What was the Gman's primary mission for Freeman?

[Zyphria]

"The right man at the wrong time can make all the difference."

So was Freeman supposed to cause chaos in general or track down the source of the problem and eliminate it?

 

[Fighter]

I would say kill Breen since that is the moment when the game ends. But perhaps more importantly spark a wide spread uprising against the Combine.

 

[f|uke]

I would say kill Breen since that is the moment when the game ends.

Breen was collateral damage.

Destroying the Citadel was Freemans biggest accomplishment. Breen was largely insignificant; a figurehead for the Combine. The creature he talked to, that is what has the power and must be stopped.

Still, there are still no clues as to who Gman works for.

 

[Solver]

Destroying the Citadel, but doing so with starting an uprising. I think if the Citadel simply got blown to pieces, GMan would not have been satisfied. He needed the uprising.

But why did he want any of this, or any of what happened in HL1, is still left to see as we learn who are his employers, whom is he trading with and what game is he playing.

 

[Fighter]

Well everyone seemed in such a rush to stop Breen, as if something would happen if he escaped. Citadel falling apart was really a byproduct of you effort to stop Breen. But I agree the citadel is more important.

 

[Asknoone]

I stand confident that gman had no goal for freeman, i believe the resistance have hired gordon as a mercenary from the gman, as a last ditch attempt to rid the combine of earth, there are many clues leading to this:

"I expected more warnign." says kliener. "You and me both doc." replies banrey

How did they know gordon was coming?

Also at the end, breen says to gordon "didnt you relise your contract was open to the highest bidder?"

In my opinion, breen is gently openeing gordons eyes because Eli suddenly replies "NO!" "Dont listen to him gordon."

And as soon as godon destroys the reactor, he cuts off the combines connection with earth and gman decides right, job done, the combines conenction has been cut, thats what they wanted now freeman back into the fridge

 

[Speedkills]

Well if you think about it the game leads up to you destroying Breen rather than trying to destroy the Citadel...how would you have known before hand that blowing up the teleport would destroy the Citadel until you had already decided to stop Breen? Surely you would be trying to destroy the citadel primarily...but you aren't, you're after Breen. Unless of course the G-man knew that destroying the teleport would destroy the Citadel....which is highly probable, seeing as how he seems to know and have power over everything. Hmmm.

 

[Asknoone]

You dotn kille Breen, many seem to think you do but you dont, he simply drifts to the bottom of the reactor, he isnt in the explosion.

Also your not trying to kill breen, alyx is trying to stop him escaping to the combine universe with the teleportation technology mossman stole from eli.

To do this you cut the combines connection with earth by destroying the reactor as it powers thier tunneling entanglement device which allows them to tunnel through to earth from thier universe

 

[Speedkills]

I stand confident that gman had no goal for freeman, i believe the resistance have hired gordon as a mercenary from the gman, as a last ditch attempt to rid the combine of earth, there are many clues leading to this:

"I expected more warnign." says kliener. "You and me both doc." replies banrey

How did they know gordon was coming?

Also at the end, breen says to gordon "didnt you relise your contract was open to the highest bidder?"

In my opinion, breen is gently openeing gordons eyes because Eli suddenly replies "NO!" "Dont listen to him gordon."

And as soon as godon destroys the reactor, he cuts off the combines connection with earth and gman decides right, job done, the combines conenction has been cut, thats what they wanted now freeman back into the fridge

But we have to link this to the events in HL1...Barney and Kleiner were in HL1 and surely didn't know the Gman then, they were simply bystanders to the Black Mesa incident. How could they have known about the Gman's employment of Gordon? At the start of the game it is pretty obvious they haven't seen Gordon since HL1.

 

[Asknoone]

But we have to link this to the events in HL1...Barney and Kleiner were in HL1 and surely didn't know the Gman then, they were simply bystanders to the Black Mesa incident. How could they have known about the Gman's employment of Gordon? At the start of the game it is pretty obvious they haven't seen Gordon since HL1.

Thats correct, but why cant they have seen gman in those 10 ten years that have passed? Its not so farfetched, also cubbage is seen talking to the gman as are the vortigaunts

 

[Speedkills]

Thats correct, but why cant they have seen gman in those 10 ten years that have passed? Its not so farfetched, also cubbage is seen talking to the gman as are the vortigaunts

Really? When does that happen? If that is true then you are probably right and that makes the story much more interesting....

 

[Fighter]

I doubt he was hired by the resistance. But the Gman or his people probably were in contact with them. They do afterall know that Gordon is coming.

If you think about it, Gordon really is led through all this through circumstanse. Eli even sais: "lets get that suit of you and get you into a lab where you belong" But then everything just happens, first escape with your life then save Eli then Alyx......

Come to think of it, it could have been Gman that gave the Combine the location of the rebel base to provoke Freeman.

I think they have no idea about Gordon's mysterious contract with the Gman. Nor would they have enough recourses, if it really is for the highest bidder then it is rather unlikely that a strugling rebel group would outbid say Breen.

 

[Asknoone]

Come to think of it, it could have been Gman that gave the Combine the location of the rebel base to provoke Freeman.

I doubt that, breen mentions you lead the combine to eli's base.

@Speedkills: You see thsi thru the binoculars in the coast level, in the small hut

 

[cH0WyUNf4T]

breen is the figurehead head for the combine on earth as i imagince nihilanth was the figurehead for the combine on xen. the vortigaunts (inhabitants of xen?) were enslaved by nihilanth for his power needs. i believe in the first two half lifes we had to overthrow the power figures of the combine on two different planets, what will happen in hl3 then?

 

[SilentWraith]

I noticed that the Gman talked to the rebels at thier base, during the mission where you have the buggy, i stopped at a house and killed some combine, and looked through thier binocular stand thing, and i saw the Gman talking to one of the rebels. I think the Gman "sold" Gordons services to the rebels because with Earth rebeling against the Combine, it might start a state of mind where people think invading aliens must be faught off, even to the death. This would cause less problems for the Gman's employers in the future, but if the combine ruled it would also maby benefit his employers, thats why Gordon was up for the highest bidder.

 

[NiteX]

I wish you could have fought that giant green blob thingy. A no boss fight on HL2 made me sad .

 

[Cpl_Facehugger]

I doubt he was hired by the resistance. But the Gman or his people probably were in contact with them. They do afterall know that Gordon is coming.

Hmm. Does Eli, Kleiner and co actually know that it's Gordon coming? I mean, it sounded rather like they knew someone was coming to help them, but they didn't know who to expect. They seemed genuinely surprised when they saw Gordon. They didn't seem so surprised as to say "Gordon? What the hell are you doing here?" or anything. They clearly expected somebody, they just didn't expect that 'somebody' would mean 'the saivor of black mesa and killer of entire legions of headcrabs with nothing more than a crowbar.'

If you think about it, Gordon really is led through all this through circumstanse. Eli even sais: "lets get that suit of you and get you into a lab where you belong" But then everything just happens, first escape with your life then save Eli then Alyx......

Come to think of it, it could have been Gman that gave the Combine the location of the rebel base to provoke Freeman.

I think they have no idea about Gordon's mysterious contract with the Gman. Nor would they have enough recourses, if it really is for the highest bidder then it is rather unlikely that a strugling rebel group would outbid say Breen.

I concur. Gordon is never really given a choice as to wether he wants to side with the resistance.

However, didn't Dr. Mossman say (or at least imply) that she had called down the Combine troops on Black Mesa East? I'll have to replay Nova Prospekt and get back to you on that one.

I think that *some* members of the resistance have *some* inklings of Gordon's contract. I mean, Alyx and Eli seemed really, really concerned that Gordon would take Breen's offer.

(Although I actually think that they were just scared for their nascent resistance. Gordon was a rallying figure. Without him, or at least the idea of him ('sacrificing' himself to kill Breen and destroy the citadel and thus becoming a martyr) the armed uprising would probably dissolve, people would return to their squalor in the apartments and take a once in a lifetime trip to Nova Prospekt. (At the behest of some Combine Metrocops of course.)

Gordon was really the trigger for the resistance, and in the end, when all was said and done, Gman seemed rather pleased. Even more so than he should on completion of a successful mission. Perhaps Gordon's mission was particularly important, or the spawning of the resistance was an unexpected bonus.

 

[MiccyNarc]

You dotn kille Breen, many seem to think you do but you dont, he simply drifts to the bottom of the reactor, he isnt in the explosion.

I guess you missed the part where there is a huge explosion that "could bring the whole tower down" (in Breen's words).

Anyway, as for the poll, I choose none of the above. The G-man is using Gordon to destroy the human race.

 

[Zyphria]

Anyway, as for the poll, I choose none of the above. The G-man is using Gordon to destroy the human race.

Run amuck fits into that rather well =P (or amok if you prefer mispelling it as I did).

 

[m00j]

Well in HL1 the fresh specimen just happened to cause the resonance cascade scenario which lead to Gordon killing nihilanth. This one he kills Breen and destroys the citadel.

i.e. HL1: destroys the combines strangle hold on xen.
HL2: destroys the combines strangle hold on earth.

Also, in the citadel, you overhear Breen talking about the combine's plan to destroy the earth, and how he is going to be moved to another planet (i.e. he is saved for his service to the combine). The citadel was obviously tunnelling to the centre of the earth for some reason. Maybe it is a giant bomb that would blow the earth to bits?

HL3 I think will be Gordon on the final mission to destroy the combine forces on their home planet, once and for all.

And with this info of the meeting between the G-Man and the vortagons, maybe it was them who hired him in HL1 and in HL2 (they are ridding the universe of the combines).

If what Breen was saying is true, then maybe Gordon has been, since he was a child, imprinted to become the person who will take down the entire combine population.

 

[iansmith]

If you think about it, Gordon really is led through all this through circumstanse. Eli even sais: "lets get that suit of you and get you into a lab where you belong" But then everything just happens, first escape with your life then save Eli then Alyx......

It was the woman scientist who said that. I think she was trying to get him out of his suit so he could be captured easier. If you remember later on she complains that she would have had Freeman if they had not rushed in and screwed it up, so she also wasn't the one to call the combine in on Mesa East.

I took the comment as an insult at the time. Out of the suit where I beling? The sute IS where Freeman belongs. Get out of my way and let me blow up more stuff.

 

[Asknoone]

Double post

 

[Asknoone]

I guess you missed the part where there is a huge explosion that "could bring the whole tower down" (in Breen's words).

Hence "you could", he is simply saying that so you dont destroy the portal...you dont know what happens afetrwords.

Anyway, as for the poll, I choose none of the above. The G-man is using Gordon to destroy the human race.

I think thats simply out of the question, he is your employer and your a mercenary..i really dont think he is interested in the human race...

It was the woman scientist who said that

No eli said it

 

[AgentXen]

I Remeber Some a Journalist asking Doug Lambardi a Question about Half-Life 2 , it went something like this:

Journalist:
So how do you expect the Half-Life trillogy will do in the future?

Doug:
what? How do you know its a trilliogy? Who told you it was?

Journalist:
Well i mean Half-Life univers.

 

[MaverickUK]

Really? When does that happen? If that is true then you are probably right and that makes the story much more interesting....

You twice see the vortigaunts watching the G-Man on TV and they seem startled when you first come in.

Once was when you meet the first outpost of the underground railroad and one was at the camp where you get the antlion pheropods.