What if Kojima made a Metal Gear Solid game with 91% gameplay, 9% cut-scenes

In light of the cryptic Konami website of the next Metal Gear game nonsense, I wanted to make this topic:

I'm hearing the same disappointments with MGS4. Although it's one of the best games, half of it is great, but the second half (maybe even more than half of the game) is basically a movie. So if the game is about 20 hours long, 13 hours of it is all cut-scenes and movies. Is this really true?

As for me, that's a bit too much. And I know it was the last story for the series, so Kojima deserves the right to do whatever he wants.

But, what if there was a MGS game with only 10% cut scenes but the rest of it pure action like Gears of War or Call of Duty? Do you think that would be best for the series? Really, does all that cut scene and real-time movies matter? Do anyone really care for the story, assuming people understand what's going on.

Whenever I play MGS games like MGS, MGS2, and MGS3, I really didn't care about what was going on. The gameplay is what made the series so great. I didn't play part 4 but judging by people's impression of it, it seems like there's just too much of Kojima's narrative.

I think MGS shines most as providing the best stealth gameplay, so what does everyone think of a MGS game with more gameplay with little to no cut scenes at all? I'd like that a lot!

The only way it would ever happen is if it was either:

1. Totally westerned developed.

2. Kojima did not have any part in it

3. The world imploded.

The cutscenes are what make MGS to be honest. There will always be a heavy gameplay:cutscene ratio in MGS.

In light of the cryptic Konami website of the next Metal Gear game nonsense, I wanted to make this topic:

I'm hearing the same disappointments with MGS4. Although it's one of the best games, half of it is great, but the second half (maybe even more than half of the game) is basically a movie. So if the game is about 20 hours long, 13 hours of it is all cut-scenes and movies. Is this really true?

As for me, that's a bit too much. And I know it was the last story for the series, so Kojima deserves the right to do whatever he wants.

But, what if there was a MGS game with only 10% cut scenes but the rest of it pure action like Gears of War or Call of Duty? Do you think that would be best for the series? Really, does all that cut scene and real-time movies matter? Do anyone really care for the story, assuming people understand what's going on.

Whenever I play MGS games like MGS, MGS2, and MGS3, I really didn't care about what was going on. The gameplay is what made the series so great. I didn't play part 4 but judging by people's impression of it, it seems like there's just too much of Kojima's narrative.

I think MGS shines most as providing the best stealth gameplay, so what does everyone think of a MGS game with more gameplay with little to no cut scenes at all? I'd like that a lot!

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I timed and there were around 7-8 hours of cutscenes in the game (not counting the optional Mission 1 Briefing) and considering the average time it took people to finish the game was 17-18 hours, it really wasnt 13 hours of cutscenes and 7 hours of gameplay like most have suggested.

That said, MGS does shine when it focuses on stealth gameplay and the first two acts of MGS4 gave the fans just that. Unfortunately, the stealth gameplay disappeared after that and the last three acts focused on offering a more varied gameplay experience. Act 3 and Act 4 were all action, Act 5 had almost an embarrassingly little amount gameplay. Looking back, MGS3 was a perfect example of a well paced game and MGS4 was anything but well-paced. It peeked too early, and the superb stealth gameplay segments disappeared too early.

While I loved the trailing sequence in Act 3, looking back, if Kojima takes out that trailing section and makes that another warzone Snake has to sneak through, I'm sure noone would be complaining about the length of the game.

and most play MGS games for the story, some were disappointed in the direction Kojima took the story which is why it's getting so much hate.

9 % cut scenes it that was to happen Kojima would have to have nothing to do with the title. I prefer the same way as the old MGS titles. I can't say I played MGS games for gameplay more for the story.

Well, grand total i got less less than 8 hours of gameplay from it.

The amount of cutscenes really dont bother me at all. The fact that i waited for this game for years with absolutely ravenous, baited breath and then beat it in less than 8 hours is for all intents and purposes unacceptable.

While i agree that the cutscenes are simply flavor being added to a game that would otherwise have the same amount of gameplay without them, i cant help but think that had they made half as many cutscenes the game could have been a few hours longer playtime wise.

Taking away MGS's defining feature would be the end to the series. Even with the schtick, if the story is not engaging, fans will leave.

I left after completing MGS2. Despite the gameplay being solid as usual, for me, it had lost the best thing it had going for it in setting itself apart from other action games, and that was having an engrossing story.

I don't think any of the fans are interested in what would essentially be another VR Missions. Not even those that claim the game is just as good if you skip all the cutscenes.

Pause.

Skip.

You won't get much out of the game in the way of plot, but consider it punishment for impatience and not being interested enough in the series to listen to what the cutscenes are telling you.

Pause.

Skip.

You won't get much out of the game in the way of plot, but consider it punishment for impatience and not being interested enough in the series to listen to what the cutscenes are telling you.

You couldn't call it Metal Gear Solid then.bigd575

YEah you'd have to call it MGST or something of the sort (inside joke).

If Kojima made a game with 91% gameplay and only 9% cutscenes, then he would have made splinter cell.UT_Wrestler

[QUOTE="UT_Wrestler"]If Kojima made a game with 91% gameplay and only 9% cutscenes, then he would have made splinter cell.Rush2k

Have you ever played Pandora Tomorrow, Splinter Cell is anything but a boring game, albeit frustratingly difficult at times but always exciting. Throughout the series Splinter Cell has offered nearly as many tense gameplay moments as MGS, even though it strives for realism and doesn't offer as many huge plot twists and melodrama. At their core, however, I believe that Sam and Snake have more in common than they have dissimilar in their character.

I started with Metal Gear Solid on the PSX. I didn't really care about the story at first, but stuff started getting weird and the games didn't really stop being fun until the Naked Raiden waiting part and [spoiler] The Boss... [/spoiler] . When I saw the "all names and events are a coincidence" thing at MGS2, I wanted to know more.

I don't think there's that many hours of cut scenes, but there are a lot.

You can skip them anyway, and the 4th one's awesome. I just wish they added a part where Solid Snake could be played instead of Old Snake. That would be awesome.

I first came across Metal Gear Solid on it's Playstation release. I loved it's dramatic introduction with Snake's underwater infiltration, the tense music and the narration of the mission briefing while it's all happneing. I just instantly knew that this is a game unlike any other, and this one has style.

I remember how much I loved that game, I played it obsessivly, replaying parts of it over and over. I became a fan of the series having enjoyed Sons of Liberty and Snake Eater afterwards. And yes I enjoyed Metal Gear Solid 4 also. But it seems i've changed, because i was a little dissapointed in how little of the game was actual gameplay. These daysd developers are learning ways of bringing the story into the real time game. Metal Gear 4 has some solid stealth mechanics which made for enjoyable gameplay, they should of let us have a few more bases to sneak past and more canyons to crawl around. It wouldn't of made things stale at all.

[QUOTE="UT_Wrestler"]If Kojima made a game with 91% gameplay and only 9% cutscenes, then he would have made splinter cell.Rush2k

[QUOTE="Rush2k"][QUOTE="UT_Wrestler"]If Kojima made a game with 91% gameplay and only 9% cutscenes, then he would have made splinter cell.UT_Wrestler

[QUOTE="Rush2k"][QUOTE="UT_Wrestler"]If Kojima made a game with 91% gameplay and only 9% cutscenes, then he would have made splinter cell.HiResDes

Have you ever played Pandora Tomorrow, Splinter Cell is anything but a boring game, albeit frustratingly difficult at times but always exciting. Throughout the series Splinter Cell has offered nearly as many tense gameplay moments as MGS, even though it strives for realism and doesn't offer as many huge plot twists and melodrama. At their core, however, I believe that Sam and Snake have more in common than they have dissimilar in their character.

Just wanted to point out that the story aspect is not what separates Splinter Cell from MGS, they are two very different games from a gameplay perspective. dvader654

If the game had 91% gameplay and only 9% cut-scenes, then the game would be game would be about 300 hours long because Kojima would still put 30 hours of nonsense cut-scenes.