The game now ends

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So yeah, anyone that has failed to protect the silo probably noticed this. When the rocket silo is destroyed a message from the Vort's perspective comes up saying:

The rocket has been completely destroyed. Magnusson's misgivings about the Freeman are completely justified. The game now ends.




The game now ends. Sound suspicious to anyone else? Maybe the Vorts know more than they are letting on.

/end wild conspiracy theory
 
You could be reading too much into it.

Or, alternatively, they're referring to it sardonically.
 
I'm thinking some kind of "breaking the fourth wall" cryptic metaphor. Maybe GMan is going to pull some kind of Psycho Mantis shit?
 
Or maybe it was simply a Valve-joke. Kinda like the Rebels upon death 'Oh don't worry about him, he's done it before' or similar.
 
The messages in HL1, HL2 after the character's death all seem to be coming from the Gman. EP1 ends with very quick statements from no one. EP2's death statements are now from the Vortigaunts. I think it pretty much showcases the change in controlling forces in the game.
 
Or it could simple be a message from valve, in vortigaunt style.
 
If that rocket doesn't get up (by way of the destruction of the silo), doesn't it directly infer that the Combine have enough of an advantage to, well, do the Combine boogie all over Earth? The next game in the series requires the success of the rocket (unless the Vortigaunts are wrong about that quote, which they don't seem to be very often). What conspiracy does this illuminate?
 
I started this thread essentially :D

Its propablly referring to 'The Game' Gman is playing...
 
Lost just lost the game.
 
It wouldn't be the first time the Vortigaunts made references around the 4th wall:

"Your bright face obscures your darker mask. We call you sib, although your mind and meaning are a mystery to us. Far distant eyes look out through yours."

"How many are there in you? Whose hopes and dreams do you encompass? Could you but see the eyes inside your own, the minds in your mind, you would see how much we share."
 
As far as I know the deaths in Half-Life and Half-life 2 are from the view of the G-Man as it says 'Evaluation Terminated' . While Ep1 and Ep2 are from the Vortigaunts as you are not under the G-Mans control as such under these games.
 
Yeah It's suspicious, "The Game Now Ends" probably gives you reason to believe the Vorts are hiding some important information, and which game are they talking about, are they referring to the game you (the player) is playing, or the game the gman is putting you through? it's hard to properly decipher the ideas placed in that final "You failed GTFO" message. because there are probably more than just the 2 ideas i've presented to explain it. maybe later on in the game the messages and story will be filled and replaced with even more confusing and mind boggling mystery as is the Half Life way
 
Fuuuuck, dude, what if the Gman is like a metaphor for the player?
 
Vorts tend to use poetic or even Shakespearean phrases, thus the game now ends. The reason behind this is to show the player that it is no longer the G-man watching over Gordon, but the Vortigaunts.
 
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