. Never cared about video game characters as much as I did playing this game. Rewatching the Aerith skywheel scene just melts my heart every time
So I’m watching this video like anyone else, because these videos are amazing. And then I see my video recommended at the end. My jaw dropped on the floor. I picked it up. And wrote this message. Thank you so, so much.
I felt like I lost my uncle when Arthur died. Cried during the final duel in Ghost of Tsushima.
Oh my god Red Dead genuinely had me hollow for weeks after. I beat red dead right as I was graduating high school and it truly had me wrecked. I finally understood why everyone said they wish they could play that game for a first time again.
Also do you recommend Ghost of Tsushima? People told me that if I enjoyed red dead I’d enjoy that game.
After finishing BG3, the post game depression is HARSH right now...
@vatyunga the game is so good, I'm still sad about karlach and idk what to play next
Mystery Dungeon was genetically engineered to make you depressed, change my mind
Tell me about it. Seven year old me was not prepared...
I like learning songs from the game soundtrack on the piano after playing the games, especially ones that meant a lot to me :)
tears goosebumps
There's something about games that come off as underwhelming then sneak into your heart and take you on an unforgettable adventure that you never know what's happening next. I feel like I'll never get to experience another game like that again. I feel like im going to have a wandersong shaped hole in my heart my whole life.
This happened with Nier:Automata for me :> I was overwhelmed with emotion ESPECIALLY during 9S route and afterwards. I soothed myself by watching videos on the communities' positive reaction to its existence, its philosophical messages, and even watched the director's interview on how he wrote the story. I found much love and appreciation for taking the time to play and indulge in the game and in the content surrounding Nier:Automata :)
I know it left me empty knowing the fact that I'll never quite get a experience like this again
The moment in this video when a man gets hit by a truck with Nier Replicant on it is exactly what happened to me after wanting to get more Yoko Taro content
It was Persona 4 for me.
The game spent countless hours getting me attached with the characters through the good times and the bad, the game was there for me for several months of my life, helping me cope through what ever difficulties life threw at me.
When it ended, I felt a void.
The get happy button that got me through a lot of bad times suddenly stopped working.
I guess this is the main reason why I gravitated towards gacha games like Fgo and Genshin around 2 years ago, even when a character’s story is finished that doesn’t mean you won’t see them again,I think that the feeling of maybe well meet again somewhere is stronger in these games by nature like when a rate up for a certain character there is the chance that they’ll appear again in an event story for example.
Not only that but the player will probably play the game in a daily manner even if it’s just to log in for rewards and they see their favorite character on the screen the minute they open the game for that extra punch.
Bruhhh I was defo hella depressed after finishing Persona, like I felt so empty after hearing the end credits music, like for a good while I couldn't touch my PS4 and felt like I was missing a part of me
P5R was my most engaging, relatable, and time consuming experience I ever had. I couldn’t help but get lost in that world and even my subconscious blocked out that it was all just a fictional story filled with fictional characters. If only I could get back those 100 hours of gameplay just to relive those moments again.
Which is ironic because the world of Persona is basically just the real world just with people who actually want to talk with you. That’s not meant to be vitriol at all. I had a very similar experience with P5 and P5R… and then P5S… and then P4G… -Ya know, quarantine was kinda perfect for long ass JRPGs and especially Persona cause it lets you live a “””normal””” life when the world was anything but.
I experienced it last year after p5r, I’m currently about to end P4 golden and I’m already starting to feel depressed
3:41 man that’s though. Post persona 5 depression was insane for me like I was feeling empty for weeks after I marathoned p5 and p5r back to back
I will still remember when i first played Hollow Knight, and there was this sense and feeling of wonder and excitement when i first entered Greepath or when i discovered the Monarch Wings, although when it all wrapped up and came to an end it felt so similar to when i was forced to say goodbye to old friends of mine because i had to move on with my life and so things for myself and my family members.
I am so dang glad that there are so many people out there who have these same feelings as i do, i have to say that it really sucks when you finish or complete a game that basically gave you a ton of emotion.
But dont worry cus you should always appreciate and love the games that gave you these feelings
silksong hype!
Honestly everytime i finish a game i feel really happy! I feel like the time i spent on it was worth it! However... when i finish a BOOK I DEFINETLY feel empty..
For me, that series is the Mass Effect Trilogy. I’ve played through it straight through at least 15 times. That’s over 150+ hrs for me, and every time I get to the Citadel DLC I cry my eyes out when I finish it. I’m never able to say goodbye to my squad mates knowing full well it all ends in less than an hr.
After I finally finish the ending of the trilogy I have to tell myself “Don’t be sad it’s over, be happy that you’ll always have the memories”. I think the thrill of enjoying masterpieces in gaming is getting attached and losing yourself in it if only just a moment. Then when it’s over you relive the memories of game as if the mc was you
I haven't played ME series for about 8?-ish years. Did a replay this past week with Legendary Edition. Got to do the Citadel DLC for the first time too...wow. It was more than fan-service. Solid experience with the crew, and was sad to finish the game again. Such a high-stakes narrative/outcome, I really leaned into the character this time. Now I'm going through Mass Depressed.
“Know that the heartbreak doesn’t last and with a little bit of time you’ll be back on your feet and ready to throw yourself headfirst down a waterside of a game gleefully headed towards the exact same destination that you’re at.”
*Albert Camus liked that*
My moment was with the Red Dead Redemption 2 main story. I usually play games for gameplay alone, but that was one of the only games that really made me care for the characters.
i haven't played red dead redemption 2, but it does look like it has a lot of moments western games kinda just leave out. small things that make you bond with the characters and world.
I don't know, the game made me sleepy, the deliberately slow pace of the game ruins the experience for me.
Head canons and making my own fan fic had definitely been some of my go-to things to do immediately after shows - I guess that might’ve helped me manage the post-series depression
Man I felt like this after uncharted 4 after so many years the story of Nathan Drake came to a close
Same. Naughty Dog is big brain. Great games
@@kpdelaney6460 🤐
I am gonnna replay the series. The last of us 2 traumatized me. I tried so hard to be open minded. I would have been fine if it wasn't as good as the first but once you play as abby. Oh man the game tanks. I know they could have done good i i cared about all the side characters just not Abby. I say uncharted is one of the most consistently good game series ever
Tales of, Persona, Kingdom Hearts and Indie games give me the worst case of post game depression
Your pfp reminded me of how utterly destroyed I was when I finished P3...especially after finishing Aigis' social link. BIG SOBS
@@Shuukuriimudaisuki-sama I’ll join your BIG SOB
Definitely agree with the kingdom hearts one
Only games I've felt that really hard for was Xenoblade Chronicles and Persona 5. Both of those parties became my friends at different times in my life: Xenoblade during the summer after I graduated from hs, and Persona during fall 2022 semester my sophomore year of college. Miss my squads man cause college has been lonely for me, so having the Phantom Theives to hang out and go on adventures with was something that helped me through for a semester.
goddamn i felt this so hard with the ace attorney OG trilogy and chrono trigger... love those games so so much