Recent reviews by Deviant Stepchild

While I loved playing this game, nobody deserves to be off the hook for using AI slop instead of human creativity in their games. This wasn't disclosed until recently so as far as I know, this game shipped originally without AI use anywhere in it. The fact that this was disclosed later in development should allow for people to refund it. You shouldn't get away with suddenly changing to using a method that takes the hard work and autonomy of others' art without their consent and turn it into pixels on a screen and profit off of it. Until they guarantee they no longer use AI I will not be recommending this game to anyone, nor will I play it and would recommend you don't do so either. This is work that could be done by humans that they don't want to pay for despite having enough money to surely do so to turn a profit over creating jobs for people.

What's worse is AI is now encroaching on peoples' livelihoods in the way of data centers. It pollutes drinking water, air, and sound of neighborhoods throughout the US now. ♥♥♥♥ this, get a real artist to make posters.

the pants i wore while playing this started out white, but were dyed brown as the walls of a taco bell bathroom by the end

This game was such a realistic experience for me it triggered my PTSD from my experiences with stalking

it's ok i guess

Despite the many pros ARK has, it also has plenty of cons. Here is a list of both:
- Amazing graphics. If you can run it on its highest settings, I recommend doing that (To an extent, read cons).
- Dinosaurs.
- Fun sandbox-style game play.
- Dinosaurs.
- Great concept behind it.
- Dinosaurs.
- Amazing notifications when servers are going down. Usually about thirty to sixty minutes.
- Dinosaurs.
- Everything seems to work.
- Dinosaurs.
- Game is not fully completed yet.
- DINOSAURS!

- Game is not fully completed yet.
- Memory leak issues (why not to have it on full graphics).
- Exploiting happens here and there (though I've only had one issue with it).
- Some features didn't make too much sense, however were corrected briskly after I actually noticed them (such as no stone window frames, ceilings, or doorways).

All-in-all, this game is a great sandbox-style game with amazing features. It has a great overlaying pre-historic survival theme, as well as a PvP-PvE crafting shtick going on with it. On top of that, there are modern-day inventions such as the gun (or even the lampost!) included. Oh, and did I mention there are dinosaurs? That's one hell of a way to travel. People who compare this game to Minecraft shouldn't - ARK is better in its own way. I can only expect great things from this game here on out. I hope many other people enjoy this game as much as I do.