Why is Gordon Freeman seen as a hero of the resistance to the point he and his suit are the literal symbols of the...

>Gordon was designed to be a blank slate character in HL2
HL1 I meant

To promote the player as a Hero in a major commercial release. In retrospect I think Half-Life 2 lays it on a bit thick at times and it really takes me out of the experience sometimes, especially all of Alyx as a character, who's a glorified e-girlfirend for sad sack nerds.

Because he destroyed Nova Prospekt

He's not a hero to the resistance before then. During Route Kanal, none of the fleeing citizens know who he is unless told about him by Alyx or Eli, the latter of whom does know Gordon from the Black Mesa Incident.

then why was the lambda symbol fuckin everywhere and why did everyone say "oh shit its gordon freeman" starting the minute you escape the main part of the city

>no one saw what he did
There are canonic survivors of Black Mesa that personally knew Gordon and knew what he had done. Not to mention Vortigaunts also told of his deeds.

Xen done right
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>why was the lambda symbol fuckin everywhere
the resistance used it as a calling card in reference to black mesa (because the rebel leadership is literally entirely from black mesa)
>why did everyone say "oh shit its gordon freeman" starting the minute you escape the main part of the city
the only people who say this are told to expect and assist you ahead of time, they outright tell you they knew you were coming because eli or alyx called them

because they are working to get you to the lab at the start, they are told about you. Also the Lambda is probably just a game thing for the players with no real lore shit.

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not a single thing you typed is true.

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>I havent played the game
yeah we can well

The lambda symbol is not Gordon Freeman's personal symbol. Did you even play the Half-Life games?

as far as I remember it was a complete fluke:
>Eli remembers his achievements in Black Mesa
>Asks for him to be teleported to BM
>Teleporter fucks up
>small segway: no one knows WTF Gordon is at this point, he's a nobody on the streets.
>Gordon forced to evacuate through refugee route.
>Combine forces realize it, crack down HARD on it
>Gordon fights increasingly stronger combine forces
>BTFO them
>finally arrives to BM
>singlehandedly survives Ravenholm (legendary hellscape no one survived before)
>Arrives to city17 just as resistance forces make the final push
>People realize the guy is fucking hardcore
>His legend spreads
>This guy has literally singlehandedly defeated whole armies
>When he finally meets the resistance, everyone knows him and worships him
This could be better explained in the game, but it makes complete sense that by the end everyone knows who you are and worships you.

>when no one ever saw what he did in Germany and Austria

imagine your brain being this cucked by Yas Forumstards

there are like 5 survivors of black mesa and NONE of them knew what he did, the last time kleiner/eli/barney saw him was right before or right after the resonance cascade and all three of them are shocked that gordon's even alive, and we never even see magnusson in HL1

breen presumably didnt give a shit about gordon until he started messing with shit in hl2

The suit had a GPS and other scientists were tracking Gordon through the complex, they mention this and state that the others are rooting for him in the first game.

>Also the Lambda is probably just a game thing for the players with no real lore shit.
In Half-Life, one of the sectors of Black Mesa, the one where most of the teleportation research teams are, is called Lambda.

Vortigaunts know what Freeman did, and they are close with Eli. Eli also knows about Gman.

Breen also knows about Gman. He freaked and reported it to his Advisors as soon as he saw Freeman during the teleportation errors because he knew what Freeman's appearance meant.

dont bother with the tripfag
he shills valve, black mesa and the so called sequel to half life every second

I guess it's supposed to be that Breen knew him, and once Freeman woke up and did some shit, Breen set his guys searching for him, and people started worshipping this guy just because he was big enough to be hated by Breen.
HL2 still has a dumb story.

except all those survivors are literally the leaders of the movement and witness the guy BTFO nova prospekt, Ravenholm and the entire Combine forces on his way to BM.

Once he arrives back at the city, everyone OF COURSE knows who he is since all these achievements are fucking huge. Moreso for a single person.

>He freaked and reported it to his Advisors as soon as he saw Freeman during the teleportation errors because he knew what Freeman's appearance meant.

i'd freak out and report to advisors too if a fucking dude just teleported into my office out of nowhere

nooooooo you are supposed to only enjoy hl1.

Anyone else wonder what happened to Rosenberg, Simmons, and Walter from Blue Shift?

you forgot to use your trip, nigger

The vorts have a hivemind and all knew that Gordon freed them, also a handful of scientests did survive and would of known what he did due to the tracking built into his suit. He is not noticed in the beginning of the game by the average person as they know the name but not what he looks like. The C17 population starts to learn of him as the city starts to go on lockdown and rumors spread of someone the combine/breen are looking for. Once he returns to C17 everyone knows as Gordon has been blowing up combine shit all over the countryside and broke out of Nova Prospekt.

They totally should have been the scientists you met in HL2. Like who is this Kleiner guy?

HL1
>Dude BTFO Xen forces and HECU forces in HL1. Everyone knows he did this through GPS. some of the survivors owe their life to Gordon's slaying of the Nihilanth.
HL2
>Dude BTFO combine on his own through refugee route that was previously BTFO by combine and turned into headcrab zombies
>Dude BTFO everyone in Ravenholm and rejoins the resistance.
>Dude BTFO Nova Prospect. Equivalent to some sandnigger BTFO Pentagon on his own.

Is it really a surprise that once everyone realizes he's pretty much Rambo they cheer him on?

ITT: I haven't actually played any of the games but this lore doesn't make sense to me