Why is Gordan a free man?

[loser99]

I dont understand ever why anyone says he's the last free man. Hes under just as much restriction as anyone else. Anybody could put on that suit and start killing people, so why do they wait for Gordon to rebel?

 

[Titar]

Because of what he did in HL1. He freed the Vortigaunts from the Xen masters, so the Vortigaunts are totally wild about him. The humans probably picked up vibes from their new allies.

 

[Jesus Lincoln]

Freeman is his last name

 

[Tantalus]

I dont understand ever why anyone says he's the last free man. Hes under just as much restriction as anyone else. Anybody could put on that suit and start killing people, so why do they wait for Gordon to rebel?

Also, there's a bit of irony. At the end,

Spoiler

the g-man says something like 'I'm not going to illusion you with freewill, so I'm going to make this choice for you'

 

[f|uke]

Because everybody else in the game is a scripted AI construct. Duh.

 

[Tantalus]

Because everybody else in the game is a scripted AI construct. Duh.

Have you been reading 'illuminati' s threads?

 

[f|uke]

Have you been reading 'illuminati' s threads?

Uh, no actually,. but I did now that you mentioned it.. and I see that he had the same conclusion.. actually he said pretty much the exact same thing.

..I seriously had not read his post.

 

[Kingreaper]

I dont understand ever why anyone says he's the last free man. Hes under just as much restriction as anyone else. Anybody could put on that suit and start killing people, so why do they wait for Gordon to rebel?

He's the Free Man for several reasons

His last name (DUH!)

He killed the master of Xen

He's one of probably about ten people to have escaped from Black Mesa

He was an amazingly respected guy even in the start of HL1, obviously he'd done something to prove himself before (probably why the G-man chose him)

Probably five of the other escapees were the lambda team, who's mission Freeman fulfilled

He was well known to dr. Breen

etc.

 

[qdave]

he is free man because he can do whatever he likes.

 

[kupocake]

the fact that ultimately, Freeman is the one person who is totally robbed of his Freewill is an excellent piece of irony. Otherwise, he is a symbol to humanity: he survived Black Mesa despite all the odds, he freed the Xen and now the Vortiguants prophericise his return to free the earth. No one else has the G-Man on their side, but ultimately, that's the reason why he isn't truely free.

 

[Ennui]

it's because he's god

 

[(Fragger)]

Who's this Gordan guy I keep reading about? I think there's an alternate version of H:2 taking place in a parallel universe where the characters are:
Gordan
Alex
Dr. Kliener
Dr. Brean
Vortigons
Barny
Etc.
Also, it has a place called "The citidell" and aliens from Zen.
Is that the "Aluminum" edition?
:E

 

[m00b]

Who's "Gordan"? :|

 

[Crushenator 500]

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[The Monkey]

Who's this Gordan guy I keep reading about? I think there's an alternate version of H:2 taking place in a parallel universe where the characters are:
Gordan
Alex
Dr. Kliener
Dr. Brean
Vortigons
Barny
Etc.
Also, it has a place called "The citidell" and aliens from Zen.
Is that the "Aluminum" edition?
:E

good one.

 

[grunt_pepper]

I would agree with kupoartist, its just irony that Gordon is really the only one that has no free will at all. It is shown in many places through the game that Gordon is actually pushed to do things, having no choice at all, like when Gordon is arriving at the train station, its strange that Barney was there that day undercover (now he may have been there for months) but he and Klein (sp?) were expecting someone to come...

The next mistery would be the G-man everywhere you look (to me it seems like he is sacred that Gordon might make a mistake thus breaking the line of events that he or his employee want to happen).

Also a silly thought on my side... whenever one of these aliens from Xen says something about Gordon being the Freeman to me it always seemed like he was making fun of him.

 

[Tantalus]

Uh, no actually,. but I did now that you mentioned it.. and I see that he had the same conclusion.. actually he said pretty much the exact same thing.

..I seriously had not read his post.

lol, well, thats pretty cool

 

[Frank]

He's the one who's gonna Free the world...

 

[moggy]

he is definately free from the combine and doesnt get oppressed like others

 

[corkscru74]

Think of Gordon as Sly Stallone's character in Demolition Man. Just with an MIT education.

He's Frosen in time and defrosted when needed, dropping into a world that he doesn't really belong in and doesn't know anything about it. He's basically disobeying all the oppressive rules because he doesn't realise he's breaking them.

 

[Edcrab]

I think Gordon became known as "The One Free Man" as Breen once mentions simply because his reputation spiralled out of control. The Xenizens were effectively minions of the Combine, and he thoroughly kicked their arse, just as he shrugged off humanity's best efforts to kill him.

Clearly BM survivors put the word out that Freeman screwed up Xen and survived the Cascade incident, and thus the Resistance create a near-messianic myth from the stories they've heard- after all, that guy stood up to a Combine representative (Nihilanth, presumably) and prevailed...

And yes, it truly is ironic- everyone considers Gordon to be an unstoppable, omnipresent killing machine who can solve all problems. He's yet to encounter something he can't beat, so his reputation will continue to grow, and that's a problem, because when you get right down to it he's even more confused about what's happening then the average citizen...