Freeman has become instantly recognizable by his muteness in the annals of gaming culture, meaning that Valve will almost definitely keep him quiet in the future. Though there remain those who maintain that Gordon has been talking the entire time, the deciding factor here is the pop-culture status – Dr. It’s never been definitively stated whether or not Gordon talks – as with most story elements in the series, it’s been left ambiguous to allow the writers maximum flexibility – if Gordon doesn’t talk, it raises a whole host of questions, but there are just as many answers, so there’s no way to be sure. Half-Life 2 and its episodes, though, eschewed this in the name of unity of perspective, and makes Gordon a cipher for the player by preserving his old-school tact, with a few comments waving in the direction of the fourth wall – “Man of few words, aren’t you?” Asks Alyx, shortly after she meets Gordon. Even today, most shooters generally restrict their dialogue to cutscenes. Half-Life was one of the first games of its kind to have modern NPC’s, so protagonists generally didn’t have many people to talk to – it was usually assumed that the characters were talking and we couldn’t hear them, as was true in Opposing Force and Blue Shift. Laidlaw maintains that Breengrub is nothing more than “fan fiction” (As much as I dislike overuse of Japanese, I think the term “ omake” would be better here), but overall this seems to be the most probable guess here.Īs almost every other first-person character in the 1990’s, Gordon never said a word during the original Half-Life.
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The real clincher for this theory, though, is – a Twitter account held by series writer Marc Laidlaw, that is presented as a series of transmissions from Dr. When the bowels of the Citadel are seen in Episode One, this scene was replayed, before a dormant Combine Advisor pod (designated 314 URB-LOC 0017) started using its telepathic effects – and since we saw a swarm of Advisor pods evacuating the Citadel before it collapsed, it can be assumed that this Advisor survived for the events of Episode 2 and whatever comes after it. “The portal destination is untenable, surely you could… A host body? You must be joking!”…”Alright, dammit, if that’s what it takes!”
Breen held a frantic conversation with a Combine Advisor, when Gordon and Alyx are storming the Citadel.
The groundwork for this plot point was laid as far back as Half-Life 2, when Dr. I’m putting this at the top because this is almost certain. The ones I’ll be talking about here have managed to endure not just because they could be true, but because of how well they would fit in with the rest of the story. Because of how ambiguous and implied most of the games’ story is, pretty much all of them are valid given the evidence we have. As such, over the years, quite a few theories about the truth behind the Half-Life universe have been posed to the internet (The best repository for them is probably the “Wild Mass Guess” page, from the good folks at TVTropes).
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