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[Carrion Crow]

pretty much the whole internet got trolled

[Rowain]

You mean there will be videogames announced at e3?

[Eltee]

Nintendo's got stuff to announce too


hopefully good stuff


i wish


f-zero...

[Vellfire]

man if i was kojima i'd spend all of my free time setting up timers across the internet, each bearing a single letter

[CociCookie]

Heh, the timer seems to have reset itself, it now reads to be 106 hours O_o

[Vellfire]

It wasn't so much resetting as it was that the countdown was a countdown to...another countdown.

[big ass skelly]

Haha kojima must have REALLY screwed up to alienate psyburn

[elkalo]

Woah, 120 hours? I see a 3 now. Probably something stupid again. Altough I almost shit myself when they had theyre MSG countdown...-_-

[Eltee]

The flashes pretty much point out

5 @ E3

So, MGS5 at E3, which, when you think about it, is no fucking surprise at all.

The question is: why do we have two(maybe three after this one) countdowns just to say something will be announced at E3?

The answer is: Kojima likes to be an asshole

[Vellfire]

Man, if I was Kojima I'd do this shit all the time.  I don't think it makes him an asshole, I just think it makes the people drooling over these countdowns gullible.

[Carrion Crow]

hey for the record i wasn't drooling although I might've been a little moist

[Eltee]

Man, if I was Kojima I'd do this shit all the time.  I don't think it makes him an asshole, I just think it makes the people drooling over these countdowns gullible.

by asshole i just meant he likes playing other people like toys

[Carrion Crow]

It would appear that 2009 is the year of the fucking annoying countdown website as gamespot now have banners counting down to the worldwide "premier" of Modern Warfare 2.

It would be cool if one day a game company could just *release* a game without telling anyone. I think we would appreciate the nice surprise more than several drawn out weeks of mediocre trailers.

What's worrying is that soon we will see RPG maker games with countdown timers as our young attempt to imitate the real life games industry.

[The Dude]

I stopped paying attention to this when there were clouds over a field. To find out it was just a MGS5 @ E3 is hilarious.

[xanque]

Even though the waits on MGS are ridiculous, the games are pretty fucking great (Not counting the shitty iPhone game).

But really, we don't need a countdown for an announcement.  A countdown for a game is fine.  But for some information about a game that will be released a year later?  Come on.

[Ax_Dude]

Its been running on my computer for at least 20 hours.
I just like the background noise of a storm.

[ThugTears666]

I know the countdown annoys everyone but its their way of generating hype for the game announcement. What do you expect?

[Frisky SKeleton]

how is this annoying at all? everyone instantly thought it was about MGS5 and turns out... it is. did you think the countdown would be until it was released or something?

if you release a game without advertising it before hand by the time enough people know about it the technology is dated. although you can hide it by keeping all your audio as uncompressed wave on a blu ray disc.

[Vellfire]

Part of me hopes it really is Snatcher just as an extra "hahaha you thought you had it ALL figured out with that storm, you just thought you were soooo clever"

[Ralph]

Part of me hopes it really is Snatcher just as an extra "hahaha you thought you had it ALL figured out with that storm, you just thought you were soooo clever"

Me too, except adding in that Snatcher was F'ING AWESOME.