The point of ARK

[T9]

Hello,

what is the point of ARK? Meaning, is there an endgoal or something? A story?
I know literally nothing about the game but somehow I own it. haha

ty

[🦊 Hermit]

You wake up with nothing on the shores of an island populated by dinosaurs and extinct creatures. The primary point is to survive through insurmountable odds, and figure out where you are and why you are here. There is a story, but it is not told through cutscenes or quests - rather there are notes from previous explorers dotted around the map, detailing their experiences and discoveries. You have to find these notes, piece together what happened to them, and from those slowly come to an understanding of what is going on. And it may be that things are much bigger, and much more is at stake, than you could ever have imagined...

Gameplay-wise, the main goals are to survive, build a base, tame and ride dinosaurs to defend yourself from the wild animals and to gather resources, and finally beat map bosses. From there you can transfer your character to the next story map with a new landscape, new creatures, and new threats, and do the same thing. And all the while you learn more about the situation you are in and the characters who came before you. Additionally if you play online, you can form tribes with other people and have large scale tribe battles with everything from primitive dinosaurs to advanced futuristic weaponry.

[soph]

build, tame , become addicted like the rest of us

[Shahadem]

The point is going from nothing to the Apex predator and answer what is the meaning your life. No really, that is the actual story of the game.

https://youtu.be/LAwDWZoETk4

[Public_Enema]

Spawn, get killed, reaspawn, get killed again, raptor spawn camps your area. Relocate, get killed by spino...Git gud, tame raptor, tame spino, get killed by Rex. Cycle continues and 640 hours of your life are gone..

[retsam1]

Originally posted by t9:

what is the point of ARK?

Sandbox survival game so the point is up to you really.

Originally posted by t9:

Meaning, is there an endgoal or something?

Yes if you wish to experience it.

Originally posted by t9:

A story?

Yes there is a story. You can either experience that yourself or look it up on the wiki/youtube vids. Telling you though is spoilers.

[william_es]

There actually is a story and background, but it's told in the form of notes you can find around the maps. So it's going to be sort of random and piecemeal depending on which notes you find first.

The notes were left by previous survivors, which you're going to find out come from different time periods. A chinese lady warrior. An ancient greek general. A modern era zoologist. A victorian era scientist. A super future weapons developer. Some of them you'll find out are heroes, others turn out to be villians.

[🦊 Hermit]

Originally posted by william_es:

An ancient greek general.

Not meaning to be picky, but he's actually Roman ;)

[william_es]

Originally posted by 🦊 Hermit:

Originally posted by william_es:

An ancient greek general.

Not meaning to be picky, but he's actually Roman ;)

I'll have to look it up the lore again. Because the first time I read one of the notes, it's a greek name, not roman. There's a lot of bleedover (the romans built up their rep by layering on top of the greeks that came before them, but they were two totally separate cultures).

[Nyota Mwuaji]

collect dilos and raptors and form a army that cannot be defeated.
at least thats me.