Kojima commented that MSG4 is for the fans. Of coure he will have long and intricate cut scenes. If that is a problem, don't buy it or skip through the cut scenes. Most MGS4 fans will gladly sit through every minute. I think it is great that you can skip all of the cut scenes and play this game like a shooter for 20+ hours. If you are a fan of the series, you will probably play the game like a stealth action game and watch the cut scenes and enjoy 30+ hours in the MGS4 universe. You can play it however you choose to, but please stop spinning this as a bad thing.

It's funny that Konami is now having to detail the NDA that reviewers had to accept. The funny thing is that while they explain the reason for the restrictions, no reviewer should have accepted anything other than "No Spoilers" in the first place. With many of the reviews, under the NDA, are already out, I still say shame on Konami in the first place.

http://kotaku.com/5013432/kojima-productions-responds-to-mgs4-nda-complaints

I give Konami's overall response a 9.2.

Wow, damage control at its finest... I especially like how no explanation is given for the restriction on talking about install times. Does it fit into the "efforts we go through to keep [gamers] protected from reviewers that could spoil some of the MGS4 experience" category?

Yeah, Konami was all about protecting the gamers there.

I will still buy the game anyway.

i get to play a game and watch a movie all in one lol

DOES IT MATTER?????

Ok, I bet there are two 45 minute cut scenes with 1 minute of gameplay between the two. So there isn't really a 90 minute cut scene, but rather 2 shorter ones.

Anyways, someone should list all the cut scenes, their length, and approximately how much game play is between each one.

so the big deal with the installation was that 8 minutes of install time?

The big deal was that Konami was afraid to let the press reveal it, which made it seem 10 times worse than what it was. Konami shot themselves in the foot more than anything, hiding something that really doesn't need to be hidden only brings suspicions and negative hype. Konami's lack of confirdence is much more worrisome than install times and cut scene length IMHO.

 I'm not a big fan of installations in first place but MGS4 certianly doesn't look like the worst offender.  It makes Konami look worse that they tried to keep reviewers from even disclosing such a relatively minor detail.

 I give that post a 9.7.

I am not sure why installs are treated as a negative. Thank God Sony put a hard drive into the PS3. If the 360 had a hard drive, you would "have" to install games also. As it stands now, multi-plat developers need to work around this limitation on the 360. I think you are seeing some problems with aggressive caching on the 360 causing the chronic freezing issues on that platform. Again, a 1 time install and cut scenes = no problem.