NEW CHARACTER

M’not to go0d at intr0s
But I’ll try
So yea, my name is Sarah, Sarah Strange, or supaR_strange on here.
I’m a “gamer girl” I game pretty hard and use most of my free time doing just that.
I usually stick to the gaming genre known as survival horror, though I am a very hard rocker at Guitar Hero and I do play RPGs and fantasy…crap.
I’ve been playing videogames ever since Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time came out, that’s when I received my N64, and thus creating the freak you’re reading about now.
Most of my postings will be about the latest survival horror games and reviews about ones I’ve played, I hope to provide you with the much needed details of the games that will probably make you piss/scared out of your knickers.

I gotta pee.

Round One....FIGHT

Its coming...



And Im gonna kick ALL your asses when it does

The Sony Xbox...

...I wonder why...

Actual Listing

Magical Xbox Repair Land: Part 1

OK so I received my "coffin" for my 360 earlier this morning. It was exactly the same as it was the first time. A white box with a bag for my 360 and extra padding to place on the sides for protection. I woefully removed my 360's hard drive and moved it off of my entertainment center.


Now my 360 is nice and boxed up and ready to be shipped off to it's eternal resting place.


-Dauragon

FAAAALCON...DUUUUUMP!!!!

So, I was in the bathroom in my dorm (or water closet as the germans call it) doin my...ahem...buisness...and I can hear people playing Smash Melee. Well, as I'm...ahem...disposing of waste products, a certain bird named race car driver / bounty hunter's famous battlecry syncs up with my...ahem...movement. Internal laughter ensued, as well as a vocal snicker that was probably heard by the now very scared person in the stall next to me.

A few minutes , I finish, get up, and start to leave. On my way out, I had to say it, I couldn't stop myself...

MRISON COMPWETE!!!!!

What. The. Fuck. Nintendo.

So I was doing my normal browsing across the interweb tubes when I came across this.

Read that for a second. Let it sink in for a moment.

OK. Time to reiterate what you have just read.

Mario Kart Wii will not only NOT have voice chat, IT WON'T EVEN HAVE PROPER TEXT CHAT EITHER! You will have to pick from rudimentary sentences such as "Hello" and "Wanna Race" and most likely "Wanna go play Brawl?"

Let me preface my next statement by saying that I am a big fan of my Nintendo Wii. I play it all the time, and it allows me to have lots of quality time around my television with my sister. I stood outside a Gamestop on the black Friday after launch to get one. There were 8 Wii's and I was 7th in line. I am not one to resort to knee-jerk reactions. That being said, this is quite possibly the most absolutely fucking STUPID thing I have ever heard in my life.

It's not the fact that Nintendo seems to lag behind the other consoles in terms of online, I expected that. It's not that Nintendo is obviously picking the safe route in terms of keeping the online experience clean for the kiddies, I expected that also. The thing that really bugs me about this, is that right now I can go into target, buy a headset for my NINTENDO DS, and voice chat with that!!!



How bass ackward do you have to be, to have your HANDHELD system provide a better online experience than the full fledged two hundred and forty-nine dollar CONSOLE!?

If there is one thing Nintendo has proven they are good at, it's taking one large step forward and taking 9 huge cartwheels back.

-Dauragon

Disk Read Error Podcast Thing......sort of

Me and Demonic Pascal had a pretty interesting conversation about an upcoming DS title called "Imagination is the only escape" by luc Benard. The talk was inspired by this post on Kotaku.

Have a listen. :D

RROD: PART DEUX

Last December my first xbox 360 suffered the dreaded Red Ring of Death. I sent it over to magical xbox repair land where it was promptly taken out back and shot. I received a replacement 360 a few weeks later, and all seemed to be well. This 360 ran a hell of a lot cooler and made less noise. I figured it probably would last me a good while. However, a few hours ago whilst sitting in a Halo 3 lobby, my replacement 360 Red Ringed.

I can't say that I'm angry, since Microsoft will replace this one just like it replaced the other. However, I can say that I may end up putting my new replacement up for sale on ebay or craig's list because I'm not entirely sure I want to own a 360 until this whole red ring of death thing is completely resolved.

-Dauragon

Jaster!!! Can I use this health potion??

I have been playing a lot of Rogue Galaxy lately. If you haven't picked this game up you really should. It's a pretty entertaining action RPG from Level 5, the developers of the Dark Cloud series. In the game you play as Jaster Rogue, a Luke Skywalker-esque young man from a Desert Planet who, in a classic case of mistaken identity, gets swept up into a great big ole adventure with space Pirates and eventually gets tangled into a massive interplanetary conflict.


The tone of the game is quite happy go lucky, very Saturday morning cartoon like(despite the occasional usage of DAMN and HELL and BITCH through out the game). The characters are all colorful and designed in fantastic archetypal anime fashion. Jaster is a typical young hero with bright blue eyes and a blonde mop on top. Zegram is your typical gravely dark haired, eye patch-ed, goatee-ed bad ass motherfucker in a trench coat, Simon and Steve are the resident R2D2 and C-3PO, Kisala is your totally cute love interest in a miniskirt, and Lilika is the battle worn amazonian warrior goddess who is seemingly allergic to proper battle attire. The world is filled with tons of this wacky character design. Talking cats, giant piles of sludge, morbidly obese pirates, elf creatures, and my personal favorite, a 7 foot tall half-bulldog-half-man-creature-dude-guy with a huge battle axe and a gun arm are all roaming around the solar system of this game. The characters for the most part are all charming, to go along with the very charming (yet practically non existent) story that drives the adventure.

If you are looking for a big ole bucket of super serious events and hyper melodrama found in other popular RPG's like Final Fantasy, you ain't getting it here. The events that unfold don't particularly serve any real emotional purpose and for the most part just occur so that you will know why your airship is suddenly taking on more and more rag tag warriors. If anything this game plays out like the best Saturday morning cartoon that never existed. The good guys are really good, the bad guys are really bad, and its up to the good guys to stick pointy objects into the bad guys so they wont be so bad anymore.


The game play is where the game really shines. Level 5 has got the whole action RPG thing down to a T. Battles (though random..a minor peeve of mine) play out fast and furiously in real time. There is no attack selection outside of potions and special abilities. The X button is your primary attack, and the square button is your secondary attack. You have a limited amount of attacks you can do before you have to recharge your attack meter, which forces you to put a little bit of thought into your attacks to make sure that each blow counts. You also only have direct control of one character at a time out of your party of three. In a real time environment this could be a potential disaster since your party members could be off getting killed while you focus on a completely different enemy. This is remedied by two things, a command preset that basically tells your party what to do in a battle (for example "Attack The Same Target")and a quick decision type of system where a character yells out the party leaders name and two actions pop up on the screen. Usually It's a choice between a special attack and a potion or something similar. This system works pretty fantastically, in that you are constantly on your toes and aware of what your party members are doing at all times. However at times It could turn very annoying when your half dead Kisala kindly asks your permission before using a health potion.

I could continue on for pages and pages about the really simple yet complex crafting systems and the bug battling mini game side quest things and such but you would probably be much better off just looking at an official review or a FAQ for all that kind of stuff. Long story short, Rogue Galaxy is a solid action RPG for those who are looking for a light hearted 40 or so hour romp through the galaxy.

This game is Dauragon approved.

-Dauragon

INSERT COIN (2)

Yo people. demonic_pascal here. Again, welcome to Disk Read Error, the gaming blog with the oddly spelled name. We talk about games, you love us enough so that when we start selling T-shirts, we can quit our jobs. I would just like totake a second to point out that, contrary to what my “cohort” Dauragon said, we are NOT naked....cuz thats just offensive...

So what did Dauragon do in his second paragraph...oh yea...I have been interested in gaming forever, but the parents denied me any gaming goodness of my own until the age of 8. While everyone else wa messing with their PlayStations and their Nintendo 64's, I was already rocking it old school with my Sega Genesis (or Mega Drive to to you crazy Europeans). Sadly, this trend of lagging behind current hardware has continued since then, and the only current gen system I currently have is my DS. So, at least for now, my contributions review-wise will most likely be limited to DS games, or possibly some new PS2 releases.

Until June. As soon as Ninja Gaiden II is released, Xbox 360 will be MINE...

Ahem, yes, my favorite genres of games would be over the top action games like Devil May Cry, God of War, and, of course, Ninja Gaiden. Other genres of interest include 2D fighting games like Street Fighter and Guilty Gear (you know, the REAL fighting games, none of that 3D CRAP. Anyone into those is an idiot...). JRPGs like Dragon Quest, and old school sidescrollers in the vein of Castlevania, Ninja Gaiden, and Contra. Point and click adventure games (thanks a lot Phoenix Wright) are also enjoyable.

I'll also be drawing the weekly webcomic for this site, since comics and animations are just as big a part of my life as gaming is. My limited console setup won't stop me from ranting about pretty much anything in the gaming and tech world that strikes my fancy though (lol @ HD DVD), so you'll be hearing a lot from me.

That pretty much sums it up for now. Welcome to the awesomeness that is Disk Read Error (wow, never thought I'd say that...)

- d to the p

New Game

Hello, and welcome to Disk Read Error. A very young, small, naked, and vulnerable weblog about video games, life and life with video games. This first post will serve as an introduction to me personally(my cohort demonic_pascal will be providing a introductory post as well as our first weekly webcomic on a later date), and as a brief overview of what this blog will be about. OK so first thing's first:

I am Dauragon, gamer since the age of two. Writer since the age of 13. I am a big fan of fighting games(mostly 3D, yes I know, I blaspheme), First Person shooters, point and click adventures, Racing games, Action RPG's and I am a sucker for a good Platformer. I will be providing daily insights of what goes on in my own personal gaming world and the general gaming world as well. I will do reviews whenever I can (or feel like it)and post my opinions of odd demos and previews of upcoming games. But most of all I will be giving you, the reader, something fairly interesting to read and think about on a (hopefully) daily basis.

Welcome to Disk Read Error! :D

-Dauragon