No more an innocent scientist

[arcturus]

One thing I found very fun in HL1 was the fact that Gordon Freeman was just a simple scientist, not a soldier or a superhero, facing unforeseen dangers.
I'm confident HL2 won't be a new Duke Nukem, but I'm afraid Freeman will become more of a dauntless fighting specialist in HL2, like in most of the videogames.

Will it be possible to feel the same mood than we did 6 years ago ?

 

[Mechagodzilla]

Well, it's really up to you. If you want, Freeman can be extremely inept at fighting, since you tell him what to do.

 

[Rygir]

He's referring to how he's portrayed. I had that same worry, but the fact he's still not going to talk and still regarded as a scientist ingame (cfr vids) makes me think we'll be ok. It's the kiddies around here that act like he's a commando...

 

[MrBongo]

I can't say I'll feel any different about playing as a more veterened Gordan Freeman than I did in the original Half Life, other than the fact that the action appears to unfold with fellow "resistance fighters" at your side (Like in the street skirmish/strider videos).

 

[Mechagodzilla]

He's referring to how he's portrayed. I had that same worry, but the fact he's still not going to talk and still regarded as a scientist ingame (cfr vids) makes me think we'll be ok. It's the kiddies around here that act like he's a commando...

Well, my point is that Gordon wasn't really ever "portrayed" as anything. He could be a cold-blooded killer or a wussy dork depending on who picks up the mouse. The only character trait Valve really made him have is that he likes to bug the snarks before he throws them.

Plus, he kills well over 200 various hyper-dangerous creatures over the course of HL1. That's better than commando x2.

 

[Rupertvdb]

It's the kiddies around here that act like he's a commando...

That's slightly derogatory, i'd say they have a fair enough reason to assume that he has (fictionally mind) done quite the good job. He was involved in a massive reality breach and proceeded to wander a vast facility, go to an alien universe, kill a massive baby and have a chat with Gman while toting and using an awfully large amount of weaponry, the guy probably picked up a couple of things, scars maybe....

He also seems to have just come around as if he was asleep for a while, if this is the case he would still be in the zone that was HL so he is probably still on form.

The guy became a commando when he went from shooting a head crab to gunning down helicopters with rocket launchers, he shouldn't be all pathetic it would suck.

 

[king John I]

the whole point is that you are gordon, he only lived through xen becuase you made him good enough to live. Besides if you played blueshift that felt just as good and that was based on the fact that your a security guard. Or opposing forced being based on you being an elite soldier.

 

[halflifeguy]

well half-life is one of those special games that puts you right into the story and it doesnt make a simple guy of the street (that doesnt know how to use a tv let alone gun)look like a superhuman killer

 

[Sean]

It still worries me that everyone keeps calling him "Mr." Freeman. He's just not getting the respect a Theoretical Physicist deserves!

 

[Wildhound]

Has nobody else spotted the fact that he's being compared to a commando in this thread, yet he survived while hundreds of them died at Black Mesa?

 

[Biozeminade]

It still worries me that everyone keeps calling him "Mr." Freeman. He's just not getting the respect a Theoretical Physicist deserves!

I have never once seen someone on this forum call him Mr. Freeman.

Only the GMan can do that

 

[Animal]

Gordon is now officially an unstoppable killing machine, he virtually wiped out an entire alien race and a government army singlehandedly. He tears through platoons of soldiers like a buzzsaw. There is no going back.

The fact that he has a P.H.D is inconsequential, he got that before he realised he was born to end lives. :sniper:

 

[chimpmunk]

It think gordon is still just a scientist who wanted to survive, and managed to do it very well...

 

[aeroripper]

Gordon is now officially an unstoppable killing machine, he virtually wiped out an entire alien race and a government army singlehandedly. He tears through platoons of soldiers like a buzzsaw. There is no going back.

The fact that he has a P.H.D is inconsequential, he got that before he realised he was born to end lives.

lol that was some funny stuff

 

[M1RAG3]

What is the amazing thing about the whole HL Franchise, is the level of interaction that Valve created, not only in HL but in the subsequent spin-offs as well. I mean, I can remember in HL when you catch a gimpse of the gman through the window, I thought to myself, "Why is he here in my reasearch facility?"

Also, Valve demonstrated the most beautiful and amazing aspect of human nature, where the basic need for survival can turn a lowly Research Scientist into a savior of mankind. A clear demonstration of over coming great admosities and life-threating situations and the nature of the human spirit.

 

[sHm0zY]

Spoiler

OHhhhh yeah its the same mood man trust me, some parts grign back memories =D

 

[Kouler]

Yay shmozy \o/

 

[jabberwock95]

I just remember what it said in a HL review or something: "Save the world? Maybe, but you have to save yourself first."

That's what freeman is about, what makes him so appealing. He isn't out to 'save the world from the alien menace', he's a regular guy being manipulated by forces beyond his control. He's just trying to get out of it all with his head attached.

 

[killahsin-[CE]]

I just remember what it said in a HL review or something: "Save the world? Maybe, but you have to save yourself first."

That's what freeman is about, what makes him so appealing. He isn't out to 'save the world from the alien menace', he's a regular guy being manipulated by forces beyond his control. He's just trying to get out of it all with his head attached.

Amen this is a perfect description of what HL1 was. They did an excelelnt job in itself of designing chaotic level scripting within the enviornments to really, really portray this feeling.


:afro:

 

[Cybernoid]

the whole point is that you are gordon, he only lived through xen becuase you made him good enough to live.

You control Gordon, yes, but you do that in every single game in existence: control the character. Gordon survives because Laidlaw or someone decided that he will survive.

 

[Just Smurfen]

You control Gordon, yes, but you do that in every single game in existence: control the character. Gordon survives because Laidlaw or someone decided that he will survive.

a lot of games have cut scenes in which you can't control what the character does... HL doesn't, and i assume that HL2 wont either.

 

[DarkStar]

I just remember what it said in a HL review or something: "Save the world? Maybe, but you have to save yourself first."

That's what freeman is about, what makes him so appealing. He isn't out to 'save the world from the alien menace', he's a regular guy being manipulated by forces beyond his control. He's just trying to get out of it all with his head attached.

That is a very good description of what set HL apart at the time.