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Commander: Site with cryptic video gets an equally cryptic picture photo

Last weekend, we spotted a creepy viral video for what IGN believes to be a Wii-exclusive title due out in 2009. I had my old German professor attempt to translate the entirety of the piece, but she wasn’t able to catch anything audible (other than the screaming) in the closing seconds. The Web site hosting the video now has a cryptic image (above) that doesn't need language translation -- only artistic.

What the hell does the picture convey? I haven’t the slightest clue, and I’m not sure Frau Wuthrich could drop me any hints. It features blocks, the color grey, and quite a few reticules.

The image’s file name reads “J_BN_POMZ_B_NBO.” The lovely Professor Pew and I were able to crack the wicked hard shifted alphabet code (-1) in a matter of seconds. Once decoded it reads, “I AM ONLY A MAN.”

I suppose that rules out Starcraft Ghost. PS EPFT JU?


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tehuberone's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/31/2008 01:11
tehuberone
DEFINITELY NEXT GEN TETRIS!!!!!
Tubatic's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/31/2008 01:16
Tubatic
perhaps the reticles are verticees? by which the image can be rearranged?

I kinda hate viral marketing.
Tubatic's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/31/2008 01:29
Tubatic
::sigh:: arright, so the image with the dot on www.commandervideo.com is titled "BTB.jpg" what's that mean?

ASA.jpg? Anybody know an ASA?
Tubatic's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/31/2008 01:30
Tubatic
also, if you check last week's story, Commandervideo now has a Destructoid account by which to further viralize.

is this really why I'm up at 2:30 in the morning?
the_real_one's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/31/2008 01:59
the_real_one
wii exclusive? good bye, unless its nintendo's i don't see any casual crap matine AKA developers 4 the wii try to make something hardcore or with an actual interesting story. i mean do grandmas like viral marketing?
epoch's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/31/2008 02:42
epoch
btb, born to build maybe?
Tubatic's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/31/2008 03:19
Tubatic
Alright. After spending way too much time on this, I've got a few things.

The IGN thread notes that there's a wii exclusive coming called [url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe42qaoCT_I]Cursed Mountain [/url], that seems to fit the vibe of this viral stuff.

On the wishful thinking list, perhaps the email has different meaning when it says there's a frame from the game in the video.

Maybe they mean Orbital Frame. Like Zone of the Enders. The 2D pic vaguely reminds me of the smooth canyons you had to fight through in the first game. Also, some of the IGN poster likened the white grid to Konami's Gradius III. Its a stupid loose association. However, if Kojima's working on a game, he's going to want to hype it, and this seems just crazy enough to have his stank on it.

I hate viral marketing . . .
Tubatic's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/31/2008 03:21
Tubatic
I fail. Google it please. Cursed Mountain. :(
Tubatic's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/31/2008 03:37
Tubatic
because, see, if this ends up being a sequence of progressively "sharper" images, wherein the blocks become more detailed sets of blocks, and eventually turn into an image, that could totally be a screen from Z.O.E, with Jehuty in the foreground . . .

Also, "ASA" - sounds kinda like ADA, from Zone of the Enders.

Also, "I am only a man" makes me think that the "_" in the file name could be blanks. "AUMAN" could work. I'm only AUMAN, like a sinister reference to project Aumon from ZOE2

But I KNOW this can't really be about ZotE . . .

Unles its a Wii-make. Like Twin Snakes was an exclusive . . .
Video Cognito's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/31/2008 04:24
Video Cognito
Dude, fuck that. As supportive as I am in actually having a good Wii game to play, I'd much prefer ZOE 3 on my PS3. That'd be amazing.
Video Cognito's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/31/2008 04:28
Video Cognito
Also, man... Tubatic, you suck for getting me thinking of ZOE. There's no way this is related to ZOE.
Timmeh's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/31/2008 06:02
Timmeh
ASA? Maybe it's "Advertising Standards Authority: The Video Game"
Major Mustard's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/31/2008 07:54
Major Mustard
The crosshairs make it look like the moon landing footage.
Rational Animal's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/31/2008 08:53
Rational Animal
Lego Risk
Tubatic's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/31/2008 09:01
Tubatic
@Cognito

Yeah, I know, my bad. I'm probably gonna play some of ZOE2 today.

ZOE on PS3 and the next Team Ico game will probably make me a PS3 owner.
Drunkenman's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/31/2008 11:02
Drunkenman
The blocks definitely seem like a landscape to me like various elevations. But why is the one in the front floating then?
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/31/2008 11:48
Holyetheline
Yeah it seems like another tetris. lol
Jasongame's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/31/2008 12:43
Jasongame
Sort of reminds me of Wetrix... Wetrix 2?
smurfee mcgee's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/31/2008 12:52
smurfee mcgee
It reminds me of a plane flying over a base or something.
but that's without reading into anything.
nintendoll's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/31/2008 12:54
nintendoll
ONCE A MAN!

Game about Skeletor.
Nick Chester's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/31/2008 15:19
Nick Chester


Yes. Please.
alcoran's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/31/2008 15:27
alcoran
There are also a cluster of white dots around the top center of the image. They look too large to be film grain. A constellation maybe?
Touch's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/01/2009 08:44
Touch
Some kind of artsy God sim - like an esoteric SimCity
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