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Postal 2 certainly one of the most controversial games out there, but I’ll take an honest to goodness crack at covering it tastefully. Postal 2 is an open world first person adventure-shooter where whatever the most absurd way of completing a task is will most likely be a way you can do it.
Postal 2 wasn’t always the steam reviews darling it is now but initially came out to poor reviews and A LOT of controversy. However, over the course of a decade, Postal 2 devs Running With Scissors added more and more stuff to the game like expansion pass Apocalypse Weekend, multiplayer, and eventually a massive expansion 10 years after launch called Paradise Lost which is a sort of apology for whatever went down with a certain installment in the series. Nowadays Running With Scissors is working full steam on Postal 4 which should be out sooner or later.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
02:16 obligatory discussion about video games and violence
05:46 Postal 2’s core gameplay
11:10 the absurd nature of postal 2
17:07 anti-sponsorship
19:40 More Postal Games
23:50 Is Postal 2 an Immersive Sim???
26:20 wrap-up
27:11 cat video: Frisk is in a mood.
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To be completely honest your discussion of violence in video games is kind of a no duh situation. Also I don't think is really a criminology or a Social Justice issue as much as a social conservatism issue.
I think criminology is more focused on deviant behavior than the most financially successful media ever. And Social Justice is less concerned with the violence against certain groups as its own thing and more concerned about what it says about the views our society has. There aren't any Muslims in postal 2 who aren't terrorists, but the church in paradise has its punches pulled way more. Like… Despite opportunities with the cult compound and stuff like that it never touches the darker elements of Christianity.
Also look at the people who say violence is corrupting kids, it's fox news.
wtf I thought this game was about delivering mail
I didnt even realise this game was back on the banlist in germany, i have it on steam (from germany) it was available a while ago and now its back on the banlist lol.
For Anyone who is german and wants it on steam u can just have someone outside of germany gift it to you, that way u didnt buy it and its legal. its only illegal to buy if u dont have to prove u are 18 or older. Stupid german law.
And no in germany it is not illegal to go around regionlocking.
Postal 2 shaped my childhood. Will forever be one of my favourite games ever.
This can’t be good for me, but I feel great
Postal 2 is the best comedy game
whenever postal 2 comes up
my brain: OH HEY CIVVIE!
Do you think they skipped 3 as a jab at Valve?
BUTTSAUCE!
You can find the cut ideas from the game in a graveyard. Be careful which ones you piss on.
Postal 2 is like that quirky uncle who slips you shots when no one's looking. But you have to listen to his dad jokes. Though no matter how dated they are, you can always enjoy it cause of how he tells them.
what game is that at 24:29
Postal 2 on launch: Crass, unplayable and broken
Postal 2 around like 2012: Oh god, what a shameful mess, i'm so glad we have moved on from such depictions
Postal 2 in 2020: Game of the Year
7:12 out of all these, i think the atf is scariest
Postal 3 wasn't that bad
"Where as the Joker had one bad day."
Depends on which Joker you go for. If you go for the goofy, non-homicidal Joker, then yeah. It was one bad day where he fell into a thing of chemicals.
However, if you're talking about the more serious Joker, it's almost always a sustained chain of unfortunate events. Basically life shits on him for several years.
So you're a bit mistaken.
The people who disliked this are the people who ignored the warning and got offended anyway.
The only complaint I have for this game is that it crashes a lot. Otherwise it a masterpiece. 10/10.
oh this is the game that you can use a cat as a silencer games fucked
But all idologie are hatefull and problematic in there core, because everyone WHO dont Support the idologie is an enemy of the idologie.
Great content, looking forward to more vids from you!
16:48 omg that's literally the story of Postal 1. Although Postal 1 is wayy more serious and dark than Postal 2.
Oh boi… The Harris WADs…. We're still looking for TIER.wad.
dude I want to PET your cat so badly. tooooo cute!
my man speaking so clearly the captions are right
Played Postal 2 once, now black trench coat and a scythe is my daily driver.
Why did you show me the intense violence of this game without warning me?
contemporary historical scrutiny IS a thing, even if it's reserved to fringe groups and archaeologists that just REALLY like digging in trash.
hell, one of my last papers in college was entirely about applying principles of archaeological study to the recent past of digital media and files.
also, black eye peas video WTF
God I love this game.
postal shitting on fucking spacestation 13 out of alll the fucking games in the world?!??
yo do go cover spacestation 13 sometimes.
Wait until the robbers show up and then raid the vault. You can slip past while they're distracted
"aw' My Gawd! Imma Gimp!" – some days be like that tho'
I got 100% achievements on Steam. Love this game :D. The higher difficulties are insane though.
ah postal 2, a childhood game for me, although my dad banned me from playing it until I was old enough to make decisions on my own I still snuck in to play it anyway while he was at work. fun times.
Okay, sir. You just pronounced insta-gib as "insta-jib", that's a worse transgression than the topic matter at hand. Shame on you.
Imagine seeing a game as overtly and unashamedly goofy as Postal 2 and feeling not only outrage but the desire to go out of your way to make it illegal to own. It's terrifying knowing that people like that are in positions of power. People say that everyone is way too prone to outrage in 2021 but it's important to remember that people like this have always been a problem.
11:08 Also only now is the war finally ending. I hope
civvie and tehsnakerer: more postal content.
Comment more channels with postal content for the wanting viewer(s).
Thank you charleton!
Gotta respect the developers at Running with Scissors for basically never changing since the 90s.
your cat is so cute
Africa barely even has video games and they seem to be doing pretty well pumping out violent warlords without any help thank you very much
Damn, New Zealand has some issues.
25:20 4chan, you mean 4chan right? Look trust me, /v/ talks nasty but they barely know where to aim their piss if you get what I mean.
I know people who get offended by quite a few stuff (no shade against them obviously) and they fucking love Postal, RWS, etc.
I agree with you on the violence, I think the games' themes don't really affect us. We look for them because of what we already like.
Similar to violence in movies, we watch them because we like the action, right? We don't change after exposing ourselves to them, just enjoy them.
Now the flowers will grow
Your kitty is so cute😍
great video
tho I got to admit
I couldnt enjoy the anti-sponsor like I would like to due to the timestamp just beeing there all the time
may I suggest to only show it for like maybe 10 seconds?
just an Idea
One thing I always like when coming back to Postal 2 is how much the game rewards you for exploring. Every single cranny you go there's something there for you to pick up, it feels so good to go into little corner and getting more ammo or perhaps a brand new weapon.
Y'know, my idea of what is an "Immersive sim" is that it's not a game genre, but rather a byproduct of how the game is.
That being a linear game that allows and accepts multiple ways to succeed in it, including those that the devs did not intend. It's completely consequential and attempting to intentionally make one leads to poor results.