I don't get it...

[soar4ever]

I don't get it...who is the guy that comes at the beginning and the end or half-life 2? I haven't played half-life 1 so I guess I don't know and I wont have time to play for a while...can someone just tell me? cuz I played all the way through hafl-life 2 and didn't get a thing except that we have to kill the combine )

 

[Reaktor4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-Man_(Half-Life)

 

[bbson john]

He is a man in mystery. He has talked to you so much but most of his words are pointless. He is a peeper. He stares at you. However, you, for most of the time, cannot touch him or get near him. He employed you because you killed an alien master. Why he employs you we don't know. He also has his employor, whom we don't know.

In short, we don't know who he is.

 

[Ludah]

He pretty much observed you all throughout the Black Mesa incident in Half-Life 1. After you kill the entity that was holding open the dimensional rift from Xen to Black Mesa (read up on Nihilanth), you come face to face with him in his first speaking part. He praises you on a job well done and for securing the borderworld of Xen under their control (who "they" are is not elaborated upon). He makes mention of similarly unknown "employers" of his and offers you a job (more vagueness).

At that point, you can choose to either accept his offer or deny it. If you accept it, you go into stasis and are under his employ. If you deny it, he gets audibly irritated and pretty much sends you to your death.

From that point, everything continues in Half-Life 2, which assumes the player took his offer. Killing Nihilanth apparently opened portal storms all over the Earth, allowing the Combine to invade Earth. There is an apparent hostile relationship between Nihilanth's forces and the Combine, but to what extent isn't known.

But yeah... long story short: We have no ****ing clue who or what he is.

 

[Hypnosos]

He's one of the most mysterious characters in a game ever. And that's why he is so interesting.

 

[soar4ever]

thanx guys...

 

[//:Protocol]

G-man Is god.

Or Gordon Freeman From the future.

(G - God.. God-Man)(G-Man, G - Gordan, Man - Freeman.)

 

[Ludah]

G-man Is god.

Or Gordon Freeman From the future.

(G - God.. God-Man)(G-Man, G - Gordan, Man - Freeman.)

No. No. NO.

"G-Man" is not his official name. It was his model name for Half-Life 1 and it stuck because that was the only title people could identify him by. G-Man, as the term is understood outside of Half-Life, simply means "Government Man". He clearly doesn't work for the government. He's not God. And the "G-Man = Freeman" theory is so full of holes and ridiculous I thought it would never see it again.

The Episode 1 story on the official site pretty much clarifies this.

"The G-Man, as he's come to be called, seals Gordon in stasis far from Earth, thought, and time itself."