Honestly, it's more then that.  Once they got CGI Final Fantasy games became obssessed with them and all other aspects of the games seemed to suffer.  Outside of everythign looking a lot better every hour or two.

I don't even get why they had cutscenes in FF12.  It looked nearly exactly the same except the hair was more realitic looking.

The difference between cutscenes and RPG babling is... most people can read 10 times faster then they can listen.

If in text form a 90 minute cutscene is less then 10 minutes long.

@Kasz

I agree

FF6 pwns all

but NOW FF is recognized for CGI....if FF13 came out n had no CGI there would be a riot in the media...I meant it in that sense

 so 40 hours of gameplay plus easter eggs that extend game play time like the Assasson's Creed outfit isnt worth it? So a game like Halo 2 which has been beaten in less then 3 hours is worth its price too?

Plus this just proves this site has a ton of people who fail at reading comprehension. 2 cutscenes = 90 minutes, not 2 cutscenes that are 90 minutes each. 

well, it wont be a problem for regular fans,wholl likely be fascinated by the cut-scenes,or at least bear through them to get to the "playing" part
but it really sounds like a bad idea to make them 90 min long. Kojima might just be trying to realize his dream of directing a film here,but a 90 min cut-scene represents waste and inefficiency,evils usually avoided by good story-tellers

I think they meant story-wise. We were only shown one place in the trailers (the warzone). Kojima once mentioned that there will be 4 countries in the game, if I can remember correctly. Think of it the same as MGS2 trailers. All we were shown was the tanker stage. No one knew about Raiden... and then... there were surprises.

No it would mean the game would more than likely be exceptional. It would be able to stand up on its in game graphics, story, gameplay, and characters. As Kasz said earlier, once Square started doing CGI they seemed to be more focused on it than the actual game.

As for 90 minute cutscenes in MGS4, its just cements my now complete disinterest in the game. It seems that hardware restriction can be a good thing sometimes. MGS1 was exceptional and as Kojima has gotten more powerful hardware he's gotten farther and farther away from what made MGS1 great. Extremely long cutscenes reek of poor story telling ability. A truly great video game story is interwoven to the game itself. It doesn't bring the game to a complete halt and force the player to put down the controller and watch for extended periods of time.

My barometer is Planescape: Torment, which has a superior and deeper story than the entire MGS series. What I was saying is Kojima can't make a great videogame story without resorting to cutscenes only. It's fine if it's a game where the story is not the main concern, but when it's a story-centric game, using only cutscenes to tell the story is fatal.

Not only that, but the stories in MGS are convoluted, and then everything must be explained in the dialogues in order to be understood. Kojima simply is not able to story tell in the gameplay (interactively). That is common in most japanese developers.

As for Deus Ex, it does approach alot of subjects, and as deeply as any MGS game. The difference between Deus Ex and an MGS is that Deus has a far superior writing, presentation and interactivity; so it doesn't need to explain things as if it was a documentary or an interview.

 I think it's clear that you are failing at reading comprehension in this case. PSW specifically said "each" cutscene being over 90 minutes long with Edge reiterating that by saying, I quote "two in particular [cutscenes] coming perilously close to 90 minute mark". No where does it imply that they simply lumped two separate cutscenes together. That wouldn't make any sense now would it as it wouldn't constitute news considering even MGS2 has two 40 minute cutscenes that if added together (for some inexplicable reason, why on earth would you add two random cutscenes together to prove a point?) would roll in close to one and a half hours. If you add two and two together, being PSW and Edge it becomes quite clear that we are talking about two separate 90 minute cutscenes here.

 Also, I am  baffled by you mentioning "40 hours gameplay plus easter eggs". Have you played past MGS games and have you actually been following previews for the finale? Reviewers have all mentioned the gameplay time being around 10-20 hours with 9 hours of cutscenes bringing the total play time to between 20-29 hours.

Planescape Torment did have a deep and excellent storyline. However saying that it had but only a few cutscenes is an understatement of the most extreme. The game has been referred to as an interactive novel for the amount of dialogue it contains. PT's script contains between 800 thousand words to over a million, easily trumping the size of even MGS2's 800 page magnus opus script. Most of the game involves extensive reading. I suppose it depends what you define as being a "cutscene" exactly. I consider any non interactive story exposition to be a cutscene. While PT's conversations often contained multiple choice answers which were interactive, much of the dialogue was still presented to you in a relatively linear fashion despite the instances of branching conversation tree's. Furthermore that sort of presentation would only work for an RPG game, it would be far too slow and sluggish for an action/stealth game such as MGS4.