@@the_womble_king4357 It would've been funny and somewhat sad if another "Quest Greg" came along with one of the adventurers shown in the video finishing the quest and taking that Greg back to Honeywood.
Had a friend who I've only known online, we played a game for a few years with some other friends, chatted in discord. He was a pretty chill dude, very talkative, always had a story to tell. Until suddently he did not show up anymore, our small community learned that he passed away a couple weeks after his last chat...just a casual chat about life...I keep him in my steam friend list as a distant memory, last online 6 years ago, 2541 days... RIP Mikey.
I have a real life friend who died and I can't bring myself to remove him from my Steam friends list or my phone contacts. Even his home phone which I use to communicate with his mother is still under his name. It's hard. I'm sorry for your loss.
Had a similiar thing, our Tank suddenly disappeared and 2 years later we learned that he had a very bad stroke and had to learn to speak and walk again.
When I logged off WoW for the last time, I cleared out my quest log, transferred all my crafting materials to my guild's bank, sold everything that was soulbound on all my characters except the gear they were wearing at that point in time, and logged them all of in the inn in Orgrimmar. Basically, I tied up all loose ends and had them all get together in one location so they could all be together, drinking ale and swapping war stories until the end of time. After 15 years of playing the game, it didn't feel right to do it any other way.
I did something similar. Don't remember where my Alliance characters got to sleep but all my Horde characters camped at one of the banks in Orgrimmar, the wood floors are nice
@@williamscott2580 yeah, it was Legion > BFA > SL and now the War Within coming soon. I quit after the first raid in BFA but i'm still casually gling through Classic now, WotLK was nice and Cata is a lot better than expected so far. But yeah, those damned Legion legebdaries man, it took me ages to get the good ones too.
I've always imagined that when a player saves a game then logs off for a long time the NPCs involved go off to play other MMOs or take luxury vacations in scenic low-violence resorts.
That's what I imagine my MMO characters do when I log out for a long time. They just live a normal life. Then I log back in and I imagine some persons like "hey the worlds messed up and needs heroes again".
@@glimpselife9592 As soon as you’re offline, they get picked up by the shuttle bus to the office, do their paper work, and then go on a holiday. That’s why you have to wait in a queue on login sometimes, when they are far away at that moment. They also don’t mind interrupting their holiday for you, because all in all they have a lot of free time, that’s worth to be on call anytime.
The thought: "At some point in your childhood, you and your friends went outside to play together for the last time, And nobody knew it" really makes me cry when i think about it. Im a 90s kid, i lived in a street where theres a handful of us 90s adventurousr kids biking around and playing in the woods and exploring a nearby huge memorial gardens. God... i miss the good ol days....
i never thought of it in quite those terms before... but you're absolutely right. there is a silver lining though, in my neighborhood i see groups of latchkey kids riding their bikes around and playing games in the streets when the weather is nice. it genuinely warms my heart to know that those kinds of days are still happing for some. ☺
Its been 20 years, but I still remember exactly where I left my bard when I logged out of EverQuest for the last time. Standing atop a roof in Rivervale, the halfling town.
For me it was Ultima Online. I hated leaving it but they cheesed the game too much trying to make it ore like EQ with the equipment stats. (Not bashing EQ.. it was designed with that system in mind.. UO was not.)
everquest is free now and all the old characters are still there... me and my dad had accounts from about 20 years ago and all our stuff was still there
Oh damn... It has been 20 years hasn't it. God I loved playing EQ. Got a ton of memories from that game even if I can not remember where I logged out for the last time.
Had a coworker that was a gamer like me. One of the few coworkers I have had that I could relate too. He was killed on his way home by a drunk after his shift. You can never know when or why someone logs off and stays offline. Just always be sure to wish them well before you or they log off. Never know when or if you will see them again.
Oh this was a bit too close to home. 15 years ago I was big into Eve Online. Our corp leader suddenly stopped logging on. We had a couple dozen members and had to start a new corp up. Thankfully we got most our stuff and transferred it to the new corp. Several months went by and he returned. His mom had died on Christmas, and he just had to disconnect.
Poor Greg. His Sheep are constantly running amuck, his Wife and Child were deleted, his Grandfather's Sword was sold off, and now he get's abandoned forever till the end of time. My favorite NPC, will you ever find happiness?
I felt sad for Greg at first, but then I remembered Quest Greg. The real Greg never leaves Honeywood, it's his Quest Gregs that go on adventures, only to disappear when they return to Honeywood, which made me feel sad for that reason. Either way, Greg doesn't seem to be made for happiness T_T
I had a friend die a few years ago. I can see "last online 3 years ago" everytime I open a steam friends. It always reminds me of the good times we had.
:( we lost one of our friends in 2019 to cancer. In our game ( lotro ) we did music nights, he was part of the band, with one of his brothers. We still do music nights, and miss him.
This legitimately made me sad. So many games I've loved but left. One day goes by, another, another, before you know it, it has been years and you're afraid you won't ever be able to revisit. I mourn the online communities I've lost. Entire sections of my life I can never revisit. The saying "you can't go home again". Online gamers.... eventually, this is true for us all. We love with a ticking clock.
The very sad truth.. just like going outside to play with your friends as a child.. a day comes along when one day it's all over, and never comes back. And you never know it was the last day until it is gone forever. Playing your favorite games is like that too.
Yeh i've heard that analogy before. One day will be the last day you do X, and alot of the time your will have no idea that it will be the case. Alot of the time this related to activities in childhood, and friendships in childhood. The saddest one is probably seeing a someone who dies suddenly or is not someone you can visit often.
Aw man... I came here for a laugh, not for a kick in the feels.... Let's agree its better to not know. Imagine being invited by a friend and him saying this is his last week and he wants to have a good laugh together with you. Good luck finding a smile...
I was half expecting his honnywood home would apear behind him, like he build a home for himself, become a local npc but still waiting for his player to return.
I logged out my favorite character in WoW several years ago. I left him in his favorite zone from WotLK, with the redwood trees near an abandoned cabin that he reclaimed for himself. I like to imagine he’s here still, with an old guitar and a fishing line. All out games shut down on a long enough time line.
When I Iogged out of wow for the last time, I took my character back to their farm in pandaria and took off those heavy shoulderpads. Their story is over, and I like to imagine that they finally found peace after almost ten years of war.
Day 1 player of the original Defiance. I knew the game was going offline ahead of time but couldn’t get myself to play it after that. Took my high level character out back like Old Yeller! Deleted her but will often use her name for other game characters. I like to think of them as reincarnations. I see the game received a good send off though. There is a video showing players firing off all their rounds of ammunition like fireworks. Loved that game… as for 2050, not so much!
I parked my main in Darnassus when I stopped playing. It was my favorite capital city and the first capital city I encountered when I first started playing WoW. Then I learned that all of Teldrassil burned down T_T RIP.
I used to play pretty regularly in a Neverwinter Nights 2 persistent world server that just sort of ran its course. Finding a host got increasingly difficult, and nobody was willing to run a server 24/7. Eventually a bunch of the senior members each got a copy of the server files, just in case someone someday started it back up, and then it went down forever. I booted the game back up about 6 years later and logged in via localhost and just wandered around the empty world. Now populated only by very basic NPCs. It felt eerily like a graveyard.
Neverwinter Nights 1 = Classic. Neverwinter Nights 2 = Garbage. Hate that they pulled the exact Baldur's Gate 1 - Baldur's Gate 2 Rug Pull where they changed everything about the game to a different style of game, it's not even a sequel at that point. It would be like if they took Halo from FPS to a Hero Shooter or Looter Shooter for Halo 2. Don't get me started on BG3, that game wiped it's Ass with Forgotten Realms lore...then tried to have sex with it.
@@justinlast2lastharder749 You cannot be grumpy about BG2 and BG3. You can be grumpy about a LOT of sequels, but these are both masterpieces. You don't get edgy points for having controversial opinions, you know. Also, BG3 is incredibly adherent to the lore of the Realms. But I look forward to your ridiculous nitpicking that you think proves your point.
@@richardhicks5031 I might actually still have the files somewhere on one of these external drives I've been saving for the stupidity that never happens. If your guy is serious about sorting through whatever crap I can dig up from my hoard, he's welcome to it. Respond here, tag me, I dunno something.
@@Someone-sc2hkno, that’s just life. This isn’t about who your friends are. People move, the places you met close down, the inevitable happens. Sometimes “see ya” really is “goodbye forever” and you will never know when that is - only that it starts to happen more and more often.
@@Someone-sc2hk I'm well past middle age. Old, even. Lately, most of the "forever goodbyes" in my life have been because of deaths for health/age related reasons. I need better friends, huh? 🙄
This reminds me of a particular account I have friended on my Steam. A friend of mine I was lucky enough to know for a few years and be one of the few friends in his friends list had passed away 8 years ago. I have his account favorited so he is not forgotten. I has the last date he was online in my calendar so that I and a few friends who knew him could hold a moment to remember him on that day. RIP TitanTom, we miss you bud.
It does, so much. It's part of why I can't play Path of Exile anymore-- A friend in Ukraine was going to start a new league with me and the invasion happened. Last I heard he was serving. I never heard from him again. Every time I log in I see his status, where he left an apology and a goodbye for me... Just permanently there.
I mean, they've been doing this channel for 13 years. I'm pretty sure the 3 OG's are all married, & you've gotta imagine there are kids in the picture. I wouldn't be surprised if he wanted/needed to take a step back from the day-to-day of skitting. But they're not overtly killing off the characters, so they could still do them every so often.
Same, I was like "oh he'll show up, it's just going to have been a long time... oh, the server is closing, well, surely he will show up at the last second to say goodbye at least... oh... oh no..." Is this what it feels like to be a dog when your human leaves for work???
Some time, some place, somewhere, there's a former gamer out there that's reading about the closure of his former server two months after it happened. He's got a wife, kids, friends, family, and a fulfilling job. Sometimes his life can be so active it can get exhausting. But he loves being seen as the one guy you can always depend on. And for a brief moment, he remembers his time with Greg the Garlic Farmer. And he smiles. And he downloads another game. And he promises himself to make time for himself, and his hobbies, and to finish the story with the Greg of his new game. Gone but not forgotten.
The little toy dog is covered with dust, but sturdy and staunch he stands; And the little toy soldier is red with rust, and his musket molds in his hands. Time was when the little toy dog was new, and the soldier was passing fair; And that was the time when our Little Boy Blue kissed them and put them there. "Now, don't you go till I come," he said, "and don't you make any noise!" So, toddling off to his trundle-bed he dreamed of the pretty toys; But as he was dreaming an angel song awakened our Little Boy Blue. Oh! the years are many, the years are long, but the little toy friends are true! Aye, faithful to Little Boy Blue they stand, eEach in the same old place. Awaiting the touch of a little hand, the smile of a little face; And they wonder, as waiting the long years through, in the dust of that little chair, What has become of our Little Boy Blue...since he kissed them, and put them there.
Full story: > A Guy in TF2 talking on the mic with a thick arab accent, > “You all go now. Go to fight the bad. I stay defend. They no get past. I stay. you go tight. I alone stay for to defend. Take their box. I stay.” > someone tells him to shut the f up > I tell them to shut the f up and let him talk if he wants (because I think he’s funny to listen to) > he adds me > every game I play with him he does the exact same shit > “I am Tank. I wait by helicopter. You kill. I won’t let through. You kill. Boomer man, go vomit. I alone guard helicopter. You go.” > “You put portal there. Good. I wait. You discover answer. I know answer. Keep portal there. I will put portal when need. Keep putting portal. Good. Do you see? I wait. You put portal. Good.” > just talking non-stop every game we play > arab spring starts > I have no idea where he lives > one day he sends me a message > “bad times friend ahead” > “maybe no computer” > “maybe no home” > “I will go way but we are two of soul” > “I will return” > > > Last Online: 938 days ago
This hit me in the feels. I've lived through a few of my favorite games having their servers shut down for the last time, and it's tragic. I will remember the NPCs! Never will I abandon you, Gregs of the world!
My friend died recently and I see his "last logged XX days ago" and its just hurting every time. Edit: Thank you everyone for nice wishes. I truly appreciate it. I expected this comment to vanish in the flow of comments
Seeing the last logged on stories reminds me of a real life incident. A neighbor across the street from me died in a car accident. I did not know the man. But I noticed he left his porch light on. It stayed on for many months. And it always reminded me that we never know when our last time to do anything is. Especially as we get a lot older.
I've always wondered about this since I was a kid. There will be a time where we will save a game, log off and never return to it. It's sad and beautiful at the same time.
So, is this the end for the series??? 2:39 ?? 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 That was really emotional😢 I speed run to 300+ episodes and hope this goes on...Please VLDL🙏🏻
The song playing was perfect. Had a big old knot in my chest for this one. Fortunately Bodger explaining that the hammer is rightfully his cheered me up a little and gave me some inspiration.
The feeling of waiting for the friend you met online signing off a game thinking you would pick it up the next day. And 10 years later, they are still offline. 😥 To all the days we got to play, and all the memories we miss.
Same. I got a friend that has shared his life problems to me that he's around some dangerous people: from manipulative and abusive sister, to druggy friends. Last time I talk to him I said be careful and after that i have never met him for years. I hope he's fine.
Man I know. I really show my age with this one, but I had a buddy from england I used to play Age of Empires II online with all the time. One day he stopped responding on AIM and stopped logging on. Hope hes still living and doing good.
I once met a random guy who helped me a lot when I first started playing lotro. A couple months later another guy recognized me as someone his friend helped out and he told me that his friend had recently committed suicide. I hardly knew him yet that brief interaction in game was memorable and so I found it very sad to find out about his death. His account and characters and game relationships ended so suddenly.
little did greg know that his adventurer had left to go to a doctors appointment, that would tell him he had just days to live. So greg waited forever for someone who was no longer alive.
I like the small touches Like when Ben asks Greg what time it is greg looks up to the notification area of the phone, it's as if you know most people watch this on their phones
Now I feel like I should log into every game I haven't played in years and finish any quests I was on so the NPCs aren't waiting on me for the test of their lives.
An MMO you spend thousands of hours playing shutting down is always such a sad feeling, logging in on an almost empty server prior to closure, the BGM that was calming and relaxing now sounding very lonely and sad... It's not easy
@@RancorSnp It’s nice when they get a bump the last few days. City of Heroes had a massive turnout. I didn’t even play the game and I still get emotional at all the players gathered together saying goodbyes.
I remember my childhood game shutting down back in 2018. It was heartbreaking and I logged on for the last time and stayed there until the very last second. We all had fun, said our goodbyes and I may or may not have cried for a pretty long time. It was the only thing that made me happy. Just a silly little game.
Reminds me of the stories of ff14 where the devs added monsters to attack the cities and players defended the cities til server shutdown. Many watched how the moon crashed into the lands and were treated with an epic CGI cutscene of the end of times before the servers went down. Fcourse they disnt know ff14 a realm reborn was in the works and launched like 2 months later and is still going strong. But i can imagine people were very upset about things. Some of the battles are even immortalized in realm reborn to show it did really happen despite the fact 1.0 no longer exists
This video has a lot of stuff to unpack: the sadness of Greg, the return of Baelin (how long it has been???), the return of the pathetic cry. And the end of Skycraft. Tough times...
Damn guys. This one tugged at the heart strings. Also loved the little cameos by Eugene, Bodger (and hammer that is rightfully his), etc. Really enjoyed this one a lot.
Why, why, why did this feel like the last and the final episode of Epic NPC Man? Still wonderfully emotional and lovely montage to several different characters and aspects of Skycraft.If this was the end of the series, then it was a good end. Now may the server and Greg rest in peace.
The very first Ragnarok Online for sure and all other MMORPG when to extinction / server shutdown. So nostalgic and relatable, nice one :) We don't know, the player Vandexel died in the real world and never go to play/online again.
Was this VLDL saying goodbye to Epic NPC man? This was the last E-NPC upload and it was between 1 and 2 months ago. I hope not, Epic NPC man was the series that brought me to VLDL, and has always been my favorite. BTW Rowan, I recently watched the Spartacus series, and I saw You in a bit part from a season 2 episode!
This Quest Greg is the only one who made it to the end, unlike the many Quest Gregs before him, and could fade away without the harsh reality of his existence.
You got me in my feels VLDL. I played vanilla WoW and Burning Crusades mostly by myself but eventually started playing with other players. I met a player named Starscream (lucky to get the name). He was a college student in Argentina. He logged off one day and then never logged on again. This was in 2007. I always hoped he was fine but some other players that knew him said he might have been involved in protests. Up until Blizzard changed the old website and armory, I would check his character periodically to see if he ever logged back in..... Sometimes you don't get to say goodbye.
Nice, Jurassic Bark AND the added touch of the castle being built, expanded, razed, re-built in the background (like the cityscape in the Futurama opening sequence)!
The best part is that it wasn't even a rage quit. He likely just told himself he will pick this up again later, and later never came.
**glances mournfully at the steam game library list**
Or they died
this is why the NPC hotline was created
Truck-kun found another hero.
Covid got him.
Convenient that Greg happened to be along Baelin's Route, so he gets the occasional "nice day for fishing" greeting, at the very least.
I loved the call backs in this episode.
@@the_womble_king4357 It would've been funny and somewhat sad if another "Quest Greg" came along with one of the adventurers shown in the video finishing the quest and taking that Greg back to Honeywood.
*ha huh!
“Mornin’! Nice day for fishin’, uh huh!”
Every 10 minutes lmao.
And admire his upgraded fishing gear.
I really hope that wasn't a subtle "Epic NPC Man's last video"
Me too 😔
*last uploaded 7 years ago*
Alan quitting tech town, Alan getting abandoned and server shut down, what's next?
@@wizzedoh god i hope this isnt him prepping to retire or smthn
@@azebantheraccoon my thoughts too :(
The evolution of the castle being built and changing and being burnt by a dragon in the background was a nice touch
Too bad it disappeared at 1:48, kinda disturbed the building process
Yeah, that served nicely to give a sense of the passing of time, didn't it?
The castle in the background randomly disappears before reappearing before being destroyed
I was half expecting that the world gonna turn to some futuristic sci-fi with spaceships and lasers, and poor Greg still there.
Expansions 😉
And thats how people leave their minecraft dogs alone forever.
you stop it with those sad facts.
I SET THEM FREE BEFORE I LEFT
this is the reason why I don't tame dogs....
I tamed 3 cats and left them in my home and haven't played Minecraft for ages
😢😢😢
Had a friend who I've only known online, we played a game for a few years with some other friends, chatted in discord. He was a pretty chill dude, very talkative, always had a story to tell. Until suddently he did not show up anymore, our small community learned that he passed away a couple weeks after his last chat...just a casual chat about life...I keep him in my steam friend list as a distant memory, last online 6 years ago, 2541 days... RIP Mikey.
R.i.p you better remember him for a long time to come
@@cherrydragon3120 you better remember vincent remembers for a long time to come
I have a real life friend who died and I can't bring myself to remove him from my Steam friends list or my phone contacts. Even his home phone which I use to communicate with his mother is still under his name. It's hard. I'm sorry for your loss.
Had a similiar thing, our Tank suddenly disappeared and 2 years later we learned that he had a very bad stroke and had to learn to speak and walk again.
@@marcpaulus6291he tanked the stroke and came victorius!
Orcs walk by:
"Hey, Greg."
"Hey, Throg."
When I logged off WoW for the last time, I cleared out my quest log, transferred all my crafting materials to my guild's bank, sold everything that was soulbound on all my characters except the gear they were wearing at that point in time, and logged them all of in the inn in Orgrimmar. Basically, I tied up all loose ends and had them all get together in one location so they could all be together, drinking ale and swapping war stories until the end of time.
After 15 years of playing the game, it didn't feel right to do it any other way.
That's very thoughtful of you!
@@williamscott2580 Recently ended? On a private server? Because Legion ended 6 years ago, brother 😂
15 years? I hardly remember the last time I logged into D3!
I did something similar. Don't remember where my Alliance characters got to sleep but all my Horde characters camped at one of the banks in Orgrimmar, the wood floors are nice
@@williamscott2580 yeah, it was Legion > BFA > SL and now the War Within coming soon. I quit after the first raid in BFA but i'm still casually gling through Classic now, WotLK was nice and Cata is a lot better than expected so far. But yeah, those damned Legion legebdaries man, it took me ages to get the good ones too.
I've always imagined that when a player saves a game then logs off for a long time the NPCs involved go off to play other MMOs or take luxury vacations in scenic low-violence resorts.
Low violence resorts…
That's what I imagine my MMO characters do when I log out for a long time. They just live a normal life. Then I log back in and I imagine some persons like "hey the worlds messed up and needs heroes again".
The loading screen for the game is actually there to provide time for the NPCs to get back to their places.
I place my characters in towns before I leave or a nice spot because I feel guilty if they are aware and need something to do while I’m gone
@@glimpselife9592 As soon as you’re offline, they get picked up by the shuttle bus to the office, do their paper work, and then go on a holiday.
That’s why you have to wait in a queue on login sometimes, when they are far away at that moment.
They also don’t mind interrupting their holiday for you, because all in all they have a lot of free time, that’s worth to be on call anytime.
That was genuinely touching. Got the whole Fry’s dog from Futurama vibes from that episode.
R.I.P. Seymour Asses.
yes it's called plagiarism
I can’t watch that scene. It kills me every time 😭
Was going to comment exactly this! Heartbreaking in sentiment lol
I still hate that episode. Can't ever rewatch it - too gut-wrenching 😭😭😭
The thought: "At some point in your childhood, you and your friends went outside to play together for the last time, And nobody knew it" really makes me cry when i think about it. Im a 90s kid, i lived in a street where theres a handful of us 90s adventurousr kids biking around and playing in the woods and exploring a nearby huge memorial gardens. God... i miss the good ol days....
Me too, man. Me too.
Not the only one
i never thought of it in quite those terms before... but you're absolutely right. there is a silver lining though, in my neighborhood i see groups of latchkey kids riding their bikes around and playing games in the streets when the weather is nice. it genuinely warms my heart to know that those kinds of days are still happing for some. ☺
Those 90s kids are now steadily experiencing the last times they carry their kids in their arms, once again without knowing.
Time is fleeting.
Of course then we all went to the pub together...
I am so glad you had Alan laughing at the end because that was a truly hearbreaking one,
Def needed that uplift.
Its been 20 years, but I still remember exactly where I left my bard when I logged out of EverQuest for the last time. Standing atop a roof in Rivervale, the halfling town.
Log in and play him...
Oh the amount of calling in sick to work and ignoring my wife.... The good ol days of EverCrack!
For me it was Ultima Online. I hated leaving it but they cheesed the game too much trying to make it ore like EQ with the equipment stats. (Not bashing EQ.. it was designed with that system in mind.. UO was not.)
everquest is free now and all the old characters are still there... me and my dad had accounts from about 20 years ago and all our stuff was still there
Oh damn... It has been 20 years hasn't it. God I loved playing EQ. Got a ton of memories from that game even if I can not remember where I logged out for the last time.
The orcs migrating for winter.
Such a sight to see those in their natural habitat
Had a coworker that was a gamer like me. One of the few coworkers I have had that I could relate too.
He was killed on his way home by a drunk after his shift.
You can never know when or why someone logs off and stays offline. Just always be sure to wish them well before you or they log off. Never know when or if you will see them again.
I'm sorry for your loss... 😞
Brings me back to that heartbreaking post,
"My cancer won guys, goodbye" (Last online 9 years ago)
❤
That hits hard…
Oof man.. 😢
Yea, reminds me of Technoblade. RIP
That little sound he made as the clock hit zero was a great touch. Sad ending!
Oh this was a bit too close to home. 15 years ago I was big into Eve Online. Our corp leader suddenly stopped logging on. We had a couple dozen members and had to start a new corp up. Thankfully we got most our stuff and transferred it to the new corp. Several months went by and he returned. His mom had died on Christmas, and he just had to disconnect.
Poor Greg. His Sheep are constantly running amuck, his Wife and Child were deleted, his Grandfather's Sword was sold off, and now he get's abandoned forever till the end of time. My favorite NPC, will you ever find happiness?
Yes❤
Still waiting for Greg's Quest to find Greta
Justice for Greta!
I felt sad for Greg at first, but then I remembered Quest Greg. The real Greg never leaves Honeywood, it's his Quest Gregs that go on adventures, only to disappear when they return to Honeywood, which made me feel sad for that reason. Either way, Greg doesn't seem to be made for happiness T_T
He made a badass vampire slayer that one time that was totally real.
I had a friend die a few years ago. I can see "last online 3 years ago" everytime I open a steam friends. It always reminds me of the good times we had.
:( we lost one of our friends in 2019 to cancer. In our game ( lotro ) we did music nights, he was part of the band, with one of his brothers. We still do music nights, and miss him.
Beauty, bud
that's rough. Sorry for your loss.
just delete him from your friends list
@@iSTEFIXiWTF man
This legitimately made me sad. So many games I've loved but left. One day goes by, another, another, before you know it, it has been years and you're afraid you won't ever be able to revisit. I mourn the online communities I've lost. Entire sections of my life I can never revisit. The saying "you can't go home again". Online gamers.... eventually, this is true for us all. We love with a ticking clock.
Made me cry. One of my friends i played with said that before he took his life the same night. Noone expected that to happen....
😢
With you. We never expect it to be the last time 🫂😢
Damn :( thats fucked. I hope ur doing alright now tho.
R.i.p unknown dude
Reminds me of that heartbreaking episode of Futurama in which we see Fry's dog waiting for him outside the pizzeria for years.
Shows just how loyal and faithful our furry friends are to us.
yeah that was really sad
"... for a thousand summers, I will wait for you..." That actually was my first thought aswell.
Damn, yeah, this hit me in the same spot as that episode. Good call. 😢
Jurassic Bark if i remember correctly
Alan is slowly saying goodbye to all of his characters... 😢
I had that thought cross my mind, too....
Is he leaving VLDL?
@@miguelcruz7826 I really hope not.
@@miguelcruz7826 he's one of the owners so no. But he may appear less in skits I suspect
@@fadingaway94maybe busy with other things?
2:42 must’ve been the wind
Underated asf LOL
I think I'm an NPC, my dad logged out to get some milk.
I've been waiting...
He will be back once the half life 3 comes out...
Maybe he just forgot the password for his login...
You may still see him before elder scrolls VI releases
And mine is for bread🤝
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I understand this show basically had to become RPG Logic but the episodes about Greg absolutely deserve the amazing "Epic NPC Man" jingle.
The very sad truth.. just like going outside to play with your friends as a child.. a day comes along when one day it's all over, and never comes back. And you never know it was the last day until it is gone forever. Playing your favorite games is like that too.
that is the best analogy, made me look back for a second xD
Yeh i've heard that analogy before. One day will be the last day you do X, and alot of the time your will have no idea that it will be the case. Alot of the time this related to activities in childhood, and friendships in childhood. The saddest one is probably seeing a someone who dies suddenly or is not someone you can visit often.
Aw man... I came here for a laugh, not for a kick in the feels....
Let's agree its better to not know. Imagine being invited by a friend and him saying this is his last week and he wants to have a good laugh together with you. Good luck finding a smile...
Exactly what I think happens to my characters every time I log out, which is why I always try to leave them somewhere with chairs, a bed, food, etc.
I was half expecting his honnywood home would apear behind him, like he build a home for himself, become a local npc but still waiting for his player to return.
I logged out my favorite character in WoW several years ago. I left him in his favorite zone from WotLK, with the redwood trees near an abandoned cabin that he reclaimed for himself. I like to imagine he’s here still, with an old guitar and a fishing line. All out games shut down on a long enough time line.
Good call. That's my favorite place to, it's where I leave my main. Good taste in zones, my friend!
When I Iogged out of wow for the last time, I took my character back to their farm in pandaria and took off those heavy shoulderpads. Their story is over, and I like to imagine that they finally found peace after almost ten years of war.
Quit playing wow 5 years ago. I left my main in the Outlands, on the very northern part of Blades Edge on a hill, overlooking the beautiful cosmos.
Day 1 player of the original Defiance. I knew the game was going offline ahead of time but couldn’t get myself to play it after that. Took my high level character out back like Old Yeller! Deleted her but will often use her name for other game characters. I like to think of them as reincarnations.
I see the game received a good send off though. There is a video showing players firing off all their rounds of ammunition like fireworks. Loved that game… as for 2050, not so much!
I parked my main in Darnassus when I stopped playing. It was my favorite capital city and the first capital city I encountered when I first started playing WoW. Then I learned that all of Teldrassil burned down T_T RIP.
I used to play pretty regularly in a Neverwinter Nights 2 persistent world server that just sort of ran its course. Finding a host got increasingly difficult, and nobody was willing to run a server 24/7. Eventually a bunch of the senior members each got a copy of the server files, just in case someone someday started it back up, and then it went down forever.
I booted the game back up about 6 years later and logged in via localhost and just wandered around the empty world. Now populated only by very basic NPCs. It felt eerily like a graveyard.
kinda sounds sad
Especially if you had played with many folks you knew
Still got the files? I know a guy that runs all kinds of severs for older games
Neverwinter Nights 1 = Classic.
Neverwinter Nights 2 = Garbage.
Hate that they pulled the exact Baldur's Gate 1 - Baldur's Gate 2 Rug Pull where they changed everything about the game to a different style of game, it's not even a sequel at that point. It would be like if they took Halo from FPS to a Hero Shooter or Looter Shooter for Halo 2.
Don't get me started on BG3, that game wiped it's Ass with Forgotten Realms lore...then tried to have sex with it.
@@justinlast2lastharder749 You cannot be grumpy about BG2 and BG3. You can be grumpy about a LOT of sequels, but these are both masterpieces. You don't get edgy points for having controversial opinions, you know.
Also, BG3 is incredibly adherent to the lore of the Realms. But I look forward to your ridiculous nitpicking that you think proves your point.
@@richardhicks5031 I might actually still have the files somewhere on one of these external drives I've been saving for the stupidity that never happens. If your guy is serious about sorting through whatever crap I can dig up from my hoard, he's welcome to it. Respond here, tag me, I dunno something.
I like the detail of the city in the background being built and destroyed, showing how time is passing within the game.
That's the internet for you. Someone says "see ya tomorrow!" and that's the last time you ever see them again.
Just the internet? Hell, _life._
happened to me. "OK plane taking off now, call you when I land". Several years later turned out they got Encephalitis.
@@hippyjason you probably need better friends
@@Someone-sc2hkno, that’s just life. This isn’t about who your friends are. People move, the places you met close down, the inevitable happens. Sometimes “see ya” really is “goodbye forever” and you will never know when that is - only that it starts to happen more and more often.
@@Someone-sc2hk I'm well past middle age. Old, even. Lately, most of the "forever goodbyes" in my life have been because of deaths for health/age related reasons. I need better friends, huh? 🙄
This reminds me of a particular account I have friended on my Steam. A friend of mine I was lucky enough to know for a few years and be one of the few friends in his friends list had passed away 8 years ago. I have his account favorited so he is not forgotten. I has the last date he was online in my calendar so that I and a few friends who knew him could hold a moment to remember him on that day. RIP TitanTom, we miss you bud.
1:32 The first Baelin sighting since his movie short 🎣
The video game equivalent of "Last Online 1 Year Ago." That shit hurts.
Those people sometimes come back though! I started playing WoW again this week and I last logged in December 2022!
WoW last login……2012.
Ah fun memories
It does, so much. It's part of why I can't play Path of Exile anymore-- A friend in Ukraine was going to start a new league with me and the invasion happened. Last I heard he was serving. I never heard from him again. Every time I log in I see his status, where he left an apology and a goodbye for me... Just permanently there.
Most likely people moved on
@@exDivinityFPS😭 I'm so sorry. Hug
Baelin's appaerance was a cute funny treat, but when I read "server shutting down" my heart broke 😢
Conspiracy Theory:
Does anyone else feel like Alan is subtly getting "relieved" from the VLDL-verse?...
I mean, they've been doing this channel for 13 years. I'm pretty sure the 3 OG's are all married, & you've gotta imagine there are kids in the picture.
I wouldn't be surprised if he wanted/needed to take a step back from the day-to-day of skitting. But they're not overtly killing off the characters, so they could still do them every so often.
@@TinKnight Yeah this following Alan leaving is odd timing, I reckon you may be on the money there a bit.
A part of me expected the player to pop in at the literal last second.
Imagine being an npc that becomes sentient moments before the servers close.
Well, Ben is too busy trying to prevent Poop McDinglefart from falling into lava.
You are describing the plot of so many animes
Same, I was like "oh he'll show up, it's just going to have been a long time... oh, the server is closing, well, surely he will show up at the last second to say goodbye at least... oh... oh no..."
Is this what it feels like to be a dog when your human leaves for work???
Nah the player will get nostalgia and decide to try to load his old save, only to find that the game has been offline for over a year.
Free guy?
Some time, some place, somewhere, there's a former gamer out there that's reading about the closure of his former server two months after it happened.
He's got a wife, kids, friends, family, and a fulfilling job. Sometimes his life can be so active it can get exhausting. But he loves being seen as the one guy you can always depend on.
And for a brief moment, he remembers his time with Greg the Garlic Farmer. And he smiles. And he downloads another game. And he promises himself to make time for himself, and his hobbies, and to finish the story with the Greg of his new game.
Gone but not forgotten.
This is genuinely beautiful ❤
Or he logs into another Skycraft server and meets another Greg again there.
I'm not crying, you are!
This deserves way more likes!
The little toy dog is covered with dust, but sturdy and staunch he stands;
And the little toy soldier is red with rust, and his musket molds in his hands.
Time was when the little toy dog was new, and the soldier was passing fair;
And that was the time when our Little Boy Blue kissed them and put them there.
"Now, don't you go till I come," he said, "and don't you make any noise!"
So, toddling off to his trundle-bed he dreamed of the pretty toys;
But as he was dreaming an angel song awakened our Little Boy Blue.
Oh! the years are many, the years are long, but the little toy friends are true!
Aye, faithful to Little Boy Blue they stand, eEach in the same old place.
Awaiting the touch of a little hand, the smile of a little face;
And they wonder, as waiting the long years through, in the dust of that little chair,
What has become of our Little Boy Blue...since he kissed them, and put them there.
"bad times friend ahead"
“maybe no computer"
"maybe no home"
"I will go way but we are two of soul"
"I will return"
Last Seen Online : 938 Days Ago
Full story:
> A Guy in TF2 talking on the mic with a thick arab accent,
> “You all go now. Go to fight the bad. I stay defend. They no get past. I stay. you go tight. I alone stay for to defend. Take their box. I stay.”
> someone tells him to shut the f up > I tell them to shut the f up and let him talk if he wants (because I think he’s funny to listen to)
> he adds me > every game I play with him he does the exact same shit
> “I am Tank. I wait by helicopter. You kill. I won’t let through. You kill. Boomer man, go vomit. I alone guard helicopter. You go.”
> “You put portal there. Good. I wait. You discover answer. I know answer. Keep portal there. I will put portal when need. Keep putting portal. Good. Do you see? I wait. You put portal. Good.”
> just talking non-stop every game we play
> arab spring starts
> I have no idea where he lives
> one day he sends me a message
> “bad times friend ahead”
> “maybe no computer”
> “maybe no home”
> “I will go way but we are two of soul”
> “I will return”
> > > Last Online: 938 days ago
that hurts
That genuinely made me cry a bit
@@longjimthealmighty yeah it's pretty sad
@@Fuhrious Perhaps he was Syrian, Sudanese or Palestinian 😥
Because, these countries are suffering wars. :/
Greg is all of us waiting for Alan to return to TechTown
I prefer him free : )
Accurate AF comment
I want Alan back as the White Shirt super manager.
Alan had better stay away, or come back as a competitor.
relax guys! he's on a reclusive quest / training... 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Poor Greg, poor little lamb, he doesn't deserve this...
Poppy says otherwise 😂
It's a server game. It's bound to close the server down sooner or later.
This hit me in the feels. I've lived through a few of my favorite games having their servers shut down for the last time, and it's tragic. I will remember the NPCs! Never will I abandon you, Gregs of the world!
My friend died recently and I see his "last logged XX days ago" and its just hurting every time.
Edit: Thank you everyone for nice wishes. I truly appreciate it. I expected this comment to vanish in the flow of comments
I'm so sorry for your loss 🫂
Sorry for your loss! 🌸
I'm so sorry for your loss
sorry for your loss!
*Hugs*
And that's why you always logg out in an inn. Atleast it's cozy and warm.
in SWTOR you have an XP bonus if you logout in a cantina
@@antonybadiai did not know that thanks
Same with WoW
In RDR2 I got into a habit of always logging off in a saloon with a whiskey in my hand 😂
I like to bring my character upstairs at the inn and actually lay them on the bed before logging out
Seeing the last logged on stories reminds me of a real life incident. A neighbor across the street from me died in a car accident. I did not know the man. But I noticed he left his porch light on. It stayed on for many months. And it always reminded me that we never know when our last time to do anything is. Especially as we get a lot older.
Adam and Rowan saying goodbye as the game shuts down was beautiful
Imo, it's just leveling in the game was too slow, notice 45/46 levels, for a year than could not get a single level
This Greg's life has just been saved, because if the adventurer returns to Honeywood, the cloned Greg (for the quest) would disappear.
This is a good way to see it!
I always thought that any Greg ever out in the wild is probably a cloned Greg.
For each of us, at one point, we are all guaranteed that tomorrow never comes.
I love how this show has crazy antics, but also has deep hitting episodes scattered in.
I've always wondered about this since I was a kid. There will be a time where we will save a game, log off and never return to it. It's sad and beautiful at the same time.
So, is this the end for the series??? 2:39 ??
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
That was really emotional😢
I speed run to 300+ episodes and hope this goes on...Please VLDL🙏🏻
You did NOT Just Futurama me
It took me years to get over that freakin' Dog!
The song playing was perfect. Had a big old knot in my chest for this one. Fortunately Bodger explaining that the hammer is rightfully his cheered me up a little and gave me some inspiration.
What song is it?
@@Tigery760 It's "Free My Broken Hearted Soul" By: Jesse Walton
@@Noku2Radius Thank you so much! I have been trying to find this song and searching for the lyrics I could make out was not helping
@@Vershond. Same, so happy someone named it.
Everyone knows, all NPC go in their private villas when you are no playing
"Sun's up there so daytime". Greg just knows the right thing to say. 😋
Bodger still preaching the hammer is rightfully his... love it
"Who was that?"
Must have been the wind...
The feeling of waiting for the friend you met online signing off a game thinking you would pick it up the next day. And 10 years later, they are still offline. 😥 To all the days we got to play, and all the memories we miss.
Same. I got a friend that has shared his life problems to me that he's around some dangerous people: from manipulative and abusive sister, to druggy friends. Last time I talk to him I said be careful and after that i have never met him for years. I hope he's fine.
Man I know. I really show my age with this one, but I had a buddy from england I used to play Age of Empires II online with all the time. One day he stopped responding on AIM and stopped logging on. Hope hes still living and doing good.
I once met a random guy who helped me a lot when I first started playing lotro. A couple months later another guy recognized me as someone his friend helped out and he told me that his friend had recently committed suicide. I hardly knew him yet that brief interaction in game was memorable and so I found it very sad to find out about his death. His account and characters and game relationships ended so suddenly.
This poor instance of Greg bored out of his mind is left to a fate worse than Quest Gregs disappearing to a satisfying conclusion.
I love that you guys take the most seemingly simple ideas and make them into such quality videos
This was sad. Like real tears. It's like hugging a loved one for the last time and not knowing it's the last time.
1:30 😹 *The large castle built in the background... **1:48** & now it's rubble... **1:51** it's back... **1:56** It's improved... **2:03** it's expanded... **2:10** it's burning... **2:16** it's ruins...*
When Baelin walked past 'morning, great day for fishing" ...i just started crying
And this is how Rowan will end : still waiting at the door of Techtown for Alan to return, until the end of the world
I loved Bodger talking about his hammer. He will NEVER let that go lol.
little did greg know that his adventurer had left to go to a doctors appointment, that would tell him he had just days to live. So greg waited forever for someone who was no longer alive.
I like the small touches
Like when Ben asks Greg what time it is greg looks up to the notification area of the phone, it's as if you know most people watch this on their phones
Now I feel like I should log into every game I haven't played in years and finish any quests I was on so the NPCs aren't waiting on me for the test of their lives.
I was half expecting him to eventually build a garlic farm and that be his origin story.
While Greg was standing there, Rowan and Adam managed to complete the entire game 😆
What a sad story...
CGI is great!
Dogs when you leave the house for 5 minutes
30 seconds*
Greg of the Nine's Own Goal. Alone, but not forgotten. Abandoned, but not defeated. His journey has just begun.
An MMO you spend thousands of hours playing shutting down is always such a sad feeling, logging in on an almost empty server prior to closure, the BGM that was calming and relaxing now sounding very lonely and sad... It's not easy
@@RancorSnp It’s nice when they get a bump the last few days. City of Heroes had a massive turnout. I didn’t even play the game and I still get emotional at all the players gathered together saying goodbyes.
I remember my childhood game shutting down back in 2018. It was heartbreaking and I logged on for the last time and stayed there until the very last second. We all had fun, said our goodbyes and I may or may not have cried for a pretty long time. It was the only thing that made me happy. Just a silly little game.
@@EclipseStudios101your story makes me think of the anime 'overlord'
Reminds me of the stories of ff14 where the devs added monsters to attack the cities and players defended the cities til server shutdown.
Many watched how the moon crashed into the lands and were treated with an epic CGI cutscene of the end of times before the servers went down.
Fcourse they disnt know ff14 a realm reborn was in the works and launched like 2 months later and is still going strong. But i can imagine people were very upset about things.
Some of the battles are even immortalized in realm reborn to show it did really happen despite the fact 1.0 no longer exists
This video has a lot of stuff to unpack: the sadness of Greg, the return of Baelin (how long it has been???), the return of the pathetic cry. And the end of Skycraft.
Tough times...
This is like a real life friendship. One day may be the last day you ever spend time with that person, and you never know when that day is coming.
2:04 OMG the EPIC cry is back!!! 😭😭😭
Cry.wav
Similar feeling when you open friends window and see your in-game friends name “last online 3 years ago”…
Damn guys. This one tugged at the heart strings. Also loved the little cameos by Eugene, Bodger (and hammer that is rightfully his), etc. Really enjoyed this one a lot.
Why, why, why did this feel like the last and the final episode of Epic NPC Man? Still wonderfully emotional and lovely montage to several different characters and aspects of Skycraft.If this was the end of the series, then it was a good end. Now may the server and Greg rest in peace.
Oh, I really hope that isn't true!
And Ben never logged back on.... because he was killed by a sword while trying to 'rob' a tech store.
The very first Ragnarok Online for sure and all other MMORPG when to extinction / server shutdown. So nostalgic and relatable, nice one :)
We don't know, the player Vandexel died in the real world and never go to play/online again.
I like how a whole castle has been built and torched in the background in the time Greg was waiting.
That was actually genuinely kind of sad and touching, good job. That faeces was Django
That was what I thought upon ending the video. Genuinely sad and emotional.
Was this VLDL saying goodbye to Epic NPC man? This was the last E-NPC upload and it was between 1 and 2 months ago. I hope not, Epic NPC man was the series that brought me to VLDL, and has always been my favorite. BTW Rowan, I recently watched the Spartacus series, and I saw You in a bit part from a season 2 episode!
At least that was only Quest Greg. They may still have feelings but they all end up going to the same place.
This Quest Greg is the only one who made it to the end, unlike the many Quest Gregs before him, and could fade away without the harsh reality of his existence.
You got me in my feels VLDL. I played vanilla WoW and Burning Crusades mostly by myself but eventually started playing with other players. I met a player named Starscream (lucky to get the name). He was a college student in Argentina. He logged off one day and then never logged on again. This was in 2007. I always hoped he was fine but some other players that knew him said he might have been involved in protests. Up until Blizzard changed the old website and armory, I would check his character periodically to see if he ever logged back in..... Sometimes you don't get to say goodbye.
thats sad im sry to hear
Maybe now Greg will understand what Poppy's been going through.
Poor Greg... If anyone is looking for the wholesome song's title, it's Free My Broken Hearted Soul by Jesse Walton.
Thank you so much ❤
Here's a reply to help boost the visibility of your comment. Just in case someone else is looking for the song title.
Thank you for your thoughtfulness.
You're doing gods work sir.
This is how guardian of faith feels every time Greg summons him and then abandons
Oh my Gods, HELL yeah. THIS!🤣😆😂
But on the other hand, this Greg's clone is going to outlive the others by far.
Anyone catch that the ogres weren't just walking by, they were migrating through the seasons😂
Emotions are real.
I’m not crying your crying!
Even abandoned in the middle of nowhere Greg still gets to hear Bodger go on about the hammer
That fart at the end was actually impressive
Who let that one out?
@@erodaems idk lol
Britt
And they put that in the outro because we needed a good laugh after that.
@@CCoreXB Doesn't sounds like her voice. Maybe another female crew.
Nice, Jurassic Bark AND the added touch of the castle being built, expanded, razed, re-built in the background (like the cityscape in the Futurama opening sequence)!
1:24: Orcs are going to Helmsdeep.
1:54: Orcs are going back to Mordor.
2:14: Orcs have taken meat off the menu... boiz!
To all my NPCs out there, don’t trust humans, they will always let you down
if it werent for us humans all you npcs would be wearing silly mustaches and doing the goosestep and.. oh.. wait.. wrong dialog.
I don’t trust you, adventurah
M O N I K A AGREES...
what if their nickname is rick_astley?
was this a westworld reference?