I remember watching the Helena survivor notes video for the first time. You 'only' had 18K subscribers at the time. It's been an honor to watch you grow and improve your videos. Lots of love, dude!
My dad got ARK in 2015, and my tiny 13 year old self kept begging him to let me play on his pc :D together we've got like 3k on his account, and recently I got it myself on my gaming laptop (that can actually run this monster of a game, lol) and now we're playing together again, but this time two survivors! Damnit Wildcard, you got us good, 8 years later and we're still here
That's nice. My dad played it on a PS4 and the host tethering and the hibernation resource respawn issue really put a damper on his experience. Didn't stop me from racking up the hours on my PC version, though. 😂
I remember wanting to play this game for the longest time as a kid. As the years passed and I finally got my hands on a pc that could run the damn thing, I had so much fun. I then discovered your channel after a break in 2023, and I had your videos blasting in the background as I played Ark. It rekindled my love for the game and your videos are why I like to talk about people about the game's story.
Bless you Neddy. It is strange how Ark found a special audience. I have over 10k hours in the game too and only very recently have come to realise that I am quite sure I share some of the conditions of which you spoke. Only difference is I'm 55 years old lol. Regardless of the future and the difficulties you may have encountered as a consequence of your condition, rest assured that you have, at your age, already achieved something quite significant with your survival stories and associated content. You opened up the game to so many players in a way that no other Ark streamer did. In fact in a way not even the game developers did. I'm not sure they realise what a huge service you did for them. Your stories will still be watched and enjoyed years from now. You aren't mental ill, you're just not 'Neuro-typical'. More power to the freaks man! Love and best wishes from a mad, messed up old git who's lived his whole life wondering what was wrong with him. I take a small comfort in knowing I'm not alone 🤪
I still remember when I saw a post on reddit with your video of Helena's Survival Stories and being thankful that finally someone had started to recreate the explorer notes, until then there were only videos of people reading the notes. Since then I have loved how you have been evolving as a content creator.
Ark all glitches and bugs aside was an excellent game . The island ---> added volcano ----> second expansion scorched earth --> and then Aberration ---> and the final extinction (or so we tought) --> Gen 1 and 2.
I'm glad you stayed in the community and contributed everything you have. I've been a long time patreon and you're giving us the lore, the backstory, the whole world of Ark in an easy to consume format that is fun and interesting. I actually wish they just gave you remit and control to do their series they want haha
Back when ARK first launched I was hyped as heck since I love dinosaurs and I put 100 of hours on it. Thankfully despite my love for the franchise didn’t turn into an addiction and I soon have other dreams I wanted to realize. But regardless, I don’t know how but. Even with all the new things n’ hobbies I’ve done. I still find myself coming back to ark one way or another. Nowadays I just use ark as a motivational source. Like when tackling a hard project I would just think back to my first attempt at taming a giga and say “ah I’ve faced other challenges this is nothing to me”. I’ve been watching your channel since the Helena episode and I gotta admit. I was being watching your explorer notes stories on repeat to the point where I actually got 6.5 on IELTS from simply listening and picking out details from the series. Thank you Ned for helping me get into college.🙏
The way you describe feeling at home in Ark, that's exactly what I experienced too in ASE. And still do now in ASA. I work long hours in real life because I own and manage a business; that's why I'll never be able to accumulate many in-game hours. But when I get a rare day off, starting the game, hearing the title music, and then hearing the noises of my tames greeting me feels like coming home. It's the place where I find relaxation and can recharge. So, I can relate, even if I'm twice your age.
I have loved all the work you've done on Ark. As a fellow mentally ill person, I have put in 4.7K hours and still can't stop. I love Ark. It is my favorite game of all time.
Your survival stories are what led me to you Ned. I had just come back to Ark and was dabbling with the idea of sticking it out. Then I saw your videos and it fuelled my drive to keep playing and uncover the story myself. So over the course of 2 years me and my wife ploughed into Ark and at the time only GEN 1 had come out. We paused when we hit there but then GEN 2 occurred and we dived straight back in. This remaster has certainly caused a divide between fans. Me and my wife included. I'm hyped for it. But she sees it for nothing more then a cash grab by wildcard/snail. Regardless. The beauty of Ark is, despite games coming out that are survival filled and have dinos. There isn't anything like Ark. It's just got a formula that has yet to be beat. And it's the one thing that's saved the game I think from vanishing
What Neddy said... X3 30,733.6 hrs ASE ( my CPM therapy ) ASA might have gotten similar numbers, if it would run for 30 mins straight without crashing. Guess it's time to focus on other pursuits. Mist, Sunkenlands, 7DTD, Palworld....
Not gonna lie, the 2 main reason why I drop Ark was that. 1. I had no friends to play with. 2. I have things I must do in real life and no longer have all the time in the World to possibly play Ark the way I once did. But I do missed the simpler times
im sharing in that disorder salad plus a lot of physical stuff too rofl. im still bummed i wasnt able to dedicate to helping with some of the filming projects. I really thought I could but severely overestimated my health at the time. It really IS impressive that you have done so much and coordinated so much. Never discredit yourself in that. Im so unmedicated for all of my conditions right now, i could never be so productive. Hopefully will improve soon. I really look forward to what you do with your future, I have a feeling you're going to do some amazing things.
I think the most important thing you would definitely have to change would be to make the camera perspective in the first person perspective from the stomach to the head
my pvp journey on ark was something i wont forget tbh, i bought the game in 2015 but couldnt really run it and i had no friends back then so i just didnt play it until 2019 when i had a pc to run it reasonably, survived a month solo on official pvp was the first thing i did and even though i got wiped 4 times, i kept trying over and over again until i eventually wasnt being wiped, making fake looking bases that were already raided and hiding my cryo'd dinos in hidden boxes, shit was the stuff back then, plus i just love mana as my pvp mount, fighting guys on other stuff like wyverns etc was fun af. got 5k hrs before i put the game down, my other 5k being put into another game called beasts of bermuda , and 3k put into gmod and the isle, 1.5k put into primal carnage extinction, tried to diversify my hrs since playing 1 game only was bad.
I have 11850 hours in ASE, the very first time I played it when it was released I quit for a year because it was too hard, the second time I played I rage quit for a year because a Kapro happened. Here I am with 500 hours in ASA pretty sure I got mental problems.
This is literally my story as well with Ark ADHD,addiction, depression, anxiety,but I’m a young player I played when I was 6 tell now I am 13 but I never made a server or had a discord server or even a RUclips
I have 2 k hours in ark and I've only had it for 6 months sooooooooo yea I have no life lmao tbh ark is my favorite game and if I didn't find it well I might of not still been here that game helped me sooo much I started when the mobile one got released then I gave up a day after because mobile ark sucks then I got a PS4 and my friend told me to get ark I was ew that game sucks but I got it anyways but I got into it and boom here I am with my Xbox and PS4 I've done to much with this game my parents hate ark because how much I like it to I hope you see this Neddy your one of the main reasons I stayed with ark your vids got me hooked more than before i get asa this February so yea now i can be obsessed with that lol
when i started this game i came from the movies. and they had made me belive i should fear the raptors like the plague. so i didn't get that far inland for many years since my pc fast became unable to run this game. only recently have i tried the game again and love it. have only played on the island map. the only thing i have aginst this game is that it isen't single player friendly since many of the features are programmed with a server in mind.
Hey may God bless you bro. I've been watching your videos for a while now and just wanted to say that Jesus loves you and He's always there and is willing to listen. Hope your doing great bro and God bless, take care and keep up the good work. All praise be to the most high 💪🏽🙏🏽
idk how many hours 560 days is but i have that on ark im 15 but the thing is you could psychologically torture me and it would have no effect ark does that on its own 🤣
I will be 63 this nov, and Im well over 4000 hrs over 3 years..lol So far Ive only played solo, but I will go online eventually. And intend to play until I cant anymore..lol. I was a dino fanatic long before Ark! Not sure I will do Ark 2...Prefer 1st person. Have played some Ascended, but still prefer Evolved.
Waaaa my mentaal heath cuz i play videogames and get paid. Waa Every youtuber has adhd or depression or anxiety or all the above.... apparently. Couldnt just be thats just regular human emotion to different stimuli
ASA really just doesn't look good to me. I have a mondo PC and even with decently high graphics settings I feel like the game just looks like playdough. Not worth it for me and It really is just a shame how Wildcard and snail consistently do the wrong thing. Ill keep playing ASE single player for the foreseeable future. AS AN ARK RUclipsR MYSELF tho (Not this YT account) It really is disheartening seeing content trends move away from what I enjoy making. IDK the whole thing really does effect me and Wildcard and Snail are irredeemable at this point in my eyes...
I just play alone, didn't even know it was multiplayer until I started messing with settings... Then I mastered breeding... I wish you could breed different plants too... Now I'm thinking about playing and building a base.
I got ARK in 2016 for my PS4 when i was 12. I played it a lot. But after they released Extinction i put it down for a while to play other games untill 2020 because of that virus. I got a PC (for onlineschool) that i mostly used for gaming for a variety of different games and of course ARK. Since then i have played ~4k hours of ARK and i still plan to keep playing. Very cool video. Keep it up! 😄
I'm glad you can relate. I definitely had nobody that I felt like was in a similar situation other than friend or two who also did online school. I knew them only online. You'll figure out what you wanna do though. Just experiment, try stuff! :D
Great video mate. Like you and many others, Ark has been an equally big part of my life for quite a few years so this resonates on so many levels. Thanks for sharing your story and here's to many more. Cheers 🍻
When I first started playing Ark, it didn't have the Tek Cave in the volcano yet. I admittedly didn't know what drew me into the game when I first played it beyond the fact that dinosaurs are cool. So, hearing how you started your survival story is both interesting and amazing. I don't know what the future holds for this game or Ark Survival Ascended, but I do hope that they will be amazing and I hope that whatever future you have, Ned, will be filled with good fortune!
Another amazing video Ned! You've got talent that's taking you places for sure! I've only been involved since Dec 2020 when I came across ARK for the first time, but to have been a part of it since the beginning is awesome. You're making a name for yourself and having a good time with this game. 🙂
I played on and off during the early days untill around 2019, where i got to the point.. no more. Other games came and took my full attention, untill early 2020 i stumbled upon your video's and dediced.. lets go again. Yet to say if that was a good or a bad one, but doing 6000 hours the following good 3 years, i would say.. i was stuck in it again :P From there i settled on a official server where the very first stone foundation i placed was still there the very last day the server shut down. Although i continued into ASA, in a way it feels like a 'it was good, but im ready to move on' progression. Not sure what future of Ark will bring (or their choices, big shoutout for your ASA server thing, you were a huge part in their change of plans) or what my interest will be in the following years. But im happy i watched the journey along your channel growing, the amazing stories (sad helena).
As an older player of games in general, I was turned on to many games by Neebs Gaming due to their fun nature and interesting coomradery. Started Ark, Conan and 7 days all thanks to them, although im a console player. Its only been in the last 2-3 years, I have found so many other creators for all the games. Ark is by far my favorite game of those 3, but have been let done more times than id like, but surely not as many as many like yourself. Appreciate your content, updates, stories, rants and all. Thank you for being you and doing you Neddy. Still waiting for the console save fix as I play ASE in the meantime(still broken as well at times, lol). My best to you and keep on rolling😊
I started playing ark in 2020 after seeing another famous Spanish RUclipsr play it, and because my gamer uncle had it too. I fell in love with the game and he also gave me the expansion packs as a gift. And I have never played them. I have this issue that every time I start a new game with somebody we never even get to the brood mother and stop playing the only friend who had the game later I realized he was a narcissist and now is not my friend. I have never played the game since then, but after watching this I think I’m gonna start again soon. For some reason I never played on public servers (probably because I was very young and was scared of social interaction on the internet) I found you channel in probably 2021 or 2022 and I love what you do. I’ve always liked video games and sci-fi lore, so ark and your channel were the perfect combination. I don’t know if I’ll buy survival ascended after already having ark and all of its expansions, but I’ll have to see about that one later.
A funny thing about steams playtime counter is it counts even if the game isn't actively being played, for steam it records if the exe is active, even if the game is in your back processing and not actually being used, so even if you aren't playing ark but you recently clicked on it, it will still be in your processes even if you close the game. On Xbox or Playstation if you have over 6-8-10k hours actually meant you had put the time into it, on console it only recorded your playtime if you actually selected to play the game in single player or on a server, not by just sitting on the main menu. I have a pc friend who only played ark se for 20 mins and didn't like it, but he never turned off his computer for weeks, his play time is over 700 hours just because how games are back processed on steam.
Really enjoyed your story in this video. I was super late to discover Ark as a single mom who works full time and has only really been able to branch out in gaming again now that my kid is in middle school. But I easily became obsessed with ASE a few months before ASA launched and can’t wait to see what is in store for all of the maps. Your comprehensive video on the Ark lore was masterful and really helped me gain a better understanding of the depth of the game. Thanks for all your hard work-it’s truly high quality.
I hope your right about Ark being successful cause survival evolved filled that void of the impossible and dreams I've ever wanted I'm currently holding out of Acendend in the hopes it'll get better soon 😢
Man. Its been a while that i felt so put on the spot, because I related with way too many aspects of your relationship with this accursed abusive game that we somehow can never abandon. I really respect that you can openly speak about your feelings and difficulties that are part of this experience that you made with ARK. I hope to at least some day finish my own far smaller project that does something similar with my own experience I had playing ARK with my now closest friends, creating the closest thing you can get to a astounding journey in real life. Keep being creative and be that pinnacle of the community that isn´t afraid to stand up whenever Snail games tries to screw us all over again. -Sol
I started playing ASE when Scorched Earth released, as of today I am 7,411 hours in and I am still playing it. I'm running an Intel Core i9 14900k 3.20GHz, 128 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 and yet ASA was crashing constantly (I tried every "fix" I found online with no improvement) so I am back on ASE. I'll check out ASA again, but that probably will not be until the Gen 2 DLC gets released. I'll occasionally dabble with other games, but there's no denying I am hooked on Ark. It always irked me when I saw YT'ers spreading bad lore (like Gaius Nerva having a "throne on Scorched Earth that he ruled from" like wtf) so imagine how I felt when I found your channel.
@@IndyJacksonTT Good to hear its not happening to everyone (it gives me hope that I'll eventually be able to play ASA). Even if I turn ALL the setting to low ASA would still crash randomly, I go to ASE run everything on epic and MAYBE get one crash in a session, but that is a rarity.
Its mainly the high quality settings for Pvp i turned of all the visual settings in the config file and typed up some stuff from the old game and added it back in to further lower settings to get around 120fps and i barely ever crash like once a week or something but i assume with a 4090 you want to play all ultra haha
Oh definitely. I didn't mean to say I was the first to ever bring a voice to the notes, just the first to bring visuals to them, and (proper) voice acting.
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If your mental condition is why you have 10k hours, then with 35k hours I must be totally insane.
bro that's like 3 years
How in tf did that happen lol
That is 4 years are you ok
15 hours every day since release? That doesn't really sound realistic
@morrt8579 I played a over year 9 hours a day and only have 1100... he's full of it
I remember watching the Helena survivor notes video for the first time. You 'only' had 18K subscribers at the time. It's been an honor to watch you grow and improve your videos. Lots of love, dude!
much love man
My dad got ARK in 2015, and my tiny 13 year old self kept begging him to let me play on his pc :D
together we've got like 3k on his account, and recently I got it myself on my gaming laptop (that can actually run this monster of a game, lol) and now we're playing together again, but this time two survivors!
Damnit Wildcard, you got us good, 8 years later and we're still here
What laptop are you using ?
That's nice. My dad played it on a PS4 and the host tethering and the hibernation resource respawn issue really put a damper on his experience. Didn't stop me from racking up the hours on my PC version, though. 😂
I remember wanting to play this game for the longest time as a kid. As the years passed and I finally got my hands on a pc that could run the damn thing, I had so much fun. I then discovered your channel after a break in 2023, and I had your videos blasting in the background as I played Ark. It rekindled my love for the game and your videos are why I like to talk about people about the game's story.
Bless you Neddy. It is strange how Ark found a special audience. I have over 10k hours in the game too and only very recently have come to realise that I am quite sure I share some of the conditions of which you spoke. Only difference is I'm 55 years old lol. Regardless of the future and the difficulties you may have encountered as a consequence of your condition, rest assured that you have, at your age, already achieved something quite significant with your survival stories and associated content. You opened up the game to so many players in a way that no other Ark streamer did. In fact in a way not even the game developers did. I'm not sure they realise what a huge service you did for them. Your stories will still be watched and enjoyed years from now. You aren't mental ill, you're just not 'Neuro-typical'. More power to the freaks man! Love and best wishes from a mad, messed up old git who's lived his whole life wondering what was wrong with him. I take a small comfort in knowing I'm not alone 🤪
Cheers, thanks for the lovely comment! :D
I still remember when I saw a post on reddit with your video of Helena's Survival Stories and being thankful that finally someone had started to recreate the explorer notes, until then there were only videos of people reading the notes. Since then I have loved how you have been evolving as a content creator.
Right?! He's all grown up now. 😭
Ned: OK I really need to stop playing this game
Wildcard: NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!! Not you! you are stayin', kid
lmao
Ark all glitches and bugs aside was an excellent game . The island ---> added volcano ----> second expansion scorched earth --> and then Aberration ---> and the final extinction (or so we tought) --> Gen 1 and 2.
I'm glad you stayed in the community and contributed everything you have. I've been a long time patreon and you're giving us the lore, the backstory, the whole world of Ark in an easy to consume format that is fun and interesting. I actually wish they just gave you remit and control to do their series they want haha
i have found myself continueing to play ASE with friends. I'm like you Neddy... but i'm 58 and hooked on this game. Great content young man.
Back when ARK first launched I was hyped as heck since I love dinosaurs and I put 100 of hours on it. Thankfully despite my love for the franchise didn’t turn into an addiction and I soon have other dreams I wanted to realize. But regardless, I don’t know how but. Even with all the new things n’ hobbies I’ve done. I still find myself coming back to ark one way or another. Nowadays I just use ark as a motivational source. Like when tackling a hard project I would just think back to my first attempt at taming a giga and say “ah I’ve faced other challenges this is nothing to me”. I’ve been watching your channel since the Helena episode and I gotta admit. I was being watching your explorer notes stories on repeat to the point where I actually got 6.5 on IELTS from simply listening and picking out details from the series. Thank you Ned for helping me get into college.🙏
The way you describe feeling at home in Ark, that's exactly what I experienced too in ASE. And still do now in ASA.
I work long hours in real life because I own and manage a business; that's why I'll never be able to accumulate many in-game hours. But when I get a rare day off, starting the game, hearing the title music, and then hearing the noises of my tames greeting me feels like coming home. It's the place where I find relaxation and can recharge.
So, I can relate, even if I'm twice your age.
I have loved all the work you've done on Ark. As a fellow mentally ill person, I have put in 4.7K hours and still can't stop. I love Ark. It is my favorite game of all time.
Your survival stories are what led me to you Ned. I had just come back to Ark and was dabbling with the idea of sticking it out. Then I saw your videos and it fuelled my drive to keep playing and uncover the story myself. So over the course of 2 years me and my wife ploughed into Ark and at the time only GEN 1 had come out. We paused when we hit there but then GEN 2 occurred and we dived straight back in.
This remaster has certainly caused a divide between fans. Me and my wife included. I'm hyped for it. But she sees it for nothing more then a cash grab by wildcard/snail. Regardless. The beauty of Ark is, despite games coming out that are survival filled and have dinos. There isn't anything like Ark. It's just got a formula that has yet to be beat. And it's the one thing that's saved the game I think from vanishing
You have a great talent noodle man! I cant wait to see what you create in the future. Im sure it will be amazing.
Oh just you wait. Stay tuned for February :D
What Neddy said...
X3
30,733.6 hrs ASE ( my CPM therapy )
ASA might have gotten similar numbers,
if it would run for 30 mins straight without crashing.
Guess it's time to focus on other pursuits.
Mist, Sunkenlands, 7DTD, Palworld....
Honestly at this point my biggest hope and interest in ASA is seeing Aberration in its new .. 5 fps glory... cant wait
I want it to run at least 60...
@@Bretaxy Me too but getting over 30 is like magic in this game lol
Not gonna lie, the 2 main reason why I drop Ark was that. 1. I had no friends to play with. 2. I have things I must do in real life and no longer have all the time in the World to possibly play Ark the way I once did.
But I do missed the simpler times
I'm going to watch this immediately when the actual video comes out
im sharing in that disorder salad plus a lot of physical stuff too rofl. im still bummed i wasnt able to dedicate to helping with some of the filming projects. I really thought I could but severely overestimated my health at the time. It really IS impressive that you have done so much and coordinated so much. Never discredit yourself in that. Im so unmedicated for all of my conditions right now, i could never be so productive. Hopefully will improve soon.
I really look forward to what you do with your future, I have a feeling you're going to do some amazing things.
much love
I think the most important thing you would definitely have to change would be to make the camera perspective in the first person perspective from the stomach to the head
good on you for making a career out of something you love.
“I have over 10,000 hours in ark because i’m mentally ill” -NeddyTheNoodle
Lol just when I got the notification I was looking at the (I played ark for 10,000 hours)short
How did u survive 10000 hours i only have 600 hours in ark wth
i just breathed air sometimes
@@NeddyTheNoodlejealous, my date constantly wipes every time I join.
@@NeddyTheNoodlei played 20 hours so far 10 hours in the main menu that moves on its own and 6 restarting my game due to crashes🔥
I have 4000 hours. Totally doable.
my pvp journey on ark was something i wont forget tbh, i bought the game in 2015 but couldnt really run it and i had no friends back then so i just didnt play it until 2019 when i had a pc to run it reasonably, survived a month solo on official pvp was the first thing i did and even though i got wiped 4 times, i kept trying over and over again until i eventually wasnt being wiped, making fake looking bases that were already raided and hiding my cryo'd dinos in hidden boxes, shit was the stuff back then, plus i just love mana as my pvp mount, fighting guys on other stuff like wyverns etc was fun af. got 5k hrs before i put the game down, my other 5k being put into another game called beasts of bermuda , and 3k put into gmod and the isle, 1.5k put into primal carnage extinction, tried to diversify my hrs since playing 1 game only was bad.
Came across your full story, which was awesome! on to the second game?
“I asked my dad if could buy me this cool new game🥺”
“He said yes”🗿
Wait aren't they actually still pushing out content during early access with the frontier pack?
Almost 20k here i feel every word brother
Nice he actually has a pc good enough to run this game!
Bro how am I so early, anyways I love your videos man keep up the hard work
Found out my steam achievements are at 32%, Ark is not something I have gotten many achievements in, looking forward to doing a playthrough of it.
Keep up the good work
Idk if u remember me it’s been a while since I’ve been on your channel and don’t worry I’ll watch this one
I have 11850 hours in ASE, the very first time I played it when it was released I quit for a year because it was too hard, the second time I played I rage quit for a year because a Kapro happened. Here I am with 500 hours in ASA pretty sure I got mental problems.
This is literally my story as well with Ark ADHD,addiction, depression, anxiety,but I’m a young player I played when I was 6 tell now I am 13 but I never made a server or had a discord server or even a RUclips
I played 4567 on my old Xbox 37 on my crappy pc and 10,279 on my ps4 to ps5 277 hours
How do you have ADHD , addictions , depression between 6 - 13 year olds… I hope this is not a representation of the generation to come 😢
I got in ark because of my dino love and then i saw abrrration and them i got fascinated and now i love aberration
Believe it or not, I actually have ADHD, OCD and Anxiety (Mainly just social) as well. You’re doing great.
Its not 10.000, its 11.000 if it helps :D, I hope you come through things, got some problems myself.
Awesome video! 🫶🔥🔥
Another Great Video with insight and honest thoughts behind it all. Thanx Neddy
Hey neddy at 23:15 you said it was announced 2024 (asa)
I don't know if you can edit it now. Great video though
oops
6k here. my first tame was... what you think it was:) dodo dammit
I have 2 k hours in ark and I've only had it for 6 months sooooooooo yea I have no life lmao tbh ark is my favorite game and if I didn't find it well I might of not still been here that game helped me sooo much I started when the mobile one got released then I gave up a day after because mobile ark sucks then I got a PS4 and my friend told me to get ark I was ew that game sucks but I got it anyways but I got into it and boom here I am with my Xbox and PS4 I've done to much with this game my parents hate ark because how much I like it to I hope you see this Neddy your one of the main reasons I stayed with ark your vids got me hooked more than before i get asa this February so yea now i can be obsessed with that lol
when i started this game i came from the movies. and they had made me belive i should fear the raptors like the plague. so i didn't get that far inland for many years since my pc fast became unable to run this game. only recently have i tried the game again and love it. have only played on the island map. the only thing i have aginst this game is that it isen't single player friendly since many of the features are programmed with a server in mind.
Hey may God bless you bro. I've been watching your videos for a while now and just wanted to say that Jesus loves you and He's always there and is willing to listen. Hope your doing great bro and God bless, take care and keep up the good work. All praise be to the most high 💪🏽🙏🏽
Bro has over a year in ark
I do
You kind of brushed over the details of the massive corruption with the Chinese tribes and Snail Games, but great video.
He has a separate video covering all of that released awhile ago. He wanted this to remain about his journey through the game.
I play ark cuz I used to have a physical condition (childhood cancer)
I wish atlas devs would comeback it’s such a good game.
idk how many hours 560 days is but i have that on ark im 15 but the thing is you could psychologically torture me and it would have no effect ark does that on its own 🤣
he used the before vs. after pictures of anakin skywalker on the thumbnail
It makes me cringe whenever somebody looks at their arms in ark Lego imagine having a stone in your arm
*Me with 37,300 hours across 6 consoles, 2 PCs and Mobile* Yea… fun game 😅
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I will be 63 this nov, and Im well over 4000 hrs over 3 years..lol So far Ive only played solo, but I will go online eventually. And intend to play until I cant anymore..lol. I was a dino fanatic long before Ark! Not sure I will do Ark 2...Prefer 1st person. Have played some Ascended, but still prefer Evolved.
And I thought my 2000 hours was bad even if I played with a guy that had over 50 days on month 2 of release
so that's why i have 14k hours...
What is Harvey Dent doing in the thumbnail?
ADHD-&-unhealthy-gaming-habits-gang *UNITE*
neet vid
i think i had 3000 hours on that shit
Waaaa my mentaal heath cuz i play videogames and get paid. Waa
Every youtuber has adhd or depression or anxiety or all the above.... apparently.
Couldnt just be thats just regular human emotion to different stimuli
You died. Many times.
Impossible you didnt die once in 10K hours of Ark
ASA really just doesn't look good to me. I have a mondo PC and even with decently high graphics settings I feel like the game just looks like playdough. Not worth it for me and It really is just a shame how Wildcard and snail consistently do the wrong thing. Ill keep playing ASE single player for the foreseeable future. AS AN ARK RUclipsR MYSELF tho (Not this YT account) It really is disheartening seeing content trends move away from what I enjoy making. IDK the whole thing really does effect me and Wildcard and Snail are irredeemable at this point in my eyes...
Still no one to play this game with 😑
I just play alone, didn't even know it was multiplayer until I started messing with settings... Then I mastered breeding... I wish you could breed different plants too... Now I'm thinking about playing and building a base.
Love ark got like 2.6k hours on it but idk why but it’s boring now , I don’t know why really
It’s called being bored with something . The fact it took you 2.6 k hours is surprising in itself.
You wanna stop playing? Go to the gym
Bro you have no live 😂😂
but i can spell life, so thats cool
I got ARK in 2016 for my PS4 when i was 12. I played it a lot. But after they released Extinction i put it down for a while to play other games untill 2020 because of that virus. I got a PC (for onlineschool) that i mostly used for gaming for a variety of different games and of course ARK. Since then i have played ~4k hours of ARK and i still plan to keep playing.
Very cool video. Keep it up! 😄
You gotta spend your life doing something, I can think of a lot worse things to do than ark
Awesome accomplishment Neddy, you have done what many would call a no life, but I call it the Ark life!
I have never related to a video more in my life, wow
I'm homeschooled, played ark since I was 8(15 now), about to finish highschool, and I have no idea what I'm doing with my life aside from ark.
I'm glad you can relate. I definitely had nobody that I felt like was in a similar situation other than friend or two who also did online school. I knew them only online. You'll figure out what you wanna do though. Just experiment, try stuff! :D
@@NeddyTheNoodle thank you so much Neddy!!!
Ark = fail = try again = sucess = dopamine = fail again = repit
Great video mate. Like you and many others, Ark has been an equally big part of my life for quite a few years so this resonates on so many levels. Thanks for sharing your story and here's to many more. Cheers 🍻
Cheers man, game on.
I was here at the premiere
I love ark unfortunately I'm unable to play asa I crash constantly but I've had some great times with great people
sorry to hear that!
When I first started playing Ark, it didn't have the Tek Cave in the volcano yet. I admittedly didn't know what drew me into the game when I first played it beyond the fact that dinosaurs are cool. So, hearing how you started your survival story is both interesting and amazing. I don't know what the future holds for this game or Ark Survival Ascended, but I do hope that they will be amazing and I hope that whatever future you have, Ned, will be filled with good fortune!
dinos + survival + online = perfect game
A prehistoric survival game is so straightforward I’m genuinely surprised that Ark remains pretty niche, especially on console
Is the perfect dopamine farm@@ditkovichpaysmyrent
Another amazing video Ned! You've got talent that's taking you places for sure! I've only been involved since Dec 2020 when I came across ARK for the first time, but to have been a part of it since the beginning is awesome. You're making a name for yourself and having a good time with this game. 🙂
Legend!
I played on and off during the early days untill around 2019, where i got to the point.. no more. Other games came and took my full attention, untill early 2020 i stumbled upon your video's and dediced.. lets go again. Yet to say if that was a good or a bad one, but doing 6000 hours the following good 3 years, i would say.. i was stuck in it again :P From there i settled on a official server where the very first stone foundation i placed was still there the very last day the server shut down. Although i continued into ASA, in a way it feels like a 'it was good, but im ready to move on' progression. Not sure what future of Ark will bring (or their choices, big shoutout for your ASA server thing, you were a huge part in their change of plans) or what my interest will be in the following years. But im happy i watched the journey along your channel growing, the amazing stories (sad helena).
As an older player of games in general, I was turned on to many games by Neebs Gaming due to their fun nature and interesting coomradery. Started Ark, Conan and 7 days all thanks to them, although im a console player. Its only been in the last 2-3 years, I have found so many other creators for all the games. Ark is by far my favorite game of those 3, but have been let done more times than id like, but surely not as many as many like yourself. Appreciate your content, updates, stories, rants and all. Thank you for being you and doing you Neddy. Still waiting for the console save fix as I play ASE in the meantime(still broken as well at times, lol). My best to you and keep on rolling😊
I started playing ark in 2020 after seeing another famous Spanish RUclipsr play it, and because my gamer uncle had it too. I fell in love with the game and he also gave me the expansion packs as a gift. And I have never played them. I have this issue that every time I start a new game with somebody we never even get to the brood mother and stop playing the only friend who had the game later I realized he was a narcissist and now is not my friend. I have never played the game since then, but after watching this I think I’m gonna start again soon. For some reason I never played on public servers (probably because I was very young and was scared of social interaction on the internet) I found you channel in probably 2021 or 2022 and I love what you do. I’ve always liked video games and sci-fi lore, so ark and your channel were the perfect combination. I don’t know if I’ll buy survival ascended after already having ark and all of its expansions, but I’ll have to see about that one later.
A funny thing about steams playtime counter is it counts even if the game isn't actively being played, for steam it records if the exe is active, even if the game is in your back processing and not actually being used, so even if you aren't playing ark but you recently clicked on it, it will still be in your processes even if you close the game.
On Xbox or Playstation if you have over 6-8-10k hours actually meant you had put the time into it, on console it only recorded your playtime if you actually selected to play the game in single player or on a server, not by just sitting on the main menu.
I have a pc friend who only played ark se for 20 mins and didn't like it, but he never turned off his computer for weeks, his play time is over 700 hours just because how games are back processed on steam.
Really enjoyed your story in this video. I was super late to discover Ark as a single mom who works full time and has only really been able to branch out in gaming again now that my kid is in middle school. But I easily became obsessed with ASE a few months before ASA launched and can’t wait to see what is in store for all of the maps. Your comprehensive video on the Ark lore was masterful and really helped me gain a better understanding of the depth of the game. Thanks for all your hard work-it’s truly high quality.
I hope your right about Ark being successful cause survival evolved filled that void of the impossible and dreams I've ever wanted I'm currently holding out of Acendend in the hopes it'll get better soon 😢
Notice how it says "survived 10,000 hours OF Ark" and not "in Ark". Honestly, perfect description of the game
Man. Its been a while that i felt so put on the spot, because I related with way too many aspects of your relationship with this accursed abusive game that we somehow can never abandon. I really respect that you can openly speak about your feelings and difficulties that are part of this experience that you made with ARK. I hope to at least some day finish my own far smaller project that does something similar with my own experience I had playing ARK with my now closest friends, creating the closest thing you can get to a astounding journey in real life. Keep being creative and be that pinnacle of the community that isn´t afraid to stand up whenever Snail games tries to screw us all over again.
-Sol
Thank you
I started playing ASE when Scorched Earth released, as of today I am 7,411 hours in and I am still playing it. I'm running an Intel Core i9 14900k 3.20GHz, 128 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 and yet ASA was crashing constantly (I tried every "fix" I found online with no improvement) so I am back on ASE. I'll check out ASA again, but that probably will not be until the Gen 2 DLC gets released. I'll occasionally dabble with other games, but there's no denying I am hooked on Ark. It always irked me when I saw YT'ers spreading bad lore (like Gaius Nerva having a "throne on Scorched Earth that he ruled from" like wtf) so imagine how I felt when I found your channel.
I have a 14900k 32gb ram and 4070 ti and it almost never crashes
@@IndyJacksonTT Good to hear its not happening to everyone (it gives me hope that I'll eventually be able to play ASA). Even if I turn ALL the setting to low ASA would still crash randomly, I go to ASE run everything on epic and MAYBE get one crash in a session, but that is a rarity.
@@Teufelhundin1978 i get even less crashes on ase
you could try getting your PC checked out because it is definitely something on your end
@@IndyJacksonTT Yeah its not my PC b/c ASA is the ONLY game I have issues with.
Its mainly the high quality settings for
Pvp i turned of all the visual settings in the config file and typed up some stuff from the old game and added it back in to further lower
settings to get around 120fps and i barely ever crash like once a week or something but i assume with a 4090 you want to play all ultra haha
18k hours for me and still love this game.:))❤
had a friend who had 15k hours on ark and he got me in to it
But still not as good as Syntac😢
nice
Good video but Kona voice definitely did the narration of ark lore thing before, not to say the added video wasn't great
Oh definitely. I didn't mean to say I was the first to ever bring a voice to the notes, just the first to bring visuals to them, and (proper) voice acting.
Now do 100k hours!!!
Challenge accepted
Not even past the intro I already see a carcha named Boobette, this is gonna be good
Great Job!