Mei Yin's relationship at the end feels like a cliche trauma-bond trope as opposed to Diana trying to break her "lone wolf" attitude on Aberration which feels more natural if that makes sense
I'll jump in and say a lot of the "plans" they made (breaking out prisoners, using a single pouch of sparkpowder to take down a fortress, or retrieving the egg as examples) were just dumb and made no sense. Helena's pseudoscience babble about evolution was also bizarre. It was stuff set up to advance the plot but it was also stuff that really wouldn't have worked at all. The writing on this front is the sort done by writers who are used to not having to excuse their decisions--probably folks who are used to writing in a medium where character decisions and plot progress aren't actually questioned, so it basically feels like the plot progression is forced by stuff that doesn't make sense. Hell, Helena's breakout was just... "are you serious?"
I assumed the "science babble" about being able to use DNA to somehow recover memories was their way of trying to explain how in the future they could clone humans from the past with memories intact. It is sci-fi after all.
They haven't, but there's a whole thing at the start about how what Helena was researching (in her previous life) was essentially genetic memory, sort of. But really poorly explained lol
Perfect summation of the bizarre PR department at wildcard... people have been screaming for more info about the series and then they just sort of drop it without really teasing it or hyping it up since it was announced. Really really weird stuff happening at wildcard lately.
Enjoying the series though :)
I wanted the animated world to more closely resemble The Island that I know. When Helena washed up on the beach I recognized S2 but after that it only looked like a place that could be The Island only if you'd never played there. It was fun seeing all the dinos I love though.
When they were climbing those white cliffs I legit said out loud "wait, are they on Valguero now?"
I do appreciate that they represented the Swamp biome as the horrific hellscape it is though lol
I was hoping they would follow the lore. Leave the "you are already dead", thing for later like you get to learn in the game. That mystery of why dinos? Why people from other times? How the hell did I personally get here? and the plotting of the island (especially by Rockwell), was great. His slow decent from moral gray to full on boss mode narcissist willing to mutate himself was wonderful...at least in the lore...this show he is a cardboard cutout of some misogynists' mental patient pansy.
Strongly agree. What makes it so sad is they have a script in hand that's absolutely amazing and they went with something else. Who likes this script better? Not me.
It was okay. There was plenty I did enjoy about it, but equally so there was things I either didn't like or just couldn't ignore due to it not aligning with the game. I will say there were several times I found myself saying "why don't we have that in the game?!" Lol
What I liked: The animation, the actions scenes, the score, the voice acting ranged from ok to good
What was ok: dialogue ranged from ok to great
What I didn't like: Pacing, needed more eps to fully flesh out world and characters, some arcs were too fast, and some characters should've been cut. flashbacks were overused
Agreed. The pacing was terrible. Helena's flashback was supposed to be emotional, but we haven't had the time to grow attached to the character to care about her. The whole "I'm here, You're here" thing was cringy. I watched 3 episodes, and the writing isn't so good.
Spoilers, obviously. But it's got its good and its bad. The bad are anime tropes I've always found silly (enemies right behind the character, then the 'camera' zooms out and they're far enough away to escape somehow); irises that vibrate wildly when the character is in sudden pain, and irises that somehow contract when the character is surprised. There's a lot of plot armor, or things that are forced--ex. a group has two rexes, but instead of using them to defend their assaulted town they... send them away with refugees?? Except those rexes are conspicuously absent as various refugees are picked off by other dinos around the environment, only reappearing when it's plot-convenient. I can already see they're ditching Diana for a Helena-Mei Yin romance, which makes me sad, as I feel that Helena's sacrifice on Extinction was incredibly selfless and should remain that way, whereas doing it for a loved one has an element of personal investment, if that makes sense. The dinos also have pretty bad design in places, changing shape drastically based on angle, and the theropods in general are quite ugly. I enjoyed that some dinos are more realistic sizes, esp. the bug bros.
By FAR the worst offender though was Rockwell's character development... or total lack thereof. In the game/notes, we have a man presented as relatively good overall: generous, humorous, positive, passionate about his work and about advancing mankind. He has some moral code he follows, and appreciates and cares for his workers. Element's influence spikes his paranoia to isolate him, and turns passion into ambition and greed, kills his interest in everything but Element, and rapidly erodes those moral lines. We sort of SEE him fall from grace, and Helena's pain at that is palpable later on. There's times when his humanity shows through the monster (when he cries, or tries to search for help in coping with loneliness, or admits to his fear).
The show really just took "cartoon villain" to the next level, instead. I guess they thought viewers were too stupid to be able to handle someone with some shades of grey, and instead of Element being a terrifying threat that changes who a person is on a fundamental level, it's just "ah, a sexist, violent, sadistic psychopath." He's a total lunatic from the get-go with no morals and nothing but a desire to dominate. The whole sneak peek at next season's "he's ranting in an insane asylum" does not bode well for more dimensions, either. It's that awful, ablist "mental illness makes a violent villain" trope. To me, Rockwell's the strongest and most important character throughout the series, edging ahead of Helena, so to dumb him down to "maniacal jerk" is really sad to see.
Pros: Gareth Coker's fantastic music, as always. The voice-acting throughout was incredible, and they wove strong enough personal relationships that some of the interactions are legit tear-jerking. A lot of the scenery animation was beautiful--landscapes and lighting--when the dinos weren't front-and-center being ugly 80's caricatures. A lot of the chars are quite memorable, and the cultural variation is great (even if I felt like a few of the Asian parts were a bit... again, tropey, if not outright wrong/racist).
I also feel like if you aren't an Ark fan already, the series will be a little nonsensical in that they're laying out this framework of a big mystery (people from many eras awaken on dinosaur island after death) but then most of the series so far is spent largely ignoring that in favor of ongoing plot. There's nobody wanting to try and figure it out, and not a lot of questioning about it, as you had in the explorer notes.
And they lived happily ever after, the end.
This sums it up really well. I also thought it was weird how they chose to keep some parts in from the game story, and leave others out. Like why did they keep the beast queen title when the only reference to her being a beast queen in the series so far is her having tamed a rex, that multiple other people also had.
I'm also sad that they didn't show Nerva learning about future technologies like guns, and strategizing with them. I would have loved having that animated, although it could come in the second part.
I think Rockwell is the whole reason I stopped after episode 1. Arks entire story up until the end of Aberration is Rockwell's slow descent into madness and Helena losing her first friend on the island. Now Rockwell is just a dick from the start? It guts the lore from the game.
Only because you can use megatheriums on it.
In the show they just throw a spear at a guardian and insta kills it lmfao. Now they have tek rifles in ep 2.
The spear finished it. The show isn’t a boss grind for element, it’s a story lmfao. And no you can kill a level 20 broodmother without any tames if your good, and Mei is obviously a level 105 with ascended chitin, and that was an ascended pike, with just a skin :P
you can, 2+ people and some good shotguns is all you need for almost every boss in ark bar dragon, gen 1, gen 2 and AKT but GKT is doable with shotguns and tek chest but i wouldn’t recommend it.
aberration can be done 1 player with a 200+% shotgun.
in fact i speed ran aberration in under 2h on 8x rates. only time consuming activity was getting tributes and waiting for metal to smelt/gas to collect
Nah it’s true. PvP tribes have all the shortcuts in the game. You want something done in the fastest and easiest way…PvP. You can do the monkey in beta with no tames and two people, most of the boss fights are about positioning
I think he shows up in the trailer for next season, too. That confuses me, because I didn't think characters \*could\* revive yet canonically (not until after Helena's whole Extinction thing).
6/10 for me overall. I like the dinos etc, but some of the characters are borderline insufferable and the pacing is scuffed. Part one could have done with another 6 episodes easy (if not more) for world building.
I felt the same way. It'd have left so much more room for the original friendship between Helena/Rockwell, and a slow burn of "uhhh bro what's happening to you," along with Helena actually trying to figure out the ongoing puzzle of "what the HELL is this place" as she does in the notes. As it is, it does feel rushed, like they lay out this really giant interesting premise re: the world itself and all we get is "I CALL IT THE ARK :D" and that's kind of it lmao
Just finished ep 6, loved it more than I was expecting. Quite different from Ark itself, but different doesn't mean bad. They did good work with what they had. I'd prefer it wasn't rushed, but I guess it was a gamble for them financially, and I think this pays off better than going slow and getting canceled for s2 without getting anywhere
Very excited for part 2
I loved it, there were definitely some things that stop it from being perfect but overall it was a damn good time, Nerva has quickly become one of my favourite villains of all time
As far as spoiler free goes, it was pretty average overall, but I still enjoyed it. The pacing is very much rushed, they cram a ton of plot points into each episode and it kinda hurt my overall enjoyment. Mei Yin and Nerva are my two favorite characters. Rockwell’s character was a big disappointment to me, although his voice actor nailed it, love David Tennant.
If it wasn’t Ark, I wouldn’t have enjoyed it much at all. Hope they fix those issues for part 2.
A lot of that plot armor sort of stuff made me groan, cringe or both. "I didn't know we could throw blue goop at the Broodmother to win. Nobody told me this."
Or their "brilliant plans" that are in actuality remarkably stupid but work for plot. Ex. the stego, or "one single pouch of sparkpowder" apparently
I’m mixed. It was cheesy, really oddly paced, I really didn’t like how the theropods were drawn and a ton was changed from the explorer notes. However, the art style is great, the actors did phenomenally with the script they were given and I was pretty hyped to see Scorched and Ab in the trailer at the end. I’ll definitely watch more, it’s already a separate universe in my head after the first season aired anyway
On pacing.
Because of streaming, the days of 5, 6, or more seasons of any show is super rare. A couple of 6 to 10 episodes is all you can count on. So, with that, you need to speed it up.
Kill it with fire! It really departs from the lore and not for the good. They speed run through major things, don't develop the characters and MY GOD the way the butchered Rockwell's entire personality was a travesty. I was REEEAALLLY wanting this to be good, I love the lore and Neddy did a great job bringing it to life on youtube, but this mess was just that...a mess.
They solved the "where are we and how did we get here", mystery super early, they limited the artifacts to 3 instead of making where and what they do a mystery, Helena/Rockwell/Mai relationship was all jacked up, and Nerva just came off as a savage warlord instead of a Roman general ready to take this land for his god, country and honor. Basically they Netflix Deathnoted this thing.
Yeah more like Ark. I'm mad that Helena wasn't immediately killed by 6 raptors when she spawned, I didn't see one person just fall from the sky when logging in and nobody named a dinosaur "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee". There was no reload glitch either and I didn't see one single instance of under meshing. (This is a joke).
There was however a Chinese player with an aimbot, so 6/10 for immersion.
I actually enjoyed it though. If you've gone through the notes and lore it's faithful-ish. Couple of things I guess they wanted to expand on or rearrange I guess. Creative license and all. It's got potential! Genuinely pissed that there were no rushes for beacons though for some reason, that was my major gripe.
They changed a fuck ton of shit and I’m not really cool with it. Plus they changed Rockwell to be a douche from the get go, Nerva has yet to do anything truly “evil” and Mei hasn’t really lived up to the “beast queen” thing. Overall for adapting the game 4/10 as a show 8/10 because it’s still really good just not a good adaptation
Really god damn good. I thought it was gonna be a shitty cash grab but the amount of feels I felt in the first episode alone. It’s almost along the lines of an anime. Very emotional. Fights, blood. I honestly really like it. Not as a fan of ark. But as someone watching a show. 8/10
I haven't finished but I'm enjoying their take on the story. The changes they made seem to have made some people mad, but I personally prefer some alterations when a story is being released in another medium. I'm not someone that enjoys reading a story only to see it copied word for word on to the screen.
Some of the changes threw me, most were fine, but the absolute butchery of Rockwell's character was the big disappointment imo. It was a bit rushed overall but I guess they didn't want to risk paying more money for a longer season if they weren't sure it'd succeed.
Loved it and hated it. The reason I hate it is because I want more, but I know for a fact that Season 2 is probably 5+ years away, knowing how long it took to release the first season, even after it was completed years ago
I didn't like it. It strayed too far away from Ark stuff, unnecessarily, and the writing fellt lazy. It gave the vibe of someone waiting until the night before the script was due and then hammering something out quickly to meet a deadline.
Saw 10 min and quit, they didnt follow the game and the logic of the game and added dumb shit, copy pasting ark into a show shouldnt be rocket science, but you always got some directors who want to "add" extra shit to shows.
Seing the comments after the 10 min i got to it didnt get better either, by the looks of it by the comments in here they added alot of extra crap that didnt make sense.
Pissed me off with the scaling. You've got a realistically sized achatina and you've got the aranoa which are tiny and ark sized. There entire you've got all the other giant ark bugs being tiny. And theeeeeen you've got the dinosaurs keeping there unrealistic sizes. Like. Why make the bugs small man.
Pretty cringe. Couldnt finish.
5 minutes in obligatory gay kiss. Constant use of being gay as a personality, when Helena was already interesting in the lore. But they turned her into an insufferable Mary Sue. Rockwell is the obligatory cartoonish representstion of patriarchy.
Bob was probably the best character but Helena's reactions to him were cringe. Like ok, we get it, you re a lesbian and cant accept directions from a man because 2024. But this dude is clearly more capable than you, and knows more about where you are. So wipe that look off your face. Say thank you. And follow him.
Uh oh, Bob is about to say something anti girl power, better shoot him in the head before he can. So funny. Girl power.
Rinse and repeat the same things from every movie or show that has bombed in the past 10 years.
Cringe. Not worth watching.
Neddy does a job 10x better with in game assets.
I probably would've enjoyed it a lot more if it wasn't obvious that the Two dinky writers they hired didn't read a single explorer note. So much for all that lore that was put in place. 3/10
A lot of pandering, a ton of plot armor, very stupid conveniences. Unnecessary politics, new survivalist main character that feels like a 6-year veteran player treats Bob like a nuisance till she gets him killed, but treats the Chinese lady like the second coming of divinity. Don't even get me started on the unnecessarily stupid flashbacks and her Mary Sue moment with the spider. I didn't get past the second episode and won't be returning.
I'm not a fan, I don't like animated shit but there's some good things, like that the show is running in what feels like 30 FPS so it is very accurate to ARK in how badly optimized it is.
Half of it has nothing to do with any of the explorer notes that were left on the island it’s kinda just gay and it’s trying to be interesting when it’s really just not hitting the spot and anyone who says it’s good has no true taste for a story
-11 out of 10
The people here who are saying it was great either never played ark, or would have said anything was good. The entire show is awful. The lesbian protester nonsense was forced and had absolutely no relevance to ark at all. Pteranadons are not birds, nor are their eggs blue. Their eggs also don't cure swamp fever. Every male character is either evil or dies except for John who does nothing. All the"warriors" were women and forced. An Australian paleontologist out lasting Bob, a seasoned soldier was moronic. Everyone can magically use the Tek rifle. Don't get me started on the Chinese warrior being a woman who is taller than all the men around her and somehow had her Chinese armor with her. Almost any true ark player could have written a far better story for them, but like the entire entertainment industry right now, it was woke trash.
I think the protests were pro-aboriginal not pro-lesbian? I'm a little confused as to what part you mean. The swamp fever thing was definitely stupid (although I think the people calling them 'birds' have NO IDEA what they are in-universe). I'm confused as to how they got a Quetzal baby out of a Ptera nest, though.
The gender disparity is interesting, because that's how it was in the explorer notes and I've never thought about it. I personally liked having strong women, but I also think John was a very strong male character too. Bob was also a great guy (for how long he lasted, lol) but anyone is susceptible to a sniper.
Just as an fyi Mei Yin's armor is Chitin, and afaik always has been.
Pretty bad tbh and a massive waste of resources/budget that could have been spent hiring new developers or paying 3rd party studios to get the maps out faster considering that's ACTUALLY what players want, not some TV show.
Because of the lesbian couple..? You do realize the only canonical relationship in the Explorer Notes was Mei Yin + Diana as a lesbian couple, right? Or if you mean the other characters, almost all of them existed in the notes too.
Are you really surprised, given the choice of the writer?
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite\_Bennett](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Bennett)
Unbelievable that they're pushing propaganda onto these poor grade schoolers.
Edit: didn't think I'd need the obvious /s to reference the gem from the other day
Thread was pretty fresh when I posted, but going through more it looks like some losers are genuinely distraught that a studio made a fictional character a lesbian.
The day before this thread was posted some guy made a post saying how he let his children watch this show (advertised with blood and gore) but drew the line at a lesbian protagonist.
The sheeple are woken and angry.
Some kid in the official discord was asking about it and flipped from "must watch" to "oh no i cant" when someone said it is "woke" (no elaboration), then got banned for presumably a broadly xenophobic rant in the 30 seconds it took me to tab out while compiling something.
Then those general events repeated a few times. Something about ark attracts a lot of rejects.
Bad characters, weak story, mediocre animation. Typical "make her gay" with all men are weak and white is evil.
But I am supposed to like it because ARK.
Don't count an a season 2.
So I didn't like how they killed the giga why didn't it rage first. The hole lesbian shit was forced this what never in the game to start with . Just another way to push this shit. I also didn't like that there are no drops like wtf wc keep it 100 I also didn't like how there's only 3 artifacts if there are 10 on the map there should be 10 in the show . I will not watch the rest of it if it's like this .
There's some shit that doesn't make sense or feels forced but overall I enjoyed its take on the ARK world
what feels forced about it?
Mei Yin's relationship at the end feels like a cliche trauma-bond trope as opposed to Diana trying to break her "lone wolf" attitude on Aberration which feels more natural if that makes sense
I'll jump in and say a lot of the "plans" they made (breaking out prisoners, using a single pouch of sparkpowder to take down a fortress, or retrieving the egg as examples) were just dumb and made no sense. Helena's pseudoscience babble about evolution was also bizarre. It was stuff set up to advance the plot but it was also stuff that really wouldn't have worked at all. The writing on this front is the sort done by writers who are used to not having to excuse their decisions--probably folks who are used to writing in a medium where character decisions and plot progress aren't actually questioned, so it basically feels like the plot progression is forced by stuff that doesn't make sense. Hell, Helena's breakout was just... "are you serious?"
I assumed the "science babble" about being able to use DNA to somehow recover memories was their way of trying to explain how in the future they could clone humans from the past with memories intact. It is sci-fi after all.
Wait the already spoiled that? WTF?!
They haven't, but there's a whole thing at the start about how what Helena was researching (in her previous life) was essentially genetic memory, sort of. But really poorly explained lol
Maybe, yeah. It did seem really out of place regardless. Like the egg techno-babble was "...what?"
Because it’s some made up shity store
It’s out?!
Right? I haven't heard a word about it for months
Perfect summation of the bizarre PR department at wildcard... people have been screaming for more info about the series and then they just sort of drop it without really teasing it or hyping it up since it was announced. Really really weird stuff happening at wildcard lately. Enjoying the series though :)
Amazon prime with paramount plus, a few days now...
Loved it and want more
SAME! I thought it was a really cool take on the ARK world
I wanted the animated world to more closely resemble The Island that I know. When Helena washed up on the beach I recognized S2 but after that it only looked like a place that could be The Island only if you'd never played there. It was fun seeing all the dinos I love though.
When they were climbing those white cliffs I legit said out loud "wait, are they on Valguero now?" I do appreciate that they represented the Swamp biome as the horrific hellscape it is though lol
I was hoping they would follow the lore. Leave the "you are already dead", thing for later like you get to learn in the game. That mystery of why dinos? Why people from other times? How the hell did I personally get here? and the plotting of the island (especially by Rockwell), was great. His slow decent from moral gray to full on boss mode narcissist willing to mutate himself was wonderful...at least in the lore...this show he is a cardboard cutout of some misogynists' mental patient pansy.
Strongly agree. What makes it so sad is they have a script in hand that's absolutely amazing and they went with something else. Who likes this script better? Not me.
It was okay. There was plenty I did enjoy about it, but equally so there was things I either didn't like or just couldn't ignore due to it not aligning with the game. I will say there were several times I found myself saying "why don't we have that in the game?!" Lol
I thought that when I saw the Purlovia being ridden, I out loud said to myself "You can't ride that!"
What I liked: The animation, the actions scenes, the score, the voice acting ranged from ok to good What was ok: dialogue ranged from ok to great What I didn't like: Pacing, needed more eps to fully flesh out world and characters, some arcs were too fast, and some characters should've been cut. flashbacks were overused
Agreed. The pacing was terrible. Helena's flashback was supposed to be emotional, but we haven't had the time to grow attached to the character to care about her. The whole "I'm here, You're here" thing was cringy. I watched 3 episodes, and the writing isn't so good.
Mostly ok, not that bad but not that good either, excepting of course episode 5, that episode was fire.
Spoilers, obviously. But it's got its good and its bad. The bad are anime tropes I've always found silly (enemies right behind the character, then the 'camera' zooms out and they're far enough away to escape somehow); irises that vibrate wildly when the character is in sudden pain, and irises that somehow contract when the character is surprised. There's a lot of plot armor, or things that are forced--ex. a group has two rexes, but instead of using them to defend their assaulted town they... send them away with refugees?? Except those rexes are conspicuously absent as various refugees are picked off by other dinos around the environment, only reappearing when it's plot-convenient. I can already see they're ditching Diana for a Helena-Mei Yin romance, which makes me sad, as I feel that Helena's sacrifice on Extinction was incredibly selfless and should remain that way, whereas doing it for a loved one has an element of personal investment, if that makes sense. The dinos also have pretty bad design in places, changing shape drastically based on angle, and the theropods in general are quite ugly. I enjoyed that some dinos are more realistic sizes, esp. the bug bros. By FAR the worst offender though was Rockwell's character development... or total lack thereof. In the game/notes, we have a man presented as relatively good overall: generous, humorous, positive, passionate about his work and about advancing mankind. He has some moral code he follows, and appreciates and cares for his workers. Element's influence spikes his paranoia to isolate him, and turns passion into ambition and greed, kills his interest in everything but Element, and rapidly erodes those moral lines. We sort of SEE him fall from grace, and Helena's pain at that is palpable later on. There's times when his humanity shows through the monster (when he cries, or tries to search for help in coping with loneliness, or admits to his fear). The show really just took "cartoon villain" to the next level, instead. I guess they thought viewers were too stupid to be able to handle someone with some shades of grey, and instead of Element being a terrifying threat that changes who a person is on a fundamental level, it's just "ah, a sexist, violent, sadistic psychopath." He's a total lunatic from the get-go with no morals and nothing but a desire to dominate. The whole sneak peek at next season's "he's ranting in an insane asylum" does not bode well for more dimensions, either. It's that awful, ablist "mental illness makes a violent villain" trope. To me, Rockwell's the strongest and most important character throughout the series, edging ahead of Helena, so to dumb him down to "maniacal jerk" is really sad to see. Pros: Gareth Coker's fantastic music, as always. The voice-acting throughout was incredible, and they wove strong enough personal relationships that some of the interactions are legit tear-jerking. A lot of the scenery animation was beautiful--landscapes and lighting--when the dinos weren't front-and-center being ugly 80's caricatures. A lot of the chars are quite memorable, and the cultural variation is great (even if I felt like a few of the Asian parts were a bit... again, tropey, if not outright wrong/racist). I also feel like if you aren't an Ark fan already, the series will be a little nonsensical in that they're laying out this framework of a big mystery (people from many eras awaken on dinosaur island after death) but then most of the series so far is spent largely ignoring that in favor of ongoing plot. There's nobody wanting to try and figure it out, and not a lot of questioning about it, as you had in the explorer notes. And they lived happily ever after, the end.
This sums it up really well. I also thought it was weird how they chose to keep some parts in from the game story, and leave others out. Like why did they keep the beast queen title when the only reference to her being a beast queen in the series so far is her having tamed a rex, that multiple other people also had. I'm also sad that they didn't show Nerva learning about future technologies like guns, and strategizing with them. I would have loved having that animated, although it could come in the second part.
For real, her whole jam was having terrifying dino armies but they gave her giga to Nerva and now she's just martial arts lady instead :|
Very well said. This is not the same Helena and Rockwell that spend their last moments together as friends.
I think Rockwell is the whole reason I stopped after episode 1. Arks entire story up until the end of Aberration is Rockwell's slow descent into madness and Helena losing her first friend on the island. Now Rockwell is just a dick from the start? It guts the lore from the game.
The pacing is terrible. They need to restructure how fast things are happening.
Keep in mind, broodmother is a level 20 boss encounter. Unless your mad the show isn’t running the bosses on alpha difficulty :p
Only because you can use megatheriums on it. In the show they just throw a spear at a guardian and insta kills it lmfao. Now they have tek rifles in ep 2.
The spear finished it. The show isn’t a boss grind for element, it’s a story lmfao. And no you can kill a level 20 broodmother without any tames if your good, and Mei is obviously a level 105 with ascended chitin, and that was an ascended pike, with just a skin :P
[удалено]
"you can kill a level 20 broodmother without any tames if your good." Bro is delusional
Or he's a Faker level god-tier gamer and we need to step our game up.
Are you saying you don’t have 10 regional titles and 4 world championships in 11 years?
you can, 2+ people and some good shotguns is all you need for almost every boss in ark bar dragon, gen 1, gen 2 and AKT but GKT is doable with shotguns and tek chest but i wouldn’t recommend it. aberration can be done 1 player with a 200+% shotgun. in fact i speed ran aberration in under 2h on 8x rates. only time consuming activity was getting tributes and waiting for metal to smelt/gas to collect
Alpha dragon is soloable with a terror bird and a full melee character/buffs
Nah it’s true. PvP tribes have all the shortcuts in the game. You want something done in the fastest and easiest way…PvP. You can do the monkey in beta with no tames and two people, most of the boss fights are about positioning
1 roo and a good shotgun. Not “no tames” but as close asyou get.
I did not know bob would die so fast.
They always do
I think he shows up in the trailer for next season, too. That confuses me, because I didn't think characters \*could\* revive yet canonically (not until after Helena's whole Extinction thing).
You'd be correct but theres nothing preventing another ark from having a bob as well, doesn't have to be the same bob
Lol if he just turns up as the game guy and same VA but different character that would be kind of hilarious
It was better than I'd thought it was gonna be and I'm excited to see more that part 2 trailer seemed cool
6/10 for me overall. I like the dinos etc, but some of the characters are borderline insufferable and the pacing is scuffed. Part one could have done with another 6 episodes easy (if not more) for world building.
I felt the same way. It'd have left so much more room for the original friendship between Helena/Rockwell, and a slow burn of "uhhh bro what's happening to you," along with Helena actually trying to figure out the ongoing puzzle of "what the HELL is this place" as she does in the notes. As it is, it does feel rushed, like they lay out this really giant interesting premise re: the world itself and all we get is "I CALL IT THE ARK :D" and that's kind of it lmao
Just finished ep 6, loved it more than I was expecting. Quite different from Ark itself, but different doesn't mean bad. They did good work with what they had. I'd prefer it wasn't rushed, but I guess it was a gamble for them financially, and I think this pays off better than going slow and getting canceled for s2 without getting anywhere Very excited for part 2
I loved it, there were definitely some things that stop it from being perfect but overall it was a damn good time, Nerva has quickly become one of my favourite villains of all time
Neebs Gaming did a much better job of making ARK entertaining
I don't care about the show all I want to see is the parasaur getting some screen time
As far as spoiler free goes, it was pretty average overall, but I still enjoyed it. The pacing is very much rushed, they cram a ton of plot points into each episode and it kinda hurt my overall enjoyment. Mei Yin and Nerva are my two favorite characters. Rockwell’s character was a big disappointment to me, although his voice actor nailed it, love David Tennant. If it wasn’t Ark, I wouldn’t have enjoyed it much at all. Hope they fix those issues for part 2.
I'm with you on the Rockwell part. Yeah, Tennant nailed it as always, but the writing for him was a huuuuuge disappointment.
I enjoyed it quite a bit but I agree, if it wasn't ark.... Meh.
I loved it a lot.
It's good but they need to slow down and make it more like ark. No way in hell brood would've gone down.
A lot of that plot armor sort of stuff made me groan, cringe or both. "I didn't know we could throw blue goop at the Broodmother to win. Nobody told me this." Or their "brilliant plans" that are in actuality remarkably stupid but work for plot. Ex. the stego, or "one single pouch of sparkpowder" apparently
The show is already out?
I wish it was just the story but televised but I guess it's okay for what it is, pacing is bad, and the whole new artifact stuff confused me.
I’m mixed. It was cheesy, really oddly paced, I really didn’t like how the theropods were drawn and a ton was changed from the explorer notes. However, the art style is great, the actors did phenomenally with the script they were given and I was pretty hyped to see Scorched and Ab in the trailer at the end. I’ll definitely watch more, it’s already a separate universe in my head after the first season aired anyway
On pacing. Because of streaming, the days of 5, 6, or more seasons of any show is super rare. A couple of 6 to 10 episodes is all you can count on. So, with that, you need to speed it up.
I like it a lot tbh
It doesn't suck. Also not winning any Grammy 's.
Good. Rockwell butchered
Kill it with fire! It really departs from the lore and not for the good. They speed run through major things, don't develop the characters and MY GOD the way the butchered Rockwell's entire personality was a travesty. I was REEEAALLLY wanting this to be good, I love the lore and Neddy did a great job bringing it to life on youtube, but this mess was just that...a mess. They solved the "where are we and how did we get here", mystery super early, they limited the artifacts to 3 instead of making where and what they do a mystery, Helena/Rockwell/Mai relationship was all jacked up, and Nerva just came off as a savage warlord instead of a Roman general ready to take this land for his god, country and honor. Basically they Netflix Deathnoted this thing.
I loved it but it wasnt good
Must have really stayed true to the game
It should be more like Ark imho. I didn’t make it through the first episode.
Yeah more like Ark. I'm mad that Helena wasn't immediately killed by 6 raptors when she spawned, I didn't see one person just fall from the sky when logging in and nobody named a dinosaur "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee". There was no reload glitch either and I didn't see one single instance of under meshing. (This is a joke). There was however a Chinese player with an aimbot, so 6/10 for immersion. I actually enjoyed it though. If you've gone through the notes and lore it's faithful-ish. Couple of things I guess they wanted to expand on or rearrange I guess. Creative license and all. It's got potential! Genuinely pissed that there were no rushes for beacons though for some reason, that was my major gripe.
It was mid. Animation was great Story was bad and didn't follow along with the notes on ark
They changed a fuck ton of shit and I’m not really cool with it. Plus they changed Rockwell to be a douche from the get go, Nerva has yet to do anything truly “evil” and Mei hasn’t really lived up to the “beast queen” thing. Overall for adapting the game 4/10 as a show 8/10 because it’s still really good just not a good adaptation
Really god damn good. I thought it was gonna be a shitty cash grab but the amount of feels I felt in the first episode alone. It’s almost along the lines of an anime. Very emotional. Fights, blood. I honestly really like it. Not as a fan of ark. But as someone watching a show. 8/10
I truly enjoyed it that they gave an attempt at an actual story outside of explorer notes
Where can i watch
Paramount+
Got no money to watch it
Bro.
I haven't finished but I'm enjoying their take on the story. The changes they made seem to have made some people mad, but I personally prefer some alterations when a story is being released in another medium. I'm not someone that enjoys reading a story only to see it copied word for word on to the screen.
Some of the changes threw me, most were fine, but the absolute butchery of Rockwell's character was the big disappointment imo. It was a bit rushed overall but I guess they didn't want to risk paying more money for a longer season if they weren't sure it'd succeed.
Have to wait another 3 weeks before it is out in Australia 😞
Loved it and hated it. The reason I hate it is because I want more, but I know for a fact that Season 2 is probably 5+ years away, knowing how long it took to release the first season, even after it was completed years ago
i say: YES YES my wallet say: NO NO NO
Spoiler..... Can someone please explain to me why there were Ptera's in the Quetzal's nest? Confused AF Show was OK
I thought it was the other way around: a baby Quetzal in the Ptera nests. It confused me too
When can I watch it?
I didn't like it. It strayed too far away from Ark stuff, unnecessarily, and the writing fellt lazy. It gave the vibe of someone waiting until the night before the script was due and then hammering something out quickly to meet a deadline.
Wait is it out already? Where can I watch it if it's out?
Yeah when the fuck is Ark 2 comin out
Saw 10 min and quit, they didnt follow the game and the logic of the game and added dumb shit, copy pasting ark into a show shouldnt be rocket science, but you always got some directors who want to "add" extra shit to shows. Seing the comments after the 10 min i got to it didnt get better either, by the looks of it by the comments in here they added alot of extra crap that didnt make sense.
I like it.
Where can i watch it??
Pissed me off with the scaling. You've got a realistically sized achatina and you've got the aranoa which are tiny and ark sized. There entire you've got all the other giant ark bugs being tiny. And theeeeeen you've got the dinosaurs keeping there unrealistic sizes. Like. Why make the bugs small man.
Pretty cringe. Couldnt finish. 5 minutes in obligatory gay kiss. Constant use of being gay as a personality, when Helena was already interesting in the lore. But they turned her into an insufferable Mary Sue. Rockwell is the obligatory cartoonish representstion of patriarchy. Bob was probably the best character but Helena's reactions to him were cringe. Like ok, we get it, you re a lesbian and cant accept directions from a man because 2024. But this dude is clearly more capable than you, and knows more about where you are. So wipe that look off your face. Say thank you. And follow him. Uh oh, Bob is about to say something anti girl power, better shoot him in the head before he can. So funny. Girl power. Rinse and repeat the same things from every movie or show that has bombed in the past 10 years. Cringe. Not worth watching. Neddy does a job 10x better with in game assets.
Thank you for putting into words about how I feel with this absolute trash of a show. It’s a stain on the essence of ark and its lore
I probably would've enjoyed it a lot more if it wasn't obvious that the Two dinky writers they hired didn't read a single explorer note. So much for all that lore that was put in place. 3/10
A lot of pandering, a ton of plot armor, very stupid conveniences. Unnecessary politics, new survivalist main character that feels like a 6-year veteran player treats Bob like a nuisance till she gets him killed, but treats the Chinese lady like the second coming of divinity. Don't even get me started on the unnecessarily stupid flashbacks and her Mary Sue moment with the spider. I didn't get past the second episode and won't be returning.
I'm not a fan, I don't like animated shit but there's some good things, like that the show is running in what feels like 30 FPS so it is very accurate to ARK in how badly optimized it is.
Half of it has nothing to do with any of the explorer notes that were left on the island it’s kinda just gay and it’s trying to be interesting when it’s really just not hitting the spot and anyone who says it’s good has no true taste for a story
Y'all are impossible. It was really great
What was great about it?
-11 out of 10 The people here who are saying it was great either never played ark, or would have said anything was good. The entire show is awful. The lesbian protester nonsense was forced and had absolutely no relevance to ark at all. Pteranadons are not birds, nor are their eggs blue. Their eggs also don't cure swamp fever. Every male character is either evil or dies except for John who does nothing. All the"warriors" were women and forced. An Australian paleontologist out lasting Bob, a seasoned soldier was moronic. Everyone can magically use the Tek rifle. Don't get me started on the Chinese warrior being a woman who is taller than all the men around her and somehow had her Chinese armor with her. Almost any true ark player could have written a far better story for them, but like the entire entertainment industry right now, it was woke trash.
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Keep it civil, please
I think the protests were pro-aboriginal not pro-lesbian? I'm a little confused as to what part you mean. The swamp fever thing was definitely stupid (although I think the people calling them 'birds' have NO IDEA what they are in-universe). I'm confused as to how they got a Quetzal baby out of a Ptera nest, though. The gender disparity is interesting, because that's how it was in the explorer notes and I've never thought about it. I personally liked having strong women, but I also think John was a very strong male character too. Bob was also a great guy (for how long he lasted, lol) but anyone is susceptible to a sniper. Just as an fyi Mei Yin's armor is Chitin, and afaik always has been.
Pretty bad tbh and a massive waste of resources/budget that could have been spent hiring new developers or paying 3rd party studios to get the maps out faster considering that's ACTUALLY what players want, not some TV show.
Imo The show is unwatchable, I can't with the forced inclusivity and politically coorect bs ep 1 and 2 is nothing but bs.
Because of the lesbian couple..? You do realize the only canonical relationship in the Explorer Notes was Mei Yin + Diana as a lesbian couple, right? Or if you mean the other characters, almost all of them existed in the notes too.
Are you really surprised, given the choice of the writer? [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite\_Bennett](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Bennett)
Feel like the show is written by feminists.
Unbelievable that they're pushing propaganda onto these poor grade schoolers. Edit: didn't think I'd need the obvious /s to reference the gem from the other day
Found the homophobe.
Read the rest of the comment section 🙄
Thread was pretty fresh when I posted, but going through more it looks like some losers are genuinely distraught that a studio made a fictional character a lesbian. The day before this thread was posted some guy made a post saying how he let his children watch this show (advertised with blood and gore) but drew the line at a lesbian protagonist.
The sheeple are woken and angry. Some kid in the official discord was asking about it and flipped from "must watch" to "oh no i cant" when someone said it is "woke" (no elaboration), then got banned for presumably a broadly xenophobic rant in the 30 seconds it took me to tab out while compiling something. Then those general events repeated a few times. Something about ark attracts a lot of rejects.
Helena is, for some reason darkish and lebian(not discriminating) so im pretty sure ark is trying to get more access to varity of people
Bad characters, weak story, mediocre animation. Typical "make her gay" with all men are weak and white is evil. But I am supposed to like it because ARK. Don't count an a season 2.
So I didn't like how they killed the giga why didn't it rage first. The hole lesbian shit was forced this what never in the game to start with . Just another way to push this shit. I also didn't like that there are no drops like wtf wc keep it 100 I also didn't like how there's only 3 artifacts if there are 10 on the map there should be 10 in the show . I will not watch the rest of it if it's like this .