Posted May 21, 2009 at 08:05PM by Glenn M. Listed in: E3, Nintendo DS, Wii, PlayStation 3, PSP, Xbox 360 Tags: Kojima Productions
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Just when the countdown at Kojima's teaser page came to the much-anticipated 00:00:00, lo and behold, the timer jumps back to give us 120 hours more of painful waiting. The new, updated version of the annoying teaser, however, came with a small reprieve - vague hints, trying to spell out what seems to be the headliner that waits at the end of the new countdown.

Kojima's teaser - Image 1

Every minute or so, lightning will flash on the page, leaving different characters in a repeating cycle. The characters are, in the order that I caught them: e, S (or 5), E, and 3. While I don't quite get what the first two are, the last two spell out the biggest surprise that no gamer saw coming - E3. I was totally blown away. Really.

Kojima Productions apparently took the long way around, tossing us around instead of just going for the usual announcement for an announcement format and telling us to look out for E3. Though the very, very, likely direction that this is going is in E3, who knows? It might be the name of Kojima's new game or something. Heck there's a game called QJ, so who knows?



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   by sHaDoWpLaY.74 - 2009-05-21
 » Huh...

I called it! Guess we will have to keep waiting. Sad thing is that I had my celebration hat on, with party blowers and stuff, just like new years; waiting for the timer to count down and hit 0:00:00 hour Oh oh well..... :( Guess E3 will be the day.


   Re: manryboy - 2009-05-21
 » different

I was on the site sor like 2/3 monutes and i got e, s/5, 9, e

   Re: jrsmaster411 - 2009-05-21
 » yeah

I got a backwards 9 also

   Re: anhero - 2009-05-21
 » well...

Knowing Kojima he is weird with puzzles, and this can only be solved with weird logic.

Zone of the Enders 3 for 2009???

Ok, what if we just regard the last letter (digit) of each except of (since its a non-important preposition).

zon"E"
th"e"
ender"S"
"3"
200"9"

   Re: anhero - 2009-05-21
 » or...

maybe the backwards 9 also say the other letters are backward, then the "S" is a "Z", the "E" a "3", the "3" a "E", then:

"Z"one
of
the
"E"nders
"3"
"9" obviously meaning it's coming this year

   Re: martin447 - 2009-05-22
 » Z E 3 9

Z E 3 9
Z E3 9
see E3 - 2009
hmm :P
pretty obvious though, so all wrong i'm sure :P
   by djman855555 - 2009-05-22
 » .

if its a new metal gear i hope the release is some time next year. maybe 4th quarter 2010. i love the entire metal gear and metal gear solid series. but with the release of mgs4 this seems like a bit of a rush to put out a new metal gear. but of course if hideo would be directing it then it would be perfect no matter what

   by djman855555 - 2009-05-22
 » .

if its a new metal gear i hope the release is some time next year. maybe 4th quarter 2010. i love the entire metal gear and metal gear solid series. but with the release of mgs4 this seems like a bit of a rush to put out a new metal gear. but of course if hideo would be directing it then it would be perfect no matter what

   by w0rmh01e - 2009-05-22
 » Snake

The 'e' or backward '9' may be a Kanji 'Mi', the meaning of which is 'Snake.'


   Re: akadewboy - 2009-05-22
 » Yeah

I agree, although it's more commonly used as a Chinese Zodiac symbol. You don't see it used as Japanese too often, they usually use a different Kanji for "snake".

   Re: akadewboy - 2009-05-22
 » Link

Oh and here's the link to anyone that wants to see it:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%B7%B3
   by Sephiroth86 - 2009-05-22
 » ...

OK, so I just looked at the HTML code for the page and came across this:

meta name="keywords" content="Hideo Kojima, MGS,METAL GEAR, NEXT, game, konami, kojima game, KJP, Kojima Production"

Read into that what you will. IMO it's probably Kojima being Kojima and trying to throw us off the scent, since he must've known that people would be looking at the source. Here's hoping I get proven wrong though.

I think that w0rmh01e's comment makes sense too: An announcement at E3, about Mi (Snake) and 5 (MGS5).

I'll just be leaving to go back to the teaser site now :P

   by Sephiroth86 - 2009-05-22
 » ...

OK, so I just looked at the HTML code for the page and came across this:

"Hideo Kojima, MGS,METAL GEAR, NEXT, game, konami, kojima game, KJP, Kojima Production"

Read into that what you will. IMO it's probably Kojima being Kojima and trying to throw us off the scent, since he must've known that people would be looking at the source. Here's hoping I get proven wrong though.

I think that w0rmh01e's comment makes sense too: An announcement at E3, about Mi (Snake) and 5 (MGS5).

I'll just be leaving to go back to the teaser site now :P

   by G.Spenny - 2009-05-22
 » Raiden: Origins

The flash image on the teaser site and the little image of Raiden on Kojima's presentation a while back made me think about the conversation Snake and Raiden have in MGS4.

"It was never going to work for me. It even rained on the day I was born." -Raiden, MGS4

"You've got it all wrong. You were the lightning in that rain." -Snake, MGS4

I have a theory it's another prequel, one that covers the origin of Raiden and his tour as a child soldier in Liberia under Solidus.


   Re: Digitus - 2009-05-22
 » Well

A lot of people think that. But if you didn't already know, it wasn't a small pic of Raiden at that presentation it was an april fools joke. The person was actually the colonel.

A prequel with Raiden playable would be great. I'm not too big on prequels myself but I would not mind playing a game starring him. But I'm always more in the favor games that advance in story line rather than expand.
   by djman855555 - 2009-05-22
 » E3 it may be announced

after watching it all the way through the first letter i was was E. if you turn that backwards its a 3. so maybe at E3 whatever this is will be announced.

   by Jusor - 2009-05-22
 » suikoden 6?

i want that game!

   by Tesseract - 2009-05-23
 » 5@E3

A friend of mine at work said that the 'small e' that people have been puzzling over looked like an @ to him, so in order, it would say -

"5@E3"

Seems pretty obvious, eh?

   by EricDraven - 2009-05-26
 » ...now there's an image of Snake appearing...

...as well as a "P" every now and then...



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