But listen, if you’re going to support this because you’re a right-winger, hear me out because there is something you’d be interested in too. Some guy on Twitter will probably buy the game specifically to send me a screenshot so he can feel like he “owned a lib”. I know, right now, that this article itself will sell the title. Hell, their sword and sorcery knock-off is LITERALLY called Elderborn. Some people will buy it only for that reason and not even because the game is good. They create bland knock-offs and people mostly buy it because they’re edgy. Hyperstrange is still going to shovel this out. I get that it’s going to release regardless of what anyone says. This is probably the vent they’ll buy guaranteed, which would explain why the game looks so dated you feel like you could store it on less floppy discs than the first Quake.īut honestly, this game shouldn’t exist. A lot of gun owners are feeling particularly sensitive and repressing an awful lot of stuff right now. So, from a business perspective, I understand this game coming out now. Remember Kyle Rittenhouse? They not only made a game where you can play as him and kill people, but the kid actually endorsed it. Hell, this isn’t even the first game like this. But I also get it - a lot of gun owners are absolute cowards that are so afraid to lose their hobby that they’ll do everything to look like they have the upper hand. This was a feeling that I couldn’t shake, and it isn’t helped in that the main protagonist is wearing the school shooters uniform of a long dark trench coat (which just feels wrong) or the fact that the game itself is only fun for about 5 minutes.It’s tasteless and it’s such a horrible time for this to come out. There is no story and there are no cutscenes to at least add a thin veneer of reasoning as to why you have suddenly decided to start shooting everybody – the games starts as you leave your lodge, and within seconds you’ve shot a policeman. I’ve since read up on Postal’s story courtesy of the gospel of the internet (read: Wikipedia) and I have since found out that the reason you set off on your rampage is due to you getting evicted from your home, but the game itself didn’t signpost this in any way. Normally I wax lyrical about the games I play in an effort to get her to play more games with me, but if more games were like Postal I’d be embarrassed to share them for fear of being branded a nutter myself. As gamers, we’ve all shot up plenty of aliens/gangsters/innocent mammals in countless games before and not given it a second thought, provided we were being given a reason for doing so – Postal doesn’t offer us that justification in any form.Įven to me, the responses felt a bit weak, and she just laughed and moved on – she’s not a gamer so she just wrote it off as another video game she didn’t understand the appeal of. One is the annoying scream that punctuates the menu screens and the dated 90’s music, another is that the game doesn’t really try and justify your actions in any way by giving you a reason as to why you are doing what you are doing. I think there are a few reasons for this. Normally, violence in video games doesn’t bother me – I’m of a certain age that I can say I played and enjoyed Manhunt back on the PS2 and that I didn’t skip the torture scene in GTA V or the infamous “No Russian” level in Modern Warfare 2 – my point being violence in video games doesn’t grind my gears, and it annoys me when the media portrays violence in video games as a bad thing I believe it has a place when done well, but for me, in Postal it just feels off. Yes, there are more violent and graphic games out there, but often they have something to say or the violence serves a larger purpose – it isn’t just there for the sake of it, yet playing Postal you can’t help but feel that it plays into that trope. The content of Postal has always been a controversial one, and it hasn’t mellowed with age.
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