I think that Shephard is the best as he has definitely done more than Barney, seen more unique things compared to Gordon, and is just an overall badass

I'll agree on Shephard. He's got the better guns, fought the tougher aliens, has more and better allies, obviously cooler looking, and who in the world would choose Barney

IKR

Well this question is heavily opinionated considering that Gordon Freeman is the main character of the serie, he has technically done more than any other character in the HL universe.

But as far for me I have a soft spot for Barney Calhoun considering that he has managed to escape from Hell without being someone special to the G-man's eye, also he saved Freeman from being brought in Nova Prospekt at the beggining of HL²

Shephard was always my favorite, brute survival instinct in action

Shephard is single handedly the most badass out of the three.

to answer ur question-

shephard is a marine (has weapons training,survival instincts etc)

barney {security guard, my guess training would be minimal)

gorden (his just a scientist? so no weapons training)

in real life shephard would be better than both..

For the sheer sense of adventure and discovery in the story it has to be Freeman - saw loads of the Black Mesa complex, but closely followed by Shepherd - I liked how he got to see new bits of the complex too. Barney was a good character but didn't get to play with any unique weapons and similarly didn't reveal too much more of Black Mesa. Of course, the most bad-ass is the "G-Man" - able to walk through all of the chaos (which he might have orchestrated in the first place) armed with nothing more than a sharp suit and a briefcase!

People forgot about Colette Green and Jina Grey...

Originally posted by Ikagura:

People forgot about Colette Green and Jina Grey...

To be fair, Valve never exactly gave them a chance to have a spotlight like the others seeing as how the only way to play it now is through a mod... which nobody knows of... or cares to know about... Oh well!

Originally posted by Lord Ord:

Originally posted by Ikagura:

People forgot about Colette Green and Jina Grey...

To be fair, Valve never exactly gave them a chance to have a spotlight like the others seeing as how the only way to play it now is through a mod... which nobody knows of... or cares to know about... Oh well!

Blue Shift was also meant to be exclusive to the console release (on the cancelled Dreamcast version).

Now that Decay is exclusive to the PS2 version I can see why it didn't get any spotlight (heck there is still an official PC version floating around Valve's archive)

Originally posted by adz:

to answer ur question-

shephard is a marine (has weapons training,survival instincts etc)

barney {security guard, my guess training would be minimal)

gorden (his just a scientist? so no weapons training)

in real life shephard would be better than both..

I like that you went into the realistic aspects, and I have to agree, but I also think that Gordon has the suit to help him aim and all that as a scientist cannot just grab guns, he needs training and scientists don't have guns

Well Freeman might not have any training in fire arms handling but he cheats by calculating bullet impact locations in real time based on what caliber his weapon is firing and what his barrel is aimed at ;)

Originally posted by Karl Perkins:

Well Freeman might not have any training in fire arms handling but he cheats by calculating bullet impact locations in real time based on what caliber his weapon is firing and what his barrel is aimed at ;)

But being honest, that would be hard, even for someone who has their PhD because guns are not the easiest thing in the world to use so, you have that!

Gina Cross

and Gordon does have weapons training.