Do you picture him as a hero, a “survive no matter what” type guy, a feeble man etc…?
I’ve always thought of Gordon as just an ordinary man thrown into extraordinary circumstances and eventually becoming a hero.
Isn’t that pretty much it?
I guess you’re right haha.
I’ll explain more. He has a job he doesn’t nescesarily love, and he isn’t the guy you’d expect. He hasn’t fired a gun before, yet somehow he musters up the will to survive and eventually does great things.
I mean how do you imagine Gordon’s CHARACTER, since he never speaks it’s open to a lot of interpretation.
I imagine the events took place on Sep 14th 2012 and Gordon is just trying to get home to finally play Black Mesa the mod.
Freeman’s Mind is totally canon. For some reason, it just seems like how Freeman would react. Sometimes I’ll talk at my game or move my viewpoint for nods or shakes of the head to try to immerse myself more.
Why no, that’s not sad. Shut up. XP
Heh, I’m not the only one that does that, then! I even occasionally make slow, minuscule movements when I’m supposed to be staring blankly at someone talking so the camera’s not perfectly still.
But now that I think of it, maybe a less egotistical and psychotic version of Ross Scott’s Freeman sounds about right.
I tend to imagine Gordon Freeman in two distinct parts. “Gordon Freeman prior to the beginning of Half-Life 1”, is largely an enigma in my mind, aside from the fact that I see him as entirely mundane. Did he have any idea what the potential outcomes of the experiment were? Were his ethics questionable? Or was he just a newbie scientist who didn’t really know anything about what was going on? It doesn’t really matter, because, in my personal version of Half-Life, something happened to Gordon the morning of the Resonance Cascade. Some kind of very powerful being - perhaps connected in some way to the G-Man, or perhaps not - materialized inside the tram with Gordon, alone, and killed and replaced him. This new “Gordon” isn’t human, and resides somewhere in the uncanny valley. It’s hypercompetent, and it can succeed at nearly anything through probability manipulation (quicksave and quickload). And sometimes, when it’s feeling particularly vindictive, it’ll kill someone who’s unnecessary, for no reason at all.
I particularly love this interpretation of Gordon because it retroactively makes the supposed hero into the most frightening thing in the game to imagine. It’s a guy who doesn’t talk or emote in any way, seems at least a little bit off in general, can’t lose a fight, doesn’t really care about you, and has a sadistic streak (the severity of that sadistic streak depending on the individual player). And he’s probably your best shot at getting out of the facility alive. You can see why it develops a cult between Half-Life 1 and Half-Life 2…
I would say that I wish Half-Life 2 had some form of friendly fire, but it makes perfect sense that friendly fire has been disabled between games. G-Man now controls “Gordon”, and it would make sense that he would try to direct the being’s power towards a goal instead of giving it free reign.
I’d say that’s an explanation straight from Valve, haha.
Judging how the areas he has security clearance for aren’t that abnormal and the fact everyone seems to not want to clue him in entirely on the experiment, he probably didn’t know what the hell was going and was just following orders.
That’s a pretty epic version of the character. It’s scary.
I myself think he’s sorta like your stereotypical nerd, all quiet and shy, but has some sort of dark side in him. Possibly some psychological issues at an early age. In fact, anyone who’s read his profile in the Half-Life Wiki page knows that he built a tennis ball cannon, which could have been a result of anger management issues. When the RC occurred and he saw what had happened, this dark side pretty much emerged. That quiet and shy scientist was still there, but now there’s rage and bloodlust for all those who’ve hurt him and his coworkers and friends. This can explain why he’s quite unaffected over the fact that he’s killed aliens, who most aren’t in the Black Mesa Facility over choice and are attacking purely out of fear, and soldiers who are only following their orders. But this is all a personal interpretation, and I’m kinda blowing it out of proportion on purpose, lol. 
Gordon Freeman has always been a completely hollow character in my mind, everything about him is defined by the player’s actions in the game.
^pretty much this, that was the reason why ValvE decided to make Gordon as unpersonal as it gets, so no cutscenes involving him and no voice. Everybody projects another character into him. Personally, I don’t like the sarcastic touch of Gordon like in Freeman’s Mind. While I found it funny, I wouldn’t expect Gordon to be such a egoistic and cynical dumbass. If he was, he would have died long time ago, if he wasn’t able to show empathy and care for the people around him, he wouldn’t have gone after Eli (imagine the long way from Sandtraps, through Nova Prospekt and so on) or Alyx in EP2 for that matter.
i think that Freeman is a rather metodic person, that has a great survival instinct and does not know what the heck is happening just finds his way through thanks to his intelligence and the suit(of course). Also he must be a weapons fanatic or something.
One of the biggest jokes in freeman’s mind is the fact that all these people tell him what he should do, like launching the rocket, but he never listens. When he launches the rocket its seriously a surprise for him, since all he wants to do is escape
Like Chuck Norris, only intelligent.
Gordon Freeman, eh? Well, I wondered what he was like, too… But then I watched Freeman’s Mind and then it all made sense… All made sense… [COLOR=‘PaleGreen’]All…
My Gordon has always been an annoying douchebag with ADHD who runs around breaking all your boxes and doesn’t ever bother standing in one place to listen to what you have to say. If the “speaking without the player hearing” thing is to be followed, most of what he says would just be immature insults and telling people to fuck off.
The reason Gordon doesn’t speak is because he sounds like Fat Abbot.
I imagine Gordon Freeman as a normal guy under an HEV-suit helmet.
Underneath he’d be that kind of guy you meet and think maybe you’d be good friends with him if you had gone to high-school together but you just never get a chance to hang out with him so you move on with your life without getting to know him any better.
he can only be as dumb as a son of the mix of beer of bender and fry from futurama ;’]
see them waiting the coming of gordon and his sisters and brothers ;’]
gordon was raised with the children of keef in same swamp …
when young he was looking like :
Gordon’s obviously the “Aw shit, what have I gotten myself into” kind of person 
Also, I wouldn’t say he never fired a gun before. HEV-issued scientist go through the Hazard course with it, and firearms training with standart-issue self-defence MP5SD6 (conveniently replacet by HK53 in BM, eh?) is contained in the full package.