Longest cut scene in a video game

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OB1-adobe Senior Member

Longest cut scene in a video game

If any others you know please mention.

But I think Metal gear solid 2 takes the cake.....

Towards the end of the game, between when you fought the 3 metal gear rays on top of arsenal, and the katana fight against Solidious. There is like 40 minutes of stuff in between them....movies, flash back, and codec conversation

IceJaw Yeah, changed name

Xenosaga games woot

JToTheP Waitin for Brawl

Xenosaga/MGS2, never again.

Pulse2 Feel the ripple

But wait! FF is notorius for cut scenes! At the beginning, the middle, the end, everybody knows that 😮 Not that its a bad thing.

Does a 2 hour movie based on cutscenes count cos FF would still win, lol, 2 movies in CGi 😛

JKozzy Agent Kozzy

Kingdom Hearts II had some ridiculously long cutscenes, too. Seems to be a Square trend.

InnerRise Restricted

Xenosaga. closedeyes

I'm kind of wanting to say Baten Kaitos as well and what makes it worse is that it's all in game cutscenes and it can be sooooo slow at times.

anata wa wakarimasu ka.....

dirkdirden Senor Membber
Originally posted by IceJaw
Xenosaga games woot
General Kaliero F = ma, beeyotches.

Xenosaga games. They're not so much playing a game as watching a movie and occasionally pressing some buttons to go to the next scene.

§P0oONY Senior Member

Golden Sun has a very, very long cutscene... It lasts a good half an hour.

SaTsuJiN Wielder of Thunder Seal

I heard FFVII - Dirge of Cerberus has quite a few long cut scenes

Soukaigi had ALOT of cutscenes.. and they were fairly lengthy

Pulse2 Feel the ripple

Lol, have u noticed, these are nearly all Square related, except the odd few, Xenosaga games were from an ex Squareenix staff who left, lol

RPGs loves cutscenes

SpadeKing Senior Member

the final fantasy games credits 😐

InnerRise Restricted

Originally posted by SpadeKing
the final fantasy games credits 😐
😐

Low Blow.

anata wa wakarimasu ka.....

Pulse2 Feel the ripple

Originally posted by SpadeKing
the final fantasy games credits 😐
I just hate it when you can't skip the credits, or when you have spent ages playing a game just to get a rubbish ending and no extra features or unlockables, thats the end and no more *glares at FF10*

I don't usually mind cutscenes, in FPS I do, its stupid, in an RPG I can understand, bad graphics can often spoil a mood you are aiming for 🙂

JToTheP Waitin for Brawl
Originally posted by SpadeKing
the final fantasy games credits 😐

Nobody puts a gun to your head and says, "WATCH THE CREDITS, SEE WHO MADE THE GAME DAMMIT!" I only watch any game credits if they have a video or something playing of the characters. I don't give a **** who made the game. They did their job, now the sales give them money, that's it.

Pulse2 Feel the ripple

Originally posted by JToTheP
Nobody puts a gun to your head and says, "WATCH THE CREDITS, SEE WHO MADE THE GAME DAMMIT!" I only watch any game credits if they have a video or something playing of the characters. I don't give a **** who made the game. They did their job, now the sales give them money, that's it.
Its okay if the game is 100% finished, but its annoying if you are not finished and want to play some more and are being forced to watch 20mins to 1/2 hours worth of credits.....GTA.....

JToTheP Waitin for Brawl
Originally posted by Pulse2
bad graphics can often spoil a mood you are aiming for 🙂

I stopped assuming you had a decent opinion here.

Disgaea, Tales Of series, both 2D game series' that are far superior then FF10 & 11 which strive off pretty 3D graphics.

Graphics don't make a game, storyline and gameplay do.

Classic games will always be superior to new games with fancy graphics, get over yourself.

Super metroid>Prime saga

Mario 3 & World>>64 & Sunshine

Mario Kart: Super Circuit/DS>>Mario Kart 64/Double Dash

Zelda:Link to the past/Ocarina Of Time>>Majora's Mask/Wind Waker

Silent Hill 2>4

Sonic 1, 3 & Knuckles>Sonic Adventure 1 & 2

All the games I mentioned are GOOD, but the classic counterparts are superior. I miss the days of ONE year inbetween a game and it's sequal, not this 2,3 or 4 year wait in between just because of graphics.

JToTheP Waitin for Brawl
Originally posted by Pulse2
Its okay if the game is 100% finished, but its annoying if you are not finished and want to play some more and are being forced to watch 20mins to 1/2 hours worth of credits.....GTA.....

Or how about you put the controller down, and occupy yourself until they're done? How hard is that?

Pulse2 Feel the ripple

Originally posted by JToTheP
I stopped assuming you had a decent opinion here.

Disgaea, Tales Of series, both 2D game series' that are far superior then FF10 & 11 which strive off pretty 3D graphics.

Graphics don't make a game, storyline and gameplay do.

Classic games will always be superior to new games with fancy graphics, get over yourself.

Super metroid>Prime saga

Mario 3 & World>>64 & Sunshine

Mario Kart: Super Circuit/DS>>Mario Kart 64/Double Dash

Zelda:Link to the past/Ocarina Of Time>>Majora's Mask/Wind Waker

Silent Hill 2>4

Sonic 1, 3 & Knuckles>Sonic Adventure 1 & 2

All the games I mentioned are GOOD, but the classic counterparts are superior. I miss the days of ONE year inbetween a game and it's sequal, not this 2,3 or 4 year wait in between just because of graphics.

I didnt say graphics mean everything, I much prefer gameplay over graphics, however, cutscenes can play an important part of story telling in games, for example, if a romantic scene comes up, you're more likely to get a understanding and feel the emotion of the characters if you can see the expessions on thier faces etc, back with like NES graphics, although you can do it during gameplay, its not the same.

Intense scenes of a battle behind or giant ship flying by can sometimes be enhances with CGI or cutscenes, cutscenes are also like a short break to find out more about the storyline etc.

As for the credits, I do use the time to do other things, I'm not gonna sit there like a plank of wood and stare at scrolling names, but it is still rather frustrating if you want to do something and you can't skip the credits or at least speed them up 🙂

SpadeKing Senior Member
Originally posted by JToTheP
Nobody puts a gun to your head and says, "WATCH THE CREDITS, SEE WHO MADE THE GAME DAMMIT!" I only watch any game credits if they have a video or something playing of the characters. I don't give a **** who made the game. They did their job, now the sales give them money, that's it.

yea huh.... the company who made it makes sure you cant skip it 😊

Originally posted by Pulse2
Its okay if the game is 100% finished, but its annoying if you are not finished and want to play some more and are being forced to watch 20mins to 1/2 hours worth of credits.....GTA.....

I turned the game off there I didn't want to watch those 😆