A macabre question regarding in-game graveyards.

[Turok]

Divine divinity have on the cementerys.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Fable 1 & 2. Whether they are RPGs or faggot LARPer simulations is debateable, however.

IIRC, in the first one they're all based around appalling puns.

2nd too.

"Jack the bard, master of sound. Now underground"

 

[1eyedking]

Also, it's a lot different playing through Fallout 2 for me now - I click on the gravestones and go, "Oh, I worked with that guy!" Heh.

But you didn't work on Fallout 2, right?

 

[Redeye]

Wasteland!

Remember in Quartz?

"Lester Moore, shot 6 times with a .44, no Less, no more"

and several others

I think one of the graves had a toaster with a plasma coupler in it.

 

[Heirophant]

Loom.

 

[Annie Mitsoda]

But you didn't work on Fallout 2, right?

Nope. A bit before my time, sir. Scott Everts was the lead artist for SoZ, actually, and goddammit now that I think of it I should have put HIS name on one of those gravestones in tribute! Grr. Definitely will when I mod the damn thing.

This is rather an interesting question though, now that I think about it. It's hard to think of any single thing in games that is more ripe for things like inside jokes, hidden quests, and developers thinking we are so the most subtle pieces of awesome in the history of ever. And damn if I'm not a horrible person for checking every single gravestone for loot first and interesting captions second.

 

[Wyrmlord]

Very important, MANY epitaphs: Betrayal at Krondor.

Yeah, and you always stood a risk of being attacked by a ghost on digging it up. The epitaphs were a big clue as to what would happen.

If the said person died a horrible or shameful death, his or her ghost was certain to attack you. If the epitaph tried too hard to make it look like it is ominous, you knew it was fake and that it was just something to discourage you from digging it.

That game was just extremely intelligent in every way possible.

 

[fastjack]

re

its 'no les, no more' with one 's' i think. Its from a tombstone on the boot hill overlooking tombstone arizona i believe, so even though i think its very clever it is not original for an rpg but a complete copy. there are some other funny ones from that graveyard in arizona if you look it up iirc. Coolest part though is that there was a les moore, that is how he died and that is whats on his tomb.

 

[Carceri]

Here lies a man who died, nobody mourned, nobody cried, how he lived, how he fared, nobody knows, nobody cared.

 

[Shannow]

Drakensang

 

[Palikka]

ADOM

 

[Andhaira]

Divine Divinity

 

[Fyz]

King's Quest 7.
Probably other KQ's had them too, but I can't remember them.

 

[Elwro]

Here lies a man who died, nobody mourned, nobody cried, how he lived, how he fared, nobody knows, nobody cared.

I remember this one... which game is it from? Fallout 2? Arcanum?

 

[Midwinter]

Escape From Monkey Island

The Curse of Monkey Island also has a cemetery and a tomb, on Blood Island.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Thanks for all the replies, keep them coming.

Now I have something to kill my spare time for the next few months or so.

Redeye: I remember the Les Moore one, I suspected that it existed in real life somewhere. Think I saw it in Fallout 2. That would be...Fallout 2 Pop Culture Reference #369, or somesuch.

Annie Carlson: Thanks for your input. As I plan to get the NWN2 "Platinum" edition (or whatever they will call the package with the OCotB+SoZoW+Kitchen Sink) I am very interested in seeing this graveyard of yours.

Midwinter: I also just remembered that there's a crypt in Monkey Island 2. So that's three out of four in the series. Fortunately the graveyard is early in the last one, so no Monkey Kombat for me.

 

[DwarvenFood]

Sacred has some funny ones, like S. Hammer, last words: "Trust me, I know what I'm doing.."

And "C++ Runtime Error"

I enjoyed reading the Sacred ones the most of all games so far;

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Sledge Hammer was an awesome show.

My "project" has gotten past the planning stages, as I just finished a playthrough of Veil of Darkness. The gravestones there are appropriate (i.e. not funny) but one of them has me a little baffled. Wonder if anyone can make something out of this:

Here lies a man who went to the grave seeking forgiveness - CLS. He gave away nine, five black and four white, but kept one for himself. An act of greed from which he has learned. Put to the spear in the summer of 1690.

 

[Talby]

Warriors of the Eternal Sun, and old DnD RPG for the MegaDrive, had these.

 

[SCO]

Gothic II

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Did a quick peek into the graveyard in Legend Of Faerghail. All the gravestones are plot-vital, so I left them alone. There's also a catacombs dungeon further on in the game, but the game is so tedious that I can't be bothered to go there to find out.

Also, the English in this game is hideously bad. It borders on Zero Wing-quality at times.

 

[Carceri]

Here lies a man who died, nobody mourned, nobody cried, how he lived, how he fared, nobody knows, nobody cared.

I remember this one... which game is it from? Fallout 2? Arcanum?

Yep, Arcanum.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

*bump*

Update: Been through a few more digital cemetaries. As one of the more...recognizable forum members here decided to change his avatar picture, I thought it would be appropriate to mention one of the epitahs I came across::

G. Threepwood. R.I.P.