POSTAL 4: No Regerts

Postal 4 is currently in a very "janky" early state, so the build runs like crap, is buggy and freezes constantly. That said, the blood sugar sex magic that made up Postal 2 seems to be here again (sans Rick Hunter as the voice of the Dude). Combine that with the love and care of the developers, the future for the Postal series is looking bright.

All the nostalgia for Postal 2 can't save this soulless and dull experience. Graphically it almost looks worse than 2 and the NPCs are incredibly lifeless. The story seems pretty much non-existent and the jokes fall flat. Despite this and the many, many crashes I persisted with the game until a game-breaking bug in the godawful VR section just left such a bad taste in my mouth that I uninstalled it. Just play Postal 2 again and avoid this mess. I do have regrets.

Let me go ahead and get this out of the way, optimization needs serious work. Now let's move past that and talk about the game, there is a lot of running around and using mobility scooters in this game. Almost to the point were it's not fun to play. I get it some games need a "go to point A and then point B then come back to point A", but with how far everything is and backtracking it becomes tedious. Now for the story, it was alright, but in my opinion Postal 2 was a better game overall for story and gameplay. And even to this day the game runs well. Postal 4 lacks a lot of what Postal 2 did so well, one of the most important parts is the well placed comedy in Postal 2. Where as Postal 4 seems more tame and doesn't try to go out of it's way to be the goofiest/funniest game it can be. There are a lot of hidden moments that made me laugh and plenty of good cutscene segments. Overall if you want something like Postal 2 and want to play Postal 4, just be prepared for a more tame game than 2.

It is difficult for me to evaluate the game at the first stage of development, but I can highlight several important points: -Great graphics -Good weapon -An interesting city and elaborate environment -Author's style in history. It is unique and not like other games. I hope the game will be made in the next couple of years

My issue with the game was every time I hit a checkpoint it would freeze my computer up for about a minute. I run 2 RTX 2070 Supers with 8GB VRAM, and I have 32GB RAM for my computer's main memory. I noticed when running the game that my ram usage was at about 29GB of non-video memory. When I exited it went back down to 9GB. 20GB pouring into the computer RAM is unacceptable so I hope this will be fixed.