ARK: Survival Evolved

For a difficult game like this, it has to have a strong, fun foundation to base that difficulty upon. unfortunately, ARK does not have this. ARK and its large number of bugs inhibits any enjoyment I try to have. this game isn't fun, even with friends. There has been more than one time where the game soft locked me from progressing or doing anything by either locking my spawn to an infinite kill or not letting me use my items or access my inventory.

playing this alone is bs, but i got 2 friends that really like it and its fun to play with them even tho they just carry me through the whole game and idk what im doing

Since Minecraft isn't the end-all-be-all of gaming for me, ARK is already barking up the wrong tree a little bit. I also found it ludicrously difficult; not in the way that dying a couple times teaches you what you should and shouldn't do, just that you'll die a lot no matter what you do. I feel like getting really good at this game is a prerequisite to actually having fun, and the problem is that the better you get the less there is to do in the game. Let's say my base is totally pimped out, I've got a ton of dinos, and I'm no longer randomly dying to spinys that fall out of the sky. Can you build the Taj Mahal with all of your power and resources, or do you just invade servers and bully worse players? Like it just seems like a torture simulator, and there isn't even an endpoint that you can point to an say, "I did it! I beat it!" Its graphical demands also turn your computer into a radiator.

This is a survival game where you progress to get more dinosaurs and... That's basically it. This will be a great game for those who are really into dinosaurs, but I can't say it captures my interesting grinding for the sake of dinos.