[Renwood]

Metal Gear Solid isn't a series to be played strictly for the game. You can, and the gameplay is fun, but that's one piece.

Metal Gear Solid 2 was billed as an interactive movie. PR people try to hide that fact some times, and Kojima toned it down for MGS3 a bit (not much, but he made things simpler and easier to skip), but MGS2 had plenty of 10-15 minute breaks, the 45-minute closing, etc., etc. And if you like it, that isn't a problem. Like good movies, if you're enjoying yourself, it doesn't feel like 45 minutes or 90 minutes, or whatever. XenoSaga had hour long cutscenes left and right, and I gave up on the game because the story didn't interest me and it felt like an hour long cutscene.'

Nothing is good for everyone. For people who like it, it works. For people who don't, they usually just don't play it, and that's ace. The people who play it just to bitch about it confuse me. The people who bitch about it without playing it annoy me.

I'm glad they've gotten away from using the codec as the setting for the dialogue; the actual discussion was still interesting, but it was visually bland to see two talking heads and nothing else. With the amount of shit that needs to be explained/wrapped up, I'm surprised only two of these are 90 minutes. It's like explaining every Lost mystery at once in a three hour finale.