DLC 4 teasing and potential theory

[A Feral Popcorn]

Okay, Treyarch put new images up on their FaceBook. They were notes that seemed to have been writen by someone of Japanese decent. He also mentions a Doctor in one of his notes. To me, this seems to much like Takeo and Richtofen.

Now, there have been a ton of posts about how the O4 are alive and the next map is after Moon, etc....but what if it isn't? These notes are dated before any of the other events (as far as I know) could the map be what happened before they all lost their minds due to Richtofen? Or possibly after he worked on them but before Shi No Numa? A sort of prologue, if you will? Just my take on it.

[Stop Mocking Me0]

Because that would mean leaving the storyline with the split paths of maxis and richtofen... Each one ENTIRELY different... You can't make the leap to another game without a common ending... And you can't leave the storyline as it is because there is no closure... Like telling someone: You can lick this lollipop, but no more... It's not good for business or story-telling...

WHAT COULD happen is if we had a map with told, NOT US! but the original 4 characters who they were! Because all tank, nikolai, takeo, Samantha, Maxis and richtofen have "lost their minds" and this will help them "gain control" -Carry on reference. To return to a common area they all were at BEFORE richtofen's madness, it may jog their memories, like in MOTD...

IMO there will be one way to truely end this...

If you sided with maxis and complete his goals, you will be rewarded with the first achievement, then richtofen will appear in zombie form and offer you instructions, leading to the second achievement: The common ending

For richtofen you will complete his tasks, get a DIFFERENT first achievement and a back-up maxis will appear (where have we seen this before) or maybe Samantha... and it will lead you to the second achievement : The common ending...

To recap: We revisit a place they all were, but it is during current times.... It may look WW1 era, but in reality its still 20??... Just like buried LOOKS like its in the victorian era, but is really modern day...

Another possibility is a shangri-la type deal in which the characters return to the past... But i personally would not like to see that....

"Those who look only to the past... Or the present... Are certain to miss THE FUTURE!" -JfK

[Vyhl]

Because that would mean leaving the storyline with the split paths of maxis and richtofen... Each one ENTIRELY different... You can't make the leap to another game without a common ending... And you can't leave the storyline as it is because there is no closure... Like telling someone: You can lick this lollipop, but no more... It's not good for business or story-telling...

WHAT COULD happen is if we had a map with told, NOT US! but the original 4 characters who they were! Because all tank, nikolai, takeo, Samantha, Maxis and richtofen have "lost their minds" and this will help them "gain control" -Carry on reference. To return to a common area they all were at BEFORE richtofen's madness, it may jog their memories, like in MOTD...

IMO there will be one way to truely end this...

If you sided with maxis and complete his goals, you will be rewarded with the first achievement, then richtofen will appear in zombie form and offer you instructions, leading to the second achievement: The common ending

For richtofen you will complete his tasks, get a DIFFERENT first achievement and a back-up maxis will appear (where have we seen this before) or maybe Samantha... and it will lead you to the second achievement : The common ending...

To recap: We revisit a place they all were, but it is during current times.... It may look WW1 era, but in reality its still 20??... Just like buried LOOKS like its in the victorian era, but is really modern day...

Another possibility is a shangri-la type deal in which the characters return to the past... But i personally would not like to see that....

"Those who look only to the past... Or the present... Are certain to miss THE FUTURE!" -JfK

They can do whatever they want. Campaign mode we have 4 different possible endings. Zombies has always been tied into campaign a little bit in every game. In Zombies on BO2 we can clearly see the choices you make have different effects then what others would get.

[Stop Mocking Me0]

Campaign doesn't matter...

If you end the storyline with a split path the next game would open with both split paths... Tray arch would have to make 2 times as many maps and things just WON'T happen...

[TheDunbarian]

I'm with mocking, it's ok to end the campaign with multiple endings because the story (most likely) will not be continued. Zombies, however, is another story. The zombies storyline has taken on a life of its own, it's grown too big to end. If they planned on ending the entire story in this map right here, then multiple endings would work. But odds are, zombies will continue in Treyarch's next game. It's too successful not to. And in order to do that, we need ONE, SOLID ending to continue on.

[potato]

time travel :D