Hey all, this is the first time I've got to sit down and enjoy the forums in a while. Even though I've kept up with the trailers, I have been asking myself, after all the hoops we jumped through in BO2, collecting pieces, building card readers,going back and collecting cards, and using them just to fulfil either of the two protagonists goals have ended in a large story gap (again) with the release of "The Giant" and whatever that other map is called (I'm not to thrilled about that one atm).
I am hoping I've just missed something, or forgot a piece of information because I'd be lying if I said I've used my ps3 in the last 6-7 months.
So we're here, back in Der Riese, with what looks like our three heroes from Origins, and the Richtofen from the present reality (basically all the maps we play in except Origins). To me, it looks like they know that this Richtofen isn't their version, so they trick him into opening the teleporter and letting "their" Richtofen in. This is where it gets confusing for me a little bit.
Why would they go back to this map when the first sighting of the meteor was in Shino Numa? Why come back to a time where there are already zombies? How can a group of "heroes" that in Origins, showed very little knowledge of anything zombie/Samantha related, all of sudden know where to go, what to do,so on and so forth..
A friend had said that when Richtofen shoots his other self, that it is a welcomed death. I don't really believe that but going back and looking I can see why that could be a theory. What do you all think of that?
So now, back to the spires. What was the purpose of doing all that just to be brought back to the beginning? Loops are the obvious choice, and I get that, but it's not an explanation as to WHY it loops that way. How can Richtofen go crazy,start Samanthas ascension to power, take her power, be thwarted by Maxis, then have BO2 heroes set up the spires, to be brought BACK to what I believe is the real beginning (origins)where we find out they're ancient heroes....just to end up skipping other maps and landing in Der Riese? Sorry for the poor sentence structure but it's so confusing to even type /faint.
All I can do is, come up with a couple of theories as to why this is going on:
1. Richtofen from Origins is going the way of the Weasle, and waking up to the infinite loop. Going to Der Riese could end the cycle if there is no insane Richtofen to trick the others to going through all the maps and taking Samantha's power. But the question still remains, what will they do with Samantha?
2. By trying to "fix" the loop, they are actually playing into its script. And we'll see Richtofen become power hungry (as he mentioned wanting the staffs power for himself in Origins, he still has that trait of selfishness). Only this time, instead of wiping the other three character's memories, he leads them on a false quest just to snatch the reward at the end, having Maxis probably destroy Earth again...
Oh yea....and where the $#*^ is Maxis!?!