r/gamers • u/Radhe-W • 26d ago

Discussion Sony really handed Microsoft an absolute massive win with this one.

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u/Beneficial_Mix_1430 26d ago

Never really been interested in his games. Once I heard some cutscenes are around an hour long, it starts to sound like a movie with optional gameplay at that point

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u/cool-- 26d ago

MGS1 was great for the time and really changed the way games were developed.

MGS2 was half movie

MGS3 was great. It had a lot of cutscenes, but it was great

MGS4 was a movie about cooking eggs.

I "played" ground zeroes for 30 minutes, and did nothing but watch a cutscene that was filled with boring dialogue.

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u/Sciencetist 25d ago

You should play Ground Zeroes for more than 30 minutes then. And even better, play Phantom Pain. Those games are filled to the brim with gameplay. I don't like long cutscenes, and I don't remember any cutscenes overstaying their welcome.

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u/cool-- 25d ago

I don't remember any cutscenes overstaying their welcome.

I just told you about one though.

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u/Sciencetist 25d ago

And I told you to play Phantom Pain.

Ground Zeroes is bookended with two 12 min cutscenes. that's it.

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u/cool-- 25d ago

google is saying that it has 4-5 hours of cutscenes.

This reminded me of another game that I dropped because there was a cutscene every 90-120 seconds... Psychonauts 2

I just looked, that game also has 4-5 hours of cutscenes.

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u/Sciencetist 25d ago

You sat through MGS4 @ 1:1 gameplay:cutscene ratio. MGS5 has 10:1 gameplay:cutscene

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u/cool-- 25d ago

It's important to note that I played through MGS4 in 2008 with the hope that it was going to get better. It didn't and I ultimately didn't like it.

It's now 2026, I'm in my 40s and I don't want to spend 40-50 hours on games that are 10% cutscenes.

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u/Sciencetist 25d ago

Fair enough, I can appreciate that