Ugliest Dinos

[Terror Birdist]

A sequel to cutest dinos so what are the ugliest creatures in ark to you? For me its rollrat for obvious reasons and the ammonite.

[NotDylan7055]

Excuse me, wtf. Roll rat is the cutest. Also, pegomastax is ugliest 10/10

[Vesuvius]

Otters and shinehorns.

[🦊 Hermit]

I have arachnophobia, so the araneo are not my favorite Ark creatures, although thankfully they don't set me off like spiders do in the real world. Also on the topic of bugs, the arthroplurea has to be on this list for those salt-shaker eyes and skittering legs.

Bulbdog would be high on my list...and yes, I know I'll likely have to swiftly build myself a fort to defend from the incoming onslaught after saying that. But I've never been a fan of dogs like that (pugs etc) with their bulbous eyes and squashed, flat faces. And the bulbdog has similar features.

Mesopithicus...not a fan of monkeys in general, but at least the giganto looks better after it's TLC. Meso, though, really needs it.

Plessie - the model of the body is cool, but that face is the stuff of nightmares.

Then there's a few creatures which aren't quite on the same level as the ones above, but still are a bit ugly in my eyes, like the daedon, pego, ravager, roll rat, nameless, etc.

And of course, not forgetting the ugliest creature in the whole of Ark ever - Humans.

Side note: can we also have a quick mention of the creatures which are really ugly, but in a cool way, so we like them even though they look nasty? The karkinos fits into that catagory for me, as does the angler, dunkleosteus, mantis and deathworm.

[A Terrible Modder]

Originally posted by Hermit:

I have arachnophobia, so the araneo are not my favorite Ark creatures, although thankfully they don't set me off like spiders do in the real world. Also on the topic of bugs, the arthroplurea has to be on this list for those salt-shaker eyes and skittering legs.

Bulbdog would be high on my list...and yes, I know I'll likely have to swiftly build myself a fort to defend from the incoming onslaught after saying that. But I've never been a fan of dogs like that (pugs etc) with their bulbous eyes and squashed, flat faces. And the bulbdog has similar features.

Mesopithicus...not a fan of monkeys in general, but at least the giganto looks better after it's TLC. Meso, though, really needs it.

Plessie - the model of the body is cool, but that face is the stuff of nightmares.

Then there's a few creatures which aren't quite on the same level as the ones above, but still are a bit ugly in my eyes, like the daedon, pego, ravager, roll rat, nameless, etc.

And of course, not forgetting the ugliest creature in the whole of Ark ever - Humans.

Side note: can we also have a quick mention of the creatures which are really ugly, but in a cool way, so we like them even though they look nasty? The karkinos fits into that catagory for me, as does the angler, dunkleosteus, mantis and deathworm.

arthro salt shaker eyes... yep have to agree

[Trouser Jake]

OP has clearly never put a bunny ears saddle on a Rollrat...
Pegomastax is fugly.

[Jyandalf]

Originally posted by Hermit:

I have arachnophobia, so the araneo are not my favorite Ark creatures, although thankfully they don't set me off like spiders do in the real world.

Your lucky. I know they are pixels, yet they set me off, as well as the scorpions. I generally don't go into caves alone in case I need to walk away. At least then if I have another person, I have a little better odds of surviving when they get too much for me

Pego gets my vote for fugly though

[Trouser Jake]

Originally posted by 1nc0mp3t3nt_1:

Originally posted by Hermit:

I have arachnophobia, so the araneo are not my favorite Ark creatures, although thankfully they don't set me off like spiders do in the real world.

Your lucky. I know they are pixels, yet they set me off, as well as the scorpions. I generally don't go into caves alone in case I need to walk away. At least then if I have another person, I have a little better odds of surviving when they get too much for me

Pego gets my vote for fugly though

I know it would be a bit of work but Im surprised no developers have put in an option to change spider skins to something else, like how over the years it has become common to have color blindness options. I dont suffer from arachnophobia but it sure seems to effect a lot of people.

[🦊 Hermit]

Originally posted by 1nc0mp3t3nt_1:

Your lucky. I know they are pixels, yet they set me off, as well as the scorpions. I generally don't go into caves alone in case I need to walk away. At least then if I have another person, I have a little better odds of surviving when they get too much for me

My sympathies, it's a pain when a phobia or the like stops you from playing a game that looks really good or has other things in it that you really enjoy. I'm not sure why Ark's spiders don't seem to catch me so much...oddly enough I find Minecraft's spiders to be much more unnerving, despite their incredibly blocky appearance when compared to Ark. The Human mind is an odd place.

Originally posted by Trouser Jake:

I know it would be a bit of work but Im surprised no developers have put in an option to change spider skins to something else, like how over the years it has become common to have color blindness options. I dont suffer from arachnophobia but it sure seems to effect a lot of people.

It'd be nice, but in all fairness I don't think it'd be workable. Think how many phobias there are out there. Colour blindness has a few select forms, which can be catered for. But if a dev were to try and account for a phobia, they'd have to do it for every one out there.

For instance pogonophobia, fear of beards - no Ark character could grow facial hair. Or thalassophobia, fear of the ocean - Ark would have to be entirely land based, with no water sections at all. If game devs had to account for that last one, then games entirely based on the ocean such as Subnautica or Raft simply couldn't exist.

[Lady Tiamat]

Originally posted by Trouser Jake:

Originally posted by 1nc0mp3t3nt_1:

Your lucky. I know they are pixels, yet they set me off, as well as the scorpions. I generally don't go into caves alone in case I need to walk away. At least then if I have another person, I have a little better odds of surviving when they get too much for me

Pego gets my vote for fugly though

I know it would be a bit of work but Im surprised no developers have put in an option to change spider skins to something else, like how over the years it has become common to have color blindness options. I dont suffer from arachnophobia but it sure seems to effect a lot of people.

Spiders are meant to be scary, that's why Devs don't usually change them for something else. (Conan is the only game I've played that has had that option and then I think It's for single player mode, or personal servers only.)

The Spiders give me the creeps however the Pego is really ugly.

[Trouser Jake]

Originally posted by Hermit:

Originally posted by 1nc0mp3t3nt_1:

Your lucky. I know they are pixels, yet they set me off, as well as the scorpions. I generally don't go into caves alone in case I need to walk away. At least then if I have another person, I have a little better odds of surviving when they get too much for me

My sympathies, it's a pain when a phobia or the like stops you from playing a game that looks really good or has other things in it that you really enjoy. I'm not sure why Ark's spiders don't seem to catch me so much...oddly enough I find Minecraft's spiders to be much more unnerving, despite their incredibly blocky appearance when compared to Ark. The Human mind is an odd place.

Originally posted by Trouser Jake:

I know it would be a bit of work but Im surprised no developers have put in an option to change spider skins to something else, like how over the years it has become common to have color blindness options. I dont suffer from arachnophobia but it sure seems to effect a lot of people.

It'd be nice, but in all fairness I don't think it'd be workable. Think how many phobias there are out there. Colour blindness has a few select forms, which can be catered for. But if a dev were to try and account for a phobia, they'd have to do it for every one out there.

For instance pogonophobia, fear of beards - no Ark character could grow facial hair. Or thalassophobia, fear of the ocean - Ark would have to be entirely land based, with no water sections at all. If game devs had to account for that last one, then games entirely based on the ocean such as Subnautica or Raft simply couldn't exist.

There are a lot of phobias for sure but arachnophobia is the most common and on par in numbers with color blindness is why I brought it up. Personally I dont care if people with a disablity or a mental disorder can play a game or not. My mind was thinking more about all the pats on the back the gamming industry was giving itself when color blind options first became a thing and that I would have expected someone to want to recreate that again.

Does it count if I say pegos are ugliest again? They are super gross.

[FlamingAnus]

Originally posted by Trouser Jake:

Originally posted by Hermit:

My sympathies, it's a pain when a phobia or the like stops you from playing a game that looks really good or has other things in it that you really enjoy. I'm not sure why Ark's spiders don't seem to catch me so much...oddly enough I find Minecraft's spiders to be much more unnerving, despite their incredibly blocky appearance when compared to Ark. The Human mind is an odd place.



It'd be nice, but in all fairness I don't think it'd be workable. Think how many phobias there are out there. Colour blindness has a few select forms, which can be catered for. But if a dev were to try and account for a phobia, they'd have to do it for every one out there.

For instance pogonophobia, fear of beards - no Ark character could grow facial hair. Or thalassophobia, fear of the ocean - Ark would have to be entirely land based, with no water sections at all. If game devs had to account for that last one, then games entirely based on the ocean such as Subnautica or Raft simply couldn't exist.

There are a lot of phobias for sure but arachnophobia is the most common and on par in numbers with color blindness is why I brought it up. Personally I dont care if people with a disablity or a mental disorder can play a game or not. My mind was thinking more about all the pats on the back the gamming industry was giving itself when color blind options first became a thing and that I would have expected someone to want to recreate that again.

Does it count if I say pegos are ugliest again? They are super gross.

actually acrophobia is the most common phobia - fear of heights.

[Seftak]

Spiders are meant to be scary, that's why Devs don't usually change them for something else. (Conan is the only game I've played that has had that option and then I think It's for single player mode, or personal servers only.)

The Spiders give me the creeps however the Pego is really ugly.

Wurm has an arachnophobia option. It simply changes the spiders model to a blob type creature locally. This could be implemented in Ark too, only the player with the option turned on would see the different model.

[OofstinGames]

Plesio

[76561198027586553]

me im the ugliest dino just look at my avatar

[Jyandalf]

Despite my fears, I just generally don't go into caves. However, where I am truly trapped is in the fact that I need scorpion eggs to make Rex kibble, which means that I always need to have some around. Exposure therapy doesn't work for me.