Hey everyone, sorry for the lack of post lately, you probably think I’ve been busy at Comic Con, hanging out with the cast of Tron, or “chillin” with the director of Game Rant Comics: The Movie, James Cameron right? Wrong…..no Comic Con for me, and Mr. Cameron’s restraining order has finally been approved, in reality I just been busy on other projects, and I’ve recently realized I really need to get my ass in gear, and start producing comics at the rate I used to, and also .

First of all I happy to announce that I will be starting a Video Blog that you’ll be able to watch on the Home Page and on the official YouTube Channel. The Game Rant Cast will not be used as a game reviews or news. I’ll just be discussing my thoughts on my past and current comics, giving out my views and opinions on news going on in the video game world.

Anyways that all I have for now keep an eye out for the Video Blog, I’ll soon be in the process of moving so after next week’s comic it maybe a little delay on the following one. And to find out what’s all going on in my life don’t forget to follow my on Twitter and Add me on Facebook, CHEERS!

Okay, okay, so once again, I haven’t had a comic posted in a why, and I got a pretty good reason (maybe)! I had a fun little idea to doing the next comic as a pretty BIG one! This is my compilation of all the Video Game characters in once page sort of like a “Where’s Waldo” kinda page, the problem is that I didn’t realize it that it takes a lot of work to pull that off, and that what has taken me soooooo long to complete the next issue, and I think the wait was worth it!

Also thanks to PlayLogic I have some copies of Fairytale Fights for the Xbox 360 and PS3 to give out to people who comment on the newest comic. Everyone who comments will be put into a raffle and the winners will win one of the copies, so make sure you put on your comment if you own a Xbox 360 or a PS3 and if you own both let make that as well so I know!

Win a T Shirt too! The best comment I read will win a T Shirt from PlayLogic featuring one of their characters. The shirt is only a Large so please keep that in mind.

Now I’ll be also giving away a couple copies through my Twitter account so click here to follow me.

And don’t forget to join our Facebook page!

UPDATE!

Alright here are the some of the winners of the Fairytale Fights contest! Sorry for taking so long on posting this, but I was waiting on pictures from some of the other winners, that I didn’t receive so, here!

I want to thank everyone who left a comment, it really means a lot to me to know everyone’s feedback, and look forward to more contest starting soon!

Hey guys a couple weeks ago I was offered to do an interview with the people over at Unscripted360 And of course I happily agreed. Well now it’s been post so go on over and check it out! Get to know little bit more about…well….me! Just click here to read the entire interview and don’t forget, let some comments!

The single player is fantastic, the characters in the game are unique, hilarious, and darn right rootin tootin! Not to mention the perfect voice acting and character design. The scary in the game is beautiful and amazing. Now I’m finding myself enjoying Red Dead a lot more than it’s brother-in-law: Grand Theft Auto, sure there’s not as much commotion going on, but the side missions, minigames, and overall feel of the game has surpassed the GTA series, now this maybe because it’s been so long since I played GTA IV, and Saints Row is well….Saints Row, but Red Dead decided to give players the ability to truly decide on how they want to play in the world of the American frontier. You get to play as John Marston an ex-outlaw who must kill or capture his former gang member Bill Williamson or his family will pay the ultimate price (that mean death).

Now the multiplayer makes the already great game even better! Like GTA IV’s free mode, Red Dead has its own free roaming mode, where all players in the server can form and join player parties, named “posses”, of up to eight players where they can taking part in activities like: attacking AI generated gang hideouts or other player posses, go hunting, and create in-game private matches. Every multiplayer game, and I mean every game begins with a Mexican Standoff. Survivors of the standoff will be able to get the advantage to move to any part of the battlefield before the enemies respawn. The problem is some game depending on the map this may cause problems forcing the losing team of the stand off to spawn in the middle of a field where now all the players who won the standoff can now snipe and spawn kill the entire game. Other than that the multiplayer is fun with multiple game types and giving the payers the ability to level up and complete almost endless challenges giving rewards such as new character models, golden weapon skins, and new mount breeds (Like a bad ass Buffalo!).

To simply put it just fun as hell to hop on your Stead (or Donkey) and take off across land that’s so full of adventure alone or with a couple buddies. I truly think Rockstar has taken the Western Game genre to new heights and has created one of the deepest, entertaining, and one of the most beautiful games I’ve seen since Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

But please note you can and will expect the occasional bug or visual hiccup, check out my video on the first night I started playing Red Dead Redemption.

So this morning when I went news hunting for show notes I found a neat little article on Kotaku about how Richard Morgan the lead writer for Crysis 2 had some things to say about the upcoming sequel, now I know a lot of developers knock other games by stating what their game will do that no other game has offered, so I wasn’t surprised when he knock one of the most popular FPS out there today: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 which he described as nonsensical, implausible, and unresolved. You mean like story that takes place in the future where an ancient alien spacecraft has been discovered beneath the ground on an island near the coast of the East Philippines, and then creates a giant frozen sphere?

But then Morgan takes it one step further bashing Bungie’s beloved series: Halo stating: “The reason that its fiction doesn’t work has nothing to do with the fact that you don’t get to see Master Chief’s face, it’s because of lines like ‘Okay … I’m gonna get up there and kill those guys’, … I don’t like Halo at all … it’s full of these bullshit archetypal characters … the series has no real emotional effect.”

Really? Your first game consisted of a Nomad a character who’s face is unseen throughout the entire game, and he pursues mission goals with single-minded fervor. The player assumes this role throughout the game, and other than the end of the last cutscene, the entire game is viewed from Nomad’s perspective. Where Halo had multiple characters, and Two different character you played. The Chief, and the Arbiter.

The reason this pisses me of is because Richard Morgan doesn’t understand that video game plots are rarely judged with the same standards as novels and films because most game plots are made up as they go along by the development team and their managers, these people are better skilled at making awesome games than works of literature. And few titles that can afford a respected writer Eric Nylund, or Drew Karpyshyn certainly up the ante, but only because they can afford it. So if you looking for more of a story from Halo or any other game pick up one of their DVD’s, books or graphic novels, where a writer can get in depth on a character and environment without having to destroy the game play.

But now Cryptic Studios is confirming that Champions Online, has been officially canceled for the Xbox 360. The studio announced that they would be using their full resources to bringing Champions Online to the PC platform and making it the best title that it could be. And this brings me to my Game Rant: “My Consoles Wants To Raid!” To this day the only MMO title to ever arrive for the Xbox 360 has been Final Fantasy XI, and I’m sorry Amy or any fans of Square Enix’s MMO love child, but this game sucked. There are so many people who play on live, so why not bring a MMO to the players, other than a hgorrible waste of space like Final Fantasy XI. NOw I know that there have been plenty of MMO titles announced as coming, but none ever seem to actually arrive, and this worries me. I want to experience an MMO with my friends over Xbox Live. It’s one thing to play a 10 minute game type for 2 1/2 hours with my friends on Call of Duty, but to people to do a 3 hour raid with friends, now that would be something I’d like to do.