Why does gordon freeman not talk

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I don't get it. User Info: AntoineCoyote. User Info: sticker I think it's because Gordon Freeman is supposed to "become the player" rather than the player to become Gordon Freeman.

User Info: Anon They want you to become Gordon Freeman. It'd be sort of like if you vanished from New York in and then reappeared today and everyone assumed you'd been on vacation. You wouldn't know about the twin towers falling, but everyone would assume you did because it was sort of a hard thing to miss like earth being invaded and taken over by an evil alien empire.

Fill me in. User Info: bhamv. And there's nothing stopping you from thinking that in your head, or saying it out loud to your screen. Problem is, some other player might be thinking or saying out loud "Man, that Alyx sure looks good in those tight jeans. Pity about her hairstyle though, it looks like she stuck her head in a lawnmower. But then she discovers that the G-Man's price is that she now works for him. So she goes into stasis or whatever it is, until the G-Man needs to deploy her again.

Alyx is the new Gordon Freeman. Roll credits. But as we're living in a post-Marvel world there's a scene after the credits. And it's pretty thrilling. We're suddenly at the end of Episode 2. Eli is alive and the alien creature that was going to kill him is no more.

So Eli's waking up Gordon - that's suddenly us - and telling us that Alyx has disappeared. She's been taken, and he's not happy about it at all. Cue Dog popping up with a familiar gift - it's Gordon's crowbar! We take the crowbar as Eli says, "We've got work to do. This is pretty interesting stuff, I think, even if it does leave you with the slight sense that Alyx has really just been a game about moving the pieces around to get everything ready for the next bunch of games.

What form will they take? We've got Alyx in stasis ready to be dropped into action, but we've also got Gordon and Eli, and Gordon's even got his signature weapon back. This gives Valve options, clearly.

But more than that, it ties into the leaked ending of Half-Life 2: Episode 3 that popped up on the internet a few years back. Episode 3 would have unfolded quite differently - and I think Eli still would have died.

But it would have ended, as far as I can understand, with Gordon being replaced by Alyx in the G-Man's affections. Alyx goes off to statis to wait until the time for her to be useful arrives, and Gordon's left out of the action.

My overwhelming impression once the whole thing was done was that I was happy to have played through a game that was primarily concerned with retconning and setting up future games. Mainly because the actual set-pieces in Alyx are so thrilling that they don't really require too much of a plot to string them together. But also because it's hard to sit through that ending without feeling like Valve is properly back in the Half-Life business.

Guide Index. Resonance Cascade Theory. Gman Theory. Player's Voice Theory. Freeman's Choice Theory. The idea in this theory is that Gordon cannot speak because of the effects of the Resonance Cascade. Remember, Gordon did not have his HEV suit helmet on during the incident. Now, let's say that because of the rift that was created by the portal to Xen, the area that Gordon was in had a massive amount of radition, and exposure to alien air This is before Earth and Xen were both "collided" into each other [hinted by Opposing Force's chapter "Worlds Collide], because after that, Xen had breathable oxygen for unknown reasons.

Because of this, most of Gordon's important parts that generate a human voice lungs, connected to the pharynx, vocal folds, articulators, etc. Now, you may be saying "Well, if they weren't damaged while he was traveling on the tram or when he was walking through hallways and getting his HEV suit, why doesn't he talk then?

You can also see here how exposed Gordon's neck and head was during the Resonance Cascade. This theory is probably one of the shortest yet most believable. The Gman Theory basically states that Gordon was silenced by the Gman. Well since he "employed" Gordon and stalked him throughout the whole game, he wouldn't want him to tell others about who he was, or try to ask others to help him, would he?

Another part of this theory is that, maybe the effects of the stasis Gman put on Gordon allowing him to not age and not feel practically anything damaged some parts of his body. This isn't necessarily a theory, it's more like a reason. Like Gabe Newell said, Gordon Freeman is silent to him because it is the player who does all the talking.

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