G-man

Half-Life Series
#441

And now, its Shephards turn.

#442

I still don’t get how everybody loves that fucking Shephard guy…

#443

CUZ HES AWESOME

#444

Not as awesome as Gordon.

#445

Valve said they had something planned for Shephard… but they didn’t say anything about g-man whatsoever :slight_smile:

#446

No they didn’t.

#447

sometimes it just seems as if valve is making up the whole Gman thing as they go along with it, and now that their is all these theories, they’re laughing they’re asses off (Which is the reason HL2: ep3 is taking so long; They’re too busy LMAO-ing) :stuck_out_tongue:

#448

Yeah, that’s what they’re doing.

#449

It’s an abbreviation of the Latin phrase ‘philosophiæ doctor’, which roughly translates into teacher of philosophy.

#450

Haha, everybody got that?

#451


Use it next time.

Oh, and for those people who call gman gordon, they do NOT have the same features.

#452

[COLOR=‘Red’]^This. Please don’t double post, crypt.

#453

I think the theory that gman is working against the combine is slightly flawed as at the end of hl2 its heavily suggested that your contract has been offered anyone. by gman and breen.

Is there anyway we could ban all shepard talk unless in its his own dam homo-erotic love post section. it was a good non canon addon. please get over it.
its really starting to annoy me.

#454

The Gman is not human or combine. He is a third-party faction that has taken control of Xen. Xen being the gateway between the two dimensions, the Gman’s race acts as the dimensional gatekeeper. The Gman’s role is to ensure that the gateway is in constant demand for the presumption of power. By ensuring that neither side of the conflict, human and combine, is both never defeated or victorious, the war, and hence the demand for Xen is everlasting.

The true enemy of Half-Life has been “in front of you the entire time”. The Gman’s anger at the end of Ep2 is explained as being in defiance of the Gman’s will to ensure that the Combine enters earth, and therefor transverses through Xen in the process. The closing of this portal angered the Gman, and hence commanded Combine Advisors to do away with you and Eli. He is a double-agent of both factions, fuelling both sides with ammunition and intelligence to counter-balance any progress the opposite faction has made. He is ‘bound by certain restrictions’, as he is cautious not to help you ‘too much’. It is a conspiracy of epic proportions. The final moments of Half-Life will most definitely be a realization of this, and an epic struggle in the return of Xen using Aperture’s beta-level portal technology to return to Xen and dismantle the regime Gordon had allowed to flourish, and preventing the Combine from ever entering our dimension forever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlbIg2b03-Q

#455

#456

…tho it could quite easily have been posted in the other GMan thread…
Still, it’s an interesting thought.

#457

There’s already a thread about the G-Man. Your idea is quite interresting, though.

#458

Even though 2 people have already said that there is a thread for this topic, I feel like being helpful right now so I’ll post a nice, easy link to it.

#459

But Gman put Gordon in City 17 to take down Breen, which severely crippled Combine forces.

#460

I think it’s pretty clear. G-man is like ‘God’, he is not on any one side and does whatever suits him. However “Certain… RestriCTions” are placed on him by some unknown force (or whoever pays his gas bills) possibly more powerful than him. The Combine are no more in control than the Rebels/Gordon.

I believe the force above G-Man and the G-Man himself MAY be dealt with in Half-Life 3 or maybe even Half-Life 2: Episode 3, although I hate to speculate.

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