>not even Marc's "closure" got to revealing

Even if they did finish the series it seemed like something left intentionally vague from the beginning.

It's Gordon you idiot
You play as Gordon Freeman
G-Man is Gordon Man (No Longer Free)

>>388379871
He's likely a matured Shu,ulathoi. They have powerful psionic abilities and can rewrite themselves to take on whatever biological appearance they want.

Half Life's writing is only a vehicle for it's gameplay, not the other way around where the gameplay serves to drive the story.
They come up with whatever bullshit will work to lead to environments and scenarios that explore the mechanics.

I'm willing to bet we could've gotten Episode 3, and then even a real Half Life 3 and by the end of that we'd still have no idea who or what he is

>>388380095
That is so stupid.
He's a dimension and time travelling entity, why would it be Gordon?

He's called G-Man because that's slang for a man in black government agent type, which is what he takes the form of.

G-Man was originally the administrator of Black Mesa. This was retconned in HL2 and Breen was created to retroactively fill that role.

I haven't played the series but I think he's some kind of alien.

You're not supposed to know who he is. Having it explained just ruins the intrigue

Not everything needs to be laid bare. Having stuff tucked away leaves stuff for the community to endlessly discuss and dwell on. That's a good thing

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>>388379871
Isn't there some kind of easter egg in HL2 that depicts him with tentacles and stuff? Laidlaw has written lovecraftian horror before and it would fit well with this explanation >>388380147
A rogue, mutated or matured version of an individual of the advisor species. Or maybe some sort of personified combination of a faction of that species. There really are lots of possibilities.

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>>388379871
isn't he that guy you can play around with on gmod?