Worried about possibly too much gameplay in MGS4.

[rocketpig]

The poster that suggested just watching Escape From New York must not have seen that movie lately because MGS 1 and 3 (at least) are better plots than Escape From New York and probably better acting. Of course, you may disagree...

I strongly disagree. Both Escape from New York and MGS have equally bad acting and dialogue, yet at least Escape has the excuse of not taking itself seriously.

Watch this, listen to Raiden and Snake, and then tell me the acting isn't terrible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM39_j24YaY

Snake in particular is bad. 

If you have 10 hours of gameplay that easily stretches to 13-15 hours with the cinematics, so you get your money's worth. Many games are that short now, including Halo, Gears, God of War, Devil May Cry, Heavenly Sword, Ratchet, Uncharted...so if you don't like games of that length I don't know what to tell you other than play RPGs.

I don't see many people here complaining about game length, only the ratio of cutscenes to gameplay. Unfortunately, most of us have accepted that games are going to be shorter nowadays.