See, to me this just ruins Pokemon. It used to mean something when you caught a legendary or a shiny. Now they are just randomly given away on a whim.

@biggamerdude: The fact you think it's just the same thing over and over again indicates a tragic lack of imagination on your part.

If you're going to review a game, especially this kind of game, you need to give it more than 30 hours and you need to take the vast customization options into account as well. This review is uniformed at best and apathetic at worst, I am stunned that Gamespot allows this trite nonsense to be published under their name.

@oflow: Yeah, a 6 is just ridiculous, I understand most review sites giving it a 7, but a 6? Absolutely not.

@Wiro_: Yes. I realize all of that. Do you realize that most games in this world do not have to simulate tens of thousands of A.Is simultaneously, maintain and calculate the stats on thousands of player tamed dinos and render thousands upon thousands of player built structures at any given moment all while constantly refreshing and replenishing a map 36 square kilometers in size AND maintain a relatively high standard of graphical fidelity? Hm?

Current hardware is not up to par. Period. Ark may not be the prettiest game in the world but it pushes the hardware on the market to it's limits. You cannot optimize that away. Hopefully as technology advances Ark will age well.

@Wiro_: Yeah, I call 60 FPS being in a good place, and I really couldn't care less about anything higher than that. Gamers these days are like posh glass-palace primadonnas.

@HBM: Riiiight. Okay.

Legendaries are meaningless if everyone and their grandmother can get one just by "participating."

@IanNottinghamX: Honestly I think when professionals with a balanced perspective, a fresh clean slate, and a reasonable understanding of what Ark is and isn't meant to be start reviewing it, it will be quite positive overall.