Season Two Allstars Blog

Arin, Hana and.. errr.. I mean some Online Kart Steer characters on the beach.

A while ago (actually probably around 3 years ago?) I signed up to a new game published by Gamepot: Online Kart Steer.

Back then I was thinking how much the character art reminded me on Pangya. However I never actually got a chance to try out the game. Today Gamepot sent me a newsletter advertising the new features on Online Kart Steer and I actually had to laugh.

Apparently the game now has a chat room option too in which users can.. run around and open shops. Oh!

It seems that Gamepot is assuming that its better to simply copy all the good things from Pangya instead of making new stuff. While Pangya surely does borrow a lot from other games already the similarities between Kart Steer and Pangya seem quite obvious. If you are not convinced yet check out the screen below. Hah.

I guess huge breasts, school uniforms and underage girls in swimsuits will always be a good way to sell any online game in Japan.

While browsing the official website I have found some more pretty convincing screens: Arin with manhands, Arin and Son Goku, There are no fingers in this game but atleast there are boobs.

<dyril> i guess hand size in a racing game correlates to handling

What are you waiting for? Go and download this right now.

So I guess cardpacks are my new addiction. Sadly this is a very expensive hobby that does not pay off.

Last night I had the idea to burn through around 50 of them and see what I get.. that was a pretty bad idea.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0ny62yFCtQ

After around 40 or so I got the first card worth the effort: Brie Super Rare. While this is not really making up for all the GTCards spent on the cardpacks it still made me happy. Right now I’m trying to decide if I should use it or sell it. The current going rate is around 9.5m.

I just noticed this new posting on the OGPlanet website:

As of 2/26/09 we will be closing the Albatross18 section of our forums. We appreciate all of your contributions over the years and hope that you will continue to enjoy our other games.

While this decision is certainly understandable since the forum pretty much died out because there is nothing to talk about anymore and all posts about Ntreev USA are getting deleted, I am wondering more about the date. February 26th is also the date when Ntreev Korea will start taking signups for the Korean Pangya transfer. I wonder if Ntreev is using fixed dates for all important events regarding their licensing? If so we can probably look forward to a new posting on the Ntreev website on the 26th. On a sidenote – OGP please just shove your other games up your ass and stop trying to advertise them in every single post. This is getting pretty annoying.

So the other day I had finished the Korean event and filled up everyones hearts. Sadly it took me that long to realize that this stick is freaking annoying. It just looks plain weird and stupid. Not to mention that it just stays there even with the open mouth animations. What the amazing tongue skills?!

Seriously though.. I’m not going to wear this crap anymore. If a girl was doing this in real-life can you imagine how annoying it would be? I would probably have a hard time to resist giving in to the desire to slap her. Seriously, just eat the freaking stick already. This is just disgusting and annoying! Argh!

I forgot to post about this earlier since it did not really bother me much I guess.

After all the lies OGPlanet has finally announced that they will be shutting down Albatross18 on March 10.

Since I saw this coming since months I’m not really concerned about this much.

I guess Zepy will be forever the #1 of Windhill unless some hacker beats him during the upcoming hackfest. Congratulations for holding the alltime Windhill record, you sick bastard.

I made a -40 again, on KR and on Pink Wind this time. Sadly this is the first -40 since Season2, even before Ice Spa.

I missed hole 1 by a nike and got demotivated however the round obviously still turned out nice.

ogplanet!ogplanet!ogplanet!ogplaneeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!
ahaaaaaa…aa..ah!yeah! ahaaaaaa!!! OgplanetOgplanetOgplanuwaaaaaa!!!
aah!whinewhine!whinewhine!whinewhine!is a good smell…whine
gosh!OGP want to smell the smell of the cash of the grass color green of cash!whinewhine!ah!!!
mistook!want credit cards!credit cards!credit cards!money is credit cards!gnaw,credit cards…haw-haw haw-haw haw-haw!!
ogplanet of Pangya was lovely!!ahaaaa…aaa…aha aaaaaa!!yeahaaaaah!!
it was good to be decided the albatross18 in america!ahaaaaaa!lovely!ogplanet!lovely!ahyesh!
i am glad to put the game of a albatross18 on the market…nooooooooo!!!mewwwwwwww!!yipesssssssssssssss!!
ughhhhhhhhhhh!!!actual playing in a albatross18!!!!oh…Cabal and LaTale are considered well…
Is albatross18 ending?mewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwh!!
ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
NOOOOOOOOOO!!eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!yikessss!!
Pangyaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!
This!pah!stops!!Stop in reality et.R..trus!?updat…ing?new schedule of update of all OGP games?
new schedule of update of all OGP games!!!ogplanet is looking at me!ogplanet of a game notice is looking at me!!
ogplanet of online game is speaking to me!!!was good…world is not given up yet!!!
Yesssssssssss!!!I have update next week!!was good ketty!!it can do alone!!!
Yeah!update of a albatross!!geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
AhaahMsUneAh!!More moneeeeeey!!!More moneeeeeey!!More money before server end!!
Hummmmmm!!My thought is a report to ogplanet!!It is a report to ogplanet of Pangya!

Update: Tonycheese has been unbanned, Whoopsy is still pending.

Okay, so while it seemed like GOA was a great new home to migrate to after A18 kept going downhill, I might have to change my mind about it now.

Today two of my friends were banned on GOA – tonycheese and RookieF (Whoopsy). They both kept increasing their records to the mid -30 range. Today both were banned for “the confirmed usage of third party tools”. I can’t see what GOA is thinking. Tonycheese had previously even posted a video of him shooting a -36 PW, clearly proving that he is a clean player. Whoopsy had been around on GOA for months and kept most top scores in their Season 2. So it baffles me why he suddenly got banned.

I have opened up a topic about this on the GOA forums, lets see how this goes.

On a more interesting note this reveals an insight into GOAs policy:

While tonycheese (no cookies spent) has been permanently banned, Whoopsy (many cookies spent) has only been banned for three days.

Does this mean that GOA will put lower penalties on people who have spent cookies? This would be an easy way for hackers to avoid the ban hammer.

While of course in this case I hope that both of them will be unbanned again, the issue mentioned above also worries me.

I will eventually keep updating this post with more news regarding the matter.