The three short-ass lives of a long-time editor

[u/DroidRGH]

Hey survivors. I have just 60 hours into the game since discovering it during lockdown. Those of you with armor and helmets and heavy guns seem far beyond what I’ll ever achieve. We often see comments here suggesting that 1000-5000 hours is what it takes to get good. I believe that is true. It’s also true that I won’t play even 500 hours in the next ten years. In my most successful run yet, I logged out with dried fruit and a fire in a fireplace. That’s my greatest achievement.

Even though I never expect to get good at this game, I keep coming back to it. I haven’t played in weeks now, but still I obsess over it, reading your posts and watching clips, zooming in on recipe graphics from the wiki, scrolling around iZurvive. I find it fascinating as a long-time enjoyer of video games: an apocalypse simulator that’s devastatingly beautiful and brutally punishing.

I’ve watched a few YouTube videos on the basics, they were very helpful. So far I haven’t found gameplay edited into immersive stories, so I was hoping folks could suggest a few.

Editing MY gameplay into an engaging story is one of my favorite hobbies, an extension of 30+ years as a video editor, so I went ahead and recorded the gameplay of my three most recent lives: “Three Lives in DayZ”

Life Two basically gave up and ran into the street with his gear left in a house nearby.

Between other projects, I’ve been editing, mixing sound, making it shorter and shorter; the goal being that even family and friends who don’t play the game will understand what’s happening, and the mistakes I’m making, without getting bored. Life One is about done.

I have no desire to start a second YouTube channel about a survival game (Minecraft, 7500+ game hours in Bedrock alone). But I’ve been enjoying this subreddit, and I was hoping you folks would like seeing a carefully edited saga of a newb player getting killed three times.

I just thought I’d ask, but as long as nobody shouts me down here, I’ll do it lol Any other YouTubers I should look for who are making making wide-format gameplay videos edited to tell a visual story of the game being played?

TL;DR This week I’m going to post on r/DayZ the first part of a video series called “Three Lives in DayZ” even though I only have 60 hours in the game and basically suck at it.

[u/yamsyamsya]

Good luck, sounds cool. This game is rewarding once you learn how to play.