half life questions

[HydraZulu]

I've played Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode 1, and Half-Life 2: Episode 2 without ever having played Half-Life. Most of the stuff made sense, although that could have been partially from me browsing the Half-Life wiki in my spare time. Still, I think Half-Life 2 is an awesome game, and you'd be fairly safe playing it before Half-Life. If you still think you shouldn't, then watch a walkthrough or two on YouTube.

 

[Sacman]

Gordon and Alyx aren't around the same age Gordon is in his 40's and Alyx is like 20 something.

Just out of curiosity, where did you find out that Freeman was in his 40's? I always under the impression that at the time of the original HL, Freeman was 27 years old and, due to being held in limbo until HL2, didn't age much if at all in the interim.

I just put it together since Gordon is 27 in the original Half Life and Alyx was probably a child in the original Half Life it has to be at least a 15 year gap between Half Life and Half life 2 which would put Gordon in his 40's and Alyx in her late teens too twenties. but this is just a guess from information from a Half Life fan site.

But since he was put in some sort of stasis between the events of the two games, he should still be 27 in HL2.

but it never says what kind of stasis he could have been living like a regular citizen until G man needed him.

 

[MarsProbe]

Yes, there are a number of references in HL2 that hints Freeman hasn't really aged in between the first and second games. I don't remember it exactly, but is one of Eli's initial observations not as to how Freeman doesn't look a day older than he did during the time at Black Mesa? Also, not a direct hint, but there's also the scene (in episode 1 maybe?) where - slight spoiler -

Spoiler

Eli mentions, after the Combine suppression field (I always wondered after that what kind of crazy technology the Combine had that was able to stop us humans reproducing altogether!) in passing to Alyx that he would like to have some grandchildren. So. I'm guessing that because of that, Freeman and Alyx were bound to be of "compatible" age in relation to each other.

 

[Goldeneye103X2]

I played half life 2 without 1 and it was fine for me.Just search the cutscenes on youtube.

 

[Sacman]

Gordon and Alyx aren't around the same age Gordon is in his 40's and Alyx is like 20 something.

Just out of curiosity, where did you find out that Freeman was in his 40's? I always under the impression that at the time of the original HL, Freeman was 27 years old and, due to being held in limbo until HL2, didn't age much if at all in the interim.

I just put it together since Gordon is 27 in the original Half Life and Alyx was probably a child in the original Half Life it has to be at least a 15 year gap between Half Life and Half life 2 which would put Gordon in his 40's and Alyx in her late teens too twenties. but this is just a guess from information from a Half Life fan site.

But since he was put in some sort of stasis between the events of the two games, he should still be 27 in HL2.

but it never says what kind of stasis he could have been living like a regular citizen until G man needed him.

Well, anything is possible, of course. But considering what we know of the G-Man (namely the ability to stop time to talk to you), I just find it more plausible that he didn't age. Plus it makes more sense for a 27 year old to be running and jumping around zombies and the combine. And lastly, the fact that Eli, who did age, says to Gordon at the end of Ep2 that he sees him like his own son.

EDIT: Also this [http://ep1.half-life2.com/story.php]
From the end of the first paragraph: "The G-Man, as he's come to be called, seals Gordon in stasis far from Earth, thought, and time itself."

well obviously he's younger than Eli Vance but the paragraph does clear it up about the stasis and it does make more sense for Gordon not to age instead of having a Gordon in his mid to late 40's destroying a town full of Zombies and enough heavily trained soldiers to populate mexico.

 

[Raziel_Likes_Souls]

A socialist is usually Communist, which usually make people of the general population as
valuble as a pile of shit with nuts in it. Tied to pole made from rotten dead carcassess of the general public being forced to eat their bags of shit with nuts in it. So everyone ends up being equal. Except doctor breen.

 

[Colodomoko]

1.get a decent pc and buy the actual version.
2.get a ps2 and buy the enchanted version.

Otherwise go to youtube and watch a walkthrough.