Top 7 Longest Cutscenes in Gaming History
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Published 2024-07-09
Written by Phil Iwaniuk and Outside Xtra
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All Comments (21)
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I vividly remember playing MGS4 with my friends as we were getting ready to go out. “Just after this cutscene” I said. Queue the next 40 minutes of teasing and blue balling culminating in my friend dropping to the floor and screaming “DEAR GOD JUST LET IT END!” We still had 30 mins left.
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This is just gonna be Kojima, innit?
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As someone once said: "Just make a film Kojima. Someone will let you make a film!"
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I love that this list is basically Square Enix RPGs and Hideo Kojima
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Andy’s face after MGS4’s “tender mid-fight smooch” is frickin hilarious
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"It's that he bought it in a shop," and the dead-eyed stare got me.
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Honourable mention to Quantum Break. Not its in-game cutscenes per se, but each act is bookended with with a ~25 minute live-action "episode" that you have to sit through.
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When the cutscene is so long your controller goes to sleep multiple times
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Full credit to the RGG team that I had absolutely no idea the Yk0 ending was that long, and sat through it happily!
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At some point in MGS 4, I put down my controller and by the time the cutscene finally ended I had genguinely forgotten I was playing a game 🤣😂
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Longest cutscene I've ever encountered was in FF8, when Rinoa is drifting through space... Turns out if your cat walks over the Playstation and hits the eject button, Rinoa drifts off to the right and you just get a constantly scrolling empty view of space. No error message, no crash, just spaaaace till you fall asleep and wake up with it still playing the next morning.
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This is why when I play JRPGs, I don't do the final boss fight if I don't have two hours available- 45-1 hr for the fight itself, then the final cut scene plus cut scenes for the clear save.
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Metal Gear literally has to make the character turn directly at you to remind you to pee.
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I don't know how I've never heard the phrase "Butt-numbingly long" used before today but I know exactly how I'm going to use it going forward.
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I adore that at the end of MGS4 you just straightup have to sit through a feature-length film.
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"Twistier than a tornado in a pretzel factory." Im nicking that one.
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I can't believe the insane cutscene at the end of FFXIV A Realm Reborn wasn't included. There's literally a warning to get settled in before it starts because it's basically just a movie! Lmao
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The ending cutscenes to A Realm Reborn in Final Fantasy 14 runs for FORTY-EIGHT MINUTES. Can't believe you've missed this one. But honestly, there are DOZENS of FFXIV cutscenes well over 20 minutes in length. One of them is even a cutscene that then has a cinematic WITHIN the cutscene.
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Mock me if you must. But I legitimately teared up when Axel, Roxas, Shion, and the rest all were reunited on the clock tower. I’d been waiting so long for them to come back together and was very happy for them.
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As an unabashed and lifelong fan of jrpgs, could I please request more videos taking the piss out of them? I think it is hilarious. Also, thanks for showing the end of Yakuza 0 because now I'm crying at work.
