Hey TinouX,
from where you take this numbers? 21h gameplay!

http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/adventure/metalgearsolid4/news.html?sid=6190944&tag=top_stories;story;0

"After the trailer, Kojima showed some live MGS4 gameplay and unveiled new information. The demonstration ran for about 40 minutes with an experienced staff playing the game, and Kojima mentioned that they're showing off only about one-fifteenth of the whole game."

So ... 40min x 15 = 600 min
600 min / 60 = 10h

21h or 10h ?

And none of those have a great story.

Kojima is doing the mistake of presenting MGS4's story like a movie rather than an interactive experience. He did it pretty good on MGS1 with a good balance, but the rest afterwards has shown he does not know how to incorporate a story-centric design in an action game. He should've just looked at Deus Ex to see how to not rely only on cutscenes/dialogue scenes to tell the entire story. Even better if he looked at the Half-Life series.

9h of cutscenes is overkill.

At the moment game play to cuts scenes stands at 70% to 30%. Imagine if it was 21 hours cut scenes and only 9 hours game play. Now that would be an overkill.

shio the source is some screenshots from Offical playstation Magazine where the reporter said he used 29 hours and 6 min to complete the game, while 9 hours of them were cutscenes.

No, 9 hours of cutscenes is a total overkill... 30% is too much. And the worst part is it's deviating too much from a game's perspective, and become more of a movie experience.

Even Adventure games (the genre is known to be the most story-centric) are nowhere near that. Just look at Grim Fandango, where cutscenes are much less than 30%.

Kojima has shown he knows what he's doing. MGS1, 2, and 3 were masterpieces of gaming.

Its important that you add in my opinion shio, your presenting your opinions like they're pure facts. I actually liked MGS2 better than MGS1. Heres the link to the source btw: http://www.gamesradar.com/ps3/metal-gear-solid-4-guns-of-the-patriots/news/metal-gear-solid-4-the-first-review-is-out/a-20080512143146234035/g-20051216153655522074/p-3

You can skip AND pause the cutscenes... If you don't like them then you skip them. (it would be like playing any other game with little storyline and confusing objectives...)

If you like them you watch them and even pause them for a piss.

It should cater for everyone as long as the gameplay is robust enough... and 21 hours of it is more than most current gen games out there....

So stop f*cking complaining like babies........