And he likely had a family, meaning 1. Either his family died not knowing what happened to Gordon or 2. His family escaped, but after the Combine invasion, they died anyways not knowing what happened to Gordon.
Man's literally not had a break since he showed up for work late one day. He's been held together with nothing more than fear, adrenaline, suit integrated automatic weaponary handling and a constant drip of morphine
He's held together purely by morphine and the orange suit that is somehow BARELY still functioning. Also it'd be extremely morbid and funny if we learned that the HEV suit held Gordon together, like the Berserk armor does. Just sealing his wounds, keeping him conscious and injecting him with morphine every 5 seconds, but never really fixing or mending them.
@@randomperson9941 playing the games back-to-back (starting from HL1!) made me realize this; for everyone else in the HL universe, the Black Mesa incident was a historical event. For Gordon, it was literally yesterday.
It has to suck to be Gordon. He's an MIT graduate who went to work one evening thinking it was going to be a normal day, only to wake up from a explosion he only survived thanks to his HEV suit. He then had to fight not only alien monsters, but the US military. Gordon then single handedly stops the alien invasion by killing their leader. Then some interdimensional man in a suit whisks him away to the future to start a revolution against even more aliens. He has no choice, he is simply burdened with the responsibility because no one else can do what he can.
Literally in Gordon's Perspective: He was JUST done fighting the Nihilanth after 2 fucking DAYS of nonstop fighting, with only one moment of rest with him being knocked out by the Military so they could kill him and hide the body. Then immediately after accepting G-Man's offer, he wakes up on a tram, 20 years have gone by and yet he hasn't aged a DAY due to stasis, it must have felt like one second between acceptence and the tram! Then the aforementioned SOLID WEEK OF FIGHTING...that is 9 days with hardly any rest.
Wasn’t the Nihilanth mind-controlling the vortigaunts (I hope I spelled that right), not really their “leader”? I could be mistaken, but I believe that was why the vorts teamed up with humans when the combine arrived.
He's not even meant to be a hero, and he never chose this life. He was just an ordinary scientist who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. He watched his colleagues die as man and monster alike tore them asunder. He met many allies to help him, and he helped them in turn. Most of them didn't make it. He took on the responsibility out of sheer willpower to live, allowing himself to be thrusted into a bizarre, alien world. His only reward for saving everyone was being thrusted right back into the action to act as everyone's hero once again, forced to serve some mysterious "employer" whether he liked it or not. Over the course of a week, he's seen and survived things on a daily basis most people next experience in a lifetime. He's experienced constant loss, fear, regret and anxiety ever since that fateful moment in the test chamber. Give the man his god damn hug.
Same thing with Corporal Adrian Shepherd, he was just going through basic training for the USMC and the HECU and then he gets thrown into the same shithole that Gordon was thrown into, I am sure if the two met, they would be total bros since they both went through the same shit
@@jpardoa94 True, but still, thetwo can relate with each other as they both just fought to survive back in black mesa, and gordon is fighting for humanity in HL2, Shepherd never received his orders to silence the facility since he was unconscious, so Shepherd really didn't know what was going on, but still, i like to think if the two met, they would probably be friends, since both went through similar shit
@@jpardoa94 don’t forget, Adrian prevents a 2nd invasion by beating up what is basically a teraformer after disarming a nuke which he sees gets rearmed by that fucker in a suit he’s seen around since boot camp.
Graduated from MIT as a theoretical physicist in his twentys. One day in the amazing research facility he worked at all hell breaks lose. After fighting with extra dimensional beings, watching people he knew die and being branded as KOS by the military, only to be inducated by an extra dimensional being of seemingly all knowing power. A decade or two goes by and when he thinks life will be normal, hes learned that life will never be the same again. Any family he knew probably dead. To him it feels like he just got here. Left the hell of Black Mesa and woke up to a post apocalyptic alien ruled new hell. Which he again has to face near death, watch people and freinds die. Gordon doesn't need a hug He fucking deserved it
"there there, Gordon you are doing well.. I know we are asking a lot of you lately, but we are all counting on you, we are all counting on you.. because we, no damn it! because I.. know you can do it."
Gordon only lived a Half-Life. All the opportunities he missed. Family, friends, all gone. Because the right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.
Considering the after-effects of the resonance cascade, and the state of the Earth when we arrive for half life 2, I have to wonder if he was actually better off getting put in stasis.
@@Callsign_Bear Every time you take a lot of damage in half life the HEV suit administers Morphine to Gordon and uh you get damaged a lot so that's a LOTTA Morphine
Between the Black Mesa Incident, defeating the Giant Space Baby, and all the events of half life 2, Gordon has had literally zero hours of what we would call sleep
I mean, back in hl1 just after the first encounter with the assassins, gordon's caught off guard by 2 soldiers and knocked off...does that mean he slept? Cuz when he wakes up its already morning/noon, and when he was fighting the assassins it was midnight(you can see the sky through the giant hole in the ceiling)
We think of Gordon Freeman as an invincible science badass, but the truth is that if any of us had been what Gordon had been through, we'd all need hugs.
I think with his suit and competency we would all be in his situation, putting on a brave face because suddenly we are an icon of hope, but damned if I wouldn't just take a sec to cry my eyes out before getting back to business.
Keep in mind all the Half Life games take place in under a week from Gordons perspective, He would've stepped into the portal at the end of HL1 after defeating a space god and boom, he's back infront of gman at the start of HL2
This is unironically the most buitiful interpretation of Gorden's emotions after all the chaos he has been through up to this point in episode 2. What a legendary video.
Guts theme is incredibly appropriate here, especially when you consider that much like Guts, Freeman is also a man more or less trapped in a suit or armor who's had to fight through hell and back with basically no reward to show for it, with the entire first half of his adventure changing absolutely nothing, and the second half taking place after an apocalypse.
Magnusson said he'd forgive Freeman for the casserole if they make it out of this alive, but helping Freeman to forgive himself was too important if this was the last time they'd see each other.
Gordon Freeman probably really needed that hug cause of everything he's done He started a Resonance Cascade on accident and the military tries to hunt him down and loses a lot of his friends and regrets killing so many living beings and that he's everyone's last hope and Gman keeps him in Stasis for 20 years just to find out he has to take out another race
Gman is the one who actually planned the Resonance Cascade as he was the one who tampered / brought in the sample, but poor Gordon probably thinks its his fault that it happened even though all he did was push the sample in.
This man has been on the run for about a month since the 90s only sleeping when he gets knocked unconscious. Hell yeah he needs a hug. Edit: Yeah I mucked up the timeline from Gordon's perspective a bit. But the point still stands, give the man some love!
@@glossyplane542 HL’s chronology has allways kinda been wonky, though I’d think the black mesa incident would’ve been 3 days at least. 3 days on the run, then a decade in temporal cryo.
The time Gordon was in Black mesa must have been like two days, and the events of half life 2 and it's episodes, in Gordon's view take place a little bit less than a week. Of course it was 3 weeks because he skipped time but you know what I mean.
@@glossyplane542 HL's chronology is a bit messy but essentially days on the run in Black Mesa, then in stasis for 20 years until HL2 - Episode 2 onwards which takes place over a month+
It’s a good metaphor. The suit- brand new- is shiny, clean, robust. Gordon was also shiny and clean, but not robust. After the events, both are dirty, broken, beaten and torn. But while the suit has lost some of its integrity and strength, Gordon underneath has lost something too- his humanity. He’s little more than a machine now, moving, killing and following orders. When it’s all over, and he’s no longer needed, what will he or the suit do? What can they do?
I love the facial acting on Magnusson at 0:32, you can see his incredulity fade and acceptance set in as he realizes that Gordon really does need and deserve this.
Freeman: -lost his job at the Black Mesa Research Facility after years of working hard for a Ph.D at university -saw his coworkers and friends get brutally slaughtered by Xen aliens and U.S. marines -was betrayed by his country's own government -was forced to kill 100+ humans (which will take a heavy psychological toll on a person) -exited the universe and entered Xen to stop an extradimensional invasion, only to meet and fight a horrifying elder god on the other side -saw dead people brought back to life by Headcrabs (which will traumatize a normal person) -had to swim through BMRF's sewers -had to swim through irradiated City 17 sewers -has to live with guilt that he inserted a crystal into a machine which caused him to become part of the reasons a catastrophe that killed hundreds, thousands if not millions of humans across the globe occurred -has to live with guilt that the aliens he killed weren't actually invading but were innocent life that were just scared for their wellbeing, in other words, Gordon killed innocent Vortigaunts and Xen animals alike -probably lost his family and extended families to the Combine during the Seven Hour war, after all, Freeman was in stasis when the war took place -has to live with the guilt that he was one of the many reasons humanity is now enslaved by an interdimensional empire of alien cyborgs and that so many humans died during the Seven Hour War -had the unfortunate luck of staring at a horrifying full display of a person still waiting to finish their surgical transformation into a *_Transhuman_* / *_Combine Soldier_* -had the unfortunate luck of staring down a Stalker (a horrifying shell of a human being only living because of Combine life support systems) right in the face -had to fight Transhumans (Combine cybernetic humans) who are 3x stronger than the strongest humans (case in point, a Combine Grunt in HL:A's trailer easily busts through a full-blown concrete wall) -indirectly caused the destruction of an entire city -killed his former boss (Wallace Breen) -forcefully "hired" by a reality-warping interdimensional bureaucrat (i.e. G-Man) and forced to do his biddings Bear in mind that while all of this happened: *Gordon Freeman is nothing more than a regular scientist in his late 20s and fresh out of university.* If there's anyone in the Half-Life universe that DESERVES a hug of their lifetime, it would be Freeman. Guy's been through HELL.
this is really good, i love the detail of gordon looking angry while hugging because clenching up the face like that is how people try and stop themselves from crying
You've gotten so insanely good at portraying emotion and facial reactions. It's been amazing watching your videos for so long and watching you just get better and better.
I mean, he was manipulated to start a resonance that was the beginning of the combine oppression on earth where millions died, so yeah He needs a lot of hugs to wash away the guilt
Gordon has lost everything he owned, everyone he knew (possibly including a son and wife), learned about alien civilisations that enslaved earth, spent DAYS nonstop fighting and avoiding horrifying dangers, being hunted down by multiple military forces, being frozen outside time by a creepy alien timelord, heavy sleep deprivation and hunger/thirst, seeing the nihilanth, and worst of all, bringing that gnome to a space rocket.... He had no break in between any of this. He's just trapped in days of constant hell. You damn right he's waiting for a hug.
This man who never asked for this has been on the run for so long. This man who has had little respite fighting every step along the way. He has fought everywhere from Black Mesa to Ravenholm to city 17 leaving a countless number of bodies in his wake. Not only bodies of his enemys of witch he has many but bodies of friends. He has lived through this hell and is hailed as a hero even though he never asked to be called one. This man is tired and he most definitely deserves a hug.
Magnusson asks Gordon if he's waiting for a hug. Gordon hugs HIM while Magnusson's arms remain at his sides. Makes you wonder who's really needing the hug.
Holy shit... just imagine all he’s been through especially mentally, seeing his friends, fellow employees, die in front of him some terribly, hearing Black Mesa was nuked, & being in utter darknesses until he is needed for HL2 & then seeing the whole world changed in his eyes. As well him just being thrown into the position of leading the resistance on the front lines to free Earth.... Fucking Powerful.... seeing Gordon getting a hug from one of his friends Arne Magnusson that he’s known since before ALL this happened made me tear up... 😪 Gordon has been through a lot... 😔
Gordon went straight from HL1 into HL2 in the blink of an eye running on nothing but Adrenaline and Pure terror. Give this man all the hugs in the world.
Gordon did have a hard life, he survived the residence cascade, a sizable portion of the US Marines, xen wildlife, the nialanth, being in stasis with gman, the combine, and antlions. He survived all of that so he DEZERVES EVERYONES HUGS.
Considering the fact that Gordon has been continuously fighting, with very little time for a break, always being forced into combat, watching his friends and colleagues at Black Mesa get killed or zombified, was hunted by the HECU just because he refused to let himself go down without a fight, confronted an eldritch horror only to come back to an earth enslaved by an oppressive alien regime (making what he did essentially pointless), and see the horrific atrocities as well as seeing his friend be critically wounded as he couldn’t move in order to help her, (all under the span of 2 weeks at most, hl 1 being a few days, hl2 and its episodes being a week from his perception.), I’d say he deserves more than a hug, it’s a wonder how he’s not a trembling, ptsd ridden mess, I feel bad for Gordon.
@@inktheone5933 Presumably, he eats/drinks very on the fly, likely in the many car rides he has in HL2. But in Black Mesa...he didn't have the luxury of a little bit of wiggle room in his schedule to take short breaks for food. He went through the hell of Black Mesa without so much as a break, probably only having time to grab a drink or two from a vending machine he busted open along the way.
@@inktheone5933 3 days, first is the Resonance Cascade, the invasion and the Military coming in to say h- oh wait, they say die... Second day, post Launch of a rocket, he gets through a section of lab he never so much as GLANCED at before today, runs on a Dam, is forced to evade and eventually shoot down a Helicopter and ultimately gets to the Lambda Complex as the sun sets. Third day was when Xen's invasion ultimately ended, Gordon had to have been in Xen for long enough to hit midnight on Earth. He then gets put into stasis and when he returns, it's been literally a day since the end of the Black Mesa Incident for him but in reality, 20 years have passed.
Freeman showed up to work late one day and from that point on he's been fighting for his life for over a week non-stop (from his perspective), my man can use a hug
I just adore this! Especially the stages Magnusson goes through: 0:18 "Oh shit, he fr wants a hug" 0:32 utter disbelief 0:34 the sigh of resignation "Dammit, Imma have to hug this guy now, ain't I?" 0:47 how Magnusson just stands there, with his hands hanging down, not even participating in the hug because he didn't want it in the first place Love it!
The man's been fighting for his life for a week nonstop with no sleep, watching most of his coworkers die horribly, in addition to countless other deaths, cosmic horrors beyond belief, get conscripted and imprisoned against his will by an intergalactic business man, see Earth get taken over and ruined by a genocidal alien empire, and confronting his old boss from Black Mesa. Of course the man wants a hug.
This video, and the song that plays in it, has lead me down a rabbit hole of being haunted by this song, the bottom of which is, currently, myself bidding on the first 4 volumes of "Berserk" on eBay. I hope you understand the sheer power of this video you've created.
Alternate HL:Alyx ending Alyx: Uncle Gman, when is Gordon coming back? Gman: Gordon... is sick, so he went on a trip to help him get better. Alyx: We're not going with him? Gman: No. He needs to be alone. Alyx: I wonder if I'll ever see him again. Gman: Gordon... had a hard life. He needs some time to rest. *Starts crying* Alyx: Are you... crying Uncle Gman?
*At the ruins of Black Mesa, a gunshot rings out* Gordon: *Heavy breathing, sweating as a recently fired handgun is loosely held as he kneels on the ground* Adrian Shephard: "That's right, good. No need for you to go just yet..." *walks out from behind the nearby rubble and approaches, holding SMG*
"So long as I have my crowbar to fight with I'm sure to survive. Year after year I prove it to be true. Before I joined the resistance I always survived. No matter the odds, no matter how hopeless a losing battle. This time is no different. In truth, I don't believe that's anyway to live one's life. I've been fighting in battles for as long as I can remember. The Gman only taught me how to swing my crowbar. I've never had anything except my crowbar. I don't want to die. for me that is the only reason I keep fighting. There is nothing to save myself for or give myself to. I fight because I know nothing else.....that and Theoretical Physics. Once I was willing, to do just that....to commit myself to fighting and let anyone else find a reason for me."
@GoTi4No Not really, as Gordon fulfilled his purpose in the events of Half Life 2. Anything that happened to Gordon after he ceased being useful wouldn't matter to the Gman.
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Poor Freeman
He went to work one day and never left
Fuck, thats a powerful quote.
Im still staring at this comment and the music isn't helping my deep thoughts
He's currently doing overtime...
Not just that, but from what HL:A implies, he got fired for it too
And he likely had a family, meaning 1. Either his family died not knowing what happened to Gordon or 2. His family escaped, but after the Combine invasion, they died anyways not knowing what happened to Gordon.
He's been carrying the guilt of the casserole for a long time.
LOL!!
He shouldn't have touched the microwave....
This deserves the heart thing.
Yep I bet Gordon blames himself for all the deaths at Black Mesa... :(
and also carrying a gnome
Everyone always says "half life" but never "how's life"
Everyone's asking for half life 3
But no one asks how life is for thee.
deep.
Winner.
Everyone says thanks and have fun but nobody says how’s this fun
half of his was taken
Quick reminder, at the start of episode 1, Alyx gives Gordon a hug. He had a hug boys.
He's been through a lot since then, no need to ration hugs
Man-hugs just hit different.
@@SanctuaryReintegrate yes
Thank you for reminding me
Doesn't count
To be fair he just did the most painstakingly, frustrating task of carrying a gnome to a rocket so he does deserve a hug.
The strider battle at the end of ep 2 is aids as well
I don’t remember any gnomes in HL2:EP2.
@@todanceonbrokenglass That battle was so easy I basically did it by accident.
@@thechosenone9910 mustve not played it then
Bleach Mcnuggs I played it, alright. Maybe I missed it.
Hug Down the Freeman
The good version
Should be a mod for HL Alyx
Would probably have better quality than Hunt Down The Freeman
@@flamingcat1101 Hunt Down The Refund
@@therealmrj1 Hunt Down The Dev Team
Man's literally not had a break since he showed up for work late one day.
He's been held together with nothing more than fear, adrenaline, suit integrated automatic weaponary handling and a constant drip of morphine
M a j o r F r a c t u r e D e t e c t e d. M o r p h i n e A d m i n i s t e r e d.
morphine tolerance builds quickly so he probably feels everything by the end of HL1 :(
I like to imagine he's just a can of shattered bones and morphine soup
He's held together purely by morphine and the orange suit that is somehow BARELY still functioning. Also it'd be extremely morbid and funny if we learned that the HEV suit held Gordon together, like the Berserk armor does. Just sealing his wounds, keeping him conscious and injecting him with morphine every 5 seconds, but never really fixing or mending them.
thats fucking metal
The entirety of Half Life 2, including the episodes, takes place in less than a week from Gordon’s perspective.
not to mention that half life 2 starts immediately after half life 1 due to Gordon being in stasis.
watching freeman slowly lose his mind because of this via freeman's mind has been a great joy
@@randomperson9941 playing the games back-to-back (starting from HL1!) made me realize this; for everyone else in the HL universe, the Black Mesa incident was a historical event. For Gordon, it was literally yesterday.
@@BirdmanDeuce26 Well, HL1 takes place over about 3 days, and 3 days more for HL2, and each ep is about 5 hours.
For a different point of view, most people have been oppressed for a generation whereas Gordon just had a tough week. He can't really complain
I don’t want to be silent anymore. I just want to be happy
I smell a vinesaucer.
Hello there Jack!
Silence, Alyx...
@@zonetropper what's a vinesaucer?
@@deadvodka someone that makes sauce out of vines
Everybody watches Freeman's Mind, but who minds to watch Freeman?
The combine
Ross from accursed farms
Deep enough for half a life
G-Man around corners.
I have a theory, what if dr cossack is freeman in the future, you know megaman 4 being like hl3
It has to suck to be Gordon.
He's an MIT graduate who went to work one evening thinking it was going to be a normal day, only to wake up from a explosion he only survived thanks to his HEV suit. He then had to fight not only alien monsters, but the US military. Gordon then single handedly stops the alien invasion by killing their leader.
Then some interdimensional man in a suit whisks him away to the future to start a revolution against even more aliens. He has no choice, he is simply burdened with the responsibility because no one else can do what he can.
Evening? Wasn't it morning on the tram ride? Even in New Mexico, by 8:30 PM it's mostly dark. Had to be AM.
@@synthwavecat96 The computer voice on the tram does specifically say "AM"
Literally in Gordon's Perspective: He was JUST done fighting the Nihilanth after 2 fucking DAYS of nonstop fighting, with only one moment of rest with him being knocked out by the Military so they could kill him and hide the body. Then immediately after accepting G-Man's offer, he wakes up on a tram, 20 years have gone by and yet he hasn't aged a DAY due to stasis, it must have felt like one second between acceptence and the tram!
Then the aforementioned SOLID WEEK OF FIGHTING...that is 9 days with hardly any rest.
Wasn’t the Nihilanth mind-controlling the vortigaunts (I hope I spelled that right), not really their “leader”? I could be mistaken, but I believe that was why the vorts teamed up with humans when the combine arrived.
And then Interdimenaional government man decides to replace him with a person he was trying to protect after completely erasing all of his progress.
god I wish that were me
*hugs* here you go man one hug from a shitposter like yourself
We all need a good magnusson hug sometimes...
You wanna hug, fella?
Lol!
Same.
"For your sanity and existence you can--"
"Shut up gman I dont want to gain undying immortality
I want to be happy"
I read this in Ross' voice
@@randomman4628 Followed by quiet sobbing as the accursed farms' logo pops up and fades, showing the demonic cow's glowing red eyes.
@@aelius3805 I kinda want Accursed Farms to have a serious moment where Gordon actually breaks down fully.
G-man: I'll just go
He's not even meant to be a hero, and he never chose this life. He was just an ordinary scientist who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. He watched his colleagues die as man and monster alike tore them asunder. He met many allies to help him, and he helped them in turn. Most of them didn't make it. He took on the responsibility out of sheer willpower to live, allowing himself to be thrusted into a bizarre, alien world. His only reward for saving everyone was being thrusted right back into the action to act as everyone's hero once again, forced to serve some mysterious "employer" whether he liked it or not. Over the course of a week, he's seen and survived things on a daily basis most people next experience in a lifetime. He's experienced constant loss, fear, regret and anxiety ever since that fateful moment in the test chamber.
Give the man his god damn hug.
never chose this half life
Same thing with Corporal Adrian Shepherd, he was just going through basic training for the USMC and the HECU and then he gets thrown into the same shithole that Gordon was thrown into, I am sure if the two met, they would be total bros since they both went through the same shit
@@djtrac3r935 at least Shepard has remained in stasis since. Poor Gordon has went through shit like 3 times more than Shepard
@@jpardoa94 True, but still, thetwo can relate with each other as they both just fought to survive back in black mesa, and gordon is fighting for humanity in HL2, Shepherd never received his orders to silence the facility since he was unconscious, so Shepherd really didn't know what was going on, but still, i like to think if the two met, they would probably be friends, since both went through similar shit
@@jpardoa94 don’t forget, Adrian prevents a 2nd invasion by beating up what is basically a teraformer after disarming a nuke which he sees gets rearmed by that fucker in a suit he’s seen around since boot camp.
I like how Magnusson doesn't hug him back.
"I know it was you, Gordon. I know you blew up my casserole. You broke my heart."
Could be around his waist. For...some reason.
@@Iamafishproductions I understood the reference
@@synthwavecat96 No, look at the shot from above. Magnusson’s arms are dangling.
:(
Graduated from MIT as a theoretical physicist in his twentys. One day in the amazing research facility he worked at all hell breaks lose. After fighting with extra dimensional beings, watching people he knew die and being branded as KOS by the military, only to be inducated by an extra dimensional being of seemingly all knowing power. A decade or two goes by and when he thinks life will be normal, hes learned that life will never be the same again. Any family he knew probably dead. To him it feels like he just got here. Left the hell of Black Mesa and woke up to a post apocalyptic alien ruled new hell. Which he again has to face near death, watch people and freinds die.
Gordon doesn't need a hug
He fucking deserved it
He doesn't deserve just A hug... he deserves all the hugs.
He was in stasis for the entire 20 year period between hl1 and 2, so he went straight from the hell of Black Mesa to fighting in hl2, no break
Really he both needs and deserves it.
Shit i didn't think about that, the photo of that kid in his locker in black mesa...damn that shits dark
Yeah I would forgive him after the whole casserole incident.
"there there, Gordon you are doing well..
I know we are asking a lot of you lately,
but we are all counting on you,
we are all counting on you..
because we, no damn it!
because I.. know you can do it."
@@jarts8249 you got it wrong. Gordon is silent for a reason. Whatever goes through your mind goes through your Gordon's mind.
@@erikpng yeah your right
@@erikpng In that case hes right because hes thinking all Gordon wants is a quiet life so thats what Gordon wants. Well, in his game anyway.
@@erikpng *Freeman’s Mind
Gordon only lived a Half-Life. All the opportunities he missed. Family, friends, all gone. Because the right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.
Damn..thats fucking true
Wow, that's actually quite a damn good observation. Half of the life he could have lived gone in the blink of an eye.
@@aidanpysher2764 holy crap i thought it was just a game but he does deserve hugs
Considering the after-effects of the resonance cascade, and the state of the Earth when we arrive for half life 2, I have to wonder if he was actually better off getting put in stasis.
All because the right man in the wrong place *did* all the difference in the world
Not even James Cameron could reach a level of such raw emotion like this
i teared up
Or Christopher Nolan
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I couldn't stop myself
Steven Spielberg with Schindler's List is so close but yet so far
Gordan just wanted to feel something, anything.
Not with all that morphine he won't.
@@nf9475 Morphine? Is Freeman an addict?
@@Callsign_Bear Every time you take a lot of damage in half life the HEV suit administers Morphine to Gordon and uh you get damaged a lot so that's a LOTTA Morphine
bro that shit hit different
@@petepeterson5917 which begs the question… HOW TF IS HE STILL ALIVE?
That little "yes" nod from Freeman with his eyes closed.
*I felt that.*
Between the Black Mesa Incident, defeating the Giant Space Baby, and all the events of half life 2, Gordon has had literally zero hours of what we would call sleep
We gonna ignore how gman put him into stasis which is basically sleeping for a few decades? alrighty then
@@aandric *basically*
@@aandric From gordon's perspective, that was just a few seconds in darkness.
I mean, back in hl1 just after the first encounter with the assassins, gordon's caught off guard by 2 soldiers and knocked off...does that mean he slept? Cuz when he wakes up its already morning/noon, and when he was fighting the assassins it was midnight(you can see the sky through the giant hole in the ceiling)
Gordon couldnt've acknowledged stasis, from his point of view he walked out a tram and then he's directly infront of gman and going into hl2.
We think of Gordon Freeman as an invincible science badass, but the truth is that if any of us had been what Gordon had been through, we'd all need hugs.
I think with his suit and competency we would all be in his situation, putting on a brave face because suddenly we are an icon of hope, but damned if I wouldn't just take a sec to cry my eyes out before getting back to business.
Keep in mind all the Half Life games take place in under a week from Gordons perspective, He would've stepped into the portal at the end of HL1 after defeating a space god and boom, he's back infront of gman at the start of HL2
Even a Space Marine would need a hug if he went through the technically Second Holocaust. Only this time it's not only in Europe.
We'd be dead lol
This is unironically the most buitiful interpretation of Gorden's emotions after all the chaos he has been through up to this point in episode 2. What a legendary video.
This
Incredible. Can’t wait for the Source 4 remaster in 2089.
Don’t you mean Source: Alyx?
HAHAHA
It will certainly make me bawl.
@@0-possumfirst source 2: episode 1 then 2 then we get source:alyx
@@mohepicpro23 Ohhhh, silly me
Guts theme is incredibly appropriate here, especially when you consider that much like Guts, Freeman is also a man more or less trapped in a suit or armor who's had to fight through hell and back with basically no reward to show for it, with the entire first half of his adventure changing absolutely nothing, and the second half taking place after an apocalypse.
Half life is just a Berserk reference, I have proof, neither one has an ending
@@STOKERMATHALLAN because both authors?
@@STOKERMATHALLAN fuck, you’re right.
Arne Magnusson: "What are you waiting for, Freeman? A hug!?"
Gordon: *"What do you think I travelled all across City 17 for?..."*
Magnusson said he'd forgive Freeman for the casserole if they make it out of this alive, but helping Freeman to forgive himself was too important if this was the last time they'd see each other.
They always ask "Where's Gordon" but never ask "How's Gordon". :(
they be like "hunt down the Freeman" instead of "how is the Freeman"
*sad silence*
"...please, I just need to feel human again. Let me be vulnerable, for just a moment."
Gordon Freeman probably really needed that hug cause of everything he's done
He started a Resonance Cascade on accident and the military tries to hunt him down and loses a lot of his friends and regrets killing so many living beings and that he's everyone's last hope and Gman keeps him in Stasis for 20 years just to find out he has to take out another race
Gman is the one who actually planned the Resonance Cascade as he was the one who tampered / brought in the sample, but poor Gordon probably thinks its his fault that it happened even though all he did was push the sample in.
Freeman came back from Black Mesa.
But Gordon... Gordon never left.
This man has been on the run for about a month since the 90s only sleeping when he gets knocked unconscious. Hell yeah he needs a hug.
Edit: Yeah I mucked up the timeline from Gordon's perspective a bit. But the point still stands, give the man some love!
“For about a month since the 90s” math doesn’t fully add up there
@@glossyplane542 Did you finish HL?
@@glossyplane542 HL’s chronology has allways kinda been wonky, though I’d think the black mesa incident would’ve been 3 days at least. 3 days on the run, then a decade in temporal cryo.
The time Gordon was in Black mesa must have been like two days, and the events of half life 2 and it's episodes, in Gordon's view take place a little bit less than a week. Of course it was 3 weeks because he skipped time but you know what I mean.
@@glossyplane542 HL's chronology is a bit messy but essentially days on the run in Black Mesa, then in stasis for 20 years until HL2 - Episode 2 onwards which takes place over a month+
I love the damage to the hev suit, it makes perfect sense that the once shiny suit is as beat up as Gordon is now
It’s a good metaphor.
The suit- brand new- is shiny, clean, robust.
Gordon was also shiny and clean, but not robust.
After the events, both are dirty, broken, beaten and torn. But while the suit has lost some of its integrity and strength, Gordon underneath has lost something too- his humanity. He’s little more than a machine now, moving, killing and following orders. When it’s all over, and he’s no longer needed, what will he or the suit do? What can they do?
gordon has been through so much in such a short span on time, he definitively needs a hug
@Ace Becks how has ne not died of dehydration?
@Ace Becks he couldn't drink the breen water since as the citizens quote
" Don't drink the water! They put in that something that makes you forget "
@@mrgrinderman8861 his suit could give him water and nutrients
@@TheExperienceYT oh right
I'm glad there was no meme and he actually got his hug
What are you waiting for, a hug?
"Yeah kinda"
A true masterpiece it conveys such emotion with such little words.
10/10
If he was frozen in stasis that would mean at the start of HL2. The black mesa incident is very fresh in his mind, and he would still have severe PTSD
Rest in peace, Miura
The facial expressions work so well with the characters.
I love the facial acting on Magnusson at 0:32, you can see his incredulity fade and acceptance set in as he realizes that Gordon really does need and deserve this.
Freeman:
-lost his job at the Black Mesa Research Facility after years of working hard for a Ph.D at university
-saw his coworkers and friends get brutally slaughtered by Xen aliens and U.S. marines
-was betrayed by his country's own government
-was forced to kill 100+ humans (which will take a heavy psychological toll on a person)
-exited the universe and entered Xen to stop an extradimensional invasion, only to meet and fight a horrifying elder god on the other side
-saw dead people brought back to life by Headcrabs (which will traumatize a normal person)
-had to swim through BMRF's sewers
-had to swim through irradiated City 17 sewers
-has to live with guilt that he inserted a crystal into a machine which caused him to become part of the reasons a catastrophe that killed hundreds, thousands if not millions of humans across the globe occurred
-has to live with guilt that the aliens he killed weren't actually invading but were innocent life that were just scared for their wellbeing, in other words, Gordon killed innocent Vortigaunts and Xen animals alike
-probably lost his family and extended families to the Combine during the Seven Hour war, after all, Freeman was in stasis when the war took place
-has to live with the guilt that he was one of the many reasons humanity is now enslaved by an interdimensional empire of alien cyborgs and that so many humans died during the Seven Hour War
-had the unfortunate luck of staring at a horrifying full display of a person still waiting to finish their surgical transformation into a *_Transhuman_* / *_Combine Soldier_*
-had the unfortunate luck of staring down a Stalker (a horrifying shell of a human being only living because of Combine life support systems) right in the face
-had to fight Transhumans (Combine cybernetic humans) who are 3x stronger than the strongest humans (case in point, a Combine Grunt in HL:A's trailer easily busts through a full-blown concrete wall)
-indirectly caused the destruction of an entire city
-killed his former boss (Wallace Breen)
-forcefully "hired" by a reality-warping interdimensional bureaucrat (i.e. G-Man) and forced to do his biddings
Bear in mind that while all of this happened: *Gordon Freeman is nothing more than a regular scientist in his late 20s and fresh out of university.*
If there's anyone in the Half-Life universe that DESERVES a hug of their lifetime, it would be Freeman. Guy's been through HELL.
Imagine Gordon hearing that the Family has been killed belonging to a metrocop he killed, that would grow his guilt
He's a touch starved man, just like most of us
I wish someone would just give Guts a hug
Alyx does at the beginning of Ep1
what about casca
@@yeetusyourmeetus She could but her screaming would just make him feel worse
@@piefish Guts, not gordon. He’s referring to the song, which is from the 1997 Berserk anime
@@WendiGonerLH Guts has naked black lady to hug
unless she died idk i dont watch the anime
I mean, look. Magnusson might be a grouch but he still went in for the damn hug.
Gordon is the guts of the half life universe. Both can’t seem to catch a break.
Is Gordon in stasis just Guts on the boat?
@@zomg1337h4x holy shit when you think about it you’re right. And GMAN would be femto
@@Dashinix gman took gordon freedom and femto took guts happiness
Nobody. I MEAN NOBODY talks to Freeman like: "Hey you've had a hard life, here's a beer.". They treat him like a tool for everything.
this is really good, i love the detail of gordon looking angry while hugging because clenching up the face like that is how people try and stop themselves from crying
That Guts theme song really hit different now
You've gotten so insanely good at portraying emotion and facial reactions. It's been amazing watching your videos for so long and watching you just get better and better.
This is the most unexpectedly wholesome thing... 🥺
I mean, he was manipulated to start a resonance that was the beginning of the combine oppression on earth where millions died, so yeah
He needs a lot of hugs to wash away the guilt
Not millions, Billions died.
The citizens in half life are the 0.10% of humanity that wasnt wiped out by the combine, so many people died cause of the funky blue suit man
This is just amazing.
@Dark Disciple I mean it was by the artist for the game.
This is even more sadder considering John Aylward's death (VA for Arne).
Gordon has lost everything he owned, everyone he knew (possibly including a son and wife), learned about alien civilisations that enslaved earth, spent DAYS nonstop fighting and avoiding horrifying dangers, being hunted down by multiple military forces, being frozen outside time by a creepy alien timelord, heavy sleep deprivation and hunger/thirst, seeing the nihilanth, and worst of all, bringing that gnome to a space rocket....
He had no break in between any of this. He's just trapped in days of constant hell.
You damn right he's waiting for a hug.
This man who never asked for this has been on the run for so long. This man who has had little respite fighting every step along the way. He has fought everywhere from Black Mesa to Ravenholm to city 17 leaving a countless number of bodies in his wake.
Not only bodies of his enemys of witch he has many but bodies of friends.
He has lived through this hell and is hailed as a hero even though he never asked to be called one.
This man is tired and he most definitely deserves a hug.
Once he stepped through into the AMS chamber, his fate was sealed.
I’ve never played the Half Life series, and yet this is the most emotionally powerful thing I’ve seen all month.
Lol
Play it or I’ll kick you.
Every time you say no I will *KICK YOU*
And every time you try to forget
*I WILL DO FAR FAR WORSE*
Well what are you waiting for? A hug?
Magnusson asks Gordon if he's waiting for a hug. Gordon hugs HIM while Magnusson's arms remain at his sides.
Makes you wonder who's really needing the hug.
He just wanted to enjoy one last delicious casserole before the world went to hell and he'd have to survive off headcrab stew for the rest of his days
Holy shit... just imagine all he’s been through especially mentally, seeing his friends, fellow employees, die in front of him some terribly, hearing Black Mesa was nuked, & being in utter darknesses until he is needed for HL2 & then seeing the whole world changed in his eyes.
As well him just being thrown into the position of leading the resistance on the front lines to free Earth.... Fucking Powerful.... seeing Gordon getting a hug from one of his friends Arne Magnusson that he’s known since before ALL this happened made me tear up... 😪 Gordon has been through a lot... 😔
Gordon went straight from HL1 into HL2 in the blink of an eye running on nothing but Adrenaline and Pure terror. Give this man all the hugs in the world.
This is so emotional man in crying and shaking rn
Gordon did have a hard life,
he survived the residence cascade, a sizable portion of the US Marines, xen wildlife, the nialanth, being in stasis with gman, the combine, and antlions. He survived all of that so he DEZERVES EVERYONES HUGS.
I love your animations. Also great use of Guts' theme.
Yes, Guts theme is amazing, it's what make this meme really good
Something tells me Magnusson needed that hug too. I always got the impression that his coarse personality was just a byproduct of stress.
the HEV's weight is nothing compared the weight of his SOUL
And his balls of steel + the weight of his 16 weapons.
"- as for the hug, I think you earned it."
Just wait. Ross Scott is going to see this and interpolate it into an episode of Freeman's Mind three years down the line.
“I’m sorry about the microwave casserole.”
Considering the fact that Gordon has been continuously fighting, with very little time for a break, always being forced into combat, watching his friends and colleagues at Black Mesa get killed or zombified, was hunted by the HECU just because he refused to let himself go down without a fight, confronted an eldritch horror only to come back to an earth enslaved by an oppressive alien regime (making what he did essentially pointless), and see the horrific atrocities as well as seeing his friend be critically wounded as he couldn’t move in order to help her, (all under the span of 2 weeks at most, hl 1 being a few days, hl2 and its episodes being a week from his perception.), I’d say he deserves more than a hug, it’s a wonder how he’s not a trembling, ptsd ridden mess, I feel bad for Gordon.
I don't even know how he is even alive without eating or drinking water for a week and he somehow is that strong?
@@inktheone5933 Presumably, he eats/drinks very on the fly, likely in the many car rides he has in HL2.
But in Black Mesa...he didn't have the luxury of a little bit of wiggle room in his schedule to take short breaks for food. He went through the hell of Black Mesa without so much as a break, probably only having time to grab a drink or two from a vending machine he busted open along the way.
@@inktheone5933 probably the hev suit keeping his nutrition and hydration levels in check
Thought half life 1 takes place in 1 day
@@inktheone5933 3 days, first is the Resonance Cascade, the invasion and the Military coming in to say h- oh wait, they say die...
Second day, post Launch of a rocket, he gets through a section of lab he never so much as GLANCED at before today, runs on a Dam, is forced to evade and eventually shoot down a Helicopter and ultimately gets to the Lambda Complex as the sun sets. Third day was when Xen's invasion ultimately ended, Gordon had to have been in Xen for long enough to hit midnight on Earth. He then gets put into stasis and when he returns, it's been literally a day since the end of the Black Mesa Incident for him but in reality, 20 years have passed.
Poor gordon.After all these years, After all he's been through. He accidentally lost the gnome when he tried to glitch it into the car.
He dropped the gnome before placing it into the rocket.
This is beautiful. Thank you for allowing me among many others to witness this true act of friendship.
"I do not wish to be Gordon no more. Just a free man"
You can tell though, that Magnusson needed the hug even more than Freeman.
Gordon did not speak that day. He cried.
Gordon deserves it after everything he's been through. Black Mesa, Xen, Ravenholm, the Combine chasing after him...
I see the torture of benrey hasn't left gordon yet
When i got to this bit in the game i stood there like: "You offered, now give me a gosh darn hug"
Magnusson and Freeman share a bond no one can understand but them
Maybe the most wholesome Half-Life animation *ever.*
he feels extremely guilty for that casserole.
That gome has legit broken me to the point of crying
I hope this is how Valve ends Half-Life 3. Gordons been through hell and back with only one cannonical hug.
well alyx did hug him actually, so two then?
R.I.P John Aylward
You know it too?
@@CHADCONTEXT Yes.
this is just like a painting
its speaks a thousand words
in 58 seconds
Freeman showed up to work late one day and from that point on he's been fighting for his life for over a week non-stop (from his perspective), my man can use a hug
I just adore this! Especially the stages Magnusson goes through:
0:18 "Oh shit, he fr wants a hug"
0:32 utter disbelief
0:34 the sigh of resignation "Dammit, Imma have to hug this guy now, ain't I?"
0:47 how Magnusson just stands there, with his hands hanging down, not even participating in the hug because he didn't want it in the first place
Love it!
For real though, the faces were really well done, you can see so much emotion in them.
the fact that even Magnusson of all people managed to connect with Freemans pain is telling
Just me that wanted Freeman to say "yes" very quietly in a duke nuken voice?
“I got balls of steel.
and major trauma, lacerations, and PTSD.”
"I have a PhD in kicking ass"
The man's been fighting for his life for a week nonstop with no sleep, watching most of his coworkers die horribly, in addition to countless other deaths, cosmic horrors beyond belief, get conscripted and imprisoned against his will by an intergalactic business man, see Earth get taken over and ruined by a genocidal alien empire, and confronting his old boss from Black Mesa. Of course the man wants a hug.
This video, and the song that plays in it, has lead me down a rabbit hole of being haunted by this song, the bottom of which is, currently, myself bidding on the first 4 volumes of "Berserk" on eBay.
I hope you understand the sheer power of this video you've created.
I'd give him a hug too :(
Alternate HL:Alyx ending
Alyx: Uncle Gman, when is Gordon coming back?
Gman: Gordon... is sick, so he went on a trip to help him get better.
Alyx: We're not going with him?
Gman: No. He needs to be alone.
Alyx: I wonder if I'll ever see him again.
Gman: Gordon... had a hard life. He needs some time to rest. *Starts crying*
Alyx: Are you... crying Uncle Gman?
"This is good... isn't it?"
*At the ruins of Black Mesa, a gunshot rings out*
Gordon: *Heavy breathing, sweating as a recently fired handgun is loosely held as he kneels on the ground*
Adrian Shephard: "That's right, good. No need for you to go just yet..." *walks out from behind the nearby rubble and approaches, holding SMG*
@@joshrobins130 I get that reference
"So long as I have my crowbar to fight with I'm sure to survive.
Year after year I prove it to be true. Before I joined the resistance I always survived. No matter the odds, no matter how hopeless a losing battle. This time is no different.
In truth, I don't believe that's anyway to live one's life.
I've been fighting in battles for as long as I can remember.
The Gman only taught me how to swing my crowbar. I've never had anything except my crowbar.
I don't want to die. for me that is the only reason I keep fighting. There is nothing to save myself for or give myself to. I fight because I know nothing else.....that and Theoretical Physics.
Once I was willing, to do just that....to commit myself to fighting and let anyone else find a reason for me."
@GoTi4No Not really, as Gordon fulfilled his purpose in the events of Half Life 2. Anything that happened to Gordon after he ceased being useful wouldn't matter to the Gman.
After all he has been through, he deserves a hug.
He was in intense duty for almost 5 days in his perspective, and received only one hug for what he done to keep people alive.
This has been rent free in my head since 2008
This is the first video I went to after learning John Aylward died. RIP 😢 💔
They always ask “OH MY GOD, W H A T ARE YOU DOING?” but never “Oh my God! How’re you doing?”
I'm not crying, I've just got Half-Life 3 in my eyes.
the real reason for the hug is that he just felt really bad about the casserole