G-Man set us up the bomb?

[Tropico]

there is a pack with all 3 games
better than waiting for steam

 

[Rubeus]

The Gman really is cool. They left the whole story wide open at the end. All the hints that he drops through the game, I hope are wrapped up in HL2.

Black Mesa was clearly a test set up by G-man or his employers, and I believe it was one they had done many times in the past. Notice how they were experimenting on aliens <before> the experiment gone-wrong.. also, the scientists are clearly apprehensive before the experiment, but continue anyways. You can see Gman yelling at a bunch of scientists in the intro. On Xen, you see dead bodies in HEV suits. I'm not sure why, but they ran Gordon through the Black Mesa crisis as a test to see if he could survive where others couldn't..

AND IM DYING TO KNOW WHY!!!

-Rubeus

 

[A2597]

because they can.

 

[6iXx]

G-Man = Gordons Dad?

 

[D33]

Too Xfiles.

 

[dæmon]

Rubeus, the dead scientists in HEV suits were sent to Xen in order to study it, and retrieve the yellow crystals.

As for the G-Man, I can't possibly see him being related to any of the other characters. The mystery for me is to whom Nihilanth refers when he grunts "You are man . . . he is not man" (or something similar). Since the G-Man is the mystery character, perhaps he is who Nihilanth mentions, and the G-Man is really a diplomat for the Combine, or even someone else.

I expect he was trying to reactivate the bomb; after all at the end of OpFor he explains that all the loose ends have to be tied up, and what better way than to nuke Black Mesa. Although his plans have failed slightly since Calhoun and the few scientists with him escaped.

 

[D33]

dæmon - The Administrator is also a mystery character.

I wonder if things that happened in BlueShift and Opposing Force will be mentioned in Half-Life2? On one hand they all tie in and you witness the nuke that destroyed Black Mesa yet a lot of people haven't played them.

 

[dæmon]

Hmm, I didn't consider the Administrator. I've always thought that the G-Man is the Administrator; perhaps he is just working for him.

 

[D33]

Gabe said we get to see the Administrator in Half-Life2, kinda giving the impression it wasen't G-Man.

 

[theGreenBunny]

Actually, it was the writer guy, Laidlaw, who mentioned it here

The Administrator was named but never seen until now.

 

[D33]

Cheers TGB. After watching the endings again I noticed that the G-Man says "employers". Gah, can't wait to find out this stuff in Half-Life2.

 

[Animal]

Originally posted by Rubeus
The Gman really is cool. They left the whole story wide open at the end. All the hints that he drops through the game, I hope are wrapped up in HL2.

Black Mesa was clearly a test set up by G-man or his employers, and I believe it was one they had done many times in the past. Notice how they were experimenting on aliens <before> the experiment gone-wrong.. also, the scientists are clearly apprehensive before the experiment, but continue anyways. You can see Gman yelling at a bunch of scientists in the intro. On Xen, you see dead bodies in HEV suits. I'm not sure why, but they ran Gordon through the Black Mesa crisis as a test to see if he could survive where others couldn't..

AND IM DYING TO KNOW WHY!!!

-Rubeus

If you pay attention you find out that the scientists have already wholly mastered teleportation, and have been to xen and studied the animals many times before.

The experiment that went wrong was an analysis of an anomalous material, as thats the lab they were in, it wasn't set up to be like that, the g-man only takes interest in gordon because he survives, but he had no prior knowledge of him before the experiment.

 

[Rubeus]

I missed the former, true, but I still believe it was a setup. Time will tell, of course! It seems too convenient that G-man is always shadowing you, watching you, throughout the whole game, and in the intro as well. The administrator / gman also insist on pushing the experiment forward despite unsafe circumstances.

At the end, he also mentions that they now control the borderworld Xen, which is interesting, because I thought they were only trying to study the aliens, not take over their world

-Rubeus

 

[not28]

*reads this thread and dies from anxiety*

 

[Mechagodzilla]

I swear G-man orchestrated the whole incident in order to kill Nilanth.
Now G-man controls the Xen slaves and employs Gordon, which is why the slaves are on your team now.

or maybe not...

 

[Direwolf]

In the off-topic forum theres a thread on Decay, in which you learn that the device Gordon was working with was sabotaged.

 

[Solid_Raiden]

Originally posted by MrWhite
That was the original plan, and the first 5 minutes of the game, then it turns into "shit... forget freeman, I'm getting the hell out of here"

Yup,it's like that.

 

[ignot]

In the pak files there is also an extended line from the G-man if you choose not to join him/them at the end. It mentions Gordon being responsible for the "total destruction of their entire race" Given that it's likley the Black Mesa incident was no accident, and considering the comments from Nihilanth as well, It looks like the Zen aliens weren't the agressors in this case.

 

[A2597]

interesting ideas guys...

I'm leaving this thread, and never looking back. If its alive after I beat HL2, I'll see if anyone was right.

 

[Dagobert]

"People who can survive against all odds intrigue me, they remind me of myself."

G Man was given some kind of deal by the Combine at some point I bet.