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- DanteDefiance, on 05/23/2008, -74/+299I'm going to be terribly buried for this but, ***** 90 minute cut scenes. I love MGS with passion, however I'm not about to sit through 90 minutes of a video game and not play it. I buy video games to enjoy the game play. If I want to watch a movie, I'll watch a movie. Granted MGS is probably the only game where I don't mind watching the story unfold...still this is ridiculous. As a gamer I'm going to have to pass on this for now.
- Primatelord, on 05/23/2008, -25/+223I'm going to go out on a limb here, but if there are basically a couple cutscenes the length of a feature film, it might explain why they had trouble fitting everything into a Blu-Ray disc....
- jacksons98, on 05/23/2008, -4/+188Looks like it might be exaggerated by CVG.
http://www.gamepro.com/news.cfm?article_id=187049
"I've beat the game twice, and am the author of the forthcoming [GamePro] review," Shuman said. "Ninety-minute-long cinemas in MGS4 sounds like an exaggeration. Like the other MGS games, MGS4 definitely has a cinematic quality. And yes, some of the cut-scenes in the game are elaborate and occasionally lengthy. But not a one, to my recollection, even approaches 90 minutes.
"I think it's safe to say that the '90 minutes cinemas' claim is a pretty big exaggeration," he told GamePro News. - hokeywebb22, on 05/23/2008, -10/+183PROTIP: "If you have to pause a cut scene it's too long"
- taosd, on 05/23/2008, -5/+98Actually, the cut-scenes are rendered by the in game engine, not video clips... so, they shouldn't have that significant of an impact on the size of the game. It's the audio that is a filthy whore in this, as all that talking will take up space, but as far as the animation goes, they should just have to render the scenario with the in-game character models.
Though, you didn't say it was specifically because of video that the game would be huge, I just assumed as much, so if that's not the case and my assumption is wrong, I apologize. - OnlyGirlOnDigg, on 05/23/2008, -5/+97Isn't the main difference between a video game and a movie interactivity?
- g00ee, on 05/23/2008, -3/+74dugg for calling the audio a "filthy whore"
- mywhitenoise, on 05/23/2008, -1/+67You couldn't pause cut scenes in the last 3 MGS games.
- Fedallah, on 05/23/2008, -66/+129Yay! 180+ minutes of worthless directing and stilted dialogue! Thanks for saving me sixty bucks, Kojima. Maybe you'll be able to cram your entire ego on the next optical storage format.
- mywhitenoise, on 05/23/2008, -3/+65I thought MGS2 was ridiculous with it's 3 minute gameplay, 15 minute cutscene pattern. Hopefully the 90 minute scene is just the ending.
- Frybread, on 05/23/2008, -14/+73And to think of all the people who called Wii Fit a non-game.
- santasing, on 05/23/2008, -16/+66I am so excited for this game now. For me, the story is the most important part and this shows that a lot of care has been given to the story in this game.
- osrevad, on 05/23/2008, -0/+40With that many cutscenes that long, I just hope they give a fair bathroom break warning beforehand.
- TVarmy, on 05/23/2008, -3/+42Perhaps they could start having the CPU render voice? I mean, between Alex in OSX Leopard and Microsoft Sam, I think we could have a decent cast of voice actors.
SNAKE, MY ROFLCOPTER GOES SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI - Callik, on 05/23/2008, -13/+52Q. Buy MSG4 or see a movie?
A. Buy MSG4 and do both. - Vash3001, on 05/23/2008, -1/+31Xenosaga 1 had a save point during one of its cutscenes.
- Typhoon2009, on 05/23/2008, -3/+32You could have Wikipedia articles for those cut scenes.
- OddManRush, on 05/23/2008, -6/+35This is the reason why I stopped playing Metal Gear Solid at #2. I like to play my games, not watch them. I don't want to watch my character do awesome stunts/dodges/dives/etc. and then not be able to do ANY of those things in the game engine itself.
- BesideYouInTime, on 05/23/2008, -10/+39I want to play a game, not watch it.
- sparksalot, on 05/23/2008, -5/+31dugg because you are sane and understand how it works :)
- mywhitenoise, on 05/23/2008, -3/+27What the *****, why did that URL get posted? *****.
Here's the link I meant to post http://www.gamepro.com/news.cfm?article_id=187049 - GreatOne08, on 05/23/2008, -10/+32If you don't like it don't buy it
- Dumbledorito, on 05/23/2008, -10/+30What gets me is how nonsensical the cutscenes are. Most will probably go like:
"Solid Snake. At last, we are together. We share the death and the pain of this place."
"Shut up. I grow tired of this melancholy. Bring what you've got and be done with it."
"But the battlefield is as holy as a dove in the shrine of the sky, don't you think? Show some respect."
"Respect. Respect is what a cliff-monkey has for the panda bear."
"I sense your soul is weeping tears of creme brulee."
"There is no creme brulee on the battlefield; only tempurpedic foam."
"Surely your inner umbrella is covered in shoepolish."
"Cumquat killdozer doki-doki."
"Banana-banana-banana."
"So be it."
*pointless fight that the game doesn't let you play* - inactive, on 05/24/2008, -4/+22Don't care, every MGS cut scene so far has been pure gold.
- inactive, on 05/24/2008, -1/+17Whats Metal Solid Gear 4? Some sort of chinese knockoff?
- ferrariman60, on 05/23/2008, -2/+17Played Bioshock? Mass Effect? GTA? There's hope for story in video games!! Thankfully.
- friend18, on 05/23/2008, -3/+18I don't care as long as you can pause. I wish more games allowed you to pause during cut scenes. So annoying.
- punkcat, on 05/23/2008, -0/+15they said "several" 90 min scenes, which is scary.
a 90 min one at the end? awesome though. its the ones you get to when you just feeling like playing that are going to suck. hopefully there is a gallery where yo can go back to the scenes after skipping. - SemiSarcastic, on 05/23/2008, -3/+18Well I'm totally hardcore like that. I play MGS2 on one TV and MGS3 on another and have cutscenes from both running at once! With both running I get like four plot twists every five minutes. CAN YOU HANDLE THAT *****!? I DON'T ***** THINK SO!!11!!1!!11!
- joeyjoejoe99, on 05/23/2008, -6/+20Yes, we will.
- ferrariman60, on 05/23/2008, -5/+19Yeah, there will never be an optical format that can store his ego. And i LOL at the thought of watching multiple 90 minute cutscenes that are initially Japanese. They can do the best job in the world at translating it to English, but it will still end up being awkward and invariably funny as a result.
- MrTulip, on 05/23/2008, -1/+14i love you
- djdingo, on 05/23/2008, -3/+16I agree with you, I just recently played and completed MGS2 for the first time last week. There were times where it seemed like there was more cutscenes than gameplay. It got old quickly.
The part I especially hated was the plant section when you would save the game and that girl would whine and whine to you, "still don't remember what April 30th is?" No bitch, shut up and let me get back to PLAYING the game. - punkcat, on 05/23/2008, -1/+13it's his old?
- EdgarVerona, on 05/24/2008, -0/+12The Protip still applies.
- Renian, on 05/23/2008, -3/+15Xenosaga Solid 4?
...I'd say Xenogears, but it didn't have 90 minute cutscenes. - Hetman, on 05/23/2008, -5/+17This is just a rumor. And I am glad. If I had to sit through a 90 minute cut scene I would lose my mind and never play the game again. A game has to have some type of flow to it. You cannot just stop the gameplay for 90 minutes. That would be so silly.
- inactive, on 05/23/2008, -9/+21***** seriously!?
I can't agree with you more
I wish there were more people like you in the gaming industry, people who actually GIVE A ***** about the storyline, one of the most important factors in games like this - jett, on 05/24/2008, -12/+24and this is the other reason why MGS4 can't be ported to the Xbox 360. Users will get the RROD before the cutscene is done.
- pixelate, on 05/23/2008, -1/+12@ Zarokima:
Apparently you didn't read past a paragraph of it! - macfan93, on 05/23/2008, -19/+30All xbox fanboys looking for a way to diss the ps3 just came in there pants
- Synn, on 05/23/2008, -1/+12A 90 minute cutscene doesn't advance games...you want to know why? Because there is no GAMEPLAY to watching a cutscene. So you can get off your high horse.
- inactive, on 05/23/2008, -26/+37So how many people does this ruin the game for?
+1 - endlessoul, on 05/23/2008, -1/+11[Citation Needed]
- Jason540i, on 05/23/2008, -4/+14It's not about a deep or developing story, its about PLAYING the game. I buy games to interact with them. If I want watch the story unfold I'll watch a movie. If I want to experience the story unfold then I'll play a good game.
- mnemy, on 05/23/2008, -1/+11I'll admit that at times, I got annoyed with how much the jabbered on in MSG2, but I still thought it was a great game. 90 minutes seems entirely too long for me, but hell, I'll give it a shot. The game looks fantastic.
- Dumbledorito, on 05/23/2008, -1/+11If you think Metal Gear is one of the greatest stories of our decade, you need to get out more. Like, out of 5th grade.
I'm not faulting your taste, but a "story" that has clones, more secret relations between characters than would be put in by an autistic Charles Dickens, and deus ex ninjas out of nowhere is as to great literature as "Starship Troopers" is to the cinematic arts. - mlrigsby, on 05/23/2008, -9/+18Movies usually have better writing, acting, directing, and editing too.
This is gross. - punkcat, on 05/23/2008, -1/+10tell that to uwe.
- fadetoone, on 05/23/2008, -3/+12I just hope they ask me to save right before the cut-scenes. What happens if I'm in the middle of a long cut-scene when I realize I have to leave and not turn it back on for a week?
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