Kojima Teases MGS5?
(Update) Apparently, all will be revealed on 1st June. Microsoft's E3 conference?Published 18/05/2009 at 8:30 by nofi
It’s keeping everyone else busy until E3, so we thought we’d take a look at the latest developments on the Kojima Productions teaser site. It’s wonderful, really exciting: there’s a countdown, and every so often there’s highly realistic lightning and a number five flashes up – if whatever game is being teased here is half as exciting as this webpage we’ll be dishing out that 10/10 after the few couple of hours of playing it – no sweat.
And, heh, look, it’s Raiden knelt down. Naked. Perhaps you’ll be able to control Raiden’s special sword as you run around The Outer Hebrides, or whatever it’s called, amongst über realistic weather effects as you skip gaily passed Solid Snake’s not long dead body. He’s not dead? Oh, I never can tell what happens in those games, I just like to run around shooting trying to set off all the alarms and kill as many as possible – that’s the idea, right?
When whatever is announced is announced we’ll let you know, but this is the last time we’ll feature that bloody raincloud unless something earth shatteringly awesome happens. Only 89 hours to go, then. It’ll be for the bloody iPhone anyway. Can’t wait.
Update: Seems like there’s more to this than we first thought. Enterprising chaps in this NeoGAF thread have dissected the Flash and found that it appears the timer will stop and restart more than once, leading to a full reveal on the 1st of June, the date of Microsoft’s E3 conference. The Flash will start again on the 22nd of May, the 27th, the 30th and then end on the 1st of June, when the ActionScript calls “gotoAndStop (“6/1″);” suggesting that whatever will be revealed will be so on the 1st, and the teaser will stop. More here.
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Lorcan | 18/05/2009 08:45
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It better not be another Metal Gear Solid game!
The last one was the most perfect thing of all time!
Who can beat an ending like that?
I don’t want them to disturb it
Though the big flashing 5 can hardly mean anything else.
nofi | 18/05/2009 08:47
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Raiden’s not really there, either.
LFC-FANATIC | 18/05/2009 13:27
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It’d have been a better ending if Snake died in my opinion.
Alex_Assassin_08 | 18/05/2009 16:05
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thanks for that ;D
wedgehog | 18/05/2009 08:48
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I couldn’t agree more with this article.
ross_k | 18/05/2009 09:08
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Hopefully in 89 hours they will announce trophies, DLC, getting rid off Konami ID on MGO and make an announcement stating that it will not be on the 360. Everyone will be happy.
nofi | 18/05/2009 09:14
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Seemingly not, see the update.
Alex_Assassin_08 | 18/05/2009 16:05
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in an ideal world.
but we all know its MGS4 for 360.
Exstrodinair | 18/05/2009 18:27
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i own a 360 an would probably buy it for the online with mates but again microsofts cashing in on a huge franchise…..if u ask me its stealing companies like microsoft and sony shoudlnt be allowed to appraoch game developers and bribe them!!!!
Soild_Nat | 18/05/2009 09:34
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I think MGS5 will be multi platform, Microsoft will want to get this out first making everyone think (for a day at least) that it is exclusive to them.
With the high production costs of a game like MGS it wouldn’t surprise me if this goes multi platform. It will probably go the same way as Final Fantasy did, in the end we all get a good game out of it.
Vandix | 18/05/2009 09:45
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Just did some calculations..
If this is true about the ending of the timer, it would end on 31th of May, Los Angeles time that is.
The timer started at 2.00am, UK time, so if the theory of the timer restarting every couple of days, you’ll end at 2.00am UK time on the 1st of June, but it will still be 31st of May in Los Angeles…
jimmy-google | 18/05/2009 11:40
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What better way is there to ruin Microsofts press conference than to announce mgs5 exclusively on the ps3 the day before. It would take all the wind out of ms’s sails before they even started.
Not saying this will happen though
PS3Sverige | 24/05/2009 14:00
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“What better way is there to ruin Microsofts press conference than to announce mgs5 exclusively on the ps3 the day before. It would take all the wind out of ms’s sails before they even started.”
Exactly my point! That would ROCK! HA very good start of E3 indeed.
ross_k | 18/05/2009 09:59
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When is the Konami E3 conference? and for that matter when is Sonys?
Watchful | 18/05/2009 17:52
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I’m pretty sure that Sony’s is on the 2nd. Not only MS, but a number of big publishers are giving their keynotes on the 1st. EA is one, I’ll see if I can find out when Konami are giving theirs.
rothbury | 18/05/2009 10:02
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A countdown to a countdown? I hate this industry sometimes.
C_S15 | 18/05/2009 10:17
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I think, as long as MGS5 is a new story and only refers to the old story in folklore, it could be good.
Also, doesn’t the final date end on Playstation and Nintendo’s E3 speeches?
Its the final countdooooownn!
jimmy-google | 18/05/2009 10:27
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Aft mgs4 I won’t be getting (if this turns out to be) mgs5. I’m probably the only one who was majorly dissapointed by it but mgs 4 seemed to leave most of the stealth play that made mgs1 so great out. Seemed more about movies and boss fights.
karlsquell | 18/05/2009 11:26
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i was disappointet too but at the end it was not too bad to like it.
discharge | 18/05/2009 13:59
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You could play the entire game on stealth if you had the patience for it(apart from the boss fights of course), you should go back and try it
cocobomb | 18/05/2009 22:09
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BBE is the hardest thing i’ve achieved in my life!
BioEye | 18/05/2009 11:43
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Hmm. I just don’t know about MGS5. I mean, this feels like a confirmation. The meta tags, the brown colour pallete, the number 5 in the same font used to advertise MGS4…
Well, all I can say is, it better be good. It looks like it’s going back to MGS3 roots with the grassy fields. Not a bad idea. If it IS MGS5, I just hope it’s not an XBox exclusive.
ross_k | 18/05/2009 12:12
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Why does it say “APRIL 2007″ at the bottom off the screen ?
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb211/joeymp/mgsnextlight.jpg
It could be an S not a 5 (Subsistence?)
Just putting some ideas out their.
Theosdaddy | 18/05/2009 15:54
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http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=15850266&postcount=540 ?
Gamoc | 18/05/2009 12:14
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For the love of God, let it be multiplatform. I couldn’t take the idiocy if the 360 got an exclusive MGS game. I’d have to go on a killing spree, GTASA style.
Alex_Assassin_08 | 18/05/2009 16:08
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once the 360 has an exclusive MGS game I give up on the gaming industry.
Person678 | 18/05/2009 14:38
BOOM! Headshot!
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Of course! He’s announcing the bonus version of MGS4, like subsistence and substance. Thats my theory anyway.
Raen | 18/05/2009 14:48
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Yeah that makes more sense to me
About a year later seems a good length of time
Person678 | 18/05/2009 14:57
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I have another theory – Maybe it isn’t even a MGS game? New IP, Zone of The Enders 3 or something?
Kevling | 18/05/2009 14:55
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Might not even be a “5″ – you can’t see the bottom of it due to the fade-out.
It’s a reverse “P” from the PSP logo. You heard it here first – Metal Gear Ac!d 3
Ryoshi | 18/05/2009 15:13
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Okay… this is basically me daydreaming, but if I was Sony and I knew that Microsoft have a big conference and I had a new MGS exclusive in the line up, I’d ring up Konami and tell them to announce it on the same day, to completely steal Microsofts thunder…
What a perfect daydream…
But I’d also be very happy with what ross_k said…