If some of you really really really want non cinematic stealth based gameplay they've made it, it's called Splinter Cell. If you want a trite story, very few cutscenes and tried and true spy dialogue there's your game! Go play it! They've made 7 by now.
MGS4 is NOT Splinter Cell nor should it be; it has a denser story and a lot more cinematic devices that compliment involved stealth action which rewards patience and creativity over brute force. (particularly on the high difficulty levels where you can't mow down 50 soldiers with your gun) In short it has everything a great game of its type should have and more. If you prefer to keep your games and novels separate have at it, but don't act as though anyone who doesn't appreciate your taste in media or your preachy tone is somehow inferior to you and your "developed" tastes. I enjoyed Metal Gear Solid 4 far more then slogging through The Old Man and the Sea thank you very much and I in no way feel ashamed of that fact nor should I be made to.
On that note I would like to point out at this juncture that most people who apotheosize certain works of well known fiction as a means of deriding other peoples enjoyment are pretentious pricks. They act as if reading Hemingway in some way makes you a superior form of human, which it most certainly does not. What defines people of distinction is not how they draw upon popular ideals of classical superiority that have been written by others, often others long dead. The measure of a man is his own ideas rather the quality of the ideas they've shanghaied from others possessing greater mental prowess then their own. Reading Hemingway or watching Apocalypse Now in no way makes you superior unless you have something to add outside of your consumption of certain "high forms" of art. Unless you can achieve distinction with your own original ideas keep your opinions about the worth of others in regards to their tastes to yourself. You know who you are in this discussion.
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