el Chi
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I'm partly playing devil's advocate here, because I do quite like Freeman, inasmuch as I'm Freeman when I'm playing, and he is the thinking man's FPS protagonist after all. Although when your current competition is the Doom marine or Jack bloody Carver, it's not too hard.
But that's not the point. The point is: Why does ANYONE in the Half-Life universe like Gordon Freeman? I can see why people might respect him - he's been through a lot and besides, if you started insulting him, he might make the witty comeback of stoving your head in with his crowbar. However:
1. This Xen/ Combine nonsense is partly his fault. Ok, so the experiment may have been sabotaged, and it may have happened anyway, but if you heard:
"Yeah, the reason there are all these beasties attacking you is because there was this secret experiment that went seriously wrong. There was this guy who was involved - Gordon Freeman."
You wouldn't think - my, what a sterling fellow! You'd be pissed off because it was partly his fault and maybe none of this would've happened if it weren't for HIM.
2. He failed at stopping the aliens. So we don't know for sure whether there's a link between Xen and the Combine, but Freeman went through Xen leaving a wake of alien corpses and killed what seemed to be the main portal beasty. Hooray! Except it didn't work. Oh. So Gordon, thanks for stopping the portal storms and all these Xen creatures coming to Earth. Thanks a bunch.
3. He's mute. Well, it's not as if he's about to deliver any rousing speeches.
4. Eli and Kleiner have been trying to redeem themselves. They were involved too, but they've been working for the past two decades or however long to topple the Combine. Where's Gordon been? Not helping, that's for sure.
5. In the process of getting rid of the Combine, all Hell's broken loose. Of course it's great that since his arrival, things've gotten a bit better, but the resistance seemed slightly better organised BEFORE Entanglement, than the chaos after it. And what's to say that they wouldn't have succeeded without him? Thousands of people must've died in the uprising and City 17 may well be obliterated by the Citadel exploding, along with thousands more inhabitants. Of course the Combine were hardly all smiles and laughter, but you gotta consider the death toll. Sort of.
Well there you go. As I said, I don't entirely belive it and the only real reason I'm posting this rambling nonsense is because I'm avoiding doing coursework. Oh yes.
But that's not the point. The point is: Why does ANYONE in the Half-Life universe like Gordon Freeman? I can see why people might respect him - he's been through a lot and besides, if you started insulting him, he might make the witty comeback of stoving your head in with his crowbar. However:
1. This Xen/ Combine nonsense is partly his fault. Ok, so the experiment may have been sabotaged, and it may have happened anyway, but if you heard:
"Yeah, the reason there are all these beasties attacking you is because there was this secret experiment that went seriously wrong. There was this guy who was involved - Gordon Freeman."
You wouldn't think - my, what a sterling fellow! You'd be pissed off because it was partly his fault and maybe none of this would've happened if it weren't for HIM.
2. He failed at stopping the aliens. So we don't know for sure whether there's a link between Xen and the Combine, but Freeman went through Xen leaving a wake of alien corpses and killed what seemed to be the main portal beasty. Hooray! Except it didn't work. Oh. So Gordon, thanks for stopping the portal storms and all these Xen creatures coming to Earth. Thanks a bunch.
3. He's mute. Well, it's not as if he's about to deliver any rousing speeches.
4. Eli and Kleiner have been trying to redeem themselves. They were involved too, but they've been working for the past two decades or however long to topple the Combine. Where's Gordon been? Not helping, that's for sure.
5. In the process of getting rid of the Combine, all Hell's broken loose. Of course it's great that since his arrival, things've gotten a bit better, but the resistance seemed slightly better organised BEFORE Entanglement, than the chaos after it. And what's to say that they wouldn't have succeeded without him? Thousands of people must've died in the uprising and City 17 may well be obliterated by the Citadel exploding, along with thousands more inhabitants. Of course the Combine were hardly all smiles and laughter, but you gotta consider the death toll. Sort of.
Well there you go. As I said, I don't entirely belive it and the only real reason I'm posting this rambling nonsense is because I'm avoiding doing coursework. Oh yes.