Uh...it's probably not a problem...probably...but I'm showing a small discrepancy in...well, no, it's well within acceptable bounds again
Uh...it's probably not a problem...probably...but I'm showing a small discrepancy in...well, no...
Alexander Walker
Luis Cooper
so where was gordon in the years between half life 1 and half life 2? in gman's space zone?
Jayden Davis
What exactly was the purpose of having a guy in that chamber?
Levi Carter
Yeah, he was in some kind of suspended animation.
Grayson Phillips
He was put on ice until G Man needed him again.
David Young
Saving on budget by having the low guy on the totem pole do shit instead of building a mechanism.
James Mitchell
...yes? It is clearly explained he's just in a space freezer where time doesn't move. Obviously he got undressed and put into a typical City 17 outfit by Gman so he wouldn't be immediately apprehended and could do his mission, but his boomer ass colleagues say he didn't age a day. Whether he was asleep, conscious, or the time passed in the blink of an eye isn't clear.
Luke White
Gman's time suspension couch
Luke Sanchez
Was it ever explained who is G-Man?
Gavin Adams
>build a super secret expensive underground facility to test some super advanced shit
>a giant test chamber full of advanced tech
>didn't build simple mechanism to push a thing to the middle
Totally makes sense.
Chase Lewis
Get back to pushing my fucking carts, Gordon.
Aiden Lewis
Nope.
Bentley Adams
Fucking Valve make HL3 already instead of shitting out card games and autochess.
Colton Wilson
Worked out pretty well for Gordon in the end.
Matthew Lewis
Why doesnt gordon die from acute radiation poisoning?
Noah Lewis
Do you know who ate all the donuts?
Jonathan Bailey
Because there's nothing cute about radiation poisoning.
Angel Flores
What's cute in half life?
Jonathan James
Lamarr
Isaac Kelly
Good point
Cooper Howard
No but find out this and more in half life 3!
Jeremiah Turner
Let’s be honest, Gordon wasn’t that special. It was all the HEV suit
William Watson
>"Good 'ol New Mexico. We're really making a name for this state; first they invented the atomic bomb in Los Alamos, now we've invented mean-ass aliens that teleport out of nowhere! I'm not sure which is worse! Y'know, when they invented the atomic bomb, they were afraid it was going to catch that atmosphere on fire and burn up the whole Earth. But they did it anyway. That took balls. Not us though, the only people taking the risks were the ones who didn't understand them in the first place! We're not brave, we're just stupid."
Jacob Edwards
The combine of course!
Michael Wilson
There are a number of corpses in HEV suits scattered around Xen, so it's clearly not all the HEV suit.
Noah Rodriguez
God bless Ross
Jayden Powell
Those are gordan. Look up string theory.
Caleb Baker
There it is! Sector B! God, how much did I drink last night?
Elijah Anderson
>string theory
Those guys are all cultists.
Aaron Ramirez
But those have a helmet and gordon does not, and I know that strings do not make helmets
Dominic Smith
Strings make wafers. Wafers make helmets.
Levi Fisher
No, flour makes wafers, and wafers make cookies.
Tyler Bell
No, flour makes waffles. Not wafers.
Jackson Rodriguez
But how can you make a helmet out of waffles?
Colton Watson
It's how your ancestors survived.
Hudson Cook
This changes everything.
Colton Powell
No. G-Man stands for Government Man, but he's obviously an extraterrestrial figure, with immense power. He doesn't need to be revealed, he's perfect as is.
Evan Stewart
i bet that the writers thought about retconning the events of the games by making time travel possible and just hindering gordon to show up to work. half life doesnt need a super invested story it just needs to be good enough to make for fun gameplay.
Evan Russell
F
Robert Ross
Reminder that's a canon universe where Cave bought Black Mesa and shut this experiment down for being retarded.
Luke Hill
Yeah, for sure. Originally, Half Life 2 was just going to be Gordon doing recon, and spec-op work on what would've been the Borealis, just without all of the nonsense attached to it.
People often forget that while lore is important, Valve prioritizes fun first, and has no problem throwing something in the trash, if although interesting, provides really no fun.
The numerous concepts of Half Life 2 weren't scrapped due to leaks, it was long gone by then. They were scrapped because Gabe, and a few others, figured there'd be nothing fun about being in another generic, 1984-esque, dark environment where you're constantly reminded me of how overtly poor everything is.
People come up with these grand conspiracies as to why Half Life 3, or Episode 3 haven't seen the light of day. But, in the end, it boils down to Valve having nothing technologically impressive to show off. That was the whole point in Half Life 2 - not to continue the story, but to show off their new engine, and all of the fun shit you could do with their physics engine. The story's been ironed out, and I'm sure there are numerous iterations, but what good is the story, if the game is a fucking boring snooze-fest?
Andrew Torres