Anyone else get bored once they reach the final boss?

I distinctly remember playing Twilight Princess, I was hanging around in Castle Town, having done literally everything. There was that weird unfinished fishing journal thing I had neglected, but I had done every sidequest, found every heart piece, I think I'd even beaten RollGoal. and I was like "I guess I'll go beat the game then."

There's a weird dead feeling video games take on in that state.

Tf, absolutely not. A good story needs a strong beginning and a strong end. A bad ending can ruin a game for me, and a good one can elevate a mid game to good. Most best boss battles of all time are the final one of the game, including Sekiro which you mentioned. Why on earth would I skip the end?!

Terraria is over as soon as I beat the final boss despite having some extra stuff I could do. I'm playing it to fight bosses, I beat boss 1 to upgrade my gear so I can fight boss 2. Once I've beaten the final boss, what's the point in upgrading my gear again?

Cassette Beasts was a game I played to 100% (as I do most creature collectors). I got this game to collect all the creatures, so when I beat the final boss, I played it for another 20 hours to grind out the end-game and obtain the elusive Magikrab.

Skyrim is a game where the entire main quest line is just like any other quest to me, and half the time I play Skyrim I don't even touch it past the point where it allows dragons to spawn.

So that is to say, it depends on the game, and it also depends on what I'm there to do.

Yeah, almost without exception. The exceptions being: Spelunky, Diablo 2&3, MGSV.

On the other end, the final boss of tears of the kingdom was my favorite part.

It depends on the game for me, but it's happened a couple times. Usually with metroidvanias, my favourite part of those games is the exploration/secrets, so if I'm confident there's nothing left to find I sometimes lose interest. It also depends on my play schedule. Of I finish off a session right before the last boss, and then I have an opportunity to game for a few hours next time, I'm less likely to pick it up again just to finish it off. At that point I'd rather jump into a new game and start getting immersed in a new world.

Yeah right, I played the last of us for the first time recently and can't imagine quitting before the end. I guess it depends on whether the game grips you or not. There's plenty of games I've tried for a few hours and given up on.

Either I have gotten bored long before I reach the final boss, or I beat the game and want more. There is no in-between.

Cassette Beasts was a game I played to 100%

Did you do the theoretical 10,000 hour speedrun and unlock all fusions and bootlegs?

Yeah it's interesting, I think it might be just differences in psychology. Like the reasons we play games in the first place and what we enjoy about them are different.

Most people I know in real life share your opinion, and look at me askance when I tell them I never actually finish any game. One friend said I'm the mf that would leave the ring at Mordor because I was just there for the hike. Which is accurate since I played some LOTR games in the past this way lol

Yes exactly, I had that same feeling in that game. I talked to every NPC 3 times just to make sure I didn't miss any dialogue, and just sat there on the bridge, and then stopped playing lol

The game stops feeling immersive, and starts feeling like a game again for some reason. All the creative choices are interaction have been exhausted, and you're just funneled into the final boss. Generally the boss only has one way to finish it and the same cutscene at the ending. It doesn't feel like "play" anymore to me.

It's not really the difficulty for me, it's more a feeling of pointlessness and apathy and tedium. Like I just stop caring about the game once I see the final boss. I'll grind out every secret optional ultra hard boss in the game, but I'll refuse to fight the final boss lol

Believe it or not, I wasn't particularly interested in seeing all 20,736 potential fusions or god only knows how many bootleg type combinations of them.

I did get all of the achievements though, which involved getting every monster to 5 stars (including the DLC ones though they weren't needed for the achievement), recording one of every type of bootleg, completing all of the post-game content, and obtaining the secret Magikrab.

Happened with me and factorio. I know theirs no final boss, but I lost like 3 ships to the big asteroids and just didnt want to build another one. I still havent finished space age, but I got like 80-90k out so its a win in my book.

It's not quite that, because if that were the case I'd just start a new save file or go do all the side quests. Instead I just stop playing forever