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ARK: Survival Evolved: Big Dinosaur Stompy Stompy

Dinosaurs and open-world survival games don't have a very good track record together, but damn if this doesn't look nice.

May. 14 2015

Posted by: Brad

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ARK: Survival Evolved

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I look forward to this.

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It needs to be more like Dino Riders and have hella guns on those dinos.

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This is a pretty great trailer at least.

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It is pretty, but the animations look a bit stiff. Dinosaurs though!

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That does look pretty sweet though.... hmmmm

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I take all these games with a grain of salt. I do hope one of them will be truly great some day.

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It's about god damn time we get a good dinossaur game! Here's hoping it is at least 50% as good as the trailer makes it look like.

Also, WTF is that Dragon at the end?

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Was it just me or was that footage sub-30 fps? Seemed choppy.

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Edited By ICantBeStopped

I'm all for a good dinosaur game, and this is probably the best I've seen, but that brontosaurus was stiff. And things like slowly backing away from that triceratops and pelting it with a handgun. Wut? If a bear can shirk off handgun bullets, that triceratops should be charging and impaling the shooter, not casually walking forward while being shot.

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let's just hope that people will be willing to work together and not just endlessly kill/troll each other like in every other online survival game.

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I am now excited about this. Damn it! I should know better than this by now!

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That guy had a gun!!

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Between this and Lego: Jurassic Park it must be a good week to be Patrick Klepek.

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Besides the horrible dino animations, this looks amazing. Still get on that dino mocap!

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Between this and Lego: Jurassic Park it must be a good week to be Patrick Klepek.

My sentiments exactly.

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Edited By baka_shinji17

Dinosaurs are a myth.

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This looks totally maybe great. I just hope it has a singleplayer mode. Whenever these things go MP heavy they always turn into a massive jank-fest.

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I'm still waiting for Peter Molyneux's B.C., thanks.

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Its not an early access game?

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Can't wait.

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This is the closest thing to the Dinotopia game I've wanted forever.

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As a Stomping Lands backer, I'll believe it when I see it :x! (Please be good! One time?)

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Ohhh yeaaaa more survival gamesssss yesssssssssssss...

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Riding that giant scorpion didn't seem like the safest thing.

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Edited By Deadstar

Anyone else get a tear in their eye watching this? It just kept getting better and better. I want video games to be ridiculous and fantastical again like the SNES days. #banmilitaryshooters #banthebrown #bringbackthefun Let's get it trending. Tell your parents.

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Fucking A! It's Dinotopia the game.

Please, please, please don't be shitty :(

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OR...they could've cut the trailer in half and called it "ARK: survival INVOLVED"....

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See, if an infinite number of monkeys are given computers and an infinite amount of time, they will eventually produce a quality open-world survival game.

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It kind of breaks the immersion when a land dinosaur is floating 4 ft above the ground

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I wonder if this trailer would've been half as great without the absolutely brilliant music.

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That dude's arms are yoked..

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Let the Dinos roam free brother.

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Young Earth Creationism: Revengeance

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WAS THAT A DRAGON

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It needs to be more like Dino Riders and have hella guns on those dinos.

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YES! All the lasers!

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How I imagine the development meetings for this went:

"So for our game about dinosaurs should we have guns?" "Check"

"Magic space crystals?" "Check"

"Doing a barrel roll on a pterodactyl?" "Of course"

"Giant ridable scorpions?" "I mean why not?"

"A dragon?" "Sure, fuck it put in a dragon I will literally allow anything to be in this game"

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I'm not sure about this one, but reminds me of Terra Nova so much it's unreal and I'd like that show to come back.

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yep, this is a thing. they just need to make sure the dinos can have guns ON them. also, i dont care if they have to use crystal magic to do it, we need shark-mounted lasers.

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Life finds a way.

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The little blurb doesn't mention it at all which is a mistake, it's only in the last few seconds: this is heading to PS4, Xbox One and PC, and Morpheus Support is already in.

It'll also be up for early access available at the site http://www.playark.com/ starting June, and they are also hiring.

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Geezus those are some first person chris redfield roided-as-fuck arms.

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Why do all the dinosaurs look constipated?

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Far Cry: Dinosaurs!!!

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Fuck it! Ride anything!

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I dunno if I believe all this... Dodo's are extinct.

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This actually looks pretty amazing, but the guns/future tech REAAAAAALLY turn me off. As does it being a MP game.

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How I imagine the development meetings for this went:

"So for our game about dinosaurs should we have guns?" "Check"

"Magic space crystals?" "Check"

"Doing a barrel roll on a pterodactyl?" "Of course"

"Giant ridable scorpions?" "I mean why not?"

"A dragon?" "Sure, fuck it put in a dragon I will literally allow anything to be in this game"

That sounds like a meeting I want to be in.

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Man, that guy is buff.