Fullofkittens wrote:

There were some sequences in NOLF 1 (and 2, less noticeably) that were either scripted or unscripted, and I think that's the sweet spot that developers should be aiming for. For instance, you bust into a room and start shooting... if a bad guy is close enough to a table, he'll flip up the table and hide behind it, peeking out occasionally to shoot. if he's nowhere near a table, he'll shoot once and then run away and find someplace else to hide. Is that a scripted event? Yeah, probably, but it doesn't matter because the enemy behavior was logical and it changes depending on the situation. At that point, it's really a matter of "which route is easier for the developers and will get the game on the shelf sooner?" because if you can honestly believe that the bad guys are reacting to the current situation, then the question of whether it's a script or AI is pretty pointless.

Which, reading back, is exactly what you said. I think.

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