Half-Life myths that need to DIE

[Andrew LB]

hehe, sorry i wasnt aware saying tea and crumpets would be considered to be racism..

Anyway, go ahead and call me a danish potato eating fa****. Im lucky enough to have more importen things to think about

And yea, we dont really play that much russian roulette over here but what about some football instead?

edit: Haaay!!

Oh this was one of the most entertaining posts I've read in a long time.

btw... i do enjoy a nice cup of tea now and then myself... and I'm from f****** Kalifornia! :afro: wessssiiide!

Uh, you know there's no such thing as a 'British race', right?

Very true. Like almost every other nationality, they're comprised of many different races.

Heck... I'm 1st generation Greek-American... i bet you guys could have a field day coming up with entertaining things to say about my heritage.

... and there is no need to start here. I've heard every one of them by now.

 

[Druckles]

read conversation before your postage, we already discussed this... IT IS NOT TRUE!!!

Triple posting is wrong. IT IS TRUE!!!

And what the hell do any of these discussions have to do with the OP...?

 

[Qhartb]

Heck... I'm 1st generation Greek-American... i bet you guys could have a field day coming up with entertaining things to say about my heritage.

We could, but I for one would rather know the secrets of making perfect baklava.

 

[ttam12]

Oh, and btw, there is NO evidence to support the idea that Chell from Portal will play a role in Episode 3. GlaDOS probably will, as well as the Portal device, but for all we know, Chell is dead.

Chell is "sleeping" the storyline goes: half life,portal,half life 2 ep1,2,3 portal 2 OR:half life half life 2 ep1,2,3 portal portal 2 either way CHELL IS "SLEEPING"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh and maybe g-man DOES stand for government man BUT his government is the government of EVERYTHING

 

[Omnomnick]

Please stop causing threads to rise from the dead.

 

[ttam12]

oh i didn't see it was last posted on in 2007

 

[rikt]

Please stop causing threads to rise from the dead.

That's what happens when you write something on a thread that was Left 4 Dead.

 

[Shem]

Oh he did it here too? He's certainly a persistent fellow.

 

[Danny_ZQ]

Oh he did it here too? He's certainly a persistent fellow.

I don't like him.

 

[Headcrabz]

G in G MAN stands for Government Man, that's said in Shephard diary in Half-Life Opposing Forces box.

 

[Danny_ZQ]

G in G MAN stands for Government Man, that's said in Shephard diary in Half-Life Opposing Forces box.

We've known this before OP4 was even released.

 

[MFL]

Hey man, it's only like, fifteen years late.

 

[Doomination]

Alyx did not exist when HL1 was made.

Didn't she though? In Hl2 episode 2, Gman tells you during a cutscene that he "plucked" her from black mesa (in the face of opposition that she was a mere child, and of no practical use to anyone), implying that she was alive during the resonance cascade.

 

[bassport]

Couldn't the cat be a wink to Schroedinger's cat? It exists and does not exist both at the same time and that is the whole joke behind this. (Google it if you don't know what I'm talking about)

 

[Shem]

That's actually a really good theory.

 

[Ascension]

Maybe G-Man is a good guy. Maybe he observed the events in the future where Gordon just died during the Black Mesa incident, and changed around some things so Gordon would be in just the right spot with just the right equipment to survive the Resonance Cascade and and close the Xen portal. Maybe then he put Gordon into stasis for just the right amount of time to arrive in City 17 at just the right time to defeat the Combine or at least weaken there tyrannical overlord-ship hold on Earth. Maybe then, at the end of Half-Life 2, he put Gordon into stasis because he was done, he didn't need to do anything more. But the Vorts helped out because of their Messianic idea of "The One Free Man", and sort of pissed off G-Man so he made the Advisors attack Eli and maybe he will make something happen on the Borealis or wherever Half-Life 3 will take place. That's my opinion, I'm not trying to talk over weaker theories, this is just my opinion. I'm not trying to be some conspiracy theorist, I'm just saying what I think.

 

[Vincent Pride]

For me, it's obvious that G-Man is an Observer type of character, and canonically Observers are advanced evolved human race from a distant future trying to alternate the past to save humanity. His key line about unforeseen consequences is a reference to Ray Bradbury's A Sound of Thunder, which describes somewhat called Butterfly effect.

G-Man being Gordon from the future makes perfect sense, but logical explanations could differ from writer to writer. If I was writing HL series, I would turn it in such a way that Gordon gets buried alive in the Antarctic during the final mission's grand explosion, then a few hundred years later his body is found by descendants of the Resistance, and their technologies allow them to establish connection with his mind from the past and to implant thoughts and ideas into his subconsciousness, therefore G-Man is a Gordon's mental projection of himself, "programmed" to point him towards the goal.