that sinking feeling in your gut

so i just finished final fantasy 13. just finished the ending cutscene and i got that all to familiar feeling in my stomach. the feeling of "what now?" 
i spend over 40 hours of my life on this game (and yes i enjoyed it so lets not all start bashing me at once) and now its over. its not that im sad or anything 
but i feel a little lost now. i kinda wish it still had more to go. does anyone else get that feeling from finishing a game ever?

all the time.. it sucks. 

" all the time.. it sucks.  "

Not for 40 hours. I eat 40 hours of gameplay for breakfast :P 
 
I had that feeling at getting to lvl 80 in WoW, or at 1k'ing certain long games, that sort of thing. Or finishing a game with an amazing storyline. Sometimes with games that take 100's of hours too.  
 
You feel a bit lost for a while, y'know?

Generally most days when I finish a lengthy single player game I just end up not playing any other games the rest of the day. Some form of postmortem I suppose. Maybe start looking for that next time sink? That's usually what I do.

It depends. Most of the time I'm relieved because it means I can move on to a new game.

BUY MORE GAMES!!!!

That happens alot to me, especially with lengthy RPG's that put all the more effort into creating character development and attachments for the player to hang onto.

I felt that way after playing heavy rain. I was so attached to the characters, that I kinda felt like "What do I do?" After it. haha, and it was only 8 hrs. of play.

Uncharted 2

I just beat Mass Effect 2.  Same feeling; it sucks :(

Persona 4 gave me that feeling

S-ranks actually give me that feeling, even though they should induce a sense of achievement.  I just feel aimless and lost after getting an s-rank (except my platinum trophy in batman.  that was awesome).

 I got that feeling after beating Mass Effect 2.

I usually just feel great after I beat a game, especially Final Fantasy 13. The ending was so good that it left me in a great mood.

I felt like crap for a week after finishing MGS3,  that feeling appears every time you beat a masterpiece and you know that if you play it again the experience will not be the same.

" Persona 4 gave me that feeling "

Nah, there's always something else. When I was a kid I used to wish that I could forget everything I did in a game so I could experience it again but back then getting a new game was a rare occurrence so you got attached easier. Nowadays, I get bummed out more by the backlog of good stuff that I wish I could get to.

Yeah I definitely get that feeling after finishing a great game.  You know that whatever you play next isn't going to be as good, so what's the point playing it?  It's like that one game has ruined gaming for you forever.  
 
Fortunately, after loading up a few different games, sighing at them a lot and turning them off, this feeling starts to fade.

at the end of Mass Effect 2 I was kind of pissed off after my whole crew had died and I wanted to go and get payback, but now I have to wait 2 to 3 years!

Same on Persona 4.  I absolutely loved those characters, and it felt weird to stop playing that game once I had finished.  Maybe this summer I'll have time for another run-through.
 
No I won't.
 
Sigh.

The title of this thread made me wanna take a dump.

Mass Effect 2, i stared at the credits for a while thinking i'm not gonna play a better game than this for at least 2 years.

I get that feeling after finishing most of the games I have been waiting for more than a year.
You should play Just Cause 2 that game wont end, im about 70 hours in and finished only 65%.

Felt that way after P3.  If it is a game where I really get involved I get that feeling.  Something like an RPG.  Something else like REd Faction Guerrila doesn't give me that feeling but I still enjoyed it. 
 
I do like the feeling of accomplishment better though.

i got that feeling from KH2. 
ended up almost getting everything before beating the last boss (sephiroth was a little out of my league...) 
edit: also that feeling got stolen away from me when finishing SotC because my ex was around making jokes about what was going on at the end... Just felt like "great... fucking great... you ruined what is probably the best ending I've seen in a videogame bar none"

It depends if the feeling of "when is this gonna end" doesn't show up first. A game like Lost Odyssey had me begging for an ending around the time I had to face multiple boss characters closing in on a city on a time limit while a game like Wind Waker had me wishing there were a handful more dungeons to feed my appetite. It'd be awesome to have a Zelda with dungeon DLC.

I remember having that when I finished episodes from liberty city. I was like, is that it? Great, what now, do I restart everything? Stop playing?

I wouldn't say it happens all of the time. Occasionally though, yeah. 
 
Usually I'm happy/excited after finishing a game. Then I move on to another.

Back in the day people used to say this about books.

It almost never happens as I usually find the endings of games very satisfying experiences, I would have to be investing massive amounts of my time per day into a game to feel like that. I did feel like that after the end of the Portal ARG though and when the Persona 4 Endurance Run ended I did have a serious feeling of "what now?".

not really, many games by the end im wishing it was over...I dont know why :(

Whenever I get attached to characters in a game or movie. Final Fantasy VII, VIII, IX and X gave me this feeling, but not XIII. Exactly a week ago, I finished watching Battlestar Galactica and the feeling has never been so intense. Again yesterday night I dreamt about it. Goddamn.

" at the end of Mass Effect 2 I was kind of pissed off after my whole crew had died and I wanted to go and get payback, but now I have to wait 2 to 3 years! "

Yeah with Ocarina of Time i just could not believe it was over( it actually being the first game i ever completed) I just kept passing that final fight and hoped that i would one day play a game that would even come close to being as awesome.

i get that with roller coaster-like drops. that's why im not always a fan of amusement parks, which is a little ironic

i got that after finishing halo 2 lol jk but i did really get it after i beat kingdom hearts 2