#i love rockdrakes man

[drinkinggblood]

this is mainly a joke dont take it super seriously

[t-rexdescendant]

Hmm...for that "reverse unpopular opinion" thing, tell me about ARK. I opened it once for five minutes and got really overwhelmed, so I want to know what you like about it

[cracks knuckles] oh boy you’ve activated my trap card.

THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS I LOVE ABOUT THIS GAME YOU HAVE NO IDEA. Ignoring all the inaccuracies aside i fucking LOVE the designs for like. All of the dinos. Like there was no reason to make the gigas like. Eighty meters long and thirty tall but they did and i love wildcard for it. Literally all of the animals in the game are just Little Guys (with the exception of the seagulls. Fuck them they ate my cryopod with my favourite wyvern in it i will never forgive them at all). Just. I love creating boss armies and feeding the unwanted children to the Ocean™️, i love banging my head against the Carcher’s taming method like a bee who has zero concept of glass, i LOVE DYING OF DEHYDRATION IN THE ARCTIC, literally EVERYTHING from the aberration ark is S+, extinction’s ending will never NOT make me feel giddy, Genesis 2’s ending will make me cry EVERY SINGLE TIME.

Just!!! The sound design of the game is PEAK. Every animal in game just. Sounds Right. Especially the later animals added. The Rhyno is just. Hellicopter bug. Carcher’s feel like blood crazed maniacs (hi the bite sound will forever live in my heart). Sinnos are just. They’re Baby. I love them. Their trills. Giga’s enrage roar is like. Literally my favourite thing ever. Reapers. Everything. I love those nightmare dino xenomorphs you have no idea. The wyverns level up sounds are just. They mmr-WRAAARGb!. The little wiggle Spinos do when they level up and the little giggle sound.

And then theres the arks themselves. Hiiiii omg hiiiii helloo hiiii massive living super organisms made of metal mimicing flesh. Hiiiiii. IM SO NORMAL ABOUT THEM. Im so normal about the Overseers and their whole… everything. And how it was implies they’re regaining emotions after loosing them. How they’ve been implied to slowly go insane. I just. LOVE how they all march to their deaths willingly with Extinction. I love how the Island’s Overseer just TALKS to you while gearing up to kick your ass to next year. I love how their deaths are natural disasters in on themselves and i LOVE how the arks themselves try to work without them and fail.

I also love how it was implied they have favourite animals aswell im never over that at all. I love how they CHOOSE to shapeshift into those animals to kick your ass. Theres ZERO reason for the Island’s overseer to have an entire DRAGON as a boss and yet. It does. I like to think that even though its been so long they lost all emotions, they still mourned with Aberration went to shit. I wonder if they looked out from their view platform and just sae its corpes orbiting the earth slowly. I wonder if they felt the dread knowing they’re all one moment away from sharing rhe same fate.

I also love how just. Casually. The end game fuel source is sentient and VERY much willing to kill you in its pure form. It wants you sooooooo dead.

Said fuel is also the reason why the arks exist. Why the Genesis simulation exists. Why everything went to shit. The arks blood is toxic and wants them dead and the sole reason why it isnt is because they just load that shit up with other metals.

And also the fucking. Story aswell of the entire game. Those explorer notes man. We have lesbians here. Badass lesbians. Mei Yin and Diana my beloved. Mei being certifiably batshit and the reason WHY you have to do convoluted taming methods for several high end animals. One woman is the reason why it takes nearly a hundred well timed tranq darts and over a thousand narcotics to keep a giga down long enough to tame it. She’s the reason why you need to nose dive down into HELL to snatch one single rockdrake egg in order to get one yourself, if she was allowed onto Scorched Earth, she would’ve made that bloodthirsty trigger happy Overseer cry by pulling a HTTYD on the Manticore.

Hell she’s the reason why theres weight limits on what animals you can take through the obelisk teleport network because she brought a GIGA to the OVERSEER fight and KICKED ITS ASS.

I love Mei Yin so fucking much. She’s insane. She’s crazy. She nicknamed her girlfriend tangerine because she had orange hair. Im fully sure if given the chance, she’d fight God and win.

Im so normal about this game forever and ever. WAIT I FORGOT TO MENTION ITS ALSO BEEN IMPLIED THAT ABERRATION JUST STRAIGHT UP CRIES IN PAIN EVERY TIME IT EXPERIENCES AN EARTHQUAKE. anyway yeah im normal

This is a survival game