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

https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/finishing-a-video-game-can-trigger-post-game-depression-study-finds-3339309/

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f3nyx@lemmy.ml · 45 pts · 152d (2 replies)

Ah, the researchers finally got around to playing Expedition 33 huh?

Jokes aside, isn't this also a phenomenon with finishing books and TV shows?

jtrek@startrek.website · 9 pts · 152d

Jokes aside, isn’t this also a phenomenon with finishing books and TV shows?

I've had the same thought. When I finish a really good, lengthy, book it feels similar to when you lose touch with friends.

reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 151d

I distinctly remember the depression people who loved the first avatar movies were in after it ended. There was even a forum for them.

mrfriki@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 152d (5 replies)

So that's why almost nobody finish their games, according to Steam achievements?

Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 152d (2 replies)

steam achievements are just that .. steam achievements.

it's not the game.

mrfriki@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 152d (1 reply)

Yeah, i know, I also don't care about them but they are funny little statistical facts, like "only 20% of the people that played this game beated the tutorial" or "45% of the players didn't play past the first chapter".

HubertManne@piefed.social · 5 pts · 152d

I am goods at beateding tutorials.

essell@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 152d

My problem isn't finishing them.

My problem is starting them.

Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 151d

That’s the case for me. The last game I’ve “completed” was a game where I can play through multiple different scenarios (Surviving Mars.) I have completed about half the mystery scenarios, and I love being able to replay it and have it be new all over again.

darkkite@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 152d

This is why i replay final fantasy x several times but will never finish it myself. I don't want it to end

thermal_shock@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 151d (1 reply)

Same with TV shows. Finished scrubs again, got to end, turned it off and tried to figure out what was next. Sad times.

tias@discuss.tchncs.de · -2 pts · 151d

Somewhere in here lies the psychological explanation for the Epstein files

anxioustea@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 151d

Finished Resident Evil Requiem and life had no meaning for two days. We back though. Lmao

IWW4@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 151d

This is why I don’t start a brand new game when I finish a game I love. I will go replay an older game to sort of reset, so I give the new game a “fair shake”.

Zahille7@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 152d

I feel like we've gotten this same headline over the past 20 years

Outdated4134@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 151d

Also, water wet. Details at 11

HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 152d

maybe that is why I never finish them. They are all still an option.

racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 151d

Years ago I played Dragon Quest XI up to the good point: where they time traveled and resurrected . My PSN expired and I never finished it.

Can someone please tell me if I did it right?

lucientheluckless@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 151d

I thought it was just me. I get singularly focused on a game and it's world and once I finish it, happy ending or otherwise, it's the death of that world. I always finish a game though.

tio_bira@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 152d

Journalism at finest...