Finishing a video game can trigger “post-game depression,” study finds

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• MrFinnbean@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Used to get that a lot, but now days you can keep playing most games even after final credits so there is absence of the finality in the games.

  Tough books hit hard still.

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  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In fairness, a lot of the games I’ve played that did this did have interesting side plots that I would have been pissed if I had to start a new playthrough to see.

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  • yakko@feddit.uk ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I straight up stopped playing Silksong when I got to the endgame bosses. I’m not ready to say goodbye. I’m lucky to have unfinished business with older games in my collection, but I’ve also literally bought and beaten other games since then as well. It’s an emotional reluctance for sure.

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    • toomanypancakes@piefed.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Just throwing out that I’m on my third silksong playthrough and still having a blast. I wasn’t ready to say goodbye either.

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  • XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Remaining sideplots still being playable has never sped me up. I get stuck in “side quest pergatory” as I’m worried I’m finishing the campaign too fast, from both a story perspective and from fearing I’m not leveled up enough.

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• Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This must be why I’m so chipper - I’m too ADHD to see my games through to the end! No I will not meet Hanako at Embers, I’ll start another game and forget about it until I need the disc space back.

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• zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Only ever had this with Mass Effect. I think just the fact that it was a series I had played for years and the ending (albeit controversial) was final and left no “postgame” to play around with.

  I only beat it after the Citadel DLC had been released, though, which IMO was a much stronger send off to the series than the game itself was at launch, which just made the real ending hit more when I got around to it.

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Mass Effect is the best/worst when it comes to this. It’s such a good game, and you join up and befriend your squad, you go through so many things to get to the ending, and then it’s over. You put down the headphones, you get up, and stand alone in your kitchen for 20 minutes, realizing that it is over.

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• Raiderkev@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Damn you to hell Tuberculosis! We were gonna farm mangos you sadistic fuck!

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• vane@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Depression after BG3 and relief after Elden Ring.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Elden Ring gives mid-game depression/rage.

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• AntiBullyRanger@ani.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  📑

  They conducted two studies involving 373 players

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  • C8r9VwDUTeY3ZufQRYvq@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    More like a hypothesis generating survey than an actual research paper. Even so, those are better numbers than a lot of other science headlines have (by orders of magnitude).

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    • AntiBullyRanger@ani.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      By 20%?

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• sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Expedition 33 ☹️

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• Bhaelfur@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Terranigma, Lufia II, and more recently, Tales of the Abyss all hit me hard. Oh, and To The Moon. Stray came close, but I also played Stray at a difficult time in my life.

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• FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s why i never finish a game

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• ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Video games give me a sense of purpose in a life where I feel I have none. When you lose that feeling, that’s when you fall back on this shitty cyberpunk capitalist dystopia.

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