Do the long cutscenes in MGS4 kind of get to you?

First off, I love MGS. I am playing the first again because of the enjoyment it brings me. But I loved GTA4, and think it deserves a slight edge over MGS4 simply because I get to play more of it. MGS4 was an epic achievement in interactive entertainment, but sometimes I find myself short of time and wanting to say, Mr. Kojima make a movie OR a game, bro. Your thoughts.....cainetao11

Why do you find yourself in that situation? You can simply press Start and skip it.

Not at all. And the game has tons of replay value after you're done the game. :DChrnoTrigger

Yes the story is way too convoluted and silly. The 15 minute long "nanomachine" explanations made me want to eat glass shards. borefest to the max

Not at all. And the game has tons of replay value after you're done the game. :DChrnoTrigger

Jeff Gerstmann said the same thing about Metal Gear Solid 1 in his review.

What do people make of this?

[QUOTE="cainetao11"]First off, I love MGS. I am playing the first again because of the enjoyment it brings me. But I loved GTA4, and think it deserves a slight edge over MGS4 simply because I get to play more of it. MGS4 was an epic achievement in interactive entertainment, but sometimes I find myself short of time and wanting to say, Mr. Kojima make a movie OR a game, bro. Your thoughts.....kenshinhimura16

Why do you find yourself in that situation? You can simply press Start and skip it.

meh i hated them at first and now they don't bother me because i just rented the game. 8/10 from me.LibertySaint

[QUOTE="ChrnoTrigger"]Not at all. And the game has tons of replay value after you're done the game. :Dmephisto_11

Yes the story is way too convoluted and silly. The 15 minute long "nanomachine" explanations made me want to eat glass shards. borefest to the max

I think Kojima and Co. did a great job making the game feel as cinematic as they did; the cutscenes were very well done, and really nice looking (always a plus). On the other hand...The fact that Kojima thought it necessary to inundate us with 10-20 minutes of exposition on the "war economy" after every 30 minutes of gameplay made me want to torture myself to death every once in a while. I didn't exactly have an issue with the cutscenes, they just always seemed to either come at the wrong time (when I actually wanted to...play the game...), or they were about 10 minutes too long (when I just wanted to save and play again later). And no, skipping the cutscenes isn't really an option, because if you skip them, you're skipping half the game. It's nice that you have the ability, and I'm sure I'll skip them on my second play-through, but as long and sometimes boring as they are, I spent $60 on the game, so I'm gonna to get everything out of it that I can.

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[QUOTE="ChrnoTrigger"]Not at all. And the game has tons of replay value after you're done the game. :DSeanBond

Yes the story is way too convoluted and silly. The 15 minute long "nanomachine" explanations made me want to eat glass shards. borefest to the max

I think Kojima and Co. did a great job making the game feel as cinematic as they did; the cutscenes were very well done, and really nice looking (always a plus). On the other hand...The fact that Kojima thought it necessary to inundate us with 10-20 minutes of exposition on the "war economy" after every 30 minutes of gameplay made me want to torture myself to death every once in a while. I didn't exactly have an issue with the cutscenes, they just always seemed to either come at the wrong time (when I actually wanted to...play the game...), or they were about 10 minutes too long (when I just wanted to save and play again later). And no, skipping the cutscenes isn't really an option, because if you skip them, you're skipping half the game. It's nice that you have the ability, and I'm sure I'll skip them on my second play-through, but as long and sometimes boring as they are, I spent $60 on the game, so I'm gonna to get everything out of it that I can.

On my first playt through yes, now i just skip all of them

I think the worst one is with big moma

On my first playt through yes, now i just skip all of them

I think the worst one is with big moma

ExplosiveChorro

then you get one of if not the best game chase scenes/gameplay in history imo. :D

It wasn't a problem for me. On my first playthrough, I was completely immersed. During act 3, I thought to myself: "Damn, this is really, really long." But I wasn't lamenting it, just marveling at it, I guess you could say.

On successive playthroughs, I can just skip those I don't feel like watching.

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I found the cut scenes bareable up until the end of the game, the last cut scenes with the marriage and stuff made me want to skip badly, other then that i enjoyed the game, right im on my second play through on the second hardest difficulty

First off, I love MGS. I am playing the first again because of the enjoyment it brings me. But I loved GTA4, and think it deserves a slight edge over MGS4 simply because I get to play more of it. MGS4 was an epic achievement in interactive entertainment, but sometimes I find myself short of time and wanting to say, Mr. Kojima make a movie OR a game, bro. Your thoughts.....cainetao11

they were too long...just like the rest of the mgs games..

more efforet should have been for actual play time instead of 10+ mins of cutscenes..

It's a MGS game. All MGS games have long cutscenes. Why the long cutscenes in MGS4 surprises anyone is beyond me. AvIdGaMeR444

yes ! after my first play through I just skip most of the cutscenes but even with the skip option its still... theres just too many cutscenes ! I like the game though.

I can guarantee you that once you played and finished the game and watched all the cutscenes in its entirety the first time around, it's hard to not skip them from then on.