Why Kojima’s Next Title is Metal Gear Solid 5
UPDATE: Soon after this article was published, the Kojima teaser site update with a countdown.
It seems that once you start a good thing, you become addicted to it. Alas, like alcohol, you say to yourself “one more drink” after having a few and then you finish that before you decide “one more”. Then you become an alcoholic.
But a totally different yet similar example would be Hideo Kojima. He’s said since Metal Gear Solid 2 that this MGS game would be his last, as such, the last time this was said was back at E3 2007 when he showed Metal Gear Solid 4. And Metal Gear Solid 4 is quite simply the best game ever made, we think so.
So, after Metal Gear Solid 4, what next for the prodigal son of gaming? Zone of the Enders 3? Nope, it seems that you cant get enough of a good thing, and with Kojima, it seems he’s not ready to give up on Metal Gear Solid yet.
How?
Because he’s making Metal Gear Solid 5, and the evidence proves it.
*beware: a major spoiler awaits you concerning Metal Gear Solid 4 if you have not completed it. So if you havent gone further then Act 4, you risk seeing it at your own risk*
First, lets start off with the most recent evidence which points this out.
- Emails are sent to several gaming websites, including 1UP, which are criptic emails, only known as a KP insider, hinting at “T-3 Days” and a broken URL.
- This broken link then comes online to show a teaser site for Kojima Productions newest project, just as the newest issue of Famitsu has an ad showing a teaser, dating Monday May 18th.
- The meta tags on said site points towards a new MGS game such as “Metal Gear Solid, MGS, NEXT, Hideo Kojima”.
- A new tag, discovered by Split-Screen, is known as “Kumori”. Kumori is known as “cloudy” in a Japanese term, but more importantly, it’s the name of Japanese samuari, Kumori Iga. Remind you of someone?
- The teaser site is then updated, saying “NEXT” on the flash site itself, which all but rules out a Sub version of MGS4.
But for more conclusive evidence, you’d need to go back to March 25th, back at the Game Developer’s Conference, when Kojima himself did a keynote at the show itself. It pretty much showed development history on past Metal Gear games, so nothing right. Well correct, that is until a final slide during the presentation is known as “The Next MGS” comes up.
- In the slide known as “The Next MGS”, the slide has a sillouette of a ninja in it, which looks so much alike Raiden.
- Kojima talks about “The Next MGS”, in which he says he’d like the game to have more of a Western development feel to it rather then Japanese development techniques.
- Kojima then talks at the Apple Store in San Francisco, there to talk about Metal Gear Solid Touch for the iPhone, saying his next game will be shown at E3 after a question is asked from the audience of the new game.
And even then, you still have to go further back itself from GDC to get more evidence, but how far? Thursday June 12th 2008: the worldwide release date of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Depending on how far in the game you were at the time in the game, at one point in the game, there is something which connects MGS4 to today.
During the start of Act 4, as Snake heads to Shadow Moses, Raiden is somewhat talking about his life story, but brings up .
Raiden: It even rained the day I was born.
Snake: Raiden, you were the lightning in the rain that day…
So, lets put 2 and 2 together here.
- Massive storm clouds in the Famitsu ad, while cloudy in the teaser ad.
- Kumori Iga is a ninja type character in Japanese folklore, like Raiden who pretty much went a similar path, roaming the world to find Sunny from The Patriots.
- Is seen as a sillouette in “The Next MGS” during Kojima’s keynote at GDC 2009.
- The massive reference in Metal Gear Solid 4, between Snake and Raiden.
, the game is without a shadow of a doubt Metal Gear Solid 5, with Raiden as the main character in a prequel to Metal Gear Solid 4, which sees him going all across the world trying to find Sunny from The Patriots.
Either way, we find out tomorrow when the full reveal takes place.
May 18, 2009 at 1:43 am
Actually the ‘raiden’ figure in that keynote from kojima was actually colonel campbell, it was an elaborate april fools joke from kojima. check it out online if you don’t believe me.
May 18, 2009 at 2:51 am
Actually the figure in that presentation was indeed Raiden, Later on Kojima released the other image along with a video footage that replaced Raiden with Campbell in the scene in which he was fighting the Gekkos.
May 18, 2009 at 4:07 am
I think Caolan is referring to this:
May 18, 2009 at 1:48 am
what the … if it is the next metal gear it will be a Prequel a continuation
of the big boss’s story i mean look at the picure the colors and the atmosphere it looks like a classic photo from 60s or 70s its that simple !!
May 18, 2009 at 2:57 am
A part of me still thinks Kojima is screwing with us… Although you could be right. The teaser site just updated. There’s a countdown clock and a big 5 on there! Or it could be an S… : P
May 18, 2009 at 4:08 am
Yeah, we just published a followup.
https://goonlinegames.net/2009/05/18/kojima-teaser-site-updates-with-a-countdown/
May 18, 2009 at 5:37 am
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2009/05/mgs_clouds.jpg
There’s Metal Gear, MGS and stuff through the source code right and you know how it says NEXT in the url and how Kojima at GDC showed a picture saying the NEXT metal gear with Raiden on it. In the top url it shows an image found on the page with clouds, then lightning which is what it just changed to. This is sorta the opposite but Raiden does say something about rain and lightning in MGS 4 he says
I am Lightning the rain transformedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToYnNzamHJA
You notice how there’s a sun at the end and it gets SUNNY. Which is the name of the girl Raiden and SNake save from the Patriots. The game could be about Raiden and Snake saving Sunny from the patriots or anything else related to Raiden.
So they show raiden in the NEXT MGS picture and they talk about lightning and rain which is what Raiden claims he is and they show a sun which could represent the character Sunny who Raiden saves prior to MGS 4.
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2009/05/mgs_clouds.jpg There’s Metal Gear, MGS and stuff through the source code right and you know how it says NEXT in the url and how Kojima at GDC showed a picture saying the NEXT metal gear with Raiden on it. In the top url it shows an image found on the page with clouds, then lightning which is what it just changed to. This is sorta the opposite but Raiden does say something about rain and lightning in MGS 4 he says I am Lightning the rain transformed You notice how there’s a sun at the end and it gets SUNNY. Which is the name of the girl Raiden and SNake save from the Patriots. The game could be about Raiden and Snake saving Sunny from the patriots or anything else related to Raiden. So they show raiden in the NEXT MGS picture and they talk about lightning and rain which is what Raiden claims he is and they show a sun which could represent the character Sunny who Raiden saves prior to MGS 4.
May 18, 2009 at 5:53 am
I’ts MGS 5! Raiden. Raiden means lightning. Raiden WAS lightning at the end of MGS 4.
May 20, 2009 at 5:48 am
sorry guys its not metal gear.
May 25, 2009 at 8:22 am
I just found out, it’s a new series called WEATHERMAN, where you play a Weatherman.
May 25, 2009 at 8:27 am
Ohhh, I get it! And the “sword” that “Raiden” was holding in that teaser image was actually a map pointer! Genius! 360 owners are gonna rejoice this day!
May 25, 2009 at 8:39 am
Actually I believe the sword “Raiden” was holding had a curved handle.. making me believe its actually an Umbrella.
May 25, 2009 at 8:41 am
Umbrella? OMG RESIDENT METAL GEAR EVIL!!!
May 25, 2009 at 8:42 am
OMG that’s true! Konami owns both properties… and Resident Evil 5 WAS the last installment.
HMMMm
May 29, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Well, this could be right
i played MGS 3 Subsictence
and if you place DVD 2 (persistence)
in the Sony Playstation 2 system,
then you could see the video before last:
Metal Gear Raiden
and the topic of this video is that
he wants to kill snake, but he’s too
stupid to do that so at the end of this
funny video, Rose told Raiden:
“Well there will be an MGS 5, right?”
or something, so if you put one and
one together you can find out, that
he will be the main character in MGS 5
maybe on wii, as a ninja?
some people think it, anyways
April 12, 2010 at 2:42 am
How are you, nice post.