I asked my boss at work today what he thought about Uncharted 2 and he said he didn't like it because it had too many cutscenes yet he said he loves Arkham City right now. It makes no sense honestly.

Just get on with it i say i allways skip them if i have seen it once or it drags on and on, mgs4 frustrated me to the point of just playing multi.

I can't speak for others, I dislike them because I feel we can tell the story interactively, as opposed to out sourcing things. Not a big fan of QTE either...
I feel about them the same way Spielberg does.

Seriously I never understood this. Whenever a cutscene comes up I feel like I'm making some progress. And when they're done real good, how could you hate them ?

@ Nac

You may say this but what do you prefer ?

In Half Life 2 whenever Alyx for instance is talking to me and I go behind her and crouch just to check out her ass, but she keeps talking like nothing's the matter.

Does THAT immerse you into the game ?

Or how about when NPC's are talking to Gordon Freeman and he says absolutely NOTHING back. Does THAT immerse you in the game ?

I don't know, it kinda takes me out of it.

Cut scenes are needed.

How many is "many" ? Last i check a few rants in forums isnt "many" .

Have you checked what are usually best sellers these days ? Nintendo core titles asides , casual titles aside , it's very cinematic driven games like CoD .

I love cutscenes but not a fan of them when they are too long unless they are in someway interactive like Mass Effect.

games with the best storylines in gaming dont need hours and hours or cutscenes to tell the story but actively tell/progress the story while the user is in control playing the game.

i love long cutscenes aslong as they are done well and tell a good story. a cutscene for something boring has no use.

i love games like heavy rain, mgs4 and final fantasy. cutscenes tell a story better than per say Elder Scrolls style story telling (Just stand and listen) either way you gotta listen, why not make it entertaining?

only in shooters cutscenes arent needed because u shud be immersed in that scene. and i mean FPS's nothing else. even then games like halo and resistance deliver well on cutscenes so again, itt depends

Why would you hate cut scenes? I cant stand it when I`am with a friend and they just get a game so we play the story and all they do is skip the cut scenes completely.

I love them so long as you can skip em after you see it once.

Because telling a good story is becoming less and less important. It is becoming the norm to toss you a half@$$ed SP that is basically a 3-5 hour tutorial for the MP. So they can't be bothered to make a decent or coherent story. Therefore those of us who like a well written story or an edgy cutscene are slowly being ignored. When characters are interesting and engaging I could listen to them talk forever e.g. Jak and Daxter, R and C and Sly Cooper. But when the cutscene is basically 'we need to go to the fort' or 'the plane is going down' or ' look it a giant snake' or 'Zombies are coming' of course it will be boring and you will want to skip it. These are not engaging conversations or edgy drama. These are sentences spit up by bad voice acters.

people just hate them when it comes to metal gear... looking at you certain fanboys :)

I don't hate cut scenes as they tell the story. What I hate are overdone cut scenes that take up the majority of the game, I like to play my video games, not watch a movie. If I wanted to watch a movie I'd put one in.

I just hate when you can't skip it.

I love a well made cut scene or mini movie in regards to MGS games. They should be always have the option to skip though.

A well done story will always make a cutscene that more enjoyable but if you have a so-so story or a confusing one then that will make the cutscene more undesirable.

Besides it not like you can't skip them nowadays, unlike before where you have to go through them if you played the game again or died at a certain point before the cutscene took place and forgot to save. lol! ^^

this is my thoughts regarding cut-scenes:

I don't like being forced into waiting through them (maybe on the first time), but other than that I like the option to skip them.
That being said, don't have the 'skip' button on screen the whole time. (HomeFront for example) every cut-scene (which I wanted to watch) and "B to Skip" relatively large, and in the middle of the screen.

i like cut-scenes as it sets your mind off the game for a bit and focuse on the story.

I love well done cutscenes. I have a save file in FFXIII just before the cut scene where they return back to cocoon. It's so good especially in 1080p.

cutscenes are the best way to tell a story I LOVE them!
to me cutscenes are one of the most important elements in games.

The worse has to be the quicktime events which you lose control of the character your playing and does everything automatically and takes you out of the game. madness. the cut-scenes are not the problem , its those dumb auto events.

Simple reason, they are itching to finish the game quickly. Me?, I do that.

They should rewrite that as "excessive" cutscenes. I don't mind small clips tying the story together.

In case of a disappointing game that didn't impress u with it's gameplay, battle system, story, characters for example FFXIII then no matter how good is the cutscenes or how many hours u wont be impressed either because no1 play a game just to watch awesome cutscenes the game must win u long before cutscene after cutscene bombard your screen because then it will be more annoying.

We don't. It's just the jealous xbox fans that can't play mgs4.

Well i enjoy good cut-scenes, but once in a while i just wanna play the game because the gameplay is good and fun

Cut scene hate comes from...

1. Cut scenes being too long.

2. The "cut" scene should always be using in game engine and lead into interaction of that scene by the end with no break in scene to gameplay. Not up to par.

3. Did I mention that the quality of the game to cut scene lacks. Sometimes its vice versa the damn cut scenen looks worse than the game!?!?!

For the hardcore a game is meant to be played and enjoyed more than its merits of watching.

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