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G-man!?

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mafeishHASHISH

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ok can someone Please explain this guys function is half-life / half life 2 + episodes ...

I beat HL1 along time ago and I do not understand it at all, and then in HL2 he is soo freaky and scary at the beggining and it seem sliek he is a "god" watching over you or seomthing. Then in HL2 :EP2 he is a buisness man in an office?!?

What... The .. F****!
 
The G-man is actually one of my biggest pet-peeves with the Half-Life series. We're at a decade now and we still know next to nothing about him. At this point he's starting to come across as little more than a cheap gimmick to cover plot holes.
 
I think the guys who made the G-Man had NO idea what he would be, other than a mystical figure with teleporting and time stopping powers.
 
That is the point, you are truly never suppose to understand or know what his purpose is. While it can be annoying, and used to fill plot points, it adds an elusive nature to the game that makes you want to know more about him.
 
He never botherd me really, some private organization that funded Black Mesa or whatever and he oversaw a lot of the stuff. Or he is from a future time coming back to help you do what needs to be done....

Theres a lot that he could be, we just dont know enough yet to do more than speculate. I would like some answers to at least a few of the questions instead of more questions :) Hopefully eppy 3 will give some of those. If we had not waited so long for eppy 2 from 1 the lack of answers probably wouldnt bother as many people.
 
theDreamer said:
That is the point, you are truly never suppose to understand or know what his purpose is. While it can be annoying, and used to fill plot points, it adds an elusive nature to the game that makes you want to know more about him.
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Which would be great if we actually ever learned anything about him. TV shows do this all the time, and I'm a sucker for it, gleefully sitting through entire seasons to glean the smallest amount of information. The difference is that they actually put out though, as it stands Valve's just a big 'ol cock tease about the whole issue.
 
I'm not much of a fanboy for the HL2 story. I think if Valve fails to illuminate the G-man after Episode 3, a lot of people are going to wake up and get frustrated at how bland and stupid the HL2 story is. I love dystopias but even the execution seems off, and Alyx is the only interesting character.

But I am the type where if the ending is good and ties things together well, I will instantly love the rest of a story I was skeptical about, so let's cross our fingers that Valve figures out something satisfying and clever.
 
he's an IRS agent!!!
and well if he has to go to another dimension to collect, heck!! he is going!!!!!
 
Reminds me of the Cigarette Smoking man from X-Files aka CGB Spender :D
 
i think hes gordon from the future. my theory. :)

although as he aged, all the toxic waste he drove through in the airboat caused serious brain damage, notably to his speech center.

edit: oh yeah, AND he developed a widow's peak.

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The phrase deus ex machina (Latin IPA: [ˈdeːus eks ˈmaːkʰina] (literally "god out of a machine") describes an artificial, or improbable, character, device, or event introduced suddenly in a work of fiction or drama to resolve a situation or untangle a plot (such as an angel suddenly appearing to solve problems).
 
He has to be an alein disgused as a human He talks really weird, he can get into your head magically, teleport you places, put you in stasis. IMO he is a GOOD alien that works for a gigantic alien empire that wants something special done.
 
Kangg said:
Reminds me of the Cigarette Smoking man from X-Files aka CGB Spender :D
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SCORE!!! You're the first person I've ever seen in the history of the Half-Life series to agree with me about the G-Man/Cigarette Smoking Man parallel. If this holds true, then we won't learn the ultimate truth about G until the very end of HL EP:3 (assuming EP:3 is the end).
 
aKrippler said:
He has to be an alein disgused as a human He talks really weird, he can get into your head magically, teleport you places, put you in stasis. IMO he is a GOOD alien that works for a gigantic alien empire that wants something special done.
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Didn't G-Man open the portal in HL1 that brought the combine?
 
Across the HL series since the original Half Life we've seen the G man a handfull of times. I don't have an exact count, but when things seem to be at their worst and it appears all hope is lost..... he always manages to show up to give just a bit of insight, but leaves you with even more questions. Just like The Cigarette Smoking man in X-Files. :rolleyes:

I would have to rule out him being Gordon Freeman from the future for one simple reason. It's that little rule called the time paradox, you can't be in two places at once, you know, what happens if I go back in time, get in a fight with say my grandfather and kill him......... I cease to exist, so the theory goes....... :p
 
theDreamer said:
That is the point, you are truly never suppose to understand or know what his purpose is. While it can be annoying, and used to fill plot points, it adds an elusive nature to the game that makes you want to know more about him.
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thank you. :p
 
Kangg said:
Across the HL series since the original Half Life we've seen the G man a handfull of times. I don't have an exact count, but when things seem to be at their worst and it appears all hope is lost..... he always manages to show up to give just a bit of insight, but leaves you with even more questions. Just like The Cigarette Smoking man in X-Files. :rolleyes:

I would have to rule out him being Gordon Freeman from the future for one simple reason. It's that little rule called the time paradox, you can't be in two places at once, you know, what happens if I go back in time, get in a fight with say my grandfather and kill him......... I cease to exist, so the theory goes....... :p
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its not a paradox unless he actually interferes with his existence. ;)
 
TheCommander said:
Didn't G-Man open the portal in HL1 that brought the combine?
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No, gordon did when you push the crystal into the device at the very beginning of HL1. But some people think it was the G-Man that provided that particular "specimen".
 
mnewxcv said:
its not a paradox unless he actually interferes with his existence. ;)
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Well ensuring his own survival already creates a difference in how events unfold. G-Man is probably Gordon from some alternative timeline/universe where the original events weren't stopped properly, so he probably went through so much that he's hardly recognizable. Well that, and all the exposure to portals/rifts and whatnot that gave him his nearly supernatural abilities.

Or so I think. :)

If you want a real brain twister, imagine the scenario where there's one universe in which humanity defeated some Combine predecessor (perhaps the Nihilanth), and became a technological superiority using their captured items. Then, to ensure their own survival against any other 'portal' based attacks, they went and captured all the other nearly universes (dimensions), including the one that Half-Life takes place in (short version... the combine is us taking over ourselves).
 
wildfire99 said:
If you want a real brain twister, imagine the scenario where there's one universe in which humanity defeated some Combine predecessor (perhaps the Nihilanth), and became a technological superiority using their captured items. Then, to ensure their own survival against any other 'portal' based attacks, they went and captured all the other nearly universes (dimensions), including the one that Half-Life takes place in (short version... the combine is us taking over ourselves).
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So we evolve into giant slugs? The advisors are the only true combine life-form we have seen. All others are just converts from other species they have taken over.
 
Another Question, was trhere any combine in half-Life 1. I really dont remember anything from that game, and I do remember that I did not understand jack shit from that game though... so were there? and where did these combine come form anyways?
 
mafeishHASHISH said:
Another Question, was trhere any combine in half-Life 1. I really dont remember anything from that game, and I do remember that I did not understand jack shit from that game though... so were there? and where did these combine come form anyways?
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this is exactly why I want to buy the half-life 1 and expansions, I loved HL2, but I just don't remember enough of HL1 to get the facts straight, I never played Blue-Shift :(
 
Government Man


G-Man

Seems to work for me. That's what I always thought since 1998-99.
 
mafeishHASHISH said:
Another Question, was trhere any combine in half-Life 1. I really dont remember anything from that game, and I do remember that I did not understand jack shit from that game though... so were there? and where did these combine come form anyways?
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The "combine" race are the advisors. These are the only true "combine" species. In HL1 earth is invaded by the aliens of the world Xen (which had been taken over by the combine) and all of the xen aliens were "slaves" of the combine (besides the aliens neutrally attacking everything, headcrabs especially). At the end of HL1 you travel to Xen and kill the Nihilanth which the combine are using to control all the alien "slaves" to attack earth with.

Same thing happens in HL2. The comine have been on earth for some amount of time, and have enslaved humans (thats why the combine enemies in HL2 are human-based) and by killing the Nihilanth in HL1 you freed the alien slaves of combine control. Hence the friendly vortigaunts in HL2.

To sum it up, no there were no combine advisors in HL1, but the alien slaves attacking you were enslaved by the combine.

If none of that made any sense, I'm sorry lol.

I do not believe we truly know where about the combine have come from, or why they are trying to take over our species.
 
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In my opinion, the Gman's purpose is insidious - a plot upon a plot orchestrated by the Combine to help along the fall of man. Seen above - the Gman causing dissent and chaos amongst the rebels
 
Ubermouser said:
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In my opinion, the Gman's purpose is insidious - a plot upon a plot orchestrated by the Combine to help along the fall of man. Seen above - the Gman causing dissent and chaos amongst the rebels
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was that in game??? :eek::D
 
lol gary's mod

Ahahahahaha man that is f'in hilarious, I can't stop watching it.
 
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