Hey guys,

You know that feeling you get after you watch a really great show or read a book you love or play an awesome game where you feel empty that it's over and just want to re-watch/reread/replay it? The feeling that you wished it didn't end or that you didn't experience it so you would be able to do it for the first time now. Not necessarily because it was critically successful or anything but because you were just attached to it. Does anyone know what I'm talking about or am I just overly attached to things?

Anyway, if so, what shows/books/movies/games etc. have given you this feeling?

It happens to me. All. The. Time. A good movie, TV show, novel, cartoon, anime, manga, video game, comic book...whatever it is, if I really get into it, I never want it to end. Because when it does, I just feel really bummed out. When I approach the end, I even have a tendency of drawing it out, just to keep it going a little longer in my head.

If Berserk ever gets finished, I know it's going to be a very cold day for me.

Dead Money does that to me.

None. I don't devote time to anything long enough for me to feel empty once it's over, always got something else to do/play/read/listen to

Yeah, i know. Surprisingly finishing my last character in SKyrim gave me that. Probably the combination of the modded race i used, Vilja and finsihing with Dragonborn. It was over too quick

Also i remember spending one whole weeken with Ace Combat 5. The following monday was not funny. Well, at the time it wasn't


Yeah, that's what i use classic Doom for. Nothing like some no-brains-required bazooka tag to clear your mind

I got this after spoiling Final Fantasy X's ending for myself. I thought I was so close to the ending that It wouldn't matter. Might start playing Deception 4 for a bit since I am irritated that I let myself get that I got that arrogant about how well I thought I knew the story.

Gotta love when there's some twists that you thought wouldn't matter and they turn out to really matter all of a sudden.

Oddly, a Doom wad gave me this feeling. I think it was Doom Raider. That wad is so good. Also sometimes wish some songs were longer, but most of these are already at least 14 minutes long. I always feel Metallica's music should not exceed 4 minutes so often, strangely. Their sound always made them seem to make little sense having 7 minute long songs.

This is coming from someone who likes songs that are almost just 20 minutes of a guy shrieking over how much life svcks. Nocturnal Depression does this all the time. Trying to describe depressive black metal turns out to sound really weird. Makes the genre seem more like it is just noise music of the extreme kind.

I just finished reading The Wheel of Time series and I felt that way at the end. Especially after a series that long, I had gotten used to being able to pick up the next book and keep reading. So at the very end, when everything is over and I came to the realization that there was nothing more, I felt like I had lost a friend. I could look back and remember the good times, but we would never be able to experience something new with them. But then I picked up a new book and met new friends, and I will probably be sad when they are gone too

Not too often, but occasionally. Most of the time it doesn't bum (depress) me out because it's over, exactly, it's just a sense of "well, that's done ... now what do I do."

If I do like something enough, however, whatever the reason, repeating it (reading it again, watching it again etc) doesn't lose much of that immersion/lost-in-it effect for me, until I've repeated it so many times I finally get sick of it. Then because of that I don't miss it, until one day 5 years later and I go "oh yeah, I used to love that" and rediscover it.

Deception games always have a twist though. Deception III totally blew me away with how Christina and Reina never actually get to meet as advlts and then jog her memories. And you think it's going to happen when you travel back in time to save Christina.

I haven't spoiled the most unexpected parts of Deception IV, however. I won't feel annoyed while playing this for now... Or I could just go and finish Dementium The Ward. Oddly awesome DS game. probably will hate when I finish it just because the atmosphere is some of the thickest I've found on a DS game. It's also the scariest game on the system to me so far.

Bioshock infinite did that to me

I Claudius. It gets an annual rewatching. I've just finished the first episode of this years run through.

This happens too much to me.

Recently? Walking Dead season 4. And I know I'm going to feel it when this season of Hannibal is over because I'm feeling it at the end of every Friday night and it felt that way last season too.

In the past? The Death Gate Cycle books. More recently on the book scene, but still kind of old, is Song of Ice and Fire. And too, too, too many others to even begin to list.

Games... oh man. I can't even. The very last one to leave me with this feeling is the one I'm playing right now. Dark Souls II. Before that, it's like the book thing: legion. I couldn't list them if I tried.

It's what I call my "post-anime depression." It happens pretty much after every anime (or book or whatever) where I had spent a considerable amount of time immersing myself in its world and characters. I was empty for days after Katawa Shoujo, haha. Steins;Gate, too... it's such a terrible and bittersweet feeling but it goes over.

I generally only get that feeling (empty, but NOT interested in playing it/other games at the moment) after depressing/disappointing endings. Ones where I feel like I "lost", or that the story ending badly for the characters, or similar things. Divinity 2: Ego Draconis (without the plot-continuing expansion), Mass Effect 3, Bioshock - Burial At Sea pt2. For instance.

...hmm. Actually, Divinity 2 may have been more of a flabbergasted "What!?!? That can't be the ending!!!! WTH?" With the disappointment following later.

(Games I'm super-hyped at the ending, I feel... well, super-hyped. Not empty. Mass Effect 1, for instance.)

I just finished Breaking Bad, now I don't know what to do.

Pretty much every game I extensively plat I get that feeling.

Obviously Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. Spent over 4 months reading a few chapters/watching a few episodes every day late 2012/early 2013. Katawa Shoujo did it too (which btw led me to SZS through Katawa Crash). Some anime can do it too if it is a show that I'm watching while it airs like Gin no Saji this season.

On the other end of the spectrum The Dark Tower series left me so disappointed and felt empty because I wasted all that time waiting on the books. Started following it back when the Wastelands came out.

The only games I play are Skyrim and Oblivion, so no problems there. On the rare occasion that I watch a film, I think that it usually does a good job of coming to a close.

I get the feeling. Sometimes I just can't do anything. I'm just not up to watch anything or play anything because I need sleep on it.

I get that feeling very often. After finishing Avatar: The Last Airbender I just didn't know what to do anymore... At least until yesterday, when I finally started watching The Legend of Korra.

Most recent however is Death Note. It's the second anime I ever finished watching and I actually kinda liked it.

I fear it will happen to me after High School. And it won't be easy to avoid for many.

i'm a big fan of Hotel Dusk. i went out and imported a copy of Last Window shortly after it came out in the UK and to this day i'm maybe an hour at most from the end of the game and i can't bring myself to finish it.

as long as there's something in the series i haven't yet seen i can work up the motivation to marathon both games again every couple of months. it makes the pain of knowing there'll never be another one easier to bear.

How I Met Your Mother was a really great show imo and I thought it had a good ending. Definitely going to miss it. Also this season is the last for Mad Men, going to miss that a lot too.

Breaking Bad I don't miss because the end was more expected.

Futurama will always leave a huge void in me each time they stopped production.

Mad Men

Hell On Wheels

Vikings

Oh, I know that feel.

The most recent ones that come to mind are Breaking Bad, Battlestar Galactica, and LoZ Wind Waker.

I am holding off on beating the FFX HD Remake because I don't want to face the feeling.

Plenty of times. It usually starts in the middle of the movie or game where I think to myself "it's going to svck when I finally finish this". Sometimes though there are those specials games I wish would last like Bioshock or Red Dead Redemption and I just have to play it again or those movies like DJango Unchained or Gangs of New York where I always want to see more. Hell I held off on beating Mass Effect for a long while because I never wanted it to end. But then came Mass Effect 2 so I had to.

Recently, it's with The Walking Dead. The latest season just ended and I don't know how much longer this season of Vikings is do I better start looking into other shows. I suppose I need to watch Breaking Bad to see what's with all the commotion for that show.