Talk:Wallace Breen

message: Shouldn't this article be moved to an article called "Wallace Breen" so as to keep in line with encyclopedic standards?  This current article could then be a redirect to Wallace Breen.--SOCL 15:21, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names) says to use the most common name a subject is referred to as. I think Mossman calls him Wallace a few times at the end, but it seems to me that he's mostly known as Dr. Breen. Nufy8 16:05, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wallace Breen 

message: Well this is more of a technical question. But when you see Breen on those screens in the game
is he actually transmitting (the live video) from one location?
:Yes. The game does those videos using invisible "rendered camera" entities that can be placed anywhere on the map and used to transmit feeds. If you have Garry's Mod, you'll note that the interface allows spawning of remote camera entities, which are the same ones the game uses. They have no models attached to them, so they appear invisible in-game. They're shown as sprites in the Source map editor. CABAL 11:32, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Just to note, if you put on "noclip" in the first level, you can fly through the map and spot Breen's broadcast room, and you'll even be able to see the small Combine symbol that's over his shoulder on the screen. Also, you can fly to a mini version of Kleiner's lab that you sort of see when he's talking to Barney, and you can fly to the infamous test chamber from Half-Life and an incomplete version of the Combine Citadel that was in the background when the G-Man was speaking. Nufy8 16:20, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

text: Not really. The technology itself has been around for a while. Have you played any of the Serious Sam games and noted that portals could show a live view of their destination area? Nothing new here. CABAL 10:50, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

text: This may not be enough help, but here is the article regarding the entity used on the Valve Developer Community. Better than nothing, eh? --Charron 21:06, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Video Propaganda 

message: There's really only a few more Breencasts.  Request that somebody fill them in for completeness.
:Done. Nufy8 02:26, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  request for more breencasts 

message: Added the cheat that allowed you to kill Breen. JAF1970 18:36, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Killing Dr. Breen

message: Where's the proof that he survived the explosion? I played through Episode One and couldn't find out what happened to him. Knowitall 00:49, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: He survived?

message: Is it possible that the Administrator's name is a parody of the ER character?
Personally, I think it's more likely a reference to Trevor Goodchild, who is the leader of the nation of Bregna...whose citizens are called Breens. Trevor is a doctor/dictator known for long-winded speeches and probably-evil motives. I suppose it could be both though.
--24.46.164.83 18:39, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dr.Breen and Dr.Green and Trevor Goodchild

message: See subject.
Flashn00b 16:33, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should slight resemblances of sean connery be noted? 

message: Dr. Breen is clearly a classic case of Retcon - In Half-Life the only two non-generic characters were Gordon Freeman and the GMan. Every single appearance of the G-Man within HL1 made it clear that he was the "administrator" who was spoken of.
My guess is that as Gordon was now employed by the GMan, they needed a new antagonistic human character to play off of, and it was easier to retcon Breen as the Administrator than to create a totally new character with their own backstory.
:Every single appearance of the G-Man, save one, contains no dialogue. Twice he appears in the pre-disaster phase of the game standing near or arguing with another scientist. At the end of the game he talks about wide-sweeping things. Never even briefly is it even remotely hinted that he is the 'Administrator.' Even if he was intended to be interpreted this way, it is not at all a retcon to create a separate character since it's quite possible to play the entire game and never connect the two characters at all. 74.13.60.110 (talk) 22:31, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Black Mesa Research Facility Administrator 

message: Was the name Breen taken from the name of a leader of Razor 1911? (Razor 1911)(Scroll down to 'Members raided' paragraph 2) 88.104.106.107 11:16, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dr Breen and Mr Breen from Razor 1911 

message: I've only very recently pieced this together, but in the beginning of Half Life, one of the scientists says the administrator went through 'some lengths' to get the sample that ultimately caused the resonance cascade. Later in the game, we see HEV scientists dead, etc.
But later we find out it was actually the Gman who got the sample, and with Breen saying Gordon was open to the 'highest bidder' I'm thinking maybe Breen traded Gordon for the sample after he was unable to get it himself. Does this contradict any known facts? 68.18.154.24 (talk) 16:13, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Some lengths' equals a trade?