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I failed a little bit | I think that's okay | Armored Core 6: Incomplete Video Edition™

Added 2023-09-09 03:12:13 +0000 UTC

I’d like to apologize for the delay. I’ve done so before, but this one is significant. I began work on Armored Core 6 thinking it would be a full incorrect summary, but the story format of the game was wholly unsuitable for it. So, I decided that I was going to take a more light hearted approach and not delve into the story, but delve into a series of gameplay things quickly, creating a video that was short and fun. However, many of the mission formats, as I progressed through them, ended up creating an unsatisfying product that was not possible to write in clever ways around. I had completed about 4 minutes and 30 seconds of the video before I realized that I was making a glorified list, and that my video was not going to be good. Still, I attempted to press on for a few days before ultimately deciding that, although the beginning I had made was good, this video could never progress in a funny or satisfying way, and the arbitrary nature I had introduced to avoid the story worked against me to make a series of events that were arbitrary and confusing to anyone who didn’t play the game.

YouTube is good in some ways and bad in others. On one hand, YouTube does not actually punish creators for taking breaks and not uploading very much. On the other hand, YouTube punishes you severely for uploading a bad video, or a video your entire audience doesn’t watch. In other times, I might feel comfortable showing off an incomplete product, but that WILL now hurt my channel in the long run, so I cannot upload it publicly.

For these reasons, I decided that I was going to scrap my Armored Core 6 video where it stands. I will be dissecting as much as I can into YouTube shorts, and then eventually making the unlisted link to the video available publicly, and probably announce that using a community post after all the shorts that I upload have been around for about a week. But again, it cannot be listed publicly. The incomplete video, in its entirety, is now available to Patrons. I want you guys to be understanding that I may reuse jokes from my failed video in my next, public, and better video. My next video will be delayed by over 20 days as a result. But I will not cease working on it for even a single day, I will keep moving forward.

It is possible that I could bite the bullet and release a short, bad, and abrupt video. But I am very, very tired. This video hurt me a little bit. I spent many, many long days trying to re-work, rebuild, or otherwise get very disparate and screwy parts to work, and I just cannot. I do feel a little bit stressed: I’ve told myself for the past few years that “No one will watch me if I just make ‘good enough’. Good enough is not good enough.” I still stand by this, my channel is built on my technical skill as an editor and on a lot of the creative summarization and writing. So, it hurts to fail, it represents a lot of time for me.

I’m going to go dark for a while and no longer get excited and jump the gun on video announcements publicly. But, I am going to keep you guys in the loop for whatever I am doing. I’ve learned my lesson when it comes to hyping my audience, and I should only stick to it when my videos are near release.

Before this video, I had been working approximately 10 hour days with about a day off every single week. This video jumped it up to 11 hours of work a day. And last night, I found myself scrambling for 12 hours to try and remake the intro and get enough done to make it presentable. I didn’t get enough sleep, and I haven’t for a week. I haven’t really played video games I didn’t record, or spent time with my friends for a few months. On a personal level, I would appreciate it if you could all understand that I also need to give it up because the effort of trying to polish a bad premise is hurting me physically, and for very poor results.

I just hope this next video can do well and come out sooner rather than later. That is all.