All G-Man Speeches (1998 - 2024)
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0:00 Half-Life Ending
1:51 Half-Life Alternate Ending
2:25 Half-Life Opposing Force Ending
4:25 Half-Life 2 Introduction
5:16 Half-Life 2 Ending
6:58 Half-Life 2 Episode One Intro
8:26 Half-Life 2 Episode Two Intermission
10:38 Half-Life Alyx Ending
#HalfLifeAlyx #HalfLife3 #Valve - Ігри
![[SFM] Cooking With G-Man: Headcrab Jambalaya](/img/n.gif)
"What would you like nudged?"
"We want Half Life 3"
"Ah, That would be a considerably large nudge, too large"
"Well, you asked."
Given an interests of my employers
"We will release a prequel instead, about alyx"
@@idkwhattoputhere.9891 I didn't know i wanted that. Tnx.
Shut the f up g-man and give us hl 3 i wanna know who or what you are o want your story
"Some believe the fate of our worlds is inflexible. My employers disagree."
This line is terrifying.
His employers are Valve.
@@KoniginMina and that why Gman looks like Gordon kinda, Everyone knows who is the Freeman but only Valve knows who is the Gman, and as Nihanlanth said The truth.. We will never know The truth...
@@Omega-jg4oq You will never reach the truth
@@gerardonavarro3400 I am impressed you extrapolated a JoJo reference out of this
The writing of all Half-Life games is essentially Lovecraftian. Gman is an unknown entity not just because Valve refuses to tell us, but because the point of Gman is that he's a being so far beyond what humans even realize is possible that Gordon, Eli, and Alyx never actually figure out what the Gman is. Therefore, the player in every Half-Life game likewise never learns what Gman is, either.
I really like how G-man isn’t just a robot reading lines off a script. He’s got a sense of humor, and a really *nasty* one at that
He also shows signs of annoyance after being inconvenienced 7:57
@@striker8961 **adjusts tie aggressively**
He speaks like cruel way
G-Man gives the impression of the sort of person who would hurt small animals or insects for fun.
@@striker8961 if you look carefully hes smug, delighted at this pathetic vort trying to do something, then the subtle smirk drops when he realizes its not one vort and grows actually angry as the scene plays out thats the most angry weve seen him i think
Funny that his speech in HL1 was the first English speech I have ever learned and imitated. You can imagine how my English teacher was super annoyed by my way of speaking as a result.
XD
Pleassee hand me... a... pencillll.
@@Brandon-ct8vo I...wish to..hear.....more of this. Please...continue!
@@danielharvison7510 "Ahhh, Thaaat... would be a considerably laaarge nudge.......tooo large, given the interest of myyy emmmployers...."
@@djpemb He does keep delivering on the iconic speeches, I'll give him that.
"The biggest embarrassment has been Black Mesa Facility but I think that's finally taken care of itself."
*nuke goes off*
"Quite so."
@BizarreOcean932 Are you living in the year 2006?
@@bizarreocean8537 do you not know about black mesa?
Did We Actually Find Someone From The Abyssal Past Sent To Modern-Time?
It's a shame Valve don't seem to accept Opposing Force as canon. It was a worthy addition to the HL universe.
@@TiberianFiend Where did they say that? Last I heard(a few years ago so maybe it changed) They do consider it cannon.
The right man in the wrong place can make all the diff-erence in the world.
Stinky Bruh Wake up, Mr. Freeman.
Wake up and smell the ashes.
I have this as my morning alarm.... definitely gets me up.
Oh who said that, JFK?
my employers diss-agree
my senior quote
There's a really subtle bit I love at 8:00, when he first hears the Vort chanting, he looks amused, and has a slight smile. Then he hears the rest and his entire expression drops. Such a short cut scene but it's the one and only time we see him flustered / his plans being hijacked and the "we'll see about that" is just the icing on the cake of his anger.
I've always wondered who he's about to talk to before he's intercepted. Maybe Adrian Shepard?
@@CaveJohnsonPrime nah it's Gordon, the vortigaunts rescue him from G-man here
its prolly cause vortigaunts are usually quite friendly, so he probably thinks they are just visiting to commune with him for some sort of deal, until they actively negate his abilities
@@BitrateBilly vorts are strong with whatever bs hokuspokus they do but nothing compared to the gman, then they can get buffed up by the antlion juice.
so he goes from smugly this is cute to oh you wanna go ? lets see how that goes
funnily enough the combine advisors seems to be in a similar if not stronger tier of psychic bs than vorts but without whatever makes them valuable as energy sources for the containment vault in HL:A like that little blink and you miss it shot of the advisor that kills ELi seeing alyx and Gman before getting fried
@@BitrateBillyit reminds me of a nylarathotep story were he encounters a human and some dimension hoppers he is amused by them up intill he finds out another outer god has gave them the means of removing him the irritation is just like the G-man's
I love how in hl1's alternate ending they don't even let you fight, because the devs knew full well that if they did, some absolute no-life would go and win that battle lol
There is a mod that lets you fight it
reminds me of how someone finally beat the killfloor at the end of e1m8 in doom lmao
@@paperseagull4297 Zero master back at it again
G-Man when you win the battle where you supposedly had no chance of winning:
ua-cam.com/video/O3349-GRjhQ/v-deo.htmlsi=gd4s0RI2ZGDLGM1Z
@@thegonkdroidthatwasntnotic9146I knew it was that clip 😂
"...we'll see... about _THAT."_
The only time he show's an emotion that isn't brief, detached amusement-- and it's fuming anger. Truly terrifying.
Yet it is expressed with calm, direct manner.
8:14
I don’t really get what made him see that. The alien dudes weren’t saying anything I could understand.
@@thatreddude8796 these aliens are his enemies
@@thatreddude8796 It's not what they were saying, it's what they were doing, the Vortigaunts have psychic powers that can keep the G-man at bay, they were keeping him from reaching Gordon and taking him again.
G-Man: **attempts to put Gordon in stasis again**
Vortigaunts: lol
I think it was more G-Man taking Gordon out of stasis rather than putting him in. But still the same fundamental Vortigaunt rejection response. lol
I like how G-Man is pissed off that someone dares to wake Gordon, when it's obviously collides his plan. He probably realized he's not the only mastermind in here
@@kobz2862 he is T H E mastermind... but the Vortigunts can neutralize some of his many powers
@Inf1n1t3 Kevin a GAME theory.
"We'll see... about that"
The way he copies himself during the alyx ending is fascinating. It’s like he has a backlog of things to take care of after being freed and is actively splitting his own timeline to multitask. At 11:55 in particular it looks like the original is the one that trails off and walks away while the clone comes in to continue the conversation.
Makes you wonder how wide his influence really is and how many other G-Men could be off doing separate things at any given time.
It's not a clone, he's just watching every possible consequence, like Dr. Strange.
After that he returns in time back to Alyx to continue the conversation.
He is a four dimensional being. It would be like you puting each of your fingers in 10 seperate 2D universes. You would be simultaneously existing in 10 universes at once.
8:56 one of my absolute favorite bits
I love how when he talks it sounds labored, like he is not used to speaking ANY language
@The Bloody Doctor gym manese
i’ve heard someone compare his speech patterns to someone who doesn’t know how to use their lungs, which i think fits really well
@The Bloody Doctor G-Man-ese huh? LOL!
lester crest × 0.25 speed
vortigaunt english sounds more natural than gman english
Gman must've been so happy to finally talk to some one with a voice
I mean that happened first so he probably just got disappointed talking to gorden
Actually, it works to his disadvantage. Having somebody who can’t describe G-Man to others or talk back is a dream come true for G-Man.
@@TheAlienGangster 5
Gman(in mind): guess I have to do all the talking again
Alyx: What who are you?
Gman(in mind): YES FINALLY SOMEONE WHO CAN TALK!
Well, he at least talked to Eli
8:25 - "Dr. Freeeeeemannnn..."
Wow. That gave me goosebumps, even after all this time.
All the people that say gman is from Skibidi toilet will be sent to *NOVA PROSPEKT*
Yes plz, they need a re education or sent to a off World duties
Nah void
G-Man looks surprisingly in good shape in Half-Life: Alyx.
Like no kidding, he looks like he spent the last 12 years in quitting smoking, eating healthy, recovering his 8 hours of sleep and doing lifting.
alyx takes place before half life 2 so...what causes him to go back down?
@@Pangloss6413 He said 12 years, not anything past 20. (HL2 is about 20 years after HL1)
he reminds me of the spy
@@Pangloss6413 Is G-Man subject to the boundaries of the space-time continuum?
Feohrad i doubt its aging g-man isn't even human. Its prob just the new graphics.
G-Man: g-
Vortigaunts: *_n o_*
*G N O M E*
CHOMPSKI
_GALUNGA_
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Nerevar007 whats also cool is that, Gordon was supposed to go somewhere else as implied by G-man that his employers needed his services elsewhere, but the Vortigaunts intervened just in time.
10:00, the way he says "i wish" send chills down my spine, love this character
I love the nod to half life 3 being inside the briefcase the entire time
G-man: pretty much literally a god
Vordegaunts: Long-tong haha gottem
Seems a bit more like the devil to me...ua-cam.com/video/Vu4kDfztSCI/v-deo.html
A god? Gods die. We’ve seen him revoke the permission of Death.
Just like the foundation captured a ton of powerful SCP's
@@XJ0461C Than he is a legend. Legends never die.
@@Iaon1 legends may not die, but they can be forgotten.
The way he hesitates before saying “employers” in half-life 1, it’s as if he’s trying to think of a term that Gordon could best understand for them.
what i love about gman is that he is so much not-a-human that he uses human words as aproximations to what the hell he is and his position in all of this
In the first game he talks about government property, but he was not working for the gov, he always worked for his superiors
I always thought the same as you do, that gman simply uses business terms to make it easy for people to understand him, but it's not even close to what it really is
Overall, g-man is a mysterious character. Not much is known about his origins. Or who is his employers. Either way, I guess we'll just have to wait for the next Half-Life installment to determine who he is and his backgrounds...
@@humanman2358 Not that it's coming anyway, but sometimes it's better for mysteries to go unsolved. To me any answer to this question would prob be unsatisfactory and ruin the games. Look at The Elder Scrolls for another example. They are never going to make it clear what happened to the Dwemer, at least I don't think so. And they shouldn't.
it's like he knows human language but not used to speaking it, the way the timing is all thrown off
Idk alyx left a fat ass hint towards hl3
I absolutely love how it sounds like he has to force the words out like he's not used to talking in human form. Like it's not his real form and he has to really *try* to speak and pronounces everything so deliberately. He moves the same way. So stiffly and with such deliberate action. No expression, no movements other than what is necessary.
"And when no harm can come to you, I'm sure you can imagine there are worse alternatives..."
Such a spine chilling line
"See her safely to White Forest, Doctor Freeman."
Now we know why he cared.
Why?
Explain?!?
.
@@filippapic well so that alyx and eli could come together and relay the message to the father which sets of the chain of events that eventually lead to eli's death. Once the father's death is a reality the gman can give the ultimatum that you saw to alyx. He had to ensure that the future would play out a specific way so that alyx could choose to kill the advisor in order to indebt herself to the gman.
Really well tied together. Amazingly well done.
half life 1s gman has as many polygons as hl:a gman's nose
wow ... just think how many polygons Gman's nose will have in HL3
Jadaya Indigo as many polygons as half life alyx gman
welcome to g-man’s nose. after nine years in development, hopefully it will have been worth the wait.
@@Night5225 I know its a joke, but 13 years
It's why HL:A took so long, they spent 3 years on GMans nose alone
I think what's really sinister about the Alyx ending is that the G-Man simply states that the Combine "entity" ceases, and the Eli "entity" continues. He doesn't even confirm that Eli survives for much longer.
It could actually be that Alyx has made everything worse, if the Combine Advisor was actually going to make a mistake or do something "beneficial" to humanity in some way later in it's existence.
The combine is a rival for the g-man
@@Anverse-14Whatever he is, whoever he's affiliated with, it's definitely more of a threat than the Combine
bingo what if that advisor fucks up in a fictional episode 3 and gordon, kleiner and alyx use it as an advantage to move the story forward, but now its dead
worse of all what if Eli gets captured like in nove porspekt again but this time they get him to spill the beans?
careful what you wish for Ms Alyx vans
I always liked to believe that valve included themselves in the game, as the employers of the gman, using him to actually make the scenario move forward
That’s brilliant, that actually would make perfect sense
Now to think, this is the first time we see G-Man not just giving a speech, but engaging in a conversation. It made me feel weird, first time we see someone responding him.
Besides Hunt Down the Freeman but who cares
@@DoctorTheo we do not count that thing...
well, we saw him talking to random scientist in Black Mesa
Well maybe he knew that alyx could talk thats why there’s conversation, since gordon couldnt talk he just gave full blown speeches lmfao
@@DoctorTheo hunt down the quicksave
i bet the g-man's back hurts from having to carry the entire half-life plot
Since he is the reason for the Half-Life plot it is fitting.
He keeps the plot in his briefcase
@@feltycomic8558 shut up conspiracy theorist
@@-unbreakeblecow488 Wake up
@@feltycomic8558 ugghhhh 😒😒🙄🙄, you know I can report you to Gaben and he will come to ur house with the whole FBI squad to kick ur ass bcz u bad...
I like how what he does and how he appears and disappears changes in each game, in hl1 he just teleports you around via opening and closing portals, in hl2 he freezes time and does that weird transparent thing, and in hl:a he clones himself while teleporting around, it gives the impression that he just does whatever he want’s to try to intimidate you
fuck now theres so many skibidi toilet kids
Some believe our rizz to be unfanumtaxable. My sigmas... disagree.
Damn him and his unforeseen consequences!
@@ResonantTonalityMusic3 minutes ago is crazy
Fr I swear some people think G man is from skibidi toilet 💀💀
@@Xomtheprotogen Expected that is, and unfortunate......
Scary knowing the Gman has employers that may be more powerful than him
Doesn't mean he can't do anything againts them.
Take JC Denton from Deus Ex for example. His boss and his boss' boss FEAR him.
Power is an important factor but considering what the man knows and how he can apply his skills, he's still dangerous af.
Information wise probably yeah, with their biological technology is far better than combine but since you know some of them still are with the combine he has to deal with them and "extract" information to any of the combine that weilds it
If you read Epistle then you know the kind of power behind him and the Combine.
Gman was able to go behind his employer’s back by saving Alyx during Black Mesa without repercussions. I suppose that he is more powerful than them and only work under them because he can.
so what's inside G-Man's briefcase is INDEED Half-Life 3
*The Prophecy is True*
I no what's in the g mans case his dinner
Interstellar's "Mountains" theme plays.
Funnily enough, if you noclip in HL1 and look inside his suitcase there's a gun and some files inside.
@@Zenriesz Half-Life 3 Game Files!
You all wanna know what's inside the brief case its HL3 in VR I hope...
Such a great, terrifying character. One part of me wishes they'd finally reveal his purpose, the other part hopes they leave everything about him unexplained because it adds so much to his larger than life aura.
Having just finished Alyx last night seeing the "unforeseen consequences" it now makes sense to me. I wonder if they do have a long term story plan or if they are just able to adapt it that well to suit the new game.
The scariest thing about him is that you can't tell whose team he's on.
He isn't on the side of the Combine. The enemy of my enemy and all that.
He’s actually on Freeman’s side but he actually has no concern for freeman’s safety, all he cares about is the fate of humanity
I honestly believe Gman has Gordan's best interests in mind; Gman is just such an unknown variable, and HE also has to obey his bosses, but in the end he just wants Gordan to reach his 'limitless potential'.
My guess is he's on his own team, and uses everyone and everything else just to complete his goals.
@@Alizudo makes me think of Blake from borderlands, who has to key Handsome Jacks orders.
I’m glad they didn’t change his voice actor.
Unfortunately they had to change Eli's voice because his original VA has passed away
SpeedasaurusDex rest his soul, the new voice actor seems pretty good through despite how little we heard him
Yeah no idea why Merle Dandridge got the boot out of this though
@@Myne1001 According to one article I read they wanted Alyx to sound a good bit younger
They couldn’t replace the G-man. Despite his time in the games not being very long, the most he does is just say some cryptic speech for a few minutes and then leaves. Not to mention we don’t even know anything about him other than he’s very powerful. He’s still one of the most iconic characters not just from half life, but in gaming in general. If his voice was off people would know.
I like how Gman shows respect to Gordon later on by not pretending that he has a choice
gen alpha really did this man dirty
"Some believe the fate of our worlds is... inflexible. My employers.... disagree."
God, I love that line.
I can't believe this guy looked away from the intense as hell look Gman gives when he says it. The expression and the way his eyes light up is so good
@@lemonsuckerYT for real!! the delivery and the way his eyes light up is just so absolutely perfect. pity the guy looked away
"Some believe our *C*CK* ... is inflexible. I... disagree"
- G-Man
I love how it destroyed the lore of Half-Life by introducing time travel and "fate". Congratulations, nothing you'll ever write in Half-Life will ever have permanent consequences.
@@singami465did it though? Vortigaunts are canonically coterminous, meaning they see both past and the future at the same time, all the time. Surely this means they can see multiple possibilities of future events as well. G-man just changed the order of those events.
1998: "Gordon Freeman, in the flesh... Or rather, in the hazard suit."
2004: "The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world..."
2020: "LETTING THE DAYS GO BY"
CoreyLaddo s a m e
Let the water hold me down
Same as it ever was
nice to see you here
Do you s l e e p ?
Kids nowadays: OMG its G-Toilet!!
Back then: Its G-man
i keep finding cornballs like you in these comment sections
Gman vs not Gman (the toilet)
I am that G-MAN It has become a wow toilet
I love how G man acts like a dapper gentleman but really he is no one to mess with.
Half Life 2's Gman still looks way too good for when that game came out.
I honestly think the gaming industry took until about 2010 to catch up to where Valve was in 2004 with Half-Life 2. Now Valve has come back in 2020 with Half-Life: Alyx and proven once again that their facial animations absolutely destroy the rest of the gaming industry.
Pikminiman day what you will about Steam, but valve will definitely be recorded as one of the best developers there was. They’re consistently at the cutting edge.
HL2 still looks good today. The engine may be old, but the art direction and scenery is top notch.
Still blows my mind that Half Life 2 released in 2004. The game is aging as fine as wine and with MMoD the game get's a nice touch up.... except for the Alyx defense section in Anti-Citizen One. With Combine improved accuracy and difficulty on hard it's just brutal, beatable yes, but will definitely require a few quick saves. Other than that I can't wait for whatever valve does for Half Life 3. Assuming that it does finally release all things considered. In the meantime, this is where I get off.
i know. he looks like a slightly lower quality hla gman and its quite impressive
_"So... who are you?"_
-Perhaps *what* I am is not as important...
Of course, he is not going to answer it that easily, the most mysterious character in gaming history
Funny how he responded with the word
"What" instead of "who"
This makes him even more mysterious
@@eglacre14 yea like he's kind of alien or Smth
Gary Roach Sanderson
Well, actually there were cut lines. And he did answer with a who I am.
@kat uwu actually he is a Nihiland here is a whole theory about it. ua-cam.com/video/BgYzOLQ8sU8/v-deo.html
Oh mY gOd It’S tHe GuY fRoM sKiBiDi ToILeT!!!!!!!! -Little Timmy
Who the hell is Steve Jobs you keep yapping about??
miss when gman was not called g toilet.
I always used to call "g toilet" as gman
same
Gordon doesn't need to hear all of this, he's a highly trained professional.
You're right, gordon, we have complete confidence in you!
We've assured the administrator that nothing can go wrong...
Alright Gordon, why don't you climb up and start the rotors?
Very good will take it from here
Stage 1 emitters activating in.. 1
I simply can't find words to describe how interesting G-Man's character is.
He's a videogame antagonist like no other, if you can even call him an antagonist.
The way he talks is like he's unfamiliar with everything is sort of creepy in a strange way. "You've.. done a.. great deal, in a small time... span.."
If they replaced his voice actor, his strange, creepy personality just wouldn't convey the same way.
👍
Fun fact: He's had multiple voice actors across the games
@@mayurdhanwani6664 nope
Welp too bad gotta wait another 14years till another half life game is released
Hes neutral
2:08 when a girl rejects me
To those saying "Skibidi Toilet guy" he's not from Skibidi Toilet he's from Half Life and no he doesn't sing he's just a hyperspace god like entity who casually caused the end of the world and forced Gordon to be the hero all while dressed up like the type of guy to sell you car insurance.
Also to those people giving those people threats you're not better than the cringy 7 year olds in the comments please seriously grow up.
Agreed
The humanity has fallen
Dude seriously what the fuck is Skibidi Toilet
HL1 G-MAN: sounds like he had a productive upper respiratory system infection.
HL2 G-MAN: the typical G-Man, emotionlessly delivering his lines.
HL:A G-MAN: there’s a sliver of joy in his voice, abide with his usual feeling of superiority. Could it be that his is satisfied to see Ms. Vans is turned out to be very capable asset after all?
damn alyx back at it again with the white vance
I believe he's extremely overjoyed since he finally has a subject that's practically been raised in warfare and tense situations. Alyx was able to do everything Gordon could WITHOUT the H.E.V suit, making her more powerful than Gordon. What's even better is that she's much younger than him, making her more obedient and blind to the tasks she could be given.
It also could be that him being wrong about a subject at first (he has no idea of her strength when he pulls her from Black Mesa as a child) is something that rarely happens to him and he's glad when it does
@@testedhawk I mean, gordon can still bunnyhop, so she is not really more powerful...
@@brakintelektualny7291 There's a difference between Gordon and Desinc, one is significantly more powerful than the other
@@testedhawk but for real, by your logic, shepard from opposing forces is the most powerful soldier in the half life universe
I love how "off" G-Man is.. the way he talks, the grossness of how he sometimes breathes in through his mouth, his unneeded and seemingly random pauses in his speeches. Combine that with his odd, narrow face and constantly upright posture makes him a truly interesting and scary character.
Its even scarier when you realize that maybe the reason he takes these long pauses and deep breathes as if he had forgotten that he had lungs is because this physical form of G-Man is not what he is accustomed to.
@@BadKarma444 agreed... Its pretty obvious that he is something nonhuman trying to seem human
the final boss in the first Half-Life game said to Freeman "You are man...he's not man." it could imply that Nihilanth is talking about G-Man, G-Man acts so weirdly and creepy and whenever we're in his cutscenes we would be taken to different places and in Half-Life: Alyx, he literally made clones of himself. It is really obvious that G-Man is really not human, he's some sort of Eldritch alien more powerful than the Combine and Nihilanth and even the Advisors. What makes it terrifying is that G-Man clearly stated that he has Employers, there are more of his kind, watching Freeman and Alyx saving Earth from the Combine. A fellow commenter in this video said "I love how half-life: Alyx is just Valve’s very own way of saying “half-life 3 confirmed” which is true, Half-Life 3 just so happened to be confirmed and is probably finally in development
How terrifying... He's a mouthbreather...!
GMan? Or Gordon Man or Gordon Freeman GMan oldet version of gordon
half life 2010s: wow citadel wowowow gman omgomg!!
half life 2020s: brr skibi dop dop yes yes yes
Bro skibidi toilet dint exist in 2020💀
@@animationfishtail1681 im talking about the years of 2020, primarily 2023-2024. who knows how long this series will go on?
@@JellyBlaze0st isnt even associated with half life they only use assets and also that doesn't mean gman became a skibidi toilet canonically and also st is under investigation by Russian authorities
@@NotreallyanamesThePumpkinhe never said that it was cannon he just said kids these days just think of skibidi toilet when they see or hear G-man
7:16 this is the most epic rescue action ive ever seen. its so simple but yet so powerful.
"You wouldn't *need* all that to imprison Gordon Freeman."
That line just feels so powerful to me for some reason.
Funny how he constantly puts Freeman into stasis constantly.
Is he roasting Freeman?
@@chaoticproductions3922 I guess for him all they had to do was put him in a tram and leave them there while g-man had to be put in his own time/space breaking cube, quite a bit of difference of levels of imprisonment there.
Edit: I am really surprised I got so many likes o.o
Gman knows how to imprison Gordan, just put him in statis
@@bitduelist they kind of tried to do the same with g-man but it's obvious he could've gotten out with how fucked up the outside area is.
Bringing Eli back was a brilliant move. And didn’t even feel cheesy.
G-man describing his "employers" reminds me of James Wesley from Daredevil Season 1. That character reference (as in looking to a similar character for understanding), plus his admittance that those who "adapt and survive against all odds...remind [him] of [himself]" give a little bit of insight into his origins. However, I have yet to finish HL2 and I'd rather not be spoiled anymore than I already have. Be back with more thoughts!
The fact that the gman is this godlike entity is scary enough, but knowing there is someone he considers an "employer" is something else entirely
Or rather, a Group. *Employers* , not Employer.
My headcanon is that it's like The Board and The Director from Control, G-Man is the "physical" being that does the employer's bidding
Like the Q in Star Trek being a part of the Q Continuum, he is pretty much a God and even him has to answer to the Continuum.
And what's worse: how powerful did the combine have to be to contain him?
@@michaelk9279 Maybe G-Man let himself get caught to bait Alyx.
His voice is just plain scary, with how he slurs, stutters and draws out syllables. Its obviously supposed to show hes not used to speaking in English, and the constant raspy breathing makes it seem like hes not even used to having LUNGS.
It could be that he is Gordon Freeman and since Gordon never talks, that's why Gman talks all slow and strange
@@masturch33f66 isnt Gordon Freeman voiced by other actor?
@@freeze1625 lol
@@masturch33f66 It's not because of that, it's probably because he has shapeshifting properties.
@@masturch33f66 I never actually connected the dots until now...
Gordon Freeman --> G. Freeman --> G.Man
all the people that think gman is from skibidi toilet are like 5 year olds. Gman is from 1998.
I don't see any skibidi comments here, only people complaining about them.
@@troywright359 I see some.
@@mediocrecontent9876 it's a good series. have you watched it?
Experiencing Gman in VR was one of the most fascinating experiences i yet had in VR, sent shivers down my entire spine, and yet i realized that in all of Half-Lifes history gman had even more power than we realized, he just creates ebtire new timelines willy-nilly, just flat out ignoring any paradox it creates
The fact that there is only 14 minutes of him talking since 1998 yet he is one of the most notable voices is video game history really shows how influential these games were
Fr
And how he is one of the pillars of the entire series of Half Life
@@Cre8iveExercise jojo reference?
@@blockwearingman No, but, Jojo?
@@Cre8iveExercise jojos bizare adventute😂
When you ask someone "Who are you?" and they answer with " _What_ I am", you gotta rethink your questions and requests from that point onwards.
Yeah. Pretty scary.
In the original dialogue, Alyx asks actually "what are you" and they simply kept the original answer instead of asking Shapiro to voiceover again
Or maybe that was intentional
@@LordWoodpecker I think it was intentional.
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Yeeeet
@@LordWoodpecker That's the most beautiful coincidence then if its true
We've finally hit the point where the new generation only recognizes G-man via skibidi toilet trash and not actual Half-Life lore 💀I know most of these new comments are ironic for the sake of hahas but actual kids think this 💀
its the same humor as old gmod videos you just hate it cause its new
@@greasyspaghettiball8984If you don't enjoy it that's your thing, some of the previous generation (including me) consume this content
@@juneisterribleYes you're right, it would've been good if little children and content farms didn't ruin it with their brain-rotting content
The difference between skibidi toilet and old Gmod/SFM animations is that one is being milked to death by crappy mobile game companies, while the other aged like fine wine
As usual, 'kidz 2day suck'. I thought a great many good animations were quite cringe at the time, now we're hearing they were fine art compared to today
You talk like you’re younger than the nintendo DS
What we see: Half life
What kids now see: Skibidi toilet
I wish there's wasn't skibidi toilet on 2023
@@TURKS751I wish this world ended and became empty from humans
I find it very interesting that Alyx asks G-Man, "Who are you?", but G-Man replies with "Perhaps *what* I am...". It's a very interesting choice of words that I think goes fairly unnoticed.
"Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask." -- V for Vendetta. Just as G-Man's human appearance may just be a mask. Telling Alyx "who" he is would amount to nothing. So G-Man skips over it entirely and jumps to the "what", as you pointed out. A very mysterious and intelligent being.
In the original script alyx's line called gman a 'what' but gman's speech is the same, but yeah it does make it sound more ominous in the final version.
I think that sometimes, Perhaps *what* I am is not important
society if we all knew what g man's true form looked like
@David Assébof twitter.com/JamaalBradley/status/1258806825228488706?s=19
Also small correction she didnt explicitly refer him as a 'what' but refers to him as an item (weapon)
And to think of Gordon's voice actor evolving throughout the years. Amazing.
Its actually a miracle they got him back for Alyx, he must be worth a fortune now.
@@TheSorrel I know, right? His final words at the end of Alyx were so deep and well-said. So much character.
@@csengegall2595 I've heard he locked himself up in a hotel room for months to prepare for that role.
I swear I thought you were insinuating that G-man was Gordon for a second that fucked me up immensely
Such a legendary performance and voice actor. I'm sure voice actors of the future will take from this to improve their own performances!
it's the guy from half life no way
"the biggest embarrassment has been Black Mesa Facility, but I think that's finally taken care of itself-"
*Nuclear flash*
"Quite so..."
this was always my favorite, such chilly voice and cold hearted responce
“Wake up Mr. Freeman. Wake up and smell the ashes.”
It gives me chills every time I hear it.
"Time doctor Freeman. Is it really that time again ?"-Valve when every new half life game is released.
For me it's when he says "Doctor Freeeeemaaaan". That caught me SO off guard when I first heard it.
Smell the sequels
I found this comment just as he said that.
@@razebeats308 coincidence I think not
i was thinking a couple hours before hl: alyx came out that valve was going to say SIKE to us
HALF-LIFE: ALYX SPEEDRUN ON MY CHANNEL.
WORLD RECORD.
@@strayfu That meme was dead since they confirmed HL3
@@strayfu Half life : Dog
Valve announced it will come out on April 1st! Kind of like the last few years they said that.
@@strayfu Maybe in Half Life 3 we meet adrian or barney? well i dont know
13:13
I'm not sure if it's coincidence or not, but the Advisor actually stares _directly_ at Alyx at the moment time freezes here.
Gman >>>>> gman toilet “ORIGINAL GMAN WINS”
Based 🗿
@@8.13_GB frl original gman can just put the toilet wannabe in statis
@@8.13_GBbased 🗿🍷
@@ZAAAALLLLVEEEEEEEbased🗿🥂🍷
G-man: (arrives)
Laws of physics: “alright imma head out.”
"oh no, not again"
*fuck this shit I'm out*
Gordon Freeman: Years of Mit training wasted
I love how insecure and stressed G-Man sounds when he mentions his employeers. He by himself is very powerful, so imagine how powerful his employeers are if even he is stressed by the very mention of them
They can snap the earth
Maybe it's condescendance instead. Maybe he says "employers" knowing that _he_ is their boss in reality. Or maybe he can't really express _his_ vision of what his employers represent to him. Maybe they don't fit our concept of employers, but since there is no word in the English human language to fit what they are to him, he stutters when using the word closest to the concept.
Hes like one of the elder gods, its straight up lovecraft
His employers could be somebody that depends on him, giving him tasks for the means of their collective goal and survival. I guess perhaps they're not necessarily stronger or anything.
I think, personally, that Gman's employer's interests are beyond our understanding. Perhaps they're training "extraordinary" individuals for some otherworldly task, so by proving that a few guys and a girl can defeat an inter-dimensional galaxy-devouring space empire, they may be suitable for whatever the next mission is. It's pretty obvious that Gman wants them to defeat the combine, at least to me. This is why he said "that would be a considerably large nudge, too large" when alyx asked for the combine to "leave earth", he doesn't NOT want them gone, but he wants her to prove that she is more than capable of doing so on her own.
"What would you want nudged?"
"Half-Life 3 being released."
"Ah, that would be a considerably large nudged. Too large."
If I see another comment about skididi toilet im going to blow my brains out ong
😭Stupid kids!!!
I feel your pain...
Same but instead gonna watch a hour of furry-🤔🤔🤔🤔
Take this python
Just like the nihilant 💀
Fym? I ain't even seen one
The best thing about him is that he may be the most powerful entity we have ever seen, he could probably put down any Boss in any universe without even acknowledging them, and yet even he works for someone else.
That is an incredibly concise way to explain why the writing in all Half-Life games is essentially Lovecraftian.
Pikminiman It’s why I love them. Games like BIO HAZARD/Resident Evil and Uncharted simply can’t compete, or rather won’t at least; they could if they tried, but that would require actual effort and caring about the content on the part of the development team.
SEPHIROTH
@@dhh8088 Fuck outta here with that loser.
@@XJ0461C JENOVA
I love how uncanny he is in Alyx. His slightly over-done expressions, the way his eyes don't quite line up sometimes, the stiff manner in which he walks, the way he speaks like he's not quite used to breathing between sentences, it's like an alien inhabiting a human body.
Because he is a alien
he is not used to talk with lungs
@Taco_ Kamikaze well, Nihilanth also implies that Gman is not human, so that's for sure.
I always liked the description I heard from years ago. The G-Man is something very different from human, trying to appear human, but not trying all that hard. He has the shape right, what he says is coherent and his manner of dress is neat and was not immediately distracting prior to the Black Mesa incident. But all the little details are wrong. He emphasises the wrong syllables, his eyes seem to almost glow at time and by the time of the Combine, his suit is now very out of place, but he's got a form he uses to talk to us apes and he's sticking with it.
I prefer his episode 2 appearance. I think his disguise of being a human improves each time, yet still seems off
My favorite speech is the Heart to Heart in Ep2 because it has such an impact: Prepare for unforeseen consequences.
One of my favourite characters of all time, reminds me of the good old days, you couldn't look up a billion pages of lore and theories about the game you played from the internet so you just went to school and talked with your friends "YOOO DUDE DID YOU SEE THAT MAN WITH THE SUIT IN HALF LIFE?" I miss those days.
"We've been struggling to find a suitable replacement."
Shephard: I'ma pretend I'm not in your custody real quick.
Evidently they decided Shepherd wasn't suitable. Which says a lot about Alyx.
Shephard probably wanted revenge for being trapped in the void. So he wouldn't obey a single command.
OpFor doesn't seem to be canon, sadly.
Shephard should have a come back somehow..
Shephard is probably off genociding some inconvenient race on a distant planet in an alternate dimension. For these events he may need a hire with a more direct history with the events and people around black mesa rather than a grunt.
It just dawned on me that Eli bargained with the g man to save his daughter, and he called in the favor.
Wait when?! I really need to play all the games again there's so many things I don't remember
@@UsorThem07 Episode 2. He says it in a scene when Alyx tells him to prepare for unforeseen consequences. It's not new. He says it's a mutual friend.
So they botched worked with G-man in a deal? That’s crazy.
I recently managed to experience the entire half life and portal franchise for the first time, without any spoilers on my way whatsoever, and man has it been a journey. A lot of the time, these speeches make no sense at all, yet they are still amazing and feel strong and mysterious. This game has amazing writing, and I can't wait to see what else valve will give us, if they give us anything at all :p
Gman voice is such iconic and with those breathings...great!
over 20 years of employment and not one paycheck
Poor freeman
he was sleeping for most of it no wonder he got fired and replaced
litteraly
he's working for free, man
Plowtwist:The salary is in the bolearis
"Gordon Freeman in the flesh or rather the tracksuit, I took the liberty of relieving you of your protein power and weights, most of them were gym property, as for the headband I think you've earned it" - G(ym)-Man
Need a parody of every single one of his monologues now :)
Rise and flex, Mr. Freeman, rise and flex. Not that I wish to imply that you’ve been slacking on the pumps, no one is more deserving of a break.
@@kryswilkins8615 All the effort in the world would go to waste until...
@@nuralimedeuatnu well . . let's just say the time for gains has come again ..
@@kryswilkins8615 Plz stop, I fucking can't right now... 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I remember my father playing Half Life 2 when I was 6 years old. And I remember so well this opening screensaver with G-men when Gordon is on the train. I didn’t understand then what it was, what he was talking about, and then he (father) began to play the game. I was a little 6 year old girl, but I was AMAZING this game, I really liked it!!! I don't remember much, but my little brain remembers the game as incredibly interesting. Such a wild nastolgia from childhood. When I grew up, I went through the game on my own. And I wasn't disappointed.
Humans had a full setup and were doing studies on Xen.
The anomalous material pushed into the spectrometer beam was a yellow portal crystal from Xen.
Why were all the scientists acting like the resonance cascade was a surprise?
Gabe: all we need is more tim-
Gman: time?... Dr Newell is it that time again? You had 26 years and yet you barely made progress
i mean they did have all the other valve games being made at that time
@@Pangloss6413 yeah like Left 4 dead thre- oh wait..
@@Crimeiskoolforkidz portal 2, tf2 updates, left 4 dead 2, counter strike and dota shit and that's just the stuff after the orange box. dude, there are other valve games, half life 3 is basically confirmed at this point, just be patient and by 2025 at the latest it'll be out
@@Pangloss6413 it's just a joke about how they refuse to release L4D3
@@Crimeiskoolforkidz At least we got Back 4 Blood
Half life 1 - half life 2 ( 6 years )
Half life 2 - Half life alyx ( 16 years )
Half life alyx - half life 3 ( 26 years )
HALF LIFE 3 WILL BE RELEASED IN 2046
Man by that maths. I ll be grandpa and have all the time to play hl 3
It’ll be worth it
If so tech better come so far, i would be getting 100% realistic blowjobs just by putting on my Valve index 5 or some shit like that
Tom Kaidalov lol why is that the first thing you think of
@@thatreddude8796
I'm pretty sure a lot of people will think of porn when it comes to VR
8:02 I like when gman breaths in and just looks around the voidish dimension he has.
"OMg G Man FrOm SkIbıDı ToIlet" This game is Half life G-toilet and G-man is different I don't hate skibidi Toilet Im just Telling G man is not from skibdi toilet
@@WrighEwow I can't believe I found your comment because lots of stupid idiotic kids are the only thing I see in the comment section
Yea gman is from half life
I can’t believe Michael Shapiro voices The Gman, Barney Calhoun, and the Nihilanth. That’s what I call Flexibility
BARNEY WAS G-MAN ALL ALONG PROVED
@@whatever6223 Is that a far stretch? Idk
@@WalkerTheSpy I guess it only works if G-man disguised as Barney, not vice versa. But why would he do that if he was comfortable appearing in his usual form throughout the series? Kind of a stretch, yes. I also don't quite like the idea of Gman being contained by the combine. Even if he intended to. Don't quite fit the character in my opinion. I rather hoped that it would be Borealis or at least that we would learn something about it
He also voices Otis (fat Black mesa guard)
I am im-presssses
Game went from polygon to almost looking like real life real quick
because of how long it takes for each game
"quick"
Evolution
That "quick" is 13 years, a little reminder
@@jagerbi_9741I MEANT THE DAMN VIDEO
guys you dont understand skibidi toilet is clearly a series released by valve to tease the soon release of half life 4 in 2183
Now that's what i call a conspiracy theory
I can only see 218??
I called this comment a joke
Obscure fun fact: G-Man is actually inspired by a character named Theodore Slowslop from a 90’s game series called GADGET, because Marc Laidlaw, one of the main Half-Life writers, wrote the tie-in GADGET novel “The Third Force”. They’re both inhuman and mysterious government agent-types who have their games’ protagonists under their thumb and have their own ulterior motives.
damn, is it on official wiki?
the unforseen consequences wasnt Eli dying, it was Alyx disappearing and taking Gordon's role because of Eli's death. The message was for all three of them.
If Gordon was the right man at the wrong place, Alyx is the wrong woman in the right place.
Dear god, you're right!
She was definitely the wrong person, His Employers didn’t even care whether or not Alyx survived.
@@thebiolibrary5572 EXACTLY
Theory: Alyx freeing the Vortigaunts was what caused the G-Man chose hwr. The Vortigaunts made it impossible for the G-Man to get Gordon, so, he decided to instead let himself intentionally get captured in order to reach alyx. It's notable that Alyx and Eli only find out that the Vault holds a person after the Vortigaunts have been freed.