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@councilofcringe5520

Жыл бұрын

Unlike most games today I have followed arks story from the very beginning, watched all the theories with Ante, played all the maps at least once, and crashed more than The amount of hours I've put into this game. I've loss countless dinos in stupid, frustrating and sad ways. Watched friends come and go as we play this game together, slayed great monsters by myself, only for my little brother to erase my save file lol. In the end what always struck me is the atmosphere and sense that your story only ends when you give up. I love this game through thick and thin till this game even at the most frustrating moments. Thank you ark for all you are and aren't!

The island ascension is such a cool cutscene, I remember being mindblown when I saw the arks floating around

@agoogleuser1570

Жыл бұрын

Funny how most ark players don't see it

@greattitan371

Жыл бұрын

​@@agoogleuser1570 I like to think most ark players are represented by the people on the arks in the last extinction cutscenes. Never ascended/fought the bosses, but survived on the arks.

@GodzillaInHellforbeingHIM

11 ай бұрын

​@@greattitan371 Yeah that sounds about right

@jeffbrownstain

8 ай бұрын

@@agoogleuser1570 I think you could probably count on one hand the number of people who have beat alpha king titan on official pvp servers. That always makes me a little happy to think about.

I still can't get over the fact that Rockwell can talk now.

@NumberMonkVR

Жыл бұрын

Exactly

@totallynotalpharius

Жыл бұрын

When did that happen? Cus I don’t remember that from the original Aberration. Or any of the stuff with Helena for that matter

@smilloww2095

Жыл бұрын

@@totallynotalpharius That's why they used the word "now", lol. So yeah, it's been added shortly before this video was released.

@totallynotalpharius

Жыл бұрын

@@smilloww2095 . . . Huh

@smilloww2095

Жыл бұрын

@@totallynotalpharius hmm?

So happy to have the whole story to be filled with cutscenes like this. It brings tear to my eyes

@The_Expired_Cow

Жыл бұрын

Just one, split in half

@tomislavterek5544

Жыл бұрын

Very few games make me as emotional as ARK does. Did anyone consider similarities of ARK element with C&C tiberium? :)

@johernandez266

Жыл бұрын

Goose bumps for me 😁

@monkeywrenchstudios3590

Жыл бұрын

I genuinely think of ark is done properly, proper actors etc a good director.. I feel legitimately like it could be the next Star Wars.. maybe a trilogy fallowing the 3 Santiago’s?

@Gowly

Жыл бұрын

Right?

I love the little detail in the Extinction Prologue when One Who Waits remembers she’s still Helena, she loses the echo in her voice and sounds more human

@obiomanwafor148

Жыл бұрын

Ikr

@HNIN1973

Жыл бұрын

Helena became a robot?

@nielsvanhoudt6151

11 ай бұрын

@@HNIN1973 she ascended

@JU1CET1N

17 күн бұрын

@@nielsvanhoudt6151what does it mean by she ascended I’m so confused does it mean she died or like what

No chance they gonna beat the King Titan with a spear

@SinisterOL

Жыл бұрын

Not with that attitude

@ross9158

Жыл бұрын

It’s the thought that counts 🫡

@toxicannon3670

Жыл бұрын

Mei yin brought a giga to the megapithicus so it must be possible

@Hazearil

Жыл бұрын

@@toxicannon3670 didn't she also KO tame a Rock Drake?

@toxicannon3670

Жыл бұрын

@@Hazearil I believe so yes

This was beautiful. But when Santiago said "Something tells me that this is the easy part". That gave me chills down my spine....

@mikeH824

Жыл бұрын

Ark 2 theme is so good bro, the music helps make it feel like a true teaser for the next game

@TheHarrowingTitan

Жыл бұрын

@@mikeH824 IKR 🥰🥰

Shoutout to the camera man for surviving the arks ❤

So wonderful to see all of these in one place now. Thank you Neddy for doing such a wonderful job of putting this all together for us.

@NeddyTheNoodle

Жыл бұрын

Hey, thank wildcard for making them :)

Absolutely beautiful, go on, take a look. It's finally begun, the new cutscenes are out...

@humbelduff2916

Жыл бұрын

…I’m just glad I got to see them.

@jdamian0247

Жыл бұрын

Huh, look at that. Ark 2 is drawing near.

@totallynotalpharius

Жыл бұрын

@@jdamian0247 Ah, I remember what it was like to be filled with hope

I remember hearing Aberration's soundtrack and fell in love with it. The music they made for the Aberration intro cutscene made it so much better. It was my favorite until Genesis Part 2 came out and it was worth the grind to hear Journey's End play in the end credits.

Did anybody else wonder what H-N-L-A meant when she said she was backing herself up? Like backing up data to the cloud but in this case into another body? Like how when we die our memories (engrams) get backed up into a new body?

@zirex6620

Жыл бұрын

good question i was wondering that too

@Hazearil

Жыл бұрын

She's still a construct, so she would theoretically be capable of upload a backup of her mind somewhere to survive her physical body being destroyed. But, she was almost out of time, and spent that time with Edmund instead.

Ark is an amazing story and I'm grateful that they finally did it justice with these scenes all now tying it together. And it makes the player feel so much more a part of it. Great job Ned

@smilloww2095

Жыл бұрын

Yeah im so happy they did this. Scorched earth not having an ascension scene felt so wrong. Also Rockwell not being able to talk didnt make any sense.

I honestly like that scorched earth finally has an ascension cutscene, it needed one for how long, Honestly it should've recieved it during Extinction's release

@tonyc4612

Жыл бұрын

That plan was to never release one, but then wild card realized if they wanted the story to make sense they HAD to release it.

This game has always had one of my favorite lores, this update looks fantastic. It’s been a great journey WC

These cutscenes bring clarity to the story and it’s events, that is something that the ARK story is hurt by. The charm is that it felt like a mystery, that at first glance, is too big to comprehend. With all of its gaps, the story was to be interpreted by the survivors. Also the aberration prologue is the coolest

13:05 this part when I first saw it in-game, it got me right in the feels man

I've never played anything outside the Island and Fjordur, but damn does this game's lore have a place in my heart. Up there with the likes of Subnautica and Portal when it comes to sci-fi game stories.

Rockwell: I've survived way worse. about 10 or more seconds later, DIES

Anyone else notice that the ark destroys the sanctuary when you ascend on extinction

That roar at the end. Oh my god, I can't wait For Ark 2!

Bro the extinction Prologue is my favorite. Helena's return.

The ending of the Extinction prologue is my favorite part.

@NeddyTheNoodle

Жыл бұрын

Agreed

Aberration was the first paid döc map i bought and I absolutely fell in love with it its such a unique world and flying with rock drakes is so cool in this world and also the journey down for the first time I play with my sister and we went down there and it was a journey full of emotions because we almost died and barely made it out best dlc ever

@StevenLeeStudios

Жыл бұрын

Aberration instilled fear and excitement in every corner. Its the best map for anyone to start out. If you can survive this map, other maps are a piece of cake. Aberration is Nightmare fuel compared to every map as well as being the most serene and beautiful map on top of it. Every corner you are in awe of how stunning the world looks.

@CaptainCretaceous91

Жыл бұрын

Kinda has a "Journey to the Center of the Earth" feel to it, doesn't it?

This game is breathtaking. Even more so now with the cut scenes and lore updates.

I still cant believe how far the story has come... how much effort went into it and how less we actually as the player notice while playing. I mean the first time we really noticed, if you skipped reading anything and ignored all hints, is the ending of extinction. people had no clue who that floating person was.. helena... many didnt care but honestly, this game offers so much still, despite the bugs and infuriating AI... Ark is and will always be one of its kind.

If only new Ark players knew what early access Ark players gone through. PC and Console both. The DLCs, the updates, the events and OMG Thanksgiving 4 event was a absolute nightmare😂😂😂 So much good and bad moments throughout the whole game, its all what makes Ark "Ark" but really fun too and many continued playing until the story and lore was complete. This was really nice to watch, thanks for this upload!✨🌟 I love that you included the old extinction cut scene which is by far way better honestly.

It’s very clear that this game won’t be dead once ark 2 launches. They are adding so much to it now, we’ve still got years of enjoyment and fun left on this first game, I think.

@Myne1001

Жыл бұрын

Also ARK 2 is going to be very different from ARK 1 in terms of gameplay (according to Wildcard). I get a feeling its not going to be everyone's cup of tea.

@ritamillionyeara

Жыл бұрын

​@@Myne1001I think it's going to go either more story or gameplay but probably not both.

This is brilliant! The only part they haven't shown as story is how we actually ended up in the simulation for gen 1, instead it skips that part and goes right into gen 2 where it says the corruption had followed us from the simulation But it's still a brilliant video, thanks you neddy, looking forward to your own Aberration part 2 video

@EdmundiumHitting

Жыл бұрын

They really should’ve added a cutscene to explain this.

@ritamillionyeara

Жыл бұрын

Glitches

Rockwell being scared is just.. sad. Even deep down in the evil man he is, he's still human at the end of the day. And fear is what makes us human. HLNA putting in the "she knew" didn't help cause it implied Helena knew rockwell would die if he kept up his path.

@DracoUrsus

8 ай бұрын

The fear and heartbreak rockwell was going through I feel could be perfectly relayed to the audience thanks to David tenant.

@DracoUrsus

8 ай бұрын

At the end of the day rockwell was a simple man at heart with a goal and desire to be intelligent, that goal drove him to madness and made him the beast he was, in his last moments he was human, even for the last time. Sorry for the obituary of rockwell lol

Im not able to express my happiness bc of the fact scorched earth finally has a end cutscenes

Ten years later and the game finally tells you what it wants you to do 😂 We don't *need more lore for Ark, but I sure am happy to get it.

15:29 99% sure Helena says "in time, they'll purge every last bit of *it* from the soil" but the subtitles still read it as "in time, they'll purge every last bit of *element* from the soil"

@ToastyCarnotaur

Жыл бұрын

That’s cause before they updated the ascension to the new voice actor, she did in fact say element.

I’m watching this for the first time and just, wow. This is deep on so many levels. I can’t wait to see Helena’s story explored in the animated series!

Damn I really miss the old extinction ascension with the old voice acting, it just sounded less stiff and had more emotion in it

Ned, once again you have proven why you are the best at showing people Ark lore! Can't wait for you to get to the other maps after Aberration!

@P3rsonL

Жыл бұрын

All he did was post in game cutscenes in order i dont disagree that he isnt great at sharing the ark lore but i dont see this as a very good example

@coachlombardi9657

Жыл бұрын

@@P3rsonL Maybe, but I still like the video.

@noodles4272

Жыл бұрын

He won't do the maps after aberration he said so in a stream.

@Hazearil

Жыл бұрын

Well, "the best": he had sounds in from something like a device disconnecting during the Aberration ascension, and was shooting a Tek Rifle during Rockwell's voicelines.

@coachlombardi9657

Жыл бұрын

@@Hazearil He still tells the lore the way that I like. Not saying other people's ways are bad, just that this one works the best for me .

At 12:50 when Helena said "the love that I found" she is talking about me yin, we already knew she was gay but now that I think about it imagine how heart broken she was when she found out about me yin and Diana.

@Frostvul

Жыл бұрын

When did we "know she was gay" i think they just added that for the LGBTQ, or because they thought it would be weird to have no gay people in their whole series

@thedarkknight3998

Жыл бұрын

@Zane Willavize I can't remember which ones exactly but I think there was something mentioning it on her island explorer notes

What a trip! All at once, back to back! It's like years just flew by! What memories!

Aberration's Prologue is the best. By far. No doubts. Nothing will change my mind. Absolutely Bonechilling...

Thank you very much for putting all that together for us!

1:45 I've been playing this game since alpha and this scene right here, when this was added to the game and it was revealed we are the remnant clones of humanity hovering around on arks above a dead earth that changed EVERYTHING for me about Ark. It went from an amazing dinosaur taming survival game to something that speaks to my very core in storytelling, the unlimited grit of humanity never giving up even in the face of extinction creating a system that will forge the best of the best humans, the ALPHA tribes to take back our world.

So, no one’s gonna talk about how, if you built your base in the sanctuary, it and all the tames there canonically get blown to smithereens once the ARKs land?

Logging on today and got this cut scene, it's brilliant

It's pretty funny how Helena had identity issues as She Who Waits, so when that was over she made HLN-A, who has identity issues about being Helena.

They put so much work into this it’s so cool

big nostalgia for the first time i ever ascended on legacy island. the cutscenes introduced after extinction released are newer to me

The SE ascension was awesome awesome job on that

Finally complete history ! A fantastic journey far all players. Thanks Wildcard. Thanks for every hours spent on this game. I think... I have something in my eyes...

@cysgod45

Жыл бұрын

Dilo spit

@lolourex19

Жыл бұрын

@@cysgod45 😂😂😂

Thanks for the prologs and epilogs

“Pods from the genesis spaceship falling” The survivor in the exo-mech:well fuck

Literal chills the whole way through

Aberration hit diff the music the ascension everything

Omg been waiting for this for ages

God I actually almost cried watching this can’t wait for our new journey in ark 2!!

Finally we got the ascending cutscene for scorched earth after asking and putting it out there everywhere for so many years 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

THESE CUTSCENES SLAP

The end gives me goosebumps, allot!!!!!! Best game and best story ever!

You know nobody ever talks about what actually happened to the survivor like is he falling onto the planet in the exo-mek?

@NeddyTheNoodle

Жыл бұрын

Maybe we find out in ark 2

@tekark_01

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I want more people to ask about the survivor :( Personally, I think the survivor returns on the new planet, still in tek suit. Probably with tek helmet on all the time to not show who he is cause its a player-made character, turned NPC in ark 2. Like they did with the main character in Far cry 5 who became an NPC in Far cry new dawn

@collincaperton6718

Жыл бұрын

@@tekark_01 was it ever confirmed that the deputy and judge were the same person?

@Frostvul

Жыл бұрын

Yes supposedly he is, we already know that the game offers both a story mode and a customizable character sandbox game

And in some other universe, we find out that HLNA transfered her memory into your Exo Mech and claims it as her new body. She also now names herself HW-7274...

Damn scorched finally got an ascension, I've been waiting years for this..

9:45 please someone else tell me they heard the discord streaming watcher notification here, tell me im not crazy x_x oh and also awesome video thanks for compiling all of the cutscenes and lore for us to enjoy :D thank god for SE getting a Ascension!

SO MUCH NEW CONTENT.

This was the first next gen game i ever owned for xbox and my first xbox one title after watching vanoss and riot play the game. Ark will always be a part of my love for survival games and my favorite game of all time, even if snail has murdered it more than once somehow... I'll never forget you ark for getting me into gaming

With this I think that ark is finally complete

this is amazing

Scorched finally gets an ascensioj cutscene??? Finally!

these make me cry

Thanks!

I love arks lore is have everything

Dude I like the fact how HELN-A just says oh *beep*

When Helena said "well Fuck" I lost it then and there

Genesis part 2 ending hit me different ngl.

We all know how Santiago escapes the crash, there’s a charger in back and he drives out the pod and drifts mid air to escape the crash

The Island ascension is SOOOO GOOD!

Well, I was expecting another cutscene for post-ascension in Extinction and explain some other things about Genesis, but I'm totally satisfied with the entire lore update!

@NeddyTheNoodle

Жыл бұрын

I was a little disappointed myself. Howrver we have confirmation from the current writer on what happened. Ill be explaining that in one of the next summary videos :)

@robosauriook

Жыл бұрын

Oh well, those are amazing news, I can't wait for that!

@margisama

Жыл бұрын

@@NeddyTheNoodle So they explain what went wrong post-Extinction like how our character went from cleansing the Earth, the arks landing then *poof* suddenly our body is in a hibernation pod on a colony ship bound for another planet? ^^;

@randomweirdcanadian2878

Жыл бұрын

Well we know that Helena was uploaded to the Genesis Simulation at Arat Prime on Earth and created HLN-A who got on the Genesis Colony Ship. Which means the simulation acts as a vary long wireless connection between Earth and the ship. So I’ve always assumed that after we killed the King Titan and saved Earth, Helena realized we were strong enough to save the colony ship as well, so she uploaded us through the simulation too. As for Rockwell, in one of his last notes on Aberration it states that when he became the new Overseer he gained the knowledge in the Ark’s dada base, witch is probably how he knew about the Genesis Ship in the first place. And because of the post credit scene for Extinction we know that he survived when Aberration fell to Earth. So again I’ve always assumed that he found his to Arat Prime and uploaded himself to the simulation to get to the ship too. These are just my thoughts based the facts and implications we have, and as someone who is vary interested in ark lore I think this is the most likely way of how it happened, but we don’t know for sure until someone who actually worked on the game confirms it.

13:00 i just love this momment!

These cutscenes helped implementing the story. But there's still huge gaps in between extinction ascension and genesis 1 and 2

@tprime2702

Жыл бұрын

The best way to interpret is that despite defeating Edmund on the Aberration, he survived, and when Helena called down the ARK's, despite that ARK's damage, it was called down to earth as well... with the Rockwell entity aboard. This brought a seed of corruption and the human tribes unified together against him as the federation. When they had believed they defeated the Rockwell entity, they began launching ships into space to explore new planets, using the history of the Ark's as a simulation to train future explorers as survivors but unfortunately, the Rockwell entity survived the federations onslaught and existed on-board the Genesis 1 seed ship, where H.L.N.A over rides your cryostasis pod and frees you before Edmund's tendrils infect you.

Okay, okay, I LOVE the video, it's amazing, but isn't anyone going to talk about scorched earth? I mean, it has an ascension! Finally!

Really must say, The music-Creators, Storywriters and Graphics Designers of Ark Survival are Top notch. The Game-Designers however...

thank you

"Well ----" Appropriately timed curse word tbh lol-

Ahh the Discord sound as you go through the rings of abberation 😂😂

Awesome

Dude it's so crazy how Rockwell corrupted aberration so much it even changed the dinos, like ravengers are mutated wolves or sabers and everything glows like it's radioactive, He changed so much he made a map that looked like extinction into aberration

@dabirby2305

Жыл бұрын

Not true bro, aberrations terrain is mostly the same, while ravagers were already there

@akcr2889

Жыл бұрын

@@dabirby2305 I thought aberration was once like extinction but Rockwell experimented with element ingesting it, becoming the creature you fight on Abberation that was once Rockwell pretty much terraformed the ark changing it and it's creatures

@Andromeda....

Жыл бұрын

@@akcr2889 aberration once was the island, until santiago blew up a part of it with a tek bomb, thinking it was a prison, and that broke the artificial atmosphere, stopping the sun from burning them alive, so they dug out a cave to survive the sun, and also built the portal to escape to extinction, so the cave was from santiago (with rockwell most likely partially helping make it bigger)

@emperortethysusdacertified8175

Жыл бұрын

Actually, the caves were already present to some extent prior to Diana and Santiago presenting the Overseer with the fabled tek pipe bomb, so at the very least the Fertile Chambers and perhaps the Bioluminescent Chambers were already present at that time. The Elemental Chambers were most likely either the ARK's infrastructure that ended up being exposed and morphed into what it is now following the Overseer Station crash landing and falling to the bottom of the ARK, or was originally it's iteration of the Tek Cave given the presence of the portal to the Overseer Station at the bottom of the Drake Trench and the pathway leading there bearing some similarities to that of The Island's TC. From the very beginning, Ab was likely one of the more "experimental" ARKs like SE. Element ore nodes were present both on the surface and upper layer caverns even before the pipe bomb incident so the survivors never even needed to fight the Guardians for access to the valuable resource, and the surface itself was likely more comparable to the Fertile Chambers. It's possible that either the Overseer itself, in its last moments of functionality, or the back-up programming of the ARK stopped the regeneration of element ore nodes within all but the surface and elemental chambers while also creating the Nameless and Reapers to punish the survivors for the pipe bomb incident, in a manner similar to what happened with the people of Nosti on SE. Most other native species were likely already present on the ARK, much akin to SE's own cast of unique fictional beasts.

@roadrunner5549

11 ай бұрын

​@@akcr2889Helena wrote dossiers for all of the aberration creatures before Rockwell took over it so ravagers and reapers and nameless and seekers and such all existed before rockwell

You are still winning the upload race

Rockwell:you wont suvive this 1 sec later "Rockwell dying"

Finally they gave scorched Earth an actual Ascension

What are your plans for your explorer notes mod now that they’re adding their own? I have your notes to thank for starting a new playthrough with finding them in mind. :)

Thanks ark for the best time have past in solo or with my freine but now I think is over for me... ❤ But I have a last question, we have this animation for the pc version ?

Why are you still here? Staying behind to gloat? Edmund... I'm here to help you end this nightmare. You did this to me, for wanting the same power she squandered! Well, I've survived worse! I promise you I will find a way out of this. I will! No, you won't. It's much too late for that. It's so bright! Helena...? I'm afraid! Shhh. She knew.

Alright let me get this straight: Ark has two plots, One that covers The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberation and Extinction, and the second that covers the two Genisis DLCs But we leave the Earth ending up in the open and instead follow the spaceship that flew to a earth like planet instead of seeing how Earth is restored and what the Aberations virus will try with the planet?

@collincaperton6718

Жыл бұрын

I think thats a good assumption. I like to believe that earth is saved, mission accomplished but Rockwell still such onto the genesis ship along side with all those other survivors (enough to repopulate an entire planet) that it would lead to a fubar situation unless it's dealt with so maybe she uploaded a clone of our character onto the ship to deal with Rockwell once and for all

Hey so, quick question, I can’t hear Helena talk during these cutscenes and her robot form in Genesis part 1/2, I play on an Xbox Series S and I’ve never messed with anything, please help-

So do the prologues trigger when you transfer into a map and epilogues after you ascend?

8:36 "IVE BEEN TEMPERED IN VOLATILE MONKEY"

I think its time to go back to the island and start anew.

What is the music in the intros? i wanna vibe to it while crying

What were your settings filming these? All mine are maxed out but it's still grainy...

my game gave me a black screen on the genesis part 1 ending. spent multiple tries and did all the missions only for it to give me a dark screen.

With the voice overs out, will you still be doing the awesome survivor note films? Like for abb part 2 and gen1/2 Also, gen 1 doesn't have an into cutscene like the others?

@NeddyTheNoodle

Жыл бұрын

gen 1 doesnt have an intro cutscene, no. Just a respawn animation with HLNA

@wizardbrandon3544

Жыл бұрын

@@NeddyTheNoodle Huh. odd. imo it really should have some of the trailer content like helena creating hnla, and the part where hnla tp's us infront of some of the random biomes

9:46 discord disconnected noise lol