Thankfully, the zoomers I know seem very enthusiastic about playing this. One of them loves the old Tomb Raider games and the other plays a lot of old survival horror games with tank controls, so they probably don't represent most zoomers.
That's not the problem. The problem is apparently the Steam version of HL has some sort of updates that some mods need (I believe I first ran into this trying to play Afraid of Monsters) or they will just glitch like crazy.
The only reason HL has been getting anniversary updates is because the old guard at Valve are super nostalgic for it, and that it's so core to the company's history and identity. Don't get your hopes up they could've done a 64-bit update during The Last Stand update and they didn't.
The fact that you still see green and animals around means that the combine hasn't nuked the planet/extrated all the water
I can only dream. I have a beefy ass desktop with a fantastic CPU and it should not cause L4D2 to have an aneurysm and crash because of "index buffers" because the game is limited to 4gb of memory. And this shit has been in the game for more than 10+ years with many mods coming out everyday.
By the whole "99999..." the announcer says its not clear, some say its 50 years from Portal 1 which happened either during/after the Combine invasion or near HL2, so its under half a century after Gordon returns. If we're going with the long route the announcer during the intro says you been sleeping for "9999999", 9,999,999 days is approximately 27,397 years and 3 months. I know Portal is a joke game and the "science" its just for show but that number its ludicrous, the pyramids are only a little over 4000 years old, built of solid stone and even those are falling apart. The aperture labs wouldn't not last even half a millennium, so I'm going with hundreds of years if not even less. I think they went with the 999... thing as a joke to show that a lot of time has passed but that the relaxation system is breaking down and can't keep track anymore.
Could also be that the portal team got lazy and just used a random Earth photo during the moon scene, some of the other assets there also look rushed and of low detail.
In "The Final Hours of Portal 2" one of the writers (Wolpaw) is quoted in the 8th chapter saying "One way to further differentiate Portal and Half-Life was to set the game far into the future", "at least 50,000 years".
Im talking about when chell gets kicked from aperture and the existance of the bird fucking with glados is proof that earth still has some life even before the coop bots find the humans
Portal takes place during Half Life 1 and 2. Aperture Science makes the portal gun before Half Life 1. That same technology is used by Black Mesa to open the portal to Xen. The Combine then invade Earth. Portal the game happens right after the invasion. Then Alyx happens. Portal 2 is then a whopping 50,000 years later where Earth still has vegetation, wildlife, and power. Indicating that the Combine seem to have left Earth entirely or were defeated.
I grew up with RTCW and Battlefield 1942 despite being a zoomer. Even bought orange box with my pocket money more than a decade ago.
That's taking a broken clock in then-dilapidated Aperture literally, and maybe one or two off hand dev comments. Really, they just wanted to distance themselves from having to tie it in with Half Life as was essentially implied in Portal 1 in more than one place. I don't believe how long it's actually been post sleep is ever really addressed, just that it's been long enough that it's irrelevant to the plot of HL.
