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Kyros on 15 May 2008

Well the thing was that with Kojima's comments about 50GB not being enough, a lot of us were thinking that having a hell of a lot of content would justify that kind of size.


I think the gameplay length is the smallest indicator for the size of a game. You should rather take the number of levels. Level size. detail ... You do not have to draw out the playing time for 200 hours to make much content.
I mean conversely some of the old games could fit on a 1.44MB disc and had 100 hours of gameplay.



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MontanaHatchet on 15 May 2008
Bodhesatva said:

Well, it pretty much garauntees I won't buy this game, but that's simply indicative of my tastes. I'm sure it's a great thing for people who already enjoyed MGS' story and dialogue.


That's like me saying that the new Dogz game has too many cutscenes and not enough gameplay.

And if you can't understand that analogy, I'm basically commenting on the fact that you probably never planned to buy it in the first place.



 

 

Imperial on 15 May 2008

9 hours of cutscene !!! that's like 10 games worth of cutscene ...



darthdevidem01 on 15 May 2008

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is this gonna be our first actual...proper PS3 game??



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ChronotriggerJM on 15 May 2008

Well fantastic to know it's got 9 hours of cinematic ;) In retrospect to the past games thats great news indeed ^^ To be honest I'm in the same boat as the OP and totally wouldn't mind a 50/50 split :D But I LIKE Kojima's over the top style ^^ so maybe that's just a few of us. I'm really curious as to how they're going to have 21 hours of gameplay though o.O; Thats pretty massive for a story driven non/rpg/non puzzle type game.



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Words Of Wisdom on 15 May 2008

On second thought, maybe it's just catering more to the PS3's demographic.

I mean, a lot of people bought the PS3 for bluray movies so maybe adding more movie and less game is what PS3 owners are interested in. 



Onyxmeth on 15 May 2008
Words Of Wisdom said:

On second thought, maybe it's just catering more to the PS3's demographic.

I mean, a lot of people bought the PS3 for bluray movies so maybe adding more movie and less game is what PS3 owners are interested in.

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IllegalPaladin on 15 May 2008

I don't see a problem with it. I've enjoyed MGS games and while MGS2's cutscene and codec sequences were way too long and I think that Kojima fixes this in MGS3. MGS3's cutscenes were cool to watch as opposed to many of MGS2's so if the improvements made in MGS3 are improved on yet again in MGS4, I'm happy.

Still, there is also the '21 hours of gameplay' part and going by complaints from people that games are becoming shorter and shorter, why should this be a problem?



rocketpig on 15 May 2008
darthdevidem01 said:
@rocketpig

is this gonna be our first actual...proper PS3 game??

First proper exclusive, that's for sure. There have been plenty of other good games but this is the first real "blockbuster" for the system in my eyes.




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amp316 on 15 May 2008

I'm sure that it is a very good game but I prefer to play games as opposed to watching them. I thought that was what gamers liked to do ( play games that is).



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