mgs5 the phantom pain to reduce cutscenes in favour of pure game storytelling

[don_bidarian]

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/me...avour-of-pure-game-storytelling/1100-6418805/

your thoughts?

Personally I enjoyed the cutscenes, the story was the main reason I fell in love with MGS, if they take that away then MGS is nothing.

I hope this new approach doesn't ruin MGS 5

 

[deathbyprayer]

Well the last MGS game I've played (Metal Gear Rising) is so full of cut scenes that I just can't stand it. Yes, cut scenes enable players to experience the story more, but its a game, not a movie. I know MGS is known for the cut scenes but I think they should focus more on the game as much as the story.

 

[SpaceTiger]

I'm good with fewer cutscenes in most games or rather cutscenes that aren't so long. Like 'Prayer said, it's a game, not a movie. MGS 3 had that perfect balance of movie/game when it came to the series to me.

 

[cenarion]

I actually didn't mind the cutscenes in MGS4. I already expected them and they were in a way an integral part of the MGS experience to me. The Phantom Pain seems to be changing a lot of stuff, hopefully it will still be recognisable as a Metal Gear game (and a good game, ofc!).

 

[The Unlosing Ranger]

I liked the cutscenes but most criticism is aimed at MGS4 and I haven't played that yet.

MGS5 will be very different from its predecessors but I think that's good.

 

[don_bidarian]

Sometimes MGS cutscenes can get long, specially those which talk about historical stuff, I also hate the talk over the codec, I usually skip them.
but overall, its MGS, it must have cool cinematic cutscenes with length of 5 minutes each xD.

 

[lindbergh]

Kojima says that The Phantom Pain would be 200x bigger than Ground Zeroes. If that means that it would have 200 more cutscenes than Ground Zeroes then count me out. I love the cutscenes in the Metal Gear Solid series. But I think there are some scenes that could have just been left out because they tend to drag along a bit thus making it very boring at times. I say just put cutscenes when necessary and not overdo it.

 

[nickjt]

It is an interesting choice to make as cutscenes have been such an important part of the MGS series. However, I think that MGS4 overdid it with the cutscenes and it would be good to scale back somewhat. I thought the flow of Ground Zeroes worked really well.

 

[Oogles]

I'm also one of the few that loved Metal Gear for their cutscenes. I mean I know that it isn't a movie and that it's supposed to have more gameplay than scenes but I really enjoyed watching it and it didn't really seem like I was missing out on a lot of the game time. To be honest I kind of felt like cutscenes were a reward for trying hard to move through levels unnoticed. I also played Rising. Although I didn't think that they overdid it with cutscenes at any point except maybe at Metal Gear 4. They may have overdone it with a 27 min. cutscene but I think storytelling is what defines MSG as a series.