{"id":402357,"date":"2025-11-01T03:44:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T03:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/lost-ark-hands-on-preview-an-mmorpg-in-a-arpgs-body"},"modified":"2025-11-01T03:44:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T03:44:52","slug":"lost-ark-hands-on-preview-an-mmorpg-in-a-arpgs-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/lost-ark-hands-on-preview-an-mmorpg-in-a-arpgs-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Ark Hands-on Preview &#8211; an MMORPG in a ARPG\u2019s body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/lost-ark-hands-on-preview-an-mmorpg-in-a-arpgs-body.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Lost Ark<\/strong> is an MMO ARPG from korean developers Smilegate that&#8217;s created a massive buzz around the world for ARPG fans who have sat idly by waiting for any news about its release in the west. Amazon Game Studios announced that it would be helping port the game over to the rest of the world and publish it at some point in March 2022. <\/p>\n<p>\nIn the gameplay preview video above I go over some of the gameplay features you can expect from the full game as well as my early impressions. It&#8217;s a bit bitter sweet previewing MMOs because they are investment games with days and months worth of gameplay, and I feel like I only scratched the surface. I wanted to go off and explore everything but there just wasn&#8217;t enough time to do anywhere near everything it has to offer. <\/p>\n<p>\nBut with that being said, from the little I played and from researching Lost Ark&rsquo;s Korean version, I&#8217;m still excited for its release and can see so much potential in its future. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/lost-ark-hands-on-preview-an-mmorpg-in-a-arpgs-body\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/lost-ark-hands-on-preview-an-mmorpg-in-a-arpgs-body\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lost Ark is an MMO ARPG from korean developers Smilegate that&#8217;s created a massive buzz around the world for ARPG fans who have sat idly by waiting for any news about its release in the west. Amazon Game Studios announced that it would be helping port the game over to the rest of the world and publish it at some point in March 2022. In the gameplay preview video above I go over some of the gameplay features you can expect from the full game as well as my early impressions. It&#8217;s a bit bitter sweet previewing MMOs because they are investment games with days and months worth of gameplay, and I feel like I only scratched the surface. I wanted to go off and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/lost-ark-hands-on-preview-an-mmorpg-in-a-arpgs-body\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":402358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[259,1302,5610,135,59,4557],"class_list":["post-402357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-action-adventure","tag-amazon-game-studios","tag-lost-ark","tag-mmo","tag-pc","tag-smilegate"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lost Ark Hands-on Preview - an MMORPG in a ARPG\u2019s body | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lost Ark is an MMO ARPG from korean developers Smilegate that&#039;s created a massive buzz around the world for ARPG fans who have sat idly by waiting for any\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/lost-ark-hands-on-preview-an-mmorpg-in-a-arpgs-body\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lost Ark Hands-on Preview - an MMORPG in a ARPG\u2019s body | Arcader News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lost Ark is an MMO ARPG from korean developers Smilegate that&#039;s created a massive buzz around the world for ARPG fans who have sat idly by waiting for any\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/lost-ark-hands-on-preview-an-mmorpg-in-a-arpgs-body\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Arcade News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-11-01T03:44:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/lost-ark-hands-on-preview-an-mmorpg-in-a-arpgs-body.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"290\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Arcade News\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Arcade News\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/lost-ark-hands-on-preview-an-mmorpg-in-a-arpgs-body\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/lost-ark-hands-on-preview-an-mmorpg-in-a-arpgs-body\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Arcade News\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8460f5e5076b52fb2369f2f7ce6f2839\"},\"headline\":\"Lost Ark Hands-on Preview &#8211; 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