But Gordon? LOL, he smashes crates with a crowbar and scampers around like a mouse in a maze. He's a wuss! The only reason he survives is because the aliens are retards who can't seem to kill one guy!
True. But haven't you played telephone? Things get distorted, especially over seven years.
Just talk to the vortigaunts. All they do is talk about the coming of the "free man" and how the "free man" slaughtered so many of them but saved the entire race.
Whether Gordon deserves it is debatable. Whether he's achieved it isn't. The first game makes it clear that Gordon is a folk hero to these people. So you can sit there bitching about how he shouldn't be all you want, but the simple fact is that he has become one already in the world of that game.
Stop letting your own prejudices about the game cloud the facts the game has laid out. And it makes sense. People like to cling to heros. Gordon was the closest thing they could find to one. The entire Earth failed to stop the Combine. But Gordon singlehandedly beat thousands. They use him for hope. It's happened thousands of times in history.
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