Poll Question 081 - Would you like to hear Gordon Freeman speak in Episode 3?

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

I have a feeling that the answer to this week’s poll question will be the most one-sided ever. However, I have been wrong before, and I am sure I will be again.

Would you like to hear Gordon Freeman speak in Episode 3?”

Are You Kidding Me?

Personally I can’t believe that Valve will ever d0o this but you never know. I suspect that if they ever did it would be a one word finish. The whole series would finish with his utterance.

I don’t mean that it would fail because he spoke but Valve know for sure when they plan to finish the series and this would be the last act. It might be fund to speculate exactly what he would say.

No Way, Never, Ever, Never!

I see no reason to ever get him to speak do you? What benefit would it bring. Of course there is the publicity it would generate, that in itself might be worth it, although I doubt it.

What about you?

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Published:: 3rd May 2008 at 4:14 pm

Category:: Poll Questions

Responses:: 21 Comments (add)

Aniline 3rd May 2008 at 17:13 1

Maybe in a spoof mod where, in an effeminate voice, he says, “oo-those trousers are crushing my creativity”.
Otherwise..no, please, never.
firba1 3rd May 2008 at 18:27 2

No. Plus it’s always been a sort of running joke that Gordon never talks. If he started talking now… that would just be wrong.

That’s really the only reason I’m worried about a HL movie. It would just be stupid to have a mute Gordon then, so I don’t know how they could do it.
Zaphod 3rd May 2008 at 20:44 3

No. Gordon shall never talk. I guess he can´t hear either after being so near so many explosions (I mean exploding granades, boxes, barrels and buildings, everything seems to explode when Gordon is around).
Berrie 3rd May 2008 at 22:10 4

Well it would be a bit weird to have him speak now. But it gets to me at times when people talk to him (not at) and he just doesn’t say anything. It seems so cold and compared to the other characters who seem so human and warm.
So if they did it well I wouldn’t mean.
But at this point it seems a little late and I doubt Valve would come back on their decision, regarding Gordon, now.
mel 3rd May 2008 at 22:36 5

No.
Zaphod 3rd May 2008 at 22:52 6

When I think about it, I usually imagening it is me the people in the game are talking to and not som other guy named Gordon. So for me it would not make sense in Gordon talked. If Gordon feels cold because he does not speak, just speak for him.
Jimbo 4th May 2008 at 01:17 7

NOOOOOOOO!

YOU are Gordon Freeman! By giving him a voice, Valve would kill the character you’ve built him up to be, and then Valve would go out of business within an hour upon releasing Episode 3 due to their mistake. Simple as that.
4lyx 4th May 2008 at 02:31 8

4lyx Said:

YOU are Gordon Freeman!

agree^

I would not feel as immersed into the Half-Life series if someone suddenly started plucking at my vocal chords. Gordon’s silence leaves my imgination to wander about. Would totally ruin it for me if they changed it.
Fenris 4th May 2008 at 03:50 9

Gordon doesn’t talk, and yet Half-Life is an excellent game with an evocative story. Don’t fix what ain’t broke.
zellock 4th May 2008 at 04:37 10

zellock Said:

Gordon doesn’t talk, and yet Half-Life is an excellent game with an evocative story. Don’t fix what ain’t broke.

Amen
Homeslice72 4th May 2008 at 08:12 11

Yeah, no, forget it LOL he don’t need a voice just GUNS! Plus it would pull me out of that imaginary “I am Gordon Freeman” mode.
planetphillip 4th May 2008 at 13:30 12

I am so surprised that over 30% of the voters want to hear his voice.

I think it would be kinda fun for the very last scene of the Half-Life series for Gordon Freeman to Kill the Gman but just before he dies he explains everything to him and then for Alyx to express her undying love for Gordon.

After she finishes she pauses and just as Gordon starts to speak there is an explosion and the scene fades to black.
Daniel 4th May 2008 at 15:54 13

Intriguing idea. That way there would be integrity of structure across the three episodes and give a purpose, in addition to immersion, for not including Gordon’s voice until a final cutscene.
mel 4th May 2008 at 16:26 14

Phillip, it’s ‘Half-Life’ not ‘East Enders’
Mman 4th May 2008 at 16:43 15

I chose no, but without the “it would ruin the game” hyperbole, I think Gordon’s muteness has been pretty ill-fitting in HL2 (with all the interaction the other characters have compared to you it feels like you are just a mobile super-turret at times) and would actually be pretty interested in him gaining a voice, but I think Valve have already established it too much now and changing it would be pretty odd (plus there’s still the chance it has some bearing on the storyline anyway).
planetphillip 4th May 2008 at 17:10 16

True, maybe it needs a little over the top drama though.
Memobot 5th May 2008 at 11:34 17

That does sound like a lot of ideas in one though phillip. Valve could make another 6 games with that at the rate of what they’re reavealing in the series so far.
Ol' Scratch 7th May 2008 at 00:16 18

ABSO-F*CKING-LUTELY!!

And, he should have my *Dad’s* voice!!

Why??

‘Cuz… he looks just like him, especially when he had a beard.

And, yeah, it was a cool shock to see my own DAD on a video game… and he’s been dead for 38 years.
Count_de_Monet 7th May 2008 at 17:23 19

It’s not that simple (pardon my french). First, as some already said, WE are GF in the game. I already have a voice. Then, even the ultimate perfect voice will end up totally unbearable in the long run, just because it won’t evolve, until GF gets old, Alzheimerizes and goes muttering about those darn alien southern pansies and such.

On the other hand, it could be a wonderful idea for a theme mod, rather on the spoof side. Modders can do it any style : rapper (say what yo m**f**er?) Duke nukem (eh, eh, I’m good), Clint “Dirty harry” Eastwood (make my day), James Brown (onemoretime, I’ll givit to U, wumph, twotimes , wumph, wumph…). Plenty of those….

Top notch would be that Alyx may also “chirp” in at leisure : Rocky Horror picture (any character, although I’d go for the Master and Magenta : come up to the lab…), Bogey and Bacall (just whistle…) and GWB and Condi (Who is the masked guy in the grey suit? HU, shoot him. Who shoot Who? Yes … I’m telling you, Hu is the name…..)

Say Phillip, why don’t you launch a contest for the best voice mod idea (with samples) ? Then Leon Brinckmann can add a sound track to his gorgeous maps.
Hoyy 8th May 2008 at 23:49 20

For me, I would like to hear him talking. I don’t trust in spoiling, since episode 3 will close the series, might aswell find someone to dub Gordon epically. People generally complain that he is not one of the best heroes, and even a card board has more personality than a character that doesn’t speak a single ****.
Drew 9th May 2008 at 03:02 21

Personally, I like this thought very much: “I suspect that if they ever did it would be a one word finish. The whole series would finish with his utterance.” To me that would be a perfect ending to the series.