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?

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

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

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”.

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

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.

Also, water wet. Details at 11

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

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

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?

It was both a happy day and a sad day on my last playthrough for Cyberpunk 2077. Great game after the latest patches.

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

Journalism at finest...

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.

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.

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. Felt like a void.

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

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

Expedition 33 ☹️

Depression after Baldurs Gate 3 and relief after Elden Ring.

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.

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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They conducted two studies involving 373 players

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That's why i never finish a game