Will Metal Gear Solid be the big news story to come out of E3 this year? Konami is certainly doing its best to feed the hype monster, unnecessary beast that it is, what with this countdown timer it just published. And, of course, as soon as someone publishes a countdown timer, someone else has to deconstruct the flash file(s), ruining the surprise. Long story short: there’s five (5!) countdown clocks, and the first one expires on June 1, the same date as Microsoft’s E3 press conference. So let’s speculate!
That first one, the June 1 date, is obviously an allusion to Metal Gear for the Xbox 360 in some capacity. Now is that Metal Gear Solid 4, or some other game?
Second, the page contains all sorts of keywords such as “MGS” and “NEXT.” That means whatever it is you want it to mean; in the meantime, I’ll continue to listen to a FLAC of Armand Van Helden’s “Mother Earth” on loop, spinning uncontrollably.
There’s also references to “April 2007.” I asked my brother, who’s something of a Metal Gear fan, if that means anything in the series’ lore, and he said, “I don’t know, Metal Gear is hard to follow.” Maybe one of you might know?
Never mind the gigantic “5” that’s visible in the storm clouds. That’s probably just a coding error.
So here’s to 12 days of Metal Gear hype. Lovely.
April 30, 2007 is when Raiden first meets Rosemary (which is revealed in MGS4).
its mgs 5, staring raiden probably, and i assume the game’s director won’t be hideo, since he made it clear that guns of the patriots would be his last game, but we all know how trustworthy kojima is.
btw, when jack and rose meet is first signified over codec in metal gear solid 2
The writer of this is giving unnecessary hype. 80 hours from monday 5-18 would end 3 days 8 hours which is thur 5-21 or fri 5-22. If the 5 turns to a four(which it wont) you can do the math it would turn 3 on 5-25/5-26, 2 on 5-28/5-29, 1 on 5-31/6-1 then stop on 6-4/6-5. All the dates was unnecessary.
That is sooo not a 5!!! ’tis clearly an S that signifies Sigint…
So when the clock is over, it will mean that we have to turn on our codecs and put it on Sigint’s freq. (btw, being that MGS3 does read the date… I would so try that on the game, just to see if there’s an easter egg somewhere to be found, lol).
It could also be that the ShakeNBake will be ready when the timer is done.
It could also mean the beginning of another franchise… Let’s see if they name it “Sins of Sobriety”
It could be a typo (a Z instead of an S, ’cause that happens all the time) and it could mean something about Zone of the enderS (so if you see a 25 or ZS, you’ll I’m right).
On the other hand, it could be a Sesame Street game too, so we should be expecting another S or some muppet saying “This website was brought to you by the letter S”.
Now, a big “TIME PARADOX” message would be great though.
No speculation needed.
That is sooo not a 5, ’tis clearly an S that signifies Sigint.
So when the clock is over, it will mean that we have to turn on our codecs and put it on Sigint’s freq. (btw, being that MGS3 does read the date… I would so try that on the game, just to see if there’s an easter egg somewhere to be found, lol).
It could also be that the ShakeNBake will be ready when the timer is done.
It could also mean the beginning of another franchise… Let’s see if they name it “Sins of Sobriety”
It could be a typo (a Z instead of an S, ’cause that happens all the time) and it could mean something about Zone of the enderS (so if you see a 25 or ZS, you’ll I’m right).
On the other hand, it could be a Sesame Street game too, so we should be expecting another S or some muppet saying “This website was brought to you by the letter S”.
Now, a big “TIME PARADOX” message would be great though.