Gordon Freemans age?

[ThunderRust]

In Half Life 1, he was 27. Half Life 2 takes place 20 years later. Gordon Freeman is awfully agile and limber for a 47 year old. I know Gman put him in stasis, but no one in half life 2 seems shocked that he has not aged, if he hasnt, or the fact he showed up after 20 years out of nowhere. Any thoughts?

[TheBloodyViking]

They maybe ignore it becuz of something G-man did to them :P

[chibilibi]

Some people are shocked that he hasn't aged. Eli says "My god, you haven't changed one iota. How did you do it?" Some are also shocked that Gordon just shows up. In the beginning when you first meet Barney and then video-chat with Dr. Kleiner, he says "Gordon Freeman!? I... expected more warning." When you meet Kleiner at his lab, he says "it really is you, isn't it?"

They just assumed he was somewhere out in the world or possibly dead.

[Fenny]

Originally posted by ThunderRust:

I know Gman put him in stasis, but no one in half life 2 seems shocked that he has not aged, if he hasnt, or the fact he showed up after 20 years out of nowhere. Any thoughts?

How many times have you completed the game? lol

[ThunderRust]

Originally posted by Monst-E-r:

Originally posted by ThunderRust:

I know Gman put him in stasis, but no one in half life 2 seems shocked that he has not aged, if he hasnt, or the fact he showed up after 20 years out of nowhere. Any thoughts?

How many times have you completed the game? lol

A lot, actually, but it has been a while since I played it. I forgot that Ellie said He hasnt changed at all. Which heavily implies he has been in stasis and has not technically aged.

[Ryconn]

Gman put gorden is some sort of stasis or just used time travel either are likly considering his immesnce power although I do question his methods considering his strength why not just do the jobs himself he seems to be able to screw things up alot with a flick of his wrist

[ラウル]

27

[ShadowHunter]

Suspension of disbelief is well in order for something like this. I can easily believe that the effects of being put into stasis by the G-man would result in a byproduct such as the complete halt of biological decay. I still like to toy with the idea that the G-man is somehow involved with Aperture (total conjecture on my part) Maybe they have some top secret cryogenic lab somewhere with thousands upon thousands of frozen Gorden Freeman's lol

[Grimace.]

Half life 3= Gordon Freeman must take on and destory the evil combine from his nursing home, He has new weapons like the walking cane and vehicles like the automatic wheelchair
Coming soon

[svartmes]

Maybe this is shocking to you youngsters but being agile and limber at 47 really isnt that thoughtprovoking. Tom Cruise is 52 and still making actionfilms to give but one example.

[Ryconn]

Originally posted by svartmes:

Maybe this is shocking to you youngsters but being agile and limber at 47 really isnt that thoughtprovoking. Tom Cruise is 52 and still making actionfilms to give but one example.

it is not his pyhsical ability but the fact his apperance has not aged at all acording to Eli I dobut Gman thought "this mercenary is looking old I need botox HEY SLAVE GET OVER AND MAKE THIS MAN LOOK YOUNG!"

[RadicalElation]

G-Man put him in stasis.

In the original webpage for Half-Life 2: Ep. 1, the story summary it said, "The G-Man, as he's come to be called, seals Gordon in stasis far from Earth, thought, and time itself."

You can view it through a cached version of the page, as the page itself is no longer up: http://web.archive.org/web/20130706191051/http://ep1.half-life2.com/story.php

[Mike Morkleson]

It's a game about aliens... and you're wondering why he didn't age?
Even if he wasn't put into an extra-terrestial stasis by G-Man, it's a video game. Physics don't apply.

[will]

Based on evidence confirmed from Valve I know that Gordon doesn't look that old 47 years after HL2 episode 2

[DirectorFaden]

I know this thread is old, but I began thinking about this today, as Black Mesa Source - Xen is right around the corner. So I just went through and started playing all the HL games, Half-Life, Uplink, Decay, Opposing Force, Blueshift, Half-Life 2 and it's episodes.

This lead me to a theory...

I was paying attention to every minute detail that I could. In Blueshift, Rosenberg mentions that Calhoun was gone for some time at one point, though as the player; it seemed you were only gone for a few minutes at most.

Later on, in Half-Life 2, after teleporting out of Nova Prospekt, Dr. Kliener mentions that teleportation is capable of something called "slow teleport", which while instant for the subject being teleported, can range in time for everyone else.

Thus it is more likely that when the G-Man opened the portal in the inter-dimensional tram, it was most definitely a teleportation portal that was a slow teleport, suspending Gordon's atoms in space, until such time as the G-Man had need of him again, and brought him out of teleportation "limbo." This would assume that the G-Man has control over the fabric of space and time, or that he sent Gordon via slow-teleport to a predetermined moment; that either he knew was destined to be important, or that his "employers" had already planned upon.

[Grimace.]

Originally posted by SHODAN:

I know this thread is old, but I began thinking about this today, as Black Mesa Source - Xen is right around the corner. So I just went through and started playing all the HL games, Half-Life, Uplink, Decay, Opposing Force, Blueshift, Half-Life 2 and it's episodes.

This lead me to a theory...

I was paying attention to every minute detail that I could. In Blueshift, Rosenberg mentions that Calhoun was gone for some time at one point, though as the player; it seemed you were only gone for a few minutes at most.

Later on, in Half-Life 2, after teleporting out of Nova Prospekt, Dr. Kliener mentions that teleportation is capable of something called "slow teleport", which while instant for the subject being teleported, can range in time for everyone else.

Thus it is more likely that when the G-Man opened the portal in the inter-dimensional tram, it was most definitely a teleportation portal that was a slow teleport, suspending Gordon's atoms in space, until such time as the G-Man had need of him again, and brought him out of teleportation "limbo." This would assume that the G-Man has control over the fabric of space and time, or that he sent Gordon via slow-teleport to a predetermined moment; that either he knew was destined to be important, or that his "employers" had already planned upon.

lol nerd