Survival Games? What's the big deal? - OrsonThinks

Why are Survival Games so damn popular? Will their increasing success ever come to a halt? DayZ, Minecraft, H1Z1; whatever it is, Survival Games seem to have assured success on every platform.


Written/Edited by Isaac Orson (OrsonThinks)

Most gameplay footage captured by me, exceptions can be seen below.

Transcript of video - http://www.orsonthinks.wordpress.com/...

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Supplementary footage (used under fair use):

Colonial Puppet - Minecraft - TITAN CITY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPaVQ4...

Friendly in Cherno - The Sketchy Svetlo Rave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng9_S...

Tapin Sapien - Bugs and Glitches | DayZ and Others
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhpGt...

Yjovain - DayZ SA - First Kidnapping And Torture!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hj5V...

barbaricmustard - DayZ Standalone: Episode 2 - Kidnapped.. Kinda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scOOJ...

Cubehamster - Controllable Walking Robot with TNT Cannon in Minecraft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmLxH...

pi314159265358978 - Minecraft: Customize World Settings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGjCs...

MineCraftFTW - Minecraft FIREE WTFFFFFFF!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnjSW...

Bdouble0100 - Minecraft :: Server Tour & Then Some
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVdvK...

Stampylonghead - Stampy - Youtube Channel Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOFm-...

PlayStation - Project Morpheus: Hands on with PS4's Prototype Virtual Reality System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlS3Y...

Cyberith - Skyrim in VR - Cyberith Virtualizer + Oculus Rift + Wii Mote = Full Immersion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7n5k...

Paul Rivot - My 90 year old grandmother tries the Oculus Rift.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAC5S...


Music:

"Destiny Day", "New Direction", "Odyssey", "Simon Says Dont - 100 cents"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...

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