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by nailer 5850 days ago
Exactly. And the blog's explanation of beign used for game scripting as a minor feature falls short: can anyone imagine what Half Life would be like without scripted events?
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Imagine Half Life without 3d graphics. Now you see why scripting is a 'minor' feature.
Minor? Those scripted events are easily just as important as the 3d graphics. Without them it's just a fancy screensaver.

    Imagine Half Life without 3d graphics
It'd probably a fair bit like this: http://doom.chaosforge.org/

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