I'm Sam, I live in Chicago with my girlfriend and cat. I went to film school and work as a freelance editor and occasional camera guy. I like writing but don't do it professionally (yet).
I also run a (lazily updated) blog dedicated to cataloguing humorous observations from survival-horror games called Looks Like A Lever.
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My top 30 albums of 2011
My top 50 albums of 2012
I think it’s weird that in the Song of Ice and Fire fandom, A Feast For Crows is almost universally considered the worst book because half of the main characters/plotlines aren’t in it, but in the Dark Tower fandom, Wizard & Glass seems to be the most beloved installment despite 3/4 or more of the book being a flashback featuring only one of the four main characters.
Kingdom Hearts don’t count. Didn’t include Tactics or IV because I haven’t gotten far enough in either of them to make a fair assessment, suffice to say I like one of them a lot and the other not really at all.
The great thing is, I didn’t grow up with any of these games. I have played all of these within the last seven years.
Every time I play MGS2 or 3 after spending a lot of time playing other games, I appreciate the extensiveness and quality of the motion capture acting a lot more. Hideo Kojima’s sense of cinematic blocking is a lot better than you might expect from someone who’s never really directed a non-video game before.
