Poll: Gordon Freeman: Does he need to talk?

[Samurai Goomba]

Does Crono need to talk?

 

[luckshot]

its just a mechanic they didn't include in hl2, seems almost like we're watching him accomplish it all from a helmet cam, if he talked we would most likely have to decide what he says thus changing some of the games feel

 

[MercurySteam]

Well Issac Clarke never needed to talk.

 

[anNIALLator]

No, definetly not.

 

[Sparrow]

Does anybody need to talk... Think about that...

Yes. We do. Of course.

But Gordon needs to talk just about as much as link does. And that's not much.

That was the exact same example I was going to use.
"Does Link need to speak?"
No. He's a badass - he doesn't need words.

Link? Badass? Have we been playing the same Zelda series, or was Zelda: Link Snorts Cocaine and has Rapant Sex already released?

More on topic, no. Gordon should never, ever speak. It lets the mind wonder more.

 

[Souplex]

He needs to go away. If he made a nice little speech before going away forever that would be OK.

 

[MrSnugglesworth]

I want him to say one word at the end of the last game. I want them to have beaten whoever the final boss is, and someone like Alec is leaving, and she says something like "Gordon, are you coming?" and he says "Sure" and walks off with her. I think it would be great.

 

[thiosk]

Unless I get to type what he says, i don't need some shit voice actor ruining my game immersion.

 

[hopeneverdies]

Does Samus talk, does Link, do a lot of old school RPG protagonists speak? No, silence is golden. These days if you're talking it often makes you wish they would shut up. Plus it saves devs money for voice actors, except the hiya and oof you sometimes get from Link and Samus.

 

[Green Tentacle]

If Episode 3 will be the last Half Life game, I think at the end he say "Im Fine"

 

[samsprinkle]

No. I am pretty sure that Gorden not speaking was a design choice by valve. It allows the character to RP in a genre that is not usually open to RP. So i voted no.

 

[letsnoobtehpwns]

I bet that at the end of Episode 3, we will see him in 3rd person and he'[ll look completely different. That would be a huge omgwtf moment.

 

[AkJay]

he's gotten htis far wihtout talking, plus, Half-Life was one of the first good games to employ the "Silent Protagonist" character, which you can relate to, so i would rather he didn't speak.

 

[Sparrow]

Does anybody need to talk... Think about that...

Yes. We do. Of course.

But Gordon needs to talk just about as much as link does. And that's not much.

That was the exact same example I was going to use.
"Does Link need to speak?"
No. He's a badass - he doesn't need words.

Link? Badass? Have we been playing the same Zelda series, or was Zelda: Link Snorts Cocaine and has Rapant Sex already released?

More on topic, no. Gordon should never, ever speak. It lets the mind wonder more.

Neither of those things are badass. Clearly you do not see murdering hundreds, if not thousands, of monsters and saving the world without saying more than "yes," "no," or "grunting noises" badass, and for that I pity you.

Those things aren't badass, but neither is grunting in a high pitched voice every time you swing your sword.

Also, wearing a sleeping cap outside. Whats up with that?

 

[300lb. Samoan]

nope. it would ruin the game completely. as if half-life needs MORE scientist geeks yammering on about flux capacitors and gamma-ray cascades and what-not.

 

[The Shade]

Ross Scott does all the talking that Gordon needs to do just fine.

 

[DM.]

No, but if he ever does, let him have the voice of stephen fry.

 

[Seydaman]

hes talking, really softly