Sorry if someone has posted something similar to this. I gave the subreddit a quick search and didn’t see anything but I highly doubt I’m the first to think of something along these lines.
I think that Death Stranding will heavily incorporate the idea of “indirect multiplayer” through streaming and other forms of player socialization. (Kojima’s already talked about this before, through his vision of how P.T. was supposed to be solved in an ARG-like community manner.) I think throughout a play through, some kind of code/coordinates will be available (or required) for other players to utilize.
-SPOILERS FOR AVENGERS: ENDGAME FROM HERE ON-
I think it will become necessary to utilize these codes/coordinates to jump in to other people’s timelines/realities in order to obtain an item or talk to a dead character, similar to how it was necessary for the Avengers to do so to obtain the destroyed Infinity Stones. Basically: “oops I accidentally got Guillermo Del Toro killed before he gave me an access code, better hop online and find someone else’s world where he’s still alive.”
Then the whole Avengers time travel idea of “someone else’s past is now your future” becomes true as well. We move forward (through our own linear timeline) by weaving in and out of other people’s pasts. In doing so, you also create new variations of these “pasts”, that others can weave through as well.
-SPOILERS FOR 9 HOURS, 9 PERSONS, 9 DOORS FROM HERE ON-
How I visualize this to work from a video game perspective is similar to how it’s handled in 999. In 999 there’s many different branching paths, timelines, and endings. At one point, let’s call it Path A, you die because you don’t know the necessary password to proceed (disarming a bomb I think? Or to open a door? Let’s just say bomb) In a different path, Path B, you discover the password for the bomb but in this timeline you never encounter it at all. Now if you were to jump back to Path A, to the point where you need to disarm the bomb, the game recognizes that you’ve encountered the necessary information and creates a new branch of the timeline, where you disarm the bomb and survive/progress forward. (EDIT: in case anyone was wondering, the game incorporates the player’s “ability” to pass information across timelines, into its’ sci-fi plot.)
TLDR: Norman Reedus will Avengers: Endgame his way to a true ending, in a 999 manner.
Anyways, that was longer than I thought and a bit of a ramble, but if you made it this far, thanks for reading!
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