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The Postal series is essentially the videogame equivalent of Uwe Boll's filmography*. They're notoriously awful—the last one we reviewed was Postal 3 in 2012, which earned a dismal 21%—and they keep happening for some reason. A new addition to the lineup was announced on December 3, in fact, called Postal: Bullet Heaven. And then approximately 24 hours later, everything went very sideways.

"After revealing Postal: Bullet Paradise, a title Running With Scissors was planning on publishing but not developing, we've been overwhelmed with negative responses from our concerned Postal community," RWS wrote on X, the day after Bullet Paradise was revealed. "The strong feedback from them is that elements of the game are very likely AI-generated and thus has caused extreme damage to our brand and our company reputation.

"We’ve always been, and will always be, transparent with our community. Our trust in the development team is broken, therefore we've killed the project. We have a lot of good things coming (some you know and some you don’t)."

It's very funny to think about a videogame that's so odiously bad it doesn't even meet the standards of the guys responsible for Postal, but this is where we find ourselves. "The concerned Postal community" also comes off as a knee-slapper, although that may be unfair: Postal 4: No Regerts, released in 2022, has more than 10,000 user reviews on Steam, and a Kickstarter for Postal 2 Redux more than doubled its $250,000 goal earlier this year.

Can I explain it? Absolutely not. But there is clearly a community of some sort here, they like what they like, and they do not like generative AI: Complaints about it are plentiful on the Postal subreddit and Steam.

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[-] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 34 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

How can you be a games "journalist" and not be aware that there is a large community of people who like Postal, especially Postal 2. Seriously strange article.

I'm not saying it's good or bad (I don't play any Postal games, so I wouldn't know), but just implying that all Postal games are a uniform pile of trash when Postal 3 was notoriously a huge flop of a sequel, and acting like no one actually plays them when you admit yourself in the article that a large number of people do, is very strange behavior for someone who is meant to be covering video game news.

[-] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 18 points 6 days ago

I remember the original Postal being absolute shit (it's a janky isometric shooter that was just not very good or memorable), but I do remember Postal 2 being actually ok as a game for its time. It was absolutely edgy garbage in line with how the early 2000s were in general and it was in many respects emblematic of the sort of reactionary currents in the counter-culture that would later crystalize out of solution into pure malding fascism in the early '10s, but it did still have like an actual bit of artistic satire to it with how the goal was officially to get through a bunch of banal tasks peacefully in the face of frustrating gags.

I would genuinely say Postal 2 is less offensive than something like any Call of Duty game that's not one of the ones about fighting Nazis. Although I will also say that it's been well over a decade since I played it (pirated it, obviously) so if there's anything really gross and abhorrent that I've just forgotten about, that also wouldn't surprise me.

I have literally never heard anything good about any of the games after that, though. Like it's been more uniformly negative than what I've heard about the work of that Polish chud dev studio that made Agony and Succubus.

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago

so if there's anything really gross and abhorrent that I've just forgotten about, that also wouldn't surprise me.

There's a part where you go into the basement of a convenience store that's full of stereotypical Muslim terrorist caricatures.

[-] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago

They probably meant for that to be some kind of "clever" commentary on post-9/11 Amerikkka which immediately fell on its face because both they and a lot of their audience actually are just racist.

it's a bunch of ossama bin ladens

[-] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I have literally never heard anything good about any of the games after that, though.

At a glance, Postal 4 doesn't seem as bad as 3. It doesn't seem too good either though, lol.

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