Kojima finally explains his wacky countdown site

by Andrew Yoon on Jul 16th 2009 4:30PM

Remember when Kojima's countdown ended ... and started another countdown? Man, that was fun! The creator of the Metal Gear series seemingly had a big laugh as he teased gamers all the way to his E3 announcements: Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker for PSP, Metal Gear Solid: Rising for PS3 and Xbox 360, and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.

As the countdown continued, the site featured a number of symbols that flashed on the screen. Many of you attempted to break the code ... but were you successful? Kojima just revealed what each of those symbols was supposed to mean:

5 = it is an MGS5 class game
S = Snake
巳＝snake in Kanji
E = E3
R = Raiden
3 = 3 from 360 and E3
6 = 6 from 360
P and S = PSP and adding 3 makes it PS3

Once again, Kojima asks gamers: "Did you like it?" We think we can speak for most gamers when we say ... "no."

Tags: castlevania-lords-of-shadow, countdown, hideo-kojima, kojima, metal-gear-solid-peace-walker, metal-gear-solid-rising, Microsoft, snake, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (67)

Weren't the S & 5 the same character?

Like a Japanese school girl, this was just unnecessary teasing!!

That's what I thought, also. I didn't know that it showed twice.

Also, I can't believe they put "Did you like it?" in the article.
And yes, we did like it. That was a lame attempt at a joke, too lol.
Joystiq, you have failed me :(

I agree, I think you should stop trying to speak for most gamers Andrew. Fail.

"...no."

Uhhh, how about, yea, I did like it

What is wrong with all you people saying you don't like this? Bunch of 10 year old ADD scrubs.

This was cool, it was better then nothing, and it was better then what 99% of other companies do, which is leak secret infoz to sites like this

My future policy concerning countdown timers:

The time remaining on any countdown timer is directly proportional to the time I will ignore any and all information referring to the company that created said timer.

I hope he never makes a puzzle game.

no shit

you have to be one of my favorite commenters, and your avatar is the kiante to your fava beans(comments).

Well, if it was anything like this teaser, it would be titled Anagram Dsylexia and, of course, feature many cut scenes.

Why is it so hard for that man to get to the point!

Nanomachines?

La Li Lu Le Lo?

Finally explains it, I still don't get it?

kojima should fire his editor

Or hire one.

I didn't rike it ;(

I liked it, it was certainly more entertaining than nothing and it was much better than a leak that ruined any announcements.

I actually think nothing would have been more entertaining.

Perhaps this makes more sense in Japanese, but his countdown was absolutely retarded.

Only Kojima could countdown to a countdown and have fans think it was genius.

P.S. Not saying that applies to you. Just the fools that blindly follow his nonsense.

P.P.S. I love Metal Gear so I'm not hating on the series. I just think Kojima is Japan's version of CliffyB, a giant overrated douche.

Kojima isn't a douche and he definately isn't overrated. Kojima has done nothing but create great games his whole life and while you insult him he's swimming in all of his yen.

P.S. I'm sure he has a lot of it

I would've been more entertained if the games announced weren't disappointing or had something worth while to show off.

I'm a huge MGS fan, but the only thing that interested me from Konami at E3 was that new castlevania game. On second thought, the game might suck, but that trailer kicked ass.

"Kojima has done nothing but create great games his whole life and while you insult him he's swimming in all of his yen."

You know who else is swimming in money? Bobby Kotick. Doesn't make him any less of a douche.

Figures YOU wouldn't understand Bruce!

Who the hell is Bruce?

I think I speak for everyone when I say: I hate timers....

hahaha it says riking it.

oh snap i fell asleep...........

were u drunk and high at the same time kojima?

N = No
F = Fucking
W = Way

Hideo was messing with our heads, teasing and screwing with us. He reminds me of an impish DM i once had who delighted giving us tiny hints about how to escape a prison cell. Once we got off-topic the walls grew spikes and started closing in on us.

To people that think this crap gets us excited: Yes. It does. At first. Then it just starts pissing us off.

Yeah... I remember thinking it was going to be a new Zone of the Enders game!

Instead, its moar "Snake..? Snake...?! SNAAAAAKE?!?!?!" And Raiden too I guess... (and didn't he say he was done with Snake too?)
Castlevania is a nice change, but Curse of Darkness was as good as it gets for 3D, so they'll have to beat that game in my mind.

WoW... i can't measure kojima's level of deepness...

He's like... Aristoteles of our time

I instinctively downvoted before the sarcasm sunk in. Sorry. I fail.

aristotle?

Kojima may be a brilliant visionary, but he's also a big dork.

Teaser website = the suckage

Thankfully, I forgive him. The Peace Walker trailer is enjoyable to watch.

The MGS Rising trailer was awful though. I don't think he had anything to do with that one.

There was a rising trailer?

It was a teaser that had almost nothing in it, kind of like a Microsoft word page with a few words scrawled on it.

wouldn't have minded the whole countdown website thing if another countdown didn't start right after the first one. pretty much lost interest after that...

5 = the number of minutes I shook my head in disgust over this
S = Stupid
巳＝stupid in Kanji
E = Everyone who says they like this is lying
R = Retarded
3 = the number of lifetimes one would have to spend to randomly guess this
6 = how many years it feels like in between awesome Kojima games
P and S = Punt and shiv

I= I'm impressed.

I don't get the Punt and shiv.

Not even Robert Langdon could solve that one Kojima.

It's just for fun. Calm the fuck down.

Gmng Is Srs Bsnss.

Wow, that is gay. Did anyone actually fall for this hype and get excited about all these "secret codes" and hidden meaning?

i loved that basically everybody had a good guess then we got a bunch of off the wall paint explanations. maybe i just didn't stress it because i have mgs 4 and didn't have my heart set on a 360 port

Thanks Kojima, but I would have prefered to figure it out myself...eventually.

!

I mean...

?

Kojima is retarded

I think Kojima is asking to much for us to solve this puzzles...

Oh, god. I was almost there... 10 more minutes and I would have BROKEN THE CODE.

Now it's ruined. ALL that work.

Aww. I'm still holding out for Sunny Ninja Robot Action. Why the hell would Raiden robot himself all up and change his eye color after he just got a new body?

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