But I liked Halo cutscenes, and Uncharted's ending :< Though yeah, Gears of War has some really lame cutscenes, its hard to not to want to skip them.
Even as an MGS fan, MGS4 had some really absurdly long cutscenes. The gameplay:cutscene ratio was out of whack, even in comparison to MGS3, and the lack of importance in the codec was a disappointment, considering MGS3's sheer depth. You can't help but wonder about the things they had to leave out on the cutting room floor, for one limitation reason or another, like the deleted sewer sequence that there was supposed to be with EVA in Act 3. The lack of true involvement and "openess" of the battlefield that Kojima promised was a disappointment too.
The fact that the game never actually tells you that you can help the militia is disappointing as well. Watching someone play the game who doesn't know about the fact that you can side with them will kill them outright, constantly being on alarm mode, is terribly cringe-worthy.
They said they had even more script work in MGS4 than they did with the previous games, yet I feel like there was even less dialogue than there was in MGS3, considering the lack of random codec calls. Sure, MGS4's cutscenes are pretty long, but not as long as the hours upon hours of codec calls there have been in previous games.
