why would that be strange o.O
Well you saw those security guards in HL all the time… I just assumed that one of them was barney. In Azure Sheep you cooperate with Gordon just before he is kidnapped and I was quite disappointed when Blue Shift ended without seeing him again.
Blue Shift, Opposing Force, Azure Sheep, POV…they’re all of unspecified canonicity. Until it’s confirmed by Valve, what happens in these 3rd party mods are not part of the official Valve canon.
I believe that Valve, however, has confirmed that the Barney you meet in Half Life 2 is the same character as the one banging on the locked door in Inbond and not any other guard, just as they retconned the black scientist in Half Life that lets you out of the test chamber section to go for help was Eli Vance, and the injured white scientist was Kleiner.
Also, in regards to your signature, you don’t need a spoon. Just use your hands. :retard:
Who eats cake with a spoon anyway?
I just throw my face into the cake and then nomnomnom.
BARNEY IS TEH G MAN!!!
I belived that Blue Shift WAS canon… After all it doesn’t include strange creatures never seen again or before and Gordon only appears 2 times. (1 In the tram, 2 If you look over the security camera on the security Room.) So it doesn’t contradict itself…
But of course VALVe did not confirm a sh*t about it’s game expansions…
That’s not correct, you see Gordon three times, at the ending you are teleported into a storage room at the moment Gordon got captured by HECU marines and dragged into the trash compactor.
I totally forgot about that! I should play through BS again 
It means everything in the world!!! right eye begins to twitch
Opposing Force and Blue Shift have both already been confirmed as canon. As without Opposing Force we’d never know that Black Mesa was nuked, which Valve stated was also canon.
check your sources.
It’s because the nuke in OP4 storyline was convenient that Valve (and Marc Laidlaw) chose to keep it (and as a why they set the story of HL2 elsewhere than New Mexico) but they didn’t confirm if both expansions are canon.
Do any of the scientists actually call Barney, Calhoun? I heard they do but I can’t remember that.
If they don’t then I think of Barney as one of the random security guards you find throughout the game. I always thought he should be one of the security guys you meet in office complex before you jump across the open elevator shaft to the ladders on the other side. Or the guard in the Anomalous Materials lab you can’t take into sector B with you.
If they do call him Calhoun in 2 then I simply assume he heard you carried a crowbar around with you during black mesa, as that’s the only thing that doesn’t quite make sense.
The only reason why I prefer the idea of Barney not being the guy from blue shift is the way in which Barney gets off the train in sector C but Gordon doesn’t actually seem to get to sector C until well after the intro train ride has started.
If it was obvious the Barney in blue shift got off the train in a random security hub instead of the sector C security hub, then I wouldn’t really care which one Barney is.
If the Barney in HL-2 isn’t ever called Calhoun then I think it’d work better if the Calhoun from blue shift is just a random security guard.
lolz 
Warning: Large post incoming!
In Blue Shift, he is only called “Calhoun”. He does not have that last name (or any other last name) in any other current incarnation.
In Half Life, the guards are not named but their model is “barney” after Don Knotts’ character in the “Andy Griffith Show”.
In the Half Life universe, you don’t know the character’s first name until you are stopped from boarding the train to Nova Prospekt and he says, “It’s me, Gordon. Barney, from Black Mesa.”
The model used for all the security guard NPCs in Half Life is “barney.mdl”.
According to Valve, the HL2 Barney is the one knocking on the security door in Inbound.
My theory there is that when Gordon destroyed the Nihilanth, the G-man (who also hasn’t been named beyond the model filename – gman.mdl) took all your weapons except for the crowbar because, after all, “most of them were government property”.
The crowbar wasn’t technically government property, so I think he transported it back into the Lambda Core teleportation chamber. The scientist there knew that you and Barney were friends so told Barney that the crowbar was the only thing to return so the scientist gave it to Barney.
In HL2, he’s only known as “Barney” and Valve said he was banging on the security door in Inbound. So, that’s what it is.
The expansions, according to what I’ve read from Valve, should be considered canon unless Valve were to go a different direction, thereby de-canonizing that portion of the expansion. Valve’s word is the law on this.
Yeah I know of how they named Barney in the end. It really is like no other game series in it’s evolution of characters, it’s got it’s own history and such I find really interesting.
“The crowbar wasn’t technically government property, so I think he transported it back into the Lambda Core teleportation chamber. The scientist there knew that you and Barney were friends so told Barney that the crowbar was the only thing to return so the scientist gave it to Barney.”
I’m not so sure, it seems a tad contrived and doesn’t sound like something the G-man would do. You don’t actually get the crowbar until after you meet Eli by the test chamber, so he couldn’t tell Barney.
I think it would simply be word of mouth.
“Valve said he was banging on the security door in Inbound. So, that’s what it is.”
Valve have said this? Missed it. Well there goes that theory.
TBH I’m not bothered about who Barney is, I’m more bothered about why he was assigned to sector C as a security guard, gets of a train in sector C, then Gordon goes on a 5 minute tram ride to sector C from ( according to tram girl ) level 3 dormitories to sector C test labs.
It seems like a damn long detour to go from the dormitories that are right next to sector C security to the anomalous materials lab. How long is the security response time usually? 10 minutes if the trams are running, 3 hours if not?
Then again the maps in half-life all overlapped each other so it’s not like the facility made sense before that hiccup.
“Oh, and before I forget. I think you dropped this back in Black Mesa!” --Barney
He didn’t say that the crowbar was found in Xen, but in Black Mesa. You had the crowbar in the Nihilanth fight, so maybe once Nihilanth was destroyed and the Gman ‘plucked’ you from the explosion, he confiscated your weapons but not your crowbar…so the crowbar was blown back to Black Mesa. A scientist found it (even if he didn’t know that you used it all that time) and gave it to Barney (“This was the only thing to return.” “Gordon…no…”)
:retard:
(Again, this is my half-assed theory but it works in my head.)
Much more simpler would be that Gordon used to smash things with Barney during their spare-time back at Black Mesa. Must be a private joke between the two pals.
what about the guard that guards the sliding doors that you’re not supposed to go through. he says “[I’ll buy yah a beer]”
HL2 barney says “now, about that beer i owe yah”
Unless that guard, barney, that is banging on the door IS that other guard.