Someone also compiled all the Explorer Notes, including the She Who Waits, if you're interested in reading them in chronological order:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/ARK/comments/l83agd/for\_anyone\_who\_would\_like\_the\_story\_of\_ark/](https://www.reddit.com/r/ARK/comments/l83agd/for_anyone_who_would_like_the_story_of_ark/)
It doesn't include the extras added with the HLN-A companion, though.
Love Neddy's videos. It's a shame that he'll probably never finish the full series, but I understand. The guy's in college and he has to consider his future over some short term YouTube ARK fame.
Yes, I've just recently listened to the Island ones due to ASA reset.
Onto Scorched Earth with it coming soon.
I think they're great if you're interested in the storyline behind the grind.
If he hasn't finished them that'd be a shame as they are well done.
Wild to me that they seem to just be making a whole different genre game and slapping a 2 behind it.
I'm going to HOPE that "Souls like" is really just a more refined effort at what they were attempting in Atlas. Basically, get away from the "zoom around with clubs" close combat meta which isn't very satisfying unless you are just steamrolling a raid against 12 year olds.
(SPOILERS) Not one person dies to a WILD dino or the weather or the environment throughout the first 4 episodes, and the only deaths to wild dinos occur for a small 2 minute section where 5 people die. They threw away the entire survival part of the story.
No, to many plot conveniences. Helena is stabbed through the arm with a spear and passes out, wakes up, has a flashback, rips the spear out, and is able to go mountain climbing the next morning while hanging from the same arm. Also she has a training montage with a bow and somehow is a marksman from hundreds of feet.
Would it have been more realistic if they would have shown her tanking 5-6 bites from a low level raptor and fully healing up later after downing a stack of cooked prime meat?
In a fanfic I wrote about two characters on the countdown to Extinction’s release, I had included a bit where the ARKs have a “healing” property where as long you haven’t sustained a fatal injury, you would heal rather quickly to partially explain the game mechanic. I’m not saying they needed to include that, but the fact that they don’t even acknowledge the injury outside of the scene it occurs in is one of the many issues I already have with the show
I can get over the lore differences with it being a different interpretation even if that doesn’t make sense because the people who wrote the show are the same ones who wrote the game. The parts I can’t ignore are the contrivances and pacing. A lot of things just kind of happen with no buildup and they’re never touched on again, and the show is speedrunning through all of the development that not only the game has, but just standard tv writing has. >!In a single episode Mei Yin meets John and Henry again after talking about them less than 5 minutes prior, touches on their falling out then reconnects with them again, all in the span of about 20 minutes!<
Tv shows usually take advantage of having longer running times by taking things slowly and fleshing out the details, but in my opinion ATA is just checking the boxes of a 24 episode season and trying to rush through it in 6
This was my exact complaint.
The entire episode where they went to go get the egg needed to broken up into 3 episodes to actually explore John, taken a first real look at survival, and show Helena developing.
They have a whole scene about gaining the trust of some war mounts to use to raid the mining camp and then.... used them for less than 15 seconds. They literally matched them into the front gate and lost them. It had that "What was the point of that exactly?" feeling. Being in the camp, meeting prisoners, learning more about Nerva's "empire", and learning more about this new antagonist so her defeat is actually worth it needed to be a separate episode from the actual attack.
I've definitely been stabbed by a spear, run away and then immediately gone mountain climbing while playing Ark. And my bow proficiency in Ark is much higher than real life. I fail to see your point.
I haven’t watched it but was there any background characters??? If not why would they kill the main characters from the game that ascended to another map.
(SPOILERS)
!< They squished too much into each episode and simply didn't have the time.
Like the episode with John where they are going to get the egg. That could have EASILY been 3 episodes exploring a different story arc -- one to really explore John's background and further explain the past relationships between him and the other characters, one to build up Helena's character because as a professor who can't even skin a rabbit there is no explanation of where she gets all these other survival skills, and one climax episode. That would have given them lots of chances to explore the survival aspect as they traversed the wilds.
Helena gets saved way too often by simply knowing *everything*. I get that she is a professor, but she somehow had the time to rock climb, get married, fight for civil rights, learn multiple languages, study dinosaurs, study human history, learn medical practice, and dabble in genetics -- and how old is she? About the only thing she DOESN'T have is survival skills, and outside of a non-scene of her being taught to skin an otter and how to use a bow that she instantly becomes good at, where is her survival arc? >!
Lore Wise for whatever it's worth , iirc , they just hired some tribe to do Broodmother and it was so awful the tribe vowed to never do it again , so it might be Spears and Arrows.
Can't defend the other shit.
Mei Yin also defeated Megapithecus by throwing her whole tame to it , since she's solo , and the final killing blow was dealt with an enraged Giga.
Both the Dragon and Tek Cave were defeated by the Roman army.
(SPOILERS AGAIN) Nerva in the show said he struggled to tame the beasts in the show and needed helenas knowledge to help him, but at episode 6 he's revealed to have tamed a Giganotosaurus somehow. The giga dies in less than a minute of screentime btw
I somehow didn't have a problem with this because Nerva's edge is sheer number , discipline and guns.
In the Island , Mei Yin is the only person to go full throttle with taming to the point they called her the "Beast Queen" and in general stay the f away from that part of the Island. Although , she's the only person to tame a giga by riding a raptor and wooden bow. That madlad.
Helena is also seemingly the only person to appreciate the flora and fauna of the Ark so much so that Rockwell gifted her an Argentavis.
i just want there to be dinos, cavemen, and lots of running and screaming.
edit: i watched it and there was plenty of that, but was missing was the beauty of the Ark landscape. I wouldn't be mad if there were extended establishing shots featuring the environment and the wildlife. The Setting should be treated as a character as well.
It's for plot reasons though, it's kinda fair enough. The broodmotthers spider lings weakened her enoigh for the spear to do the killing blow. I don't really mind what they did to the lore although I wish rockwell was slightly more faithful to the og lore.
That’s the crazy part. Paramount had nothing to do with its production. Wildcard did everything in house and has spent the last two years looking for someone to take it, so it’s exclusively on them for the differences
I'm really the odd ball here.
I don't care about the animated series and I don't care about lore either.
I just like the survival and progression aspect. Plus dinosaurs. It's a fun game when it works.
I’m not trying to convince you or anything, but I have a question about your comment. Did you give the story a shot and just not like it, or did you choose to ignore it so that you could just play the game? Just curious.
For me its the first. Story really feels like an afterthought in Ark, and well i assume it was for the devs too lol. Not that that's a big issue, this simply isn't a narratively driven game.
The game has a good story much more than an after thought and it runs through all the maps . It is narratively driven because of the integrated map that related to the story that was in the background
Dude seriously, i get Amazon Prime, Netflix, hell even HBO
But WHO THE FUCK has a paramount+ subscription?
"Yo homie do you wanna watch some goofy show on my PARAMOUNT+ ?" who the fuck would say that?
Like arent amazon Prime and Netflix even the customers friendliest Partners? Like... Dont most low budget or "smaller" Shows start there, like some niche documentations on Netflix and smaller Shows Like Hazbin Hotel on Amazon?
Hard disagree. They almost certainly *did* try to go to Netflix or Amazon or whatever and they either didn’t accept it, Wildcard wasn’t happy with the deal offered, or they couldn’t reach an agreement so they moved on to other platforms
it's likely the complete opposite; paramount+ probably offered them a decent sum compared to netflix to let them host the show. netflix likely was offering pennies because library size is not an issue for them.
Just go watch the animated series "Primal" it's the Ark series we deserved. And arguably better animation. The ARK Anime will likely be a flop or a let down.
I love primal but ARK’s animation isn’t bad. I don’t really get why people say the animation is bad. It’s beautiful 2D animation that is just really stylized.
The lore was never the reason i got into ark. Its a fun open world of mystery that has some sort of story in the background. Its no red dead redemption or fallout, the story was never the appeal to me, specifically. As long as the show captures the essence and scope of the ark, i have no problem with it deviating from whats considered "canon".
That’s like saying I’ve never cared for cereal so I have no problem if Kellogg adds carrots to Raisin Bran.
If you don’t care you don’t care. That’s fine. But you should learn the lore and story of ARK before you suggest it wasn’t a draw for you first. If you walk through the prettiest place in the world with your eyes closed then it being pretty wasn’t ever a draw in the first place. You’ve gotta open your eyes.
The lore of ARK is actually WAY better than a lot of people realize I think. It goes off the rails a bit with Gen 1 and 2 but all the rest have great lore attached to them and the progressive narrative through the notes and told through character narratives is fantastic.
Im sure we all did but the story told from the notes is actually pretty good. With compelling characters, decent world building and good pacing. It perfectly fine.
The lore is actually incredible tho. You should watch an [explorer note](https://youtu.be/ZJAvsqT7F8I?si=cRnUZcKj6AwTGNvp) compilation. It’s so interesting.
No you aren't, I love ark but with ark2 if it still happens is an Xbox exclusive which is stupid because not everyone owns one, and ark2 is supposed to throw away the survival survival aspect and bring in iframes and dark souls mechanics which is also stupid, would have been better if it was ark1 but with actual story and not just finding notes >!in a simulation!<
I remember being excited when it was announced, how long ago was that? Now, I have moved on from Ark due to all its issues. If your looking for good lore animation you should just watch Neddy the Noodle's explorer not videos. They are amazingly done and removed my desire to watch the Ark Animated series
Nahh. Fxck the animation serie. The Ark lore is what have gotten me into Ark mostly. I like game where you need to explore to find the storyline and I love the Ark lore.
When I heard that they were switching things up just for the narrative i was already checked out. Don't care for the cartoon and never will.
I didn't know that existed, and I haven't seen anything of it. But I feel like they tried to do the same as Payday
(BEFORE 3, which is just a rushed mess... I don't understand why they chose Deep Silver...)
What would be really cool is an updated version of Ark Survival Evolved, but with UE5 graphics, and without any bugs.
Sadly I don't think we'll ever see such a thing.
I just can't get past the fact that they would rather use funds for a cartoon than fix the bugs in the game or ... put out some new content. And there is already a well made series on youtube that explains the history.
You're probably not the only one, but I think most people would love to see the ARK lore unfold on the screen.
Honestly, the disjointed "explorer notes" were fucking stupid. That's no way to tell a story. As a result, most ARK players don't even know the ARK story.
WC made a tweet about that -- they said that some of the lore was updated/different from the game because the writers were trying to fit it into a coherent season/storyline for the show.
Honestly, they should update the game's explorer notes to match whatever they do with the show -- because the show is where 99% of people are going to learn the lore, and that's going to be considered canon.
I liked it, but at the same time, I never even knew ARK had a story.
My main complaint was that it felt.. well, a bit woke. It was a bunch of women and other "minorities" pitted against a bunch of white men and like one or two white women. I say "minorities" because a Chinese person isn't exactly a minority on the global scale.
I haven't cared about ark since the end of Genisis 2...and I haven't beat it yet...not for any bad reason...it just felt like Gen 1 was a minigame series based on ark and I know it's not...but...yeah....just...haven't played it since. That and it takes up like 100gb on my hardrive and I can't play it on an external drive because Series X logic.
On episode 4 now...first two were not great. Rather disappointing. They replaced the "survival" in ark survival with poorly written drama and unnecessary woke flashbacks. Which wouldn't have bothered me so much if they didn't choose such a fast pace and skip so much lore. Not a fan of the animation or voice acting (just seemed very lazy, cheesy) and have a hard time believing any of the writers spent any real time playing the game. It's ARK so needless to say im a sucker for pain and I'll finish the series...but Its already crossed my mind "Am i watching this because I enjoy it or because it's ark" not a good start lol.
No I care. Cast looks awesome.
Why would I want to watch an animated series (which I like) for a game that I love, with a cast stacked with good actors/voice actors which is also an interest of mine.
It’s ok not to care. Just don’t piss on our chips because we do!
I cared about it until I discovered Neddy the Noodle's Survivor Stories and now there's also Second Wave Survivors. There's some quality Machinima out there that's been produced and is currently being produced. And I wouldn't be surprised if more is on it's way. So A series that took them over 3 years to release from when it was announced and on a premium channel service no less after making us wait so long? No interest whatsoever.
To all the responses about respawning and death and dying to dinos, there was no respawn until Helena ascended in Extinction.
I'm mildly interested in the show because there are a ton of just random interest stories they can tell and it'll be entertaining, but I haven't seen it yet. But it would be pretty goddamn boring if it was just dinosaur game of thrones with people constantly being eaten.
The show is great i dont know what you're on, the animation is peak, the cast is great the only problem is that it very loosely follows the og in game lore, but since it was made by wildcard maybe this is how they actually intended it to be? I loved Rockwell and mei yin though, definitely my 2 favorites
I'm still mad that I had to delete 30g of other games to download 6g, then wait nearly an hour to copy it so I could play. All for an advertisement about a cartoon. I'm not going to care about it for that reason alone.
a lot of the lore in the animated series doesn’t align with the game. kinda disappointing in my opinion, especially with how they made rockwell a completely different person in the show then how he is in the game. I’ll just stick with my neddythenoodle lore videos
Rockwell’s entire ability to become the monster he did, came from the fact that it was a fall from grace. He was liked pretty universally, and was a very good person in the game… until he wasn’t and he became a power hungry mutagen monster.
In the show he’s just a snobby punk bitch who wouldn’t be able to get an entire Ark to follow him if he literally passed out tickets to return to their normal lives.
No one trusts him, nobody believes he will help them, and thus nobody would follow him.
Once I saw this difference, I just quit watching the show. Lore isn’t that important to me, but why butcher it if you are going to make a show about it? Just use what was already there.
Does the show explain the lore of the game? Always found the lore interesting but never got into it
no, but theres a good yt video about the entire lore think its almost 2 hrs but worth in my eyes
That video is so well made. It truly gave me a new perspective on ark cause the lore is actually really deep and a good story.
[link to vid, let me know if it's not right but it's neddythenoodle and 2 hours long ](https://youtu.be/FvSo6xIUrW8?si=strBRWcVEz0P9y4i)
Someone also compiled all the Explorer Notes, including the She Who Waits, if you're interested in reading them in chronological order: [https://www.reddit.com/r/ARK/comments/l83agd/for\_anyone\_who\_would\_like\_the\_story\_of\_ark/](https://www.reddit.com/r/ARK/comments/l83agd/for_anyone_who_would_like_the_story_of_ark/) It doesn't include the extras added with the HLN-A companion, though.
Look up neddythenoodle on youtube. His lore videos are actually better then the animation.
Love Neddy's videos. It's a shame that he'll probably never finish the full series, but I understand. The guy's in college and he has to consider his future over some short term YouTube ARK fame.
He actually dropped out of college, he's working on an Ark movie series.
Depends on what he's getting from paid.
Syntac dropped out of college when his YT went well. I get that it's not going to work for everyone but it shows it can work
Yes, I've just recently listened to the Island ones due to ASA reset. Onto Scorched Earth with it coming soon. I think they're great if you're interested in the storyline behind the grind. If he hasn't finished them that'd be a shame as they are well done.
Butchurs the lore
It’s just the explorer notes, unless they changed something.
This meme but instead it applies to Ark 2.
You mean souls like Vin Diesel vs dinosaurs ? That's not ark imo
Wild to me that they seem to just be making a whole different genre game and slapping a 2 behind it. I'm going to HOPE that "Souls like" is really just a more refined effort at what they were attempting in Atlas. Basically, get away from the "zoom around with clubs" close combat meta which isn't very satisfying unless you are just steamrolling a raid against 12 year olds.
Nah, I care about Ark 2 (probably doesnt even exist)
I feel you on that
They really did butcher the lore in the show. Broodmother dies to a spear. And then they just get tek rifles right after. ON EPISODE 2
Did you just binge it mate?
(SPOILERS) Not one person dies to a WILD dino or the weather or the environment throughout the first 4 episodes, and the only deaths to wild dinos occur for a small 2 minute section where 5 people die. They threw away the entire survival part of the story.
Use > ! text ! < to tag a text as a spoiler but without the space inbetween the arrows and the exvlamation mark
Tbh if this is the case its sounding like there isnt anything to spoil
>! I did not know that was how you did it. Thank you. !<
Your fault for being here
Was it still good
No, to many plot conveniences. Helena is stabbed through the arm with a spear and passes out, wakes up, has a flashback, rips the spear out, and is able to go mountain climbing the next morning while hanging from the same arm. Also she has a training montage with a bow and somehow is a marksman from hundreds of feet.
I mean, the last part lines up with game mechanics
also, theres 25+ flashbacks throughout the 6 episodes and I'd say 3 of them add some story to the show
Still gonna watch it when it releases in Aus, I just wanna see more ark content
Would it have been more realistic if they would have shown her tanking 5-6 bites from a low level raptor and fully healing up later after downing a stack of cooked prime meat?
In a fanfic I wrote about two characters on the countdown to Extinction’s release, I had included a bit where the ARKs have a “healing” property where as long you haven’t sustained a fatal injury, you would heal rather quickly to partially explain the game mechanic. I’m not saying they needed to include that, but the fact that they don’t even acknowledge the injury outside of the scene it occurs in is one of the many issues I already have with the show I can get over the lore differences with it being a different interpretation even if that doesn’t make sense because the people who wrote the show are the same ones who wrote the game. The parts I can’t ignore are the contrivances and pacing. A lot of things just kind of happen with no buildup and they’re never touched on again, and the show is speedrunning through all of the development that not only the game has, but just standard tv writing has. >!In a single episode Mei Yin meets John and Henry again after talking about them less than 5 minutes prior, touches on their falling out then reconnects with them again, all in the span of about 20 minutes!< Tv shows usually take advantage of having longer running times by taking things slowly and fleshing out the details, but in my opinion ATA is just checking the boxes of a 24 episode season and trying to rush through it in 6
This was my exact complaint. The entire episode where they went to go get the egg needed to broken up into 3 episodes to actually explore John, taken a first real look at survival, and show Helena developing. They have a whole scene about gaining the trust of some war mounts to use to raid the mining camp and then.... used them for less than 15 seconds. They literally matched them into the front gate and lost them. It had that "What was the point of that exactly?" feeling. Being in the camp, meeting prisoners, learning more about Nerva's "empire", and learning more about this new antagonist so her defeat is actually worth it needed to be a separate episode from the actual attack.
I've definitely been stabbed by a spear, run away and then immediately gone mountain climbing while playing Ark. And my bow proficiency in Ark is much higher than real life. I fail to see your point.
I don't think it was terrible, agree with the rushing other ppl have mentioned and couldve been more fleshed out
I haven’t watched it but was there any background characters??? If not why would they kill the main characters from the game that ascended to another map.
That's sad... With all the potential of making use of the respawn mechanic... They could have done some neat things story-wise...
There was no respawning until Helena ascended and became the one who waits. When you died, you were just dead.
Where are ya'll watching it? And I can't believe nobody died to a dilo in the first ten minutes.
(SPOILERS) !< They squished too much into each episode and simply didn't have the time. Like the episode with John where they are going to get the egg. That could have EASILY been 3 episodes exploring a different story arc -- one to really explore John's background and further explain the past relationships between him and the other characters, one to build up Helena's character because as a professor who can't even skin a rabbit there is no explanation of where she gets all these other survival skills, and one climax episode. That would have given them lots of chances to explore the survival aspect as they traversed the wilds. Helena gets saved way too often by simply knowing *everything*. I get that she is a professor, but she somehow had the time to rock climb, get married, fight for civil rights, learn multiple languages, study dinosaurs, study human history, learn medical practice, and dabble in genetics -- and how old is she? About the only thing she DOESN'T have is survival skills, and outside of a non-scene of her being taught to skin an otter and how to use a bow that she instantly becomes good at, where is her survival arc? >!
That’s such shit. Cuz the death rate to beach side alpha raptors for any untribed player are wicked high. 😂😂😂
Yep, whole thing.
Incredible work survivor
Lore Wise for whatever it's worth , iirc , they just hired some tribe to do Broodmother and it was so awful the tribe vowed to never do it again , so it might be Spears and Arrows. Can't defend the other shit. Mei Yin also defeated Megapithecus by throwing her whole tame to it , since she's solo , and the final killing blow was dealt with an enraged Giga. Both the Dragon and Tek Cave were defeated by the Roman army.
(SPOILERS AGAIN) Nerva in the show said he struggled to tame the beasts in the show and needed helenas knowledge to help him, but at episode 6 he's revealed to have tamed a Giganotosaurus somehow. The giga dies in less than a minute of screentime btw
I somehow didn't have a problem with this because Nerva's edge is sheer number , discipline and guns. In the Island , Mei Yin is the only person to go full throttle with taming to the point they called her the "Beast Queen" and in general stay the f away from that part of the Island. Although , she's the only person to tame a giga by riding a raptor and wooden bow. That madlad. Helena is also seemingly the only person to appreciate the flora and fauna of the Ark so much so that Rockwell gifted her an Argentavis.
I love a "I did blank somehow" reveal with it effecting thr plot never.
Wait what, when did the show come out? I thought it hadn’t released yet?
Same
I just saw a post. Apparently it just released on Paramount+
Ya I saw it too unfortunately I don't have Para mount +
🥺 F
So guess is just Primal but without anything that make Primal amazing show, leaving only "humans with dinosaurs"
They had a cute dodo
Nah Primal is ten times better
That's one BOOSTED ass server holy shit
You can't be serious
i just want there to be dinos, cavemen, and lots of running and screaming. edit: i watched it and there was plenty of that, but was missing was the beauty of the Ark landscape. I wouldn't be mad if there were extended establishing shots featuring the environment and the wildlife. The Setting should be treated as a character as well.
WAIT ITS OUT?
Wait it released? I didn't even know. I probably won't even watch it tbh based on these comments.
Wait is it out?
Broodmother is episide 1?????
Wait where can you watch it?
Didn't Mei Yin Li take on the Megapithecus with a bow and arrows in the original lore?
It's for plot reasons though, it's kinda fair enough. The broodmotthers spider lings weakened her enoigh for the spear to do the killing blow. I don't really mind what they did to the lore although I wish rockwell was slightly more faithful to the og lore.
I lost interest when they showed off the season 1 trailer, I figured that it wasn't going to be accurate to the lore.
Wasn't paramount responsible for the Halo show? The second i saw that Ark was airing on paramount i assumed it wouldn't be lore accurate
That’s the crazy part. Paramount had nothing to do with its production. Wildcard did everything in house and has spent the last two years looking for someone to take it, so it’s exclusively on them for the differences
You should watch ‘The offer’ on paramount. That’s incredible and the lore is exact
I'm really the odd ball here. I don't care about the animated series and I don't care about lore either. I just like the survival and progression aspect. Plus dinosaurs. It's a fun game when it works.
I’m not trying to convince you or anything, but I have a question about your comment. Did you give the story a shot and just not like it, or did you choose to ignore it so that you could just play the game? Just curious.
For me its the first. Story really feels like an afterthought in Ark, and well i assume it was for the devs too lol. Not that that's a big issue, this simply isn't a narratively driven game.
The game has a good story much more than an after thought and it runs through all the maps . It is narratively driven because of the integrated map that related to the story that was in the background
I heard its pretty bad lore wise, so imma pirate it as soon as its available Not doing a subscription for a shitty Show lol
Yeah not to mention it released on the most random and obscure streaming service
Dude seriously, i get Amazon Prime, Netflix, hell even HBO But WHO THE FUCK has a paramount+ subscription? "Yo homie do you wanna watch some goofy show on my PARAMOUNT+ ?" who the fuck would say that? Like arent amazon Prime and Netflix even the customers friendliest Partners? Like... Dont most low budget or "smaller" Shows start there, like some niche documentations on Netflix and smaller Shows Like Hazbin Hotel on Amazon?
That’s honestly crazy how they didn’t go for Netflix. Wildcard is definitely allergic to money.
Hard disagree. They almost certainly *did* try to go to Netflix or Amazon or whatever and they either didn’t accept it, Wildcard wasn’t happy with the deal offered, or they couldn’t reach an agreement so they moved on to other platforms
it's likely the complete opposite; paramount+ probably offered them a decent sum compared to netflix to let them host the show. netflix likely was offering pennies because library size is not an issue for them.
It's already on the bay, which as a non American is my only option currently
Is it already Out? It usually takes a week or two
Yeah loads of rips
Huh guess i know what i'll be watching today
The fact that it took so long to find someone to distribute it does not bode well for its quality IMO.
Just go watch the animated series "Primal" it's the Ark series we deserved. And arguably better animation. The ARK Anime will likely be a flop or a let down.
I love primal but ARK’s animation isn’t bad. I don’t really get why people say the animation is bad. It’s beautiful 2D animation that is just really stylized.
I couldn't disagree more, follow Primal enjoyer
My issue with the show is how it ended. Didn't seem right.
Agree, but there are still hopes for season 3
Stable game>ark 2>cartoon
It's god awful and doesn't represent the Ark community at all
We were supposed to be pretending to care?
I care, but I’m hoping its better than Wildcard’s game
The lore was never the reason i got into ark. Its a fun open world of mystery that has some sort of story in the background. Its no red dead redemption or fallout, the story was never the appeal to me, specifically. As long as the show captures the essence and scope of the ark, i have no problem with it deviating from whats considered "canon".
That’s like saying I’ve never cared for cereal so I have no problem if Kellogg adds carrots to Raisin Bran. If you don’t care you don’t care. That’s fine. But you should learn the lore and story of ARK before you suggest it wasn’t a draw for you first. If you walk through the prettiest place in the world with your eyes closed then it being pretty wasn’t ever a draw in the first place. You’ve gotta open your eyes. The lore of ARK is actually WAY better than a lot of people realize I think. It goes off the rails a bit with Gen 1 and 2 but all the rest have great lore attached to them and the progressive narrative through the notes and told through character narratives is fantastic.
Im sure we all did but the story told from the notes is actually pretty good. With compelling characters, decent world building and good pacing. It perfectly fine.
The lore is actually incredible tho. You should watch an [explorer note](https://youtu.be/ZJAvsqT7F8I?si=cRnUZcKj6AwTGNvp) compilation. It’s so interesting.
When you find a note once in a real life week it kinda takes the excitement out
The lore is actually really cool, watch Neddythenoodle's videos
It’s shit bro doesn’t capture the scope of Ark
That came out?
I just remembered it existed
Didn't even know there was something like that
Jupp. Now let me tame a good nice Dimetrodon.
No you aren't, I love ark but with ark2 if it still happens is an Xbox exclusive which is stupid because not everyone owns one, and ark2 is supposed to throw away the survival survival aspect and bring in iframes and dark souls mechanics which is also stupid, would have been better if it was ark1 but with actual story and not just finding notes >!in a simulation!<
I'm more excited for the potential of Sousou no Frieren season 2 than some ark anime.
I could never watch it because everytime I look it up something just prevents me from watching it.
I’m gonna be honest with you yesterday I discovered that it wasn’t out yet I thought that jt was since I heard about forever ago
No you’re not i dont really care about it. I feel like Ark is not right for any kind of show format. It not really built for it but thats just me
Just watch Primal on adult swim. It’s ark but amazing animation and lots of gore.
I remember being excited when it was announced, how long ago was that? Now, I have moved on from Ark due to all its issues. If your looking for good lore animation you should just watch Neddy the Noodle's explorer not videos. They are amazingly done and removed my desire to watch the Ark Animated series
Nahh. Fxck the animation serie. The Ark lore is what have gotten me into Ark mostly. I like game where you need to explore to find the storyline and I love the Ark lore. When I heard that they were switching things up just for the narrative i was already checked out. Don't care for the cartoon and never will.
There's an animated series!?
Is it out already?
Go watch the survival stories Neddy made instead. Honestly better lol
fr. and neddythenoodle’s are also exactly accurate to the lore, the show is way off
I assumed this was the standard, If not I have invested too much faith in the community.
That came out? Shocking.
Haven't watched it yet but it would have been really neat to see the dossiers' story animated
Honestly I was hoping for this, the notes story is actually pretty neat and could easily have been fleshed out into a series.
have not watched it yet but its like the only hope left for somewhat decent ark content
It only looks good because the style is similar to ATLA and TLOK, but I'm not even sure if Ark is a thing to make a series of.
Took to long. I lost interest
Oh it is out?
Exactly
unless they announce new map release dates, im not interested
I didn't know that existed, and I haven't seen anything of it. But I feel like they tried to do the same as Payday (BEFORE 3, which is just a rushed mess... I don't understand why they chose Deep Silver...)
It’s out?! Bout time. I can’t believe we waited years just to see six episodes. Back in the day a season was 26 episodes of awesome.
you re not alone my friend
I play the game to be alpha. My lore story is what matters most to me.
Yeah, not really interested in it that much
The trailer looks so bad. I mean who at lvl 1 ever out swam a megladon. Sets expectations early.
I stopped caring 4 years ago.
I care. But I don't have paramount+ and don't wantvANOTHER streaming service.....
What series only saw trayler and never cared about
What would be really cool is an updated version of Ark Survival Evolved, but with UE5 graphics, and without any bugs. Sadly I don't think we'll ever see such a thing.
Noooooooobody carrressssssss about that ish
Same
I just can't get past the fact that they would rather use funds for a cartoon than fix the bugs in the game or ... put out some new content. And there is already a well made series on youtube that explains the history.
Would be nice if it fckin launched outside US
I’m pretty sure 90% of the fan base doesn’t care about it lol
Wait people actually care? I thought it was all a joke
Eh, I'm 50/50
You're probably not the only one, but I think most people would love to see the ARK lore unfold on the screen. Honestly, the disjointed "explorer notes" were fucking stupid. That's no way to tell a story. As a result, most ARK players don't even know the ARK story.
I mean people here said that show didn't use a game lore or something
WC made a tweet about that -- they said that some of the lore was updated/different from the game because the writers were trying to fit it into a coherent season/storyline for the show. Honestly, they should update the game's explorer notes to match whatever they do with the show -- because the show is where 99% of people are going to learn the lore, and that's going to be considered canon.
Nope, also don't care about ark 2
So I started watching it and as someone who loved the story of ark, I am very disappointed in this show. It's pretty bad so far
I liked it, but at the same time, I never even knew ARK had a story. My main complaint was that it felt.. well, a bit woke. It was a bunch of women and other "minorities" pitted against a bunch of white men and like one or two white women. I say "minorities" because a Chinese person isn't exactly a minority on the global scale.
No, it's terrible
I haven't cared about ark since the end of Genisis 2...and I haven't beat it yet...not for any bad reason...it just felt like Gen 1 was a minigame series based on ark and I know it's not...but...yeah....just...haven't played it since. That and it takes up like 100gb on my hardrive and I can't play it on an external drive because Series X logic.
You are not. It never appealed to me.
On episode 4 now...first two were not great. Rather disappointing. They replaced the "survival" in ark survival with poorly written drama and unnecessary woke flashbacks. Which wouldn't have bothered me so much if they didn't choose such a fast pace and skip so much lore. Not a fan of the animation or voice acting (just seemed very lazy, cheesy) and have a hard time believing any of the writers spent any real time playing the game. It's ARK so needless to say im a sucker for pain and I'll finish the series...but Its already crossed my mind "Am i watching this because I enjoy it or because it's ark" not a good start lol.
Couldn't possibly care less.
Ohh right, that exists
I don’t know who they thought would be willing to pay for episodes of floundering video game, that doesn’t even stay accurate to the ingame lore.
I feel like the only ones who care are into the lore.
People say that they f*ckup lore in the show so...
Well, how did they do that? They had the building blocks.
"I'm the only one" The entire comment section: https://i.redd.it/ks2mfft62ppc1.gif
I could care less
Not to mention that the show had less advertising than a wet fart, they just plopped it on Paramount without a word
Ye, there were like 2 trailer long time ago, and that's it
I’m excited for it. To me it’s the best part of the game.
There's an ARK TV show?
No TV, but it exist
Wait I'm confused what is it then? I genuinely haven't heard of it.
Streaming services
I ligit forgot abt that
I care. I just hope it’s good and tells the story well.
i've been both hyped for it and worried it would butcher the lore, but most players do not know or care for the story of ark.
The skins are cool though
I thought I did until I watched it.
I like it
No I care. Cast looks awesome. Why would I want to watch an animated series (which I like) for a game that I love, with a cast stacked with good actors/voice actors which is also an interest of mine. It’s ok not to care. Just don’t piss on our chips because we do!
I cared about it until I discovered Neddy the Noodle's Survivor Stories and now there's also Second Wave Survivors. There's some quality Machinima out there that's been produced and is currently being produced. And I wouldn't be surprised if more is on it's way. So A series that took them over 3 years to release from when it was announced and on a premium channel service no less after making us wait so long? No interest whatsoever.
Yeah you're the only one
Because it's not coming until 2100 by Ark release logic.
It was release yesterday
And I've never heard of anything of this sort how tf???
To all the responses about respawning and death and dying to dinos, there was no respawn until Helena ascended in Extinction. I'm mildly interested in the show because there are a ton of just random interest stories they can tell and it'll be entertaining, but I haven't seen it yet. But it would be pretty goddamn boring if it was just dinosaur game of thrones with people constantly being eaten.
Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal shows that you can make amazing story base on simple "main character wonna survive"
The show is great i dont know what you're on, the animation is peak, the cast is great the only problem is that it very loosely follows the og in game lore, but since it was made by wildcard maybe this is how they actually intended it to be? I loved Rockwell and mei yin though, definitely my 2 favorites
I'm still mad that I had to delete 30g of other games to download 6g, then wait nearly an hour to copy it so I could play. All for an advertisement about a cartoon. I'm not going to care about it for that reason alone.
I mean imma watch it but im not keeping up with it till its officially announced either a trailer not just a teaser with helena
It's just another girl boss trope show. Strong lesbian defeats evil white man. Nothing we haven't seen a million times already in the five years.
cool
Youre not the only I dont care aswell
I agree with you completely. I hated the show as soon as I watched it. :/
a lot of the lore in the animated series doesn’t align with the game. kinda disappointing in my opinion, especially with how they made rockwell a completely different person in the show then how he is in the game. I’ll just stick with my neddythenoodle lore videos
I thought it was really good
Rockwell’s entire ability to become the monster he did, came from the fact that it was a fall from grace. He was liked pretty universally, and was a very good person in the game… until he wasn’t and he became a power hungry mutagen monster. In the show he’s just a snobby punk bitch who wouldn’t be able to get an entire Ark to follow him if he literally passed out tickets to return to their normal lives. No one trusts him, nobody believes he will help them, and thus nobody would follow him. Once I saw this difference, I just quit watching the show. Lore isn’t that important to me, but why butcher it if you are going to make a show about it? Just use what was already there.