I, for one, am not the least bit surprised to find some people complaining about the cut scenes. After all, many of these same people are from the same generation that believes Cloverfield was the greatest movie ever made, have never and would never play an adventure game if their life depended on it, and "DO NOT WANT" any semblance of an actual, mature story interfering with their run-and-shoot style of game playing.
On the other hand, some of us (perhaps the older crowd--who knows) want to view cut scenes so that we can understand and appreciate what we are doing in the gameplay, why we are doing it, and so that we can relate to and care about the character that we are playing. Any good movie director will tell you that if you can't make the audience care about what happens to the characters in your movie, you've failed.
Play any style game that you want, which may very well mean that MGS4 is not for you. But to criticize and label as "flawed" a game like MGS4 that actually dares in this day and age of mindless action shooters to blur the line between a movie and a game by using a number of cut scenes to tell a story and make the player care about the character they are playing, just shows naivety and immaturity.
