It's good that you are listening, it shows that you are at least interested in making better reviews. In my opinion, Ark is not a game that can be reviewed quickly. Until you get to the level where you are farming, breeding and have a decent egg supply for kibble, you are only scratching the surface. Then there's metal mining, searching the ocean floor and deep water for goodies, fishing for engrams and high end loot, caves, and of course, the boss fights and Tek Tier. And that's only if you play solo or PvE. If you play PvP, it's an entirely different animal full of alliances, betrayals, favors, backstabbing, trading and general hopelessness.

Ark has a lot of good points, it allows you to play with dinosaurs, which few games allow you to do to this extent and has a good bit of crafting, farming and all of that nonsense that goes along with any survival game. Where it utterly fails is the developer is entirely employed by morons, the building is a glitchy mess that seldom works correctly on the first try, the graphics on console are horrible and below average for the FPS on most PCs, it's full of bugs that have been there for months with no fix or even comment on most from the devs, and the dev is another one of those that insist you play their totally open and instruction-less game their way, whatever that maybe this week and to hell with whatever cool ideas you may have come up with given the implied freedom in the game.

Few games have this much potential, in my opinion, but all the same it will sadly never reach it's full potential.

One of the reasons the footage is on a private server is due to me getting my stupid ass and dinosaurs earlier on in my playing, so the footage was a bit stop gap and something I wish I could have done better.

I agree that more time with ARK would have been better, but unfortunately, I had to review ARK quicker than I anticipated due to the fact that I have other games to review. I am tempted to return to ARK when there is another games drought as I really wished I had time to dig deeper into the game.

Once again thank you for your feedback I really appreciate it. For some reason I find people are hesitant to give negative feedback, I don't know why, as I find the negative (constructive) feedback can be the most helpful as it shows where you can improve.