I found out that the guys at valve peiced the vortigaunts name together off two words.
I broke up vortigaunt into vorti and gaunt and i found out this.
Closest thing to vorti i can find is Vortical, which means "Of, relating to, or moving in a vortex; whirling."
And everyone knows that a vortex is sort of like a portal.
And they did teleport through the portals in hl1.
And gaunt means "Thin and bony; angular"
Which does describe the vortigaunts structure quite well.
So maybe there are some other hidden things like that.
And of course the enemy guys are called the combine, because they obviously combine with the other races.
Edit: just did some more searching at dictionary.com and look.
Another definition of gaunt
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;
The end of the name perfectly suits them, because they were slaves.
The closest thing i can find to alyx is Alex
That means Protector of Mankind
Eli comes from elijah which means
The Lord is My God
Gordon means
Round Hill
Freeman means
Free Man
Gordon Freeman
Round Hill Freeman??!??
lol
Gman - According to dictionary.com
An agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
G-man n : a special law-enforcement agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
So that means the gman might represent some future organisation trying to enforce the law on the combine, but they are too strong in the future, so he sends gordon back in time to kick their asses.
He places him in the black mesa place.
Seems very likely.
I broke up vortigaunt into vorti and gaunt and i found out this.
Closest thing to vorti i can find is Vortical, which means "Of, relating to, or moving in a vortex; whirling."
And everyone knows that a vortex is sort of like a portal.
And they did teleport through the portals in hl1.
And gaunt means "Thin and bony; angular"
Which does describe the vortigaunts structure quite well.
So maybe there are some other hidden things like that.
And of course the enemy guys are called the combine, because they obviously combine with the other races.
Edit: just did some more searching at dictionary.com and look.
Another definition of gaunt
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;
The end of the name perfectly suits them, because they were slaves.
The closest thing i can find to alyx is Alex
That means Protector of Mankind
Eli comes from elijah which means
The Lord is My God
Gordon means
Round Hill
Freeman means
Free Man
Gordon Freeman
Round Hill Freeman??!??
lol
Gman - According to dictionary.com
An agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
G-man n : a special law-enforcement agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
So that means the gman might represent some future organisation trying to enforce the law on the combine, but they are too strong in the future, so he sends gordon back in time to kick their asses.
He places him in the black mesa place.
Seems very likely.