Id be fine with that, if they didnt sell this game at a 40$, had it in EA and it still came out like it wasnt finished or barely tested. Really, it seems RWS never dropped their ambition of makin a fully open world Postal game like they wanted with 3 and insteas of pulling down their ambitions, they decided to go full retarded with it.
Postal 1 wasn't black'n'white like Hatred thus making it easier to see enemies or things that could get in your way, the isometric perspective was a tad better (well in Redux anyway, not so much in Postal 1 OG) and it was easier to aim, there wasn't any dumb execution mechanic for restoring HP with a 50/50 chance when it would work or not (i.e. shooting a target in the legs or kicking them and hoping to whatever God that they won't die), the enemies weren't insanely super accurate in postal 1/Redux, unlike in Hatred where they can hit your ass from across the map with perfect accuracy. Also, I'd say the story of Postal 1/Redux never reached the absurd levels as it did in Hatred, sure storming a military base is still borderline stupid in both games, but at the very least Postal didn't end with you blowing up a nuclear base, combined the Postal dude seemed like a crazy guy who snapped (or assumed the town was contaminated by some weird virus-like in Redux) while in Hatred...the guy is just some edgy twat who wants to murder people.
Sounds like you're saying Hatred took itself WAY too seriously but forgot to make the game fun.
Pretty much, I mean the gamest biggest selling points were: A. We have this edgy gent who just wants to murder people; B. Look at our cool execution mechanics, and about that two of the executions ((namely the flamethrower and grenade one), aren't even present in the game; C. We have some cool destruction physics, which are pretty nifty for sure but are in some cases more a detriment than actual help.
Contrast that with Postal 1 where Postal Dude makes a point about mental illness and America's senseless violence. It KNOWS it's a game. Hatred just feels like some moody teen angry at the world for ... reasons? I guess it can be described as that teen's wet dream.
I heard some people say how Hatred was supposed to be a satire, but I question a satire of what exactly? It plays itself way too straight up until you reach the level with the Power Plant and that's where it jumps into almost absurd levels, but at no point does the game feel satirical. Like you said, this feels like an edgy teens wet dream or like someone looked at Postal 1 and went "Oh, we can do that!"
It's pure nihilism for shock value. Not to mention its gameplay issues.
This is where I'm at. The game's out, they're getting some money, it'll be perfectly fine if they just go back and flesh out the worldspace a little bit more and bugfix. RWS is a pretty solid developer in this regard, I won't decry the game as a failure until we go another year or two with radio silence and no significant patches of any kind.
So, then my question is: Why have them in the 1st place in Postal 4? Like, it made sense in say Postal 2 when it came out around Bush era and thats why you had those Talibans walking around, all looking like Osama an etc. But, why have 'em in 4? You cant even have ISIS because those guys got decimated and same with the Taliban/Al-Queda. So...ye, why even have them in the game when theres no point to them being there.
The Taliban are the legitimate government of Afghanistan now. It'd be rude to make fun of a legitimate government like that.
I have no idea why John St. John went for a nasal voice.
I have only looked at it being played but it looks like Poles took a lot of metal music seriously. And it came out lame, no fun, no flair. Imagine a punk game without flair or fun, just violence, same thing.
I think because if he went with a deeper voice to sound like Rick, he'd end up sounding like Duke in a way.
