Ark Survival Evolved All Map Trailers Reaction 

A lot of people don't even know but ark has such a sick story and i hope you will watch the animated series when it comes out

So wholesome to watch your first reactions to these trailers. Hope you enjoy the game! It has a single player mode as well as online PvP or PvE options, and a full story that unravels the mystery behind why the dinosaurs and you exist. The Fjordur trailer btw was the unofficial fan made version. Great take, but you should defo watch the official one 🙂

Ya'll should check out the creature spotlight trailers. They show off each creature as it was added, and are each pretty short videos on their own. Would get to see more of the ocean stuff too :)

The device in the wrist at 1:31 is called a specimen implant and in the story, it is constantly monitoring you. The story also mentions it acting as a translator and considering that respawning is canon in this game, it is possible that it is in some way connected to that. In-game it projects a hologram that acts as your inventory menu. The smaller creatures at 10:29 are just referred to as Nameless. They are weakened by a special kind of light called "charge light" and will hide underground until the light goes away. You can protect yourself from them with the bio-luminescent creature at 9:35, which is called a Bulbdog. The larger creature behind the Nameless is called a Reaper and is basically a cross between a dinosaur and the xenomorphs from the Alien movies. Like the Nameless, it is also weakened by charge light. The large creature at 12:34 is a Gasbag. It is descended from tardigrades and is capable of inhaling gases from the surrounding air and then expelling those gases through a membrane in its underbelly to achieve flight. It is also incredibly adorable. The small creature at 15:44 is called a Ferox and possesses the ability to ingest a material known simply as “element” and transform from its regular state into a far larger and more powerful form. It’s spawn code even refers to it as a “Shapeshifter”. The fleshy monstrosity at 20:17 is Rockwell. He was once human but had the bright idea of injecting element directly into his own bloodstream. Turns out he didn’t have as much control over the resulting mutations as the Ferox. He is also played by David Tennant. The platypus-like creature at 21:03 is a Maewing. They are a genetically engineered species designed to look after any babies present on the ship, regardless of species. The creature at 21:20 is a Shadowmane - a kind of hybrid of a lion and a lionfish. They were created by Rockwell and are capable of turning invisible and teleporting short distances. They are very quick both on land and in water and possess a poison that will weaken anything that attacks them. The small creature at 21:24 is a Noglin, whose name is literally a combination of noggin and goblin, because its whole gimmick is attaching itself directly to something else’s head and taking control of them. There are more than 180 different creatures in ARK and most of them are tameable, with each possessing their own unique abilities. Some are clones of extinct species, some are genetically engineered species that are often based on human mythology and others are strange new creatures that have evolved in the aftermath of an apocalyptic event on Earth. There are even some species in the game that may be alien in origin, such as the Astrocetus (space whales).

Ark, one of the biggest survival games to launch in the recent decade. It launched in early access back in 2015 and released officially on 2017. You, a human survivor wake up basically butt naked on one of various environments - forced to survive with your wits and whatever you can scrounge together. The main appeal of Ark of course being the fact that you aren’t alone: either your friends and fellow survivors or your army of tamed prehistoric beasts are your companions. The game has six story based maps, and several free maps that whole not canon to the games plot, are more fun environments to explore. This game can lead to some crazy moments with a buddy or two, and I find myself more personally attached to my tamed animal companions in video games than I’d like to admit. Many of the animals are based on some semblance of a real prehistoric animal, but you know - modified for the sake of fantasy video game loveliness. You can even name them! Some of my favorite takes were: Chips: My trusty sea otter that sat on my shoulder throughout all six mains story maps. Sue: My first perfectly bred Tyrannosaurus Rex, and one the few to make it through to endgame. She was one of my go to battle mount. Charlie: My other big battle mount, an Acrocanthosaurus with a beautiful black spine. Diego: My Thylacoleo (Or Bear-Cat for those who aren’t familiar), the perfect dungeon and carving companion. Silver: My Argentsvis, a massive prehistoric vulture you can ride on - and my first real effective flying animal. Gizmo: My first Noglin, those little purple alien like creatures that kinda look like Stitch from *Lilo and Stitch.* As you can see, they can possess people by chomping on their heads. Drogoz: My first Wyvern, because dragons make everything better. Sobek: Lastly we have big big one bugger off prehistoric alligator: a deinosuchus. He was one of my go to underwater tames. This game really will make you get attached to every animal you take and take into battle, especially when they unfortunately die due to in battle casualties. While the game had a bumpy development, and a rocky PVP base - I still love it to death. It’s got dinosaurs after all!

As a ARKcoholic I highly recommend the creature spotlight trust me it’s worth it.

Ark is interesting in that if you die, canonically you do respawn, hence the waking up naked on the beach with a strange emblem embedded in your wrist. Its not a multiplayer only game either, you can start a singleplayer map, adjust the difficulty settings of things and go at it solo. Granted the group aspect is a big part of the game for alot of people. The story is rather fascinating, they also are making an Ark Animated Series that looks like it's going to delve into various Lore characters you learn about ingame from reading ingame notes and such but don't really get to actually see much due to the nature of the game itself being more of a sandboxy open world survival game. They released a trailer for the series some time ago. Fun fact Rockwell(The big abomination thing you told to shut up) is voiced by David Tennant the 10th Doctor from Doctor Who!

As a long time follower and sometimes commentor, I must tell you that I LOVE Ark. It is my most played game on Steam. I JUST got back into with my friends. We are currently continuing a playthrough we started a year ago and are on the Map Ragnarok. Im approaching 1500 hours in Ark and cant wait for the next 1500 hours!

There is a huge story that spans out for eons, it’s just you have you be the best of the best to make it to the end, it takes a ton of time, survival of course, a lot of gear, resources, tames, etc. but if you actually make it to the end of each map you can ascend, and those cut scenes are always so cool.

Been playing ARK for a little over 7 years now and I love seeing new people find out about the game. Introducing my friends to the game over the years has been some of my best moments in the game. Plus it’s funny to watch them make the same mistakes I made when I first started, wasn’t funny when it happened to me but it sure was when I was watching it happen to them safely from my mount.

I wish I could relive that first moment of waking up on The Island and losing myself in this game all of those years ago.

My favorite game. As you see so many different sceneries, they are from different islands, there are 11 official maps to play, each with particular dinosaurs and environments, some created by gaming mod community, also many other maps and apparatus, created by the game mod community. The diamond shaped jewel in the arm is called an Implant, it's the characters interaction menu for building items, creating or using tools and weapons and many other features

i wsh more people reacted to all Ark trailers, they get to say what a truly great game looks like

I've played Ark on and off since day one EA launch in 2015 and it is hands down my favorite survival sandbox game. I put in about 1500 hours through Scorched Earth and then another 1700 here and there since Aberration. I'd binge for a month or two, swear to quit and uninstall, only to come back a couple months later for another binging session. It is an insanely large, very flawed and incredibly fun/frustrating/addictive game that has endless ways to enjoy. I can't wait for Ark 2...

The Fjordur trailer was fan made. There is an official trailer that higlights the 3 new creatures they added. The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, and Fjordur were made by modders for the Steam version and then Wildcard (Ark creators) incorporated them into the official gameplay. Nice reactions.

You have an extremely wholesome comment section! Everyone absolutely adores Ark! It’s so good to see lots of people who enjoy the same game and that love talking about it, I’m sure if you took up the game you would have endless amounts of support, tips and tricks and aid pointing you in the right direction!

ARK has evolved so much since that first trailer. It’s a completely new game from back then in late 2015. This game is one of my all time fave games! The graphics and music are god tier! There have been many added dinos and creatures since then and some look different now. (They remade the Argentavis, the giant bird, as well as the Sarco, a giant crocodile) 3:32 Those are loot drops! 5:21 Yes. That was on of The Island bosses and her minions. 6:10 This is Scorched Earth. It was actually finished before the main game was! It was also the first DLC for the game! 9:30 Abberation. One of the best DLCs imo. I loved watching y’all’s reactions! There’s so much to explain so I can not tell you all about it in a RU-vid comment. I HIGHLY suggest this game! If you really wanted to and learn how to play, I’d be more than happy to help. The game has some amazing lore and story! There are several maps, and not all are official. The Island (base game) Scorched Earth (official DLC) Abberation (official DLC) Extinction (official DLC) Genesis 1 and 2 (official DLC) Any other DLC, like The Center, Valguero, Ragnarock, Lost Island, Crystal Isles, and Fjordur are not official. Fun fact: Genesis 2 is the largest map in the entire game.

At 9:37 these are called bulb dogs and they are one of the most useful pets you can get in that map as they can help repel those gremlin looking things using their own light source the bulb dogs aren't the only ones who have a natural light to them there are also hawks and lizards that have those abilities the alien near the end of aberration trailer works like the xenomorphs

3:25 so there's a lot of backstory here.. The Arks are all huge space stations orbiting Earth. The Extinction map you saw, with the desolate scifi city, is where humanity used to exist. It has miniature proto-arks on the surface there around what used to be Earth. The Genesis 1 map is a VR simulation world, and in the Genesis 2 map you're streamed to a ringworld-spaceship with all sorts of artificial worlds, searching for a new habitable planet. An unknown time ago humanity discovered a special material dubbed "element" which granted breakthrough technologies like teleportation, large scale cloning and eco-engineering, advanced robotics and so on. Basically a tech-macguffin. It also turned out to be poisonous and to have a sort of malicious fungal-like hive mind, and ended up corrupting everything it was used in. At the same time a war between humans broke out in which lots of element munition was spent around the Earth, poisoning it and causing humanity to die out. Before humanity went extinct they used their tech to create the Arks to evolve and stabilize experimental biomes with a continuation of terrestrial life, so that at the right time they would descend back from orbit to reseed the Earth. The spaceship is another project, to cultivate terrestrial-ish life and colonize a new world. You see dinosaurs and mythological creatures because the engineers of the Arks played around with a lot of creative license, and had technology to recreate movie-inspired dinosaurs, engineer mythological beasts, or even create artificial worlds with tweaked laws of physics - the "Island" is a primitive environment with dinosaurs basically, "Aberration" is a world that played with an infusion of "magic" and mythological creatures, and has kind of a fantasy medieval feel to it. This Ark however broke down and is partly exposed to the vacuum of space which has caused unpredictable mutations. The "Scorched Earth" Ark is basically a harsh desert environment with a lot of fictional, but original creatures (save for the wyverns). There's a storyline, in that as civilizations have come and gone on the Arks and they've maintained populations of clone-seeded dinosaurs and humans, one scientist based on the profile of a dead 19th century alchemist managed to break out of the Island Ark, and utilize the element to corrupt and take over the Arks. Through the story you follow him to Earth where you deal with his influence there, then possess an avatar in the spaceship to clear it as well.

I'd be remiss if I didn't recommend Neddy the Noodle's fan made Ark Survival Stories and Creature Dossiers. He and some other players did a cinematic reenactment of the stories from the Survivor notes in game with voice actors and everything. Really well done.

You guys seriously need to continue the Ark stuff, from the trailers for Ark 2 and the animated series, to the creature spotlights from the old days, or even the Ark Additions mod trailers (cause lets be real, those creatures are basically unofficial official creatures)

The crystal in the arm is the Specimen Implant it is a strange, unique device implanted in the left arm of every survivor player and it basically allows you to enter your inventory and crafting.

There definitely is a story and single player offline modes, it’s just mostly told in the background through gameplay and notes found around maps and stuff like that, rather than a straight up multi-stage Campaign kinda story. There are plenty of great story summaries and explanations here on RU-vid if you’re curious and interested in checking some of those out!

Thank you guys! I've played Ark for a long time, and seeing this brought back a lot of great memories!

There are many diverse mods too. Additional Creatures, Additions, Pyria, Horizons, Prehistoric Beasts, Anomaly.

I LOVE this game as my 2,919 hours playing since release will attest to. My group plays on a private server run by a friend of mine and play strictly PVE. We have played every map that has been released and are now on the latest one Fjordur.

The lore and story for ark is just insane, and it's wonderful. Definitely worth looking into.

The idea behind the game is that you wake up, naked in one of these maps where creatures from times long ago are freely roaming. The whole story is quite hard to explain but in short, an alien element caused earth to be devastated and uninhabitable so the aliens responsible take creatures and people from all throughout Earth’s history and drop them into space stations (called Arks) which simulate life on earth to try and see what earth was like so that they may one day fix it and help humanity recolonise. A bunch of other stuff happens in the story to do with one particular test subject going mad and trying to take over for himself but that’s complicated.

It’s brilliant how Ark starts out super primitive, then the story takes you all the way to highly advanced tek, and the game is ending on maps that bring you back to the beginning primitive life! It’s by far the best game I’ve ever played, it’s just hard to tell your friends “You should play this Dinosaur game with me!” 😂

Spread some love for the Ark sound track! Good vibes. Don't forget Ark 2 has a trailer along with all the suggestions in the comments!

I'm so glad you guys finally checked out Ark! Now you should play it! Once you play you're gonna get hooked (it's a VERY addictive game). I haven't read all the comments so apologize if i'm repeating this but the maps The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island and Fjordur are community mod maps that were made into non-canon official maps by Wildcard. The Ark Modding Community is one of the best as the modders are really passionate about their work and Wildcard even sponsors modders from time to time! Also the story of Ark is absolutely thrilling and now that Vin Diesel is an Executive Producer on Ark 2 I personally am even more excited! ARK is an awesome game!

this made me happy ark is a big part of my life right now it can be frustrating at times (especially on console) but I love it flaws and all. I have never experienced anything like this game in my life and I've been playing since the early 90s. it's an animal completely it's own and leads to so many fun adventures.

I HAVE A TOTALLY NEW THING TO SAY! YOU. GUYS. FUGGIN. ROCK!! ❤️❤️

Played ark for 20k hours straight was addicted it took over my life it consumed me

So glad you guys reacted ark, its one of my favorite games and I always loved the trailers

I Have over 7000 hours in this game, I found you guys by the League of Legends reactions and now I love you both even more :')

Ark is an amazing game, glad to see this

i remember seeing the release trailer for this game and i was like :o but then i realized my pc couldnt support it which made me sad

Ark is my favorite game. Survival and dinosaurs with deep lore and scifi expansions. I waited 5 years to play

Ark Is History for me One of the best survival PvP games And Its Beautiful I Loved every Hour in that Game (Got like 3000-4000 Hours)

lol just re watched this. I love that you guys have seen this. I have almost 10k hours into the game and have been heavily playing since the newest map release of Ark: Fjordur. There's about 1-13 maps now, some are paid for.. some are free... not including all the Modded maps that you can also play. It isn't online only. you can fun single player with others... run your own server if you pay for a server, play PVE or PVP on their official servers. I don't think it had the ARK 2 trailer in there. Can't wait for the Animated series to air. BTW till I think 10am tomorrow... steam summer sale is going and you can get this game cheap.... some of it is also included with the xbox pc play pass.

just a little note only 1 map is on earth all the others are on massive space stations that hold "the seeds of life" as Helana puts it and the one of the space ship is the ship looking for a new world to colonize. Might be fun to try out for the both of you.

Best survival game, over 2000 hours played :)

At it's base, it is a dinosaur survival game. You can fight them or tame them. You start on an island and as the DLC's were added over the 10 years that it's been out, they have slowly told the story behind it, added the lore, and with each new DLC, added new biomes, creatures, and technologies. The story and final DLC's have recently come out and ARK 2, the sequel to the game is slated for release in the end of 2023. This is one of the most fun games I've ever played and with it being totally sandbox, you can play it how ever you want. It's most fun to play with others as a tribe together or even as rivals. It can be played PVE or PVP. You can also host your own server and invite your friends. There's so much to explore and learn about this game it would take you having a channel just for ARK. LOL.

The wonder on her face makes me remember why I love Ark so dam much. 8 years later and I’m still playing it. Can’t say that about a lot of other games.

I was really happy to see you two watching the trailers of my favorite game, Ark is a huge but beautiful game, i hope you enjoyed id as much as i did. Have a nice day :D

Neddy The Needle has the explore notes (ark lore) vids on his page and some of the best work with visual sight if the story while also each journal has a voice actor reading it and sounding like what the person might sound like because ark survivors come fr all different time period and places

To find out more about the story, read the explorer notes, they explain why there’s Wyverns and Dino’s.

the animated show for the game has come out recently, i think it would be really cool for you guys to watch it

The little Australian Robot HLNA is a companion allows you too teleport around and acts as a shop and she tells you lore about the game it's all about some couple survivors one got mad over some crazy element and others were just trying to survive and there's more but too long to explain

Such a beautiful PvE game. Awesome options for hardcore or not, taming and breeding speeds etc. Did you guys have a look? Mostly a simple story of people with the power to create worlds and put you in it, that explains itself in its experience boxes/notes/dossiers. Most maps primitive, only bosses and the occasional Dino are fantasy. The video showed a ton of end game stuff. It is very primitive and immersive on almost any map early on. The way you guys reacted I bet you'd truly love this game PvE solo/co op. Living in fear of raptors and t rexes is beautiful. Don't go in the water.

When people don't know Ark they think this Is a stupid game where you just have to ride dinosaurs, but It has a story and almost all creatures are useful in some way (for example, otters can find pearls, sheep can give you wool and you can put C4 on a dodo to raid a base)

I love seeing u guys react to those trailer!

To try and summarize the story of ARK (Obviously Gonna be spoilers): Basically, an apocalyptic event happened on Earth and humanity came up with two different solutions to save life as we know it. One faction of humans called the United Republics of Earth constructed a series of space station habitats called ARKs which orbit around Earth and are populated with clones of different people from all throughout history, along with genetically engineered creatures ranging from dinosaurs to dragons. The ARKs are designed to terraform Earth into being habitable again and then release the life they are carrying onto the planet. The Island, Scorched Earth and Aberration are all ARKs. Aberration is a malfunctioning ARK, hence the particularly strange creatures present there. Extinction takes place on Earth and is populated with creatures that have evolved since the apocalypse. The two Genesis maps focus on the Genesis colony ship, which was constructed by a different faction of humans called the Terran Federation. Genesis part 1 takes place in a virtual simulation used for training purposes, while Genesis part 2 takes place on the colony ship itself and ends with the ship reaching its destination, which will be the setting for ARK 2. The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island and Fjordur are all non-canon and as such do not fit within the main story of the game and can pretty much just do whatever they want.

There's actually been a TV show announced for Ark. Fingers crossed that it's good.

A little late so someone might have probably already covered this, but ARK is more than a dinosaur game. It's much much more. I don't want to get into too much of the backstory and lore because there is tons, but the premise is that each "map" is its own unique "ARK" save for the Extinction and Genesis 1 & 2 maps. ARKs are basically biodomes that are floating in space being observed by higher beings. These beings have been collecting humans throughout various different eras in time using the ARKs as a means to test their survival capabilities to see if they have what it takes to "ascend" to a higher level of being and save the Earth from dying. This is why there are other various creatures other than dinosaurs as well as the inclusion of all the high-tech stuff that show up later on in the game. The main story maps include: The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, then lastly Genesis 1 & 2. On the Island, there are 3 different sub bosses you have to beat. Once you do, you gain access to the final boss. If you beat the final boss, then canonically, you're character "ascends" to a higher level of being and is then moved to the next ARK, Scorched Earth. There you must face all new challenges and fight an all new boss that allows you to ascend to the Aberration map, which is a badly damaged and dying ARK installation. If you beat the bosses of Aberration, then the higher beings observing you deem you strong enough to potentially save the Earth and ascend you to the Earth in the Extinction map. Most players thought that Extinction would be the end, but as with most games...if they are making money, they will keep finding ways and thus they made Genesis 1 and 2, which take place on a massive multi-biomed starship. Even though story-wise, it's best to play the story related maps in a certain order, you can essentially start on whatever map you want in the series and just go from there.

WoW I love Ark, this is funny to see lol Idk why I enjoy watching you guy watch stuff you have no idea about.

Ark's story is a bit complicated, but basically in the future there's war between 2 factions. The federation and the united republic of earth. They used an advanced substance called Element which corrupted the earth. Story wise, only The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, and Genesis part 1 and 2 are official maps. The first 3 are arks in space built by the republic to help ready the survivals go back down to Earth and fix it. The Extinction map is actually what's left of earth in its corrupted state. the Genesis maps are 2 parts. The first part is the simulation, and the second part is the actual Genesis colony space ship. It kinda has multiple biomes/zones, but we only get access to 2. It was built by the Federation as means of survival like Arks were for The Republic. Obviously, there's more to the story. You learn the story through reading notes found on the maps. It's in other survivors POV.

Ark has an amazing backstory and the whole things becomes so much crazier once you know the lore😂 def my favorite game and I love dinosaurs!

ARK is a massive and complicated game. It's a hell of a lot of fun though, also incredibly frustrating at times. It basically has 2 modes, PVE (player versus environment) and PVP (player versus player). PVE is both offline and online while PVP is only online.

Fun Fact, some of the maps you're looking at...are Mods. Players built them from the ground up, sometimes even adding their own creatures, and the game devs openly supported and welcomed most of them to main game.

also the implant specifies what bosses you have achieved to complete, and its actually built on a story through explorer notes

So Ark has free maps and story maps. Story maps are dlcs with explorer notes which explain the story, free maps are maps made my fans of the game which got supported by Wildcard and added to the game. those 2 genesis trailers are like lead up to Ark 2 with Vin Diesl playing Santiago. And that fyling robot is HNL-A, a robot who got personality traits of our main protagonist in the lore and is helping us defeat Rockwell, who unlike Helena, wanted to take power for himself. I already mentioned NeeedyTheNoodle who has videos called "Ark Survial Stories", videos which remake the lore from the notes inside a game. so if you want to learn about lore, check those videos (Curentlly Island and Scorched Earth Lore is out and Abberation lore on its way) also Ark 2 trailer and Animated Series trailer XD

I have hundreds of hours and I could not click on this video fast enough! Also I choked up a bit when you referenced Buckbeak because that was the name of my first Argentavis (Big flying bird) I ever tamed in the game!

Reminds me of my reaction to these when they first came out. Ahhh the memories.

Here is how it goes. Base game is the first trailer Story DLC-s are Schorched Earth(Desert) Aberration(Underground caves) Extinction(Earth and Titans) Genesis part 1(Little Robot and simulation) Genesis part 2(Space ship, Little robot HLN-a and Rockwell(The evil guy) which is the last story DLC. Other DLC-s with Griffins and mythological stuff are non story and they are free to buy. They are made by people in comminity. Fans and modders.

13:45 This is my world: Valguero. I love it!

I always believe your in-game character is a simulant and your actual body is asleep on a ship in space waiting for news that discovered planets are safe or at least survivable in a colonization manner.

A few things, Story wise *spoiler free, I think*: Basically you and other humans wake up on floating domes in space called "ARKS" they are massive habitats monitored by the Domes A.I., there are 3 arks you get to wake up on story wise, An island habitat surrounded by water, with nearly No mechanical creatures besides the occasional Cyber dinos *but they are rare like pokemon shiny's* then there's Scorched earth, An ark with a full desert habitat, unlike the island there are fantasy creatures like Wyverns and golems. Then there's the final ark, Abberation, abb is special because that ark is actually malfunctioning hard, and the surface is uninhabitable, with extreme radiation and deadly sunlight at day, and a bunch of creepy monsters at night. So everything living is in a massive underground cave. All the arks have guardians, Massive creatures that keep people from switching arks. Now, for the non-ARK maps: Genesis is an alternative to the ARKS created by some other people I won't talk about because spoilers. unlike the ARKS, Genesis is fake, because well, you know, it's a simulation, People who didn't get to be put in the ARK program, went to the Genesis program instead, the Genesis program consists of 4 biomes, a snow biome, a space biome, a lava biome, and an ocean biome with very small islands, also unlike the ARKS, the Genesis simulation actually lts you switch between them with a metaphorical snap of a finger, where In the ARKS, you have to go through so much stressful fighting and traveling. Genesis part 2 takes place on the spaceship housing the Genesis simulation section. After you 🎶Snap back to reality🎶, you exit the Genesis simulation and explore the massive ship, which shares similarities with the ARKS, in which it's housing physical biomes like the ARKS, however, A douche called Rockwell, who is actually played by the tenth doctor who funny enough, corrupted sectors of the ship, hence why you saw gruesome biomass stuff, *he also did the same with the depths of abberation*. Finally, we have earth itself, extinction. Earth is a Corrupted wasteland with a single safe Haven, an abandoned city. Earth also has 3 ARKS that have never been launched to space, which you can explore, a desert like Scorched earth, a snow biome like the Genesis simulation, and a malfunctioned ark that dug itself underground, that looks like a less fecked abberation. Unfortunately, the guardians of these arks still exist, and there massive Kaiju called titans, Godzilla sized monsters corrupted by element, you can kill the titans or clear there element and cure them. Then you can kill stuff with them. And the titans have a leader, a truly Godzilla sized Kaiju called the king titan, who is un-cureable, he is also 2 times bigger then the other titans. That's basically it. The rest of the Maps are non-canon so yeah, you should totally play the game sometime!

You can play it by yourself or with select people. I usually play with just me and a family member. The main maps you can find journals that tell you a little about the lore and you can figure out why when you die you can see your own dead body when you return.

Honestly one of the best games I've ever played. ^^

"What's in the water?" Ark Veterans: "A Quick Death....."

Thier is most definitely a story line and it's both single player and multiplayer as well as PvE and PvP

Okie! I’ll be brief cause Ark is one of my favorite games of all time, the maps (Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis part 1 and 2) are all story maps while all the other maps in between are custom made maps, originally created by fans and then touched up and imported into the vanilla game, the developers have been doing this since The Center which was right after the Island. Story wise I’ll keep it brief still, your a clone spawned in onto the island the very first ark where the notes and journals begin, each ark is a test of survival and yes every map up until extinction is a space station orbiting earth holding inside ecosystems that are unchanging for when a survivor goes through all the arks the story characters went through to also end up on earth and see how the planet is dead and unable to bring back life because and this is a major piece in the deeper themes, element is a material that came from space and landed on earth and can be anything you want it to be, organic matter support (some of the animals on earth were genetically engineered with elemental apart of them) and that leads me to the point of how are they’re dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals with also mythical and creatures of science fiction, its all element, it gave humanity a massive leap in advancement to be able to create almost anything they wanted like wyverns on scorched earth and the titans you saw on extinction, but this is how earth is in the state that it is, element kinda gained a mind of its own after so much human tampering and mass produced itself that now it’s called corruption and it got so bad that it drove into the earths core and our planet doesn’t spin on an access anymore which lead to a faster end of all life, so now a survivor has to fight through or tame the titans that stand as tests once more to face off against the king titans which y’all saw at the beginning and end to then defeat him and activate the system to bring the arks home to plant the seed of life and re do everything, the arks landed and have been wiping any element clean out of the soil. Also lastly and importantly some humans evolved using element and advanced technology to become beings of pure energy who left earth and haven’t been seen ever again, but one of the characters whose left notes on the arks and on earth became a homo deus which is the name for the pure beings of energy to guided you from a far on your journey. Now onto genesis colony ship, it’s a plan B if plan A-rk fails it’s so that earths seed can spread to another planet far far away from the corrupt element that took earth, but someone else was able to connect to the ship and quote on quote organically 3D print himself and take over the ship, he’s infused with element and seeks to be a god and spread himself all throughout the galaxy, but the character whose a homo deus no longer being human needed to stay on earth to help rebuild life and took a piece of her human personality that remained and put it into a small robot that eventually became her own person until the survivor defeats the antagonize whose been taking over the ship and she sacrifices herself to make sure he dies with the rest of the ship after it’s found a planet suitable for earths life and that parts breaks off while the rest of the ship with antagonist crash into another planet close by. I’m real sorry that was messy and I could have done a much deeper and better organized job but there’s a lot to talk about detail wise but in my poor simplicity that’s the story so far! And we will be continuing with Ark 2 on the new alien planet where earths other animals, flora and us are the real alien invaders, which I’m hoping story wise we get the option to connect with the natives instead of repeating our own real life history

The story for Ark is amazing and would make one Amazing movie for sure!

One thing that is cool, some of the maps where player made that was made official.

Okay idk if people have said it but Aberration shows it the best. All the maps are “Islands” or Arks in space above a destroyed earth, which Extinction takes place on. Aberration is a destroyed ark in space so it’s biosphere is gone meaning the surface during the day, you can not survive, that’s why it’s underground. Genesis is a simulation on a ship in space controlled by Rockwell and Genesis 2 is you on that said ship. Scorched Earth at the moment isn’t canonical from what I know but is going to be soon, The Island is where it all started. The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, lost Island and Fjordor are just expansions maps you can play on but are so much fun and I highly recommend them.

You guys should watch the Dino spotlights. It goes in-depth into most of the Dino’s and creatures in the game

Every map releases new tech weapons, machines, and dinos. The game's story is that humanity and most life were corrupted by element (Living Metal Basically). They put humans into cryo stasis until the earth was ready for habitation again, but a Philosopher (Rockwell) found Element somewhere on the Aberration and was corrupted into a living A.I of sorts. The game is single-player and multiplayer, so you can play however you want. Ark 2 is releasing next year if you like this you should check out the trailer, also they have a animated show trailer

Its not a dinossaur game, it is a survival game with dinossaurs

It can be played with others on a server but after a bunch of bs I switched to singleplayer and enjoy the story and sense of accomplishment from ascending from one map to the next. I finally made it to fjordur now that I finished genesis 2. I just wish we had console mods. There's soooo many cool mods out there like extinction and annunaki

The mal with robits on was earth In ark earth was destroyed by overuse of a elemnt called element its some sort super fual for technology the arks preserved life but began to rebuild prejistoric animals But over each map u get closer to earth and manage to make it back just to find these titans on the planet and these abandoned cities

The flying one in the 1st trailer is Pteranodon and it's not a Dinosaur, it's a Pterosaur AKA Flying Reptile

So many parts of this game you would enjoy to see)

Their are 6 story maps and many oyher maps The island Scorched Earth Abberation Extinction GENESIS 1 & 2 are the story maps Ark 2 is about to drop next year

Man the original trailers bring back memories. Been playing off and on since release. Back when there was 1 map and no biomes XD Sadly wildcard never really did alot with water. Gen 1 has a realm that's mostly water...but it's a shame they never continued the trend of maps around specific biomes. Would have loved an all water or all ice map.

“It’s a sugar glider” just wait till genesis. That’s the real sugar glider

I could not get into this game at first because even on pve servers you don't get build space etc. Then I found the the single player option and since then I am addicted to this game.

Finally i was waiting for this awsome.

I missed it on release but yes! One of the people who requested this. I second tne other request to check out the creature spotlight trailers as well. Now just waiting on certain monster Death Battles on the other channel ;) lol

"he's got huge forearms!"... Man, just wait!

The early ark maps started of "simple" so u arent exposed to too much in the beginning, ark actually isnt set in the past but in the future, cloned and newly created, biologicly engineered creatures, but if someone just wants a dinosaur game the first maps are pretty much that, nothing to crazy. And it has Singleplayer/Coop if u guys intressted in trying it out for urselfs.

You do make use of virtually everything in Ark,including both your own poop,and that of dinos as well. Only problem,is often you wind up collecting more resources than you can carry. Atleast till you get your first tame and storage box.

The true story will blow your mind!!!!!!! It isn't what you think!!!!!!!! I don't want to take away from the surprise but the story behind it all is epic you must look it up. You won't regret it.

Should definitely check out the Ark Survival Evolved creature spotlights.

That game... It ruined my nervous system... Love it! Music is wonderful...

22:51 that guy who brougth the raptor is a real bob

There's a series called PaleoArk from UpFromTheDepths. It's worth a watch, whether in a reaction vid or in your own time.

You should check out Neddy the noodle who goes through and re-enacts the explorer notes(pages and scrolls you find on the 6 official maps) that explain the story through the pov of certain survivors before you. That is how the story of ark is told with a few cut scenes in the last map. There is exsplanation for the Dino’s, the worlds, why you wake up naked on a beach and why you wake up again after dying. It’s very intresting and they are actually making an animated series on the story told in those notes

The fat birds in the first trailer are literaly dodo birds