Frankly, as a MGS fan, this gets me excited in one way and worried in another.
Excited: I kinda like the extra length it'll add to the experience, and I don't mind setting through boring cutscenes for the occasional intersting tidbit. Very few MGS cutscenes in the past have been boring, except for MGS2.
Worried: Critics literally hate stuff like this. Especially gamespot. They usually aren't that into the game in the first place, and dislike convoluted stories and large portions of the story relying on way too much verbage and length in cutscenes. This issue will drop the gamerankings of MGS4, I guarntee it.
I don't need your console war.
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor.
You're power hungry, spinnin' stories, and bein' graphics whores.
I don't need your console war.
NO NO, NO NO NO.
