Didn't think Doom would be a game that makes me cry

So this might sound disjointed and rambling for a bit and I'm sorry for that...

My dad was the one who got me into gaming. He used to hook his computer up to the TV so I could watch him play. While he played all sorts of games, Doom was always his favorite. I watched him play through the original trilogy, I bought him a copy of 2016 when it came out, and he always seemed to have my copy of Eternal even after I moved out. I can't tell you how many times he's played through the games.

On December 23rd 2023, my dad suddenly passed away. I was asleep for work that night when my sister called me crying to head over to my parents house (we both lived about 10-15 minutes away from them). She didn't tell me why but I immediately sped over there but he was already gone before I arrived. While I didn't always get along with him and we had our disagreements (which who doesn't with their dad) he was always someone I knew I could fall back to and his death was like knocking a pillar out from under me.

Come Christmas at the end of 2024, my mom had a last gift for my sister, my brother-in-law, and myself. Metal tags with my dad's thumbprint on it, since we had to unfortunately use him thumbprint to unlock his phone so my mom could have access to anything important on there. My sister and her husband made there's into necklaces but I've just had mine in the box because my stuff can get damaged at work fairly easily and I don't want to lose it.

Today my Collector's Edition of Doom: The Dark Ages arrived. While I am excited to play the game, the real reason I wanted to get it was the statue of Doom Guy. Now I have a safe space to place my keepsake.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e4020d41.jpg

I love you Dad and I miss you...

Didnt think a topic on Gamefaqs could make me cry. Beautiful story TC. Statue and the metal tag placement is epic.

random_man9119 posted...

On December 23rd 2023, my dad suddenly passed away.

That's barely a month later than when I lost mine, also suddenly. Pretty much over the course of 84 hours I went from having a healthy father to having no father. I had to be the one calling my siblings, barely caught my brother before he flew to Australia. My sister made an 8 hour drive in, like, 5.

I know how hard that can be, I still have a few songs I can't listen to.

Then in December '23 or so my mother gave me a jacket that my father had bought for Christmas (new version of my outright favorite) and I broke the fuck down.

I'm sorry for your loss, but happy you've got the memories.

DrizztLink posted...

That's barely a month later than when I lost mine, also suddenly. Pretty much over the course of 84 hours I went from having a healthy father to having no father.

That's definitely how it went for me... While my dad wasn't the healthiest (Smoked heavily since he was like 20) he was actively trying to get better... He had been actively working out and finally seeing a doctor for problems he had after leaving the Marines... So seeing his progress cut so short stung...

DrizztLink posted...

I know how hard that can be, I still have a few songs I can't listen to.

Shit, I have songs I didn't know about until after his passing that I can't listen to after the first time...

DrizztLink posted...

Then in December '23 or so my mother gave me a jacket that my father had bought for Christmas (new version of my outright favorite) and I broke the fuck down.

I still have the Xmas present I bought for him that year... Some Chewbacca Crocs... I can't bring myself to do anything with them

This is a good story, and doom guy hanging on to the thumbprint is a cool keepsake.

My father is also the one that got me and all of my siblings into video gaming. The reason I still like the beat'em up genre a lot to this day is because it was the main genre we would always play co-op on.

I got a video clip of my dad still playing games like the streets of rage fanmade remake. To be honest I am definitely not going to take it well at all when my parents pass.