Guthrie - halflife2 character?

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I had this theory, and i thought i might share it with you:

When you go to the locker room, just after the experiment( where you also picked up your hazard suit before the experiment) you see ONE, and only ONE locker-door OPEN.. the board on the locker-door says "guthrie". In his closet you see an american flag. Just like this guy had just packed his bags to leave quickly.

This guy "guthrie"..could he be the one that sabotaged the experiment, maybe for the g-man?

Since he has only an american flag in his closet..might he be working for the government? :] (= the G-man)

I thought this could be quite interesting..so i thought i'd share it with you guys :cheers:
 
That's not a bad theory... you hear Guthrie's name called out repeatedly over the PA system...

Maybe they intended to have him in the game but never found time to add him... so they'll put him in HL2...

BTW, aren't all the names on the lockers actually names of people from the development team?
 
Yeah, okay, maybe not that one... but the rest of them are, I think...
 
Didn't they have Calhoun? Did they have Newell? I haven't played HL in a while so...
 
John Guthrie - Game and Level Designer
Along with Steve Bond, John started the influential and popular Internet gaming site, "Quake Command." John was also the co-creator of Quake Airplane and Quake Kart and constructed many of the chambers and corridors in the Black Mesa Research Center.
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I somehow doubt the major bad guy of the game is a Valve employee.
 
Tehehe! Goddamnit I hate this 10 character length!
 
How can you be sure it was an 'accident'? It wouldn't surprise me if the G-men knew exactly what was going to happen...
 
John Guthrie and Mona Guthrie were developers on Half-Life.
 
I've always wondered why Guthrie was the one with the locker open and the gun, maybe it was a VALve in joke?
 
Or... maybe it was just a convenient place to put a few 9mm ammo clips?
 
Chris_D said:
Or... maybe it was just a convenient place to put a few 9mm ammo clips?
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Yeah, but why Guthrie? Why not anyone else?

Anyone of those lockers could've been open. Anyone's name could've been on it.

*looking far too deep*
 
This is so lame.
Anyone's locker could be open with ammo inside and they decided Guthrie because of some shitty reason.
Maybe the Guthrie family even voluntereed open their locker with ammo ??
It´s a nice theory but couldn´t Valve put the american flag to show he was some American Vietnam nuts or something lk it that kept ammo in his locker and carried a 9mn everywere.
 
Maybe Guthrie made that particular map and decided to put the easter egg there under his name.
 
ah..i didn't notice that all the names were from the developers lol :D

Still...it COULD be...just another name then JOHN Guthrie.."
 
The only easter egg in that room is the fact that the lockers have Valve developer's names on them. That's it. They needed to put some ammo in somewhere (as one of the features people liked about HL in the original hype is that ammo and health were found in slightly more realistic places than randomly within a level, glowing and spinning 3ft off the ground) so obviously one of the security guys lockers is a good idea.

It just so happens that it has to be Guthrie's locker.

Someone e-mail Gabe about it. He'll think we're going crazy.
 
All the books in gordon's locker are written by doug lombardi, and there's a lombardi locker, ahaha.
 
Barney's locker (in Blue Shift) had books about aliens and conspiracies in it...

I think it was Barney's, anyway.
 
nw909 said:
All the books in gordon's locker are written by doug lombardi.
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no they werent, i seem to remember them being written by marc laidlaw. i think one of them was the 37th mandala or something.
 
Xenome said:
Since he has only an american flag in his closet..might he be working for the government? :] (= the G-man)
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Of all the things I think the G-man imay be (A member of race x, a master of space and time, an alien in disguise, etc.) I'm pretty sure he isn't a member of the US.
 
Chris_D said:
The only easter egg in that room is the fact that the lockers have Valve developer's names on them. That's it. They needed to put some ammo in somewhere (as one of the features people liked about HL in the original hype is that ammo and health were found in slightly more realistic places than randomly within a level, glowing and spinning 3ft off the ground) so obviously one of the security guys lockers is a good idea.

It just so happens that it has to be Guthrie's locker.

Someone e-mail Gabe about it. He'll think we're going crazy.
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lol

He must be questioning if actually ALL halflife fans are crazy lol

But on-topic:

I find it weird that only ONE locker was OPEN, and the rest were all closed.
Maybe during the experiment (when all went black for gordon), there was a big explosion, or something of that kind..and guthrie's locker was pushed open ..( just speculating :D)
but in this case, more then one would have to be open. I mean..something must have happened..since everything is lying on the ground..when you get out the test chamber, searching for an exit.

So this locker HAD to be opened by a person..because it's the only locker open.


( or it's just an easter egg and i'm crazy :LOL: )
 
Every single game ever that has locker rooms and stuff has at least one locker that is open. If in Game XXXX there is a locker room and locker number 453 is open it doesn't necessarily mean that it's an easter egg. It's just a random occurance and the fact it's just THAT locker is open means nothing.

Think of it this way. In Half-Life they couldn't put gun ammo lying around the locker room, and they couldn't just stick it in Gordon's locker because Gordon doesn't need the ammo, being a scientist.

They need to put it in a different locker and make it look like a security guards locker. But all of the lockers already have staff name's above them so they put it in any random locker. Et voila. A complete coincidence that's caused 2 pages of pointless discussion on a rabid fan forum!!! :D
 
Well we need something to talk about in this boring time. ( wich halflife2 concerns)
 
When you go back to Gordon's locker it looks like it's been searched. Everything's been messed up. It might have been caused by the explosions, but Guthrie's locker seems ok.. hmm.

I think into these things too much
 
or maybe the guthrie opened his locker, and put some ammo there for gordan, and then telepathically told gordan to get the ammo from there. and he did, and the flag was there, and gordans like, I WILL FIGHT FOR AMERICA. and guthrie is like, go forth my brethren, fight for ur country *eerrrgggg (dies)*.

or perhaps i am just spouting random crap out of my ass? i think thats it. :thumbs:
 
In all probablity, Guthrie designed that level. I don't think it means anything. And Freeman follows the Dickensian archetype of characters who have names relating to their nature. 'Free Man' indeed...
 
He fled from Black Mesa because they put the wrong tag on his locker. You'll accidently shoot him in HL-2 (he was recruited as a human Combine after leaving Black Mesa) and it'll turn into some dramatic movie scene like in Max Payne, or something like that.
 
no they werent, i seem to remember them being written by marc laidlaw. i think one of them was the 37th mandala or something.
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They were all written by Marc Laidlaw. He's actually a very famous author. The book "Kalifornia", which was later made into a movie starring David Duchovny and Juilette Lewis was written my him.

I find it weird that only ONE locker was OPEN, and the rest were all closed.
Maybe during the experiment (when all went black for gordon), there was a big explosion, or something of that kind..and guthrie's locker was pushed open ..( just speculating )
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That locker is also open before the incident.
 
Kalifornia was written by Marc Laidlaw? Isn't that about a couple of hillbillies who go to California and one of them is Brad Pitt?
 
Doesn't sound anything like Half-Life to me. Are there aliens involved?
 
nice thinking

too much time on your hands?
10th time playing HL?
:p
 
You know, I've never seen the movie, so I guess you could say I assumed Marc Laidlaw's book was turned in to the movie Kalifornia. But I'm not rally sure now. That synopsis doesn't seem like it would correspond to...well...the cover of the movie Kalifornia. But then againl, that in and of itself is an assumption. Behaps someone the has seen the movie could shed some light on this.
 
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