Potzato: I never played postal 2 , nor have any interest in it after the little footage I saw of it a while back.
lepke1979: I remember playing the demo for Postal 2 for maybe 30 minutes and then uninstalling it. Not sure why I found that game boring and could then proceed to play Spear of Destiny, Doom or Duke Nukem for many months.
The reviews here seem positive though, so I guess people liked Postal 2. But don't care enough to go back and give it a second chance.
Now why would I find Hatred gameplay boring while I would probably find Binding of Issac more enjoyable (have only seen gameplay videos of it, haven't actually played it)? Don't know. Sure, the games are different, but the game mechanics are similar enough.
As for Total Biscuits review. Mostly confirmed what I thought. And while it may be unfair since he could have been playing an earlier build, was interesting he found it buggy and whatnot. Perhaps that could have played into GoGs reason for not selling Hatred.
Well with Binding of Isaac, while the core gameplay is twin stick shooter what makes it a more replayable game and less boring and repetitive then something like Hatred is
1. it's short if you win the run it will take you around 30 minutes to a hour tops and that is basement to dark room/chest or the locked door which is 7 levels and most levels take a few minutes to clear.
2. It's randomized, so while every level is the pretty much the same as in you start in the basement/cellar and end either in the dark room or chest or locked room, but they have a different layout each time,what items you can find are always different, even levels have alternate and harder versions so one run you may get the basement the next you may get the cellar which is harder and have different enemies and bosses. Plus your first time play there are tons of items that you have to unlock, the alternate floors have to be unlocked, more bosses are unlockable, in short there are tons of stuff you unlock as you play. Giving you many reasons to come back and play again and again.
Hatred on the other hand just seems to be like Postal 1, start a level and kill X amount of people and next level kill X amount of people, lather rinse and repeat and with not much to give you a incentive to keep playing outside of go and kill more people till you finish the game.