![]() ![]() As one scientist puts it, the government's idea of dealing with the aftermath of the Resonance Cascade is containment, aka kill every researcher in the facility associated with the project.wasn't supposed to happen, but really, what else could you expect from such an enigmatic contraption? ![]() There's something.unsettling about it's persistent humming, made more so by the fact you're never told exactly what it's supposed to do. Even before the resonance cascade, you find yourself alone in the test chamber with the anti-mass spectrometer.Someone like Wallace Breen had tried to describe the Combine Homeworld only to realize the human vocabulary can't even hope to fulfill such a task, and even he seems to not realize the greater scale of what's beyond the Combine despite his knowledge of the G-Man. As the ex-writer, Marc Laidlaw, had emphasized in his non-canon Epistle 3, even with the Combine being a Dyson Sphere-capable force, it was still just another piece on the board, and Earth was merely incidental enough to it all to be left well alone in the long-term. Everything you do and can do has seemingly been predicted and predicated well in advance, and even Wild Card variables like the Vortigaunts that can change it up are not all-knowing nor in much of an active position to do much about it. Keep in mind the Combine are an inter-dimensional empire, who themselves are a nightmarish and brutal faction of oppressors that the Xen inhabitants were fleeing from. Gordon Freeman, Barney Calhoun, Adrian Shephard, Alyx Vance - all of them and more are unwitting pawns furthering the agenda of unknown entities far beyond our comprehension, and those entities are manipulating the Combine and those who would be tied to them as well. The further the series goes along, the more it becomes a Cosmic Horror Story as a science-fiction romp.Seriously, is he a freaking T-800 or something? Also, in the first game and its expansions, if you use noclip to reach the areas he appears in and try to attack him, not only does he not respond, but if you hit him with the crowbar he produces a metallic sound effect in response.It wasn't until the Vortigaunts intervened to oppose him that his grip on you was restricted however, G-Man was/is able to whisk you away if the Vorts are heavily occupied. He can pull you out of the world and hide you away in pitch darkness too. G-Man's ability to suspend Freeman's freedom adds to his eerieness.The stutter further shows how inhuman he is. G-Man is never scared, and is always in control. What's really interesting is how G-Man's pauses make it sound like he's stuttering sometimes.Basically, he looks and sounds like a creature doing an unconvincing job at pretending to be human. There is just something unsettling about him. You will not hear the sound of a dog panting the same way since. There's the scene in Half-Life 1 where the silhouette of a scientist in a darkened room gets dragged up by the neck and then gibbed with a wet crunching noise. ![]()
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