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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.
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.
There's a part where you go into the basement of a convenience store that's full of stereotypical Muslim terrorist caricatures.
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
At a glance, Postal 4 doesn't seem as bad as 3. It doesn't seem too good either though, lol.