We only have half life 1, which has been ported to pretty much everything with xash3d engine. Anything source engine based (hl2, hl2ep1, hl2ep2) isn't. There's an official half life 2 andoird release for tegra devices but android 10 update on switch broke it.
Okay, one, no they aren't, gmod is just a mod of the source engine, and secondly, hooooooooly shit, no, it is not at all that simple, to get the games working properly from the Portal 1 branch of the Source engine (assuming that's what they're using and not either Source 2, or a later Source 1 variant) it's gonna take a lot more work than just casually dropping files in.
Yeah, Portal uses a modded special version of the engine to make the portals work. Also, you're thinking of the Xash port, which only supports GoldSrc games, such as the first HλLF-LIFE game. HL2 uses the Source engine, not GoldSrc/Xash.
Those ports were made for Android, which was what those Shield tablets ran on. The Switch doesn't natively run android, (it KINDA does but come on, not really) and even with the switch port of AOSP, it probably won't run those specific ports well even with a bit of work. I'd say VALVe would probs just use this Source engine port to the switch as a base for other ports of Source games, like HL2 or even TF2!
unless they really fucked it up most half life games, gmod, and portal 1 (among other games) use Source 2013 aka steampipe. the issue is portal 2 that has a separate branch
I assume so because you can literally drag and drop files from portal 1 into half life 2 for a fully working portal gun normally. unless they changed the portal 2 source engine
Actually there are multiple branches iirc. hl2/hl2ep1/hl2ep2/portal and css use source 2013 branch, portal 2 has its own branch, l4d/l4d2 have their own branch and csgo has its own branch. Half life alex and dota 2 use source 2.
I'd take a L4D collection over anything else
Imagine not liking Portal
