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- Found this edit on discord of the truman show and a million ideas of how to relate it to half-life went through my head so I just went for it.
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“How’s it going to end?” Perfectly encapsulates the half life franchise, we’re all waiting on that 3rd installment
Mybe that’s why there is no HL3, how episode 2 ended ia just how it ends, gordon’s back in stasis cuz to Gman, he served his purpose.
@@smartfella7914dude, Alyx game literally teases episode 3.
We dont count to ... what is.. tr- tro-... Four.
@@Gentle_Dudetro?
@@SimoneBellomonte Valve cant say 3.
srsly.
We always ask "where is Gordon?"
But we forget to ask "how is Gordon?"
what about "why is Gordon"
@@ieuanhunt552 When is Gordon?
@@g-manfreezer1998 Who is Gordon?
@@Mr.Needle-Hamster What is Gordon?
Where is Shephard ffs
The Release of HL:A seems to have awoken this interpretation of Freeman's character, of a man who's seen more than he should've. Where Freeman was originally envisioned to be a vessel for the player, he has become a standalone entity, one that people feel this immense sadness and empathy for. He's been through a lot. And imagining what Freeman is thinking when he witnesses Black Mesa's destruction, the subjugation of humanity, or getting unwillingly abducted by a space god-- hypothesizing the psychological effects this could have on a man of rationalization like a theoretical physicist is horrific, yet fascinating. Poor Gordon.
all in one week.
One minute he was late to work, the next minute he became the savior of the human race.
took the words right out of my mouth
Speak for yourselves.. Freeman is us and we are Freeman.
Gordon: *Going through hell and back, seeing his friend die, being in stasis for years, doing 2/3rds of the work and is in an unhealthy state of mind because he had to defend himself against powerfull creatures and an entire alien race that took over dimentions.
The player: Lol the Nihalinth looks like a fetus, lol combine go boom, Gordon doesn't need to hear this he's a trained proffesional.
This hits way too hard. You can just feel all the emotion Gordon has gone through, and you *really* feel it.
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He truly cannot have free will nor freedom even if he is called the free one
This sfm really makes you *FEEEL* like Gordon Freeman
Controversial opinion, but this is why I prefer speaking protagonists. I love the idea of a silent protagonist being used as a self-insert and a vessel for greater lore, but I feel like it can only go so far. The more exposure we get to other characters, the more our own character has story and emotions applied to them. Their emotions and personality grow in spite of them.
@@Night5225 i agree, too bad valve cannot go back on their decision on making gordon mute since the players associate it with Freeman, i imagined the thought of giving freeman a voice in HL2 might have been something they wanted as it would seriously help making the story into a great one. Im gonna be honest the main story in HL2 isnt all that crazy good, the world building and the interesting universe is what saves it and DR.Breen save it since he actually does give food for thought. What made me fall in love with the half life series was the episodes which actually utilized their cast in a good way. Its now left to your imagination as to what Gordon is legitimetaly thinking throughout the games because he's mute.
Both Truman and Gordon have their lives planned out by something or someone moving the strings behind the scenes, so it fits. The million dollar question is; while Truman managed to escape it, how will Gordon attain his freedom?
He did when the vortigaunts blocked G-Man from putting him back into the freezer but now Alyx has been taken instead.
And until Gordon can attain freedom for himself, his friends, and humanity, he'll only ever be living a half life.
I mean... hasn't he kinda done that already? Unless you wanna get philosophical with the way Gman controls everything. But the dude's kinda been left for dead by mr. intergalactic businessman in favor of Alyx.
As far as I'm concerned, anything could happen to Gordon now. He could go and try (in vain) to save Alyx, he could sit down and write Epistle 3 on a beach, or he could just drop dead. And in a collapsing world, devoid of the once-dominating Combine presence beyond scattered forces and small militias, Freeman could genuinely do whatever he wants. I think he's freer than he's been in a long time.
well... is the Freeman after all... right??? 😟
@@non-shockingtopics7563 I'd still say that, while somewhat free of Gmans clutches thanks to the vortigaunts, he isn't out of the woods yet (as seen in HL2, Episode 2 when Gman reappears when his friends are "distracted") since the events that surround him can be manipulated
To Gordon, he just went to work one day and never stopped. I doubt he even felt the passage of time while kept in stasis by the G Man, to him it just been a few straight days of sheer unimaginable hell.
I have a feeling he did rest a bit throughout the games, like when he arrived at Black Mesa East and throughout him and Alyx's trip to White Forest.
@@totallynoteverything1. He must have gotten some form of rest between HL1 and 2. No man can perform what he does for a week straight.
@@jasperzanovich2504 *Morphine Administered*
@@totallynoteverything1. Laidlaw did actually confirm he took periodic rests during the games. I mean this does make sense, he went into the rebel FOB just before Nova Prospect during the day and came out during the night.
@@yacabo111 He still would have no time to just... BE Gordon, he's a scientist not a soldier
I could imagine Gordon having that type of personality before the black mesa incident, it suits him since everybody in sector c knows him quite well. 😊
He also had problems with being late
@@Year_of_the_Dell and had a ponytail
@@Undergamer12 ...Sellout.
To quote Eli from the HL2 beta
"I still recall the first day you joined our team at Black Mesa, Dr. Shiny Penny in your clean, white lab coat... And look at you now."
@@TheExperienceYT Gordon really changed in personality after black mesa.
I like this interpretation of Gordon. A man who can barely go on, but knows, for the good of humanity (and Black Mesa, or the Vorts, or Alyx...) he *has* to. So he keeps going, hoping that in the end, he will get a frankly overdue rest. It makes Half-Life that much more melancholic.
It’s technically a canon interpretation, half life’s main writer released his own “unofficial” script of hl3 called epistle 3 and the premise essentially has Gordon give up cause he realizes the combine are impossible to fully defeat.
@@Augustborne getting them off earth is possible tho.
@@TrialDubz Not entirely, and likely not forever. For they have a history of being very relentless, and will not take defeat.
That's the beauty of a true silent protagonist. You can imagine him as a badass crowbar wielding hero (as it seems people in-universe do), and it works. You can imagine him as a miserable man in the wrong place at the wrong time, who can just barely carry on, and that works too.
@@Vulture135
If trying to kill the ants on the sidewalk keeps getting you bitten, you'll eventually make it someone else's problem.
Community’s thoughts on Gordon freeman before hl Alyx: Silent psychopath
Community after half life Alyx: A broken man sent into an unwinable battle looking for any source of hope.
Honestly I’m glad the communities views on Gordon are different, sure he has to be tough but he’s only tough cause if he’s not he will die, I imagined that throughout the games at the start he would regret killing and only attacked if he was attacked but throughout he would become more harsh and brutal due to be desensitized, and when combat occurred he would start killing constantly but when the adrenaline wears off he reflects on the fact he killed so many lives and regrets it
I believe it is because we can see his face in HL: Alyx, we see him from an outside perspective.
Gordon was just a body piece for the player, now that we see him from a separate point of view we see him as what he really is. A human being in a impossibly difficult situation.
It was the same way with portal for a while too. People believed in glados' words of chell being a mute psychopath but then it all changed. I can't place an exact date but people started realizing that chell is rather a stubborn, almost spiteful, person who simply has the tenacity to survive anything put in front of her.
Dangerous Mute Lunatic
@@TheDizzyRabbit Indeed
I'm convinced Gordon's endeavors, the xen, and the combine forces are all at play just so GMan can get something good to watch.
He couldn't find something good to watch after he cooked up a delicious Headcrab Jambalaya because he'd already watched everything in his subscriptions feed, so he had to make do with a multi-faceted intergalactic clusterfuck of a war.
@@Awesomeness-iz3dh that means snark shit,gordon..
dude i just saw your comment on one of keké flipnote's video
Is the Gman Tzeench?
Wait, i remember you...
You are the "A swampert that caught some pokemon of his own" guy.
I don’t think people realize how GENIUS this video is. Perfectly recreated iconic shots from the Truman show. The shot with the G man as Truman’s lost dad. Brilliant.
I'm pretty sure that the shot of G Man portrays him as Christof aka the director.
@@Hanlb oh I think you might be right. Regardless, pure artistry.
jesus.....you right
@@samjoke2912I see it
A crossover that actually contextualizes the source material.
*Engineer voice* Good work!
The combine reaching his hand out in fear at Gordon before he kills him is really special because it’s from his perspective, we forget combine soldiers are just modified humans, Gordon looks regretful too because he doesn’t want to be violent, Gordon just wants the fighting to stop
And I’m pretty sure metrocops are just humans that basically hired themselves and joined just so their life could be a tad bit less shitty. Gordon unfortunately had to murder normal humans just like himself who just went to the dark side because it AT LEAST HAD something decent to offer. Although it’s a bit better as a Metrocop, it’s hell, especially when Gordon arrives.
@@sunscreeneater5937 yea that was a mcop soldiers are stripped of their emotions
@@doginthedark Most emotions and feelings, pretty sure they retain determination, anger, pain and a sense of high adrenaline when in combat, and also have extensive knowledge on how to work weapons, know military callsigns and commands, and are able to work in teams, showing that they know how teamwork actually works.
I also forgot to mention but, you could see Combine Soldiers as being very patriotic in a way too.
Imagine being a metrocop in City 17 to realize that the Antichrist arrived by train that morning
I see a lot of comments about how we’ve gone from “haha funny FPS man doesn’t talk” to empathy for a fictional character who’s seen, done, caused, and witnessed more death, destruction and chaos than anyone ever should in a hundred lifetimes. One thing that stands out to me is the sheer carnage that constantly plagues Gordon, whether caused by him, done to him, or when he simply happens to be there.
“We owe a great deal to Dr. Freeman, even if trouble does seem to follow in his wake.” -Dr. Isaac Kleiner
That line, along with events from the series, shows me that the events that constantly beleaguer Gordon are both unintentional on his part, and also completely out of his hands. He’s simply a piece in a greater game of interdimensional chess, one where his role wasn’t one he chooses, but one that is assigned to him by the ones playing. His life went from being late to work one day to inadvertently causing untold death and destruction by an action he didn’t directly take, but was simply carelessness from the other scientists combined with the worst possible time for the resonance cascade to occur, and while it was completely out of his control, he’s indirectly responsible for the Xen invasion and all events afterwards. Even in Black Mesa, his colleagues are killed in horrible ways all around him through events that are seemingly his fault, but he has no control over. For instance, the elevator that crashes near the start of HL1. He had no way of preventing it from falling, but it happened as soon as he arrived. He’s cursed with the fate of watching everyone else suffer while somehow eluding death himself.
“The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.”
-The Gman
Gordan commits his fair share of violence, but (aside from some… questionable… possible player choices in HL1) he’s never the aggressor. He doesn’t go out of his way to cause trouble, but he can’t escape it. It’s all around him, and it permeates every element of his environment.
To me, if there is ever a true finale to Half Life, the only way it can end is with Gordon’s death or permanent disappearance. Everywhere he goes, discord follows, and the only way that can truly come to an end is with the removal of Freeman. He simply can no longer exist in a world that still finds resolution. It was never his fault, and he never asked for the burden he faces, but it’s placed upon him nonetheless, and something has to give before the series can truly find an end.
Haha funny fps man doesn't talk
I feel you pal 😔
I swear the half life community can figure out the entire story before the next game even releases
@@rasianket7220 It's been out already. Epistle 3 by Mark Laidlaw. Ending with "Yours in infinite finality. -Gordon Freeman PhD"
@@damsen978 Epistle 3, even while questionably canon at the time, can’t happen anymore.
For some reason, I never thought about the mental aspects of Gordon's adventures, and this animation captures a whole lot of them.
Maybe the ending where Gordon ends up on a beach unable to help the resistance, after all the time he has been involved in the events after the catastrophe, it could be somewhat of a relief for him
He is very much committed to the cause now.
You don't lean back and relax when you know that your friends are putting their lives on the line.
@@jasperzanovich2504 He pretty much starts a galaxy wide revolution ( Portal 2 ending kinda proves that he won as you see a Wheat field which means farmers ( at the very least he won Earth FREEdom , I just hope he frees the rest of the galaxy from the combine ) .
Thats how epistle 3 ended, but it aint canon anymore
@@MajinMist603 Hope Gordon got a statue or somethin, dude was like the second coming of jesus christ
@@TheExperienceYT I say he is more like a saint/ prophet than the messiah , he most likely could been sent and watch over by God . Gordon is basically Moses but instead of freeing the hebrews from the Egyptians he is freeing all of humanity ( and other alien races ) from the combine . “ let my people go “ .
For Gordon, everything from the beginning of Half Life 1 through to the end of Half Life 2 episode 2 happened in less than a week. At the start of that week he was just a random scientist doing his job, and by its end he had carved his bloody way through aliens and the military before being catapulted 20 years into the future to see how the domino effect he set off led to the invasion of Earth and the deaths of billions. Yet despite everything that's happened to him and everything he's done, he still fights on.
That's one hell of a ride
I'm not surpised the HL2 citizens see him as a god
that, my friend, is called courage
2 weeks actually because of the whole Nova Prospekt thing
Memes aside this is genuanly heart breaking. It makes me feel bad for Gordon. That it was a normal day at work, then a Resonance Cascade happened and then his life was ruined. He had to kill innocent soldiers that didn't know what their task was. He had to kill Vortigaunts that were forced by the hand of the Nihalinth. And he even had to kill combine who were also forced into a task. All the people and creatures Gordon killed had no other choice. And now, wherever Gordon is now, he has to live with that. Forever.
innocent soldiers who giggled about killing unarmed scientists. and the Combine seemed to have specifically recruited sociopaths who were willing to betray their species, considering the duties of metro cops.
The only ones who were "victims" were the Vortigaunts, But they dont really blame Gordon for defending himself from them.
It's pretty sad how the "Freeman" who is seen by humans as the one free person has to constantly obey and follow orders from other people and kill others who have to do the same
@@boarfaceswinejaw4516 nah not really sociopaths, u can see in game that many citizens were thinking of joining the combine for food rations and better living standards
@@boarfaceswinejaw4516 But at the end of the day, they weren't told that they had to kill Scientists and also didn't have a choice neither. But I understand. I never knew certain combine soldiers were psychopaths.
Even in his name Freeman is a symbolism of a battle between slavery and power of a choice (kinda), like it was in the end of the first game. The Combine don’t call him “subject”, they call him by his name. All the killed enemies throughout the games longtime dead before their physical disappearance. If they were free, they would’ve wanted to die, if not… they were slaves
Absolutely LOVE the concept that Gordon was a Truman-esque loveable dork before the resonance cascade. The sort of enthusiastic guy who'd volunteer to test out an HEV suit in an exciting new experiment.
Black mesa kinda confirms it when the scientists are always joking with him or flat out tired of his shenanigans
2000s: Gordon doesn't talk because he's a lone wolf badass that lets his guns do the talking
2020s: Gordon doesn't talk because he has PTSD
I prefer the PTSD, fits his tragic story.
@@FemboyTyco Same here, especially since Gordon has seen more shit in a week than most people do in 20 years. I like to think the reasons he doesn't speak is because:
1. He doesn't have any words for all the horrors he's witnessed, and
2. If he was going to open up about everything that happened to him, how and where would he even start?
An addition to the second point, would anyone even believe him?@JetFalcon710
This is a masterpiece, an animation that perfectly demonstrates the events before and after the cascade resonance. You can see how depressed he is, trying to accept the new world and live on, but no matter how hard he tries g man returns him to stasis.
Полностью с вами солидарен😁👍
@@who_is_Judas_prime спасибо
Until Alex replaced him...
@@Mr.Needle-Hamster Now gman has taken one of the only people who kept him sane throughout the events. He really cannot catch a break.
If you ask me, it would be extremely fitting if HL3 is set after ANOTHER time skip. It would really solidify Freeman as a 'reluctant dimension hopper' type character
Poor Gordon. He was an ordinary scientist who survived so many events. He needs support.
Man needs a bear hug and a much deserved rest
0:25 that hugging between Freeman and Alyx seems so human. Like what else can you do when life barges in and takes everything away from you?
This shot 0:28 . This single shot of G-man strangely humanizes the character for me. Such a look on his face could either read curiousness, or perplexation. He could be watching the scene that played previously with Alyx and Gordon, observing the human nature of the two. Or he could just be thinking on something his benefactors have shared with him, and is trying to figure out how to make his next move.
I don't know why this one stands out so much for me. I guess I've never seen such character out of G-man outside of his strange behavior or mischievous grin.
Maybe gman wants to know what being human is
I think it's kind of mirroring one of the scenes from what the title references, the Truman show, where the maker of the show was contemplating the actions of Truman, or more accurately his creation; here its G-man contemplating his creation, contemplating what he has made Gordon into, wondering how much Gordon has put together himself, and perhaps realizing that Gordon has accrued enough awareness of what's going on around him to weasel out of G-man's control (much like how Truman late in his movie was able to evade the show's control after fully realizing what was going on).
As microscopic as the possibility is, I hope Gordon’s Journey can end with peace for him as a person, as minuscule as it is for said person who’s been through a neverending nightmare
he needs a fat blunt
0:06 dude that animation of Gordon doing that Jim Carrey chuckle was 10/10.
The Right man in the wrong place
At the wrong time
The look on his face when Eli gets killed is really well done. The whole thing is actually.
It just reminds me that Gordon isn't a messiah, nor a god in human skin, nor a saviour.
He's just a man. A man with a crowbar and an HEV suit.
He doesn't deserve any of what he goes through but he still moves on without saying a word.
But a messiah or a god in human skin is what people of the world he trying to save think he is
@@arran4285 because he free'd the vorts. But he never really wanted to. He just killed the nihilanth and suddenly every vortigaunts on his side
You could say... he was the right man in the wrong place
At least he is lucky and good enough to survive and not die in a brutal way like any dead person he came across and the one who ultimately saves the day and killed the giant head space alien baby, he is the Freeman and no one else could do what he did and even tho he has no experience with battles and using guns
The clip of him holding the crystal is so good. It’s as if something was holding him back from triggering the event that would change his world forever.
I like that as time has gone past, the horror/tragedy aspect of the Half-Life universe and the impact the events had on everyone in it has come back around to the forefront. Come to think of it, _has_ Gordon been able to get any downtime to process anything?
He definitely hasn't had the downtime he needs. But occasionally in Half-Life 2 he does rest a small bit, canonically.
@@indigocactus3089 I think that during the Black Mesa East episode he did, also when he had the talk with Eli about the "Unforseen consequences". But honestly, the ammount of times he's had rest is not enough to make up for the ammount of time he spent doing...well basically everything else.
0:28 I like to think that after some time of watching the G Man respects Freeman, as he is possibly the first of his pawns to fight the hardest and survive the longest. Regardless of whether Freeman rebels or not, this intergalactic buisnessman may be impressed if not guilty.
I adore this video. Poor Gordon, swept into the future, everything so suddenly changed.
I imagine if Gordon was given just a single day to... relax, to not do anything- he would probably just cry or sit stunned, as all the information of what happened with the 7 Hour War, the Xen, the Combine- all of it catching up to him.
He is so alone.
But hopefully, with the rest of the Resistance and humans, he won't be alone anymore.
LOK forever!
This man deserves a hug.
@@captainfa-it-lcon915 You're goddamn right, he fuckin needs a hug right nowwwww.
"What are you waiting for, Freeman? A hug?"
"Yes."
"... oh."
Genuinely, I think if Gordon did get the chance to rest, the force impact of all the trauma he's endured would leave him in a catatonic state. He can't stop, because he'd never be able to start again.
He would just start screaming, the man has sustained so much trauma, mentally and physically.
"I am The Creator...of a videogame that gives hope and joy and inspiration to millions."
Something about how the combine seems to be scared, holding out his hand to stop Gordan from shooting, shows so much emotion. Amazing stuff.
Because that's a metrocop, they're still human
Dude your visuals and camerawork never fails to impress!
All recreated shots from the Truman show. If you haven’t already, go see that film!
I think this is one of my favorite videos of yours.
i would pay money for a grim dark, psychological, emotional, gut wrenchingly miserable story of gordon freeman and his adventures
Replace the cast of Spec Ops: The Line with HL characters.
There are probably fanfics out there that are exactly what you’re hoping for, but finding them amongst all the garbage would be a serious undertaking.
@@MagpieDynamics Have a lot of fanfic ideas, but am considering making them into Gmod/SFM adaptations instead. That would be the next evolution of fan work, once the process becomes simpler.
@@theguybehindyou4762lemme know once you do, I'd love to see them
@@gerpil1530 Picture the "House of Mouse" as an SCP type organization, founded by detective Basil around 1900, and currently run by Mickey, with Max Goof and Darkwing Duck being some of its operatives who do Stargate style deployments to other worlds, such as the one Agrabah is set in.
Gordon has went through hell and back with the only thing keeping him from breaking down being the morphine and shock he's in, if he sits down for one second I guarantee you he'd start crying
Shephard is probably still in a state of shocked disbelief, he was only 21 in the events of Opposing Force, now he's the only marine left. or he's dead from eating a contaminated chocolate bar. Whatever floats your boat.
Barney had to sit by and watch the world go to shit, seeing the horrors of what the civil protection would do, he himself having to partake in them as hinted by his "Beating quota."
Eli lost his wife, his friends, his leg and almost his infant daughter. Seeing Gordon must've felt like a dream as up until that point it'd be fair to assume Gordon had died.
Breen, although the antagonist, was still trying to help, he coordinated the surrender so the combine wouldn't kill everyone on earth, his "You need me!" line was in desperation as he knew that if the rebellion entirely failed the combine would execute everyone on earth.
Grigori helped Gordon through the hell of zombies who may have been his friends and church-goers before the shelling, ultimately though it is to be assumed he dies after Episode 1.
The civil protection, desperate and hungry attempt to halt Gordon and the resistance from getting on the train in Episode 1 as a last ditch effort to get out the city, we do not see any Civil Protection after Episode 1 so most likely all Civil Protection forces had died or are now in the outlands with the resistance.
We dont even know what is happening in other cities, another person like Gordon may be going through the same things and we wouldnt know.
And all this because some dude in a suit wanted to nudge things a little.
I really like when people recognise that Breen was trying to help. If it wasn't for him humanity would have been wiped out by the combine.
@@davisdf3064 He was THE guy who established communication with the combine, without him there wouldnt be a HL2.
I like how people are depicting Gordon as a separate character now, I've never seen him as the game wanted me to, me. And I never really enjoyed the idea of him being a silent protagonist that represents the player.
He's just a guy who doesn't talk much.
like Alyx said "I see you are not the talking type"
@@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051 If they made Gordon a voiced protagonist he'd either be as sarcastic as Freeman's Mind or just weeping through every sentence
The G-man bit at 0:28 really makes that last scene in HL1 seem more intense
This is so well made
On a totally unrelated note, for a couple of years we got some great movies that dealt with "simulated realities" and I always felt like The Truman Show got overlooked by The Matrix due to the action sequences. I feel like Truman felt the most believable, because as people, we like a good coming of age story, even if its one person's entire staged existence.
In Gordon’s eyes, he’s been through about 72 hours of the most unimaginable hell. He probably has barely had time to process everything that’s going on around him. Everyone else has had decades to come to terms with it. But this poor main character hasn’t gotten a single break. It may have only been days, but in those hours he’s seen more death and destruction than any one man should see in a billion lifetimes.
"Now I've seen everything......"
After what he had seen after everything he has been through what would he say?
The locker scene with a single shotgun shell was extremely powerful.
Freeman is just like a pawn for GMan, but what this man saw, is what anyone else does not want to see, happen in front of their two eyes..
I know it's been said before so many times, but Freeman has suffered so much chaos in such a short amount of time due to his stasis and longer-than-expected teleportation
There are times when I'm playing hl2 when I just stop and realize just how alone Gordon is throughout most of it. This video just put that way more into perspective
I’m so glad Gordon turned from just a player character into a character in itself. I suppose us stepping in Alyx’s shoes for once helped us realize how Gordon was just unfortunate enough to witness the Black Mesa incident and being a literal puppet to a mysterious man in a suit (which now became Alyx).
It’s like Valve is setting us up for Half-Life 3 saying: “Hey, this is what happened. You know what to do next.”
Gordon Feelsman has quickly become my favorite Half-Life meme.
0:02 lmfao I thought it was the dude who said "Good morning" in a baby voice, made me laugh
man, the shot of opening the locker that only contains a single shotgun shell is pretty heavy
And while all of this is happening, a “dangerous mute lunatic” just woke up in an underground facility leaving her with an eerie feeling of loneliness while an unknown robotic voice watches her.
As terrible and cruel as it may be, Gordon CANNOT be allowed even a moment to reflect because if he does, everything he has seen, done, and lived through will catch up to him at once and while he is strong, he is only human. He would shut down. He would lose his mind and break down
Gordon is always quiet because if he spoke he would burst into tears
we always ask where's half life 3? but nobody asks _hows_ half life 3
G-man looks like he's enraptured by the only story he doesn't know the ending to
I just realized that the baby at the start is Alyx and her parents I maybe wrong but still the fact that he just had a normal morning and went through two different types of hell in a span of under a week is brutal
The “In case I don’t see ya…”
Feels a lot different.
@@TimeCircleBlue goes from wholesome to really depressing real quick
Once again I'm reminded that Gordon went through so much in just a week.
The absolutely heartbreaking change from him opening his locker full of his equipment with a smile to his cold, unending frown with a single shotgun shell.
"All it takes it one bullet."
This is the most influential half life edit I think I’ve ever seen before in my life , this shows a new side of freeman that players probably don’t ever think about , usually freeman is thinking what the player is in that moment but the fact is, that freeman is probably scarred from what he’s done
I am convinced gorden used to talk but now he has nothing to say
"Good Morning" from a little Alyx is /sniff/ so touching and cute 🥲😍
Gordon Freeman is a character that gains depth simply from existing
Me: *gets ready for work at the research lab*
The multidimensional alien empire waiting to destroy the planet:
Okay but can we just take a moment to appreciate the imagery of Gordon opening a locker to find a single shotgun shell? A place where you're supposed to store personal items to keep them safe, instead replaced with a tiny amount of ammo that could extend whoever found its life by a fraction. I dunno why that hit me as hard as it did
"Oh. In case I don't see, good afternoon good evening and good night."
That line hits different
"There was a time they cared nothing... their only experience of humanity was a crow bar coming at them down a steel corridor."..
Ok but whenever they decide give Gordon a moment of his own (even with voice acting God forbid) I really hope we get this. The only way we've been able to see a glimpse of Gordon's personality is through his choices in the games, and we have yet to see the toll this kind of situation would take on him.
The bit where all of his things in the locker were replaced by a shell broke my heart.
Wouldn't ever think that slowed F song can be so depressing
The idea of the Vance family being Gordon's neighbors before the earth's invasion feels like a gunshot in the heart... 😭
I wouldn't out it pass Black Mesa to have built some type of housing for everyone working there
'how's it going to end?' hits way harder than expected
"In case I don't see you-" - Dr Gordon Freeman a few hours prior to disappearing for twenty years.
He's the culmination of Lovecraft protagonists. The modern man, learned in a dangerous field, now facing the consequences of man's hubris in the face of much higher powers.
It all was supposed become simple.
That shot from Gordon opening his locker to start the day to looking for ammunition really hits me.
There's something about the context of the half life series and seeing Gordon flip over that post-it note that says "how is it going to end?" That I find spine chilling. There's an entire story in that little piece of paper that we never get to see.
Brother.....this animation did not just give me goosebumps.....but it made me feel different and somewhat pleased in a strange sense to watch this over and over and think about Gordon in a way that i cant really explain.......this needs to be like a movie or so dude. this was good and very intriguing ! God bless you.
The fact that Half Life 1 and 2, took place in 1 week in Gordon perspective
I remember seeing the wips for this in the SFM discord and Jesus fucking Christ. I love this.
The idea of Gordon being a hurt individual who saw too much is one of my favorites, and actually I love portraying him as such.
this is now going on my favorite animations folder.
Gordon blinked and missed 20 years of his life, his friends life's, and when he came back he was thrown back in time several times and the last time he was, he got to see one of his old work friends die in front of his eyes
And he probably has to live with the false guilt that he started the Combine invasion
Edit: I was an idiot and thought that the episodes was gman rewinding time
and then Half Life The Movie: Rebuild happens after the 3rd game
The saddest part is that it's implied that G-Man could remove the Combine from the Earth with a snap of his fingers. That, if he so desired, G-Man and his employers could easily have stopped all the death and destruction the Combine brought upon Earth. But they didn't, because that's not entertaining.
Gordon really did become nothing more than an actor in Half-Life. G-Man intervened on a few occasions to help because your main lead dying at the very start of the show would make it uninteresting.
Gordon became an absolute nobody to Humanity's Messiah in a matter of hours, not because of his own choice or because that's how the dice just rolled. But because G-Man and his employers manipulated events to turn Gordon into the Messiah. His character role was decided in advance by G-Man.
The ending of Half-Life Alyx is Gordon beginning to realize he's just an actor and everything he's been involved in is just one big show for the entertainment of G-Man and his employers. G-Man can manipulate not only space, but time as well. So why couldn't he simply force Gordon to be more obedient, somehow?
Simple, he could. But Gordon's storyline was becoming old and he needed a new main character. Alyx. In return for her compliance, he changed time to save her father from death.
The question truly becomes, will G-Man's employers allow Gordon to challenge G-Man? That would make for a very interesting show, much more interesting than a bunch of mortals going around shooting other mortals who just happen to have telekinesis.
Perhaps if Gordon puts on a good enough show, G-Man's employers will be willing to write in a happy ending for Humanity and Gordon.
But that just makes this all the more tragic. Between Half-Life 1 and 2, nothing changed for Gordon. He was still just a theoretical physicist who was fighting for his life with basically zero combat training or experience. Yeah, in Half-Life 2 he had the combat experience from Black Mesa, but at that point, even Alyx had seen more combat than he had. Freeman was 27 during the events of HL1. HL2 is roughly twenty years in the future. That would wreak havoc on the mind of anyone knowing they just spent almost the entirety of their current adult life once over in stasis.
And what of Freeman's family? His mother? Father? Sister? Brother? All of them are likely dead, their bodies never found. Assuming his parents survived up to the 7 Hour War. And then how did they feel when the only information they got out of Black Mesa is: "Your son is missing, we have no idea where he is. He is probably dead, it's unlikely we'll ever find his body."
Freeman got screwed purely because some Eldritch gods wanted a television show.
dam
Turns out civil protection was just trying to stop him from leaving the set
Can't stop comparing both edits frame to frame, it's so amazing how you got the references to the finest details.
God a side-by-side comparison shows just how spot-on this is to the original audio/footage. The animation, the expressions, hell, everything is down to a tee on similarity, I love these kinds of videos that show how much dedication go into replicating it so much.
I always come back to this one every now and then. Truly my favorite animation of yours
Source 2 has given us one big thing that separates the way old source feels, facial expression. Source 2 has given us not just higher quality but way more expression. And you can see that just in the design of Freeman's face, it's unhappy. He's unhappy. But what choice does he have?
I just finished the movie, I literally watched it because of this video.
I feel like what sucks the most for gordon is that as soon as he thinks he "won" in the first game, he's immediately grabbed by gman and thrusted into the future, where is looked up to and is just completely expected to save the world yet again. 'Lotta pressure on one man.
20ish years of ptsd inducing events condensed down to one week
When I played half life 2 I would get tired of being in the same area and just wanted to see someone (like ravenholm). I cant imagine gordon freeman himself what he thinks
This makes me imagine gordon being able to talk before the destruction of humanity, but after the incident at black mesa, he turned completely mute because of the horrifying stuff he went through
I love how gman has the "What's gonna happen next?" look on his face, he's so proud of his puppet
I wanna point out how you made this video real quick, cause no one mentioned it.
You showed all the major events in the story without giving any of it away, just subtle visuals.
So that way people who have played understand it fully, and people who haven’t experienced Half Life for themselves aren’t spoiled.
Bravo.
I think the mysticism of Half-Life and how it shaped us all growing up hit us harder than most in the medium. Not a Marvel movie, not a comic, not a single thing hits my heart harder than watching this video knowing I've been waiting for Gordon's ending for 16 years.
Yet again great animation
I love the irony of his name
0:20 Love that little scene of Gordon and the Charger. It doesn’t matter what horrors or G-man shenanigans he’ll have to face on the road ahead; that is totally *his* car. Would love to see him stick with it in future installments.
I need a movie of this
Powerful. Deserved way more views. We remember Gordon as the guy who never seems to get his conclusion and rest.
Love how the toddler is literally just a baby with a wig lmao