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zikzak025@lemmy.world 1 week 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.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 week 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.