(Urgh, alright LAST one this time.)
Your own opinion does not dictate the world's, the MGS series is one of the most popular gaming franchises and for good reason, besides, you've only played the Gamecube remake of the original if I remember correctly, you've never touched the rest of the series. So maybe its not your cup of tea, just as this game is not my cup of tea, it doesn't make it necessarily BAD, it just doesn't really interest me, I mean I honestly don't think it holds up to a lot either but I'm sure there could be some interesting elements within the game. For now all I've seen though are touch things to make them shake and QTE battles.
Games that have done the whole you know, adding in cutscenes/text/"talk" right:
Any decent RPG
Metal Gear Solid 3
Uncharted 2
Half-life 2
Any decent Survival Horror (Silent Hill, Resident Evil)
Hell even Metroid Prime had tons of information you could read upon in the game, one of the games he stated as 'doing it correctly', even Another World had cutscenes, even if they were short. Whats wrong with not trying to center around gameplay? Isn't that what Helm was originally arguing anyway? As long as its done well, it shouldn't matter the methods used, but thats not saying there aren't better methods to go around things.
Look I'm not trying to be confrontational I'm just voicing my opinion, yes my last few statements were rather crude but thats because I've gotten sick of talking about this. Differing opinions cause confrontation, fact of the matter is, I probably enjoy most of the games all of you enjoy, this game to me though just doesn't look very interesting and the whole article is just a rant by him, its not proving whether the game will be good or not (relative to me, obviously), as I've said, John K rants a lot too but he's not exactly an amazing animator, even if his articles have some truth but obviously even in this thread, a lot of people still enjoy his work. So I guess if you guys think good-looking visuals and touching trees to make them shake is innovative, good for you, I just wasn't very impressed with what I saw, also that fight they had, literally just a very simplistic QTE, why is that innovative? I'm gonna try and stop here, alright?