Talk:Barney Calhoun

message: How do you know which security guard is Barney in Half-Life?  Does it ever say?
its a generic model but if you have played blue shift you would know witch one he is and were he goes. but to be simple he is the one knoking on the door at the beginging of the tram ride Chardrc 03:20, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Which also means Gordon doesn't actually meet Barney at any time in the game. Plus, Calhoun should not have his vest and helmet during the tram ride.... -- Jordi·✆ 11:47, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Barney is the one knocking on the door, you pass him in the tram ride at the beginning of the game. 86.16.172.249 (talk) 12:37, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: How do you know?

message: I just replaced the old picture of all of Barney's incarnations in this article with a higher quality and (hopefully) better looking one. However, I'm mentioning this here because I decided not to include Barney's variation from Episode One. I left that one out because Barney looks essentially the same as he does in Half-Life 2 except he appears a little more beaten and battered than before. Basically, he looks dirtier and he has a cut on his forehead. I don't think it's necessary to illustrate this in a picture as a description of the differences (Which is already included) is more than enough for the reader. MarphyBlack 23:23, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've noticed that Barney's face is very different in HL2: Episode One, as if they used a different actor to model the face (as every other model's face is the same as it was in Half-Life 2). Should be something to look into. --TonicBH 23:33, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's definitely the same guy (Scott Lynch, the COO of Valve); in Episode One they just edited his face texture to make him look dirtier. Comparison picture here: http://www.nextdimension.org/other/barneyface.jpg MarphyBlack 00:14, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Amazing how dirtying up a face can drastically change it. My mistake, then. --TonicBH 00:45, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well, that just scared the crap out of me.... 24.196.115.179 03:32, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Images of Barney

message: In Superman volume 4 there's a throwaway villain named Barney Calhoun. He attempts to kill Superman by poisoning him, but when it doesn't work confesses that he was hired by J.F. Curtis. Superman takes him to Curtis; Curtis kills Barney as a threat to Superman.
It's probably a coincidence that they have the same name, though..
--Fry-kun 08:32, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Homage to Superman comic? 

message: I didn't know where else to ask this, so I'll ask it here: Does anyone know who the voice actor for Otis is? I ask because I've been playing through Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines (great game, btw) and there's a fat, ineffectual security guard named Chunk who I swear to God sounds exactly like Otis. 72.49.117.53 22:36, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Although I don't have any official verification, I believe that the voice for Otis is in fact the same actor who plays Barney: Michael Shapiro. Aside from sounding quite similar (And it would make sense for them to be both voiced by the same guy since Otis is a bit of a parody of Barney), Otis uses the same pain and death sounds as Barney. If the developers had gotten a new voice actor to play Otis, I would imagine they would have taken the time to record a few new unique pain and death sounds considering the great number of other lines that were needed. However, since they didn't, I believe that this means that both were voiced by Michael Shapiro since there was no need to record new pain and death sounds for Otis. MarphyBlack 07:52, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Otis 

message: Is it worthwhile to add a small section on Barney's behavior in HL:S? The only real difference is that he fires a lot faster, like the pistol's secondary fire with the accuracy of the primary fire. I did a test where I fought a Barney at full health (I had full health and 30 armor) and the Barney won. I realize that this qualifies as original research, but his fire speed is undoubtedly faster, to the point where he can take out three or more HECU marines (specifically, when you meet the Barney in the beginning of Questionable Ethics, he took out all of the marines in the main lobby area where the HEV charger and retinal scanner that allows access to Surface Tension are).
68.44.212.188 22:52, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: While I can confirm this odd behavior, I think this is more of an issue related to the Half-Life: Source article rather than Barney's, mainly due to the fact that this was most likely an unintentional change (Probably a bug) brought about by the poor conversion to the Source engine rather than a change made specifically to Barney to make him stronger in battle. This ultra-fast shooting behavior actually was mentioned in the HL:S article for a while, but it was removed because it was OR. MarphyBlack 23:16, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Half-Life: Source 

message: Why is there not mentiond that in Half-life 2, Barney thinks he is haunted by a 'cat'? Can some one plz add this to the article? inAbag
:Pretty sure the cat stuff refers to Lamarr.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.40.178.169 (talk) 03:03, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cat? 

message: The voice clip is used. Though it is a little difficult to notice unless you have subtitles. The following link being my evidence. Posted by me on YouTube. 
Mitcjase (talk) 05:06, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Concerning the apparent "unused" voice clip in EP2 

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