Returning character revealed

Mikael Grizzly said:
What if the character in question is the scientist who talked to G-Man?
Click to expand...
That would make a lot of sense. We already know that Epi Two is going to focus on the G-Man somewhat. Having a character that knows him from Black Mesa could be very useful from a story telling point of view.
The more I think about it the more I am convinced.

I'm pretty sure Smithers isn't dead - I'll see if I still have my saved games to check.

EDIT: No Smithers is not dead - unless you shoot him ;) - he makes a couple of "ahh"'s when you turn the electricity on but he doesn't die. For some reason in HL:S his player model differs from the HL model.
 
Max35 said:
Seeing as how the main character from Portal is female, I wonder if it will be Gina or Collet from Decay. That would be interesting.
Click to expand...
Main character from Portal will be someone completly new.
And Smithers must be dead, there was no chance for him to escape from Blast Pit, he can't survive that.
 
Operational said:
That would make a lot of sense. We already know that Epi Two is going to focus on the G-Man somewhat. Having a character that knows him from Black Mesa could be very useful from a story telling point of view.
The more I think about it the more I am convinced.

I'm pretty sure Smithers isn't dead - I'll see if I still have my saved games to check.

EDIT: No Smithers is not dead - unless you shoot him ;) - he makes a couple of "ahh"'s when you turn the electricity on but he doesn't die. For some reason in HL:S his player model differs from the HL model.
Click to expand...
Really? When I played I distincly remember him gibbing when I turned on the generator.
 
Not in any of the games I've played. Its possible that something was changed in a patch at some point. Since there is no way to save him it might be a bit frustrating/cruel/misleading to force the player to kill him so they might have changed it.

Off Topic: Lol they still haven't fixed your name, r?*omhaire :).
 
Are people actually seeing my name as r?*omhaire?
To me it's r?*omhaire (rAomhaire with a '~' over the first 'A')
 
Asuka said:
I think i need to clear up some confusion.

Portal will introduce a new character that is a WOMEN which will appear in the later Episodes (Episode 3 etc)

The knew Episode 2 character is the survivor of Black Mesa. Another character completely.
Click to expand...

Whoa, I didn't know that about the Portal character being female. Can someone link to the interview, or whatever source. I must have completely missed something.
 
Woman, Asuka. Unless she has a multiple personality disorder or is a conjoined twin. Come to think of it, have you ever played as such a twin?

On the G-Man interlocutor issue, I think we never see him die, the model that gets crabowned is the Einsteinesque scientist.
 
Animontius said:
Whoa, I didn't know that about the Portal character being female. Can someone link to the interview, or whatever source. I must have completely missed something.
Click to expand...
http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?pager.offset=1&cId=3153489
Portal has a story that takes place within the Half-Life 2 universe, with an entirely new female main character ...
Click to expand...

But as I see it, this doesn't confirm you play as the female, there could be more then one main character in the game? Like, I consider Alyx Vance as one of the main characters in the HL saga.

But it probably means you play as the female, they wouldn't have mentioned it otherwise... I think.
 
Kim Swift was said to accidentally slip up and say that the main character is female... however, I haven't actually heard anything 100% saying that the slip-up was a leak of information as opposed to Kim Swift simply getting it wrong. A slip of the mind because the character was once going to be female (which in a way, we know it was: since Narbacular Drop is a sort of proto-portal).

Though if it is a female character, i'm all for that. It can only be as unsettling for male players as being called Gordon is for anyone. I'd hate to be called Gordon :p
 
well I went and played Half-life 1 again and took a screenshot of everyone near the test chamber. I have narrowed it down to these 2 scientists (the other 2 where Eli and Kliener)

fact2.jpg


fact1.jpg


Also this is a Half-life 2 beta model for Kliener

11.jpg


it may be used as the model for the scientist so I thought I should post it

PS: I have samon said I could post this picture from the stolen beta:stare:
 
Yes, the first one is the one I'm talking about. Then again, the scientist on the Tram talking with the Gman is interesting as well. But the one with the Gman isn't even close to the test chamber. So...
 
Animontius said:
Whoa, I didn't know that about the Portal character being female. Can someone link to the interview, or whatever source. I must have completely missed something.
Click to expand...

081506narb.jpg
OH NOES! ITS HER AGAIN!
 
Samon said:
Rosenburg had about as much charisma as a dry rock.
Click to expand...

Agreed :D

I say it's walter

now I am wondering why

doesn't Kleiner just teleport Freeman to the past in order to prevent the events from Half Life 1 from ever occurring?
 
Time travel messes up a story that isn't already about time travel because it's so hard to bloody well make sense of it. I mean, if your enemies had time travel all along they could have gone back in time and killed you before you where even aware that you where enemies, but since that already happened you'd already be dead and they would never have gone back in time to kill you. Time travel creates too many parradoxes and makes things too muddled and confusing.
 
But if there's not time travel in the storyline then how can Gordon come back to talk to himself as the G-Man?
 
r?*omhaire said:
Time travel messes up a story that isn't already about time travel because it's so hard to bloody well make sense of it. I mean, if your enemies had time travel all along they could have gone back in time and killed you before you where even aware that you where enemies, but since that already happened you'd already be dead and they would never have gone back in time to kill you. Time travel creates too many parradoxes and makes things too muddled and confusing.
Click to expand...

I know, plus when used in storylines, it is guaranteed to not make sense. for example, oh no, superhero john q.public fails and the earth is destroyed in the generic action film of the year. he goes back in time and stops it from happening, saving the day. of course, by saving hte day by going back in time, that means the past him would have had no reason to go back in time, creating a paradox.
 
r?*omhaire said:
Time travel messes up a story that isn't already about time travel because it's so hard to bloody well make sense of it. I mean, if your enemies had time travel all along they could have gone back in time and killed you before you where even aware that you where enemies, but since that already happened you'd already be dead and they would never have gone back in time to kill you. Time travel creates too many parradoxes and makes things too muddled and confusing.
Click to expand...

No, it would create separate timelines

PS: Time travel (at least to the future) is possible in HL2
 
I believe Time Travel can be fine, providing the developers have thought of all the possibilities and covered them in one way or another. It's not about a game mechanic in its own right, it's about how developers handle them now-a-days. Make sense?

Time travel doesn't have to to be about X going back in time and saving the world from X, it can be far more simplistic and restrained.
 
r?*omhaire said:
Time travel messes up a story that isn't already about time travel because it's so hard to bloody well make sense of it. I mean, if your enemies had time travel all along they could have gone back in time and killed you before you where even aware that you where enemies, but since that already happened you'd already be dead and they would never have gone back in time to kill you. Time travel creates too many parradoxes and makes things too muddled and confusing.
Click to expand...

WRONG.

Atoms branch out into many different paths, like right now, in another reality (like if I went back 5 seconds ago) I wouldnt be doing this, and I may not even be eating cheerios right now, so If you went back and killed yourself, nothing would happen in THIS REALITY, which is the ONLY REALITY OF CONSEQUENCE.
 
Time Travel to me is only acceptable when it's getting stuck in a portal beteen Nova Prospekt and the Lab.
 
zleppelin said:
No, it would create separate timelines
Click to expand...

Exactly! The only way to avoid perplexing paradoxes such as the famous "grandfather paradox" is to admit the existence of an infinity of different time lines. Different time lines, different historical out comes, meaning parallel worlds. And since parallel worlds already exist in this story so I don't see why time travel to the future or to the past wouldn't be possible within the context of this story.
 
Remus said:
Exactly! The only way to avoid perplexing paradoxes such as the famous "grandfather paradox" is to admit the existence of an infinity of different time lines. Different time lines, different historical out comes, meaning parallel worlds. And since parallel worlds already exist in this story so I don't see why time travel to the future or to the past wouldn't be possible within the context of this story.
Click to expand...

Wait, Parrallel Worlds exist in this story?

Are you talking about the whole Combine Entanglement tunneling stuff?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Terminator
Long time...
Replies
16
Views
1K
Xtremecherry95YT
Xtremecherry95YT
Krynn72
You guys, what the **** is up.
Replies
11
Views
2K
Tollbooth Willie
Tollbooth Willie
Lizardizzle
2019: The year of Half-Life SFX videos
Replies
4
Views
2K
Ennui
Ennui
Chris D
Half-Life: Alyx announced
Replies
32
Views
25K
Tollbooth Willie
Tollbooth Willie
TechnoHippyChic
If you post it, they will come...
2
Replies
63
Views
7K
TechnoHippyChic
TechnoHippyChic
Back
Top