In just under 7 hours, the Kojima ‘NEXT’ site will hopefully and finally shed some light as to what the hell is going on. By this, for the people who aren’t as sad as some of us are, i mean the Kojima Productions teaser site for what most people think is the new Metal Gear game. Since it’s beginning a week or so ago ( prolly more than that i think, considering some of the timers have been 120 hours and more) there has been an image of a field with some trees with a timer in the middle of the it all. At first it was raining a little bit, then more, then thunderstorms, and now sun. And while all of this was going on, random numbers/letters/kanji (whatever you want to make of it) flashed up behind the timer, along with a image of a man with a beret and an eye patch (notice how i didn’t say Snake or Big Boss). As if this wasn’t all a mess, the Kojima logo in the bottom right morphs to a face, and if you click it your taken to another teaser site with a mask in low light that changes depending on the time.
Now i don’t know about most people, but i love the Metal Gear series. It was the first game i ever imported on the PS1 (in which i then got the US version, and finally the EU one when it came out) and whenever any information about a new game/spin off/etc comes out, i get far too excited. I prefer not to say what my thoughts are on all the teaser stuff that comes out though. For me, i like finding out any information but there’s a limit. If it means spoiling any part of the game i don’t check it out. I still own a copy of a PS2 magazine that has a sealed exclusive look at MGS2 and details about the new characters/levels/etc that has never been touched ( i also had to buy the official magazine twice as i lent the demo disc with MGS2 on it to a friend and the next day decided i needed to play the level again that badly). So all of this teaser stuff is fun look at and mess around, but i try and not to take it all too seriously.
For now at least, the timer is still continuing to count down, and as far as i would like to speculate, there might be one last timer as images shown in Famitsu show another figure (who looks like some sort of cyborg ninja, go figure) as one of the images. To be honest though, after staying up till stupid hours in the morning to watch the countdown stop and restart again, that image might have already appeared and i just haven’t noticed it. Either way it shouldn’t be long till we finally get some answers, and i can start the long agonizing process of waiting for it to be released. It’s bad enough to have FFXIII being delayed and taking forever, but with what this is all about and the Team Trico leaked footage doing the rounds on the internet, it’s getting bad again.
Well it’s been 2 weeks or so since my last post, which is thanks to a few things;
1. Laziness
Not really much to say about this one. That’s about it.
2. 3Ds Max
For the last couple of weeks i have gotten back into 3D work. It’s something i’ve always enjoyed doing but now with the ability to model while at different places i’ve fallen back into learning and reading up on stuff. This has pretty much taken up most of my free time as i lose myself in it all without a concept of time while doing so (does that sentence make sense?). This has however led me to finally figure out a few things and improve on the basics that i had already learnt a few years back when i first started. While i am in no way the best ( cuz quite frankly, i’m obviously not), i am now happy with the level i am at and am looking forward to continuing my progression. here are a few things i have made over the last couple of weeks.
A random early ‘Wipeout’ style render, nice paint job.
Same ship, different paint. Reflections are fun.
Quick Realflow test, didn’t work very well so i had to take screen shots.
Ben 10 Alien Force Omnitrix, almost final render.
A quick 3D model of King Kittan, quite happy but needs work.
As with all of these, i quickly get bored and move onto another project, whether it is animation or just a mesh. I’ll post more and some updates at a later point.
3. Playstation 3
This is pretty much obvious if you know me. To be fair i haven’t bought any games for a while now. Technically that’s not true, i bought Outrun Online from the ps store, but i haven’t gone into a shop and bought any games. Technically that’s not true either, as i went into Blockbusters and picked up Fight Night Round 3 for £20. I haven’t bought a hard copy of a new game in a while is what i should really say. In between Fight Night, COD4 (i thought i would get bored of that quicker), Guitar Hero III+World Tour (same thing as COD4), the UFC demo (which is awesome, very very awesome) and Megaman 9 (really owe it to the game to complete it), i’ve been watching a lot more videos on screwattack.com and re-wacthing all the angry video game nerd videos. Quality.
To be honest that’s the main things that have kept (i must point out here that i stopped writing this on 18/05/09 and am continuing from memory as to what i was writing about) me busy.
