Single Player
Nerd³ played some single-player and it looked pretty fun.
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No, never played Minecraft (SP or MP). I do enjoy The Forest's SP mode a lot, but I thinks that's a different kind of game since The Forest have a storyline (or will have one someday).
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Depends on each; I enjoyed it both alone and with my friends on my tiny server hosted by myself. For some reason I stopped playing because of the updates (way too many creatures who make your life a hell, and for some reason after each update the game tended to eat all my 16 GB of RAM...).
Maybe one day I'll play it again, but not right now...
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Thx. I'm not saying that I'll never ever play the MP mode, but I tend to value the SP much more. If it's just a crafting game, then that's not my game.
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If you expect to a huge storyline behind gameplay, it`s definetly not your game it' close to no story at all); all you have to do here is to survive, while the creatures around try to make you fail your purpose, to survive you need to gather, hunt, eat, tame and ... build ( to build you need to craft alot); I think you get my point... I can't say anything about minecraft since I didn't play it and I never will, because I dislike strongly those "squares" graphics.
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Same here. My kid plays Minecraft like hell on his tablet but I can't stand looking at all those cubes for too long.
To be clear, I enjoy The Forest in Single Player a lot, so crafting isn't exacty the problem for me. But there's a nice map to explore there and looks like the storyline will come soon. But if it's just a survival for the sake of surviving, then I think I'll pass.
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So I take that ARK is just a crafting game like Minecraft, yes?
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No problems there, I'm not one of those Minecraft haters. It's just that I enjoy more story-driven games than crafting ones. Thx for the info.
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Yeah, I remember that noise about the DLC when it happened. But since it's on sale, I was wondering if the SP is any fun. Apparently not (for me, at least).
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Only minecrafty type game i've played is 7 days to die. is ok playing alone. i think ARK is ok too based on reviews
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Have you checked out Empyrion: Galactic Survival?
I picked it up on sale and it's a lot of fun. A little bit similar to ARK and Minecraft, I guess. But awesome. :)
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lol, went to check it and I already own it. Will give it a try. Thanks for that!
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I'm torn on how to answer this question, because I'm highly ambivalent where this game is concerned.
I would say the game is quite good overall, but there have been a number of significant caveats to that. The one you'll probably see the most salt over being, of course, the release of a paid DLC for an unfinished game where they have clearly taken the money of the people who have been supporting it in Early Access and, rather than finishing the game, made a separate DLC and decided it was fair and proper to then also charge for it as much as they charge for the base game. There was much rage over this decision. Personally, I got Ark from Humble Monthly, so I am far less ruffled by this, but it is of note.
Then I have also seen a bunch of people raging over some changes made that only effect the multiplayer aspect which would then be irrelevant to you. Evidently they made it so people can freely switch servers or something, so tons of full alliances and the like have swapped around taking places over and generally harassing the community or preventing new players from even being able to enter the worlds and so on. I don't do the open multiplayer stuff in any survival games after seeing nothing but harassment, abuse & trolling in the past, so I can't actually add anything from personal experience to that part at all.
As to the game itself being good for single player only, I mostly find myself immediately tending towards no. I've played a bunch of survival games, and virtually all of them almost exclusively single player, and I feel like Ark is one of the best of them mechanically, but also the one that I've enjoyed playing the least. So many things are so incredibly slow and tedious without having friends around to help. It felt like the progress made in that game can't even be rated on a human time scale, but rather on the geological time scale. I tend to imagine that Ark is flipping amazing with a handful or more of friends all working together, but I feel like it's pretty torturous alone. However, a ton of people out there actually LIKE when your food and water gauges go from full to empty every 12 seconds whilst accomplishing anything requires that you stand in the same place performing the same actions and never screwing up for 12 solid hours (I'm heavily exaggerating here in reference to the effort required to tame a dinosaur), so the things I have complaints over may be exactly what you desire. Plus the world building options menu for starting a new game let you customize most things to exactly how you're most comfortable playing, which is fantastic.
Ark is a really well done game, and it gets very regular updates. Sometimes too regular I should maybe point out, as if you have a download cap for your net it could potentially be problematic. There's generally been at least one fairly substantial patch per month, usually accompanied by regular hotfix patches for a couple days or so around it as well, and sometimes the combined totals on all of it can be like 7-10GB. Probably not a concern to anyone unless they have seriously low data caps, but if a person does have a cap and is regularly close on it, Ark might be enough to cause some problems... Also it's just kinda frustrating sometimes when I finish a patch only to find a new patch is immediately waiting as the old one completes, or just seeing another new update to Ark every time I happen to glance at Steam on a day off because it fell after they did a major patch and they seem to find it a better answer to drop 250 small patches, each one immediate to being complete I would assume, instead of wait to find all the bugs and patch them all together. I don't, especially since often bug patching creates new bugs, so I'd be surprised if they didn't end up with situations where they've dropped a dozen patches on us in rapid sequence over a two day period after a 4GB major update and some quarter of those little patches are actually hotfixing the hotfixes.
So, all in all, your mileage may vary which is true of all games. If I was going to recommend a survival game to someone explicitly going in wanting to play single player, I don't think it would be ARK. Probably Empyrion since I find the different vehicle types and exploring multiple worlds, etc, to be far more engaging, and almost nothing in that game tends towards the speeds that suggest it is the tortoise to a Glacier's hare. Ark is very definitely well done so far, and in very active development however, so I also don't find myself wanting to really answer "No, it would be bad" either, because while some things it does feel super slow to me, it's very nicely done, very complex in some systems, quite beautiful, and easily one of the best done survival games I've played. So in the end I can't answer either yes or no to this, mostly because I can't answer to what you, personally, would actually enjoy. Best I can do is the above: give you the info I can think of to help you answer for yourself.
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woah, lots of text! yeah, like I said, it's not that I don't like MP, but I tend to value a single player campaign much more than MP. I actually own Empyrion but never played it properly. same with Space Engineers. I kept buying those games (you know, let's save it for later) but then I realized I never played those so I started to actually think before buying stuff.
About grinding, I like The Forest a lot. Bought it because a friend of mine did most of the 3D modelling for the game, but when I started to play it I did enjoyed the experience. Never tried the MP mode because, yes, online community is toxic and I try to stay away from those.
My connection is decent enough (50Mb fiber) and grants me a ping of 12-18 on CS:GO, the only MP I do, so that won't be a problem. What I really care is a good immersion and, well, a purpose when playing. So, if a game is purely about grinding, no objectives other than staying alive then I probably will get bored easily.
Thanks for the time on putting all of this, it was very helpful!
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Yes it is, just remember to adjust some of the configurations on the Single Player creation and it will be awesome (Like the time you need to tame dinos and things like that, on the normal rate some can take hours to tame and to do that you would need a entire tribe, but you can adjust it to take only minutes on the start of the SP)
Oh, and the DLC is pricey but while the gameplay reamains almost the same, its looks like another game (a map with new theme, new dangers, new creatures like dragons that change the gameplay a bit and etc) and they will launch some cool free DLCs too, so i dont see why dont buy it if you like the game
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Oh yes, it´s worth mentioning that there´s a custom island creator in Ark, which is fascinating enough alone if you have a gist for these (procedural generated) things. Same as in "Sir! You are being hunted" that feature alone gives the game a whole new side to explore - like when you go apeshit on the settings and want to see what it looks like :D
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Depends on your style and what you look for in a game.
Singleplayer leaves half or more of the game outside- but also some of the worst and most infuriating of the game.
I found it challenging enought in SP and prefer to play it SP (less random kills, no drama, better performance).
But i like it for the immersion, feeling like some lost explorer in a beautiful world.
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thx for the feedback! problem is, I'm not that much an online player. I thought it had an actual storyline on the single playermode, but looks like it's just a survive-while-you-can game.
thx again!
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I play ARK:SE single player. SO much better then the griefing caused by multiplayer. I have a huge stone house (4 stories so far), A small army of Sabres for hunting, two bronto's for moving large amounts of goods to my summer shack, a TRex for fun, a herd of Ptero's for exploring, 3 Argies for transporting stones/metal/flint from my Doed/Anklos who mine by themselves and a few sheep for shearing when I feel like making cold weather clothing - oh and my sharks for gathering silica.
Set your own tame speeds (mines 3x so i don't have to spend all day taming), and best of all - I don't have to log in every day - when you exit the game all timers are paused. no starving dinos if I get called into work, no pvp bastards destroying my base, and me coming back as a prisoner or having to restart building my estate again. plus no lag.
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Self explanatory title. I don't play MP games other than a little CS:GO so I'm wondering if there's any fun playing the Single Player mode.
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