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August 30, 2008

Finally got to act 2 of MGS4 ()

by fluffy at 2:49 PM
Today I decided to restart MGS4, and in 3 hours I passed through act 1, finally. Then in another hour or so I finally got through all the long-ass cutscenes before act 2.

What the hell, Kojima.

Comments

#11255 08/30/2008 05:00 pm What did you expect?
Complaining about cut scenes in MGS is about like complaining about the half-naked women in Soul Calibur.
#11256 08/30/2008 05:05 pm
Yeah I know, it's just that these cutscenes aren't even entertaining. Except for how I could drive the Mark II around and see what Sunny was up to, but even then I can only watch her try to fry eggs and play PSP for so long.
#11257 08/30/2008 05:09 pm
I've only played MGS1, and then only halfway through. I dunno. Kojima would probably be happier doing movies (and I'd sure be a lot happier watching them).
#11258 08/30/2008 05:20 pm
Except with movies he'd be limited to 90-120 minutes, and I'm pretty sure most of that 3 hours of "gameplay" was at least 50% cutscenes, if not more.
#11259 08/30/2008 05:48 pm
TV miniseries?
#11260 08/30/2008 05:52 pm
Hm, maybe, but he still needs to work on his pacing. Also, it's hard to make postmodern jokes about controller vibration and button presses and the like when it's in TV format.
#11261 08/30/2008 08:20 pm
TV still affords itself many opportunities for trite, hackneyed 4th-wall breaking. Characters could tap on the "glass", refer to the fact they're on TV, rent the MGS series on DVD and then play it to see what happens next (a la Spaceballs), etc.
#11262 08/31/2008 08:56 am
Took me 24 hours to complete. I'd estimate about 9 hours of that was watching cut scenes.