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DOCTOR FEELGOOD
"Scrubs" Star Donald Faison's a Sucker for MMOs
LQGaming Services:: So you keep up with all the game expansions too?
Donald Faison: For real. I was really excited when they finally added spaceflight. I've been playing the game since it started, pretty much. I bought it 5 days after it came out. At one point, it was my life. This is while I'm an actor doing a nationally broadcast TV show. All I'd do was go to work, do my lines, come home, and play Star Wars: Galaxies.. It was all I could talk about.
LQGaming Services:: Yikes! Sounds kind of scary. What makes the game so darn addictive?
Donald Faison: There's not just one goal in it. There are so many different things you can be doing. After you've accomplished a task, there are hundreds of other things that need to be attended to. They've put so many missions in the game. Something like 500 or something like that. and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger. So, you know. I feel like I want to be the perfect player and want to have everything.
LQGaming Services:: The best part of gaming alongside thousands of other players is?
Donald Faison: You don't feel like a geek, first of all, because they are a bunch of people on there playing with you. There's a sense of unity too. In a way, it's like The Matrix, you know what I mean? There's a community. It's not just one person, one galaxy. there's a whole lot of you who want your server to be the best or whatever.
LQGaming Services:: Is it inevitable then that massively multiplayer titles will become the future of gaming?
Donald Faison: Yeah - I think so. If they can get it to where combat is more real-time, like in City of Heroes, where you're almost actually fighting and making moves personally, that's when online gaming will be outrageous. These games are already lifelike - some even let you play a doctor or whatever. But when you're out there actually trading punches or gunshots yourself, that's when it gets too good to be true.
LQGaming Services:: You mentioned City of Heroes: Do you play this game, or any other MMOs?
Donald Faison: No, but I have a bunch of friends who do. They keep trying to get me into it. I have no idea why they're so addicted, though. I guess because they basically get to be Superman. It's not for me, however.
There's a lot of biters there too. Everybody looks like Nightcrawler, or everybody looks like Wolverine. Can't you just be somebody different and make your own character? Everybody wants to fly, or have super-strength, x-ray vision or heat vision. it just doesn't do it for me.
They didn't even make City of Villains an expansion pack either, it's a whole new game - that's wack.
LQGaming Services:: Are there any additional massively multiplayer titles that do intrigue you, however?
Donald Faison: I recently saw World of Warcraft at the Spike TV Video Game Awards. That looked dope. The graphics look great. So does combat. I could deal with a little fantasy role-playing.
LQGaming Services:: If you could design any MMO yourself, what it would be about?
Donald Faison: Aw, man. It would be set in the hood, right. You'd be trying to get out, whether it's by playing basketball or football, going to college, or just shooting your way out. [Laughs]
Just joking. I would make a game about how to be successful in life. They have similar games like that already, but they don't have any that actually show you how to make real moves.
LQGaming Services:: Any last parting words for people who still feeling massively multiplayer gaming is strange or pointless?
Donald Faison: Uh, yeah, I do. Eat a *censored*! [Laughs] But seriously, no… I have nothing to tell people who think MMO players are wasting our time doing this. My mother always told me if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it.
- Scott Steinberg
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