Robin Williams plays Half-Life too!?! Thread

Williams, while he was traveling on his recent comedy tour, which became a hit HBO special, says that his computer hook-up was important while on the road.

"When I find out a hotel doesn't have a DSL, it's like 'What? There's no toilet?' Once you get used to high speed you ain’t going back," Williams smiles. "Once you've had DSL, you don't go back."

The 50-year-old Oscar winner, who won Best Supporting Actor for "Good Will Hunting" confesses, "I play games, I'm not going to lie about it, and when you play online against someone else, it's the best. Especially when you're playing against a 12-year-old kid who's been playing the game for a year and knows all the secrets. I'm fascinated by military games."

He says that a few of the people he's met playing the military games are just too involved and do scare him a bit.

Some of his favorite sites include weird auction sites and game sites, but he never checks out fan sites about himself.

"That's like bobbing for razors, that's really bad news because you'll find great things and horrible things. I did it once," Williams admits. "You'll find people who love what you're doing and people who despise what you're doing. That's the Web, that's the gamut of all personalities."

His favorite games include First Person Shooter, and Half-Life, and War Craft 3.

"There are a million games and there are mods with these games," Williams says, getting into the lingo. "The mods are taking these games and basically redesigning it and doing it on their own thing. There's a game called Half-Life and these guys made up a total different take on it using the engine to make a World War II engine called Day of Defeat with Germans and Americans doing kind of like a Normandy beach type thing. But these guys made it on their own and the company basically kind of gave them their blessing."

"It's amazing. It's a world. It has it's own mythology, plus clans and groups," Williams says.

Quite familiar with the most popular games, Williams adds, "They start off with a kind of primitive version where people were off wandering around conducting quests but now with Morrow Wind and Never Winter at Night and Dark Age of Camelot, people are in there creating characters and building up the characters to the point where if they build up a character with enough points they'll sell it on ebay.

Then, Williams pauses, and recalls his addiction for addictions.

"Just as long as it doesn't become like," he gulps, "Well,, because it's video cocaine, it can be as addictive as anything in this world with computer widows."

Williams warns, "You have to limit it though because it's addictive because of this world. I guess the worst case scenario was some kid who killed himself because his character died. You have to go, 'Wait a minute. This has gone way beyond the limits of a game.' "

And then, Williams dispells rumors that he poses as a 6-year-old girl on some chatrooms.

"No, that's not true," he smiles coquettishly. "I was never Samantha."

lol....Hes abit old for games, but then again I could imagine him being a big kid

to old for games? never... i mean apparently the average age of a HL Gamer is 25 or something.. surely that cannot be correct, but i mean as I ago the fun and fascination of playing games certainly aint wearing off

well i'm 26 and i love games and i have friends as old as 40 who play

Well, take a look at this photo taken at E3:

John Carmack - Main coder behind Doom 3
Trent Reznor - Music/sound for Doom 3
Robin Williams - ... voice acting? Really not sure here. Maybe he's just along for the ride.

I wish they put some kinda description with that photo...

well im 18 and i play dod with my dad whose 46

You can NEVER be too old!

Neurowave wrote: You can NEVER be too old!

i can just imagine you'se playing cs when you are 80!
actually, i don't even know what you look like so i don't know what i'm imagining

M@t wrote:
i can just imagine you'se playing cs when you are 80!
actually, i don't even know what you look like so i don't know what i'm imagining

A monkeh!!

You sick man!!

Greg

cmon, give reznor more credit there

he's the greatest man to live, put simply, he owns your pants, and your parents pants, and all pants!

he is nine inch nails, and owns you all

i mean, the man created a genre, he's just too good

(other people created genres too, but they created shitty ones , like techno)

if i ever find the person who "created" techno, there will be a bullet in his head pretty quick....and yeh.

go reznor!

as for being on the topic thats cool, and yeah i'd say the average hl age is 25, if your like me, you see butloads of uni students playing cs for example, i'd say 90% of cs players are over 18, sure there's youngins who play it, but they are a minority.

finite wrote:

OMG THEYRE GOING TO MOLEST ME! *runs*

Ben Affleck beta tested Warcraft 3, plays EverQuest, and into Quake III Arena.

Wil Wheaton plays absolutely nothing at all.

I don't like that look in Carmack's eyes...

CheapAlert wrote: Ben Affleck beta tested Warcraft 3, plays EverQuest, and into Quake III Arena.

Wil Wheaton plays absolutely nothing at all.

I dont know if you noticed *spit* we have buttssss*spit* where our faces our and were looking for our ss*spit*on

What???

Dont you watch Southpark?

Nope

Well basically there was 2 people who's faces were buttoks and there kids went missing...eventually they found out Ben Affleck was there child

Mnnnnnrrgh =/

That's gotta be one screwed up show

Dont you Swedish Porn Stars have TV?! !

I assume that question wasn't directed at me...but if it was, I don't have the channel w/ Southpark, and I wouldnt watch it anyways

It was directed at you.

For starters where you live?
Secondly why wouldnt you watch it?!!?!

Im not telling you where I live, eh.

I wouldnt watch it cause it's simply stupid and obscene, cause I have seen it once

and its not that BECAUSE i've seen it once, but it is and i have.