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Playing Postal 2 as a kid was glorious. My mother understandably didn't like the idea of me playing a game like Postal 2. My father, on the other hand, was far more leniant and understanding of my desire to play and just have FUN! Because Postal 2, for a kid, was probably the most morbidly enjoyable sandbox I have ever played.
Me and my neighbor used to play multiplayer golf inside Postal 2 by getting a shovel and decapitating people, then challenging each other for the furthest distance we could hit a severed head. Pretty groundbreaking.
me and a friend used to go to the local computer shop every day after school to play it on their demo PC, in hindsight the shop keeper was extremely accommodating, besides the fact any customer who walked in would see us chopping off peoples heads and pissing down their necks, we never once bought anything from that shop
@@durchfaII You are literally 100% incorrect. They used a very weird mishmash of unreal engine 1 with some aspect of UE2 in it as well, and the unofficial name the Dev of the game itself gave it Unreal Engine 1.5..., Running With Scissors [S] [developer] Mar 16, 2019 @ 3:59am Unreal Engine 1.5 You were extremely quick to be wrong.
I felt like this game's open world felt much more dead than Postal 2. Postal 2's town was small, and not many people actually had cars, so it made sense why people were walking on the road in that sense. Plus, it was highly reactive, and weird shit just sorta happened a lot of times. Not as much with Postal 4.
actually P2 was not super reactive or filled with what you see now when it was released. Years and years of support and love turned it into what it is today.....that said, P4 has a long way to go to get to P2 level....we gladly admit that
@@rwsstudios This right here is why I love this game company and this series. Just a bunch of honest people, who like making controversial games and are always very nice to their community. Thank you for making one of my favourite games of all time. Can't wait to see how P4 will look like after a few years of updates, but I'm totally playing it soon!
@@rwsstudios Oh, wow! An Official Channel of the game answering and with heart and honesty. Respect! That's why I love you guys since I was 15 (30y.o. now).
Pumping the shotguns isn't too out there. The stock is against his body, he lightly tosses each to keep them in place as he moves his trigger hand up to the pump, pumps it against his torso, then lightly tosses it again in order to quickly transition back to the trigger grip. I bet someone could do it irl and make a video of it, though it's not something anyone would actually do in combat.
@@MartianBuddy Sure, but punisher did it in other way, he just throwed it into the air and used shotgun inertion by slamming the gun down while holding the pump.
@@joeyparkhill8751 i just posted a comment asking the same thing. I remember Civvie taking a shot at Gman for his Blood remaster review but that's it. I'm wondering if I missed something else or if they are actually cool or what.
Have been playing off and on since day 1 of the "Janky Alpha Build". Game has just gotten better with each update and even though all the days are complete, calling it "done" feels like a stretch.
The game will always remain a janky alpha. I knew it from day one. RWS are not good game designers. You (anyone reading) like Postal 2 not because it's a good game, but because it's just simply _irreverent_ and juvenile. And that's fine. But people confused enjoying doing goofy stuff with a quality game. RWS is not a quality studio.
@@UnitSe7en Well that's the thing. Postal 2 wasnt "done" for well past a decade of its release. That's why I find it odd reviewers are treating it as such when RWS said they still have a year of work or more.
I wholeheartedly believe that RWS cares about this game and has the ability to make it as good as (if not better than) Postal 2. I certainly trust them more than the majority of game developers out there, so I did not hesitate to throw my money at the monitor the moment Postal 4 hit steam. Sure, the game was and still is terribly broken, but it’s also got fantastic foundation that I know they won’t waste. So, to quote our favourite sociopath… I regret nothing.
@@rwsstudios thank you guys so much for supporting postal 2 through the years, and many thanks to come for updating and bringing postal 4 to a better standard (don't run yourself dry with the game though ofc) and it's also really cool to see that you guys actually do watch these critical videos. cheers.
@@rwsstudios I really love your work since day one, guys! Bought Postal 4 as soon as it was available on GOG. It was sold for a pretty good price, so the early access problems didn't bother me that much. I'm looking forward to see this game grow and get even better. My wet dream would be some kind of newly added secret level/area where you run completely wild with your ideas. Perhaps all the stuff that was too crazy to make it into the final game. Or some kind of pop culture nightmare world. A hellish place where the dude has to face all the abominations of modern pop culture. For example, whiny Hollywood snobs like Paul Feig and Rian Johnson. Or the absolut worst abomination: TikTokers. ;) Have fun & keep up the good work! Greetings from Germany!
@@rwsstudios good to know, I bought no regerts as early access btw fucking good job booting up the series again so far, a game that has enough balls to be funny and not give a shit about offending people is like a comedian that understands humour
Yeah, this game has a great foundation, but it’s still extremely buggy and lacks so much detail it’s insane. Probably gonna have to wait another 2 years before it really gets finished.
the fact that all of the models looked like theyre made of clay compounded with the awful optimization and the astonishing lack of weapons coming off of postal 2 made my time with it borderline shitty
Feels like there's an aspect of improvisation that is missing from this game. The Postal Dude was just a guy trying to live his life and shit happened to him, and stuff like him having a dedicated piss button or using a cat as a silencer sounded like something a person going postal would do. By this point you would expect stuff like being able to grab rocks and bottles or chase people with a lawnmower, but the game seems stuck in time. Even the visuals are closer to the GTA Trilogy Remaster than a game that would come out today, while Postal 2 looks like a regular 2003 game.
This seems like the sequel that would come out the next year after Postal 2, not 20 years later. Really should have emphasis on physics, more populated homes and shops, let you wreck more havoc. Blow down walls, enhanced dismemberment, more whacky weapons. Create a sandbox that makes it fun to mess around in.
Remember that they are a small team not a AAA one. You go into Postal and you have to expect a janky, unfinished game at launch. Most of the features you mention aren't probably gonna be added or they are but it is gonna take a few patches for them to appear. Just be patient, P2 got updated even way after it's release and you can compare it to the release version of Postal 2 to see that RWS really loves it's community and series, so why wouldn't they do it to P4?
@@ramiel-best-girl I know it's a small team I feel like it should have at least be finished because it was about 20 since postal 2 came out I just feel like it's a missed opportunity It just feels like a cheap knock off
@@ramiel-best-girl Goat Simulator didn't require a big team. This game would clearly be jank regardless, which is okay. It still shows a lack of ambition and evolution over previous titles.
well according to Doom the Doom Guy killed him and somehow his soul lived on until, the then named Doom Slayer found his remains in Doom 2016 along with a mini gun that apparently, he had.
"(Civvie) and (Gman), the two titans of fps" is a psyop created by feds, just leaving this here to warn people. Don't say civillian, g(overnment) man, and "dictators of destruction" in the same sentence. This user is a fed trying to create a sedition plot for suspects to follow in a "honeypot" to collect your data.
I was always under the impression, from the devs' updates, that they only consider the game "done" in the sense that it has all the basic systems working and all the days in place now. Going from what they say, the real polishing phase, such as it is, is just starting. Not to mention adding new stuff such as drivable cars. Of course, this is Postal we're talking about. I'm not expecting - nor do I want, really - Red Dead Redemption 2 levels of polish (and the crunch that comes with it).
To me for the past 15 yrs Postal Dude has sounded like when Homer Simpson wants to audition for Poochie so he records himself saying 'Hey. This is Homer Simpson saying Howdy to all the girls out there in Radio Land' Jon St John makes him sound like Space Ghost
Postal 4 still needs a lot of work. Postal 2 had more stuff to explore and more hidden things that I would accidentally stumble upon, it made the game unique.
I think the entire Postal game series is just a circle of Hell built specifically around the Postal Dude, and he’s just accepted an endless time loop of being screwed over, doing chores, and just the chaos that is rural Arizona. But, like I’ve said, he’s just so used to this crazy purgatory that nothing surprises him, and his calm expression and monotone voice fully proves this. Rick Hunter really performs this role well, his voice perfectly captivates a man who’s aware of being in a never-ending purgatory. Or, this is a special circle of hell where *he’s* the punishment.
As much as i can tell, RWS does care about this game and their fanbase, considering them bringing back the other Postal voice actors and heavily improving the game with each update. Hey, they been around about 25 years , so that kind of tells us something.
@@Gary_M No worries. Nothing i can exactly do to disapprove that point, the only logic that i have in use currently is that rws has been around a long time and that all games after 2020 are buggy. Good point.
I liked how Postal 2 and Paradise Lost are smaller. You got around to the thing you wanted to do faster with less downtime and every building you entered has something in it. Edensin just feels empty by comparison.
Well but to be honest, the AI and physics in Postal 2 were pretty neat. Having fluid physics or seemingly interact with NPCs without having to enter a menu was something pretty impressive for the time.
Similar to Kingpin--another janky mess--Postal 2 was a game that I mastered all of the quirks out of it, just because it was so unique and I loved the brutal body damage and little details. That approach isn't for everyone, but once you learn how to work with a weirdly broken game, it can really become a fun, one-of-a-kind experience--granted that the game has unique features on offer.
@@HunterTinsley Kingpin has tons of quirks, punishingly-hard difficulty spikes, and moonlogic scenarios that make it almost impossible to play through the first time without a guide. I guess what I mean is that learning and putting up with all of those things over time as you play-because you love what it does differently-really pays off in the end, because you’ve mastered this poorly designed thing.
RWS realize that Postal Dude getting dragged all the time with fetch odd jobs is literally the same as the Big Lebowski so thats why he's dressed like him in this game.
Remember that Postal 2 was bare bones and janky as shit on launch too, before they taped it up and added a whole heaping of new content and made it into the game we know and love today.
My take on the POSTAL series: POSTAL 1 was absolutely horrific [in an atmospheric way, which I enjoyed]. POSTAL 2 is a stroke of comedic genius! POSTAL III was buggier than a big bug bugging out in a big dune buggy! POSTAL 4 may be a mess, but it's MY kind of mess!
@@DerJawa this will be fixed over time, performance is important to us, we just need to bring in the console porting team to REALLY help with that.....
"This game runs on the Unreal Engine and once again runs like shit" As a developer who works in Unreal Engine, if it runs like shit, it's because the developer didn't optimize the game at all. The same would be true in any other engine with the same lack of effort.
These wound decals literally look like placeholders, the blood is inferior to P2. It's strange that they didn't invest more in the gore department, since we do that a fucking lot in this game.
@@smward87 Wrong. You can tell the devs care about this game they are still updating and patching bugs and apparently once the main game is finished, they'll do a weekend expansion have some faith.
@@MidRankedDeity That's what I said. That they would be working on it forever. I was half-joking based on their track record with Postal 2 which they spent about 20 years patching and making updates for.
the graphics look like one of those easter european “simulator” games that pop up on steam’s front page every so often. really wish RWS took the art style in a different direction, because this just kinda looks like a unity student project
i think the issue with RWS is they don't really seem to care much about the looks of the game, it's taken them quite some yrs to make P4 look better with more details
I got to meet zach ward at the Christmas story house and got my picture with him and despite being star struck i told him i loved him as the postal dude in the movie and that i was hoping that rws would try and get him back for postal 4 and he laughed and said the postal dude was his favorite anti hero and then just a few months later it was announced he would be added absolutely lost my shit with joy
Guys! there is no drama between civvie and Gman its just shitposting I mean Gman wouldn't be australian if he didn't shit post! Civvie also is just poking fun harmlessly. Its banter and thats it.
This is pretty rough to see. Game still looks like it needs a few more years of polish, and it lacks much of the gameplay that made postal 2 good (conflict after finishing missions, a world that's worth exploring for extra loot, etc).
Back during one of the first few streams RWS did of them playing the early alphas, I asked them if they’d ever do a weekend expansion like they’d done before, and they said it would definitely be something they’d like to do, but they had to finish the main game first. Two year’s later, and here we are. Personally, I think that instead of the weekend being a cobbled together mess of a linear plot, it should have all three Postal Dudes splitting apart, and deciding to kill one another. We then spent Saturday switching between all three dudes, as they set up their master plans to kill the other two, with Sunday having all their plans fail horribly and comedically.
5:43 - Dextromethorpane is actually quite an intense drug. At higher doses you will have the most amazing trips. Expect fantastic visuals and to even feel gravity pull. I've gone on some cool helicopter rides and riding in cars around corners and felt the g-forces. But along the way of doing it expect some less than comfortable trips. Learning the correct dose for the type of trip you want and dealing with the unpredictability of DXM is definitely not for the faint of heart. Many people give up after just a couple attempts because they don't get the experience they want. But once you finally get that 3rd plateau trip... wow. Remember, DXM is a dissociative. Treat it with respect.
Yeah it was fun until I ended up tripping 8 hours after I took it and had to go to work feeling like I was in a dream looking through a fisheye lens and the awful dissociative state you’re in a day to two after is enough to put most people off of it but still kind of fun if you feel like experimenting lol
@@revalution1965 Yeah, I've had those days too where I had to go to work with after effects. I've never had effects last days though, except being very tired but that was usually only after a few days of heavy use.
Me: Good old postal series It's a game where you do mundane task (at most time) while the world is giving you crazy experience of a hell of a time. There's the first postal, 2, the apocalypse weekend, Paradies Lost and now we got 4 itself. Trashmasters: What about us we also made postal thr- Me: We don't talk about that one.
Postal 2 the game that augmented the "E" key a command to "unzip" your fly. But what made it great you could slaughter of Gary Coleman.(but he was damned tough!)
I mean the janky alpha was basically a tech demo i couldnt run it even at the lowest settings for a while but eventually they fixed up the graphics and i can play it now and its laggy still but i can actually play it and given more time it will be so much better
Your "get milk" as a cat mission seems broken. When I picked up the milk, the doors were immediately locked and the store clerk chased me around the store shooting at me until I killed her.
Is it just me or did Postal 2 look better too? At least in terms of artistic consistency. Looking at the Dude in 4 vs the rest of 4's population, they don't even look like they're from the same game..
I wish you had found a first release version of postal 2 to compare what the game first looked like to what it is today, to show us how the development on this game might go
For the two pump shotguns at once thing, American here, you can pump two shotguns at once if you anchor the strap loop to your belt, or brace it on your hip. If the action is properly tuned and oiled as well you could just jack rack it like they do in the movies. All of this is super dumb and should not be done as it can hurt your gun and isn’t really safe. But it is in fact possible.
Ikr? Lot of missing potentials...Imagine a quest like that, you forgot to wear a mask and a fat girl starts screaming at you and people goes bananas shooting down you and have Bill Gates as a boss with a vaccine rocket laucher
The blood is better in the originals,since the blood splash on the walls and ceiling and drips off the ceiling also.The blood streaks that run down hills lol.theres some great fine details missing in 4.
Seems like a pretty easy pass for me. If they can barely improve the game in 20 years that's pretty lame. Postal 2 is a product of it's era and it's got charm to it. This just gives me the vibes of a lame reboot movie like Bill and Ted (Postal 2 being the original). Like if they tried to go forward and give the game it's own identity I'd get behind it but this just seems like it's trying to relive it's past exactly and that just never works.
4:45 Heck, Postal 2 came before Unreal Tournament 2004 whose 2.5 engine added support for vehicles. People'll have to put POSTAL 2 on Unreal 2.5 themselves.
The problem with the Postal Series is that Running with Scissors, and specifically Vince Disiderio, never grew up with the times after their success with Postal 2. They think making the same game over and over is suppose to be a running gag, but now it just falls flatter than a soda that’s been left outside for too long. They’ve basically been stagnant since 2003.
It came a long way in roughly 2 1/2 years when it was in early access, glad it's just about finished. I hope we'll get another DLC pack similar to Apocalypse Weekend and Paradise Lost, but I understand if what we currently have with Postal 4 is enough for the next couple years.
@@jeremyroberts8822 Yeah, v1.0 drops on 4/20 (because of course it would) and that update alone SHOULD have a ton of performance fixes and all that good stuff. Pretty sure it won't fix EVERYTHING, but that's why they aim to keep supporting the game after release. And I'm sure that mod support will soon follow.
I played it when it was in very early jank, put my money down, and haven't touched it since. I don't want to spoil it for myself. Last time I did an early access like this of a game I really liked, it was carmageddon reincarnation, which was great until the very last minute when they repolished it for consoles and took out a lot of the stuff that I liked.
The problem mentioned around 13:40 is the the same thing that happened to Saints Row and why GTA as a game (versus the stupid microtransactions) has remained pretty popular. SR and SR2 were about gangs with some wild characters, occasionally large and crazy antics but still were somewhat grounded in reality. Dildo bat? Sure why not. But SR3 and on, it's suddenly becoming prez, aliens, and literally heaven vs hell. It just got stupid and unrecognizable. GTA for the most part has remained the same all through out the series. Sure, it'd be unrealistic for a meth addict to break into a military base and just steal military jets and heli's but that's what makes it fun. The sub was fun too. But then you get to reenact pretty real but Hollywood-ized robberies likes the heists, manipulating the stock market, and etc. real mechanics and things, funny/wild execution.
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Bought it couple days ago on steam .. Played exactly 2 hours xd..
gg
I'm curious what version of the game you were running? I know they're supposed to be dropping the 1.0 update on the 20th.
$40 ... bruh
I don't remembering rating Postal The Movie
RWS hired me recently to help work on P4 lol. Super excited to see this series still running strong
They're still making updates for it?
hope they fix the bugs
@@VirtualNazgul RWS truly loves the game and is working on doing the best they can but yes they are still updating the game even got one 2 weeks ago.
Your full of shit 😂
Well you done fucked it up! Bigtime!
Playing Postal 2 as a kid was glorious. My mother understandably didn't like the idea of me playing a game like Postal 2. My father, on the other hand, was far more leniant and understanding of my desire to play and just have FUN! Because Postal 2, for a kid, was probably the most morbidly enjoyable sandbox I have ever played.
Me and my neighbor used to play multiplayer golf inside Postal 2 by getting a shovel and decapitating people, then challenging each other for the furthest distance we could hit a severed head. Pretty groundbreaking.
Just guys being dudes. Moms will never understand
me and a friend used to go to the local computer shop every day after school to play it on their demo PC, in hindsight the shop keeper was extremely accommodating, besides the fact any customer who walked in would see us chopping off peoples heads and pissing down their necks, we never once bought anything from that shop
@@pissiole5654 Yeah those were the days. Now demo PC are nonexistent or in demo mode 😔
My mom is actually a huge fan of the postal franchise. Especially Postal 1, ironically. RWS rated the game M for a reason. M for moms who are cool. :)
The second game has aged unbelievably well
how it still runs badly on a 3090 I will never understand
@@Step1adder try limiting the game to one CPU core. Multithreading in UE1 sucks ass
@@durchfaII You are literally 100% incorrect. They used a very weird mishmash of unreal engine 1 with some aspect of UE2 in it as well, and the unofficial name the Dev of the game itself gave it Unreal Engine 1.5..., Running With Scissors [S] [developer] Mar 16, 2019 @ 3:59am
Unreal Engine 1.5
You were extremely quick to be wrong.
@@Step1adder I run it on integrated graphics at stable 60 FPS, no clue what you're talking about.
Postal 2 is far better than Postal 4.
I felt like this game's open world felt much more dead than Postal 2.
Postal 2's town was small, and not many people actually had cars, so it made sense why people were walking on the road in that sense. Plus, it was highly reactive, and weird shit just sorta happened a lot of times. Not as much with Postal 4.
actually P2 was not super reactive or filled with what you see now when it was released. Years and years of support and love turned it into what it is today.....that said, P4 has a long way to go to get to P2 level....we gladly admit that
@@rwsstudios admitting a wrongdoing is something many game companies cannot do or just barely (looking at you EA and other big studios).
@@rwsstudios Oh, definitely.
@@rwsstudios This right here is why I love this game company and this series. Just a bunch of honest people, who like making controversial games and are always very nice to their community. Thank you for making one of my favourite games of all time. Can't wait to see how P4 will look like after a few years of updates, but I'm totally playing it soon!
@@rwsstudios Oh, wow! An Official Channel of the game answering and with heart and honesty. Respect! That's why I love you guys since I was 15 (30y.o. now).
Pumping the shotguns isn't too out there. The stock is against his body, he lightly tosses each to keep them in place as he moves his trigger hand up to the pump, pumps it against his torso, then lightly tosses it again in order to quickly transition back to the trigger grip. I bet someone could do it irl and make a video of it, though it's not something anyone would actually do in combat.
Punisher had akimbo pump
@@MartianBuddy Sure, but punisher did it in other way, he just throwed it into the air and used shotgun inertion by slamming the gun down while holding the pump.
@@themaniomarian dude throes it up m pumps.
@@MartianBuddy Dude rests their stocks on his torso and normally pumps.
The only problem is that there's a thing called gravity.
the literal update on Steam for Postal 4 version 1.0 is called "Would be polished, but we got high!".
Probably the closest thing to a Civvie x Gmanlives crossover we'll ever get
Crossing TH-camrs is like crossing the beams in Ghostbusters. You just don't do it, ever!. Listen to Egon for once in your life.
Why do they hate each other so much?
crossing the beams is what they did to win at the end of Ghostbusters
@@joeyparkhill8751 I don't think "hate" is the word, but in the least, they're competing in somewhat the same bussiness.
@@joeyparkhill8751 i just posted a comment asking the same thing. I remember Civvie taking a shot at Gman for his Blood remaster review but that's it. I'm wondering if I missed something else or if they are actually cool or what.
Have been playing off and on since day 1 of the "Janky Alpha Build".
Game has just gotten better with each update and even though all the days are complete, calling it "done" feels like a stretch.
To be honest I wasn't expecting much, but I'm satisfied.
The game will always remain a janky alpha. I knew it from day one. RWS are not good game designers. You (anyone reading) like Postal 2 not because it's a good game, but because it's just simply _irreverent_ and juvenile.
And that's fine. But people confused enjoying doing goofy stuff with a quality game. RWS is not a quality studio.
@@UnitSe7en Well that's the thing. Postal 2 wasnt "done" for well past a decade of its release. That's why I find it odd reviewers are treating it as such when RWS said they still have a year of work or more.
RWS even said they left Early Access to encourage more sales to help fund development. They know it's not done, and won't be for years to come.
to be honest some things visually looked better in alpha
I wholeheartedly believe that RWS cares about this game and has the ability to make it as good as (if not better than) Postal 2. I certainly trust them more than the majority of game developers out there, so I did not hesitate to throw my money at the monitor the moment Postal 4 hit steam. Sure, the game was and still is terribly broken, but it’s also got fantastic foundation that I know they won’t waste. So, to quote our favourite sociopath…
I regret nothing.
thanks man, those of you that know, know! we aint putting down development on this because its leaving early access. NOT EVEN CLOSE
@@rwsstudios thank you guys so much for supporting postal 2 through the years, and many thanks to come for updating and bringing postal 4 to a better standard (don't run yourself dry with the game though ofc) and it's also really cool to see that you guys actually do watch these critical videos. cheers.
@@rwsstudios
I really love your work since day one, guys! Bought Postal 4 as soon as it was available on GOG. It was sold for a pretty good price, so the early access problems didn't bother me that much.
I'm looking forward to see this game grow and get even better.
My wet dream would be some kind of newly added secret level/area where you run completely wild with your ideas. Perhaps all the stuff that was too crazy to make it into the final game. Or some kind of pop culture nightmare world. A hellish place where the dude has to face all the abominations of modern pop culture. For example, whiny Hollywood snobs like Paul Feig and Rian Johnson. Or the absolut worst abomination: TikTokers. ;)
Have fun & keep up the good work!
Greetings from Germany!
@@rwsstudios good to know, I bought no regerts as early access btw fucking good job booting up the series again so far, a game that has enough balls to be funny and not give a shit about offending people is like a comedian that understands humour
@@rwsstudios I know. You need another decade and Postal 4 will become a legendary masterpiece. Until then... 😶
Only having the scooter while there's lambos and stuff around the map. Yup it's Postal alright
Rather a scooter then a douche kart
Yeah, this game has a great foundation, but it’s still extremely buggy and lacks so much detail it’s insane. Probably gonna have to wait another 2 years before it really gets finished.
the fact that all of the models looked like theyre made of clay compounded with the awful optimization and the astonishing lack of weapons coming off of postal 2 made my time with it borderline shitty
I like the models and style it feels like old indie 3d games but with a better lighting
@@maninhu9837 that would be fine but the game runs like ass for no reason considering it really does not look good
You mean wait forever?
How is it now ?
My favorite thing about these videos is the edits. Adding in slap-stick esque noises hits my funny bone. every. damn. time
Feels like there's an aspect of improvisation that is missing from this game. The Postal Dude was just a guy trying to live his life and shit happened to him, and stuff like him having a dedicated piss button or using a cat as a silencer sounded like something a person going postal would do. By this point you would expect stuff like being able to grab rocks and bottles or chase people with a lawnmower, but the game seems stuck in time.
Even the visuals are closer to the GTA Trilogy Remaster than a game that would come out today, while Postal 2 looks like a regular 2003 game.
This seems like the sequel that would come out the next year after Postal 2, not 20 years later. Really should have emphasis on physics, more populated homes and shops, let you wreck more havoc. Blow down walls, enhanced dismemberment, more whacky weapons. Create a sandbox that makes it fun to mess around in.
Doubt they have a big enough team for that. This isn’t a huge gaming company Rember.
Pretty much all of those are being worked on, and Dismemberment was in there, but isn't fully there now because they're re-doing it for the new NPCs.
Remember that they are a small team not a AAA one. You go into Postal and you have to expect a janky, unfinished game at launch. Most of the features you mention aren't probably gonna be added or they are but it is gonna take a few patches for them to appear. Just be patient, P2 got updated even way after it's release and you can compare it to the release version of Postal 2 to see that RWS really loves it's community and series, so why wouldn't they do it to P4?
@@ramiel-best-girl I know it's a small team I feel like it should have at least be finished because it was about 20 since postal 2 came out I just feel like it's a missed opportunity It just feels like a cheap knock off
@@ramiel-best-girl Goat Simulator didn't require a big team. This game would clearly be jank regardless, which is okay. It still shows a lack of ambition and evolution over previous titles.
5:43 damn, Commander Keen really went on a downward spiral after aliens ate his babysitter
well according to Doom the Doom Guy killed him and somehow his soul lived on until, the then named Doom Slayer found his remains in Doom 2016 along with a mini gun that apparently, he had.
5 seconds in this video, and he kills a pedestrian 💀
Civvie and Gman, the two Titans of FPS. The Dignified Dictators of Destruction, The Gentleman of Gibs. I Love it so much
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*Insert Rocky and Creed homoerotic beach scene here*
I was always under the impression, from the devs' updates, that they only consider the game "done" in the sense that it has all the basic systems working and all the days in place now. Going from what they say, the real polishing phase, such as it is, is just starting. Not to mention adding new stuff such as drivable cars.
Of course, this is Postal we're talking about. I'm not expecting - nor do I want, really - Red Dead Redemption 2 levels of polish (and the crunch that comes with it).
Red Dead online is riddled with bugs that Rockstar will never fix.
@John Syzlack uh, no. It's a legitimately great game, most likely the last good release Rockstar ever made.
@@BadaBing.UCF30 Still highly overrated.
@John Syzlack RDR 1, Max Payne 3 and L.A. Noire where pretty good tbh.
@John Syzlack For me I actually think that GTA 4 is fine but if you call it a masterpiece then I respect your opinion
for what i see it looks really fun but , even by Postal standards it needs a lot of polish. Gonna get it in the future after more patches come out.
Then your never gonna buy it. This is all the polish they're giving it
@@douggaudiosi14 they confirmed more updates áre coming dude ...
In the update they recommended waiting another 2 or 3 patches for a "completed" game.
@@douggaudiosi14 please don't spread false info, especially if you have no idea what you are talking about
@@douggaudiosi14 stop spreading false info dumbass.
To me for the past 15 yrs Postal Dude has sounded like when Homer Simpson wants to audition for Poochie so he records himself saying 'Hey. This is Homer Simpson saying Howdy to all the girls out there in Radio Land'
Jon St John makes him sound like Space Ghost
In a good way?
@@HeliosDrive oh I don't mind at all. Just they sound similar.
You mean Skinner
That Civvie roast was savage... And I'm sure he'll love it
What! Killing civilians in my Cristian postal game? You need to seek help my dood!
Yeah he’s schwacked in the head I heard him swear on my Minecraft server and I had to lifetime ban him 😡😡😡 he needs to stop acting like this 😡😡😡
Postal 4 still needs a lot of work. Postal 2 had more stuff to explore and more hidden things that I would accidentally stumble upon, it made the game unique.
Okay but have you found the hidden crack shack in 4 yet?
The way you thoughtlessly murdered that woman NPC at the start with such a brutal unprovoked attack disturbed me. Stop it, get some help.
I think the entire Postal game series is just a circle of Hell built specifically around the Postal Dude, and he’s just accepted an endless time loop of being screwed over, doing chores, and just the chaos that is rural Arizona. But, like I’ve said, he’s just so used to this crazy purgatory that nothing surprises him, and his calm expression and monotone voice fully proves this. Rick Hunter really performs this role well, his voice perfectly captivates a man who’s aware of being in a never-ending purgatory. Or, this is a special circle of hell where *he’s* the punishment.
As much as i can tell, RWS does care about this game and their fanbase, considering them bringing back the other Postal voice actors and heavily improving the game with each update.
Hey, they been around about 25 years , so that kind of tells us something.
@@Gary_M
First fix your sentence so that somebody can understand it.
@@Gary_M
No worries.
Nothing i can exactly do to disapprove that point, the only logic that i have in use currently is that rws has been around a long time and that all games after 2020 are buggy.
Good point.
@VelktorCreationsMFQ
Even postal2 isnt fully functional sometimes.
I just think that "being buggy" is common for games after 2020
@@Gary_M they did. All the base mechanics are there. Now if you want Postal 2 levels if content you will have to wait for 10 years like with Postal 2
I liked how Postal 2 and Paradise Lost are smaller. You got around to the thing you wanted to do faster with less downtime and every building you entered has something in it. Edensin just feels empty by comparison.
Postal has never been good by video game standards. The violence, satire, and the nihilistic atmosphere kept people coming back.
Well but to be honest, the AI and physics in Postal 2 were pretty neat. Having fluid physics or seemingly interact with NPCs without having to enter a menu was something pretty impressive for the time.
fuck game standards
@@maryampalani25 yeah
The memes on these videos cannot be overstated, the man's a fucking artist and I love it!
Does he edit his own videos?
12:31 I don't get it, Unreal Engine literally has dedicated button that generates destructible objects. Yet for some reason devs forgot?
The true question about quad shotguns is whether to arrange the barrels in a diamond pattern, or horizontally. Both have their own aesthetic tastes.
Similar to Kingpin--another janky mess--Postal 2 was a game that I mastered all of the quirks out of it, just because it was so unique and I loved the brutal body damage and little details. That approach isn't for everyone, but once you learn how to work with a weirdly broken game, it can really become a fun, one-of-a-kind experience--granted that the game has unique features on offer.
Kingpin was in a much better state than P2 on release, though.
@@HunterTinsley Kingpin has tons of quirks, punishingly-hard difficulty spikes, and moonlogic scenarios that make it almost impossible to play through the first time without a guide. I guess what I mean is that learning and putting up with all of those things over time as you play-because you love what it does differently-really pays off in the end, because you’ve mastered this poorly designed thing.
RWS realize that Postal Dude getting dragged all the time with fetch odd jobs is literally the same as the Big Lebowski so thats why he's dressed like him in this game.
Remember that Postal 2 was bare bones and janky as shit on launch too, before they taped it up and added a whole heaping of new content and made it into the game we know and love today.
Yeh. Even back then, Postal 2 had its share of problems that I wouldn't be surprised if Postal 4 gets the same treatment in being tweaked and patched.
I'm sure a year from now with mods and updates this will be much better
It's not really said enough how good your script writing is my man.
Fantastic stuff bro.
I'd love to see an updated review of this talking about if the patches and updates since this build has improved the game.
no regerts was a milkyway commercial
My take on the POSTAL series: POSTAL 1 was absolutely horrific [in an atmospheric way, which I enjoyed]. POSTAL 2 is a stroke of comedic genius! POSTAL III was buggier than a big bug bugging out in a big dune buggy! POSTAL 4 may be a mess, but it's MY kind of mess!
there wasn’t a postal 3 wdym
I got postal 4 when they only had Monday available, it’s been pretty fun following each update.
same but im still dissapointed kinda. cause it still plays like crap. and i really want to like it
@@DerJawa this will be fixed over time, performance is important to us, we just need to bring in the console porting team to REALLY help with that.....
@@rwsstudios i love how u guys respond here
Def one of the Best dev teams out there
"This game runs on the Unreal Engine and once again runs like shit"
As a developer who works in Unreal Engine, if it runs like shit, it's because the developer didn't optimize the game at all. The same would be true in any other engine with the same lack of effort.
These wound decals literally look like placeholders, the blood is inferior to P2. It's strange that they didn't invest more in the gore department, since we do that a fucking lot in this game.
It doesn’t have the edgy humor back in Postal’s 2 era.
Legend has it that Gman uses an M60 as a back massager.
i'd believe it..........he's so cool.
It is. I've had the game for ages now, and nothing gets me excited quite like seeing a Postal 4 update.
Thanks for the review, I’ve now decided to buy it 2 years from now when it’s finished and improved
Same lmao
2 years? That's being really damn optimistic. Give it at least a decade. Then it'll probably be close to done. Maybe. Wait 2 decades to be safe.
@@smward87 Wrong. You can tell the devs care about this game they are still updating and patching bugs and apparently once the main game is finished, they'll do a weekend expansion have some faith.
@@MidRankedDeity That's what I said. That they would be working on it forever. I was half-joking based on their track record with Postal 2 which they spent about 20 years patching and making updates for.
The 4th one is alright, if it keeps getting updated and fixed we may have a postal 5
the graphics look like one of those easter european “simulator” games that pop up on steam’s front page every so often. really wish RWS took the art style in a different direction, because this just kinda looks like a unity student project
Yeah I kinda miss the stupid face scanned faces and the gritty look, although tbh I like the stylised approach on the weapons and the UI of 4.
3:49 i love how it looks like your character gives her a slap on the butt while running her over
i think the issue with RWS is they don't really seem to care much about the looks of the game, it's taken them quite some yrs to make P4 look better with more details
We still love you Running With Scissors!
Are those civilians you’re killing, you must be a monster
18:44 awww he looks so cute as a cat
You said they got Rick Hunter back as the Dude. In this entire video, there's no footage of that.
"updates after launch" is all I need to here
Getting Rick Hunter back is worth the price of admission. The game will get patched up over time in order to fix all the remaining bugs.
I got to meet zach ward at the Christmas story house and got my picture with him and despite being star struck i told him i loved him as the postal dude in the movie and that i was hoping that rws would try and get him back for postal 4 and he laughed and said the postal dude was his favorite anti hero and then just a few months later it was announced he would be added absolutely lost my shit with joy
After a long day of work, I really love sitting down and watching one of these videos with my dinner. Thanks for uploading!
The only good thing this game did was that it's confirmed that Dude does indeed wear socks.
You make fun of Jews and like postal 3. You can not be talking lil broskii
postal 4 is peak
Guys! there is no drama between civvie and Gman its just shitposting I mean Gman wouldn't be australian if he didn't shit post! Civvie also is just poking fun harmlessly. Its banter and thats it.
Holy shit that part at 1:24 made me laugh so hard
“There’s something funny about him” Yeah mate he’s shooting you with an assault rifle 😂
This is pretty rough to see. Game still looks like it needs a few more years of polish, and it lacks much of the gameplay that made postal 2 good (conflict after finishing missions, a world that's worth exploring for extra loot, etc).
"polish" ? id say the game is in need of Basic competent programming, but hey who cares, it has edgy jokes so the cringe fringe will buy it
Back during one of the first few streams RWS did of them playing the early alphas, I asked them if they’d ever do a weekend expansion like they’d done before, and they said it would definitely be something they’d like to do, but they had to finish the main game first.
Two year’s later, and here we are. Personally, I think that instead of the weekend being a cobbled together mess of a linear plot, it should have all three Postal Dudes splitting apart, and deciding to kill one another.
We then spent Saturday switching between all three dudes, as they set up their master plans to kill the other two, with Sunday having all their plans fail horribly and comedically.
That sounds like a fun idea.
5:43 - Dextromethorpane is actually quite an intense drug. At higher doses you will have the most amazing trips. Expect fantastic visuals and to even feel gravity pull. I've gone on some cool helicopter rides and riding in cars around corners and felt the g-forces.
But along the way of doing it expect some less than comfortable trips. Learning the correct dose for the type of trip you want and dealing with the unpredictability of DXM is definitely not for the faint of heart. Many people give up after just a couple attempts because they don't get the experience they want. But once you finally get that 3rd plateau trip... wow.
Remember, DXM is a dissociative. Treat it with respect.
Yeah it was fun until I ended up tripping 8 hours after I took it and had to go to work feeling like I was in a dream looking through a fisheye lens and the awful dissociative state you’re in a day to two after is enough to put most people off of it but still kind of fun if you feel like experimenting lol
Thanks, but I think I’ll stick to reasonable drugs like heroin, Hallucinogens are prettyyyyy hardcore and scary. Y’all wild
@@revalution1965 Yeah, I've had those days too where I had to go to work with after effects. I've never had effects last days though, except being very tired but that was usually only after a few days of heavy use.
Me: Good old postal series
It's a game where you do mundane task (at most time) while the world is giving you crazy experience of a hell of a time.
There's the first postal, 2, the apocalypse weekend, Paradies Lost and now we got 4 itself.
Trashmasters: What about us we also made postal thr-
Me: We don't talk about that one.
Rag doll kicking npcs will always be a good time.
Postal 2 the game that augmented the "E" key a command to "unzip" your fly. But what made it great you could slaughter of Gary Coleman.(but he was damned tough!)
damn better than IGN review. Both you and Civvie did a fine job!
Gamespot gives it a 1/10, so IGN is generous.
I just checked out the IGN review out of curiosity and Jesus, that reviews was terrible.
Postal 4 is a perfectly accurate representation of a Arizona afternoon including everyone acting like zombies
Honestly postal 4 felt like a tech demo more than anything, I hope as time goes they add more and make it better
I mean the janky alpha was basically a tech demo i couldnt run it even at the lowest settings for a while but eventually they fixed up the graphics and i can play it now and its laggy still but i can actually play it and given more time it will be so much better
Your "get milk" as a cat mission seems broken. When I picked up the milk, the doors were immediately locked and the store clerk chased me around the store shooting at me until I killed her.
Is it just me or did Postal 2 look better too?
At least in terms of artistic consistency. Looking at the Dude in 4 vs the rest of 4's population, they don't even look like they're from the same game..
Its like gta trilogy,it has better textures and another things but they are not well made with a good art direction like the original games was
postal 2 has character, this looks like a fan made game ngl. im sure itll be much better in the future.
@@143jcm yeas but it still will be the same thing as postal 2 sadly
for those watching this in 2024: The game is quite allot better now (and they are still updating it!)
I wish you had found a first release version of postal 2 to compare what the game first looked like to what it is today, to show us how the development on this game might go
It's funny that RWS used some of the civvie lines in Postal 2
Least hypocritical TH-camr?
For the two pump shotguns at once thing, American here, you can pump two shotguns at once if you anchor the strap loop to your belt, or brace it on your hip. If the action is properly tuned and oiled as well you could just jack rack it like they do in the movies. All of this is super dumb and should not be done as it can hurt your gun and isn’t really safe. But it is in fact possible.
12:05 "Hey! Check out how hard can i pee!"
Tbf, the joke at 22:10 actually made me laugh out loud.
I find it weird the lack of social commentary/satire in this game. Felt so restrained compared to P2 and even paradise lost.
Postal 1, Postal 2, Postal 4 weird way of numbering the third game but, hey not my company.
"small hands. Smell like...cabbage"
That line always makes me laugh so hard, haha.
These games are cathartic. They should add a patch where people wear masks alone in a car.
You're not making any sense.
@@cenciende9401 oh no someone
Forgot to take their mask off?
Ok?
YES LMAO
Ikr? Lot of missing potentials...Imagine a quest like that, you forgot to wear a mask and a fat girl starts screaming at you and people goes bananas shooting down you and have Bill Gates as a boss with a vaccine rocket laucher
@@cenciende9401 cope, vaxtard
The blood is better in the originals,since the blood splash on the walls and ceiling and drips off the ceiling also.The blood streaks that run down hills lol.theres some great fine details missing in 4.
This is my problem with the game too, I can't see it as a world but just a map with props. I also think the map is too big.
an amusement park called CUNNY ISLAND?
wow thats hilarious.
quite based. thank you G-Man this vid was A++
There's no way the devs didn't know exactly what they were doing with that gag.
😭
@@LOC-Ness UUUUUUOOOOOOOHHHHH
😭
This shit looks like an undergrad comp sci project
THE SECOND that this game launched I thought "damn I can't wait for Gman to do a video on this"
Seems like a pretty easy pass for me. If they can barely improve the game in 20 years that's pretty lame. Postal 2 is a product of it's era and it's got charm to it. This just gives me the vibes of a lame reboot movie like Bill and Ted (Postal 2 being the original). Like if they tried to go forward and give the game it's own identity I'd get behind it but this just seems like it's trying to relive it's past exactly and that just never works.
It amazes me that there are a lot of Postal simps on TH-cam, Steam and Reddit defending this broken ass game.
Today on RWS stream Mike J said that you're good honest reviewer.
Oh cool! Which stream?
@@Gggmanlives th-cam.com/video/cYrbWce3IP8/w-d-xo.html
I could hear that chuckle when you're talking about the mission where you're throwing immigrants over the border lol
They are not immigrants, they are illegals.
thats one part he got wrong, youre actually throwing americans INTO mexico so they can get work
@@rwsstudios unironically based af KEK
4:45 Heck, Postal 2 came before Unreal Tournament 2004 whose 2.5 engine added support for vehicles. People'll have to put POSTAL 2 on Unreal 2.5 themselves.
I think that RWS teased a new vehicle for Postal 4...at least it seems so.
5:42 that’s the most backhanded insult or jab I think I have ever heard.
The problem with the Postal Series is that Running with Scissors, and specifically Vince Disiderio, never grew up with the times after their success with Postal 2. They think making the same game over and over is suppose to be a running gag, but now it just falls flatter than a soda that’s been left outside for too long. They’ve basically been stagnant since 2003.
It came a long way in roughly 2 1/2 years when it was in early access, glad it's just about finished. I hope we'll get another DLC pack similar to Apocalypse Weekend and Paradise Lost, but I understand if what we currently have with Postal 4 is enough for the next couple years.
I'm hoping for mod support at some point if anything
They have confirmed in Steam forums that a DLC is in the works, but they want to iron out all the jank before they focus on them.
@@Chozo_Ghost you know what I actually respect them wanting to fix what’s already there before adding stuff
@@jeremyroberts8822 Yeah, v1.0 drops on 4/20 (because of course it would) and that update alone SHOULD have a ton of performance fixes and all that good stuff. Pretty sure it won't fix EVERYTHING, but that's why they aim to keep supporting the game after release.
And I'm sure that mod support will soon follow.
@@Chozo_Ghost mod support IS DEF coming, and 4/20 will not fix everything or even close, we have plenty of work to do
Idk why but the bad graphics of postal 2 gave it so much charm
You might know this now but in case you don't, you can now change the voice between all 3 Postal dudes: JSJ, Corey Cruise, and Rick Hunter.
I played it when it was in very early jank, put my money down, and haven't touched it since. I don't want to spoil it for myself. Last time I did an early access like this of a game I really liked, it was carmageddon reincarnation, which was great until the very last minute when they repolished it for consoles and took out a lot of the stuff that I liked.
The problem mentioned around 13:40 is the the same thing that happened to Saints Row and why GTA as a game (versus the stupid microtransactions) has remained pretty popular.
SR and SR2 were about gangs with some wild characters, occasionally large and crazy antics but still were somewhat grounded in reality. Dildo bat? Sure why not. But SR3 and on, it's suddenly becoming prez, aliens, and literally heaven vs hell. It just got stupid and unrecognizable.
GTA for the most part has remained the same all through out the series. Sure, it'd be unrealistic for a meth addict to break into a military base and just steal military jets and heli's but that's what makes it fun. The sub was fun too. But then you get to reenact pretty real but Hollywood-ized robberies likes the heists, manipulating the stock market, and etc. real mechanics and things, funny/wild execution.