Not just the creatures are different but the characters too. Rockwell being evil from the beginning is upsetting as his descent into madness and corruption was the best part of the ark story.
They also took away Halinas charm and discovererys. They also made the Roman guy an idiot even though in the original story he technically wins until he's killed by the queen of beasts. They changed so much that it's nothing like the original story other than people's names and the ark.
@@naynay9133You say that when Arthropluera REALLY WAS about 8-12 feet long. Clearly, you didnt play the games either before watching the show, just like the creators.
The Arthroplura’s in the show are not only tiny when compared to their game counterparts, but their real life counterparts as well. While not as big as the game version, the real animal could still get up to a size larger than your average human.
Technically not true, there are multiple smaller species within the genus (ofc they are supposed to be the large ones though so having them be tiny is kinda bizarre unless they turn out to be babies)
Makes wonder if the animators were even given proper information on what they were drawn for scale. Or if they thought it would make it more "realistic" or "Thrilling" to have dinos over sized.
For anyone who hasn't seen the show, I want you to know that Helena is saved from the Megalodon because a Leedsichthys, the giant filter feeder, ate it. They somehow wrote a character who studies paleontology without even studying paleontology themselves
Haven't seen it cuz I don't have Paramount+, but you do realize Lystrosaurs is actually around the height of a human right? Same as a troodon. Troodon is pretty much a Gallimimus/raptor. Ark isn't very accurate either.
@@dexyswulfyroo44That's only one species of Lystrosaurus. The majority of them were up to your knee. Also we don't know how tall Troodon was because Troodon doesn't exist anymore
In the Sabretooths Dossier it says a well trained Saber can kill a Rex so I just assumed the size increase was with that in mind. The Megalodon is also roughly 3 times bigger in the scene it chases Helena than in game...
@@Bretaxy actually they are probably the closest creatures in ARK to their real world counterparts in terms of size. The average estimate of Otodus megalodon is 16 meters (52 ft) with the maximum size for the species being up to 20.3 meters long. The species of Megalodon in Ark actually isn't even a true Megalodon because its species name is Carcharodon ultramegalodon. Which means it is probably evolved from Great White Dna and not even related to the real Megalodon at all. In ark Carcharodon ultramegalodon. are 16 meters long, while the Alpha Megalodon is 22 meters long which puts it slightly bigger than the maximum size estimates for Megalodon. So as you see we actually have Megalodons full realistic size range in Ark and its pretty accurate, they just look small to us because we are used to everything in ARK being oversized by roughly double in ARK. (7 meter tall and 25 meter long Trexs for example).
Fun fact: achatina is a modern-day genus of snail, and about three times as big as it was in the show. The genus includes the giant African land snail, the largest land mollusk in the world. It is also NOT related to cone snails, like, at all. When I was watching the show with my brother I had to ask him to pause so I could go on an angry biologist rant.
i see no issue- as over half of these creatures meant to be realistically sized (aswell as ARK's creatures taking inspiration from others aswell, the sabertooth is that big because of cave lions and smilodon specimens that got roughly that big)
It’s just why would you not make a faithful adaptation when most of your viewers are ark players. So many shock value moments just for the fun of it and the pacing is fast af.
the creatures? yeah, but man they did rockwell bad. His slow descent into madness until he became what controls Abberation is what made him so interesting, him being pure evil from the very start is uhh, yeah that takes away all of that (he was always a bit off but not as bad as this).
wasnt a big fan of the show but canonicaly the ark adapts the inviroment to challenge the survivors this could lead to the growing of some animals or the shrinking of others
I think it’s also (for the bugs at least) based on where they are located and age, as the varying sizes of the spiders with some of them being more like the actual game, and others being only slightly bigger than a regular spider.
I think because it was a game the small things were sized up do they are noticeable and they made them normal sized in the show either that or the game creatures are literally built different like different diets and that
For people saying that Rockwell was supposed to be good at the start and he’s bad in the move since the island ark for the animated series ain’t finished I think they will slowly make him good during it and have him good for half the arc or something then we get the good Rockwell storyline you guys want
Because some of these creatures might be able to kill them easier and I'm talking about the ones that are relatively small, while the larger ones could possibly be meant to be more intimidating, dangerous, and poses a challenge That's just my take on it anyway
But couldn't that be explained by them not having messed with the arks systems yet? Because if I recall it wasn't until the characters started fucking around in the systems did the ark change, like players being able to respawn after death.
I like to think that maybe the creatures were designed to be created based off of popular media, old research data and stuff when the arks were first created. Then new data came in one from an actual human came in with her(i forgot her name) when she became part of the ark when she became a deus or whats it called Im not too indepth in the lore of ark, im more surface level.
It's simply because they hired individuals who do not care about the show. Or even look up information on how the animals and creatures look, move or act in the video game like we don't have RU-vid. And on top of that they made a carrier. That's a Mary Sue, simply because politics and ark survival evolved is a great game. It's fun!
@@TheCookie13 If you don't care about the original retelling of the original story, then sure, I understand. But I don't need a fake retelling of what really happened in ARK. I want to see what really happened, what the documents in the ARK game say what happened. Luckily we got Neddy The Noodle to do what Wildcard wouldn't.
Devs would have done better if it was made from the game and not all changed up same thing with if they brought official ORP servers back we actually even made a discord to get people organized
