Metal Gear Solid 4: Big Install, 90 Minute Cutscenes?!
- Scribbled on May 23rd, 2008 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Action, Sony PlayStation 3, WTF
Joystiq is reporting the “WTF?!” of the year, as it is reporting that not only will Metal Gear Solid 4 require a minimum of 5 gigs of hard drive space but will have massive 90 minute cutscenes.
The news comes from PSW magazine, who’s been and finished MGS4, and then promptly whispered in our ears about the shocking 90-minute cut-scenes. The latest issue hits newsstands today, by the way.
We were expecting long story sequences (MGS2 approached the 45 minute mark in one) but an hour and a half of cinematics was unexpected.
PSW is bragging that Metal Gear is like The Godfather trilogy - but the difference is that The Godfather trilogy was not a video game - and had superb actors like Marlon Brando, Robert DeNiro, Andy Garcia, Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, and so forth - not David Hayter. And I like to play videogames - not watch them. Devil May Cry 4 was boring because I was drumming my fingers waiting to play it.
(If memory recalls, PSW raved about Haze, too. Yikes.)
May 24th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
That was stupid. ““WTF?!” of the year”…really? You didn’t see that coming?
…nice try, I guess…
May 24th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
As a comparison - Annie Hall is a 77 minute movie.
May 26th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
There’s another difference between the Godfather and Metal Gear. Metal Gear cutscense usually have a fair amount of action going on, whereas the Godfather overall was just boring as hell.
Plus, Metal Gear games are sold in the U.S. with english voice overs. Unfortunately no one thought to offer a translation of the constant mumbling and raspy italian dialects that Copola tries to pass off as “dialogue”.
However, Metal Gear is undoubtedly a legendary franchise. And I honestly can’t wait to see all the god-knows-how-many 90 minute cutscenes in the game. If you think it’s so absurd, then you might wanna try just not playing the game. Beleive it or not I’ve actually heard more obsured things going into a game (anyone remember BMX XXX and all it’s poorly pixelated pornographic glory?).
This, I would say, is deffinetly not “WTF” material.
May 27th, 2008 at 1:25 am
I stopped reading right after that. Wow.
May 29th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
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June 1st, 2008 at 8:16 am
Anything to hate on the PS3 huh? MGS4 will be a fine game, Jonah. Stop your annoying rampant fanboyism please. You’re making all the other game-journalists look bad.
June 1st, 2008 at 11:55 am
Levelling the “fanboy bias” accusation at me, huh? Weak argument.
June 1st, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Baseless prejudice, then? Perhaps unwarranted defamation? Unjustified negative expression?
Take your pick. However you put it, I’m correct. Looks like you’re pulling the “Your pulling a card” card.
You’re supposed to be reporting news, not picking sides, or preaching how much better of a film The Godfather is to a game that, not only have you *never* played, but obviously pay little attention to.
Did you ever stop and think about what was being said before you copy and pasted a link and a quote? It might help fill your articles beyond “Joystiq says ____, here is a quote” — If I wanted a Joystiq feed, I’d read my Joystiq RSS. If you considered WHAT was being said, as opposed to reporting on reporting without a second glance, you might consider that the 90 minute cutscene(s) are at the end of the game. Maybe you can save and quit, watch the whole “movie” from the start, pick your scene or whatever. Maybe it’s not as big a deal as everyone says it is.
If you’re playing MGS for the story, you WANT to watch it. If not, well, MGS cutscenes have always been entirely skippable with a single button press.
June 1st, 2008 at 3:52 pm
How dare you accuse Jonah of console bias!!
I’m sure at least one of these articles isn’t block quoted with a sentence of anti-PS3 slander…right?