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Metal Gear Solid is from 1998
Sure but I am talking about games as a whole. You see more cinematography today in most games than you saw in MGS 1998. In fact, MGS 1998 has cutscenes and it has gameplay. Games today are removing that divide. Your gameplay is in your cutscene. In MGS1 you'd hit a video and walk away for 10 minutes while listening to it and it'd be fine. Today you hit a cut scene and you stay because you'll have to shoot someone as the conversation breaks down or the building collapses and you have to jump out.
That's what I am talking about when I say cinematic masterpieces. They don't have jarring cuts between a cutscene and gameplay and they feel like cinematic moments while you are never taken out of the gameplay. Eventually, we'll get to the point where you could show a game in a theater and people wouldn't know the difference.
Real talk. I don't game on console anymore, but Metal Gear Solid is the crowning jewel of console game plots.
Ever tried explaining the series to someone unfamiliar with it? You end up sounding like a fuckin meth head coming off a binge, and to me that makes it a narrative worth diving in to.