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the success of the franchise comes from the coverage in the media and questionable depiction of violence. apart from that - many other shooters dress up their shortcomings with eyecandy or extremely brutal gameplay - it fails in many regards and is easily forgotten (even a drag to finish). I would not recommend to buy it for gameplay reasons, maybe only out of curiosity and/or archival motivations. Get painkiller for a much more advanced and better designed slaughter of masses.
Totally agreed - the POSTAL series is just a colossal waste of time.
Well it did annoy politicians, and that's always a plus, because any politician who hates games (Jack Thompson) will preach anything. That's all thats great about this game in my opinion, other than that its just a violent isometric shooter.
Very old. I can't wait for Postal 2. I had a blast with that one.
Post edited April 17, 2009 by Kelthuron
AVATAR://upload/avatars/2009/01/0174fa3481e2205f940ce7e89f696e2443ccc7e9_t2.jpg #Q&_^Q&Q#USERNAME:Mothra#Q&_^Q&Q#GROUP:4the success of the franchise comes from the coverage in the media and questionable depiction of violence. apart from that - many other shooters dress up their shortcomings with eyecandy or extremely brutal gameplay - it fails in many regards and is easily forgotten (even a drag to finish). I would not recommend to buy it for gameplay reasons, maybe only out of curiosity and/or archival motivations. Get painkiller for a much more advanced and better designed slaughter of masses.
how it it a drag? what exactly in game play does the game fail at? it sounds like to me that you didn't even play the game.
how can you review it without playing it?
Are you kidding me? This is the best FPS game ever created, its even better than HL2 in many ways in my opinion.
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pecet: Are you kidding me? This is the best FPS game ever created, its even better than HL2 in many ways in my opinion.

Well, aint this about the first one?
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Backe: Well, aint this about the first one?
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derailedition: Isn't a third person shooter just a first person shooter viewed from above? :O Did I just blow your mind? :O

Well i thought it was about Postal 2.
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Backe: Well, aint this about the first one?
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derailedition: Isn't a third person shooter just a first person shooter viewed from above? :O Did I just blow your mind? :O

Well, then whats the point in calling things third person shooter?
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Backe: Well, aint this about the first one?
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derailedition: Isn't a third person shooter just a first person shooter viewed from above? :O Did I just blow your mind? :O

the aiming in 3rd person shooters usually have a lot of forgiveness in comparison to first person shooters.
AVATAR://upload/avatars/2009/01/0174fa3481e2205f940ce7e89f696e2443ccc7e9_t2.jpg #Q&_^Q&Q#USERNAME:Mothra#Q&_^Q&Q#GROUP:4the success of the franchise comes from the coverage in the media and questionable depiction of violence. apart from that - many other shooters dress up their shortcomings with eyecandy or extremely brutal gameplay - it fails in many regards and is easily forgotten (even a drag to finish). I would not recommend to buy it for gameplay reasons, maybe only out of curiosity and/or archival motivations. Get painkiller for a much more advanced and better designed slaughter of masses.

Very well put, now just ignore the attention seekers in this thread and we'll be able to keep this short and sweet.
AVATAR://upload/avatars/2009/01/0174fa3481e2205f940ce7e89f696e2443ccc7e9_t2.jpg #Q&_^Q&Q#USERNAME:Mothra#Q&_^Q&Q#GROUP:4the success of the franchise comes from the coverage in the media and questionable depiction of violence. apart from that - many other shooters dress up their shortcomings with eyecandy or extremely brutal gameplay - it fails in many regards and is easily forgotten (even a drag to finish). I would not recommend to buy it for gameplay reasons, maybe only out of curiosity and/or archival motivations. Get painkiller for a much more advanced and better designed slaughter of masses.
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yazleb: Very well put, now just ignore the attention seekers in this thread and we'll be able to keep this short and sweet.
keep the trash talk short and sweet?
maybe I take extra offense, because I share the same state as the developers, but seriously, If you take exception with it being a "Good Old Game" talk to the devs directly through using their support system, fighting on the forums won't get you any where.
If it's Postal 1 then I sort of agree, the gameplay wasn't all that. I remember playing the demo back in the day and having massive problems surviving due to shoddy controls. It'll be a while before I pick up Postal 1 here, if at all.
Postal 2 however is a whole another story. I picked that up as soon as it was released.
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yazleb: Very well put, now just ignore the attention seekers in this thread and we'll be able to keep this short and sweet.
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Weclock: keep the trash talk short and sweet?
maybe I take extra offense, because I share the same state as the developers, but seriously, If you take exception with it being a "Good Old Game" talk to the devs directly through using their support system, fighting on the forums won't get you any where.

Weclock, we aren't fighting the developers or anyone, just voicing opinions.
You seem to take things very seriously and maybe you are a normal fellow in real life, but you play a troll online.
I've seen how you harass everyone on this site, and we would be well rid of trolls here.
You bash everyone who has written a negative review of your beloved shitty games Postal 1 & 2, you act like a smart alec online telling everyone their opinion isn't valid and to write 2 page reviews in order to piss them off and waste their time.
The saddest thing is you are wasting my time because I rarely take part in forums, solely because of people who act like dicks such as yourself.
I wish I could meet you in real life and see what kind of a person feels it necessary to poke and prod others online who wish to have casual discussions.
Anyways awaiting your oh so awesomely sarcastic reply.
Cheers.
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Weclock: keep the trash talk short and sweet?
maybe I take extra offense, because I share the same state as the developers, but seriously, If you take exception with it being a "Good Old Game" talk to the devs directly through using their support system, fighting on the forums won't get you any where.
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yazleb: Weclock, we aren't fighting the developers or anyone, just voicing opinions.
You seem to take things very seriously and maybe you are a normal fellow in real life, but you play a troll online.
I've seen how you harass everyone on this site, and we would be well rid of trolls here.
You bash everyone who has written a negative review of your beloved shitty games Postal 1 & 2, you act like a smart alec online telling everyone their opinion isn't valid and to write 2 page reviews in order to piss them off and waste their time.
The saddest thing is you are wasting my time because I rarely take part in forums, solely because of people who act like dicks such as yourself.
I wish I could meet you in real life and see what kind of a person feels it necessary to poke and prod others online who wish to have casual discussions.
Anyways awaiting your oh so awesomely sarcastic reply.
Cheers.
I don't waste your time unless you allow me to.
And I wasn't bashing everyone who wrote a negative review, I was bashing everyone who wrote a shitty negative review. You can write a negative review and still accurately judge a game, most of the reviews were either like "it's not as good as X game." or "violence isn't cool!"
those are not suitable points for a WHOLE review, I'd like to see someone put some actual content into the reviews they write. I wrote a review about Duke Nukem Manhattan Project, and I highlighted both the good and the bad to let consumers know what to expect, in a fair manner. I didn't say "Oh this game is super cool!" and ignore the bad points, and I didn't say "Oh this game sucks ass." and ignore the good points.
Even if a game is total crap, you should be able to come up with more than two or three sentences for a review if you actually played the game recently! If it's been years since you've played it, play it again, the version you played is not the most current version, through patches and etc the games have matured greatly, Postal 2 uses the UE2 engine as opposed to UE1 now, that's a major difference.
Anyway, my point is on those bad reviews, people were just bashing the game and looking for an argument, if they wanted to give a real, actual review, they would have given a solid one. Instead they are trolling, and if it's the case that you feel the game isn't as good as the GOG staffers and many other paying customers do, that's cool, you're entitled to your opinion, but if you don't want a fight but still want to voice your opinion, don't voice your opinion in a way that's going to start a fight.
It's like if I think Harley motorcycles are shitty, I don't go to a Harley motorcycle bar and start saying "Yeah, Harley motorcycles break down and are dumb and dangerous!!" If I had an actual issue other than some fanboyish hate, I'd contact Harley directly and tell them that I'm concerned about their product. I wouldn't start throwing straw man examples with little to no elaboration on my thoughts as to why I felt that way. Coming here, and talking trash, without having good examples to back up your statements is the equivalent of starting and E-Fight.
So it's You yazleb who is the actual troll.