I don’t think we’ll find out much about the G-man in Episode 3, to be honest. Half Life 1 is all about the Xenian aliens. Half Life 2 (and its episodes) is all about the Combine. Half Life 3, however, could be G’man versus G-man (:retard 
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Episode 3 will be about the Combine and probably their final downfall. With the Combine defeated, Gordon can then focus his attention on his ‘employer’ and those that employ him in the 3rd Half Life incarnation.
I think the ruling classes of the Combine may be on a similar level to the G-Man and his employers, but not any of the one’s we’ve seen on Earth. The advisors strike me as being pretty low down on the scale, something like the equivalent of town councillors. Which makes us around the level of trained rats.
I know I’m a little late to the party here, but people who say that the G-Man has a grudge against the Combine or whatever fail to realise that, from the looks of it, the G-Man is merely a middle-man in a mercenary agency. An interdimensional one of sorts.
That’s… basically what I was saying…
I think we’ve established that 1000x over now…
yea , as far as gman is , my opinion is that he is kind of neutral , like a mercenary of sorts …
the gameplay in half life will NEVER be about gman as the primary objective , or as secondary , gman just is , you will know gman when gman wants you to know gman , not sooner , not later , get used to it
It’s been said like twice in this thread, not counting my post, and obviously people we’re too thick to understand.
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I like your theory… But the voice is awfull. Use your voice the next time
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Because he has a GASMASK!! and because he’s connected to the half-life universe somehow and u know we just LOVE Half-Life…that’s all 
About G-man: Maybe Valve doesnt even think about half the things u ppl do…they made half-life and g-man and everything this foggy and unexplained to entertain you, if u’d know every1 and everything, the whole game wouldn’t be so intresting and id would become a “played it trough only once but that was enough” game…
About Gordons muteness : He’s not mute, it’s like his feet, Valve wants you to be
Gordon , not some1 you play…thats all!
QFT. I could name literally hundreds of video game heroes that never utter a word. Even newer games like Bioshock adopt the philosophy of a silent hero. It’s nothing special. Gordon doesn’t talk for the exact same reason so many others never talked. He has nothing to say, and nothing he would say would amount to anything more than an unnecessary, yet probably quotable one-liner like “Time to kickass and chew bubblegum,” or “I need a weapon”.
Thanks for cutting me off.:mean:
Some people need to learn to drive threads, my god.
I personally am in the camp that Gman is Combine himself (high level, possibly unknown in the ranks of the mooks), so far in the grand scheme of things if everything had gone his way the Combine would have been out ahead.
So a mysterious man delivers something to Black Mesa which just so happens to open a portal storm, he also commissions the army to do a coverup (if I recall correctly from the manual of Opposing Force), almost assuring SOMEONE would encounter and kill the Nihilanth. Nihilanth dies, portal storms start and Combine come out and eat our faces in the 7 hour war. On top of that the Administrator went through a “great deal of trouble” to get the sample and was “pushing to get results that day.” Is it possible the Gman offered him that cushy position at the head of humanity in advance for allowing the incident to occur and that the great deal of trouble referred to him accepting that he was effectively selling humanity out?
Then the two people who proved the most capable threats (Shephard, and to a greater degree, Gordon) are put in holding, probably so they couldn’t foul up the war itself. Everything seems to be running according to plan and then they hit a snag… a resistance has formed but they can’t find the leaders for the life of them, even the basic members are well hidden in society. One thing they know, they idolize one Gordon Freeman who was said to have fought off droves of aliens before.
So the Gman arranges a shadow deal with Eli Vance, pretending to sell Gordon to the resistance while really working on a bigger plan. Yes, he knew the presence of Gordon would spur a full on rebellion, get them out of the woodwork so to speak. On top of that he managed to blow the Citadel. This sounds like a huge DETRIMENT at first, until we found out some juicy information. If they blew the Citadel they could send a packet and warp in another full invasion fleet. The resistance is out in the open, a huge force is coming through and… game over?
“But wait…” you say, “Gordon is going to stop it!” Yes, he is NOW. But let’s review, the G-man tried to put him into holding at the precise moment things would be at the worst for the resistance, the packet would be going out and the resistance would be in full sight, easily destroyed, and straight in the path of any giant fleet that may appear with their capable hero completely gone. The Vortigaunts, even if they didn’t know Gman’s plan or what he was (which they could very well, they clearly know SOMETHING. Maybe he pulled the same trick on them?) sensed something was amiss and rescued Gordon, who the Gman clearly knows is capable. Was he merely mad because he lost a very good business tool? Possibly, but I think it was more likely that he was well aware of the gravity that a Freeman running around could easily throw a monkey wrench straight into the plans he carefully crafted and that that particular extraction point was all but necessary if he wanted the finalization of humanity’ s enslavement to go smoothly.
Edit to add: This does still leave open a few holes, like why did he bargain with Vance the first time to save Alyx? The answer is that I’m not sure. Perhaps he figured having a non Combine-aligned human trusting him would be a good trump card? Maybe he really didn’t think she was of no practical use to anyone and planned from the start to have her assist Gordon if some rebellious tendencies formed? It is a good question, but not one that I’m sure invalidates the theory.
Good Idea, the gman as combine is new here. I still prefer the intergalactic dealer thats cozy with both sides theory though. It leaves room for alyx plucking ect.
The main problem I have with that theory is what exactly is he dealing, and what are people paying him? I mean, yes, there are references to him being paid, but I can’t imagine humans have too much to realistically offer someone that is clearly very powerful as well as able to do business with much more powerful races. Unless Eli is secretly an intergalactic traveler who retired as a scientist on Earth after he made a killing playing Andromeda Hold 'Em I’m not seeing much he could offer unless the G-man had a scam running from the beginning. What’s he doing, collecting human souls?
I guess this point of contention is something we really need more information about, there’s not really much substance as to what you can debate as far as payment and such goes until Episode 3 at the earliest.
He deals in Gordon. Thats why he gets all butt hurt when the vorts take gordon away. What he gets paid in is still kinda a mystery but alyx’s safe travel to white forest is a form of payment and I think eli’s life was another.
He clearly deals in more than Gordon, he also apparently delivers alien materials, so he’s not a merc manager, he plucked Alyx, so he doesn’t just deal with making aliens (dis)appear. He doesn’t really seem to have a consistent MO.
He lacks a consistent MO because valve writes as they go along. He very much seemed like the administrator of the black mesa facility in hl1. then he was much more of a Government- Man in op4. All of this changed in HL2. The Alyx plucking thing was not written until after episode one. The alyx sidekick thing worked really well in hl2. So they wrote an entire game around her. People liked her so much valve sought to elicit an emotional response by gravely injuring her in the beginning of ep2. As I have posted earlier, there was no magnussen until ep2 but with a few lines about a casserole we have reverse continuity all the way back to Half Life. Cannon or plot is whatever valve chooses to do from game to game. If the “mystery” of the g-man is revealed, valve would have a lot less range to make a story and all of us dorks would be sad.
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