This vortigaunt talks a lot...

[DEATHMASTER]

The vortigaunt (sp?) that attaches the chopper gun to your boat talks a lot if you use the use key on him after he finishes attaching the gun. Pretty interesting words he speaks (I keep on minimizing the game to look up the definition of some of them). He even says the Ep.2 line
"This is more than anyone can bear, but we will persevere!"

 

[Catachan]

Did you consider that the line is in fact for Half-Life 2 and was just used as a tack-on for the Ep2 trailer as it fit the situation quite well

 

[pomegranate]

Half-Life 2 is nearly two years old, and you think anyone wants to discuss little bits of trivia from it like this?

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Half-Life 2 is nearly two years old, and you think anyone wants to discuss little bits of trivia from it like this?

Ah cmon its still fresh for many people, don't ruin discussion that may be 2 years old, but still worthy and it brings up to date the same line used in the Episode 2 trailer. I personally have listened through all the vortigaunts different messages and i don't remember that one, but there are so many! They really show a wise and intelligent nature.

 

[MorganFreeman911]

Yea, I've only read that about... what, 3,000 times now?

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Half-Life 2 is nearly two years old, and you think anyone wants to discuss little bits of trivia from it like this?

Actually HL 1 is still fresh for me, classics don't get old for true gamers :cheers:

 

[Ennui]

never get tired of playing through HL

 

[earthHunter]

"We remember the Freeman. We are coterminous."
May mean that all vortigaunts exist together, as if they are bound together in one mind. What one may experience, they all remember, and when one suffer, they all suffer. However, it seems more likely to mean that both Gordon and the Vortigaunts will meet the same end.
"There is no distance between us. No false veil of time or space may intervene."
This may be a foreshadow towards the introduction of Half-Life 2: Episode One, in which the Vortigaunts rescued Gordon from the G-Man's suspension.
"We see you still in Black Mesa. Clearly we see you in the Nihilanth's chamber."
Probably a reference to the memory of the fight between Gordon and the Nihilanth looping endlessly, like a memory the Vortigaunt cannot forget.
"We bear witness to the bright eternity of the Nihilanth's demise. You leap, you fall, we see you flash beyond the barriers."
Probably refering to how Gordon has never ceased to do the impossible.
"For a brief time you joined with us. You are one. Between the worlds."
Reference to Gordon's trip to Xen or (maybe) a reference to the time Gordon spent in the G-Man's suspension - in Episode One it is seen that the Vortagaunts can in fact go into that world as well.
"Communion of the vortessence. And that other: a deeper mystery. No deeper than the void itself."
Most likely refering to the relationship between Gordon and Alyx. But whichever one of them is the "deeper mystery" is still unclear.
"We cannot forget those whose cords you cut. Forgiveness is not ours to bestow."
Clearly referring to all the vortigaunts Gordon killed in Half-Life.
"Unity of purpose, the shattering of common shackles, a single road we tread."
"Your song we sing and shall sing for eternity. No matter the consequences of this struggle."
"You have brought us grief and jubilation beyond measure."
Another reference to how many Vortigaunts were killed by Freeman, while at the same time he freed the entire race from control.
"We are there still, in observance of your final stroke."
A vague prediction of how the Vortigaunts and Freeman could share the same fate. Could also mean they are awaiting his final action against the Combine.
"While our own lay scattered at your feet, you severed the vortal cord that bound the Nihilanth to life, and to us."
Reference to the Vortigaunts who appeared in the Nihilanth's chamber to try to stop Gordon from destroying him.
"That sharp spur of hope has not dulled to this day. For once the lesser master lay defeated, we knew the greater must also fall in time."
"The lesser master" may be referring to the Nihilanth, and the greater the Combine that fought against him, or some still unknown enemy.
"With you beside us, a talisman of victory, the day of freedom draws nigh."
Clearly depicting how Gordon will end the oppresion of the Vortigaunts by the Combine.
"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."
Possibly breaking the fourth wall, meaning that the "far distant eyes" are the eyes of the person playing the game, or perhaps those of the G-Man.
"Something secret steers us both. We shall not name it."
Perhaps again breaking of the fourth wall, or another reference to the G-Man.
"We have endured these chafing bonds for eons, yet a single moment of further servitude seems intolerable!"
"How often have we slipped our yoke, only to find it choking us again."
"Let this war end in either total victory or our extinction. No further compromise shall we allow."
"We take our stand beside you, here, upon this miserable rock."
"The way ahead is dark for the moment."
"What seems to you a sacrifice is merely, to us, an oscillation. We do not fear the interval of darkness."
"We are a tapestry woven of vortessence. It is the same for you if only you would see it."
Another anacronym for the Vortiguant's union as a greater being comprised of smaller threads; could also describe Gordon's, and the entire human race's, inability to understand the Vortigaunt species.
"How many are there in you? Whose hopes and dreams do you encompass?"
Again, a possible reference to the players of the game.
Or, more likely, a reference to the members of the resistance in-game.
"Could you but see the eyes inside your own, the minds in your mind, you would see how much we share."
The Vortigaunt could be referring to the many players that make up the mind of Freeman, and implying that the Vortigaunt are made up of many minds as well (perhaps the programmers)."
"We are you, Freeman. And you are us."
"We have lost all dear to us."
"The Combine will pay in kind for their depravity."
"Hope is in sight."
"This marks a turning point."
"Such pessimism will doom us all."
"We have survived darker times."
"Our finest poet describes it thus: Gallum galla gilla ma."
"You humans, always in the validity."
"We deem this company inviolable."
"Your companionship is greatly belabored."
"Freeman, we could be of use to you."
"We shall share the vortessence."
"Our life is worthless unless spent on freedom."
"We never dreamed to meet you in corporeal form."
"Where to, now? And to what end?"
"This is more than anyone can bear, but we will persevere."

It's the last one.

 

[Dalamari]

OMG IN HL2 THERE IS A PART WHERE YOU HAVE TO CROSS THE UNDERSIDE OF A BRIDGE!!!!

ya...

 

[bigburpco]

OMG IN HL2 THERE IS A PART WHERE YOU HAVE TO CROSS THE UNDERSIDE OF A BRIDGE!!!!

ya...

OMG reli!!!

 

[Citadel]

Cheap steam, making people like me who merely want to shoot vortigaunts and not listen to them, listen to something that might have made the vortigaunts storyline interesting when instead it is a line that we always wanted to shoot them for from the original. Cheap, cheap steam lol.