gordon't helmet solution, based on RTB

[sinkoman]

We're still stuck with the problem of the zoom, then. Or has it already been answered? I did a forum search, but couldn't find anything of use.

Is it too farfetched to believe that the HEV suit offers some sort of bio-genetical enhancements?

After all, it does allow gordon to pick up ginormous shit with his bare hands, and it lets him carry plastic drums 50 ft underwater with ease.

As for air underwater, perhaps the HEV suit has like, a little breathing apperatus that one can stick to their nose, or even just blows air bubbles infront of ones nose.

As for headcrabs, it seems believable that the HEV suits muscular modifications would allow gordon some extra muscle strenghth in his neck, and perhaps stiffer skin. That combined with him probably batting his hand at the damn thing as it hits his head, would equal to headcrab death.

God damnt, some people need to think out of the box

 

[AIDisabled]

It's not far-fetched at all, but if such a suit is that convenient, then why aren't more people wearing one? Let's not get into the idea that Gordon is the only one qualified to wear it, because the time period between HL1 and HL2 is more than enough for even a dumbass moron like Rob Schneider to learn how to operate the suit. It can't just be cost; HL1 had oodles of such suits lying around Xen. And it's not as if the suits the Combine wear are in any way better than Gordie's HEV.

 

[losermeetsworld]

I'm not sure but I think I remember someone in HL2 talking to Gordon and making a comment about how his suit is the last one...

It makes sense, too, it's very very likely that the Combine could have just destroyed all but 1 or 2 suits to help keep the humans from building certain things and researching certain things...

It does beg the question though, why doesn't everyone in City 17 wear a bike helmet?

 

[sinkoman]

It's not far-fetched at all, but if such a suit is that convenient, then why aren't more people wearing one? Let's not get into the idea that Gordon is the only one qualified to wear it, because the time period between HL1 and HL2 is more than enough for even a dumbass moron like Rob Schneider to learn how to operate the suit. It can't just be cost; HL1 had oodles of such suits lying around Xen. And it's not as if the suits the Combine wear are in any way better than Gordie's HEV.

Well, the thing is that the entire world was at the time, a police state. Assuming the game was like the book 1984 (as most of the game is identical), there are little monitors in every persons room that watch your every move. You couldn't do anything without the government watching (ala 1984). If they caught you doing something undesireable, they'd simply "vaporize" you (again, ala 1984).

Now, a whole bunch of unhappy guys trying to fix up a bunch of militaristic suits seems a tad suspicious, doesnt it?

The whole reason Kliener got away with it, was that he managed to bring back gordon's specific suit to his underground lab. It's even been suggested that Gman brought the suit back, and secretively planted it in the lab/world.

As for the combine, same thing. If a civilian was to get away with killing one in the first place, how the hell would he manage to squander its suit?

 

[lastHOPE_lambda]

My mom makes my wear a helemet :dork: she says me speacial

 

[Krabjuice]

Thankyou for being irrelevant, you may go away now.

On the subject of the helmet, I refer you to Joseph Cambell's Hero with a Thousand Faces. Its a study on archytpes in hero mythology.

Lets get this straight, Gordon is a hero. No doubt about it, he clearly fits the archetype.
Now, according to Cambell, there are steps in which a hero (almost) always takes in the course of is adventure. I'll avoid the juicy specifics, and delve directly into the "Supernatural Aid."

For Luke Skywalker, the supernatural aid was both the force, and Obi-Wan's uncanny knowlede. The Ghost Busters had their Egon guns, and even Jesus had a neverending army of angels and miracles to aid him throught his conquest.
Often enough, this Supernatural Aid is something that exists outside the realm of the common man, and is sometimes reserved for the hero himself. But its rarity aside, the supernatural aid is often designed to push the hero beyond the limits of a common man. Often, it is the supernatural aid that makes the hero successful, and not the hero's birth-given attributes.
--For those of you who have read Beowulf, you'll know that Beowulf's human strength may be impressive, it is however, not infallible.
But lets return to Luke Skywalker--hes a shrimp. His shrimpy stature alone never blew the hell out of the deathstar, it was the force that helped him to do so.

For Gordon, he has his H.E.V suit. Thats his supernatural aid, reserved only for him. Where Gordon's human fallibility takes place, the suit steps in. The suit is there to make sure that Gordon succeeds.

Now, in the discussion of the helmet, its part of his suit. Or at least, if it were there, it would be a part of the suit.

But mind you, as the suit is an aid, therefore it will not hamper Gordon in anyway, which leads me the believe the helmet is more like an automatic hood.​

The suit has a mind of its own, or some sort of intelligence behind it, so naturally, it would react in a intelligent fashion to its enviroment. Like airbags, the helmet exists only when it needs to, and dissappears when it needs to. If Gordon's glasses fall off, i'll bet there are tiny mechanical arms that will scramble to catch them, and shove then back on Gordon's face. Afterall, it's his *supernatural* aid.