The earlier MGS games felt more cohesive story-wise despite having a lot of codec dialogue. I never did feel impatient because the twists were keeping me on my toes.

Interestingly, I felt that the last one (MGS4) droned on and on. There were many instances when the explanations spoke of redundant things which I believe ought to have been cut from the final product.

And here was Kojima complaining that the Blu-Ray disk wasn’t big enough.