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omgigotpwned has ARK: Survival Evolved

Apr 10, 2023 @ 12:18pm

Why does Vin Diesel love Ark so much?

There's not much I was able to find from a 5-minute Google search, but if what I read is right, one of Van Diesel's kids hooked him to this game, then he got 1000+ hours in, and somehow made a deal with Wildcard to star in a sequel.

Really? I question some of that given that the frustration and rage this game gives me as well as the community is unquestionably brutal. I need not remind you of the many bugs, design flaws and other issues that plague the game, single-player or multi-player.

Giving Van Diesel the benefit of the doubt in that his interest in Ark is honest-to-god true, how did he put up with all the B.S. and continue playing for so long? And don't tell me it's family, that ended when Van Diesel's kid showed him the game.

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Cobretti

Apr 12, 2023 @ 4:06pm

Vin Diesel is an old school WoW player which means given the right game, he is happy to sink a heap of hours into it. I too am an old school WoW player, therefore just as I moved on from MMORRPGs, he likely did as well. The willingness to sink hours into a good game is still there though.

You are implying Ark isn't a good game, I disagree, seems that Vin Diesel disagrees too.

Play something else, literally hundreds of thousands of other games out there. So many people would rather argue their point on the forums of a game they dislike instead of playing a game they actually do, so strange.

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retsam1

Apr 12, 2023 @ 4:24pm

Originally posted by Cobretti:
Vin Diesel is an old school WoW player which means given the right game, he is happy to sink a heap of hours into it. I too am an old school WoW player, therefore just as I moved on from MMORRPGs, he likely did as well. The willingness to sink hours into a good game is still there though.

You are implying Ark isn't a good game, I disagree, seems that Vin Diesel disagrees too.

Play something else, literally hundreds of thousands of other games out there. So many people would rather argue their point on the forums of a game they dislike instead of playing a game they actually do, so strange.

People also are thinking of him simply being a hired actor for the projects but he's a producer for them as well. That's an important distinction that needs to be made for some people although many of them may not even understand what the role of a producer entails either.

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omgigotpwned has ARK: Survival Evolved

Apr 13, 2023 @ 9:29am

Originally posted by Cobretti:
You are implying Ark isn't a good game, I disagree, seems that Vin Diesel disagrees too.

You do make a good point. It's a mixed bag honestly, Ark does some thing really well, and it does some things horribly. To clarify my implication, it's a good game, but not a great game. But hey, if Van Diesel or other people think it's a great game or GOTY worthy, they can enjoy it as such.

Originally posted by retsam1:

People also are thinking of him simply being a hired actor for the projects but he's a producer for them as well. That's an important distinction that needs to be made for some people although many of them may not even understand what the role of a producer entails either.

True, I do realize he does more than act. I am tempted to sit down with him at lunch or break and ask him what inspires him to keep playing this game through both the great and miserable times after his 1000 hours of gameplay, which is probably far higher than that considering he's working to try and make Ark 2 a successful game.

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