i dont have a ps3 yet but i am working on my wife, and i like teh series but this is just to long to sit and do nothing, i play games to game and interact, i hate watching anything on tv longer then a half hour b/c after that i feel like i am not doing anything but being a veg

Its not like the whole game is a cutscene, this maybe happens two times, three times the most. And then it is probably in the end and in the beginning. And who want's an endig movie of 5 minutes????

Codecs may still be there, but the player will not be able to use it to call out (Snake will automatically listen if it rings) and the codec screens are pretty much gone in favor to cutscenes.

On Topic: I believe the 90 minute cutscene is the ending (the longest cutscene). If you guys don't want to see the ending, then skip it. If you want to know the ending and don't want to watch the 90 minute cutscene then go to VGchartz.com where i will spoil it for you

i was going to buy this game when i get my ps3...now hell no this is just ridiculous

What a lot of people are talking about is how story integrates in one medium as opposed to another.  A weak way to run a movie story is to paste pages of text on the screen to tell you what they are incapable of showing you.  With games, "showing you" can be done in different games, since you can actually participate in the story rather than merely watching it.

I think his point is that simply pasting some rendered movie into a game is an obsolete method.  It's a lazy method, and it's a sloppy method.  It's old timey and qaint.  Rather than showing us clips of the story, let us play the story. 

My interpretation of the point was different.

Essentially consider this: You're plaing a standard turn-based RPG game and the developers want to enact an airship battle. Now unless you want to take this to new levels of awesome like Skies of Arcadia did and have an entire 2nd battle system dedicate to airship/monster battles, you make a cutscene. You could also make a minigame just for this instance but many people hate stupid minigames in RPGs so that's probably a bad idea unless you plan to do this a LOT and can put a lot of effort into the minigame.

The point I am making with the example is that there are times when in order to tell the story, the best tool is a cutscene. This is particularly true where the system would not give the player involvement anyway and rewriting it to do so would not be worth the time/effort. I much prefer to play the game rather than watch cutscenes (heck I'd rather read text than listen to voice acting because it's faster and I get can get back to playing quicker), but I understand that there are times when they are very useful.

I agree skip the scenes other then that this is Kojima doing what he loves best making movies around his game!

Hopefully this game gets an Oscar!!!!!!! and Snake finally gets best actor! Kojima best director.

Question: So Mr. Kojima what was it like working with all those Snakes?????

fill in the blank.

Just kidding cant wait for this game if its tidius I'll be the first to turn into a 3 yr old and cry.

I'd concede that there are times when cutscenes are useful, but you can usually do things in a better way with games. Look at the example with Half Life: you worked through the entire story, setting, etc. This is a very simple example of a back story, but it made the game all that much more interesting.

At any rate, 90 minute cutscenes will just end up getting skipped by most gamers, I'd think. And I'd never consider watching them.

No one said all of the cutscenes were 90 minutes, just that some approached 90 minutes.  I know you're hoping to God that this isn't true, but your logic doesn't prove it since your assumption that all cut scenes are 90 minutes hasn't been asserted anywhere. 

90 Minute Cut-scenes? Uh...
Ability to Pause Cut-scenes? WOOT!!!!!!!!!