With all the recent discussion on Half-Life as a series, I’ve been thinking about it quite a lot. After watching a few videos of G-Man and the games as a whole, I came up with the dumb, but plausible idea that Gordon Freeman and G-Man are actually the same person, just from different locations in time. G-Man, G. FreeMAN.
Before you write this off as a load of garbage, keep reading and let me explain myself. First, let me explain the relationship between Gordon Freeman, G-Man, and G-Man’s employers. Gordon Freeman is obviously depicted as someone who has no choice but to obey G-Man, as shown in the ending of Half-Life 1. He has the choice to either join G-Man, or die in a battle that he cannot hope to win. To this end, Gordon Freeman is entirely controlled by the G-Man. But what’s to say that the G-Man himself doesn’t have the same type of relationship with his own employers? He simply has to do as he’s instructed, which puts him in exactly the same position as Gordon under him. Perhaps even literally. It makes sense that the G-Man would threaten Gordon with death, because he knows he’ll have to accept his offer, or he’s simply following orders in the same manner of the G-Man.
How does this tie into the plot of Half-Life at all, Anon? Why bother making up all this horseshit when it has no place in the story? Well, my theory is that, if Epistle 3 is to be taken as the planned plot of Episode 3, at the end of Half-Life 3, when all hope is entirely lost for humanity, Gordon Freeman is given a job offer similar to that at the end of Half-Life 1. Be destroyed by the Combine, or join with the unknown organization that employs the G-Man.
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>>389373845
BIM BADA BUM
>>389373845
Alternatively, Gordon isn’t given a choice any longer, a la the ending of Half-Life 2. Either way, Gordon Freeman ends up working for the Company, as I’ll call them. At first he merely does grunt work; wiping out planets for resale to the highest bidder, just as he did with Xen in the first game. But over time, Gordon works his way up through the corporate ladder. He earns his place as a higher-up, becoming the G-Man himself.
It also could tie in as to to why the G-Man chose to spark the Black Mesa incident right as Gordon Freeman comes on shift, perfectly timed for him to be the one in the center of the incident with a hazard suit to protect him. Gordan Freeman was chosen, either by himself in the future out of a desire to keep the cycle going, or by his own employers in the future who know he’ll turn out a promising prospect to keep for themselves.
It’s definitely possible as well, in the sense that the G-Man and his employers clearly have a grasp on manipulation of time. At the end of Half-Life 2, G-Man stops time to monologue at Gordon for a bit, before taking him away for planned stasis. If the G-Man is able to stop time on a whim, then I believe it would be safe to say that he and his employers can also travel back in time as well, to validate my own idea.
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>>389373845
You're like, the 365219861987 person to think the same and write a fanfic/theory post about it.
I'm about to get a Switch and BOTW for my birthday. What am I in for /v/?
>>390007010
An overall enjoyable experience. Easily able to sink in many hours into the game, but I strongly advise getting Splatoon 2 and Mariokart, as BoTW lasts about 100 hours of gameplay, atleast it did for me.
>>390007010
A Game
>>390007010
An expensive but fun experience
Need a content-loaded game that runs fine on a shitty setup. Dont care if indie or not. Heard good things about Factorio, Rimworld and Stardew Valley. Which would you recommend? I dont trust those shite meme reviews on Steam.
Also what are some great comfy games that can be played with a controller? Tried Risk of Rain, Shovel Knight, Rogue Legacy and Crypt of the Necrodancer.
>>389373808
Out of the 3 you listed you can probably get the most time out of Factorio or Rimworld. Stardew is fun and you can probably get ~40-60 hours from a playthrough, but you'll get to a point where there isn't really anything else to do and a new playthrough isn't going to change that. Roguelikes/roguelites also offer a lot of replayability and there are a ton of good options there depending on what you're looking for.
Factorio, OpenTTD, Roller Coaster Tycoon 2, Age of Empires 2, Dwarf Fortress (CPU INTENSIVE - should be ok if you run the smallest map size though), any DOSBox game you can get for free from Abandonia
As for controller games, I dunno man who the fuck plays PC games with a controller other than racing games? you can remap anything to anything else in Steam Big Picture mode though so anything can be made controller friendly
Don't bother with Stardew Valley, meme game. just emulate an older harvest moon -- better graphics and gameplay
>>389375001
Im too much of a pleb to get into DF, also i dont have the time since im going to college and need to work on weekends.
My setup isnt THAT bad, just a Laptop from 2014 with i5, 8Gb and integrated graphics, what bugs me the most is that i cant play cpu-heavy building games like Cities:Skylines.
Ill give Factorio a shot tho.
>>389375325
I know, but sometimes i just want lie down and play instead of sitting all the time. Also poorfag who cant afford console + tv.
My setup isnt THAT bad, just a Laptop from 2014 with i5, 8Gb and integrated graphics, what bugs me the most is that i cant play cpu-heavy building games like Cities:Skylines.
Ill give Factorio a shot tho.
My setup isnt THAT bad, just a Laptop from 2014 with i5, 8Gb and integrated graphics, what bugs me the most is that i cant play cpu-heavy building games like Cities:Skylines.
Ill give Factorio a shot tho.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzt6JaVcoFg
>>389373774
everything but the gman voices should of been cut
the freeman is gman is god tier, though
>The entire executive branch is hand-picked. Nineteen of the last twenty-three U.S. presidents have been members of the Trilateral Commission.
>That's a think-tank. Anyone can become a member.
>BUT NOT EVERYONE DOES
holy shit....
>>389373601
THE WHITE MAN IZ KEEPIONG ME DOWN
>You're too late. It's on its way back to the people, and you can't do a damn thing about it.
>Except send YOU back to the people -- in a body bag.
>I AM the people.
>"I have seen it since I was a girl, the plotting and scheming of corporations to make Europe into one big country, with no separate languages, cultures of tastes"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beSfve3PQnQ&t=2s
OH
I'VE GOT SOMETHING IN MY THROAT
>>390006889
My dick
that's what your mom said when i shoved my big fat dick in her mouth last night
>>390006889
>OP can't stop sucking dicks!
>Japanese game
>play a teenager who kills God
>Taiwanese game
>play as the Son of God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZcQkbbCw1Q
>>389372942
Jesus also IS God
>>389374763
And God is his father too. Also he died for your sins, but really.
Checkmate atheists, can't explain that.
This is the greatest fucking game I've ever seen.
do you know of any good new beat em ups?
this one looks gold, but it isn't released yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2ujLI3FgQY
>>389372931
>Ricardo the black bull
how can they get away with it?
>>389374974
>th it?
wot?
>>389372931
What platform?
Would Tifa Lockhart be a more compelling character if she was an aerobics instructor?
not if she looked like that.
I just 100% this game after hours of repititive side misions and I still can't fight the not-metal gear again.
What the fuck?
>>390006576
>I still can't fight the not-metal gear again
What?
>>390006718
In the final mission mantis took away the not-metal gear (can't remember it's name) + liquid and never appear again
>>390006876
>not-metal gear
You mean Metal Gear Sahelanthropus, the first and only upright Metal Gear?
>mantis took away Sahelanthropus + Liquid and never appear again
How do you put in the hundreds of hours necessary to 100% MGSV:TPP and NOT know that Mission 51: Kingdom of the Flies was a scrapped concept mission?
*blocks your quest progression*
>>389372892
never found it particularly hard to find
>>389373158
If you had the gamma set to default the path was almost impossible to see.
>>389372892
Also, wasn't this stupid thing the reason they put the quest marker in Oblivion?
why didn't she just go back in time to warn everyone about the tornado?
why was there even a tornado in the town they lived in? at first I thought it was because it wanted to kill chloe but it was satisfied killing everyone in the town and just leaving max and chloe alone in the one ending, so why didn't the tornado happen literally anywhere else in the entire world if its only purpose was to kill a bunch of people?
This game[/spoier] isstupid[/spoier]:^)[/spoier]
A RIVER IN A DRY LAND
>>389372681
Nanomachines, son!xD
>>389372681
A HEARTBEAT FOR A TIN MAN
bet you fags can't