How are these two contradictory G-Man-related plot points reconciled?

[Goethe]

In HL1 the G-man offers Gordon a job. Gordon then can choose to accept the job or not to accept the job.

In HL2 as we all know it is assumed that Gordon accepted the job, but at the end the G-man tells him something along the lines of "rather than offering the illusion of free choice, I took the liberty of choosing for you..."

So in HL1 there is free choice and in HL2 there isn't. How do you make sense of these two seemingly apparent contradictions?

 

[smwScott]

Because in HL1 there really wasn't a choice. The only real way to go was to join him, which is why the endgame choice was really an illusion. Yes you could have stayed and then gotten killed, but in a real life situation you wouldn't have. He had no choice.

 

[fifty7var]

its not a controdiction at all... you realize they are two different games don't you?

at the end of hl2 he decided that he needs you regardless of whether or not you want to work for him... after going through the hell he had to twice, and having seen what has come of the world he once may have loved, gordon might very well have just said "f--k it!"

Adam

 

[duckmoose]

I love the way he says that, "...by choooo-siiiing fooor yooouuu." Hahaha. The G-Man is such a freak.

I got the box with him on the front and he looks like such a pervert on the cover, hehehe.

But seriously, the G-Man is so frikin pimp. :afro:

The Half-Life storyline is linear and thus the actual plot doesn't follow if you make the crappy choice in HL1.

Don't see how those two plot-points are contradictory.

 

[Revenge]

How could they be contradictory if they are referring to each other?

When the Gman tells you that he isn't giving you the illusion of choice this time round, he is talking about the end of HL1, not ignoring it.

 

[Asuka]

In HL1 the G-man offers Gordon a job. Gordon then can choose to accept the job or not to accept the job.

In HL2 as we all know it is assumed that Gordon accepted the job, but at the end the G-man tells him something along the lines of "rather than offering the illusion of free choice, I took the liberty of choosing for you..."

So in HL1 there is free choice and in HL2 there isn't. How do you make sense of these two seemingly apparent contradictions?

"rather than offering the illusion of free choice, I took the liberty of choosing for you..."

By him saying that he means that:

In hl1 you really didnt have a choice. You died if you didnt take the job. NOTE: illusion of free choice.

 

[Ownzed]

Live or die. Make your choice..

 

[Tynan]

I'd a suckerpunched that damn G-man in the nose if I could.

I can imagine why Gordon would get pissed at him.

 

[bliink]

Its because in hl1 you couldn't choose to die. You're always going to be alive in hl2... its the whole "fate" theme. you never had a choice, gordon freeman was always going to fight the combine (as planned seemingly by the gman)