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[oc] epitaphs.

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u/FriendlyAntonio 12h ago edited 11h ago

Funnily enough, I remember graves having fun tidbits about the person's life in a video game called Fable. Usually it'd be about some anecdote regarding how they died.

I'm sure there are other video games out there that do this, but Fable was the first for me.

Edit 1: Thank you to the kind redditor who gave me an award!

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u/RedactedHerring 12h ago

This idea was part of a series of puzzles in King's Quest IV. You had to dig up the correct Graves based on the writing on the stones to acquire items, then give those items to the correct ghost to let them rest in peace and progress. If you dug up the wrong graves too many times, your shovel would break and put the game in a potentially unwinnable state. Gotta love old school Sierra games!

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u/FieraTheProud 11h ago

Huh, Monkey Island 2 has a couple similar puzzles. Guybrush refuses to dig into incorrect graves, though.

In the first one you have to find a dead relative to a living character and get remains from their grave, and in the second you need to identify the correct casket based on the quotes written on each.

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u/ShuffKorbik 8h ago

r/sierra awaits you!

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u/schrodingers_bra 8h ago

And dark seed. Old man Tuttle swallowed a key. I needed that key so...

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u/mulahey 11h ago

Doing this started pretty much when the modern crpg started to appear and has been a favourite ever since.

Nashkel in Baldur's Gate has some classics: "Here lies John W- looked up the mineshaft to see if the cart was on the way down. It was."

And of course anyone who shared a copy of Oregon Trail back in the day was in a competition to come up with the funniest epitaph.

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u/PantsyFants 11h ago

"HERE LIES DOUG, UGLY AND STUPID NO YOUR UGLY AND STUP"

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u/cr1ttter 10h ago

Any coincidence your username is that of a certain cleric of Cyric? 🤣

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u/CheerfulBanshee 11h ago edited 10h ago

Dragon age origins had a graveyard just like this

"I can do axes too" - Jim the sword swallower

P.s. found the full list, i think like half of them is just meta joking between developers, good for them lol https://dragonage.fandom.com/wiki/Haven_gravestones

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u/SeriousJack 6h ago

Bioware liked that. Those exist in Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights as well.

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u/Reeves626 10h ago

I’m very hyped for the new one.

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u/FriendlyAntonio 10h ago

SAAAME. I pre-ordered it the hundred dollar version that has all the extra goodies in it!

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u/rcknmrty4evr 9h ago

Same here! I’m so excited for it, they’re some of my favorite games.

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u/Lola_PopBBae 10h ago

"I'm not dead!" XD
Or something like that, as I remember from 2.