The ending: where are Gordon's weapons?

[El Professor]

Spoiler

In the ending of HL1, GMan stripped Gordon of all his weapons, but in the ending of HL2, GMan didn't mention that he took Gordon's weapons (Grav Gun), so why didn't Gordon use his weapon?

 

[whiteLancer]

maybe u start out iwth in in further expansions

 

[Ch1cKeN]

what a shame
the crowbar, gone. I cried when it went away. That was the only real weapon I cared about. Screw the gravity gun, I WANT MY CROWBAR AND BASH OPEN SOME BADDIES!

REAL players finished HL1 with their crowbar only, unfortunately, this is as far as it goes for the crowbar bit in HL2.

 

[Shamrock]

If that is true, it would be awesome. Every game should have the super gravity gun, even Madden football. haha

 

[Feath]

I think you are meant to assume that you are powerless to use your weapons.

 

[El Professor]

I think you are meant to assume that you are powerless to use your weapons.

Spoiler

Yeah .. I guess so. Maybe when GMan slows time, the Grav gun will take too long to charge. It would be cool though if Gordon could end his misery with Gman and kill him at once!

 

[Shamrock]

Then Gordon would not live through that huge explosion. So even if he did kill him, he would die too and so would Alyx.

 

[chimpmunk]

or would be stuck in statis forever.

 

[Revenge]

Yeah we don't really know for sure that the explosion would kill either Alyx or Gordon...

I mean, Barney and Kleiner sent a cat into a teleporter and it never came back.... What's to say it's not still floating about in some quasi-space-time-rift, the same one that anybody hit by the dark fusion teleporter would get sent to? Just because a NPC says something, it doesn't mean he's correct, and so perhaps all Breen knows is that when something gets hit by the blast it disappears and doesn't come back? Perhaps whatever is hit is simply spat out to some random location on Xen? Perhaps Gordon actually was hit by the explosion, but the blast borked his vision/memory and kept seeing what happened a few moments before the blast hit while the Gman plucked him out of stasis and plopped him back in his little prison... Kinda like how once you go past the point of no return of a black hole's gravitational field, light waves get sucked into the hole at the same speed as the ship you are travelling in, and so even though you keep getting closer and closer, the black hole continues to appear like it's really far away and not getting any closer (ie the "image" is never getting updated). Ofcourse that's all theoretical... Nobody has ever tried going past the point of no return in a black hole's gravitational field... (obviously)

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Yeah we don't really know for sure that the explosion would kill either Alyx or Gordon...

I mean, Barney and Kleiner sent a cat into a teleporter and it never came back....)

Well, I think the cat DID come back... but it was like turned inside out n stuff. Why would Barney have nightmares about a cat that just disappeared?

 

[TigerRei]

I'm surprised nobody mentioned that the reason why gordon has no weapons was that they were destroyed by the confiscator. Of course, he still has the gravity gun. Interesting to think about that maybe the gravity gun's zero point energy might cause problems with teleportation.

 

[Cpl_Facehugger]

If that was the case, then how did Gordon appear in the train at the end of the game? (Where Gman says "This is my stop")

 

[CriYam]

what train?

I got a black screen with gman standing there, then what appears to be a door opening from the bottom up, the gman stands there and the door closes, credits roll.

That's the ending I see.

 

[Cpl_Facehugger]

what train?

I got a black screen with gman standing there, then what appears to be a door opening from the bottom up, the gman stands there and the door closes, credits roll.

That's the ending I see.

Hmmph. Looked like a train to me! Now I've got to play it again!

 

[beeglebug]

I said this before in a different thread, but i'll reiterate it here:

I think the ending (the white door) was supposed to be metaphorical rather than literal. It was also (IMHO) a referance back to the train journeys that started both games, the idea of being on rails, not controlling where you are going, is a central theme to both games, and I think that is why track based transport features prominantly (eg the ride through The Citadel).

 

[MiccyNarc]

Hmmph. Looked like a train to me! Now I've got to play it again!

I think we are just used to trains and trams

 

[rd_syringe]

what train?

I got a black screen with gman standing there, then what appears to be a door opening from the bottom up, the gman stands there and the door closes, credits roll.

That's the ending I see.

It was clearly a reference to the train ride at the ending of Half-Life 1. G-Man even says "This is where I get off," like a train stop.

 

[Baldrick]

Does the gman really have to say he took your guns?
I think you can assume that he did, since he took them in the first half life.

But i have to agree that the gman walking off is a reference to the train in half life 1.

 

[Dalamari]

If you remember, shooting G-man in HL1 didn't do anything, so what is the point of using it against him now?