For a long time, I have only had the opinions of others on which to base my feelings on a certain game about a certain crazy dude who blows stuff up, made by a certain company called Running With Scissors.

Yes, I do mean Postal. Anyways, I finally got my own copy of the game, booted it up with much anticipation, only to find - it sucks! It really does. So much potential, wasted. I also played Postal 2 recently, and it was a bit of a letdown.

Am I alone in this opinion? Or is it the real reason RWS have never produced any other games ever?

Himo the first was funny, but Postal 2 is really a waste of time :not_ok:

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(chainsoar @ Jun 6 2007, 06:40 PM) [snapback]293269[/snapback]</div>Both games are utterly pathetic, they were slaughtered in reviews from nearly every publication under the sun. Who's opinions were you listening to? Most of the people that say its good only infer the humor and gore along with its other disgusting crap. It's not even good to begin with, there's juvenile humor and then there's just plain excess.

I mean, Jesus giving you the middle finger? Whoa, big whoop, didn't see that coming.
They all suck nuts, so does the sequel and its expansion, they're righteously terrible as you said.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(chainsoar @ Jun 6 2007, 10:40 PM) [snapback]293269[/snapback]</div>I downloaded Postal 2. I was curious about a "possibility to solve everything in a non-violent way in a very violent world".

However, after couple of days, I sented the files to recycle bin. The game was boring, idiotic, sick and it also had a veeeeery looong loading times.

The only good thing was that I downloaded it instead of buying it.

I think both games had HUGE potential, but it was wasted. Running With Scissors could've been the awesomest game producers ever, IF they had better programmers, and graphic designers. In the first game, the interface was bad, the controls and the character's movement were clumsy, and the people looked horrible. Postal 2 - jerky and unsmooth in the transition between sanity and Postal Dude's sick fantasy world - bad graphics, and utterly crap AI and civilian/badguy movement.

I hate to sound conceited, but if I'd been around at the time to tell RWS what to do to make it better, and they'd implemented my ideas correctly, they could both be a lot better. The thing that is most disappointing about both games is that I can see how they could be absolutely fantastic, but it ain't happening. That's very frustrating. Both games are timekillers at best, and the first game is hardly worth playing at all unless you're patient enough to get used to the crap controls.

I've heard that Postal 3 is in the pipeline, for release on the Xbox 360. I still don't understand how it is that RWS have stayed alive all this time. Postal 1 & 2 and their add-ons are the only games they've ever produced, ever and somehow they've managed to stay alive on what must've been a limited revenue from the sales of Postal 2 nearly 5 years ago.

It seems to me that RWS are just, although this sounds harsh, a bunch of born losers, game industry wise. They once began developing a game for the Playstation called Flesh & Wire which was about a sleazy cop called Angus who awakes one morning to find his legs being swallowed by a giant alien amoeba. Angus discovers he can control the alien thing, so he gets up to find the city being swarmed by aliens. Action ensues.

Yeah. It got cancelled.


Having said all this, I can see myself possibly, maybe, at some point, getting into the second game. I'll give it a few more chances.

I find doing bad things, and playing football with people's heads entertaining. For 10 minutes.

Moral of the story: think for yourself! It is better not to have an opinion than to take over the opinion of somebody else without knowing what you need to know.

Imagine, that's exactly what he has done - got the game to get his own opinion. Did you read the first post in this thread?

He said that partially. He also said he first based his opinion on what others say and that he started the game with much anxiety. This suggests he did not approach the game in a neutral state, but in a state of expecting what the other opinions said. The act of playing the game and forming his own opinion of it after seeing it shows that he does do what you said ;)

He might have listened to the opinion of the gaming press who all pretty much hated the game .