27 years ago, record holder for longest cutscene in a video game Hideo Kojima said that the “one thing” he didn’t want in Metal Gear Solid was characters just “blabbering at each other for 4 or 5 minutes” | Gaming

Hideo Kojima is infamously known for his lengthy cutscenes these days, but once upon a time he was a lot more cautious of them.

There are a lot of players that don’t really like long cutscenes. After all, the point of a game is to play it, right? Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima hasn’t cared about that for quite a while though, with the fourth game in the espionage series holding the record for the longest continuous cutscene in any game ever at a whopping 71 minutes to this day. Except, funnily enough, Kojima didn’t always seem too keen on including such long cutscenes. As unearthed by Shmupulations (thanks, GamesRadar), in a 1997 interview with Famitsu, the iconic game developer spoke about all things Metal Gear Solid prior to its release on the original…more

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