The Signature Telltale "Feeling" (For lack of a better word)
So the Vault of the Traveler has come along, and it's been a few days already. But I still have this "feeling". One that I haven't felt in a while. Whenever I have finished a Telltale series (The choice-based ones), I always come out of it with this feeling of sadness, happiness, regret, bittersweet, a little bit of fear, and longing. I call this, the Signature Telltale Feeling. And i'm sure it's not just me that feels it! Every Telltale game is almost like a little bit of another life that you get to live. Unfortunately, they always come to an end, resulting in this emotion. To me, it comes from the realization that the game has come to the end of all things, and here you are, trying to get over it.
It's impossibly hard to describe! But do you guys know what I'm talking about? The feeling of knowing that it's over and done and you've finally made it, but wish you could just jump back in and start all over again?
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This is my new favourite thing in the history of everything.
I couldn't have said it better myself.
I understand exactly what you're feeling, I feel that as well. When you've been playing and talking about a game for as long we have, especially one as magical as Tales, you forget what it was like before, and you need to cope with the fact that it's over. I remember the first time I felt this, it was after Season 2 of TWD, that was the first game I actually waited for (I had played S1 and TWAU when all the episodes were already released), and when it ended, I was happy because it was such an amazing episode, but sad over the fact that it was over, that feeling has returned tenfold with Tales. Hell, I can't even bring myself to listen to the music from previous episodes because it actually hurts a bit, which also happened with Season 2.
I remember how I felt when I played the last Tales from Monkey Island episode - it was pretty crazy to think that the series was just done. Finito.
I feel the same, after a series has finished it always feels like something is missing. Even from a moderation perspective for me it feels slightly weird not making a release date discussion thread as it was normally something i thought about after a episode has released.
Aye I feel the same way when I finished the episode a few days ago. It is always this feeling of longing, happiness, sadness. I guess it is because we have grown so attached to the game and then it is over and you are missing it. It is like how I felt when my year at boarding school was over..
I know that feeling, it certainly gives you a feeling of happiness and sadness afterwards with a sense of longing for more. Recently with Tales, it makes me kind of tear up inside knowing that I probably won't see these wonderful characters again for a REALLY long time as it really felt that my two playable characters were part of a great family.
I can easily relate. You wouldn't think it's possible to be so happy and sad at the same time.