MGS4 has '90 minute' cut-scenes

[Vyvrtka]

[d574xm]

Frequency and length of cutscenes ruined MGS2. How did it get such high scores? The game taunts you with the promise of an interesting story and finishes with a terrible ending.

MGS4 sounds like a chore already.

[Dark_Prophet]

That's insane!
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[Retro_Teatro]

Sounds like an interesting idea - I never was one for the MGS series but would like to play a bit of this, see how the game and "the movie" mix. Could be fun/intersting.
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[berelain]

ugh, 90 minutes? thats pretty crazy. I mean, dont get me wrong, I love cutscenes, but Lost Odyssey was pushing it with the last part of disc 3, where in about 2 hours of game there was about 15 minutes of play. But at least it gave you save points inbetween them.

I just find the concept of having a 90 minute long pretty ill-conceived, especially when, if its the same as with the earlier entries in the series, you have very little warning when one's going to kick in.

I mean, seriously. What if you get a power cut? A friend comes round? Need to go out? At least you can pause the damn things, but still.
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[The_Johnson]

What the hell?

90 minutes? That's insane.

In fact, it seems insane that MGS2 had a 45 minute cut scene. I've not played a MGS before because this is the first Playstation I've owned but....as important as this game is, if, to get the story, I have to watch cut scenes that approach the 1 and a half hour-mark, then there is no way I'm getting this.

I'm all for story - but, if to get the story i have to sit through more than one feature length film, then, well, there is no chance.
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[JAKEevans]

what about the gameplay being 20 hours long eh? funny how they forget that part so fanboys can bitch and moan and say metal gear solid is shit because it has loads of cutscenes(i like em). Its not like this game is gona be 90 min cutscene all at once though is it? IF you dont like the sound of this.....then dont buy it then. Anyway This game is gona be awsome. I cant wait for this and then when im done, bring on gears of war 2.
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[willbrowne81]

There was only ever 2 god father films...the Third is terrible.

I personally find a cut scene of more than 10mins abit long. surely they could tell they story though gameplay. But thats just a stupid Idea

[ted1138]

Well, they do have one of those BD thingies to fill.

[leefear1]

[pishers]

i know its kind of what mgs games are about but couldnt they deliver the story in a different way? i mean hl and hl2 lets you play through the story with no cutscenes but this is probably at the other end of the scale from mgs.

[DAEDALUS79]

90 minutes is my average play time in one go, it will take me forever to finish the game, especially as im not buying it at launch.
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[JohnWalker]

Personally in a game i don't beleive there's ever the need for a cut-scene that long, i've played thousands of games that have managed to convey a good story line without resorting to that.

But MGS is just not my type of game...& i think it's accepted that you either love it or hate it...bit like marmite really.

[Johnny_5]

Like somebody has already said there may be 90mins of cutscenes but the game play is over 20 hours! It took OPM 29 hours to finish the game. Money well spent IMO.
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[ingy]

You see, what would we do without blu-ray storage, see how its improved the actual game

Games with huge hype like this generate their own high scores, with sony mags not daring to criticise for fear of a backlash.

You have to wait for the hype to die down to get a true review score, then people will reflect and say, no, halo 3 wasn't a 10 and neither was gta4.

We'll have to wait and see, it will be nice to power up my ps3 hopefully with something worthwhile.

[blagger]

What others have said is coming true!

MGS is gonna be a slide show
Too much watching and not enough gameplay.

With the news of the delay of killzone 2 yesterday, this is not what i wanted to read to cheer me up.
Hopefully it'll still be fairly decent.

[gothchild]

This is starting to sound more like a movie than a game tbh.
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[PsychoMania]

Well this article has just made my mind up for me. I won't be collecting my pre-order now.

90 minutes is too long for an in game cutscene. It just shows a lack of talent for creating an interactive experience.
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[Mark240473]

Not that I don't believe CVG regarding the 90 min cutscenes, it's just that I have just read that article in PSW and I can't remember reading anything about 90 min cutscenes. That comment about cushions and teabags, yep. Mmmm.

If it is true, then so be it. I haven't watched a decent film in ages.
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[roger4000]

I'm having problems with this article and it's still quite early on Friday morning remember. is this one cut scene of 90 minutes or cut scenes adding up to 90 minutes. someone help....too much Budweiser last night
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[svensk101]

Surely this means there is 90 minutes worth of cutscenes in the whole game. I don't remember watching MGS2 for 45 mins in one sitting anyway. Or maybe my brain has blocked it out as a traumatic event. Either way, Kojima's obsession with movies is affecting his games for the worse. MGs 1&2 were great but this is silly.

[nasim]

dont troll the thread

whinners

thoses CUTSCENES could be skipped so why whinne


It is not that you are FORCED to watch them as THEY COULD be SKIPPED

MGS4 has 29 hours of gameplay + 9 hour of cinematics

However the cinematics could be SKIPPED if you dont want to watch them

*********xbots stop trolling this thread

[roger4000]