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| I suspect the G-Man is meant to represent greater forces at work in the Half-Life universe. The Combine, much like Nihilanth in the first game, is probably a small player in the grand scheme of things. I recall Breen talking to Dr. Vance in his office in 'Dark Fusion' of HL2 and describing the myriad wonders of the universe he'd become aware of through his collaboration with the Combine (fungal colonies on stars and all kinds of crazy stuff). The Combine also stretches across numerous universes but lack the technology to travel by portal within these domains, so they obviously have less power then the G-Man. The G-Man is definitely not human in my view, though this is obvious to most. Besides his ability to shift to any time or place, even his way of speaking is odd- he lengthens inappropriate parts of words, as if he is unaware of how long the word should be (as if time has no meaning to him). Though it could just be his difficulty with a foreign language, which Occam's Razor would suggest is the answer. I also recall in Episode One, several purple Vortigaunts rescue Gordon from the G-Man. Prior to this, Vortigaunts in game talk of 'Vortal Senses' while they communicate, and strangely they communicate by speaking at each other simultaneously. Whatever force the Vortigaunts have mastery of also affects the G-Man's abilities, which to me suggests he uses the same methods but to a greater degree. So maybe he's omnipotent in some form or another, or he's a rival to the Combine. I also wonder if he's not like Q from Star Trek, and just meddles in the lives of lower beings for his own amusement. There's also the line from Breen, to Gordon: "Do you think your contract was not up to the highest bidder?". |
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| Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 5:23 am Post subject: |
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| Cyberman wrote: | | darkstone100 wrote: | | also to the guy wondering why the Vortiguants are now your friends in Half Life 2, it's because when you killed the Nihilanth (the final boss) in the first game you released the mind control it had over the Vortiguants. |
It makes me wonder... what happened to all the other minions in Nihilanth's army, like the Alien Grunts and Controllers? The result of declining the G-Man's "offer" suggests that some of them survived, so I imagine they were also freed from Nihilanth's mind control. Yet we don't see them anymore. Did the Combine wipe them out, leaving only the Vortigaunts? |
Yeah... Maybe the G-Man is building up his own personal army to destroy Black Mesa, and the Combine, so he can rule... It's a possibility... |
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| Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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| gismo wrote: | | Yeah... Maybe the G-Man is building up his own personal army to destroy Black Mesa, and the Combine, so he can rule... It's a possibility... |
Or more likely, so that his "employers" can rule. (BTW, ever wondered just what kind of "salary" the G-Man gets from his employers?  )
It's interesting, though... the G-Man mentioned that Xen is now under the control of his employers, thanks to Gordon's efforts in HL1. Since Xen is the "border world," it's likely that his employers saw it as a strategic location, as it would give them easy access to other dimensions. And now that Nihilanth is gone, the main thing that stands in their way is the Combine, which is why the G-Man has brought in Gordon to fight them. Breen's comment about the "highest bidder" would suggest that the Combine are a major rival of whoever the G-Man's employers are. |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Cyberman wrote: | | gismo wrote: | | Yeah... Maybe the G-Man is building up his own personal army to destroy Black Mesa, and the Combine, so he can rule... It's a possibility... |
Or more likely, so that his "employers" can rule. (BTW, ever wondered just what kind of "salary" the G-Man gets from his employers? )
It's interesting, though... the G-Man mentioned that Xen is now under the control of his employers, thanks to Gordon's efforts in HL1. Since Xen is the "border world," it's likely that his employers saw it as a strategic location, as it would give them easy access to other dimensions. And now that Nihilanth is gone, the main thing that stands in their way is the Combine, which is why the G-Man has brought in Gordon to fight them. Breen's comment about the "highest bidder" would suggest that the Combine are a major rival of whoever the G-Man's employers are. |
So, It's as if The G-Man and Dr. Breen are sort of using Freeman as a weapon, that they want to use to destroy the other. Yeah, that's a good explanation. That must be why The G-Man placed Freeman on the train into City-17... Interesting... That is a good idea, though It'll be good to see how the next G-Man sightings in Ep 3 go, that could give away some more clues, you never know, they might find Aliens on the Apature Science Vessel, or even the Combine... |
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| Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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I think that the G-man is supposed to be somthing that is not really there. What I mean by that is that he is a repersation. You have to remember without the G-Man the Black Mesa Incdent would never have occruced and netheir would any event's in the half games. He is everywhere at once. G-Man is aslo a slang term for 'goverment man' which gives rise even more to my conculsion that he is suppsoded to be a Big Brother type repersation. Meaning his identy will never be revealed and nor will that of his employers. Becuase he speaks of his employers as though he is seperate for them. When he said " I have received some intersting offers for you services. Normally I wouldn't have considered them, but these are extroidary times." This shows that he is obviously a seperate entiey. If you remember during the time he is wacthing Gordan Freeman in the first game. He is aslo wacthing over Shepard form the Oppsing force game. There fore this shows that he can be everywhere at once. I think he is ment more as a symbol then a actul charater. Though I could be wrong do to the fact that at the end of Epsiode 2 Eli was about to tell Gordan somthing before his death. What he had to tell him is obviously somthing about the G-man becuase Eli refered to him as "Our Mutal Friend". So it could be that in the coming up game's they will revel his indenty and alot about him. Though I find this unliky. Though it must aslo be noted that he is not all powerful and all seeing. Gordan during Epsiode 1 and 2 had slipped form the G-man's sight. The G-man admit's this himself when he appers before Gordan half-way through Epsidoe 2. That is way he is not as powerful as he is sometimes shown to be. Though most events in the half life universe happened because he made them happen. In one way or anther. It was as he said " The right man in the wrong place can make all the differnce in the world."
Sorry if I sound like I ramble or for any errors. Once I have a idea they just sorta flow. |
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| Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:24 am Post subject: |
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| Yamamoto1 wrote: | | Though it must aslo be noted that he is not all powerful and all seeing. Gordan during Epsiode 1 and 2 had slipped form the G-man's sight. |
I don't think it was in Ep1, but in Ep2 the Vortigaunts were blocking G-man from communication, and he was only able to break free at the very end.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 4:23 am Post subject: |
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| SabbraCadabra wrote: | | Yamamoto1 wrote: | | Though it must aslo be noted that he is not all powerful and all seeing. Gordan during Epsiode 1 and 2 had slipped form the G-man's sight. |
I don't think it was in Ep1, but in Ep2 the Vortigaunts were blocking G-man from communication, and he was only able to break free at the very end. |
So do the Vortiguants know who the G-Man is? |
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| Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, so I've been doing some research, and it appears to be time for an update.
It says on CombineOverWiki that:
| Quote: | | Fans have created numerous explanations as to who or what the G-Man is. Some of these are: covert leader of the Combine, leader of the Black Ops (he uses the abandoned lab of Rosenburg to teleport around), a Vortigaunt demon, person granted reality powers in the Black Mesa, secret leader of humans, Adrian Shepard, and even Gordon Freeman himself from the future (though this one in particular has been denied by Valve). |
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| Quote: | | During the "heart to heart" sequence of Episode 2, the G-Man can be seen sitting at a desk in what appears to be a large office with the Black Mesa logo behind him on the wall. This may indicate that G-Man may be connected to Black Mesa and possibly have a high ranking position with Black Mesa. |
The G-Man presumably has a HUGE list of insiders, he's seen throughout the game, speaking to different people within Black Mesa, and could have possibly had help using the 'Breencast' monitor, when he projected different messages through the screens on the level 'Water Hazard'. Also, if the G-Man is working with Black Mesa, it seems very possible that he could have had help spying on Gordon.. Remember the first level with him on the other railtram? With a member of Black Mesa who appeared to notice him...?
I also found a strange spot during HL2 which I might replay. The shack being held up by pillars over the water that the G-Man walks into during one of the sightings. I went up a ladder there, and found a few ammo crates on the roof, and a few zombies, other than that, I didn't bother to explore, but er..
I am wondering whether the G-Man has a connection with Alyx also, in any way, mainly because of this fact..
| Quote: | | The G-Man flickers ominously on the screen which previously showed Dr. Mossman's recording, right before Alyx relays the message to Eli. It should be noted that Alyx is watching the screen as the G-Man appears implying that it might be the G-Man's reminder to "relay this message". |
I don't get whether there are any other facts to strengthen this idea.
Also, I reckon the G-Man must be looking for different people to help him, inside Black Mesa..(Shephard, Freeman...) |
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| Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Actully they were blocking him in Ep 1 because remember what happened in the begening of that game. Plus the fact he never once showed up that entire game expect what he did at the beganning. So he was blocked until the point in epsiode two when the Vortiguants where healing Alex. I aslo think that they do know about him or else they would have not be able to save Gordan. I don't think he has any special thing with her. I think that was just the hyptoic tigger for her to say those words. |
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| Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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| SabbraCadabra wrote: | | I still have no idea what the heck happened between HL 1 and 2 @_@ Somehow Gordon and all his friends went from Arizona to 1984-esque Russia? And the aliens are our friends now??? |
I'm not sure what happens between HL1 and HL2 but what I know is this:
--As a result Gordon killing the Nihilanth (final boss of HL1), giant portal appear all over earth
--Portals spew out Xen creatures, overwhelming Earth's military forces
--Combine also come out of portal and kill Xen creatures
--Then combine start to attack Earth
--Wallace Breen organizes earths surrender. Combine enslave entire Earth
--And the G-Man lets Gordon off onto a train into the Combine's City 17.
Back on the subject of the G-man, it can be noted that the whole sorry mess of HL1 and HL2 was started by the Xen crystal which starts the resonance cascade. Guess who supplied that crystal? Our mutual fiend. |
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Yamamoto1
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| Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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| What it was the Zen creatures did was to force all the people of earth into city's where they could be protect and when the Combine came through it was easy to pick off Earth's forces in what was known has the 7 hour war. Though at the time the Combine invaded they only where able to use things like the Hunters and The Striders becuase they had yet to create a solider for Earths evoriment. They always create a solider for each plant they invade. That is why the are call Combine. Though the only creatures who are turely of that specis is the Advisors. Or so it seems. |
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| Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 1:10 am Post subject: |
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| Yamamoto1 wrote: | | Actully they were blocking him in Ep 1 because remember what happened in the begening of that game. |
No, don't really remember...I forgot most of Ep 1 because it wasn't that good =/
All I remember was they made you go through the Citidel with the second gravity gun some more >_< To me, this was the most boring part of HL2, and I certainly didn't enjoy more of it in Ep1 
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| Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Yamamoto1 wrote: | | They always create a solider for each plant they invade. That is why the are call Combine. Though the only creatures who are turely of that specis is the Advisors. |
The Advisors have some weird name for their species, but I forget how it's spelled. Anyway, from what I understand, the name "Combine" is not a species... the name refers to their empire. It's probably not even their "official" name, but a colloquial human term, as evidenced when Dr. Breen refers to them in one speech as "that universal union who small minds call 'The Combine.'" |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 4:21 am Post subject: |
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my theory on the g man is that he is a stalker that really needs plasic surgery LOL
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| Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Actully The Universal Union is the name of there empire. Even though it is actully a muti-dimensional empire. Becuase Zen was a border world in anthoer dimsion. So it is safe to assume there are other such worlds. |
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