I always thought of the helmet being extendable.
just look at this picture and let your imagination run wild
Wasn’t it established in HL1 that Gordon didn’t have a helmet, and that neither Gina or Colette did, either?
Well we never actually see Gordon in HL 1 and during the cameos in the expansions he doesn’t have one, in Decay neither character has a helmet. But most people here instantly declare the expansions to be non canonical despite Valve referring to them as ambiguous. So it’s open to debate.
Scientists were travelling to Xen to collect samples. Xen is a very dangeorus place, so all scientists had to wear an HEV suit and a weapon.
However, Gordon was a low-clearance scientist who didn’t even know what was happening in the high-clearance areas, let alone that he would travel to Xen in the near future.
Therefore there is apsolutely no need for him to be trained for combat. That’s why the security guards are here.
Just as there is no need to train him for pushing boxes (that’s something people learn at the age of 1).
I thought that too. It makes more sense that he has a helmet that that he doesn’t, him being headshot resistant and all. But since we don’t see him put it on, it probably extends from the neck area.
Or, HEV creates a force field around his head when the bullets are about to hit him. That would explain his headshot-resistancy and why he hears the water while diving like they are coming into his ears.
Also, his glasses are hi-tech device wirelessly connected to HEV. That’s how the HUD (and crosshair) are displayed, and that’s how the zoom works. Since glasses are connected with the HEV, he is not able to use the HUD before he acquires it. Also, since he doesn’t change his glasses, I would assume they were already able to zoom in HL, but the HEV mk.4 didn’t support zooming yet.
Mark Laidlaw, himself, admitted that they kinda forgot about the helmet when designing Gordon’s appearance, in an e-mail.
The thing is here, that the evidence that Gordon doesn’t wear a helmet exists in spades.
a) Why is the sound always so clear, as you can hear it without difficulty? A helmet would obviously make sound muffled.
b) In Opposing Force, when you see Gordon about to teleport to Xen, he has no helmet.
c) In Blue Shift, when you see Gordon being dragged away by the Marines, he has no helmet.
d) In Decay, Gina and Colette don’t wear helmets.
All of this seems like justification why Gordon doesn’t wear a helmet. As for the glasses being connected to the HEV suit, this doesn’t exactly explain much, since in Blue Shift, Barney has a helmet, so this could explain the HUD, but it doesn’t look like it’s connected to anything, and in Decay, Gina and Colette don’t have glasses or helmets, but still have a HUD. If you think about it, if you really are sugessting that the glasses serve as Gordon’s HUD, then Gordon and Adrian are the only PCs with logical reasons for the HUD being there, and possibly Barney if his helmet was electronic.
Of course, it’s all a game, but Valve/Gearbox obviously wanted semi-realism when it came to things like these.
Blue Shift and Op4 aren’t canon.
Bull, says who?
The fact that Valve didn’t make either of them, and Mark Laidlaw, the writer for the Half-Life series, did not write them. They’ll become canon if Valve decides to make them canon and actually use them again, which they’re not planning to do, but haven’t totally ruled out the possibility of.
So? Valve said that they’re cannon until proven otherwise, regardless if they didn’t make them or not. Are you trying to say that Black Mesa isn’t a crater in the New Mexico desert?
There’s nothing in the main Half-Life series to suggest it was actually BLOWN UP. Right now, Op4 just makes a bit of a mess within the Half-Life story, and Laidlaw isn’t going to shoehorn it in unless he sees a good way/reason to do it, and by the sound of things from his e-mails, this hasn’t happened yet.
And here we go again…
If the hazard suit was designed to protect him from radiation, a helmet would be mandatory. However, what they DON’T tell you is that Gordon is also wearing a silly hat on top of his helmet, and on days when he dresses up, he wears a smaller, more formal hat upon that silly hat.
Actually, if you look at the OverWiki and look up what is and what’s not cannon, you’ll see that OF, BS, and Decay are all “cannon unless proven otherwise” and the nuke blowing up Black Mesa at the end of OF is confirmed to be cannon.
Of course, some user-made wiki that’s largely constructed from wild speculation can exercise total authority over words from the guy who’s writing the plot line.
Still yet, Laidlaw never said that the expansions weren’t cannon.
Why can’t people just choose for themselves and leave it at that? I really don’t give a shit if you think BS isn’t canon when I think it is. I also don’t give a shit if you think OP4 is canon when I think it isn’t.
What about BM?
BS or BM, it don’t matter, it’s all [color=brown]soft and tasty.
Well… the thing is that some parts of them contradict stuff that is said in HL2 and its episodes…