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Dsk (1 KP) rated ARK Survival Evolved in Video Games

Dec 14, 2017

ARK Survival Evolved

2017 | Action/Adventure

7.0

(24 Ratings)

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The survival aspect and the lore created. (0 more)

The devolpers greed for money. (0 more)

Amazing Concept

Like many of the survival/crafting games of the genre it partially helped popularize, ARK dumps you on the beaches of a massive, foreboding island with just enough clothing to stay modest and your own two fists. From there, the challenge is to stay fed and hydrated while avoiding a huge variety of terrifyingly detailed dinosaurs and other beasts long enough to progress up the tech tree. Early in the life of a character, you might be taking out dilophosaurs with throwing spears and hoping a triceratops doesn’t come and knock your thatch hut over in the middle of the night.

From there, there’s a really nice flow of technological progression that makes advancement feel like more than just an increase in stats. Thirty hours later, you may preside from a sturdy stone castle from atop which you snipe pterasaurs out of the air with a rifle. By the endgame, it’s possible to have a massive steel fortress full of blast furnaces, complete with electric lighting and gas generators, churning out components for building rocket launchers and SCUBA gear.

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Lee KM Pallatina (951 KP) rated Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) in Movies

Aug 8, 2019

The story Nick fury (0 more)

Obvious story if you know the source material. (0 more)

Spiderman 2.........the 3rd one. (Or is it the 4th, there was 2 tv movies?)

Spiderman 2 sees tobey Maguire return as the best Spiderman to date and...........oh wait.......

Spiderman far from home sees tom holland return as ultimate Spiderman for ps2....no wait....tom holland returns as peter parker aka Spiderman who once again does a great job at avoiding nick fury and his feelings, but squeezes into a new array of suits, while trying to enjoy a school trip and mourn the loss of his tech savvy father figure Tony Stark.
While trying to balance the life of a hero and the life of a teen life every hero (lol) the arrival of a mysterious new "hero" dubbed mysterio by parkers class mates, things are quite what they seem and as the lives of everyone of his classmates come under threat, it's upto spidey to uncover the truth and figure out how to use his peter tingle haha.

A great movie that does the Endgame aftermath some justice.

Fantastic SFX, great story formed, great easter eggs and references.

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Emily (1430 KP) rated Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth in Video Games

Feb 18, 2020

Same basic premise as the other games in the Civ series, except this is set on a strange new world that ships from earth have escaped to.

Uses the hex grid of the other newer versions of the game and also has indigenous alien life on land and in the sea. This can be quite tough to deal with early in the game, particularly the worms (think Dune-style enormous things) and the sea life, but is easily dealt with later on. It alternatively you can try and work with it so you kind of become allies, although it's not easy to achieve.

The best thing about the game is the tech tree. Every other version of Civ has a branched linear progression, this one has a web. The first few moves are relatively common to all play styles but then you can just go anywhere and what you pick changes what type of faction you end up as (which ends up like a combination of religion and ideology of the other versions of Civ).

If you're getting bored with normal Civ, this is definitely a fun alternative.