Weird Gman vid from hl2 alpha training course

[Trodler]

probably old news
but if you watch this video of HL2 in its alpha stage, showing off a hazard course, it features a pretty disturbing (IMO) gman scene!

when i first heard about it i was like 'omg' and simply had to find out so i youtubed it:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=y_2yIIZ82XU

kinda trippy.. especially when the walls start shaking

 

[Naph]

I thought showing this stuff was illegal.

Oh wait it is

 

[Trodler]

lol ive been away from the boards for a while
so im not really sure if i do something wrong
im just bored and want to talk half life

 

[Druckles]

Yeah, we're not supposed to discuss alpha content in here. Interesting, though, I hadn't seen it before.

 

[Operational]

Nice vid, very atmospheric.

The GMan bit was a nice way of inserting the Hazard Course into the HL2 world, much as HL1s Hazard Course did. I can just imagine all the crazy theories people would have come up with if it made it into the final game. In the end though Valve went for a learn-as-you-play philosophy, which I think is better.

 

[Trodler]

I thought it was a good insight into the mystique of the Gman.
whether the content seen is considered as technically canon (as in, if a situation like that DID arise in the final game, the same outcome would have happened), it clearly shows the gman as some strange figure of extraordinary proportions. I guess people knew that anyway, but to me it just shoots down the theory that he could be human at least.

 

[Mellish]

Why didn't valve include this in the finished game? Not the hazard course itself but that creepy gman bit.
I swear that ****ing scared the living shit out of me. More than any horror movie I've watched, but that's probably my fear of the gman in general.

 

[The_E]

Oh my god that almost scared the crap outta me!

 

[G(ordon)-man]

Cool vid. I wonder that is it a easter egg or no. Although i havent ever thought of Gman as a scarer, more as a weird old man.

 

[AtomicSpark]

Anything related to the beta/"alpha" release of Half-life 2 is not to be discussed.