There is one that's been sadly lost to history due to a Firmware update, but originally the Nintendo Switch had a hidden copy of NES Golf, one of Satoru Iwata's first games, that could only be played on the anniversary of Iwata's passing by taking the controllers on each hand and doing Iwata's signature Nintendo Direct pose.
Actually, it _can_ technically still be performed to this day. However, this requires you to mod the Switch console to prevent firmware updates in order to ensure it remains permanent. Regardless, the original model of the Nintendo Switch with absolutely no updates can still perform the tribute action if you can maintain the state of it from release.
I once read a story of a young man who dug up his old Sega Rally game to find his fathers last saved run. He had played the game with his dad for hours when he was young. A few years later his father had passed away but when he played that game he could drive along with his dads saved ghost car. He would drive along with his dad and at the last stretch slow down to let his dads car win since if he had beaten his dads time the data from his run would be erased.
One old tribute I remember is in League of Legends. The character Jax, when equipped with his "Jaximus" skin has a line that says "Here's to you kid". This is a tribute to Joe, a kid that suffered from Ewing's sarcoma and before his passing managed to visit Riot's hq through the "Make a Wish" foundation. He loved the character and that skin was his favourite.
Honourable mention to Rick May who passed away from Covid, Valve added a Statue of the Soldier, the character of whom he voiced into a few of the maps to commemorate him.
@@jeremiahlewis410 i was there for that, everyone was soldier and no one was shooting rockets or shotguns, all of us were just standing at the statue saluting Rick May's character
Friend of mine and a clan leader in the Halo community "Age of Delta" passed away. By this time the clan had already disbanded but when we caught news we built a memorial in Halo Reach that doubled as a training base, on console with no mods. Not many of us were still around at that point but 5 of us showed including some friendly rivals showed up to talk about who he was as a person. Most of us cried n I'm still crying just typing this out now. His name is Skyler Callob Lewis and was a damn good guy who loved making music and halo maps even if he sucked at it we still had fun testing them out and listening and laughing about others failing to complete any course he set up.
Skyrim also added a follower character based on a fan who loved the Elder Scrolls series, but died from cancer before the game came out. You can find him in Rorikstead and do a small quest where you help convince his father to let him become an adventurer, and upon doing so, he becomes "Erik the Slayer," which is a reference to his online handle. Always nice to see companies do things like that for their fans. Great video, Ben.
Furthermore, if you use the alternate start mod (on console or PC), you can choose your "backstory" as being friends with Erik the Slayer. Just another nice touch by the community themselves.
@@scarthewerewolf Hey I didn't know! I just though it'd be funny if his adventurous spirit ended nonchalantly or something! I'm not the bad guy here...right? RIGHT?!
WoW also has Ahab Wheathoof, a little kid who was made into a Tauren NPC that gave a simple quest cause he was terminal. After he died he was made into one of the Elders that appears every year during the Lunar Festival so he would never really be gone.
@@10th_Doctor I think people just thought of him as younger than he was because he played such a young character in DS9. While their characters were supposed to be the same age, Cirroc Lofton(Jake Sisko) was 14 and Eisenberg was 24 when filing the first season.
The Robin Williams one broke me. I didn't know it at the time but when I used to play Warcraft I came across Robin during a dungeon raid. I didn't have a mic so I couldn't talk but he had one and I should have recognized that voice.
A long time ago, a year or two before World of Warcraft first launched, my partner and I were playing Everquest. We belonged to a small guild of tight-knit people from around various parts of Canada and the USA. One member went by the name of Stahlburn. In EQ, it was common practice to call out "Hail " in the zone or world chat and get a reply from that player. One afternoon, we were playing with a few of our guildmates when Stahlburn logged in; except it wasn't him. It was his son, who logged in the character to let us, his guild mates, know that his father had died during surgery. I told the zone chat that our guild mate had died in real life and asked everyone to yell "Hail Stahlburn!" in his memory. The zone chat was filled with hails to him for nearly two minutes! Everquest had a game wide community that I've never seen in any other MMORPG.
all of the games at that time had a community - even wow when it first came out - now there is nothing special about the gaming community - it's just people most of them with no clue what a community is
I beg to differ, I have met some of my greatest friends in the world from the gaming community. People I truly am happy that I had met, and can't imagine life without them.
@@Etrius_Fysik I think you're missing his point. He's saying that the game as a whole would rally around people, would help people, etc. Even if they didn't know the person. You don't see that as much anymore.
I played Everqyest as well. Our raid leader always put on a bear illusion of a huge polar bear and then shouted "Follow the bear!". When he died in a car crash everyone rallied around his girlfriend that was in the same guild. We still have the facebook group that was initially made to be there as best as we could. We had a memorial in game for him and everyone in guild changed their last name to Followthebear. RIP Majouth.
In Final Fantasy 14, back in 2014 IIRC, there was a vigil for a player that died from renal failure. Most of the server gathered up outside his guild's house and spelled out his character name on a nearby beach (Codex). The vigil ended up extending to 3 other servers. Then, again, in 2020, another vigil was held for a player who died from complications related to COVID-19. Players from every server in the game joined in, and many sources say that it may have been the biggest player-made event in the history of the game. MMORPG communities (or gaming communities in general) are much, much more friendly and close-knit than most people believe. Even across/between our respective games.
It was very hard not to cry watching this. As someone fighting their own cancer battle, it’s beyond words that friends and family of those departed here made sure that permanent memorials would exist of their lost loved ones, and all my respect to the development teams that made tributes a reality.
When the creator of the manga Berserk, Kentaro Miura passed away last year, they held a tribute to his passing in Final Fantasy 14 by equipping the Dark Knight job and using a Dark Knight specific stance, mimicking a stance and look often used by the manga's main character, in several of the game's major hub areas. In some places, they added small bonfires for additional impact and, at least on the server I played on, it was attended by hundreds of players. There was long line of players that stood vigil to mourn his passing not for hours, but for days. Literal days. I'm not personally familiar with the manga, but the fact that players chose to maintain the vigil for as long as they did means he must have touched a great many lives. Though I am not familiar with the manga, I was very impressed by their devotion. Truth be told, I was convinced they would grow bored of it after a few hours and move on. I was proven very wrong and that can only be a good thing. He must have been one heck of an artist.
He really was. Incredibly talented as an artist and a storyteller. His death hit a lot of people really hard, especially since it also means Berserk will never be finished.
It was very touching to see. At the bookstore I work in we put together a tribute display for his death and after work I work I logged into the game and saw the tribute in game and it was amazing to see how so many came together irl and in game to pay tribute to an iconic artist whose talent brought joy to the lives of so many people. There have been times where the FFXIV community came together to honor fallen players or family members of fellow WoLs as well.
We stood again on the 1 year anniversary and a good many of us will continue until we stop playing or servers are shut down. The amazing thing was, this wasn't just in one server on one datacenter. On the day the news of his death was made public, most if not all servers held a vigil. He truly was such a monumental inspiration and talent.
I’m a grown ass man and I ain’t gunna lie, I shed a couple tears, especially the silent reflection of total biscuit. Humans can be so dumb and harsh but they surprise me now and again with a display of raw humanity.
I remember being on Vulcan on the day that Leonard Nimoy passed away, there were a lot of tears among the players and many heartfelt stories of how he effected the lives of many players in more ways then I think he could have ever foreseen. Live long and prosper 🖖.
Hongyu Wu was a Guangdong aerospace technology student who was very involved in the Chinese pre-launch scene for Overwatch. on May 23 2016, mere hours away from the global launch of Overwatch, he attempted to prevent a robbery and got in a motorbike accident, dying in the hospital. When Blizzard learned of this, they placed a specially colored spacesuit in the Control Center portion of the Lijiang Tower map, along with a plaque in Chinese stating simply, "Heroes Never Die."
I am not a fan of Overrated, excuse me, Overwatch, but that is a person that honestly deserves a memorial in a game, and I am glad that they gave him one in the game. I do hope that those scumbag robbers got theirs, though.
Dont chase after (suspected) robbers. Dont try to be a hero. I used to work at 7/11 where theres a robbery at one of the outlets every single day. I was coming home from giving a statement at the nearest police station and saw the exact motorbike used. It was actually one of the robbers, I followed them around trying to snap a pic to send to the cops. I fumbled and they became suspicious because I came too close. Ended with a chase (they were on 2 bikes with machete, I was solo). Took a sharp corner and my motorbike hit the divider. There were people at a bus stop near by so they bounced. I ended up bruised and bleeding (minor) and had to pay for the bike repair out of my own pocket. The number plate I gave to the cops turn out to be fake which is pretty obvious but in the heat of the moment it didnt occur to me that that would be the case. Unless its a life or death situation, dont try to be a hero.
These memorials and tributes to our fallen community members make me feel like there is still hope for humanity. This reminds me of when I heard about how Valve and the fanbase of Team Fortress 2 honored the passing of the voice actor for the Soldier. These heartfelt tributes demonstrate that we all can set aside our differences and come together in times of hardship to support each other. Excellent work on the video. Your content is always a pleasure to watch or just have on in the background.
There is also a TotalBiscuit tribute in the calamity mod for terraria, with the item The Halibut Cannon, an extremely powerful weapon with a one in a million drop rate from anything in the abyss biome
In Magicite, there's an item called the Total Biscuit that provides a full heal. That item saved my run from failure fighting the final boss. I like to think it was John reaching through the digital ether to save my sorry ass. Thank you, Mr. Bain.
he also has a tribute in the game war for the overworld, a purchasable dlc that funded a charity raiser that gave you a cosmetic skin called "The Cynical Imp".
EVE online has a player made cemetery to fallen players and man it's a beautiful thing to see. Then the Devs found out about it and put a huge monument up for them.
In addition, there is John Bellicose Day, where multiple cynos and fireworks are launched off in memorial to him. His mom will log on as well for the event.
I've actually seen several worlds in VRChat that were dedicated to lost ones. It's a somber and sad but at the same time beautiful thing to see. There's even one world "Treehouse in the shade" which was made by a user that passed away. It's still one of the more beautiful worlds in the game imo, even if it's years old at this point.
I lost my brother to cancer in 2020 at the age of 32, we played aoe2 together growing up and while he was going through cancer he played it on my computer on steam, i recorded the games and every once and a while i go in and watch him play. Ily RIP big bro.
I used to play a game called Air Attack, a WW2 fighter plane game developed in the mid 90's, the graphics obviously wasnt amazing but they were good enough. There were many players and many squads/teams and we had allsorts of ages playing, young and old, and from every continent, we had allsorts of players. Quite a few of the older Americans, and i mean like 60 years old, used to be pilots when they were younger and had so much fun playing Air Attack, it was a great community to be a part of. Unfortunatly one of the older guys who played regularly suddenly died of cancer, we were all so sad to not see him in the skies anymore, another player knew him closely and was in touch with the family. We all said our goodbye with the help of his son, who logged in one final time on his account. Every active player was on that day, we all went into a lobby and sat on the runways, engines off and then suddenly he logs in, with 2 other planes. The son was flying the lead plane with his 2 best friends (who did play the game) his wingmen and flew over us all as we all said goodbye. Then as they flew away the 2 wingmen peeled off, as he continued on, and out of view forever. It was a really sad time but it was amazing to be a part of such a caring and loving community for so many years. This really brought it back for me, great video bro, as always.
There is a tribute in Battlefield 4 for one of DICE’s developers, Kjell Reuterswärd, who died in a car accident at the age of 34. They added a song in the soundtrack called “A Theme for Kjell” and added “In memory of Kjell Reuterswärd” in the credits.
Really up there on a personal list is Mount Satori and The Lord of the Mountain in Zelda: BotW. A standing tribute to Satoru Iwata after his passing in 2015, shortly before the game came out, the location is not just beautiful to look at, it's also a wealth of resources from across the whole of Hyrule. Plus, the description of the creature you can find there says that it is "a reincarnated sage that looks after all the creatures of the forest". Likely a reference to how Iwata personally poured so much of himself into Nintendo during his tenure.
There's a reason his tenure was actually rather successful. He just lived by his quote 'On my business card I am a corporate president. In my mind I'm a game developer, but in my heart I am a gamer.' He made it very clear he loved this community, good and bad.
@@tcrpgfan Keep in mind he said that quote at a time when "gamers" were one of the most hated and vilified groups in the eyes of the mainstream media and politics too. For the leader of one of the world's oldest and most respected media companies to come out and say that with such love and compassion was unprecedented.
@@superslash7254 Funny thing is that's probably around the time when the vitriol gaming has had with the media actually sort of died, too. Them main propogator of violence in Video Games got disbarred, the Wii exploded among casual gaming globally, the Indie scene and Retreaux games made a huge emergence around the same time, and mobile gaming really took off, It has since become more what type of games do you like to play rather than do you play games at all? Most people nowadays probably wouldn't look at you twice for wanting to play on a Nintendo Switch since they themselves have some sort of puzzle game on their phone or tablet.
Dad passed in 2019 and he adored Pokemon Go. Well, I got on his phone and transferred some pokemon over that I knew was his favorite and starred them. His favorite Pokemon was the "Baby Fire Lizard" which I had to tell him was Charmander. Well, he had one and when I transferred it over, it became Lucky. I bawled like a baby when I saw it and named it "Dad's Fav". It's still in my game and I will not do anything with it other than level it up to be the strongest little guy ever. It will not be evolved. I also have his account on my Friend's List and I go back and look at it from time to time. The last Pokemon he ever caught was a Hoppip. I put his nickname as Dad and the date he died.
Special mention to the passing of Kentaro Miura-san, writer of the Berserk manga who passed away in 2021 and was memorialized by the players of FFXIV whom the dark knight class was based on Gutz. They organized a massive vigil on all servers and data centers where everyone assumed DRK as their job and stood shoulder to shoulder with a fireplace minion set out before them.
Yep. On Leviathan server, the vigil had players in every city in two lines on either side of the main roads throughout the entire city, each with the Campfire minion out in front of them.
The tribute/memorial I remember the most is the one in EVE Online for Sean Smith a.k.a. Vile Rat. Sean was a diplomat in the game and in real life. When he was killed in the Benghazi attack, the players of EVE lit cynos all over null sec to make the map be a glowing ball when looked at with certain filters on. A large chunk of the player owned stations in null sec were renamed "R.I.P. Vile Rat" or something similar to honor him. And there was some using interdiction bubbles to spell out "R.I.P. Vile Rat". In the end CCP made a permanent monument to him.
Honestly, kinda surprised this didn't make this list, there is a youtube video that just lists the renames... it lists 2-3 per second and goes for more than 3 mins
I was part of Space Monkeys alliance. The Mittani gave us the honor of lighting cyno's inside the dictor bubbles like candles. I had a video, but the computer it was on had a catastrophic failure.
@@KaimarRedcloud heyyy i was in space monkeys a long time ago too. Had my first null sec combat with them. Great memories. Awesome people. How the alliance doing?
@@grahaldmills5930 lol I have no idea. My corp got kicked out because a guy accused us of being spies. Turns out HE was the spy and a thief and stole billions from them. When they kicked us, they immediately revoked all our access to everything including stations, so we couldn't even evac. We lost a ton of stuff including a couple of POS's and 2 cap ships. I laughed my ass off when the thief turned out to be one of the directors younger brothers. No, I don't have any warm fuzzy feelings for those d-bags. I quit playing EVE not long after that.
Star Trek: Online has a monument in Starfleet Academy and, if I remember correctly, the starbase which lists the names of all Star Trek cast members who have died. Also, it's been discussed in other similar videos but there's a very touching memorial to a deceased brother in Fallout 4's Nuka World expansion.
@@sariarosegold The Q'onos plaque is near the clothier, the fight arena, and the inn area. You can find it if you make a left when you exit the transporter alcove.
Not all of us are, only those who play games like call of duty, Fortnite, league of legends, and games like those as if they were a preacher on Sunday.
My experience is that for every "toxic gamer" (almost exclusively found on pvp deathmatch games) there's dozens that will defend you and support you. It was my first time playing call of duty modern warfare online that I experienced this. I was just having fun learning the game mechanics having not played it before and one guy who just sat there (maybe he was creating a spawn point for everyone?) said I shouldn't even own the game due to I had more deaths than kills. Everyone else in the lobby told the toxic player what for and kicked him out of the game.
It's not as toxic as it's made out to be, just way to many crybabies, IE, millennials who lose their shit if they don't have a safe space and cry closet handy every time someone looks at them sideways.
Ezra Chatterton's tribute in WoW is my favorite one. A child dying from cancer is absolutely heartbreaking, and the one wish he wanted was to have a quest in WoW, and he got it.
I really enjoy how you went about this video. Wasn't super comedic, but wasn't just some bland narration that treated it like some ordinary list. This is why I love you guys. You can be funny, but serious when it calls for it. Great work! :)
I know the video is older but one addition from the top of my head: There is a tribute to TotalBiscuit in Doom Eternal, where his iconic Tophat is visible behind some glass window in a level. You can't reach it, its obviously indestructable, but considering how much he enjoyed the original Doom before his passing, I thought it is a nice touch by the developers.
They also did a tribute to Markiplier's dad, in the little side room with the collectable figurines you can find a book on a shelf that's about taking care of one's mustache and its written by Cliffton M Fischbach.
What a beautiful and thoughtfully handled list. In-game tributes are a wonderful way to remember and celebrate a life lost. The one I found especially sad (but completely relatable imo) in the list was #6, the one about the brother who loads up his brothers Skyrim save just to see the last thing he saw there before he died. Wonderful list, and Ben’s soothing voice was a perfect edition to help get me through it (still cried though). Thanks Triple Jump.
@@paulgwor836 , I thought that the person that played Borderlands 2, as well as the one that had a wife that played Minecraft with him, and the guy who worked on the FIFA game that had died, were all touching tributes as well.
Bravo. When my wife passed in 2020, she and I used to play World of Warcraft together. She wasn't as into it as I am, but I still wanted to keep them around. So, I contacted Blizzard with her account information and ask if I could get her mains transferred to my account. While they still charged me for the character transfers, they handled it with genuine care instead of the usual jokes they send in customer service messages, and I now I have four extra hunters and a warlock that I play as a tribute to her.
Very close friend of mine I played many many games with passed away last week. It's nice to see these tributes. I want to find a way for my friend Rabbit to be immortalized in some way.
@@superderfmen unfortunately nothing as grand-standing as this. And nothing as much as he deserved, but I still name kingdoms after him in my game or make a side character and build like him. I feel like as long as I remember him I will keep him around.
@@KingoftheSage That is maybe the best way to honor him, in old viking tradition, nothing was more important to be remembered, and you where remembered when people talked about the deeds they did. From ancient norse mythology "Døyr fe døyr frendar døyr sjølv det same. Men ordet om deg aldri døyr vinn du eit gjetord gjævt." it means "Die fairy friends die dies itself the same. But the word about you never dies you win a good word of mouth." Its roughly translated, it is not easy to translate from new norwegian to english it seems like but I like that poem about death.
@@KingoftheSage , what game did you and he play, out of curiosity? Let me see if there is anything that I can do for himself, as well as you. Yes, I might not play your game, but I do think that your friend would be honored with the tribute somehow.
I remember playing Asheron's Call and hearing of a young player who passed away due to Leukemia (not certain). He loved the game and dreamed of completing Aerilinth Island. But he was too low a level and passed away before he could fulfill his dream. When the community found out, they reached out to the devs(Turbine) and the devs let the young man's in game character with many top level players, goto and complete the Aerilinth island tasks as tribute to the young man. I remember being in tears when it happened.
I really enjoyed seeing how a hobby I love can essentially immortalise someone. There are a couple of nods to fallen fans and players in the game Overwatch: In the Command Centre section of Lijang Tower where there's a space suit with the name tag "Hongyu Wu" and the subtitle "Heroes Never Die", a nod to a fan of the game who had passed after getting into an accident while chasing down a thief. And in the first attacker's spawn on the map Eichenwalde (which takes place in Germany) has a candle and a little grafitti with a love heart, an I, a D, and an H alongside. This is a tribute to German player Dennis Hawelka, aka INTERNETHULK, who had tragically passed away due to heart disease. In addition to the in-game tribute, the Overwatch League also has the Hawelka award, for the season's community ambassardor for competitive Overwatch.
Ain’t nobody gonna mention Rick May and how Team Fortress 2 honored him when he died in 2020? He may not be a player, but he was still an incredibly important part of not only Team Fortress 2 itself but also the entire gaming community in its whole. Fly high, soldier.
Im not normally a fan of list videos but this was very well done. Done in such a thoughtful and respectful manner to the people involved in these stories. Well done guys this ones a winner!And on a side note, it was the borderlands one that really got me, even in in Claptrap funny voice the message being said was enough to tug on the heart stings a little.
Crying as I watch this, I still load my little brothers saves and play thru till I shut it off and restart from his last save, in a way, he’s still living thru the games, thank you
Wow, this was unbelievably touching. The gaming community never ceases to amaze me with its love and support for one another. You handled this topic beautifully, so thank you so much for shining the spotlight on some truly wonderful people!
We lost another WF player and creator recently, Datareaper. He created one of the most beloved characters in game as well as designed some amazing weapons. DE added a memorial to honor him, it displays his favorite Warframe and the weapons he designed.
The one that hit home for me was the borderlands one... ive played for so long and if i had died before being able to play bl2 it would have killed me all over again.
I was already tearing up just from the thumbnail, but as soon as you said "egg broken in half" I started sobbing. I used to love Mork And Mindy, and of course I _adore_ Robin Williams
Ben Potter's voice has brought on many emotions, but this is the first time he's moved me to tears. Thank you for this, Triple Jump. I've seen a number of these 'top tribute" videos and this one was handled in a particularly meaningful way.
the pauline tribute broke me, my fiancée passed away do to a car accident, so her brother and i spent 9 months building what would have been our wedding venue and added armor stands with the character plugin so they had our skins on them, that shit hits so hard yet feels so fulfilling when its finished
Evan from Fallout 4 Nuka World DLC is absolutely heartbreaking, if you ever get the time look up his story and how Bethesda immortalized him in the DLC with his own NPC forever.
I played Gems of War on and off for 3 years. The player who welcomed me into our guild was this middle-aged guy with a thick Southern accent. He was in poor health and going through a lot of family issues, but he still had a jovial spirit about him. He ended up dying of a heart attack. There was a Gems of War streamer I followed (I forget his name) and I simply asked if he could give my guildmate a shoutout on stream and he did. It was a simple gesture, but it was still thoughtful.
I have two game tributes (technically 3) to share, involving friends of mine. 1) In Jan 2016, Halo player and youtuber TheCrazedSpartan (Adam Bartel), was working night shift at his job. As was his wife with her job. Their two teenage daughters were sleeping at home when a electrical fire broke and trapped the girls upstairs. It hurts to talk about this, so I'll leave it to you to look up the details. Adam often played Halo with his daughters and create custom maps. Within a year of the tragedy, 343 Industries honored the girls with a in game Halo5 nameplate and a easter egg in a new Forge map that mirrored the nameplate. In both the map and the name plate, Trinity & Lena's initials appear in the stars. Adam and his wife, Rebecca, are eternally grateful for the tributes, and support from the community. Adam's channel is still active, but his drive to make videos has all but fizzled out. Adam and Rebecca list literally everything that day. Only a few family videos that he uploaded survived. Adam still plays Halo, but he's been very reserved. He and his wife have taken up crafts as a new hobby and business.
2) The second tribute is for Lee Auter. Best known online as IceyCat25, Lee was a commentator and tutorial creator for the Ubisoft game, Rainbow 6 Siege. Lee was one of the pre-release testers for the game, and became a huge feedback influence on how it handled. After release, Lee started his Siege series and blew up in popularity for his insights and love of the game. In 2020, Lee started a Reddit based podcast (Rainbow Six Radio) with close friends. I didn't know Lee as well as I had hoped. I mostly spoke to him via chats, messages, comments, and during games. Lee was a awesome guy that never seemed to get angry about anything. And so it became a complete shock to most of us when we learned Lee committed suicide. We (myself included) had just gamed with him the night before. Even helping him test game mechanics for a upcoming video of his. As I said, I wasn't close to Lee as I wish I was. And as such our discussions were mostly about the game. I had no way of knowing how deep Lee's depression was. All I knew at the time was that lockdowns had cost him his job. And that he didn't seem to want to discuss it but focus on the game. Apparently, there was a lot more to his depression then the lost of a job. Lockdowns had just started, and so being confined couldn't have been it. I'm not going to dishonor Lee by speculating. I understand depression all too well, and it effects folks many different ways. Lee left behind his wife and 3 beautiful young children. His son oftened played Siege with Lee. I still see him play it every now and then. To honor Lee, Ubisoft added his RUclips channel's mascot logo as a free charm in the game. To me, personally, I see it as a insult as Lee was very vocal about how little he cared about charms. Instead, they should have added Lee's mascot as a set piece on a map. Especially since Lee often worked out solutions to rework classic maps. Ideads and suggestions that Ubisoft used without credit. For Examlple: In 2019, Lee reworked the map House, and used his editing skills to demonstrate these channels in video form. Most of those changes were added to the actual rework of the map, just a month before Lee's suicide. And no, I do not believe that was a factor.
wow.. that’s horrible. i’m really sorry to hear that. i can only imagine how it would feel to lose your children like that. i honestly don’t even know what to say... my best wishes to your friends. i hope they are holding together the best that they can, and that they remember they still have each other for support
Years ago I played a game on facebook, I honestly cannot remember whether it was War Commander or Thunder Run, both games are practically identical and it was basically a war game where people formed clans and you could jump to different maps and battle each other. On one of the maps there was a single base completely surrounded by war units of his clan and others, the player had passed away and all the people on the map were showing their respect and protecting the base from attack. Another story I have was one I wish i could have done more, but I ran a clan and one of my members disappeared, I tried contacting him many times because he was a good guy, after months of no contact, i discovered he had committed suicide and I had talked to him many times both in a clan chat and private chat and knew he was having issues, physical as well as having lost his wife and he was only 30. There was little I could do but I went to the page of his home island and just raised a glass (an emoji) in his honor. One thing about gamers of all kinds, from the simple phone or fb games to large mmp games is that the majority are good people and you can make friends practically anywhere and from anywhere in the world. I learned more about cultures and countries from online gaming than school could ever teach. Gaming community can get a bad rep, but those are the minority of players, not the majority.
one tribute from fans I like the share, (it happen in 2020 so a year after this video came out) Rick May, the voice actor of soldier in team fortress 2. passed from a stroke and related complications of covid, fans joined together ingame- in a session they all chose to play soldier but instead of playing the round shooting each other, both red and blue soldiers gathered in the middle of the map and may respect and honor him.
A quick message to the gaming community. We have come together the past several years to pay tribute to beloved people who have passed. We must not stop so we can remember the ones we have lost
I watched a sentiment video like these from another user,about his sister's passing as she was a cod 2 player,and her save file was located with all her set ups n creations,and it was truly touching,and i felt the loss,and having siblings and children of my own..i can only imagine what that would feel like loading up a game you thought you never would of a lost loved one, but the mystery of life prevails and you get that opportunity to see what they last had did 😌...and hits ya so deep in your feels,like it did mine😞...great upload love to see more like this💌🥂✨
Oh, and there's a tribute you missed. Granted, City of Heroes (Live) closed its doors, but when Christopher Reeve died, pretty much EVERYONE on every server wore a red cape to honor his memory.
City of Heroes: Homecoming added Ascendant as an NPC in Steel Canyon near Positron. Anyone that played on the Virtue server on live knew him from him standing around using the phone emote and talking to his agent Sal. Even the devs knew about this and shared the latest one they saw him do.
My friend Matt was a huge contributor in the community to City of Heroes during it's Beta and development, playtesting and actively engaging with the developers. Sadly, he lost his battle with depression and took his own life. After CoH launched, I played it and found one of the first characters everyone meets in the tutorial was replaced with his character as a tribute, Kiyotee. The first time I saw him in the game, it surprised and moved me beyond words. Kudos to the CoH development team for their tribute.
And besides Ascendent the game now has included tribute NPCs to players who have died. I believe all the ones who are "Paragon Heroes" faction are characters of players who have passed on. @Brigg made a video showcasing all this "Community Players" who replaced the comic hero cosplayers in his infamous fire farms. One of the folks who submitted her character to be included in the fire farm had since passed away from COVID, and so he dedicated the video to her memory. You can find the video by searching "Brigg CoH".
the minecraft one made me cry so hard because i can relate to it... loosing someone you share a deep love and a mutual hobby with is always brutal because not only you loose the person to lean on, no you also loose most of your hobby as you used to share it with this precious soul and it will never be like before. you will always think of her/miss her while you desperately try to indulge in whatever made you happy once..
It was very healing for Gas to be able to do that. It gave him focus. Instead of sitting around mourning what he missed he channeled his energy and talents into something that was special to them both.
I still can't believe Totalbiscuit is gone and it's been 3 years already, seems only yesterday I was watching his WoW content, which always brought a good laugh to me no matter how many times I watched it (shout out to his sunflower video to give a quick example). RIP John Bain aka The Cynical Brit
As an addition to the STO one, in every faction capital there is a memorial that is updated with names and quotes on the death of every member of Star Trek's cast and major crew. The latest update added Nichelle Nichols, David Warner, and Paul Sorvino.
There's a tribute in my favorite game ever: _The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind._ In the Samarys Ancestral Tomb, you can find an urn with the "Ashes of Lord Brinne". Lord Brinne was the online name of one Bill Iburg, a big fan of the Elder Scrolls franchise who died during _Morrowind's_ development.
Software developer Frontier Developments, upon learning of actress Carrie Fisher's passing created a dockable Megaship in their game Elite Dangerous called Fisher's Rest. Many players turned out for its dedication ceremony. I know Carrie Fisher didn't play Elite Dangerous. But I thought it was worth a mention.
FYI Robin Williams was a avid warhammer 40k collector and I have 2 astra militarum with his initial on the bottom of their bases.... I was blessed to have seen him 2xs... and before we went to convention I grabbed just a regular cannon fodder guard... when I presented him my guard he flew into his shtick and was impressed I knew he loved the hobby... 2 years later the opportunity was again presented and again grabbed a guardsmen and he totally remembered me..... and I will always remember him...
RIP Reckful. So fitting that he was immortalized as Reckful, a rogue trainer in WoW. "Trained" every rogue to date. And probably always will influence their play style forever.
Looking at this reminds me of WoW’s tribute to Reckful as well. When he passed away, a bunch of players got on to pay tribute to the fallen hero of Twitch, and I think they even added him as an NPC in the game.
@@dettbizzle Yeah, I personally don't play WoW, but I feel like I've heard so many good things about its community. It seems so surprising that a gaming community could have a decent fanbase.
One that I know of is; in Skylanders Giants, the series 2 Zap figure has an upgrade named “For Riley!” After a kid who passed away from cancer of the same name, Zap was Riley’s favorite character in the game
Elite Dangerous by Frontier Development has a Pilots Memorial where people are remembered. It says: "Remembering those lost to us in life, in the knowledge they will live forever amongst the stars". It didn't have to be a commander in the game, it could could be anybody. I requested the names of both my parents to be up there, and Frontier kept their word, and they were included in the game. Many people are mentioned. When you visit the Pilots' Memorial in Sol or in Colonia, it's very emotional to see the names up there. Hat tip to Frontier Dev.
Minecraft put a crown on the pig of their opening screen to honor Technoblade. I didn't watch much of his content but he was a great guy and I know he'll be missed greatly. May his memory live on and may the love for him live on longer.
They also reportedly put at the title screen, where that funny quote is always at, "technoblade never dies!" I haven't seen it myself yet but I've heard it can be there
To tell how good you digged here @TeamTripleJump : I'm part of the industry and someone with a low amount of emotions but you even got me surprised by myself with the one or other sigh comming out of me. Keep going. There are many tributes in many games to developers, designers, wives and husbands and pets and kids as like as fans (red shirt boy) movie characters (fight club) and other games of otherwise unsung heroes. So maybe this is the start of a series? I would appreciate this.
Still two more of them are that, before their passings, Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson had their voices recorded for narrating certain quests as dungeon masters in Dungeons and Dragons Online. Moreover, in that game, shrines to each of them can be found in Delera's Graveyard and The Ruins of Threnal, respectively. Also, another one that is not mentioned is the passing of someone who was named Joshua, a.k.a., TheSquashPhD, in Destiny. Finally, in Final Fantasy XIV, a person that had led the Gilgamesh server, namely, Codex Vahlda, had died of renal failure in real life, and a ton of tributes poured into the fallen player. Sadly, Square Enix themselves did not do anything to commemorate the passing of that person, though.
In Runescape, there is a statue called "The Old Nite" which is tribute to a plater called The Old Nite who died of cancer. Jagex decided to honor him since he was a huge fan of the game. It's some where in the wilderness
In Old School RuneScape there’s a grave with a top hat on it in the town of Slepe that, when examined, gives the text “He was always there to ask and answer one simple question.”
I was in the initial beta test for Star Wars Galaxies. If my memory is correct, during that time, one of the other testers who went by the name Moraj_Markinnison passed away in a car accident before the game released. The developers placed a flag commemorating them outside Bestine on tatooine and I would always salute it when I was passing by.
Elite Dangerous has a pulsar named Evelyn's Light, named after a young girl who died at age 11 from cancer. There's a tribute in the system itself and a short story to go along with it.
Thank you for including TotalBiscuit. I was among those who saw his first review of the game back in beta and got into the game thanks to him. Now clocking I don't know how many thousands of hours, I wept with Reb and Meg when they cancelled that devstream in his memory.
While not a game in the traditional sense, Second Life has a sim dedicated to users that have passed on, and one of the groups I’m in, Friends of Raglan Shire, has memorials dedicated to the members of the group that have passed away.
It's become a sad custom for me to have in game mail saved from people who passed away. One game I have a mail from 10 years ago still sitting there as a memorial to someone who passed shortly after I got it. I can't delete something they wrote to me, just saying oh, hi! and that they were looking forward to bumping into me in the new game. Same thing with friend lists. Those names stay when cleaning them up. I'm sure I'm not alone in that. There's little memorials all over games like that, that are personal, not seen by anyone but one person. The tribute is in never forgetting them.
There is one that's been sadly lost to history due to a Firmware update, but originally the Nintendo Switch had a hidden copy of NES Golf, one of Satoru Iwata's first games, that could only be played on the anniversary of Iwata's passing by taking the controllers on each hand and doing Iwata's signature Nintendo Direct pose.
I so badly want this to be real
@@jessebridgeman767 AFAIK it was real, it was part of the Switch's original firmware at launch, but was since patched out.
@@jessebridgeman767 this was real during launch. Unfortunately it’s no longer able to be done.
Actually, it _can_ technically still be performed to this day. However, this requires you to mod the Switch console to prevent firmware updates in order to ensure it remains permanent. Regardless, the original model of the Nintendo Switch with absolutely no updates can still perform the tribute action if you can maintain the state of it from release.
Okay, did I just imagine that there was a tribute to Robin Williams in Breath of the Wild, or did the video just forget?
I once read a story of a young man who dug up his old Sega Rally game to find his fathers last saved run. He had played the game with his dad for hours when he was young. A few years later his father had passed away but when he played that game he could drive along with his dads saved ghost car. He would drive along with his dad and at the last stretch slow down to let his dads car win since if he had beaten his dads time the data from his run would be erased.
ya if thats true.. thats gotta be ruff..
someone has made it into a short movie.
it's called player two on youtube
Aaaand I'm crying.
That's absolutely heart wrenching yet so damned beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
Dad still teaching him how to race.❤🔥
I heard that story......😭😭
One old tribute I remember is in League of Legends. The character Jax, when equipped with his "Jaximus" skin has a line that says "Here's to you kid". This is a tribute to Joe, a kid that suffered from Ewing's sarcoma and before his passing managed to visit Riot's hq through the "Make a Wish" foundation. He loved the character and that skin was his favourite.
What's Ewing's sarcoma?
@@thunderlordabove420 Wild guess, a rare deadly symptom.
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a form of cancer that forms in and around the bones.
@@thunderlordabove420 Pediatric bone cancer that originates in the legs and pelvis
@@Loukious thank you
Honourable mention to Rick May who passed away from Covid, Valve added a Statue of the Soldier, the character of whom he voiced into a few of the maps to commemorate him.
"you were good son real good maybe even the best"
and then within the past couple weeks or so the russian VA for heavy passed
@@ARCEUS493ZELDA Shit.
@@jeremiahlewis410 i was there for that, everyone was soldier and no one was shooting rockets or shotguns, all of us were just standing at the statue saluting Rick May's character
Friend of mine and a clan leader in the Halo community "Age of Delta" passed away. By this time the clan had already disbanded but when we caught news we built a memorial in Halo Reach that doubled as a training base, on console with no mods. Not many of us were still around at that point but 5 of us showed including some friendly rivals showed up to talk about who he was as a person. Most of us cried n I'm still crying just typing this out now. His name is Skyler Callob Lewis and was a damn good guy who loved making music and halo maps even if he sucked at it we still had fun testing them out and listening and laughing about others failing to complete any course he set up.
Skyrim also added a follower character based on a fan who loved the Elder Scrolls series, but died from cancer before the game came out. You can find him in Rorikstead and do a small quest where you help convince his father to let him become an adventurer, and upon doing so, he becomes "Erik the Slayer," which is a reference to his online handle. Always nice to see companies do things like that for their fans. Great video, Ben.
Furthermore, if you use the alternate start mod (on console or PC), you can choose your "backstory" as being friends with Erik the Slayer. Just another nice touch by the community themselves.
I didn’t know that, but now I feel good for having Erik join the blades, in my playthrough he was truly a slayer of legend
@@lastprimaris7914 ...I sacrificed him to Boethiah...
I feel terrible.
@@nickzakrath7080 He died irl now he died in game, you're monster!
@@scarthewerewolf Hey I didn't know! I just though it'd be funny if his adventurous spirit ended nonchalantly or something! I'm not the bad guy here...right? RIGHT?!
WoW also has Ahab Wheathoof, a little kid who was made into a Tauren NPC that gave a simple quest cause he was terminal. After he died he was made into one of the Elders that appears every year during the Lunar Festival so he would never really be gone.
Then there's also the extensive Bridenbrad questline in Icecrown, mirroring the final battle of an Avid WoW player's battle with terminal cancer.
@Kimi Timoskainen I remember that one
After Stan Lee passed away they added a NPC named Stanley who walks around Stormwind and Orgrimmar and occasionally stops to exclaim "Excelsior!"
@@That_Doctor_Del_Fella I think I vaguely recall that npc. I'm pretty sure I've seen him a couple times back when I played a lot more.
I thought of that and rekful from wow as well
After Aaron Eisenberg (Nog from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) passed away, Star Trek Online players all gathered at Quark’s in the game to pay tribute.
I was so sad to hear about his passing. He was pretty young, right?
@@riversong4997 he was 50.
@@JasonL77 yeah, that's pretty damn young to die. 😢
@@JasonL77 50 is young these days. I'm almost 53 and though a little slower and not as strong I am still in pretty good shape.
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I think people just thought of him as younger than he was because he played such a young character in DS9. While their characters were supposed to be the same age, Cirroc Lofton(Jake Sisko) was 14 and Eisenberg was 24 when filing the first season.
The Robin Williams one broke me. I didn't know it at the time but when I used to play Warcraft I came across Robin during a dungeon raid. I didn't have a mic so I couldn't talk but he had one and I should have recognized that voice.
That's pretty cool man. I can't relate, but i love that anyways. At least you have the memory of that moment. That's something.
WHOA!!!
A long time ago, a year or two before World of Warcraft first launched, my partner and I were playing Everquest. We belonged to a small guild of tight-knit people from around various parts of Canada and the USA. One member went by the name of Stahlburn. In EQ, it was common practice to call out "Hail " in the zone or world chat and get a reply from that player. One afternoon, we were playing with a few of our guildmates when Stahlburn logged in; except it wasn't him. It was his son, who logged in the character to let us, his guild mates, know that his father had died during surgery. I told the zone chat that our guild mate had died in real life and asked everyone to yell "Hail Stahlburn!" in his memory. The zone chat was filled with hails to him for nearly two minutes! Everquest had a game wide community that I've never seen in any other MMORPG.
all of the games at that time had a community - even wow when it first came out - now there is nothing special about the gaming community - it's just people most of them with no clue what a community is
I beg to differ, I have met some of my greatest friends in the world from the gaming community. People I truly am happy that I had met, and can't imagine life without them.
@@Etrius_Fysik I think you're missing his point. He's saying that the game as a whole would rally around people, would help people, etc. Even if they didn't know the person. You don't see that as much anymore.
I played Everqyest as well. Our raid leader always put on a bear illusion of a huge polar bear and then shouted "Follow the bear!". When he died in a car crash everyone rallied around his girlfriend that was in the same guild. We still have the facebook group that was initially made to be there as best as we could. We had a memorial in game for him and everyone in guild changed their last name to Followthebear. RIP Majouth.
In Final Fantasy 14, back in 2014 IIRC, there was a vigil for a player that died from renal failure. Most of the server gathered up outside his guild's house and spelled out his character name on a nearby beach (Codex). The vigil ended up extending to 3 other servers. Then, again, in 2020, another vigil was held for a player who died from complications related to COVID-19. Players from every server in the game joined in, and many sources say that it may have been the biggest player-made event in the history of the game.
MMORPG communities (or gaming communities in general) are much, much more friendly and close-knit than most people believe. Even across/between our respective games.
It was very hard not to cry watching this. As someone fighting their own cancer battle, it’s beyond words that friends and family of those departed here made sure that permanent memorials would exist of their lost loved ones, and all my respect to the development teams that made tributes a reality.
Here's hoping you win the battle. Never give up! I'm rootin for you!!
Sorry to hear you're having to suffer through such a terrible thing, mate. Stay strong! You got this, and we're all rooting for you!
Stay strong
Might be worth it to look up benifits of fasting to fight cancer on youtube. dr. berg has some videos about it. good luck.
All the best mate ❤
Bostonbearjew also has tribute in R6 and today Iceycat who also used to play rainbow six siege committed suicide. RIP
Both are huge losses to the R6 community
@matt no bad
Keep playing forever.
@matt stfu you pice of shit
What did matt say?
When the creator of the manga Berserk, Kentaro Miura passed away last year, they held a tribute to his passing in Final Fantasy 14 by equipping the Dark Knight job and using a Dark Knight specific stance, mimicking a stance and look often used by the manga's main character, in several of the game's major hub areas. In some places, they added small bonfires for additional impact and, at least on the server I played on, it was attended by hundreds of players. There was long line of players that stood vigil to mourn his passing not for hours, but for days. Literal days.
I'm not personally familiar with the manga, but the fact that players chose to maintain the vigil for as long as they did means he must have touched a great many lives. Though I am not familiar with the manga, I was very impressed by their devotion. Truth be told, I was convinced they would grow bored of it after a few hours and move on. I was proven very wrong and that can only be a good thing. He must have been one heck of an artist.
They did it again for Yu-Gi-Oh's creator with astralogians
He really was. Incredibly talented as an artist and a storyteller. His death hit a lot of people really hard, especially since it also means Berserk will never be finished.
It was very touching to see. At the bookstore I work in we put together a tribute display for his death and after work I work I logged into the game and saw the tribute in game and it was amazing to see how so many came together irl and in game to pay tribute to an iconic artist whose talent brought joy to the lives of so many people. There have been times where the FFXIV community came together to honor fallen players or family members of fellow WoLs as well.
@@LaydiNite His lifelong friend and assistant is actually finishing the manga. Luckily Miura had told him how he was going to end it.
We stood again on the 1 year anniversary and a good many of us will continue until we stop playing or servers are shut down.
The amazing thing was, this wasn't just in one server on one datacenter. On the day the news of his death was made public, most if not all servers held a vigil.
He truly was such a monumental inspiration and talent.
I unexpectedly welled up during this, what a wonderful touching video.
I’m a grown ass man and I ain’t gunna lie, I shed a couple tears, especially the silent reflection of total biscuit. Humans can be so dumb and harsh but they surprise me now and again with a display of raw humanity.
I almost did
I remember being on Vulcan on the day that Leonard Nimoy passed away, there were a lot of tears among the players and many heartfelt stories of how he effected the lives of many players in more ways then I think he could have ever foreseen. Live long and prosper 🖖.
I was there as well. Vice Admiral Caroline Metrios, CO, USS Jethro Gibbs.
I wasn't playing STO at the time of his passing. But when I made it to New Romulus, it was nice to see the tributes to his legacy.
Hongyu Wu was a Guangdong aerospace technology student who was very involved in the Chinese pre-launch scene for Overwatch. on May 23 2016, mere hours away from the global launch of Overwatch, he attempted to prevent a robbery and got in a motorbike accident, dying in the hospital. When Blizzard learned of this, they placed a specially colored spacesuit in the Control Center portion of the Lijiang Tower map, along with a plaque in Chinese stating simply, "Heroes Never Die."
I am not a fan of Overrated, excuse me, Overwatch, but that is a person that honestly deserves a memorial in a game, and I am glad that they gave him one in the game. I do hope that those scumbag robbers got theirs, though.
Dont chase after (suspected) robbers. Dont try to be a hero. I used to work at 7/11 where theres a robbery at one of the outlets every single day. I was coming home from giving a statement at the nearest police station and saw the exact motorbike used. It was actually one of the robbers, I followed them around trying to snap a pic to send to the cops. I fumbled and they became suspicious because I came too close. Ended with a chase (they were on 2 bikes with machete, I was solo). Took a sharp corner and my motorbike hit the divider. There were people at a bus stop near by so they bounced. I ended up bruised and bleeding (minor) and had to pay for the bike repair out of my own pocket. The number plate I gave to the cops turn out to be fake which is pretty obvious but in the heat of the moment it didnt occur to me that that would be the case. Unless its a life or death situation, dont try to be a hero.
These memorials and tributes to our fallen community members make me feel like there is still hope for humanity. This reminds me of when I heard about how Valve and the fanbase of Team Fortress 2 honored the passing of the voice actor for the Soldier. These heartfelt tributes demonstrate that we all can set aside our differences and come together in times of hardship to support each other. Excellent work on the video. Your content is always a pleasure to watch or just have on in the background.
There is also a TotalBiscuit tribute in the calamity mod for terraria, with the item The Halibut Cannon, an extremely powerful weapon with a one in a million drop rate from anything in the abyss biome
There's also a "TotalBiscuit's Topper" item in AirMech Arena.
@@MarkhorSculpin there was also a biscuit in LoL in honour of him while he was still alive
In Magicite, there's an item called the Total Biscuit that provides a full heal. That item saved my run from failure fighting the final boss.
I like to think it was John reaching through the digital ether to save my sorry ass. Thank you, Mr. Bain.
he also has a tribute in the game war for the overworld, a purchasable dlc that funded a charity raiser that gave you a cosmetic skin called "The Cynical Imp".
in Mordhau on the camp map if you go into the tree line near the blue base you will find a grave with a top hat resting the the cross
EVE online has a player made cemetery to fallen players and man it's a beautiful thing to see. Then the Devs found out about it and put a huge monument up for them.
In addition, there is John Bellicose Day, where multiple cynos and fireworks are launched off in memorial to him. His mom will log on as well for the event.
Aw man. Was completely unprepared for this. The editing, script, music, all of it was on point. Amazing list guys. Simply amazing. Thank you.
I've actually seen several worlds in VRChat that were dedicated to lost ones. It's a somber and sad but at the same time beautiful thing to see. There's even one world "Treehouse in the shade" which was made by a user that passed away. It's still one of the more beautiful worlds in the game imo, even if it's years old at this point.
I think I'll check that world out, thanks for sharing.
I'm not crying, your crying - that was beautiful, the gaming community is really rather wonderful
They are really lame you mean
@@joshuawidener8407 calm down incel go back to your basement
im crying
I lost my brother to cancer in 2020 at the age of 32, we played aoe2 together growing up and while he was going through cancer he played it on my computer on steam, i recorded the games and every once and a while i go in and watch him play. Ily RIP big bro.
Wow. Very well handled. And thank you so much for including support links, very important
I used to play a game called Air Attack, a WW2 fighter plane game developed in the mid 90's, the graphics obviously wasnt amazing but they were good enough. There were many players and many squads/teams and we had allsorts of ages playing, young and old, and from every continent, we had allsorts of players. Quite a few of the older Americans, and i mean like 60 years old, used to be pilots when they were younger and had so much fun playing Air Attack, it was a great community to be a part of.
Unfortunatly one of the older guys who played regularly suddenly died of cancer, we were all so sad to not see him in the skies anymore, another player knew him closely and was in touch with the family. We all said our goodbye with the help of his son, who logged in one final time on his account. Every active player was on that day, we all went into a lobby and sat on the runways, engines off and then suddenly he logs in, with 2 other planes. The son was flying the lead plane with his 2 best friends (who did play the game) his wingmen and flew over us all as we all said goodbye. Then as they flew away the 2 wingmen peeled off, as he continued on, and out of view forever.
It was a really sad time but it was amazing to be a part of such a caring and loving community for so many years.
This really brought it back for me, great video bro, as always.
very cool,thanks for sharing
There is a tribute in Battlefield 4 for one of DICE’s developers, Kjell Reuterswärd, who died in a car accident at the age of 34. They added a song in the soundtrack called “A Theme for Kjell” and added “In memory of Kjell Reuterswärd” in the credits.
Really up there on a personal list is Mount Satori and The Lord of the Mountain in Zelda: BotW.
A standing tribute to Satoru Iwata after his passing in 2015, shortly before the game came out, the location is not just beautiful to look at, it's also a wealth of resources from across the whole of Hyrule. Plus, the description of the creature you can find there says that it is "a reincarnated sage that looks after all the creatures of the forest". Likely a reference to how Iwata personally poured so much of himself into Nintendo during his tenure.
There's a reason his tenure was actually rather successful. He just lived by his quote 'On my business card I am a corporate president. In my mind I'm a game developer, but in my heart I am a gamer.' He made it very clear he loved this community, good and bad.
Too bad the rest of Breath of the Wild is overrated empty trash.
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...Must have played the wrong game, son.
Breath of the Wild is *art!*
@@tcrpgfan Keep in mind he said that quote at a time when "gamers" were one of the most hated and vilified groups in the eyes of the mainstream media and politics too. For the leader of one of the world's oldest and most respected media companies to come out and say that with such love and compassion was unprecedented.
@@superslash7254 Funny thing is that's probably around the time when the vitriol gaming has had with the media actually sort of died, too. Them main propogator of violence in Video Games got disbarred, the Wii exploded among casual gaming globally, the Indie scene and Retreaux games made a huge emergence around the same time, and mobile gaming really took off, It has since become more what type of games do you like to play rather than do you play games at all? Most people nowadays probably wouldn't look at you twice for wanting to play on a Nintendo Switch since they themselves have some sort of puzzle game on their phone or tablet.
Didn't realize how much i missed Ben's voice overs. He does such a good job. Def a major reason I used too watch TwatCulture so much before he left.
Dad passed in 2019 and he adored Pokemon Go. Well, I got on his phone and transferred some pokemon over that I knew was his favorite and starred them. His favorite Pokemon was the "Baby Fire Lizard" which I had to tell him was Charmander. Well, he had one and when I transferred it over, it became Lucky. I bawled like a baby when I saw it and named it "Dad's Fav". It's still in my game and I will not do anything with it other than level it up to be the strongest little guy ever. It will not be evolved.
I also have his account on my Friend's List and I go back and look at it from time to time. The last Pokemon he ever caught was a Hoppip. I put his nickname as Dad and the date he died.
it also should be noted that Leonard Nimoy's voice congratulates the player every time they go up in rank all the way up to Admiral.
Damn I miss him😔 he was the best in Star trek🖖🖖🖖🖖
Special mention to the passing of Kentaro Miura-san, writer of the Berserk manga who passed away in 2021 and was memorialized by the players of FFXIV whom the dark knight class was based on Gutz. They organized a massive vigil on all servers and data centers where everyone assumed DRK as their job and stood shoulder to shoulder with a fireplace minion set out before them.
Yep. On Leviathan server, the vigil had players in every city in two lines on either side of the main roads throughout the entire city, each with the Campfire minion out in front of them.
that skyrim monument really got me . well done for making a 31 year old man cry xx
The tribute/memorial I remember the most is the one in EVE Online for Sean Smith a.k.a. Vile Rat. Sean was a diplomat in the game and in real life. When he was killed in the Benghazi attack, the players of EVE lit cynos all over null sec to make the map be a glowing ball when looked at with certain filters on. A large chunk of the player owned stations in null sec were renamed "R.I.P. Vile Rat" or something similar to honor him. And there was some using interdiction bubbles to spell out "R.I.P. Vile Rat". In the end CCP made a permanent monument to him.
The cyno thing still happens to this day there is also a permanent memorial in Molea for any player who dies.
Honestly, kinda surprised this didn't make this list, there is a youtube video that just lists the renames... it lists 2-3 per second and goes for more than 3 mins
I was part of Space Monkeys alliance. The Mittani gave us the honor of lighting cyno's inside the dictor bubbles like candles. I had a video, but the computer it was on had a catastrophic failure.
@@KaimarRedcloud heyyy i was in space monkeys a long time ago too. Had my first null sec combat with them. Great memories. Awesome people. How the alliance doing?
@@grahaldmills5930 lol I have no idea. My corp got kicked out because a guy accused us of being spies. Turns out HE was the spy and a thief and stole billions from them. When they kicked us, they immediately revoked all our access to everything including stations, so we couldn't even evac. We lost a ton of stuff including a couple of POS's and 2 cap ships. I laughed my ass off when the thief turned out to be one of the directors younger brothers. No, I don't have any warm fuzzy feelings for those d-bags. I quit playing EVE not long after that.
Done with great class Ben. Very respectful.
Star Trek: Online has a monument in Starfleet Academy and, if I remember correctly, the starbase which lists the names of all Star Trek cast members who have died. Also, it's been discussed in other similar videos but there's a very touching memorial to a deceased brother in Fallout 4's Nuka World expansion.
“I think I’ll just sit here and enjoy the view”
one is on the upper floor of earth space dock, the other is somewhere on Q'onos
@@sariarosegold The Q'onos plaque is near the clothier, the fight arena, and the inn area. You can find it if you make a left when you exit the transporter alcove.
Always amazing to see that the gaming community isn't always toxic
Not all of us are, only those who play games like call of duty, Fortnite, league of legends, and games like those as if they were a preacher on Sunday.
My experience is that for every "toxic gamer" (almost exclusively found on pvp deathmatch games) there's dozens that will defend you and support you. It was my first time playing call of duty modern warfare online that I experienced this. I was just having fun learning the game mechanics having not played it before and one guy who just sat there (maybe he was creating a spawn point for everyone?) said I shouldn't even own the game due to I had more deaths than kills. Everyone else in the lobby told the toxic player what for and kicked him out of the game.
The creators trend to be pretty cool, it's the players you gotta watch out for
I play cod modern warfare and ppl barely talk,i guess it depends is trending
It's not as toxic as it's made out to be, just way to many crybabies, IE, millennials who lose their shit if they don't have a safe space and cry closet handy every time someone looks at them sideways.
Ezra Chatterton's tribute in WoW is my favorite one. A child dying from cancer is absolutely heartbreaking, and the one wish he wanted was to have a quest in WoW, and he got it.
I really enjoy how you went about this video. Wasn't super comedic, but wasn't just some bland narration that treated it like some ordinary list. This is why I love you guys. You can be funny, but serious when it calls for it. Great work! :)
I know the video is older but one addition from the top of my head:
There is a tribute to TotalBiscuit in Doom Eternal, where his iconic Tophat is visible behind some glass window in a level. You can't reach it, its obviously indestructable, but considering how much he enjoyed the original Doom before his passing, I thought it is a nice touch by the developers.
They also did a tribute to Markiplier's dad, in the little side room with the collectable figurines you can find a book on a shelf that's about taking care of one's mustache and its written by Cliffton M Fischbach.
You can find a TotalBiscuit easter egg in Mordhau by going left of spawn in the fort map and you will see a grave with a top hat on it.
@@ApplejuiceboxTV Haven't really played Mordhau, but thats interesting to know.
Also props to developers who do that.
What a beautiful and thoughtfully handled list. In-game tributes are a wonderful way to remember and celebrate a life lost. The one I found especially sad (but completely relatable imo) in the list was #6, the one about the brother who loads up his brothers Skyrim save just to see the last thing he saw there before he died. Wonderful list, and Ben’s soothing voice was a perfect edition to help get me through it (still cried though). Thanks Triple Jump.
Yeah i thought that was a really nice thing for the modder to do for the guys brother, shows the caring side of gamers no one talks about
@@paulgwor836 , I thought that the person that played Borderlands 2, as well as the one that had a wife that played Minecraft with him, and the guy who worked on the FIFA game that had died, were all touching tributes as well.
Bravo. When my wife passed in 2020, she and I used to play World of Warcraft together. She wasn't as into it as I am, but I still wanted to keep them around. So, I contacted Blizzard with her account information and ask if I could get her mains transferred to my account. While they still charged me for the character transfers, they handled it with genuine care instead of the usual jokes they send in customer service messages, and I now I have four extra hunters and a warlock that I play as a tribute to her.
Very close friend of mine I played many many games with passed away last week. It's nice to see these tributes. I want to find a way for my friend Rabbit to be immortalized in some way.
Did you end up finding a way?
@@superderfmen unfortunately nothing as grand-standing as this. And nothing as much as he deserved, but I still name kingdoms after him in my game or make a side character and build like him. I feel like as long as I remember him I will keep him around.
@@KingoftheSage That is maybe the best way to honor him, in old viking tradition, nothing was more important to be remembered, and you where remembered when people talked about the deeds they did.
From ancient norse mythology
"Døyr fe
døyr frendar
døyr sjølv det same.
Men ordet om deg aldri døyr
vinn du eit gjetord gjævt."
it means
"Die fairy
friends die
dies itself the same.
But the word about you never dies
you win a good word of mouth."
Its roughly translated, it is not easy to translate from new norwegian to english it seems like but I like that poem about death.
@@KingoftheSage , what game did you and he play, out of curiosity? Let me see if there is anything that I can do for himself, as well as you. Yes, I might not play your game, but I do think that your friend would be honored with the tribute somehow.
I remember playing Asheron's Call and hearing of a young player who passed away due to Leukemia (not certain). He loved the game and dreamed of completing Aerilinth Island. But he was too low a level and passed away before he could fulfill his dream. When the community found out, they reached out to the devs(Turbine) and the devs let the young man's in game character with many top level players, goto and complete the Aerilinth island tasks as tribute to the young man. I remember being in tears when it happened.
I really enjoyed seeing how a hobby I love can essentially immortalise someone. There are a couple of nods to fallen fans and players in the game Overwatch:
In the Command Centre section of Lijang Tower where there's a space suit with the name tag "Hongyu Wu" and the subtitle "Heroes Never Die", a nod to a fan of the game who had passed after getting into an accident while chasing down a thief.
And in the first attacker's spawn on the map Eichenwalde (which takes place in Germany) has a candle and a little grafitti with a love heart, an I, a D, and an H alongside. This is a tribute to German player Dennis Hawelka, aka INTERNETHULK, who had tragically passed away due to heart disease. In addition to the in-game tribute, the Overwatch League also has the Hawelka award, for the season's community ambassardor for competitive Overwatch.
Ain’t nobody gonna mention Rick May and how Team Fortress 2 honored him when he died in 2020? He may not be a player, but he was still an incredibly important part of not only Team Fortress 2 itself but also the entire gaming community in its whole. Fly high, soldier.
Im not normally a fan of list videos but this was very well done. Done in such a thoughtful and respectful manner to the people involved in these stories. Well done guys this ones a winner!And on a side note, it was the borderlands one that really got me, even in in Claptrap funny voice the message being said was enough to tug on the heart stings a little.
Crying as I watch this, I still load my little brothers saves and play thru till I shut it off and restart from his last save, in a way, he’s still living thru the games, thank you
Wow, this was unbelievably touching. The gaming community never ceases to amaze me with its love and support for one another. You handled this topic beautifully, so thank you so much for shining the spotlight on some truly wonderful people!
We lost another WF player and creator recently, Datareaper. He created one of the most beloved characters in game as well as designed some amazing weapons. DE added a memorial to honor him, it displays his favorite Warframe and the weapons he designed.
That god damn Minecraft one killed me.
The diamond eyes...
😢
The one that hit home for me was the borderlands one... ive played for so long and if i had died before being able to play bl2 it would have killed me all over again.
Totally agree
Me too. My mom died from ovarian cancer
I was already tearing up just from the thumbnail, but as soon as you said "egg broken in half" I started sobbing. I used to love Mork And Mindy, and of course I _adore_ Robin Williams
Ben Potter's voice has brought on many emotions, but this is the first time he's moved me to tears. Thank you for this, Triple Jump. I've seen a number of these 'top tribute" videos and this one was handled in a particularly meaningful way.
the pauline tribute broke me, my fiancée passed away do to a car accident, so her brother and i spent 9 months building what would have been our wedding venue and added armor stands with the character plugin so they had our skins on them, that shit hits so hard yet feels so fulfilling when its finished
I am truly sorry for your loss. What you did in her memory is beautiful and very touching.
I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING!
Beautifully done video!
Yes. Yes I am. Fantastic video.
I'm just cutting some onions...
I'm a somewhat normal human man and I have emotions!
I’m crying. You’re crying. We’re all freaking crying. It was just so lovely... 😢😭
It's just some dust in my eye
Evan from Fallout 4 Nuka World DLC is absolutely heartbreaking, if you ever get the time look up his story and how Bethesda immortalized him in the DLC with his own NPC forever.
One minute guys, I have to pack my bags for this feels trip.
Thought I'd killed you on Pandora...
Y'know, even after hearing it only a thousand times, that joke still isn't funny!
I was not properly packed for this trip, Jacky do you have any extra tissues
I played Gems of War on and off for 3 years. The player who welcomed me into our guild was this middle-aged guy with a thick Southern accent. He was in poor health and going through a lot of family issues, but he still had a jovial spirit about him. He ended up dying of a heart attack. There was a Gems of War streamer I followed (I forget his name) and I simply asked if he could give my guildmate a shoutout on stream and he did. It was a simple gesture, but it was still thoughtful.
I have two game tributes (technically 3) to share, involving friends of mine.
1) In Jan 2016, Halo player and youtuber TheCrazedSpartan (Adam Bartel), was working night shift at his job. As was his wife with her job. Their two teenage daughters were sleeping at home when a electrical fire broke and trapped the girls upstairs. It hurts to talk about this, so I'll leave it to you to look up the details.
Adam often played Halo with his daughters and create custom maps. Within a year of the tragedy, 343 Industries honored the girls with a in game Halo5 nameplate and a easter egg in a new Forge map that mirrored the nameplate. In both the map and the name plate, Trinity & Lena's initials appear in the stars.
Adam and his wife, Rebecca, are eternally grateful for the tributes, and support from the community. Adam's channel is still active, but his drive to make videos has all but fizzled out. Adam and Rebecca list literally everything that day. Only a few family videos that he uploaded survived. Adam still plays Halo, but he's been very reserved. He and his wife have taken up crafts as a new hobby and business.
2) The second tribute is for Lee Auter. Best known online as IceyCat25, Lee was a commentator and tutorial creator for the Ubisoft game, Rainbow 6 Siege. Lee was one of the pre-release testers for the game, and became a huge feedback influence on how it handled. After release, Lee started his Siege series and blew up in popularity for his insights and love of the game. In 2020, Lee started a Reddit based podcast (Rainbow Six Radio) with close friends. I didn't know Lee as well as I had hoped. I mostly spoke to him via chats, messages, comments, and during games. Lee was a awesome guy that never seemed to get angry about anything.
And so it became a complete shock to most of us when we learned Lee committed suicide. We (myself included) had just gamed with him the night before. Even helping him test game mechanics for a upcoming video of his.
As I said, I wasn't close to Lee as I wish I was. And as such our discussions were mostly about the game. I had no way of knowing how deep Lee's depression was. All I knew at the time was that lockdowns had cost him his job. And that he didn't seem to want to discuss it but focus on the game. Apparently, there was a lot more to his depression then the lost of a job. Lockdowns had just started, and so being confined couldn't have been it. I'm not going to dishonor Lee by speculating. I understand depression all too well, and it effects folks many different ways. Lee left behind his wife and 3 beautiful young children. His son oftened played Siege with Lee. I still see him play it every now and then.
To honor Lee, Ubisoft added his RUclips channel's mascot logo as a free charm in the game. To me, personally, I see it as a insult as Lee was very vocal about how little he cared about charms. Instead, they should have added Lee's mascot as a set piece on a map. Especially since Lee often worked out solutions to rework classic maps. Ideads and suggestions that Ubisoft used without credit. For Examlple: In 2019, Lee reworked the map House, and used his editing skills to demonstrate these channels in video form. Most of those changes were added to the actual rework of the map, just a month before Lee's suicide. And no, I do not believe that was a factor.
I remember hearing about him and their story I hope he's doing okay I couldn't imagine going through that
@@sespider , I think that, after Tom Clancy himself died, that the video games of his that came out after his death had tributes to him as well.
wow.. that’s horrible. i’m really sorry to hear that. i can only imagine how it would feel to lose your children like that. i honestly don’t even know what to say... my best wishes to your friends. i hope they are holding together the best that they can, and that they remember they still have each other for support
Rest in TotalBiscuit, you are greatly missed.
This was such a well made, heart felt video guys. Not ashamed to say I teared up. The support links made this whole video feel personal. Amazing job
And when Carrie Fisher passed away, thousands of players in the mmorpg SWTOR went the Alderaan for her funeral there.
Years ago I played a game on facebook, I honestly cannot remember whether it was War Commander or Thunder Run, both games are practically identical and it was basically a war game where people formed clans and you could jump to different maps and battle each other. On one of the maps there was a single base completely surrounded by war units of his clan and others, the player had passed away and all the people on the map were showing their respect and protecting the base from attack.
Another story I have was one I wish i could have done more, but I ran a clan and one of my members disappeared, I tried contacting him many times because he was a good guy, after months of no contact, i discovered he had committed suicide and I had talked to him many times both in a clan chat and private chat and knew he was having issues, physical as well as having lost his wife and he was only 30. There was little I could do but I went to the page of his home island and just raised a glass (an emoji) in his honor.
One thing about gamers of all kinds, from the simple phone or fb games to large mmp games is that the majority are good people and you can make friends practically anywhere and from anywhere in the world. I learned more about cultures and countries from online gaming than school could ever teach. Gaming community can get a bad rep, but those are the minority of players, not the majority.
Who the hell plays video games on Facebook?! What are you 85?
@@thunderlordabove420 , I do, you blasphemous modern day Pharisee hypocritical jerk!
one tribute from fans I like the share, (it happen in 2020 so a year after this video came out) Rick May, the voice actor of soldier in team fortress 2. passed from a stroke and related complications of covid, fans joined together ingame- in a session they all chose to play soldier but instead of playing the round shooting each other, both red and blue soldiers gathered in the middle of the map and may respect and honor him.
This was really, really nice. Such lovely gestures. Really well done, Ben.
Never cried during a triple jump video. This was beautiful guys. Simply beautiful. May these souls continue to rest in peace ❤
A quick message to the gaming community. We have come together the past several years to pay tribute to beloved people who have passed. We must not stop so we can remember the ones we have lost
I watched a sentiment video like these from another user,about his sister's passing as she was a cod 2 player,and her save file was located with all her set ups n creations,and it was truly touching,and i felt the loss,and having siblings and children of my own..i can only imagine what that would feel like loading up a game you thought you never would of a lost loved one, but the mystery of life prevails and you get that opportunity to see what they last had did 😌...and hits ya so deep in your feels,like it did mine😞...great upload love to see more like this💌🥂✨
Oh, and there's a tribute you missed. Granted, City of Heroes (Live) closed its doors, but when Christopher Reeve died, pretty much EVERYONE on every server wore a red cape to honor his memory.
City of Heroes: Homecoming added Ascendant as an NPC in Steel Canyon near Positron. Anyone that played on the Virtue server on live knew him from him standing around using the phone emote and talking to his agent Sal. Even the devs knew about this and shared the latest one they saw him do.
My friend Matt was a huge contributor in the community to City of Heroes during it's Beta and development, playtesting and actively engaging with the developers. Sadly, he lost his battle with depression and took his own life. After CoH launched, I played it and found one of the first characters everyone meets in the tutorial was replaced with his character as a tribute, Kiyotee. The first time I saw him in the game, it surprised and moved me beyond words. Kudos to the CoH development team for their tribute.
My brother played CoH. I played City of Villains at the time. He did as well, until ofc as you said, "closed its doors"
@@Brandon11746 At least we have CoH Homecoming now. 100% free to play and free to win. If you haven't downloaded it yet I highly recommend it. 🙂
And besides Ascendent the game now has included tribute NPCs to players who have died. I believe all the ones who are "Paragon Heroes" faction are characters of players who have passed on. @Brigg made a video showcasing all this "Community Players" who replaced the comic hero cosplayers in his infamous fire farms. One of the folks who submitted her character to be included in the fire farm had since passed away from COVID, and so he dedicated the video to her memory. You can find the video by searching "Brigg CoH".
the minecraft one made me cry so hard because i can relate to it... loosing someone you share a deep love and a mutual hobby with is always brutal because not only you loose the person to lean on, no you also loose most of your hobby as you used to share it with this precious soul and it will never be like before. you will always think of her/miss her while you desperately try to indulge in whatever made you happy once..
It was very healing for Gas to be able to do that. It gave him focus. Instead of sitting around mourning what he missed he channeled his energy and talents into something that was special to them both.
I still can't believe Totalbiscuit is gone and it's been 3 years already, seems only yesterday I was watching his WoW content, which always brought a good laugh to me no matter how many times I watched it (shout out to his sunflower video to give a quick example).
RIP John Bain aka The Cynical Brit
Why? It was only a matter of time before his alcohol habits did him.
@@SirBlackReeds He died from cancer.
Who?
@@karamelapple8007 , are you that clueless?
You mean the same guy who tweeted at people hoping they got cancer and died slowly? Good. Hope he’s rotting.
As an addition to the STO one, in every faction capital there is a memorial that is updated with names and quotes on the death of every member of Star Trek's cast and major crew. The latest update added Nichelle Nichols, David Warner, and Paul Sorvino.
Such a touching list. R.I.P Cynical Brit. 💔
There's a tribute in my favorite game ever: _The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind._
In the Samarys Ancestral Tomb, you can find an urn with the "Ashes of Lord Brinne". Lord Brinne was the online name of one Bill Iburg, a big fan of the Elder Scrolls franchise who died during _Morrowind's_ development.
There's a set of those in MW, but that's the closest one to Seyda Neen.
@@tautau1a Yeah, I think there are three in total, but the one in Samarys Ancestral Tomb always stood out the most for me.
@@SerathDarklands Pop Je is a 4th, represented by a bone instead of one of the 3 named ash piles.
@@tautau1a You're right. Totally forgot about that one.
Blizzard's tribute to Wu Hongyu in Overwatch is another heartwarming story.
Spyro Regnited also did something truely sweet for the mother of a player who passed away for cancer.
oh cool,didnt know spyro had something like that
Seriously? Don't think I've seen it, but then again, I'm only learning about this now.
Software developer Frontier Developments, upon learning of actress Carrie Fisher's passing created a dockable Megaship in their game Elite Dangerous called Fisher's Rest. Many players turned out for its dedication ceremony. I know Carrie Fisher didn't play Elite Dangerous. But I thought it was worth a mention.
FYI Robin Williams was a avid warhammer 40k collector and I have 2 astra militarum with his initial on the bottom of their bases.... I was blessed to have seen him 2xs... and before we went to convention I grabbed just a regular cannon fodder guard... when I presented him my guard he flew into his shtick and was impressed I knew he loved the hobby... 2 years later the opportunity was again presented and again grabbed a guardsmen and he totally remembered me..... and I will always remember him...
RIP Reckful. So fitting that he was immortalized as Reckful, a rogue trainer in WoW. "Trained" every rogue to date. And probably always will influence their play style forever.
Looking at this reminds me of WoW’s tribute to Reckful as well. When he passed away, a bunch of players got on to pay tribute to the fallen hero of Twitch, and I think they even added him as an NPC in the game.
I was there for that. Took place in the cathedral in stormwind. So many people in one spot.
@@dettbizzle Yeah, I personally don't play WoW, but I feel like I've heard so many good things about its community. It seems so surprising that a gaming community could have a decent fanbase.
R.I.P iceycat25 I hope ubisoft acknowledges him in some way
Have a great day, fellow Ajax 💚
One that I know of is; in Skylanders Giants, the series 2 Zap figure has an upgrade named “For Riley!” After a kid who passed away from cancer of the same name, Zap was Riley’s favorite character in the game
its really beautiful how gamers who are strangers a world apart can show so much love to others
Elite Dangerous by Frontier Development has a Pilots Memorial where people are remembered. It says: "Remembering those lost to us in life, in the knowledge they will live forever amongst the stars". It didn't have to be a commander in the game, it could could be anybody. I requested the names of both my parents to be up there, and Frontier kept their word, and they were included in the game. Many people are mentioned. When you visit the Pilots' Memorial in Sol or in Colonia, it's very emotional to see the names up there. Hat tip to Frontier Dev.
Minecraft put a crown on the pig of their opening screen to honor Technoblade. I didn't watch much of his content but he was a great guy and I know he'll be missed greatly. May his memory live on and may the love for him live on longer.
They also reportedly put at the title screen, where that funny quote is always at, "technoblade never dies!" I haven't seen it myself yet but I've heard it can be there
RUclips is going to do a tribute to Technoblade on the 28th of October.
To tell how good you digged here @TeamTripleJump : I'm part of the industry and someone with a low amount of emotions but you even got me surprised by myself with the one or other sigh comming out of me. Keep going.
There are many tributes in many games to developers, designers, wives and husbands and pets and kids as like as fans (red shirt boy) movie characters (fight club) and other games of otherwise unsung heroes. So maybe this is the start of a series?
I would appreciate this.
A very thoughtful video, well done chaps.
Thank you devs/mod community for putting these tributes in our favorite games.
Still two more of them are that, before their passings, Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson had their voices recorded for narrating certain quests as dungeon masters in Dungeons and Dragons Online. Moreover, in that game, shrines to each of them can be found in Delera's Graveyard and The Ruins of Threnal, respectively. Also, another one that is not mentioned is the passing of someone who was named Joshua, a.k.a., TheSquashPhD, in Destiny. Finally, in Final Fantasy XIV, a person that had led the Gilgamesh server, namely, Codex Vahlda, had died of renal failure in real life, and a ton of tributes poured into the fallen player. Sadly, Square Enix themselves did not do anything to commemorate the passing of that person, though.
In Runescape, there is a statue called "The Old Nite" which is tribute to a plater called The Old Nite who died of cancer. Jagex decided to honor him since he was a huge fan of the game. It's some where in the wilderness
I was not prepared for these feels, man... I WAS NOT PREPARED!!
In Old School RuneScape there’s a grave with a top hat on it in the town of Slepe that, when examined, gives the text “He was always there to ask and answer one simple question.”
I was in the initial beta test for Star Wars Galaxies. If my memory is correct, during that time, one of the other testers who went by the name Moraj_Markinnison passed away in a car accident before the game released. The developers placed a flag commemorating them outside Bestine on tatooine and I would always salute it when I was passing by.
Skyrim Grandma is one person I’m excited for to be put in the game and dearly hope she’s still here to see herself ingame.
This is awesome. Well done, lads. My heart is warmed. ❤️
These are sweet and wholesome! Great to see there are still good people around. My condolences to all the losses and may they rest in peace.
Elite Dangerous has a pulsar named Evelyn's Light, named after a young girl who died at age 11 from cancer. There's a tribute in the system itself and a short story to go along with it.
There are multiple tributes in ED to fallen players and relatives of fallen players.
I was hoping someone would directly reference this. I've been to Evelyn's Light several times and it's an amazing memorial.
o7 Evelyn
Thank you for including TotalBiscuit. I was among those who saw his first review of the game back in beta and got into the game thanks to him. Now clocking I don't know how many thousands of hours, I wept with Reb and Meg when they cancelled that devstream in his memory.
Live long and prosper
And let these people who died be remembered and what the community did for them.
While not a game in the traditional sense, Second Life has a sim dedicated to users that have passed on, and one of the groups I’m in, Friends of Raglan Shire, has memorials dedicated to the members of the group that have passed away.
It's become a sad custom for me to have in game mail saved from people who passed away. One game I have a mail from 10 years ago still sitting there as a memorial to someone who passed shortly after I got it. I can't delete something they wrote to me, just saying oh, hi! and that they were looking forward to bumping into me in the new game. Same thing with friend lists. Those names stay when cleaning them up. I'm sure I'm not alone in that. There's little memorials all over games like that, that are personal, not seen by anyone but one person. The tribute is in never forgetting them.
This hit me WAY harder than I would've ever expected. Wow, a lot of these were incredibly touching.