so who do you think the g-man is? (SPOILERS!) [Archive]

Twin

12-06-2004, 01:59 PM

ok so there hasn't really been much discussion on the game, only that it's awsome or it sucks..but i just completed the game today and it was probably one the best ever gaming experiences i've ever had in any genre on any platform........but now i've been asking myself questions over the game like who is the g-man and who does he work for, and what is freeman's purpose in the game now.....i'm just itching to play part 3 now, i REALLY can't wait for it http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

but yeah, what are your thoughts on this? if u have any that is http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Beelze

12-06-2004, 02:05 PM

He's an alien in human disguise, and Gordon is a tool used to accomplish unknown goals. Perhaps he wants to stop the Combine, perhaps he wants to rule the universe. It's hard to tell if he really is a bad guy or not. I love the G-man. He's my favorite game villain ever, if he really is a villain.

Oh, and I'm itching to play Half-Life 3 too. I loved the cliff-hanger ending in Half-Life 2, and I'm very curious as to how the third installment will begin. Yes, yes, probably in a train (I love the recurring themes!) but I'm more interested under what circumstances and how the situation in the world will be once the game begins. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Vexed

12-06-2004, 02:27 PM

The G-man is Gordon's father. Notice the G=GORDON OMG! He's the Gordon-man.

I don't think he's Gordon's biological father tho, Gordon is a clone that stems from the G-man template (the G could refer to Genetical engineering). That's why they're treating Gordon as some kind of tool and testing him.

EDIT: smileys to indicate the seriousness of this post: http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/redface.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

Rider

12-06-2004, 02:35 PM

what if the G-man is gordon in XX amount of years, sent back to prevent a mistake he will make!

that just came out of nowhere but it sounds funny...

Tommyboy

12-06-2004, 02:37 PM

Rider said:
what if the G-man is gordon in XX amount of years, sent back to prevent a mistake he will make!

that just came out of nowhere but it sounds funny...

That doesn't make any sense, Gman offered Gordon the option of death in the first game and Valve has gone on record saying " YOU ARE GORDON FREEMAN". I'm pretty ******* sure I'm not the Gman.

Fraeon Waser Duhni

12-06-2004, 02:38 PM

G-man is Barney the dinosaur in disguise. And in the end of Half-Life 3 he'll rip off his disguise and assimilate Gordon and makes him one of the purple dinosaurs.

Rider

12-06-2004, 02:42 PM

Tommyboy said:

Rider said:
what if the G-man is gordon in XX amount of years, sent back to prevent a mistake he will make!

that just came out of nowhere but it sounds funny...

That doesn't make any sense, Gman offered Gordon the option of death in the first game and Valve has gone on record saying " YOU ARE GORDON FREEMAN". I'm pretty ******* sure I'm not the Gman.

what if the Gman ALSO is Gordon Freeman? You could even throw in dimensional travel if you will. Valve has been pressing that point quite alot themselves. What if the Gman (Gordon-man sounds great http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif) is Gordon from an alternate dimension?

just taking wild guesses here ofcourse, but who knows?

Edit: Possible evidence: Gman has a speak impetetive, Gordon never speaks, and somebody photoshop a beard like Gordon on the Gman!

Twin

12-06-2004, 03:18 PM

i'm hoping that if valve release any expansion packs for the game like they did for half-life 1 then we'll have a bit more of an insight into who the g-man could be....by the way, didn't the g-man take sheppard away in opposing force aswell? i can't remember exactly what happened in that game now http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Vexed

12-06-2004, 03:18 PM

Rider said:
and somebody photoshop a beard like Gordon on the Gman!

Yeah I was thinking about this.

Killd a ton

12-06-2004, 04:01 PM

He cold be part of somthing like MIB where every body is refered to by there fiers letter and man (or woman http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif), they might be traveling in a extra dimenton corecting history.

The reason he gave him the chance of life and deat was that he didnt want baby Gordon to run off.

Any way i dont hope this is true.

hmm if we boil down the story of hl we get doom, they played wit teleportation using dimension gates and then all hell broke loose??

Warmaster129

12-06-2004, 10:11 PM

I for one think he is a future version of the first black guy you meet on the train in the beginning of the game sent back into time to strategically place Gordon onto the train to give himself a thing to wonder about that would later lead him to become a trans-dimensional being! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dopefish.gif

bonch

12-06-2004, 10:48 PM

"G-Man" isn't his in-game name; it's what the developers used to refer to him in model names and textures in Half-Life 1.

Marc Laidlaw has obviously set up something big for the next game. I'm hoping for more explanation of the events of not just Half-Life 2, but Half-Life. From the reason for the Xen invasion and the role of the Nihilanth to what that yellow crystal specimen was and where "they" got it that started the resonance cascade. Eli Vance had a piece of it in his lab.

I think it's safe to say the Combine was behind a lot of things in the first game, and we just didn't know about it (notice that the Nihilanth has slave bands on its wrists, like the Vortigaunts). I know some websites have written up a whole bunch of speculative timelines, but I don't agree with all of it and like to keep things open until the next game.

LiquiD

12-07-2004, 01:39 AM

I think a good ending for the 3rd Half life sequel should be where you are just about to kill Gman, and he turns into a 40 foot monster, you eventually finish him off, And its not just mindless shotting at him, theres a puzzle like approach to it and then when he dies you get offered to replace him and be the new Gman, you agree or disagree and if you agree you can abuse their superior technology to use a time machine and go back in time and stop the resonance cascade from happening. And even see yourself in a HEV suit trying to put the crystal in the generator. This is probably the best ending I can come up with though... And if you disagree it can take you back in time when you are gorden in the tram system in HL1 and you replay HL1 :source as your punishment. Like an endless loop of tragedy.

AutoPilot

12-07-2004, 02:55 AM

Something that struck me.... The way the G-man talks, he breaks up words in the strangest places; breaking them in half and using the second half of the word as a starting point to continue to the next word he decides to break, instead of starting and pausing in normal places.

What's interesting is: the omnipresent female dispactcher also talks that way, (but with an occasional British accent).

-=AutoPilot=-

DudeMiester

12-07-2004, 09:54 AM

The way the G-Man refers to the offers for Gorden's services, I think he's really something like Gorden's manager. A pimp for the universe's elite mercinaries.

Sigma

01-27-2005, 03:15 PM

Now- Here's an interesting idea...

Perhaps Gordon chose the "incorrect" option. Note that the alien grunts do not actually *attack* him after this option is chosen, and that the end music is the same irregardless of the decision. While observation is supposedly terminated after he declines the job, I see no reason why the G-Man couldn't store Gordon and resume evaluation at a later date.

This would explain why the G-Man apparently abandons Gordon at the end of HL2- Gordon is a security risk, apt to rebel without warning.

Damien_Azreal

01-27-2005, 04:26 PM

AutoPilot said:
Something that struck me.... The way the G-man talks, he breaks up words in the strangest places; breaking them in half and using the second half of the word as a starting point to continue to the next word he decides to break, instead of starting and pausing in normal places.

What's interesting is: the omnipresent female dispactcher also talks that way, (but with an occasional British accent).

-=AutoPilot=-

Yeah, it's like he's not comforatible with human speech. I think he's an alien of some sort. And I'm not so much concerned with who he is... but who the G-Man's boss is.

Somone controls him, and gives him the ability to offer Gordon more "jobs". It's obvious in a way that the G-Man is pulling Gordon's strings. But who is pulling his? This is something I would love to be touched on in part 3.

Nacho

01-27-2005, 05:43 PM

The G-Man is a cars sales man.

ZuljinRaynor

01-27-2005, 05:48 PM

Sigma said:
Now- Here's an interesting idea...

Perhaps Gordon chose the "incorrect" option. Note that the alien grunts do not actually *attack* him after this option is chosen, and that the end music is the same irregardless of the decision. While observation is supposedly terminated after he declines the job, I see no reason why the G-Man couldn't store Gordon and resume evaluation at a later date.

This would explain why the G-Man apparently abandons Gordon at the end of HL2- Gordon is a security risk, apt to rebel without warning.

Just what I was thinking. There is no wrong end. Plus G-Man says, "No regrets Mr. Freeman?" so maybe Gordon does regret his choice or maybe G-Man just hires him cause he doesn't want to kill him. After all, in HL1, there is no "GAME OVER LOADINGxxx" thing after you pick the "don't work" option.

Marty

01-27-2005, 06:35 PM

what is the G-man keeping in his brief case? his pre-order receipt for DNF?

Buzzer

01-27-2005, 06:39 PM

I think the G-Man is nothing more than the embodyment of Gordon Freeman's deepest secret fears, much like the marshmellow man:

http://www.ugo.com/channels/comics/features/toyfair/images/neca/neca_1.jpg

Or wait...G-Man IS! The marshmellow man...

Duoae

01-27-2005, 06:40 PM

Nacho said:
The G-Man is a cars sales man.

Playing HL2 is like making love to a beautiful woman. You have to caress the physics engine and overlook the shadows. You have to move rythmically in time to the beat of the single player game and then incorporate youself into the game.....

Jblade

01-27-2005, 06:54 PM

http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif heh heh.

apz600

01-27-2005, 08:15 PM

the end of opposing force G-man leaves you on the little train and walks into another demention, pretty much no explanation jt a wannabe cliff hanger that included some zombie killing.

NutWrench

01-27-2005, 08:27 PM

I think the G-Man is an alien. There's just something a little bit . . . off about him.

toadsponge

01-28-2005, 04:18 AM

TopDan

01-28-2005, 04:24 AM

The Gman is the 2nd personality of Gordon.

A bit like Andrew Norton and Brad Pitt in Fight Club... They are the same person.

FireFly

01-28-2005, 09:51 AM

The G-Man briefs Shephard at the end of Opposing Force so that can't be the case.

Look! (http://www.planethalflife.com/opfor/guide/adrian.shtm)

Sigma

01-28-2005, 05:07 PM

I quite understand that this is off-topic, and I apologize if I'm squandering bandwidth, but has anyone considered the possibility that Gordon Freeman has autism or some permutation thereof, such as Aspberger's [sic] syndrome?

This could begin to explain why he apparently never talks, and why BMRF personnel spoke condescendingly to him in HL1.

As for the G-Man-

Has anyone considered the possibility that he might literally be a puppet, an illusion similar to the decoys used to feed infant animals?

apz600

01-28-2005, 05:50 PM

Valve publicly admitted they dont know who the G-Man quite is, this is a waste of time.

FireFly

01-29-2005, 08:24 AM

Where?

seregrail7

01-29-2005, 10:23 AM

I think the G-Man is Gordons biggst fan, and just follows him everywhere to get a glimpse of him in action.

jimbob

01-29-2005, 11:06 AM

seregrail7 said:
I think the G-Man is Gordons biggst fan, and just follows him everywhere to get a glimpse of him in action.

maybe they are lovers http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

dudetheman19

01-29-2005, 02:25 PM

like the guy from the end of matrix 2, and just as retarted!

Asmodeusz

01-31-2005, 09:12 AM

G-man will turn out to be Gabe-man. So he's probably ghay.

No seriously, I think g-man is manipulated as much as Gordon. He may not even be alive (a robot, or a computer program, a bot, Gordons schizophrenia or a phantom). For some reason he seems to be a pawn to me. The real master of puppets would be much nicer to Gordon, if he get to meet him... Alyx? Nah, but something like that.

Derwin

01-31-2005, 04:32 PM

I think gman is gman. Nothing else to it. Especially at the end of both games, he acts like nothing else in the Half Life universe. He is a third-person omnicient character that has control over things no human should have control over. He never tries to direct events, just watches them and sees what the result is. Yet he is working for someone or something....
Ah, heck, I'm just going to wait for HL3, and even if the identity of gman is never revealed, I will still be fine having no answer, because gman=cool.

b_blakeney

01-31-2005, 06:15 PM

The G-Man is George Wallace. Hands down.

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/images/br0174as.jpg

Wallace is the man pictured at left in the above shot, in close-up in this shot.

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/history/brinkley/3651/photos/sixties/Wallace1%20(499).jpg

--b

Nacho

01-31-2005, 08:58 PM

Dear god he is!

DudeMiester

02-01-2005, 12:28 AM

Perhaps Half-Life is a production ordered by the G-Man, and Gabe but a puppet.

sir_plague

02-10-2005, 12:16 AM

My take on the whole "G-Man" situation is:

Don't know what he is physically, but obviously he is leasing Gordon's tactical assistance to the highest bidder. I think this is said in Half-Life 2. I believe the rebels, somehow, "bought" Gordon's assistance in helping them overthrow the Combine. As for the Adrian Sheppard spiel, I can't remember what the G-Man says to him at the end of the game, but I'm guessing Sheppard was either a tool used by the G-Man to see how good Gordon really was, or another "mercenary" like Gordon. And as for someone (or something) "controlling" the G-Man, he has mentioned "his employers" in previous conversations.

In the end, I just don't know. The G-Man's involvement with Freeman just hasn't gotten too deep yet - in my opinion. I guess I'll have to wait for HL3. It would be interesting to see how the story might somehow fall back onto the resonance cascade incident at Black Mesa, but it would be like shooting a dead horse (and I personally wouldn't prefer it). After those expansion packs for the original game, it was nice to see some fresh environments, and I really don't care about re-visiting that crap hole in the middle of the desert.

Piano Man

02-10-2005, 03:46 AM

I kind of like the idea of him being an enigmatic figure... We don't know who he is and that adds some sort of mystery to it.

I can't believe I'm going to say this... but I hope we never find out until the end of the very last Half Life Game ever.

b_blakeney

02-13-2005, 02:35 PM

I'm tellin' you, it is George Wallace.

--b

Ghost

02-15-2005, 04:54 AM

b_blakeney said:
I'm tellin' you, it is George Wallace.

--b

And who the hell is George Wallace?

TopDan

02-16-2005, 02:07 AM

Wasn't he some kind of redneck senator or congressman standing up in front of a university in the 60s and blocking the doors to prevent black people from getting education ?

b_blakeney

02-20-2005, 11:43 PM

Oi, vei, guys... At least bother to read the whole thread...

Picture - & - Description (http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=0&Number=775243&page=0&vc=1)

--b

Sigma

02-25-2005, 01:59 PM

I've heard that Mark Laidlaw is a fan of writer H. P. Lovecraft-
Perhaps the G-Man is a personification of HPL's Nyarlathotep? His actions certainly fit the bill.

KebabjiHovsep

02-27-2005, 07:27 PM

http://fragfiles.org/~hlstory/

go there its nice and in depth

Dr.Dude

03-06-2005, 10:54 AM

I'd agree with the general opinion that the G-man doesn't seem human--- the way he talks, his entire demeanor and those eyes give a distinctly alien vibe.

As for who he is, I'm going with the theory that he's some sort of agent trying to take the Combine down. The "Raising the Bar" book implies that the Combine have taken over countless other planets, so the G-man could be from one of these many worlds, and with Earth being the latest victim he is using Freeman as one tool to accomplish his goals. I think the most interesting question that raises itself here is who these "employers" that he refers to at the end of the first game are. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dopefish.gif

Regardless, I hope that even if and when they reveal what's behind the curtain in HL3, that they still leave a little bit of an enigma around the G-man. They should do finally explain his goals/employers/etc. to some extent, but preferrably leave some details up to the imagination, such as maybe only hinting at what the G-man's "true form" is(again assuming that he's not human). He's easily more or less the iconic character of the game, and that mystery wrapped around him is part of the reason.

But with that said, I desperately need to know what he's got stored in the briefcase, dammit. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Asmodeusz

03-06-2005, 05:20 PM

Dr.Dude said:
But with that said, I desperately need to know what he's got stored in the briefcase, dammit. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

DNFs release date man http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif j/k

Seriously, I strongly agree with you Dr.
He is not human. He's iconic.
But still, IMO, he's a pawn. !!

Michelangelo

03-09-2005, 03:37 AM

He's obviously a government man http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif

Sigma

03-09-2005, 03:49 PM

I realize that it's subpar form to reply to one's own posts, but I'd like to clarify what I said earlier.

I meant to imply that Marc Laidlaw may have intended that the G-Man perform a role similar to that of Nyarlathotep in the Lovecraftian Mythos, namely, that of spreading chaos and madness; I'm still not entirely convinced of the G-Man's innocence regarding the Black Mesa disaster.

I didn't mean to state that the G-Man was Nyarlathotep- Merely that they were informed by the same archetypes.

Orochi Avlis

03-17-2005, 07:40 AM

I believe the G-Man, as was said before, is Gordon's pimp.
Maybe the combine bought his contract and tried to use him to flush the rebels.
But it doesn't really go according to Breen's plans and the rebellion starts.

Probably the G-man double crossed them (the Combine). Maybe his world was taken over by the Combine and he is traveling back in time to get Gordon to overthrow the combine before they take his world (G-man's).
Or maybe it's a power struggle between the Combine and G-man's race. Remember at the end of the first one he said: "The border world, Xen, is now under our control".

John

03-17-2005, 09:09 AM

All in all, G-Man ends up actually being...

http://images.usatoday.com/life/_photos/2003/03-18-south-park-inside.jpg

The taco that poops ice cream!

JackpotDen

04-24-2005, 11:35 AM

*bump*

In many Sci Fi thingies, there are beings so powerful, that if they faught, the universe/galaxies would be destroyed.

G man may be a referee, or one of those players.

PS : George Wallace is not G-man.

http://images.google.com/images?q=George...sa=N&tab=wi (http://images.google.com/images?q=George%20Wallace&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&sa=N&tab=wi)

PSS : THis guy is G man

http://www.sux2b.us/stuff/hl2-faceref-gman-scan.jpg

b_blakeney

04-24-2005, 05:22 PM

Well, that kills it.

--b

John

04-24-2005, 06:47 PM

Yeah, he isnt cool anymore. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Marty

04-25-2005, 10:03 AM

he just looks like... someones father or a local football coach http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

JackpotDen

04-25-2005, 01:04 PM

WHAT HAVE I DONE!!!? http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif

JackpotDen

05-23-2005, 01:20 PM

*BUMP*

Something to take into consideration :

The way that the gman is with gordon reminds me of how the contractor and tommy vercetti were in vice city.

"A European gang plans to hit a bank in vice city. My employers would rather this didn't happen"

"insert gman quote about employers"

Poltergeist

05-31-2005, 08:39 PM

I've always thought about this... G man...Gordon Man? The G must stand for Gordon or something. Maybe it is short for Gordon Freeman... Gordon Freeman

Orochi Avlis

06-01-2005, 07:48 AM

Poltergeist said:
I've always thought about this... G man...Gordon Man? The G must stand for Gordon or something. Maybe it is short for Gordon Freeman... Gordon Freeman

I doubt it.
The name G-man sorta fell into that character. That wasn't his original name.

FireFly

06-01-2005, 10:51 AM

Poltergeist said:
I've always thought about this... G man...Gordon Man? The G must stand for Gordon or something. Maybe it is short for Gordon Freeman... Gordon Freeman

G-Man stands for Government Man.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=g-man

JackpotDen

06-01-2005, 12:26 PM

FireFly said:

Poltergeist said:
I've always thought about this... G man...Gordon Man? The G must stand for Gordon or something. Maybe it is short for Gordon Freeman... Gordon Freeman

G-Man stands for Government Man.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=g-man

that sir is a lie! G man stands for Gay manhole :P

December Man

06-16-2005, 12:38 PM

Here:
http://members.shaw.ca/halflifestory/

Everything you need.
But remember - after reading this, the mystery surrounding Half-Life world will disappear.

Cerberus_e

06-16-2005, 12:51 PM

he's only speculating, and thinking what's the most logically, to fill in the gaps.
if Half-Life 3 doesn't end open-ended, I'll be happy.
an open ending would be Gman saying: "that was it, the war is over, I don't need you anymore, I'm leaving now, good luck in your further life".
seriously, if Valve did that http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tinyted.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Orochi Avlis

06-16-2005, 02:16 PM

Cerberus_e said:
he's only speculating, and thinking what's the most logically, to fill in the gaps.
if Half-Life 3 doesn't end open-ended, I'll be happy.
an open ending would be Gman saying: "that was it, the war is over, I don't need you anymore, I'm leaving now, good luck in your further life".
seriously, if Valve did that http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tinyted.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I think they will pull out all the stops in regards with the story.
Most (if not all) questions should be answered.

December Man

06-17-2005, 06:49 AM

The guy just 'speculated' the most logical and possible story in 99%. At least for me.

Cerberus_e

06-17-2005, 09:44 AM

Orochi Avlis said:

Cerberus_e said:
he's only speculating, and thinking what's the most logically, to fill in the gaps.
if Half-Life 3 doesn't end open-ended, I'll be happy.
an open ending would be Gman saying: "that was it, the war is over, I don't need you anymore, I'm leaving now, good luck in your further life".
seriously, if Valve did that http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tinyted.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I think they will pull out all the stops in regards with the story.
Most (if not all) questions should be answered.

I hope you're right

imo, HL3 should finish the main story (gman, combine, breen, ...) while HL3's expansions fill the remaining gaps that are more detailled, like shephard, lamarr, who the woman in trainstation was waiting for, and other details

Gatinater

06-17-2005, 10:19 AM

I've always thought of G-man as an alien or an alien that has infiltrated the government or posing as an agent.

OH MY GOD!!! CHRISTOPHER WALKIN IS AN ALIEN!

I think they should use al pachino's mannerisms for the Gman.

Geir

06-17-2005, 05:21 PM

I beleave the G-man works for a goverment that protects the human sociaty from extinction.

proof:

1. in HL1, the resanence cascade was planned to bring in the vortagrants for HL2. the bad side was that he had to fight the millatary (opposing force), the millatary(assasins) and the Xen (everything else, including the vortagrants)

2. in HL2 the vortagrants are free and help Freeman, if the good little aliens were not there, Freeman would not have reached Dr. Breen. in this scenario, the G-man planned this path too.

3. if this was all planned from the biginning, then goverment that the G-man works for could tell the future or they knew that docter Breen was corrupt from the very biggining.

to sum it all up: the G-man is the messenger for a secret goverment to keep humans alive. the goverment planned Freeman's journey from the very bigginging.

what puzzles me the most is how Freeman's journey goes to the same destenation as the goverment's plan, even if the path may seem "blocked". he seems so lucky becuase when his path seems to be "blocked", he always got help from someone, weather it was a wrecking bar from HL1 or Alex's pet dog from HL2.

Sigma

06-17-2005, 06:38 PM

As to who the G-Man's employers are, I have no more of an idea than anybody else.
However, I still contend that the G-Man himself is not real, but rather a skilled illusion.

ZuljinRaynor

06-17-2005, 07:43 PM

Poltergeist said:
I've always thought about this... G man...Gordon Man? The G must stand for Gordon or something. Maybe it is short for Gordon Freeman... Gordon Freeman

Government Man is more like it. I believe he has no 'real' name just Valve named him GMan (because G-Man is too long http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif) because he looks like a Government Man. As for what he is in HL... a higher... being...

Cerberus_e

06-18-2005, 05:53 AM

where was it said he was called the gman then?
I didn't hear it in the game.
it was only his folder in the models folder http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Geir

06-18-2005, 09:09 AM

Cerberus_e said:
where was it said he was called the gman then?
I didn't hear it in the game.
it was only his folder in the models folder http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

yeah, it's like valve named him in the last minute or something.

Nacho

06-18-2005, 09:36 AM

Maybe he is called the G-man because there are 6 male character models in Half Life 1 and when they made his model they just named him G-Man (G beeing the seventh letter of the alphabet).

Cerberus_e

06-18-2005, 11:19 AM

you are a smart cookie nacho http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Sigma

06-22-2005, 12:09 AM

Cerberus_e said:
you are a smart cookie nacho http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Agreed. Nachos are an intelligent pastry http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dopefish.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif.
(Agreed. Nacho Cookies are intelligent http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dopefish.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif:.)

Why did the G-Man repeatedly teleport Gordon while offering him the job? Wouldn't it be more efficient to simply move him out of the Nihilanth's blast radius?

woodchunkz

07-02-2005, 01:25 PM

Theory. G-man is god :O or some type of god like dude. Another theory is that G-man was once a scientist that made Gordon. Another is G-man was a teacher of Gordon Freeman in school. Poor Gordon. Getting made fun of by the bullies because he has glasses and he looks like a nerd.
EDIT: We probably won't find out in Aftermath or Lost Cost (the one that comes first we won't I mean) I mean they got alot of mysteries in Half Life. I mean the very person you play as is a secret.

Descent

07-02-2005, 01:55 PM

Sigma said:

Cerberus_e said:
you are a smart cookie nacho http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Agreed. Nachos are an intelligent pastry http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dopefish.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif.
(Agreed. Nacho Cookies are intelligent http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dopefish.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif:.)

Why did the G-Man repeatedly teleport Gordon while offering him the job? Wouldn't it be more efficient to simply move him out of the Nihilanth's blast radius?

Gordon did a job, he stopped that uberpowerful dude at the end of the HL2 game by blowing up his teleport thingy. After that explosion g-man came out and "HEHEHE, excellent work mr. freeman" (hence mr. Burns..)

Cerberus_e

07-02-2005, 02:09 PM

gordon freeman in the flesh or rather in the hazard suit I took the liberty of relieving you of your weapons most of them were goverment's property as for the suit I think you burnt it the borderworld xen is in our control for the time being thanks to you quite a nasty piece of you you managed over there I am impressed

and then he offers freeman a choice. (if you're interested
JUUUUUST step into the portal and I'll take that as a yes otherwise I can offer you a battle you have no chance of winning http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif)

hehe and all of this written out of my head, without looking it up or watching the ending again (it's MONTHS ago)
it's because the ending speech of HL1 is so superb and memorable that I remember it, and I don't even speak english as native language http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

FireFly

07-02-2005, 02:18 PM

It's "I think you've earned it".

Cerberus_e

07-02-2005, 02:28 PM

this is how I, a non-english guy, understands the ending speech http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Descent

07-03-2005, 07:12 AM

Cerberus_e said:
this is how I, a non-english guy, understands the ending speech http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Same here man.. same here http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

woodchunkz

07-03-2005, 07:39 AM

Cerberus_e said:
gordon freeman in the flesh or rather in the hazard suit I took the liberty of relieving you of your weapons most of them were goverment's property as for the suit I think you burnt it the borderworld xen is in our control for the time being thanks to you quite a nasty piece of you you managed over there I am impressed

and then he offers freeman a choice. (if you're interested
JUUUUUST step into the portal and I'll take that as a yes otherwise I can offer you a battle you have no chance of winning http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif)

hehe and all of this written out of my head, without looking it up or watching the ending again (it's MONTHS ago)
it's because the ending speech of HL1 is so superb and memorable that I remember it, and I don't even speak english as native language http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

If you can rember it then what did it say?