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"

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

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.

The story for Metal Gear is very complicated, so I think cutscenes will be necessary.”