Famous people you've played with or against in online multiplayer

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Do the rich and famous play games in online multiplayer? Have you ever gotten to play against any famous people--movie stars, professional athletes--in online multiplayer?

As far as I know, I've never played with or against anyone famous, but I've always wondered about it.
 

smackababy

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I played Left 4 Dead over Xbox Live with mc chris frequently until I got too busy to play and he stoppped getting on when I was. Other than that, can't be too sure. I've heard quite a few celebrities play WoW, but couldn't tell you where.
 
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Supposedly porn star Asia Carrera played the original Unreal Tournament (1999) under the name "Mega Bitch Goddess" or some such and even had topless skins of herself made. Since I was a member of the community she would have played at, we were probably on the server at the same time. (It's been years so I don't remember the details very well.)

<Edit>. Quoted from her Wikipedia page:

She is also an avid player of Unreal Tournament. She designed her own game skins and was featured in the show Players on the G4 games cable channel, where she revealed that her screen name is "Megabitchgoddess." Carrera hosted her own Unreal Tournament server that featured custom maps designed by fans that frequented the chatroom that she has hosted on her site since 1997.

 

dougp

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I've played Q2 with Fatality and John Carmack, but that's all. Ah, those were the days.
 

tk149

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I played Quake 2 with Cindy Crawford. Well, that was the name on screen anyway.
 

abaez

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Many, many years ago I was at a lan and played in a q3 tournament. Second round I ended up playing fatality on q3dm3 I believe. This was before he started winning everything, but was recognized as pretty good. Lost 21-6, and he ended up winning the tourney. The prize was a big bazooka.
 

darom

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I played against Fata1ity guy in 2006 at the Cisco Networkers in Vegas. Got 3 kills in a row in Q3 and won his sponsored CPU Fata1ity fan. The guy was really good. I guess Cisco reps hired him to do demo matches against the geeks crowd on a big projection size screen with big a$$ speakers. It was hilarious that after each kill he would be describing what weapon and what move he pulled.
 

Modular

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Originally posted by: darom
It was hilarious that after each kill he would be describing what weapon and what move he pulled.

The double bogey backflip will getcha everytime!
 

Pheran

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Originally posted by: angry hampster
I played with fatal1ty in Counter-Strike quite some time ago. It was probably CS1.3. He was doing absurdly good and most were accusing him of hacking.

Heh, I played Quake 4 against Fatal1ty in person at a Cisco conference. He completely whipped my ass, but I was the only person there that was even able to land 1 kill on him. I won some enormous heatsink as a prize. :)

Edit: Pic of stage where we played.
 

ViviTheMage

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I played halo with a director of a few movies

I have played with/against a lot of famous CS guys back when CAL meant something.

Fatal1ty sucks at CS btw.
 

thujone

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i used to play wow with a guy that works on the every day italian show on food network.



and i also used to play wow way back with this guy
 

Zenoth

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I played a game of TF2 in which the real (apparently) Michael Cera was present. I don't even know him (well I do know he's an actor and he played in some funny movies, comedies mostly I believe, one I think with Jack Black). At first some players told the guy that he sounded like Michael Cera, then the guy in question replied that yes, indeed, he's been told that all the time.

But supposedly that he played in that server I was in before and that some people asked him things about the career of the "real one" and he gave all good answers and so on, meh... I don't know, maybe it was him, maybe not, but everyone giving their opinions all agreed that he sounded "too much like him" to be a fake or a pure coincidence. But, other than that, I have never played a game on-line with any known people, at least not that I was aware of, I'd presume that if popular people do play games on-line they either don't talk or try their best to avoid being recognized one way or another.
 

Hajpoj

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I heard Michael Jackson wont stop playing with his Wii, he plays with it all night long and gives it to any child he can...
 

Skyclad1uhm1

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I've seen 'Jesus' in online shooters. And if you'd kill him he'd reappear later, so it must have been him!