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[ SECRET POST #6534 ]

⌈ Secret Post #6534 ⌋

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When was the last time you got sad about finishing something? I'm about to finish a very relaxing game and I know I won't be able to find anything quite as nice again. :(

The last time I finished a book.

Bioshock was this for me. Felt depressed because of how good of a game it was after it ended.

I'm this way about my fanfic - I don't want to finish a story because I don't want to say goodbye to that version of my characters that I've created for that specific setting or circumstance, so I dawdle in ending my fics and then I wind up writing sequels to them because I can't let it go. Rinse repeat. It's stupid.

I feel this so much. I’m just a few chapters away from finishing my fic and I can’t bear to say goodbye just yet, so I’m already planning a Christmas sequel.

I've definitely done this!

I honestly don't think I've ever felt this way. But I love rewatching/rereading things I love over and over again. So if I want more of that thing, I'll just start back at the beginning.

Same!

I do that as well, I've played every GTA through dozens of times each...

But its not the story I miss, its the experience of... experiencing it, you know? I've re-read orient express over and over, and its never BAD, but its never as much of a thrill as the first time, having the plot cracked open and seeing for the first time all the foreshadowing come into clear focus. That "OMG Ofcourse! How DIDN'T I see it?" Thrill will never be there on the next read.

Its easiest to explain with mysteries, but its there with everything. A great game is great because by the end of it you feel something and part of the impact is that your feeling it for the first time, and you never get that back on replays.

I get it. That just isn't how I experience things. If I love something, I love to read it or watch it over and over. I love catching new things every time. I love immersing myself in the fictional universe.

Then again, mysteries are not a favorite genre of mine. Partially because I'm not usually in things for the surprise reveal. I'm in it for the whole experience, the whole world, going someplace new, discovering new things each time.

Hm, I cant imagine that. Even something simple and cozy and low stakes that I already know I'm going to replay, theres always some part of me that that feels... Idk, changed at the end, and that change never happens twice.

"Changed" might be a melodramatic way of putting it, but it's something. Maybe just a sense of completion, a sense of "I have reached the closure". Like, "I know this thing now and can never unknow it". Idk. Point is I cant envision how you experience these things without feeling that. I guess its not important that I dont get it, but I am curious. I wonder which of us, if either, has the better deal.

Probably strengths and weaknesses to both. I don't think I miss the mystery aspect personally. But I will say that if I can't really immerse myself in a world I struggle to enjoy something. The whole world has to make sense and work for me. So that has ruined things that I might otherwise enjoy.

I can super relate to this, especially with video games. If I really love a game or a world, I tend to keep a save file at the end of the game and just leave it hanging. I've kept my Trails to Azure save file right before the final boss for a year and a half at this point because I'll feel sad when it's done.

What game are you playing?

For me, it was Neir Automata, but it happens every so often. I'm playing gravity rush right now for the first time, and I think this might be building to this.

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