As most of y'all know, my wife of 11 years passed away back in July.
I was watching a review/retrospective of FF14 and while I was watching that, I kinda came to realize that I don't think I could ever go back to playing the game. It was something that my wife and I played together during the last couple years of her life. We beat Endwalker, and decided to stop paying the monthly fee to focus on other things. I don't think it would ever feel right to me to play it again honestly. I guess without realizing it, it became so intrinsically connected to my relationship with my wife that the idea of playing it without her just feels weird.
For the same reason I feel the same way about Overcooked (we played it ONLY together, the whole series thus far) and even Tears of the Kingdom a bit, as she loved Zelda and I bought it mostly for it to be the last game that she would ever complete. I have no desire to boot it up and I dunno, just feels weird.
Anyone else get a similar experience like this? Doesn't necessarily have to deal with this kind of loss, but I dunno maybe games you could only ever see yourself playing with friends and shit like that?
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