As far as I know, this has been a mystery forever, as the voice went uncredited. This might imply that it was a non-professional or a family friend or something.

 

I can't shake the feeling that the voice sounds eerily similar to the Half-Life scientist voice... Just two different guys hitting the same squeaky-nerd stereotype?

 

Lloyd: http://spacequest.wikia.com/wiki/Lloyd

HL Scientists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvWLceZaXSk

 

If it's the same guy, then I wager the original Lloyd voice actor was either this guy or this other guy.

 

Mr Other Guy, by the way, was Torin in Sierra's 1995 Torin's Passage and worked on many other Sierra titles... He used to lived in Seattle, relatively close to Oakhurst... 

And of course, the original Half-Life was published by Sierra...

 

Does anybody know?

Mr Other Guy also did the HL2 G-Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTl_EervAuQ

I'll wager pretty much everything that it wasn't a professional actor. Only the narrator and Roger Wilco were voiced by, quote unquote, professional actors. So it's highly unlikely it's the dude from Half-Life.

Yeah, I learned from your podcast that for both KQ5 and SQ4, the vast majority of characters are voiced by Sierra employees or (for Roger Wilco) family friends.

 

In any case, it seems very unlikely that someone who would go on to be a pro voice actor would take such a small role, and moreover uncredited.

Fun fact, just yesterday Scott was telling me that they were trying to get Robin Williams to play Roger in SQ4 and that Robin had wanted to, being an avid fan of video games, but that he had a prior commitment to do Hook, and so was unable to do SQ4.

Maybe my opinion is affected by the tragedy of the man dying, but: what a bummer. That could have been absolutely spectacular.

 

For the love of all potentially existing deities out there, Troels, please mention this on the podcast.

Trying to imagine Roger Wilco being played by Robin Williams ... wow.

 

I wonder how many other actors were considered for the role? Both in the realm of possibility (who they auditioned) and impossibility (who they imagined playing the part).

 

If PCJ isn't just making this up in bad taste (huh? well, he might! have you ever had a conversation with the man?), I'm definitely going to slide this in the next show.

I can only imagine what that would have sounded like...Somehow I don't quite see it working out. Robin was far too manic in the majority of his comic roles (both standup and film), but I think he'd have no problem playing a slightly older, more jaded Roger Wilco.

Williams could do other things than being manic. But, yes, I see what you're saying that he might not have been the perfect fit. I did always imagine Roger having a kind of high voice; not shrill, but not like Williams' lilting, deep, cozy timbre oh god I miss that man.

Oh certainly he could. But it's just hard picturing him as Roger Wilco, perhaps because all of his roles are all so well defined. I see him as the Genie, or Patch Adams, or Mrs. Doubtfire, and it's hard to really know what his take on a character would be until I actually see it, if that makes sense. Wholeheartedly agree about missing him though.