Ark: Expanded Universe and Ark 2 - The Joe Rogan Caveman Experience or How To Ruin the Concept of Humans Riding Dinosaurs

Marissa Moira

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So ark is a PVP Survival Multiplayer games that just involves greifing others and destroying weeks worth of grinding work in 5 minutes as the developers release more broken DLC piled on top of the heap of problems that's existed since the game was in early access. The entire life cycle of the game was to spend more money to get more problems because some busted new creature would come and wreck the previously impenetrable defenses of your base.

There's been sequel attempts before, the first one being ATLAS which was really just Ark resold as a pirate game. All the command prompts and code existed in Atlas and it was essentially a scam, the pirate world was just a new default map and all the old Ark shit existed in the game itself and could be hacked in. The second one was Pix Ark which was just a bad Minecraft clone with Dinosaurs. There was also the tech demo they sold at full price called Ark Park, but that game is broken in the sense that you can't beat it or finish it due to the final dinosaurs not being able to spawn.

Now having fully read all the in game journals and files strewn around the world of Ark to collect, I am a self certified Ark historian, and the base for the grand narrative is you're dropped into a biome that exists in space and there are dinosaurs and you use the dinosaurs to help grind for resources while also holding off enemy dinosaurs and along the way you kill a giant spider, a giant gorilla, a dragon, and then make your way to the volcano to fight a floating crystal super computer before you're allowed to "Ascend" and be free which just means restarting the game all over again but slightly more powerful than last time.

So of course we're now getting a whole cinematic universe with TV series and movies coming out along with another game.

The animation looks like Budget Korra and that series was already run on less than optimal funds


They got Vin Diesel to voice some guy for the Sequel, none of these characters are established or even shown in the original game.


No way is the final game even going to come close to looking like this.

Honestly my feeling in this is, this whole thing is backed by crime syndicate money and we might finally get spiritual successor to Gizmondo's fuckery. I just hope Larry Bundy or Internet Historian are aware.
 
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Great, more of the same scam. I love it when early access scammers release sequels before ever finishing any of their previous projects.
 
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they didnt even finish up fixing their already existing game, just adding more dlc for it
 
KingofNothing said:
I'm just saying if we get some dinosaurs trying out DMT, I'm there. I am surprised it did well enough to get a tv show though
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Yeah which is what makes this sound real fishy. Even bad animation is expensive especially since they're tying it to a brand new game and all their past endeavors were crap since they constantly bitched about needing more funding.
 
Marissa Moira said:
Yeah which is what makes this sound real fishy. Even bad animation is expensive especially since they're tying it to a brand new game and all their past endeavors were crap since they constantly bitched about needing more funding.
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True, but I've also seen a comic book with sub 1k in sales per issue get a tv show so I guess getting a show isn't as hard as it appears. The classic concept of dinosaurs and caveman is simple enough to push and I just checked it now, ARK alone sold over 7 million copies. A decent agent could point at that alone as a viable property to make a show out of. Now they have three games, they're basically a franchise with millions of sales to appeal to people who don't actually care about actual video game quality
 
Something's definitely suspicious about this. I was generally under the impression that ARK was a niche game for dinosaur enthusiasts in the same vein as RUST. When they announced ATLAS like a year or two ago, I thought maybe this would go in an interesting new direction. Besides there's no real need to make a sequel to ARK if you can just update the game with new DLC and patches every so often. Instead, not only are they making a sequel (with Vin Diesel of all people) but they're also doing an animated series (not cheap by any means) with all these celebrity voice actors:

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Was there some kind of massively over-funded Kickstarter for this game that just went completely under my radar? This is something I'd expect out of Star Citizen or that reboot of Wing Commander, but not ARK: Survival Evolved. Where'd they get all this money from?
 
I thought ATLAS looked kind of interesting since I’m a sucker for pirates, it isn’t any good?

KingofNothing said:
I'm just saying if we get some dinosaurs trying out DMT, I'm there. I am surprised it did well enough to get a tv show though
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It’s entirely possible to get a dinosaur high on DMT, a buddy of mine did it.
 
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This is still a thing? Why? This game is worse than No Man Sky. I think someone is money laundering with this game.
 
So not only is Vin Diesel doing a voice in the game, he's apparently an executive producer at the studio. Wonder how that worked out?

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Actor Vin Diesel has joined Studio Wildcard as president of creative convergence, or executive producer, for both the upcoming Ark 2 game and Ark: The Animated Series.

As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Diesel was already a fan of the Ark games when he signed onto the project.

"I'm having a lot of fun playing Ark and also really excited to join the Studio Wildcard team to develop the story both in game and in the new animated series," Diesel said in a statement.

Diesel is also playing the voice role of Santiago, a freedom fighter who appears in both the animated series and the game.

This is not Diesel's first foray into video games or even game making. Aside from his various voice and appearance credits, he also founded his own video game company called Tigon Studios in 2002, which worked on games like Wheelman and multiple Chronicles of Riddick titles.

Tigon Studios had development work suspended in 2009, re-opened in 2013 for Riddick: The Merc Files, and more recently co-developed Fast & Furious Crossroads with Slightly Mad Studios."

 
Michael Wade said:
Just get rid of the grinding and ill consider it, but dam... I really regret dropping 60 on this bitch
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This.
Fuck XP and leveling in this kind of game. You'd think having a set stat cap on a t-rex fighting a velociraptor would make sense. But fuck that shit, make the tiny little rat dinosaur some kind of lvl 999 alpha demon lord monster who triple shots t-rexes and fuck their moms.
 
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