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    HALF-LIFE is one of the most prolific & beloved game franchises of all time, but it’s also known for one of Gaming's most enigmatic characters: The G-MAN. Seriously, who is this creepy suit that can transcend time, space, and our known dimensions?! Well after some grueling research into the depths of Half-Life lore, I have discovered the G-Man's True Identity, and it will shock you!
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  • @vxlley_flower5672
    @vxlley_flower5672 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20328

    It's 11:55 where I am. I could go to bed, since I have my first day of school tomorrow, ooorrr I could watch Game Theory.... I guess you know which I chose.😂😅

    • @IamDogge
      @IamDogge 6 ปีที่แล้ว +173

      lily davenport do the one that will help you learn OBVIOUSLY WATCH THE GAME THERIOST

    • @Jason_Ultimate
      @Jason_Ultimate 6 ปีที่แล้ว +127

      lily davenport
      YES! THIS IS THE ONLY TRUE EDUCATION YOU NEED!

    • @johnny5172
      @johnny5172 6 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      lily davenport it's 6:45 where i am and it's my first day of school.

    • @nukesrus2663
      @nukesrus2663 6 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Glad I don't live in England

    • @johnny5172
      @johnny5172 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      A Canadian i live in sweden.

  • @CalastrophicTV
    @CalastrophicTV 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16239

    G man the owner and founder of g mail.

    • @sirquacks6128
      @sirquacks6128 6 ปีที่แล้ว +343

      my god you are a genius

    • @goose8540
      @goose8540 6 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      TheRealMini ...

    • @jekkers7429
      @jekkers7429 6 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      TheRealMini XD

    • @CalastrophicTV
      @CalastrophicTV 6 ปีที่แล้ว +244

      He also made the game, Gmod.

    • @ridwanandrianou209
      @ridwanandrianou209 6 ปีที่แล้ว +185

      and he also made a film.... G-force
      and he also have a spot a G-sp........ im just gonna leave right now

  • @luxbigbux
    @luxbigbux 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1558

    “The combine is a powerful force”
    Them: *gets run over by a boat*

    • @marcoseduardocastro781
      @marcoseduardocastro781 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      You gotta remember those are human-based Combine Soldiers,We dont know the true force of the combine as the only threats we see are the hunter-choppers,hunters,gunships,dropships and striders

    • @AlexanderAzarov
      @AlexanderAzarov 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@marcoseduardocastro781 Don't forget the Advisors.

    • @supremefearow7053
      @supremefearow7053 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@AlexanderAzarov they are the true g-man according to some people, but a hatched one unlike the babies you see in half life

    • @fischaventine8313
      @fischaventine8313 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Boat OP pls nerf

    • @Arthurschkil
      @Arthurschkil 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The humans working for them are getting run over so that means credit to humans

  • @Somespideronline
    @Somespideronline 2 ปีที่แล้ว +717

    "I'm not a large open headed baby. Where did you get that...preposterous hypothesis?"
    - G Man

    • @gamepad3173
      @gamepad3173 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      not my idea.

    • @fredanderson7728
      @fredanderson7728 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Game Theory...you, just posted cringe. You have lost subscriber. Hahhhh.

    • @channel.2341
      @channel.2341 ปีที่แล้ว

      is there a video he made after this one?

    • @fantasticmrbongo
      @fantasticmrbongo ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Did steve tell you that, per chance?

    • @mr_man91313
      @mr_man91313 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@fantasticmrbongo steve...

  • @ender-cq1ec
    @ender-cq1ec ปีที่แล้ว +517

    You can tell mat is trying his hardest not to laugh in the start

    • @chickenman...
      @chickenman... ปีที่แล้ว +15

      i was also trying my hardest not to laugh.

    • @monkebanana2506
      @monkebanana2506 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      How come you guys were trying not to laugh?

    • @I.O_Productions
      @I.O_Productions 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@monkebanana2506 "Your hour has... C O M E ." and the rest of the funny dialouge

  • @BlackKnight66600
    @BlackKnight66600 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4953

    “Valve is too busy printing money with steam”
    *laughs in Half Life: Alyx*

    • @BlackKnight66600
      @BlackKnight66600 4 ปีที่แล้ว +100

      GoTi4No as a diehard half-life fan I couldn’t care less if this is true or not.

    • @user-cr3pn7rk2v
      @user-cr3pn7rk2v 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      *Valve is too busy printing money with VR

    • @juscusimkool8409
      @juscusimkool8409 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      BlackKnight 6660 can you shut up, like stop begging for comments or likes

    • @djaydeved
      @djaydeved 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      i would like this, but its at 169 likes, so nope

    • @Wazzen563
      @Wazzen563 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @GoTi4No "only"? Sorry, but there's nothing intelligent about that level of cynicism.

  • @09kingarthur
    @09kingarthur 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3710

    Note: It isn't Gordon's first day. No one addresses him as "the new guy" and most scientists seem to know him quite well.

    • @gregorylumentut435
      @gregorylumentut435 3 ปีที่แล้ว +143

      Except for some security guards in decay which is (possibly) canon

    • @FluorescentGreen5
      @FluorescentGreen5 2 ปีที่แล้ว +247

      plus he already has a locker there

    • @PouLS
      @PouLS 2 ปีที่แล้ว +129

      also this video is clickbait and the mystery hasn't even been solved.

    • @hweaver888
      @hweaver888 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      yeah i dont know where he got that

    • @yesyes-om1po
      @yesyes-om1po 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      he is young though

  • @OhHeyJude
    @OhHeyJude 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +193

    Theory seems fine enough, though one thing I will mention is that the "comes another" line is most likely not warning about another nihilanth rather it's probably just a taunt by the creature. Throughout the chapter you see multiple corpses of previous subjects who dared to step foot into xen and never made it back. So "comes another" isn't about another nihilanth rather another subject who dares to enter xen.

    • @AG_Makes_Stuff.
      @AG_Makes_Stuff. 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Bro took 6 years 💀💀💀

    • @XeonbX
      @XeonbX 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      ​@@AG_Makes_Stuff.took 6 years for you to be 12 my guy

    • @MakerManX
      @MakerManX 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@XeonbXfire comeback

    • @TuxedoDogss
      @TuxedoDogss 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@AG_Makes_Stuff. blame the algorithm

    • @bacontastesgreat
      @bacontastesgreat 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      👉👌 👉 👌 👉👌

  • @torm0
    @torm0 ปีที่แล้ว +142

    The G Man could also be one of the grubs. If you read over Episle 3 (The short story that was meant to be the original story of Half life 3) and the writers tweets from "Breen Grub" they detail that the grubs, also known as the advisers were not originally combine. They were a race called the shu'ulathois and have incredible psychic ability. They are supposed to be able to take whatever form they wish when they hatch but the combine control and keep them in the larval stage. The G Man could be a hatched shu'ulathois.

    • @addman1952
      @addman1952 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      yeah but his observable powers fit way too well with all the Zen creatures, him being a grub wouldnt make as much sense.

    • @Suddsy11037
      @Suddsy11037 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yup this is my personal theory

    • @torm0
      @torm0 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@addman1952 If the grubs without combine interference have the psyonic power to create shared worlds and fly. What don't they have that zen creatures have?

  • @stefano7868
    @stefano7868 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2673

    13:00 According to that logic, Barney Calhoun is also a Nihilanth.

    • @gamingsuper9872
      @gamingsuper9872 3 ปีที่แล้ว +138

      Our murder toy in half life 1 is actually a nihilanth

    • @hunterketch989
      @hunterketch989 3 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      you can ignore it and the theory still works

    • @SpricketGus
      @SpricketGus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +166

      Actually, benrey is.

    • @stefano7868
      @stefano7868 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      @@SpricketGus Lmao I just realized that connection

    • @1nkyo
      @1nkyo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      @@SpricketGus i need to see your passport

  • @aStritti
    @aStritti 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2128

    "Miss Vance, You Wouldn't Need All of That To Imprison Gordon Freeman."

    • @TheOnlyRascalBoi
      @TheOnlyRascalBoi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +144

      So, uh, spoilers btw for anyone else
      You finished it too, easily the best game ending like ever, picked up he briefcase and accepted his deal.

    • @namnguyenphuong2610
      @namnguyenphuong2610 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@TheOnlyRascalBoi dumb question... can you not accepted his deal like in HL 1?

    • @PekaCheeki
      @PekaCheeki 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@namnguyenphuong2610 no, you never got a choice like you did in hl1

    • @namnguyenphuong2610
      @namnguyenphuong2610 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@PekaCheeki cuz watching the vid about hl1, you can be send to a weird dimension with all tons the demon guards if you don't accept his deal... just dumb question...

    • @TheOnlyRascalBoi
      @TheOnlyRascalBoi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@namnguyenphuong2610 lol tbh I wasn't sure myself and was thinking of doing the last part again to check lol

  • @nadpro16
    @nadpro16 ปีที่แล้ว +625

    We need more Half-Life Theories.

  • @TinyDeskEngineer
    @TinyDeskEngineer ปีที่แล้ว +151

    Barney is also voiced by the same voice actor, so I guess that means Barney can teleport and manipulate spacetime then.

    • @ripnob
      @ripnob ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @FameWolf benrey

    • @swindle8359
      @swindle8359 ปีที่แล้ว

      the fact someone could make it make sense because of the ending of blue shift

    • @monkebanana2506
      @monkebanana2506 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ripnob Guess Matt hasn’t watched ‘that’ series yet. New lore discovered!?

    • @ripnob
      @ripnob ปีที่แล้ว

      @@monkebanana2506 the lore about tommy “Thomas”

    • @AnesTheIdiot
      @AnesTheIdiot ปีที่แล้ว

      b-man

  • @thecorn1689
    @thecorn1689 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2182

    G-man: *exists*
    Time, space, and physics: he played us like a damn fiddle

    • @traviswood1572
      @traviswood1572 4 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      We’ve been tricked, backstabbed, and quite possibly bamboozled.

    • @FishTankk6578
      @FishTankk6578 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not gonna lie that sounds wrong af

    • @SteveOnlin
      @SteveOnlin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@FishTankk6578 There is a joke about the fiddle in the video

    • @stoppienick8887
      @stoppienick8887 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      G-ood half life 3 confirmed-man

    • @saymyname2896
      @saymyname2896 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gman is op

  • @enhancereal
    @enhancereal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2303

    Half life alyx: Exists
    TH-cam: Ight imma recommend this 2 years later

  • @victorkoppel9404
    @victorkoppel9404 2 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    Hey dear MatPat. Could it be of your interest to make at video about how Russel (from Half-Life: Alyx) was able to "download most of the internet" before the war in the Half Life universe?

    • @rozzano635
      @rozzano635 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      How the frick did he download the internet

    • @NellyPawes
      @NellyPawes ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@rozzano635 he downloaded chrome

    • @Kicksarross
      @Kicksarross ปีที่แล้ว +2

      that seems better for Austin's 'The Science!'

    • @TuxedoDogss
      @TuxedoDogss 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      isnt the daily amount of data generated over the internet in terrabytes? and the total storage several 1000s of magnitude above terrabytes?

  • @goldenshadow9776
    @goldenshadow9776 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    If i see 1⃣ guy saying "its the guy from skibidi toilet" i swear to god

    • @fazarfazar58
      @fazarfazar58 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      its the guy from skibidi toilet!

    • @goldenshadow9776
      @goldenshadow9776 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@fazarfazar58 ( ͡°Ĺ̯ ͡° )

    • @The_Oracle66
      @The_Oracle66 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Skibidi toilet ruined G man. Tiktok ruined everything.
      TH-cam kids exists for a reason, yet, these kids go on TH-cam (not the kid's version).
      Skibidi toilet should be extinct.

    • @finixmoon127
      @finixmoon127 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bro is literally from skibidi toilet, this is a certified W rizz moment for sigmas. Fanum tax.

  • @thedragonfolly570
    @thedragonfolly570 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1453

    "There probably wont be a half life 3"
    Me in 2020: "interesting..."

    • @Tmob
      @Tmob 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Alyx isn't HL3

    • @theorangeguy.jpg_9949
      @theorangeguy.jpg_9949 4 ปีที่แล้ว +109

      @@Tmob he is talking bout the ending in hl alyx

    • @dirtdultra7369
      @dirtdultra7369 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      “There is no distance between us”

    • @tarnishedpose
      @tarnishedpose 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Tmob but there will be...

    • @alienchalseu7597
      @alienchalseu7597 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Although HlA is not hl3 its ending pretty much confirmed that there will be

  • @zacharymccue14
    @zacharymccue14 4 ปีที่แล้ว +800

    Didn't Opposing Force show Gordon as Employee of the Month, therefore is wasn't his first day on the job

    • @jrena9443
      @jrena9443 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Isnt opposing force kinda unofficial canon

    • @MajinMist603
      @MajinMist603 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@jrena9443 Yea but no . . .

    • @ahzrukal4603
      @ahzrukal4603 3 ปีที่แล้ว +88

      he got that wrong in the video. i don't know why he said this but it's not gordon's first day on the job. when you play the game yourself all the people even greet them and it seems like he has some friends among the guards. i don't think you're all buddy buddy with your colleagues on the first day. they obviously know each other

    • @zacharymccue14
      @zacharymccue14 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's what I was thinking

    • @minecraftsteve4130
      @minecraftsteve4130 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Kinda, the manual for one of the games give some dates to imply that it's his first day but other aspects of the games retcon it (like hl2)

  • @ShonaS
    @ShonaS 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    i think it's interesting that Marc Laidlaw said that the Nilianths predecessors have been captured by the combine, and if Mat is correct about this theory, then it shows that the Gman was captured by the combine in HL:A, neat little detail, since they were already working on the story for HL:A 2 years previous

    • @kitsunemusicisfire
      @kitsunemusicisfire 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I see I'm not the only one binging old Game Theory videos in 2022. Interesting tid-bit.

    • @ShonaS
      @ShonaS 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kitsunemusicisfire great minds think alike

    • @Jason75913
      @Jason75913 ปีที่แล้ว

      the Gman's capture was an impressive feat, I saw a clip about it here as I'm not equipped to play HL:A

    • @supershadow11123
      @supershadow11123 ปีที่แล้ว

      How the hell does the words of the creator of the game become a theory?

  • @gordygohard
    @gordygohard หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    With the fallout show being a huge hit...what about a Half Life series!

    • @VideogameGurus707
      @VideogameGurus707 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      We have skibidi toilet, g man is in it

    • @swellybelly5970
      @swellybelly5970 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      skibidi toilet is NOT a half life series

    • @VideogameGurus707
      @VideogameGurus707 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@swellybelly5970 well, it's still good

    • @MikeJProto
      @MikeJProto 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@VideogameGurus707 No.

  • @silasmayes7954
    @silasmayes7954 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3540

    Every time I think about half life I get depressed because might never see an ending to one of the best video game series of all time.

    • @freezingjazzy
      @freezingjazzy 6 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Silas Mayes what are you talking about we did get an ending Alyx's dad dying

    • @OGKoudelka
      @OGKoudelka 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Silas Mayes sadly I think that's the case

    • @bobafett1877
      @bobafett1877 6 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      A Jazzy Gamer Well it left off at a cliffhanger, as we may never know what comes after this.

    • @violentviolet8544
      @violentviolet8544 6 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      We never got to see how it truly ended, that was a cliffhanger, the third game was supposed to come out in 2009

    • @zacross8504
      @zacross8504 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      +Osuka The Oracle Turret December 2007 actually. Also HL3/HL2:E3 would not have had an ending and Ep 4 is just a ravenholm spinoff game. (L4D Style)

  • @allanopassador3923
    @allanopassador3923 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1707

    I think this theory needs revision after Half-Life: Alyx. Just saying.

    • @mariarogers74
      @mariarogers74 4 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      Me too, the ending though short has a wealth of information to make new theories

    • @harshithpillai7782
      @harshithpillai7782 4 ปีที่แล้ว +102

      11:30 Marc Laidlaw said their predecessors might have been captured by the combine, and g man was captured by the combine in HL:A WTF??!?!?!?!?!?

    • @nikolakuzmanovic2626
      @nikolakuzmanovic2626 4 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      @@harshithpillai7782 Marc Laidlaw has confirmed that gman isn't nihilanth,

    • @craigsanders9268
      @craigsanders9268 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@nikolakuzmanovic2626 he did?

    • @doclouis4236
      @doclouis4236 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Somebody already did it and isn't as annoying as MatPat.

  • @ThunderXtaTic
    @ThunderXtaTic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    The Nihilanth theory definitely makes sense now, as the Nihilanth warns Gordon about the G-Man throughout his visit to Xen, as if he knows exactly what the G-Man is. It's easy to assume that the Nihilanth knows the G-Man is simply just another alien, but the Nihilanth seemed to know EXACTLY who he is. They could even be related.

  • @Da_Trololz
    @Da_Trololz 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    We needed more HL theories..

    • @theloldog12
      @theloldog12 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      too late 😥

    • @Da_Trololz
      @Da_Trololz 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@theloldog12 i know 😭

  • @pak-gg5601
    @pak-gg5601 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1294

    Subject: MatPat
    Status: Hired
    Awaiting next theory

    • @PapBenedek
      @PapBenedek 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Nice job! But here is a litle thing : Subject:MatPat not Name:MatPat

    • @alyx8815
      @alyx8815 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Dont let matt make a new theory about this series. He got this one wrong and So many other lore videos that it would be terrible for this game.
      Here is evidence of all of the problems in this video.
      1: it is not Gordon Freeman's first day. That statement is wrong on so many levels.
      1.a: the security gaurd says he is late again.
      1.b: why would a government facility allow a new hire to handle highly secretive and dangerous materials.
      2: the vortigaunts dont control time they have a link with the nihillanth in which they share a mind. The link is broken which explains why they dont attack you. They dont see you as a threat.
      3: there is no evidence that shows the nihlanth and gman are connected except the portals they control are similar. But if they are the same species based off of that alone. Then humans are related to the nihilanth.
      There is much more but i dont have time

    • @lightgreen3479
      @lightgreen3479 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@alyx8815 I agree with you on the 1st one although it doesn't affect the theory at all. However... remember that? "You are man. He is not man. For you he waits.... for you." Who else would this be referring to? At this point in the series, there are no real special characters except for the G-Man. Then there is the point that the Nihilanth looks like a human fetus and the G-Man has a human appearence. The word Nihilanth literally means not man and that fits so well with the Nihilanth's description of the G-Man. He calls him Nihilanth. And lastly there's the point that the G-Man seems to always be staightening his tie. Although it is always straight? Anyway that is the place where most Xen creatures have their 3rd arm. Now to the second one. If the vortigaunts only had their powers because they were linked to the Nihilanth, then why were they able to still use their powers more than 20 years after the Nihilanth's death?

    • @alyx8815
      @alyx8815 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lightgreen3479 1: The nihilanth is talking about himself in 3rd person.
      2: i didnt say they lost their powers. I said they dont have time travel. At all. Also how did you come to the conclusion that i said they didnt have powers?
      3: the "He is waiting" could also be reffering to the nihilanth because he was in that room waiting for you to get there. He knew you were coming so he decided to put up a fight.
      4: the tie thing is so he appears more human. Or he is straightening it and we dont see because it is an old game.

    • @lightgreen3479
      @lightgreen3479 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@alyx8815 why would the Nihilanth be talking about himself in the 3rd person but then also have lines like "The last.... I am the last." it just doesn't fit together. And then of course is the voice actor thing. The Nihilanth and the G-Man are both voiced by Michael Shapiro. Who returned for Half-Life: Alyx by the way. The developers were a bit worried he wouldn't know how to do him anymore after more than 10 years but he did it right immediately. Also the tie staightening thing you mentioned because it's an old game, that does not contradict the theory. That would be technical limitations. And technical limitations don't have anything to do with lore.

  • @leojackbo22
    @leojackbo22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1165

    “The G-Man is actually voiced by the same actor as the Nihilanth Boss”. What about Barney Calhoun, he’s voiced by Micheal Shapiro. You telling me he’s a Nihilanth too!

    • @epifaniocastillo6422
      @epifaniocastillo6422 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      Yes

    • @TurUwU
      @TurUwU 4 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      Maybe he is the 3rd one? He was able to fit in with the combine. Maybe the 1st one was the hostile one, middle one is the Gman who is mysterious and likes to be the Chessmaster to change the world the way he wants. And Barney sometimes is sudden and feels like he just appears sometimes. He is the silly one tho who doesn't like about Gman playing around and probably appears there where Gman has been causing trouble.
      Seriously tho, when you played through half life 2, didn't you feel sometimes that Barney just appears? Gman wakes you up and suddenly he is disguised as combine to let you get trough. Sounds odd to me

    • @TurUwU
      @TurUwU 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Also i just remembered that he was waiting you in Half Life 1 too and kept appearing helping you trough out the game.

    • @GabeMiller2SpoonsOfDoom
      @GabeMiller2SpoonsOfDoom 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I think he was just saying that as even more details that help his point. I think barney is just barney

    • @xd-gm1mq
      @xd-gm1mq 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@TurUwUmaybe barney is sent by the gman alien baby ppl to protect Gordon freeman from events that would have happened unless barney shows up

  • @NotProtos
    @NotProtos 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    G-Man Back Then: Half Life 2 🗿
    G-Man Now: Skibidi Toilet 😭

  • @evanthienes661
    @evanthienes661 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I watch this theory at least once a year in hopes Half Life 3 may be confirmed

    • @ehrenkot1937
      @ehrenkot1937 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It could happen now with source 2

  • @zyartist4646
    @zyartist4646 6 ปีที่แล้ว +572

    "Why is his character model so much uglier than everybody else's"
    Story of my life :/

    • @proximityclockworkx1572
      @proximityclockworkx1572 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I'll join to the club of yours of badlooking guys. :)

    • @d4rkhound388
      @d4rkhound388 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Get some muscles just a guy to guy tip.

    • @yakusodrawsstuff
      @yakusodrawsstuff 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same

    • @KjetilBalstad
      @KjetilBalstad 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No worries, all you need is money... And I'm Norwegian...

    • @JosephBallin320
      @JosephBallin320 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He looks better than alyx

  • @Eternal-pj8zh
    @Eternal-pj8zh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +360

    "What? It was obvious! He's the red spy".

    • @angryasfman9077
      @angryasfman9077 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I SEE SPY

    • @angryasfman9077
      @angryasfman9077 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Buildin a sentry

    • @giantthegameer952
      @giantthegameer952 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@angryasfman9077 Scout: “he..he”
      Scout turning to spy: “right behind you”

    • @angryasfman9077
      @angryasfman9077 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@giantthegameer952 deploy secret weapon

    • @gm_basedplate
      @gm_basedplate 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      “See! Red” “No that’s just blood”

  • @namgyel2010
    @namgyel2010 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    If anyone is reading this then you watched goodbye internet and wanted to watch his old videos

  • @bench3411
    @bench3411 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    My theory was and still remains the same. Gman is actually a metegame concept. He is beyond the world of half life and he is employed to "nudge" things in a peculiar way. His employers? None other than the game developers themselves who use the gman to nudge the game in the way they want. In other words, the gman is nothing more than an embassador of the game developers, of the "true world" inside the game itself. This is why he is omnipowerful, but at the same time he answer to someone above.

  • @boofiman6082
    @boofiman6082 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2083

    G(ordon Free)Man

    • @RealAjiZu
      @RealAjiZu 5 ปีที่แล้ว +125

      oh my gawd- thats just- ok, now i can never unsee this,

    • @300subscriberswithoutanyvideos
      @300subscriberswithoutanyvideos 5 ปีที่แล้ว +347

      So..
      The real name of the gman is Ordon Free

    • @therealjeffinator3435
      @therealjeffinator3435 5 ปีที่แล้ว +115

      Morgan Freeman

    • @VK-sz4it
      @VK-sz4it 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      I won't spoil, but gman is not Gordon freeman. Just read epistle 3.

    • @therealjeffinator3435
      @therealjeffinator3435 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Who though that V K? Lul XD

  • @TheBLUEMask-ru3ds
    @TheBLUEMask-ru3ds 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1251

    Remember when valve made games ahh the good old days

    • @joeyanimations591
      @joeyanimations591 5 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      Very much. One day valve will rise again to take down epic game once and for all.

    • @shadisalman414
      @shadisalman414 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@joeyanimations591 don't count on it too much .

    • @mr.meeceecss452
      @mr.meeceecss452 5 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Remember when valve cared about us

    • @kevinthecockroach
      @kevinthecockroach 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Steam printer.exe

    • @acuny4516
      @acuny4516 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      They do make game but they never finish them

  • @climatectrl3350
    @climatectrl3350 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Further supporting Gman is not man: He is clearly not used to his human form. Even in HL2, he has odd jerky movements for everything that he does. His speech pattern is unique because he's used to conveying through telepathy and not speaking out loud. He took on a disguise as a human to hide his true form to you, so that you'd be more likely to trust him rather than his true form. And existing in a bipedal form and speaking to you through vocal cords is, pun intended, an alien concept to him.

  • @jpitt300
    @jpitt300 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Even after 4 years, we still haven't gotten another half life video, mat pat if you see this, PLEASE DO ANOTHER

  • @GoblinGreed
    @GoblinGreed 4 ปีที่แล้ว +500

    He's obviously just an employee of Aperture from another dimension.

    • @not7170
      @not7170 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      He’s a sad little octopus

    • @Omega-jg4oq
      @Omega-jg4oq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Another dimension? Wtf?! He has no interest in Aperture science, he cares more about Black Mesa or Should I say Area 51...

    • @shivertron
      @shivertron 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      THATS BEING TRICKED TO PAYING FOR TESTS, LIKE MR. JOHNSON SAID!

    • @Vantablack000
      @Vantablack000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@Omega-jg4oq r/wooosh

    • @saravelasco5807
      @saravelasco5807 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      GREG.

  • @nu_kercat1
    @nu_kercat1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1247

    i hate how badly matpat explained gordon in hl 1
    one of guards at the end of train raid says "You're late again" which means it wasnt his first day at work

    • @alyx8815
      @alyx8815 4 ปีที่แล้ว +130

      That is Matt. His writers are really bad at this. Lore is just not this channels strong point. From Sans is Ness to The Hollow Knight is The Pale King's reincarnation, no matter what all lore videos are just terrible. I knew this was terrible when my only knowledge of the lore was watching Freeman's Mind videos, He needs better writers.

    • @RandomCatWithStick
      @RandomCatWithStick 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Why you guys gotta be rude

    • @alyx8815
      @alyx8815 4 ปีที่แล้ว +116

      @@RandomCatWithStick because he gets the lore wrong of every game. If he cant do that than just stop. People have crticized him for his stupidity and he just doubles down. He says it is just a theory because he knows he can fall back on that. Then his fans take what he says and thinks it is fact because his earlier content was about science and he mostly got that right.
      There are few exceptions, if any, where he got his science videos are wrong. His fans think he can never do wrong and that he is always right because of his past. He built this channel for science but switched it when his fnaf series got popular. He always looked at that and thought it was because he was great at understanding the lore (which only got worse because Scott Cawthon congratulated him for that) when in fact it was because it was a popular series.
      He needs to go back to where his channel started. A place where he was showing the science of videogames and a place not filled by videos wanting to get high views and lots of money. And honestly his older videos were actually educational and the reason i got into science in the first place. It would be better for everyone if he just goes back to the early days.

    • @rubygail349
      @rubygail349 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@alyx8815 if you don't like MatPat's theories. Then why are you watching them?

    • @alyx8815
      @alyx8815 4 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      @@rubygail349 I watched it because it got reccomended. I continued because he got things so wrong that are super easy to get right that i can make it a drinking game.
      Also reddit karma.

  • @jillionjangles4177
    @jillionjangles4177 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Matpats impression of the g-man was actually amazing

  • @nicoanims3379
    @nicoanims3379 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    3:00 The Nihilanth actually has 2 arms.

    • @Site-234
      @Site-234 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There is one on its bellie

    • @urinebigdoodoo9203
      @urinebigdoodoo9203 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@Site-234it's stitched on

    • @pie662
      @pie662 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      There's one on it's belly.

  • @xandermurdock6131
    @xandermurdock6131 4 ปีที่แล้ว +410

    Just how the Nihilanth said it:
    "The truth, you can never know the truth."

    • @pussinboots9983
      @pussinboots9983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Yes, I heard that while searching for codes in the Half-Life directory.

    • @mykelmellen2378
      @mykelmellen2378 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I wouldn't be surprised if we don't get an answer, even if we got HL3.

    • @apollo6718
      @apollo6718 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Just as giorno giovanna once said “you will never reach the truth”

    • @Algorithm_God_Cult
      @Algorithm_God_Cult 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nihilanth: The Truth, you can never know the truth
      Nihilanth = G Man = Old Giorno Giovanna

    • @mrbonk9560
      @mrbonk9560 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      nick is away Half life 3 was revealed by the half life alyx ending

  • @ssencipe250
    @ssencipe250 6 ปีที่แล้ว +491

    Half Life 3? No
    Team Fortress 3? No
    Portal 3? No
    Doctor Who Part 3? __

    • @jofhjyv1017
      @jofhjyv1017 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Could MatPat be Valve?

    • @ASLTheatre
      @ASLTheatre 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Don't forget Kingdom Hearts 3. Wait we have seen production on it so Valve must of lost the rights to Kingdom Hearts.

    • @Fem_V
      @Fem_V 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Ssencipe 《》 I don't think we need a TF3 as much as portal 3 and Half life 3 honestly

    • @limabeanyes3344
      @limabeanyes3344 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Jofh Jyv
      Wait...
      3-> MAT. PAT.

    • @NotBigSurprise
      @NotBigSurprise 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      TF3 would be a bad idea. It would split the TF2 community between the people who decide to stay in TF2, and the people moving to TF3.

  • @willreese7114
    @willreese7114 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    He really nailed the inflection and cadence of the G MAN’s voice

  • @mellowyellowproductions
    @mellowyellowproductions ปีที่แล้ว +4

    2:35 Barney knew Gordon well as well as the other staff of black mesa so it was never his first day

  • @emigarcia1993
    @emigarcia1993 6 ปีที่แล้ว +379

    Freeman didn't start a 'new job'. It wasn't his first day. The game doesn't make clear for how long Gordon has been working at Black Mesa, but it does make it clear, through many dialogues and interactions with NPCs throughout the game, that he's already a well known figure there.

    • @zEynnaTor
      @zEynnaTor 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      +1 when barney says "just one of those days i guess ... "

    • @whatever7645
      @whatever7645 6 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      We know for a fact Gordon worked at Black Mesa before the resonance cascade since in Opposing Force we can find an 'employee of the month' picture with Gordon's face on it, also in half life 2 episode 1 Alyx tells Gordon the following "I heard a story about you and vents Gordon, that whenever Doctor Kleiner locked himself out of his office, you and Barney would race through the vents to get inside and unlock it." and because of what Alyx said we know for sure that Gordon worked at Black Mesa before the resonance cascade.
      NOTE: Alyx's quote is not 100% correct, I wrote it out of my memory, so it isn't the same as in game (I think I messed up the last part of it)
      EDIT: Correcting grammar and spelling mistakes

    • @pkbroiler2000
      @pkbroiler2000 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Super late reply to this, but Alyx also mentions in episode 1 that Gordon and Barney would have contests to see who could get into Kleiner’s lab fastest through the air vents.

    • @djr4yman
      @djr4yman 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I believe it is treated as a first day because he got tasked with pushing the crystal into the machine. So that may leqd people to believe that it was his first day on the job at Black Mesa, when in reality it was the first day for that specific project.

    • @MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive
      @MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      He's new but it is not gis first day. He has been at Black Mesa for around a month.

  • @PanVaheVA
    @PanVaheVA 3 ปีที่แล้ว +588

    Nihilanth: voiced by Micheal Shapiro
    Gman: voiced by Micheal Shapiro
    Barney: where am I?

    • @gregorylumentut435
      @gregorylumentut435 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Barney after finding matpat forgot that Michael Shapiro voiced him: what the Sh*t is this Sh*t?!?!

    • @TheAmazingDoorknob
      @TheAmazingDoorknob 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I thought nialanth was gman

    • @09kingarthur
      @09kingarthur 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Half-Life VR But the AI is Self Aware: Oh hey, I'm here now!

    • @PanVaheVA
      @PanVaheVA 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      okay so TH-cam didn't notify me about my comments but you guys really made my day better finding out I have 200 likes and funny replies

    • @Rirky
      @Rirky 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cheese

  • @Deepusk826
    @Deepusk826 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    one ofmy favorite theory episodes to date. Thanks for the memories, MatPat.

  • @catgamplay
    @catgamplay 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    POV Someone says omg matpat made a vid for skibidi toilet 6 years before the release:
    X suicide
    O give up

    • @smash8192
      @smash8192 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      X

    • @catgamplay
      @catgamplay 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      X

    • @catgamplay
      @catgamplay 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@smash8192 X

    • @capybaraman3114
      @capybaraman3114 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      X

    • @Duck-Confused
      @Duck-Confused 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      O, humanity is doomed

  • @james_2752
    @james_2752 6 ปีที่แล้ว +411

    Yo what if the g man is actually gaben.

  • @rrai1999
    @rrai1999 6 ปีที่แล้ว +360

    But.. It wasn't Gordons first day on the job.

    • @GilWanderley
      @GilWanderley 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I think that bit of the lore has changed back and forth over time.

    • @fractaldunes2903
      @fractaldunes2903 6 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      no, its established that he was going in for the experiment, and he's worked there before

    • @Ixia.
      @Ixia. 6 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      I agree, you can see his Employee of the Month photo in the office. And loads of people recognize him.

    • @plank2112
      @plank2112 6 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      he also got it wrong when he said that xen was the dimension of the vortigaunts. Xen was just a bridge to cross dimensions, the actual home of the vortigaunts was taken by the combine.

    • @plutoniumfish8368
      @plutoniumfish8368 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      It was originally, but was retconned in Half-Life 2. Still, do your research MatPat!

  • @andrewgivens5070
    @andrewgivens5070 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Where is your evidence to support your claim that it is Gordon Freeman's first day on the job? Considering that so many of the black Mesa personnel seemed very familiar with Gordon, I would think that it is most certainly not his first day.

  • @hamburgerlover9825
    @hamburgerlover9825 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    crazy to think that fidget spinners and jake paul is now a bygone era

  • @user-xg8yy7yl1d
    @user-xg8yy7yl1d 3 ปีที่แล้ว +613

    The combine's inability to teleport within a dimension makes me wonder if Portal borderline confirms that they fully lost in the end. Raiding Aperture for a portal gun would be extremely useful.

    • @sui4271
      @sui4271 2 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      iirc Glados kept the combine away from aperture sience/ didnt let it through

    • @Me-wx1mt
      @Me-wx1mt ปีที่แล้ว +141

      It’s actually sort of a comedic part of portal. Cave Johnson never realized how revolutionary the portal gun really was, and just kept working on other stupid stuff instead of marketing that. He sort of saved the world with his own stupidity lmao

    • @misterwizardman4309
      @misterwizardman4309 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Just imagine the combine shooting portals around the white forest and doing like backflips to try and kill Gordon 😂

    • @Niiwastaken
      @Niiwastaken ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@misterwizardman4309 or imagine gordan doing that 😂

    • @chefpyro8586
      @chefpyro8586 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      They didn't know about aperture science as far as they knew the borialis was the only portal tech except for rebel teleporters

  • @bananaspice1967
    @bananaspice1967 4 ปีที่แล้ว +391

    Nihilanth: dies
    Valve: *there is another*

  • @scrapykatofficial
    @scrapykatofficial 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Mat's G-Man voice is extremely unrealistic, don't forget to breath in like you're gasping for air every zeptosecond
    this isn't a actual issue, just to clarify

  • @user-lw1ev6tb8g
    @user-lw1ev6tb8g หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    buddy disappeared like half life 3

  • @JoyScreams
    @JoyScreams 3 ปีที่แล้ว +841

    Voice actor of nihilanth: michael shapiro
    Voice actor of gman: Michael shapiro
    Voice actor of standard security guard: Michael Shapiro
    Voice Actor Of Barney: MICHAEL SHAPIRO!!!

  • @Narses_the_aremnian
    @Narses_the_aremnian 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    You need to finaly remake it! Becouse of half life alyx

    • @AnthonyPompa
      @AnthonyPompa 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I’ve got some bad news for you…

    • @Narses_the_aremnian
      @Narses_the_aremnian 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@AnthonyPompa that means humans are not meant to know to truth that means my employers took care of him luckly

    • @AnthonyPompa
      @AnthonyPompa 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Narses_the_aremnian You're definitely a Shu'ulathoi, not a Nihilanth.

    • @Narses_the_aremnian
      @Narses_the_aremnian 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@AnthonyPompa truth is relative concept but you are right

  • @minask9tchupienojeongyeonn456
    @minask9tchupienojeongyeonn456 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The way he impersonated The G Man, he nailed it 🔥

  • @blissridden
    @blissridden 3 ปีที่แล้ว +565

    the fact he watches you through the games is horrifying to me

    • @Chillerll
      @Chillerll 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      I love it when he watches me through the games. It makes me feel so alive.

    • @mdaniyal9349
      @mdaniyal9349 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@5040. Oh my goodness true

    • @MisterRelatable
      @MisterRelatable ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@Chillerll In my case, It makes me feel like my talent is being appreciated, pretty nice.

    • @bl4ckrabb1t
      @bl4ckrabb1t 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@MisterRelatable It really is, he actually says he's impressed.. Same for Alyx

    • @Glitchmouse2
      @Glitchmouse2 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We are a god to the xen population

  • @jwise85
    @jwise85 5 ปีที่แล้ว +846

    > jake paul
    > fidget spinners
    this video didnt age well

    • @Pittre
      @Pittre 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      If it's in my recommendations tab
      I'd say otherwise

    • @chazlomack8662
      @chazlomack8662 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      This presentation style has not aged well....

    • @dazzlingsky8863
      @dazzlingsky8863 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      6 9 likes nice

    • @SU76M
      @SU76M 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Who the hell is that Jake Paul?

    • @Kj16V
      @Kj16V 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      What's a jake paul?
      Who is Fidget Spinners?

  • @EnhacedMob
    @EnhacedMob 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Michael Shapiro also voiced Barney, He voiced three characters, HALF-LIFE THREE CONFIRMED NO WAY!111111111

  • @THE-CRT
    @THE-CRT 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That’s why G-man says “employers” so weird compared to his normal voice

  • @pingeee
    @pingeee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2244

    Who's here after the half life VR announcement?

    • @Janmee
      @Janmee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Disappointed people

    • @quintonmoody927
      @quintonmoody927 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      HALF LIFE 3 CONFIRMEDDDDD

    • @pingeee
      @pingeee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@Janmee why is it disappointing

    • @Janmee
      @Janmee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@pingeee cuz now I'm forced to watch a walkthrough since I don't own a vr

    • @AwesomeTheAsim
      @AwesomeTheAsim 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      @@Janmee Well I don't have VR too but I am going to buy one. I'll have to find a job for a game lol.

  • @scrash5086
    @scrash5086 6 ปีที่แล้ว +313

    Combines defeated earth in 7 hours
    *turns Half Life 2 on*
    the first thing what combine does is to throw a grenade and accidentally kill 3 of his colleagues

    • @makigames6530
      @makigames6530 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      The Scrash just combine Things

    • @theseductivepotato7459
      @theseductivepotato7459 6 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Those combine forces you fight are humans that have been brain-washed

    • @grayd98
      @grayd98 6 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      The combine soldier you fight aren't the ones that invaded earth. It was most likely striders and headcrabs and stuff that the combine used against Earth. The soldiers are just augmented humans.

    • @T--kq3pj
      @T--kq3pj 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      grayd98 the striders are a little bugs, i think a lot more powerful synths were used

    • @tellmeninetails5819
      @tellmeninetails5819 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The combine is not the guys fighitng for them btw.

  • @RavenTF2
    @RavenTF2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The gman is definitely hostile to combine, tried it on garry's mod. They attacked him!

  • @blacklight683
    @blacklight683 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    mat the only thing missing from your impression of g-man is the aggressive breathing and i didnt know how perfect it was until it was missing

  • @captainmarvelous982
    @captainmarvelous982 4 ปีที่แล้ว +229

    Ik this video came out a long time ago but if G-man was a Nihilanth I'm wondering why he would be happy after he gained possession of Xen when members of his species were already there

    • @ironicdutchmoonshade1394
      @ironicdutchmoonshade1394 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Exactly what I was thinking. It seems weird but the video never touches on it

    • @jacobhogan3208
      @jacobhogan3208 4 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      To be fair Matt also said that it was Gordon's first day.
      When literally everybody there knows who he is and there are pictures of him at black Mesa not taken that day.

    • @hazer3248
      @hazer3248 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@jacobhogan3208 yeah i think that might of been a joke

    • @ScaldGlaicer
      @ScaldGlaicer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Well we really can't tell if he's lieing or not about being happy. The G man is a manipulator and if he said that he isn't happy, Gordon probably wouldn't have accepted his offer. So my guess is the G man is lieing to trick Gordon into taking the job

    • @zacharygilmore1075
      @zacharygilmore1075 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Perhaps the G-Man's employers are against that particular Nihilanth being in charge of Xen. Perhaps the Nihilanth is simply a cruel dictator that the G-Man wants overthrown. It did enslave the Vortigaunts, after all.

  • @budmeister
    @budmeister 5 ปีที่แล้ว +620

    Actually, the biggest mystery is Valve's inability to count to 3.

    • @TheLambdaGuy
      @TheLambdaGuy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yup... Sadly

    • @grizzle4449
      @grizzle4449 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Half-Life 2: Episode Three

    • @robrick9361
      @robrick9361 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Portal 3

    • @robrick9361
      @robrick9361 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Left 4 Dead 3

    • @robrick9361
      @robrick9361 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Team Fortress 3

  • @therealboomshlamian700
    @therealboomshlamian700 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I’ve seen the gman a lot, seeing him at random places

  • @The_Infamous_Boogyman
    @The_Infamous_Boogyman ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The g man is that guy, you know that guy, always hangs out at the g spot, always sings songs about being a G, lives between F and H, right down the street from my family and I.

  • @csakdavid5729
    @csakdavid5729 3 ปีที่แล้ว +404

    i think the ,,comes another" isn't related to G-man, bc it starts to play when Gordon arrives to Xen. And the Nihilanth saying this, bc another human has arrived to Xen. There are lots of dead bodies with HEV suit.

    • @drsamuelhaydensecretgaming6749
      @drsamuelhaydensecretgaming6749 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Alternate Gordon's?

    • @synthomite405
      @synthomite405 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@drsamuelhaydensecretgaming6749 no

    • @dragonmarius4565
      @dragonmarius4565 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Ow u mean the guy from opsive force or barny?

    • @PirateWanderer
      @PirateWanderer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      As someone who is knowledgeable about Hungarian internet culture, obligatory “Bojler eladó”

    • @ZeroSubsYT
      @ZeroSubsYT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Barney in Blue Shift has gone to Xen before Gordan had too.

  • @elvinatombender5992
    @elvinatombender5992 6 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    Gordon was employee of the month before the resonants cascade

    • @eliel1815shadow
      @eliel1815shadow 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      and just after that the lazy bastard was half hour late for the test and even douchbagging around before it...

    • @belmarfilms
      @belmarfilms 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      *resonance

    • @ThePensiveWalrus
      @ThePensiveWalrus 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Which is pretty good for your first day on the job.

    • @TheViralEvolution
      @TheViralEvolution 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Elvin Atombender He worked for Black Mesa for years.

  • @EnderFox227
    @EnderFox227 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Getting reccomended this video in 2024 was a hit of nostalgia

  • @Omni-Charlie
    @Omni-Charlie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    If I had an account back then I would have said how the Nihilanth only has 2 real arms as the third one is stitched on

  • @TheBloodswordsman
    @TheBloodswordsman 6 ปีที่แล้ว +511

    As much as I love your theories, I'm going to have to disagree. The greatest theory in gaming TO DATE, is "Will Valve ever learn to count to 3?"

    • @cosmonautduckling6402
      @cosmonautduckling6402 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      1, 2 and what is the next? 4?

    • @crodojoe
      @crodojoe 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      team fortress 2, portal 2, left 4 dead 2, half life 2, dota 2 wow thats a lot of 2's

    • @SlendHQ
      @SlendHQ 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There is level 3 structures for engineer in tf2.
      Team Fortress 3?

    • @ChrisOfTheDead
      @ChrisOfTheDead 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Insert joke about King Arthur not being able to count from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

    • @slimer2135
      @slimer2135 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      smaknis225 very original

  • @gillianlister4523
    @gillianlister4523 6 ปีที่แล้ว +907

    "Why is his character model so much UGLIER than anybody else's?" ME AS A VIDEO GAME CHARACTER

    • @camellia1942
      @camellia1942 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      StuffAndThangs lol me too

    • @_vla
      @_vla 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      StuffAndThangs dat was the pass grafiks

    • @marvelmine7857
      @marvelmine7857 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      #metoo

    • @bobthescienceguy6700
      @bobthescienceguy6700 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      people who were around when # was called the pound symbol find that # quite hilarious I bet and especially when a feminist says it

    • @pan1915
      @pan1915 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Me toooooo

  • @zensgooder
    @zensgooder หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    im gonna rewatch this every day so i can remember this forever

  • @Sard_Onyx
    @Sard_Onyx ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think this is the most convincing theory on this channel. This one is stellar.

  • @mlarble5855
    @mlarble5855 6 ปีที่แล้ว +364

    He didn't even mention the suit case.

    • @AirahsELL
      @AirahsELL 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      MLARBLE the only thing in it is a notepad, a pencil and a gun.

    • @jaden4551
      @jaden4551 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      DIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

    • @loli_ravioli_4204
      @loli_ravioli_4204 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Dio How do you know ?

    • @browncookie5520
      @browncookie5520 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      [LFPT]Sour Blue in game files

    • @yoshikagekira5086
      @yoshikagekira5086 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wry

  • @parkerlovein6042
    @parkerlovein6042 6 ปีที่แล้ว +678

    Do a theory on why there isn't a goddamn half life three yet.

    • @Andrew-zy5tv
      @Andrew-zy5tv 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      If you do some basic research you'll find out why. You don't need Game Theory bullshit to find out why

    • @s.m.2523
      @s.m.2523 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Because why would they bother when they are making money by the bucketload selling other people games with steam and adding anew hat to TF 2 once in a while ?
      Hell it got tot he point where a number of writters and artist that were core to HL2 have quit because they felt their talents were not used at all

    • @reltihfloda6420
      @reltihfloda6420 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Pantsformer they want to hype it so much so that people freak out when it comes out and they make as much money as possible by bringing people to the franchise who only know the game for it's half life 3 confirmed meme and want to fit in with their memer fiends and buy the game. And who knows maybe they have been working on the game since half life two ep two came out so they can make the most critically acclaimed game ever (after halflife 2).

    • @-TheFacelessGamer-
      @-TheFacelessGamer- 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      *+Pantsformer* Didn't anyone tell you? Valve can't count to 3.

    • @rabbidyoshi9564
      @rabbidyoshi9564 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Pantsformer that's what I thought this theory was about :/

  • @kevinr7216
    @kevinr7216 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    heyoo just a few years later, Alyx comes out, and I think it supports your theory even more-so

  • @sAihiE
    @sAihiE 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Scrolling in facebook, saw and watched a speedrun of HL1, nostalgia kicks in, goes to YT and search Half life explain, this is the 4th vid for tonight

  • @pellaria8012
    @pellaria8012 6 ปีที่แล้ว +235

    It wasn't his first day working at Black mesa.

    • @crust9889
      @crust9889 6 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Menito Bussolini Yea, even the scientists have known him and seem to have a snarky displeased attitude toward him since apparently he's often late.

    • @GarconTheGuy
      @GarconTheGuy 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I know this is an old comment now, but it was originally his first day, but that detail was later changed.

    • @insanityking5008
      @insanityking5008 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Apparently he probably has the highest degree at black mesa and he still can't open retina doors

    • @insanityking5008
      @insanityking5008 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Croc Gaming I know he doesn't have the highest degree...I was just lazy and didn't bother to check so I just improvised.

    • @TopGamer4610
      @TopGamer4610 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      They even mentioned his ponytail being cut off. lol

  • @Hilol-nx3wf
    @Hilol-nx3wf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    7:25, It's the resonance cascade that caused the combine to notice Earth. Not the nuclear explosion. If the nuclear explosion did cause the combine to notice Earth, they would have noticed Earth when humans did first start to test nuclear weapons.

    • @gamepad3173
      @gamepad3173 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      and it was the black ops team that decided to plant that Thermal nuke to level the entire building plus everyone in it.

    • @alensday2974
      @alensday2974 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      He still did give the xen crystal to black mesa for it to happen

  • @Uncle_Fremora
    @Uncle_Fremora 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It is sad that little kids in this year will only know G man via skibidi toilet

    • @NuiiCashy
      @NuiiCashy 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Fr it’s so sad.

  • @toast3188
    @toast3188 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    i already miss this guy 😢

  • @Vhanigen
    @Vhanigen 6 ปีที่แล้ว +400

    The voiced by the same actor would not be a valid argument in a bethesda game

    • @Genrevideos
      @Genrevideos 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Guillaume Lapointe Like the beggars in ES iv Oblivion?
      With that suspicious, nasally voice,
      "Thank you kind sir"
      Gets me every time'

    • @chrissy1045
      @chrissy1045 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      You sir are wrong!
      Uriel Septim VII *IS* in fact a Starfleet officer

    • @thegreattotemaster
      @thegreattotemaster 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Also, the Jarl of Whiterun is secretly stalking the player.

    • @shadowfragment
      @shadowfragment 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Or ANY video game for that matter. Especially in older videogames when teams/budgets were smaller, but one actor doing multiple voices happens all the time.

    • @drac3650
      @drac3650 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Seth MacFarlane is the G Man

  • @toasterman3218
    @toasterman3218 5 ปีที่แล้ว +720

    The true mystery
    Is valve even going to finish the damn series

    • @dassysancal8895
      @dassysancal8895 5 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      The even realer mystery:
      Can valve even count to 3? They have 3 well-known series'

    • @nolaz010
      @nolaz010 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      No. Gotta rip that band-aid off now

    • @G_Silent
      @G_Silent 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I recently shared my own theory about G-man, not only his entire storyline, but even how he connects both Portal and Half Life together. Check it out if your interested!

    • @nolaz010
      @nolaz010 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Cathogen isn’t Portal and Half-Life already linked?

    • @G_Silent
      @G_Silent 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      nolaz010 yes, portal and half life happen in the same portal/half life universe.
      With my theory though, I show how G-Man was involved with both Aperture science and Half life. And provide a whole theoretical background story about the G-man.

  • @SDRlegacy
    @SDRlegacy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I have a teory! In episode 2 the gman talks about his superiors asking him to stop helping Freeman and Alyx. This remind me about the old greek mitology, where Apollo, the mailman of the gods, helped Ectore in some fights and Zeus told him to stop. So, is the gman some sort of divine entity or something like that?

    • @avocadosensai139
      @avocadosensai139 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Damn

    • @nR00R
      @nR00R 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      He is almost certainly some kind of extra dimensional being

  • @chillerdontknowontwitch1302
    @chillerdontknowontwitch1302 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I've always though that the G-Man had something to do with Xen. I remember saying to my brother that maybe the G-Man was the leader of Xen, until he said that the Xen leader was killed. But now that I've seen this I can now tell him about the ''Comes Another'' And also bring up that fact that the Nihilanth talks like G-Man too. Like the weird speech that the G-Man has is the same as the Nihilanth when it said ''You are man, he is not man. For you he waits. For you.''

  • @HumansFreshlyBorn
    @HumansFreshlyBorn 6 ปีที่แล้ว +288

    "After all these years I have found that The G man, is Sans"
    GOD DAMMIT MAT AGAIN!?!?
    *slams laptop*

    • @ordepapap806
      @ordepapap806 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      obvious joke though

    • @twotiredbikev9708
      @twotiredbikev9708 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      No it goes one step deeper.The G man is Sans which is actually Ness.This is crazy.

    • @SirJad_
      @SirJad_ 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ordep apap It's a shame the joke isn't very funny.

    • @cade-parkvilleproductions1039
      @cade-parkvilleproductions1039 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wait, lemme get this straight. The G-Man is Sans, who is Ness, but also a revenant ?
      That's an abomination I don't want to see happen.

    • @smallfiygamer606
      @smallfiygamer606 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The theory sounds cringy but it's pretty reasonable if you actually watch it

  • @RainAngel111
    @RainAngel111 6 ปีที่แล้ว +505

    But if he's a Nihilanth, who are his "employers"?

    • @lulenny6738
      @lulenny6738 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      RainAngel111 yup

    • @yousefseed1874
      @yousefseed1874 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Probably Combine forces

    • @RainAngel111
      @RainAngel111 6 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      But the Combine are the enemies of the Nihilanth. That's who they were running from.

    • @TweakCityGeekers
      @TweakCityGeekers 6 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      The other nihilanths. There could be a higher up, or maybe something even bigger than a Nihilanth.

    • @yeahyukerson4511
      @yeahyukerson4511 6 ปีที่แล้ว +173

      the g man's employer is valve.

  • @ahilanisbored
    @ahilanisbored ปีที่แล้ว +1

    bro they show the lambda symbol in physics back in 9th, i got "THEY MADE THE HALF LIFE SYMBOL A REAL THING?"

  • @NicholeXD
    @NicholeXD 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Always gotta love a GT intro.

  • @darthgiorgi4990
    @darthgiorgi4990 6 ปีที่แล้ว +291

    Several things that bother me:
    1. It wasn't Gordon's first day at work. A lot of things point that he had worked there for a time - how the lab people treat him, Barney, Kleiner and other people talk about him working there for some time. Hell, in Opposing Force you can find Gordon's employee of the month picture.
    2. The nuking of BMRF didn't attract the attention of The Combine, the resonance cascade did.
    3. That Vortigaunt is more known as All-Knowing Vortigaunt, but well, more of the nitpick.
    4. The another dialogue is spoken then Gordon enters Xen. That is more likely taunting Gordon, considering he is just another one coming to kill him, which is confirmed by the fact that there are several dead bodies wearing HEV suits on your way towards the Nihilanth's lair.
    5. Michael Shapiro also voices Barney, and every other security guard in HL. He is pretty flexible voice actor.
    But the core of theory is pretty solid, G-Man being the same species or even more advanced form of that species. Maybe he even has the same ability like Galactus , appearing as the same species as the creature who is looking at him.

    • @once9050
      @once9050 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      გიორგი ჭაღიაშვილი 6. There was only one....
      mobile.twitter.com/marc_laidlaw/status/897634561848467460

    • @darthgiorgi4990
      @darthgiorgi4990 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Nihilanth maybe one, but it doesn't take out a posibility of something similar but vastly superior.

    • @kosherkingofisrael6381
      @kosherkingofisrael6381 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      გიორგი ჭაღიაშვილი tbh I think the theory about him being an advisor has more basis

    • @dragontyron
      @dragontyron 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was about to say, I thought I remembered the Combine being attracted by the resonance cascade at the beginning of the first game.

    • @bludgeon1081
      @bludgeon1081 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Really dude, that was the only thing that bothered you? What about Nihilanth himself saying that he was the last one? What about the fact that he said the g-man had sans like powers when its the other way around (half-life came before undertale). And MUCH more dude, game theory did a terrible job on this one..

  • @scroinklyboinky
    @scroinklyboinky 4 ปีที่แล้ว +217

    Who would have known they had started programming a new half life game two years before this video.

  • @ValentinaDiNapoli-bh7ds
    @ValentinaDiNapoli-bh7ds 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Maybe The G Man is just Gordon Freeman from the future..

  • @lolicanadian
    @lolicanadian 4 ปีที่แล้ว +484

    Nice thesis, Gordon: *_An Observation of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Entanglement on Supraquantum Structures by Induction Through Non-Linear Transuranic Crystal of Extremely Long Wavelength (ELW) Pulse from Mode-Locked Source Array_*
    In laymen's terms, it's an observation of "teleportation effects [caused by faster-than-light quantum tunnelling, aka the EPR paradox] on large[r than quantum scale] objects achieved by firing lasers of extremely low frequency (3 kHz and below) very quickly at crystals made of heavy, radioactive elements"-which sounds quite a bit like the very experiment in which you conduct in the first game…and so it turns out Dr Freeman was right all along, in the worst possible way.
    I like to think that MIT had neither the funding nor the resources to actually confirm his thesis experimentally when he got his PhD, but Black Mesa did, so the anti-mass spectrometer experiments were really _his_ ideas being tested…by experimental physicists who didn't respect Dr Freeman enough to let him be in charge of his own experiments.

    • @AAM11237
      @AAM11237 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      But hey, that’s juuuuuuuuuust a theory

    • @gokusan2256
      @gokusan2256 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That's a pretty nice answer :)

    • @PosthumanHeresy
      @PosthumanHeresy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      It's a little better than that thankfully. Dr. Kleiner was his professor and biggest supporter, and when Kleiner went to Black Mesa, he brought Gordon onboard. So it's more like it's Kleiner's original theory that his brilliant protege managed to complete and together with his heterosexual life partner Eli Vance they did it. Sadly, their boss was a Bond villain.

    • @yeetydab1672
      @yeetydab1672 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      In even lamer terms, it's pretty much just beating aliens with a crowbar until they are dead