He obviously plays a lot of FPS....

He likes the "OMG enemy, shoot here now!!" scenes.

And wow Bloodmask, nice way to whore this article with a MGS4 pic, why not put the Bioshock one instead?

Oh wait... meh, why even bother to say the obvious? :/

its good for the action to be broken up,and what better way to do that than with a cutscene.

Also with the cutscene you get a bit of rest and you feel better mentally to carry on with the action until you get to the end of the level,check point or the next cutscene.

would reduce "escapism" greatly. These days in video games there's such blur between cut scenes and game play that it almost seems like a movie. There's nothing wrong with that. Movies make the greatest connection between one human to another. Seems like this guy just wants a reason to hate on MGS.

someone give this guy a grenade of STFU.

i loooooooooooooove cutscenes. really really do. fell in love with them when playing ff7

The cutscenes are the reason I love Metal Gear Solid. And the cutscenes in Final Fantasy games are always enjoyable.

"Why Video Game Cutscenes Should Be Eliminated"
... F^CK YOU!

Too much time on his hands to write this fluff! And yes, 360 cutscenes are made of slop (Halo 3 is laughable!)!

God forbid there's a story at all. Another useless bloated opinionated article that makes absolutely zero sense from a logical standpoint.

Disagree with the article. Cutscenes add to the game. The article gets a
fat "F".

They take away my favorite part of video games. And that's the story, the drama.

That what makes video games so great, it's kinda like a movie, except you take part in it.

Cutscenes are great for their purpose and should not be taken away. But blurring away the line between cutscenes and gameplay(so the game looks as good as the cutscenes) and making some interactive like new release might be a plus.

I love my cutscenes. They've saved many so-so games like DMC4

Movies aren't immersive either, because your just a spectator. Dumbass!

I for one love cutscenes and if they were not in games like Final Fantasy the feeling company's like Square-Enix are trying to show would be lost because there would be nothing other then mind less fighting and I for one love seeing great stories added to the game I am playing. Because it adds an extra layer to the game. To make you get more into the game you are playing and I think that is a good thing.

I wonder when he wrote this, his bosses were writing their own article, titled:

"Why Don Reisinger Should Be Eliminated"
http://money.cnn.com/news/n...
CNet Networks to lay off 120 employees effective immediately

tbh, i sometimes play video games just for the cutscenes!

"As far as I can tell, this idea of cutscenes, which was made brutally unbearable by Hideo Kojima in the Metal Gear series is nothing more than an attempt by game developers to display their graphical prowess and make a video game feel more like a movie."

brutally unbearable?!
someone go knock this guy senseless!
this entire article is full of biased opinions, just because the writer of that article doesnt have an attention span long enough to watch a simple cutscene doesnt mean he has to write an entire article about it....

I disagree with this guy.

He can't tell me that i'll be unhappy with cutscences, I love them the way they are. They aren't meant to show the graphical prowess of a game, but to help move the story along.

Bioshock did it well, but to be honest, I missed my cutscenes. Maybe thats why I didn't like it.

I really like my cut scene's. Its like a anime and a game. Two for One. We should eliminate morons that want change, even though they dont make games.

"until cutscenes that take me out of the action are eliminated, I will not be happy. And neither should you."

Seriously, get over yourself. Just because you've played through countless games and are now tired of them doesn't mean everyone else is. What about the new gamer that isn't tired of it? That's too bad you don't like them. Most games provide you with a fast forward/skip option. Telling us we shouldn't be happy because they're there is a joke, just like your article.

he should jump off a cliff and die if video game scenes are too long for his A.D.D.

I would never want to *eliminate* cut scenes, they are heavilly needed in RPG's & storytelling. But I'll agree that when I buy an action game or an FPS, I *personally* do want alot more action than cutscenes. But everyone has different tastes.

However, this artice is stupid as he goes to crazy extremes.

"If you haven't played Bioshock, you owe it to yourself to do so. But if you have, you probably realize that throughout much of the game, you're able to walk around, look around and do almost anything you want during cutscenes. And although the story is being moved forward during this time, it's allowing you to stay in character and play as if you're being spoken to or directed.

But alas, Bioshock is by no means the norm and unfortunately, most games still force you to play for a while and then stop before action resumes."

Thats funny. I would swear that when you kill whatshisname in the middle of the game that was a cutscene...

Also, I love the way he praises those supposedly cutscene-free moments in Bioshock. You see, they are still cut-scenes. You are free to look at a wall or jump like a retard, but in the end you will just stare out of the submarine's window like if it was a cutscene and you ain't gone stare at the back wall instead. If that is a big improvement well, keep it.

This guy has no credibility in my book. Cnet? Who cares about Cnet. Don Reisinger? Never heard of him.

Some people happen to like the story of the Metal Gear games. Some people happen to enjoy the cinematic cutscenes of MGS and Final Fantasy. Sometimes we play a game for that as much as the gameplay, just like sometimes we watch a comedy when we want to laugh or thriller when we want suspense. Different strokes for different folks.

That said, making cutscenes more interactive is generally a very good thing. Metal Gear Solid 2 let you zoom in and out and move the camera during cutscenes for those with a spot of ADD who are interested in the story but can't sit completely still for extended periods of time. It also let you skip the story all together, which is something Bioshock actually does not let you do.

And he (along with many other writers) makes Bioshock out to be so original. It really isn't. It's gameplay is derived directly from Levin's System Shock series, it's story based on other peoples' writings, and it was not the original game to present cutscenes as it does. I'm not entirely sure what could be considered the original to have this style of storytelling, but Half-Life did it way before Bioshock. And in games like Half-Life and Bioshock, you can't skip the story, so if you have no interest and just want to kill zombies or aliens or drug addled maniacs then you're out of luck for those few minutes where you have to sit and watch/listen.

Games could still use a bit of tweaking to get cutscenes to a place in between Metal Gear Solid, with only semi-interactive but skippable cutscenes, and Bioshock with fully-interactive but mandatory cutscenes.

The guy who wrote this needs to have him self a nice tall warm glass of less opinionated garbage. Follow me, if you will, for a mini-rant. For the sake of this poor saps argument I do have to agree with him on 2 points and those points are Half-life (1 & 2) and bioshock. The sheer immersiveness of these 3 titles pulls you in so vividly almost violently that they are able to thrive without the needs of the constant "complete chapter / get a flashy cutscene, rinse, repeat." Im sure there are other titles out there with a similar formula, none of which that im aware of do as well ... but that's not to say they do not exist.

However, on the other side of the fence, I, and im sure the majority of you, are sheer suckers for gripping stories. Let me ask a question: do you think games like, oh lets just say, Uncharted or even DMC 4 would have been as insanely enjoyable without the dialouge and flair and the pure production value of their stylized cutscenes? Not saying the games would have been garbage without them, but i do believe that titles like that, (particularly japanese action games, for some reason they just make more stylish action cutscenes), would lose a good portion of its depth without them.

Now sometimes cutscenes can go to far... i think we all remember the close to 30 minute mini-movie near the end of Metal Gear Solid II. Enjoyable as hell, yes it was, stylish and entertaining, but after about 15 solid minutes of cutscene, wanted to get back to the killin'. <./.rant>

too-shay sir.

As long as they give me a:

1. Dedicated "Skip" button
2. The "Scenes" actually add to the game/story not fluff.
3."Cut-scenes" do not make up 70% of the game.

Now that would be my gripe....Yes I'm looking at you FF13. Better not.

Towards the end of games sometimes, if it's just fluff and you know who your going after, I tend to skip it, it all depends. If there is no Skip button than it sux sometimes...

Cut-Scenes are one layer of the Presentation of the Game.

I could've sworn you were able to skip ALL of the previous Metal Gear cutscenes.
I could be wrong though.

Not eliminated, just the option to click out would be nice.

cut scenes should be more interactive ala resident evil 4

I believe emilinating cutscenes all together would be a terrible idea, I understand sometimes they seem drawn out.. I've been there, but its also the developers creative expression. Alot of these games are great because they are in the vision of the developer and to demand change would take from the finished product and you would be left with something else entirely.
I would like to see an option for people like Maddens Raiders who don't enjoy the cutscenes so much, but if that means taking away from the total package I would say too "bad so sad".
Game developers try very hard to appeal to everyone's taste and needs but its impossible to please everyone.

I personally really look forward to the cutsence, the MGS series is EPIC from start to finish and I enjoy the artistic nature in which it is presented.

I understand if not everyone agree's with my opinion, but at the end of the day thats all we have.

someones pissed cuz they system can't handle MGS4....or maybe cuz it's not ever coming to the ticking time bomb...

Half Life

If he want to play games with no cutscene, he can play MMO games like WOW.

Cutscenes FTW =) I can't see how ANYONE could have anything against them...

stupid article, (oddly enough I feel compelled to comment though =/)

The guy doesn't want the action broken up by cut scenes. Surely that would result in a very repetitive wafer thin plot. Oh wait. This guy is one of the multiplayer peeps that only wants to shoot stuff and not actually have any depth to his games. Well good luck with that mate!

Now for the rest of us who actually enjoy a little story or background with our games please kindly STFU and go back to whatever storyless repetitvie online bullsh1t game you're playing,

Awesome news Bloodmask it's really made me look at MGS in a whole new light! (sarcasm)

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau