Bug-eyed Earl
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What role do you think he plays in the story? I have not played episode 2 so I might not be up to date with recent developments.
Is The G-Man a Villian, an Ally or Neutral?
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Dr_Crowbar
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I don't think he cares about anyone but himself and his "investments" such as Gordon and Alyx. He is not evil nor good.
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I have yet to play ep1 or ep 2, so my knowledge is very different to yours, but i reckon he's neutral. He doesn't seem to care much about alyx or gorden, as said above.
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Personally, I feel G-Man offers his services to both sides in order to make any conflicts he participates in to be perpetual. Infinate war = infinate business, right? 
While there's nothing to support this theory, I highly doubt G-Man has any sympathy for humanity at all. G-Man would have let the human race rot if they weren't willing to bid for his services, and feel no remorse whatsoever.
While there's nothing to support this theory, I highly doubt G-Man has any sympathy for humanity at all. G-Man would have let the human race rot if they weren't willing to bid for his services, and feel no remorse whatsoever.
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I concur with Dr_Crowbar.
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G-man's going to be responsible for saving humanity, then everyone on this board except me will feel totally bad and there'll be at least eight threads every day from people saying, "OMG we were wrong! G-man is good!" And inside they will say, "How could we have known? He seemed so cold and evil."
And then I will laugh, because I knew.
And then I will laugh, because I knew.
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I haven't been wrong about the G-man yet, though. I was on the mark with the Alyx relationship.
Only thing I've been wrong on was Barney, really. But that was a 50/50 chance. It was either him or Eli, couldn't have been anyone else. I simply cast the wrong vote...this time. I'm still gonna hold out on my prediction, put it in a little box of "Things that may yet happen." It's logical.
If ever I'm wrong, it's because my mind's already cycled through all the possible, impossible, and implausible solutions, and I just pick whatever one seems to make the most sense. It's like a gambler who knows what cards are going to come up, but he doesn't know the order of the hands. So I just put my money on whatever seems like a good bet.
Only thing I've been wrong on was Barney, really. But that was a 50/50 chance. It was either him or Eli, couldn't have been anyone else. I simply cast the wrong vote...this time. I'm still gonna hold out on my prediction, put it in a little box of "Things that may yet happen." It's logical.
If ever I'm wrong, it's because my mind's already cycled through all the possible, impossible, and implausible solutions, and I just pick whatever one seems to make the most sense. It's like a gambler who knows what cards are going to come up, but he doesn't know the order of the hands. So I just put my money on whatever seems like a good bet.
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Takekaze
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I'd say the G-Man is cooking his own little soup, for wathever reason. What he's really up to, and why, well... we'll see one day, maybe. So far he's been both, villain and ally. He helps the side that seems to be the most useful to his plan.
I still say the G-Man is a robot and there's a small penguin sitting in his head.
I still say the G-Man is a robot and there's a small penguin sitting in his head.
Wrong in thinking that Nihilanth wasn't talking about Gman with his "not a man" comment."
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A foolish reason not to kill someone, if it'd make the story better. Never suspect that people are safe just because they're familiar.
He's never been a villain, if you think about it. Rather he's been the thing that's been helping save humanity from two alien invasions.
His methods might seem forceful and underhanded, by manipulating his "investments," but it's all been necessary.
He leads Gordon around Black Mesa Research Facility, subtly guiding him and testing him, making him into a useful agent. By his slight involvement, Gordon stops the Xen invasion, and the G-man places him in stasis.
Adrian Shepherd would've boarded the osprey and gotten the hell out of there had the G-man not blocked his path. In doing so, he put Adrian on a path to destroy the gene worm, preventing a second invasion. Then he nuked Black Mesa to cover up all evidence of his involvement and the portal experiment.
Twenty years later, thaws out Gordon Freeman to stop the Combine. Yes, he did it at a price, but nevertheless it benefitted humanity.
Having been foiled from locking him into stasis again, the G-man changes his plans and allows Gordon and Alyx to continue to White Forest, allowing them to launch the rocket that again saves humanity from the biggest invasion it would have ever seen. G-man even monitors the progress of the rocket in his little monologue.
Everything he's done has been for the better.
Darkside55
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He's not. -_-
Really, no one knows what the hell Nith was talking about when he said that. I've said before, he told me that line when I got teleported three (or perhaps it was four?) times by him, to the underground lair with the waiting ichthyosaur.
Everyone else has only heard it from exploring their pak0.pak files. "I found this sound file from Half-Life, I think he's talking about the G-man!" But I've heard him say it in-game. It had nothing to do with the G-man when he said it.
And the G-man's a man. That .wav file was for the ichthyosaur, and the host body theory is a red herring. It's too cliche. If Valve goes with it, it's cliche. Like I said, I'm cycling through possibilities here, and it's just the most contrived reveal ever. "The G-man is really...AN ALIEN! DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUUUN!" Come on.
Maybe I'm casting my chips wrong again, but come on. It's lame. It's better if he's just a man.
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Takekaze
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Villainy depends on the point of view anyway. And I agree with Darkside55. The whole "G-man is an alien! OMGZ!" I don't know, it's... old. Old and overused. It'd be too much B-movie-ish.
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There can be only one Ra.
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G-man makes nukes blow things up, nukes do not blow G-man up.
Laidlaw confirmed that the crystal was from Nihilanth's chamber, and now we know that Gman delivered that crystal to Black Mesa. It's rather obvious at this stage, Darky, and it'd be pointless within the context of Half-life 1 to be talking about anyone other than Gman. Gman is not a man. Fact. End of. De-Dum. Whatever the last bit means. I win. etc.
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That's not a logical conclusion...by that, you could say that everyone who retrieved a crystal from Xen is not a man. Just because you get something from outer space does not make you an alien.
Keep in mind that the scientists had been bringing in samples for who knows how long, until the aliens started killing them when they realized what they were doing. Flash forward, the administrator goes to "considerable lengths" to retrieve a new sample. Odds are that the G-man, who had already infiltrated Black Mesa as one of Breen's liaisons, proposed to his boss that HE could retrieve a new sample. And so he did.
This does not, however, make him an alien. That's like saying I could walk down to the 7-11 and pick up a slurpee, and that makes me an employee of 7-11.
And now I want a slurpee.
Keep in mind that the scientists had been bringing in samples for who knows how long, until the aliens started killing them when they realized what they were doing. Flash forward, the administrator goes to "considerable lengths" to retrieve a new sample. Odds are that the G-man, who had already infiltrated Black Mesa as one of Breen's liaisons, proposed to his boss that HE could retrieve a new sample. And so he did.
This does not, however, make him an alien. That's like saying I could walk down to the 7-11 and pick up a slurpee, and that makes me an employee of 7-11.
And now I want a slurpee.
