MysteryMachineX

Don't dwell on semantics? There was a court case to decide whether a Tomato was a fruit or vegetable so that we would know how to tax it. Nothing is too trivial to analyze.

@PINNAZ: Yes. I don't see a problem. You could also say the 115 nuclear drill was. But I figured we're talking about a mobile subset.

Oh I forgot about that. That was because at those high rounds the game would re-roll. You'd essentially have to get a Max Ammo twice mathematically before even one would appear. 1/6 turned into 1/(6*6) = 1/36. Therefore you'd be increasing your odds to 1/(5*5) = 1/25.

Think about it this way. If you have a Crossbow there's no 115. If you Pack-A-Punch (thereby giving it 115), it can now shoot bolts that attract zombies. So evidently the attractiveness is correlated with 115. Therefore the Monkey Bomb's ability to attract zombies has to do with 115. Also the achievement in Der Riese says it is a Wonder Weapon. I'd also like to point out I didn't just make up the ethereal category. Ethereal energy is a real recurring theme in Zombies. Just look at Buried.

There's nothing to figure out. The Radios in Ascension show Samantha fancied the Matryoshka Dolls in the same way she did the Teddy Bears. As for the Spoon, I already mentioned little things like it being a gift from SATAN and its magic killing potential. But hey why not mention the fact is floats around in your hand and also magically stirs up tubs of blood too. Ethereal = Aether

It's a Silver Spoon given to you by Satan that can kill zombies by simply swiping it at them. Half of the Wonder Weapons can be grouped under 115. The other under ethereal. Although to be honest quite a few exhibit both properties. Silver Spoon however is purely ethereal, much like the H*ll's Retriever and Matryoshka Dolls.

I abhor using such subjective terms. Wonder Weapon - A weapon that utilizes Element 115 or ethereal energy in its operation prior to being Pack-A-Punched. Simple.

Not at all. I'm assuming nothing. He could be whatever race. I'm not pigeon-holing it like some people. Ludvig IS MORE CORRECT because it is used more often. (As in, literally every single instance minus the servant files.) That fact has absolutely nothing to do with race. But hey! You wanna throw race around?! Maybe he was of Scandinavian origin before he joined the multicultural 935? And maybe the fact it had an overbearing German presence means he spelled his name with a W sometimes? Shucks look at that! The possibilities! Dr. Ludvig Maxis, a.k.a. Dr. Ludwig Maxis Dr. Gersch, a.k.a. Dr. Gersh Agartha, a.k.a. Argatha

So you're assuming he isn't Scandinavian. =_=

Take his word for it.

Some names can be spelled more than one way. Ludvig would be the most correct way, but Ludwig isn't necessarily wrong. I would take the servant files with a grain of salt however since they pass through a middle man (the CIA). And since literally everything else says Ludvig, then Ludvig it is. Same goes for Gersch versus Gersh. The achievement is the only thing that says Gersh. But since literally everything else says Gersch, you ought to go by Gersch instead of Gersh, even though neither is technically incorrect.

I definitely agree. That sounds like sound logic for why he did that.

That looks cool. Good job reporting guys. I'm kind of jealous though. They're using the high-res ztl file, which we can't get. : ( Oh well.

So here are my thoughts. When you're talking about the multiplayer map, one thing you overlook is the WHY of why a nuke is dropped to end the battle. It doesn't change much and is kind of a mystery, but you didn't mention it and I thought it was worth mentioning. Also, with what you were saying about Nuketown's/Samantha's yellow-eyed zombies: I think it has been heavily referenced throughout the whole story that the Zombie Controllers are BAD AT THEIR JOB. Samantha was focused on the Moon. So while she was still in charge of the Zombies on the Moon, there were still things going on in Nuketown, which took up no more than the peripheral of her omnivision. And where her attention fades off is where the zombies' motives begin. If you're going to use the meanwhile message, that means that while four astronauts are on the Moon with a temple, Nuketown is being blasted by a laser. It doesn't mean anything about Moon and Nuketown occurring simultaneously. It means those two event depictions do. Although we also do know the maps occur simultaneously. The biggest problem with the whole idea of past, present, and future coming together makes absolutely no sense. It doesn't even pretend. Even things like Land of the Lost, which had the same premise, made sense. (Quantum mechanics makes it so that anything at any given moment has a chance to disappear. It ends up in the parallel mishmash dimension.) I'd also like to point out the Bus Driver's use of the f word. He likely wasn't programmed to use that word. He made the choice. Choice differentiates a clever AI from a not-so-much one. And the Bus Driver also mentions many classified places. While we don't see most of them, it proves they were on the itinerary for places he would visit. Pretty sure Area 51 was on that list too. As for the Marlton bit. I think the only reasonable conclusion is that Marlton missed the bus. While it may have been at Nuketown, and Marlton was there too. He didn't make it on in time. Only later did he run into the same bus before TranZit. And I think your thing about a "mysterious being" is pure speculation. Who what when where why. You've only got what and where, and the when I think is flimsy at best. If the crater being made in the comic is one separate from the one you see in the game, there should be two craters in the comic: the one being made and the much larger one having already been there. There is a way it could work though. If you were to suppose that the new crater is so big that any smaller craters (even if they were pretty big) were wiped from existence or even just sight, then you could potentially place it in the far future. (This would however require re-assigning a nuke to the mushroom cloud in-game.) You could then suppose the Moon's loading screen occurs in the far future, which would explain the stone temple: constructed by the "O4" (they had nothing else to do but die) I don't believe all that happened. But it would be an interesting way to re-interpret the story should evidence appear in the next game to necessitate it.

Nice observation Pinnaz. I still think most of the page will remain unsolved mysteries, but at least we can cross that off.

Was that supposed to be amusing? He's a game dev. It's not like anyone really cares. To all that see it: Monkey is a total liar.

I hate to be such a downer, but your information isn't completely correct. The Marines are just that, a Marine recon squad. The mystery might be more adequately put that we don't know their identities. (Although we know some from Verruckt.) Also, Tank being the leader is a fact. It was in the CIA files. But the rest of the mysteries were adequately unsolved. Also, some advice: use outlined text so that you never have to worry about it blending it when the background. And your intro is nearly a minute long. 30+ seconds before any info was given. Also, might want to move the text. The thing you were talking about the "lights", I couldn't see a thing what you were talking about. Wherever you were pointing was covered by text (only at some parts).

@Eternal: We know 115 (fictional yes) messes with time (Origins). Therefore it also messes with space, since space and time are two factors of a single idea.

Can I ask for my Mario thread to be moved to the new general gaming discussion area?

Well done!

I just want to say that I think the ads were a good move. You won't hear complaining from me.

WAIT. WAIT. So I am WELCOME to DISPROVE the EXISTENCE of SOMETHING?! That is outrageous! you know, bigfoot is real. Loch ness. Aliens. UFOs. Government conspiracies. JFK was killed by Russians. Nixon had a deal with aliens. Lincoln had third eye. Betty Crocker is trying to kill us all. Because the one and ONLY way you can know something is full of crap is when you definitely prove its existence impossible! Which is exactly why people don't look for bigfoot anymore! Oh wait, they still do! Sometimes you have to use the knowledge available to you to understand that some people are just full of crap. Even if you don't have a 24/7 surveillance of their entire life to disprove their awesomeness. >_> Give me any page on the Wiki, and I'll show incorrect information. Give me anything Benn says, and I'll show you incorrect information. Just because a parrot can speak a few words that makes sense does not mean that he came up with those words. That Paris stuff was from an actual interview. Benn had nothing to do with it! He is NOT legitimate in ANY way. BASH!

Excuse me? Cod Wiki and Benn? You are actually using those as credible sources? Well now I've seen everything.

When Treyarch was deciding what their bonus mode was going to be, it originally was going to be a game called Bunker Defense, where you played as a German gunman in a fort trying to defend your borders on the final day of the war, and but you inevitably lose as the waves get harder and harder, until the game ended with a Marine knocking down the door and shooting you in the face. This was changed because the idea of playing as a Nazi was seen as unsettling at the time, and later Nazi Zombies would replace the mode, where you instead killed the nazis again. Of course, next year they would get brave enough to try playing as a nazi with Richtofen.

Great reviews! It is nice to see someone go in depth and at the same time have such an honest and simultaneously optimistic attitude that isn't basically hating all of the maps! You say what you like, what you don't. But all in all you still manage to have fun, and that is good!