Borderlands 2

Hi guys, I'm back again.
"So soon?" You ask?... Yeah I... Don't get out much...
Anywhoooo... I would like to talk about something which has inspired my recent works, which I mentioned in my previous post, but I will show you again should you be a newcomer...

As some of you may know, I am a massive fan of comic-books, ESPECIALLY Marvel comic books. And because of this, I have spent a lot of time attempting and re-attempting to draw in a comic-book style, to no avail. Here are a few of my previous attempts:

Sorry they are so disorganised, I tried to put them in order, but Blogger and I had a creative disagreement. They are basically my attempts over the years, some are okay and others are... Not-so-okay...

I then went on to play one of the, in my opinion, greatest games this year...

Thats right, Borderlands 2!

Like many, I hadn't enjoyed the first borderlands much, it got boring QUICK. But I did love the style, A LOT. Which is the only reason I gave Borderlands 2 a shot. Right from the beginning with this game, I could see that this was a HUUUUGE improvement over the last. I love the character classes and the game is even funnier than before. There are a lot of easter eggs thrown in there too (like the minecraft cave and the hangover-referencing psycho). People do complain, however, that they spend a lot of time looting and it annoys them... This is a ridiculous excuse not to play an amazing game. You don't really NEED to loot, unless you want money or ammo, you can be pretty positive that there won't be any weapons better than the ones you have unless you come across one of the big rare item chests. However, I don't see this as a bad thing at all, I'm an obsessive compulsive gamer, which means I make sure I explore every nook and cranny of a level and cant help but loot every lootable object in the vicinity. Overall, I would definitely recommend this game to others, ESPECIALLY if you played the first one, just so you know how much of an improvement this is. It took me a long time to persuade my best friend to play it just because he was so disappointed by the first one in relation to the hype it received. 

But, I digress, the whole reason I brought this up was to tell you what inspired the works I've been doing lately. I simply wanted to try and emulate the borderlands style using 2Dimensional media. I don't feel I was successful in doing so, however I feel I WAS successful in producing my own comic style as a bi-product, one which I am very proud of and happy with. I like the style of this game so much, I got one of the release posters from work and brought it home to sport proudly upon my bedroom wall. It's also a good creative motivator when I'm procrastinating, just to look up at that is enough to recharge my creative energy.

That's pretty much it for today's post, thank you so much for reading.