How many humans are alive when Gordon shows up?

[Justduh]

Humanity has been through a lot in this game. There was the portalstorms and all of the Xen creatures teleporting to Earth, then there was the Seven Hour War, which may have killed hundreds of millions or even billions of humans. Then the Combine took over Earth and did their thing for the next two decades, constantly killing people the entire time and preventing anyone from being born, making the world population only go down.

How many humans are left when Gordon shows up? There can't be many.

[coolman552]

there isnt a exact number but my guess is a couple million only, maybe less

[Ghidrah1]

Don't forget they've been stripping the planet of all resources. To date, the hl2 series and mods (that I've played) don't show the mechanism, but does show the results of stripping the planet of its water source, oceans rivers etc.

This single action provides the overheating and desertification of the planet, note that HL2 takes place between the 45 and 55° Lat., looking much like the mid Lats at 30°

[Witch]

I wondered about this, too

[gaming56798]

at lest two.

[AustrAlien2010]

He doesn't show up. He is relocated.

[Cat]

Probably the ones Gordon meets in HL2 are the remaining humans in that country.

[AustrAlien2010]

I think the whole idea is, that you should not know anything, if you play this, so it doesn't spoil it. You should have no recollection or idea of identity of anything. Giving you any sort of story is spoiling it. You're just there, you're being 'relocated', (whatever that is,) and you have no idea what's going on. That's the best way to play. In my opinion.

Otherwise, its like going to a movie, and knowing what the movie is about. Where is the exploration in that? The best thing is, if you don't know anything. As in, absolutely nothing. Not even what the movie is about, who you are, or what kind of movie it is, or how long the movie will be, or if the movie will even end, or what you should think, or what your opinion should be about that. Otherwise it becomes predetermined. But its not a movie now, is it? Because you can quit, anytime you want.

Who's is Gordon anyway?

[Ghidrah1]

I played it this way, Gordon has a job, his objective is to get from point A to B ASAP to complete it and then move on to the next objective. I didn't mess around poking into everything so as to minimize time, ammo use and personal damage.

[coolman552]

Originally posted by Ghidrah1:

I played it this way, Gordon has a job, his objective is to get from point A to B ASAP to complete it and then move on to the next objective. I didn't mess around poking into everything so as to minimize time, ammo use and personal damage.

damn man sorry for your loss but science is advancing rapidly so maybe in the future scientists can find a cure for autism

[POLICEMASTER]

i would guess maybe a billion to 500 million globally