The POSTAL Dude is back!
Several years have passed since the events that devastated the once proud town remembered as Paradise. The only two to walk away from the cataclysm unscathed, the hapless everyman known as the POSTAL Dude and his loyal companion Champ, drive aimlessly through the scor...
Several years have passed since the events that devastated the once proud town remembered as Paradise. The only two to walk away from the cataclysm unscathed, the hapless everyman known as the POSTAL Dude and his loyal companion Champ, drive aimlessly through the scorching deserts of Arizona looking for a new place to call home. After a fortuitous gas station rest stop ends with their car, trailer home, and the rest of their worldly possessions stolen, all the Dude’s seemingly got left to his name is his canine cohort and his bathrobe, and neither of them smells all that great. However, on the horizon, the duo glimpses an unfamiliar and dazzling town that beckons to them. What untold prospects lie within? Fame? Fortune? Maybe a bidet or two? Edensin awaits.
POSTAL 4: No Regerts is a satirical and outrageous comedic open world first person shooter and the long-awaited true sequel to what’s been fondly dubbed as "The Worst Game Ever™", POSTAL 2! (No third game is known to exist.)
Key Features
Free roam, open world, sandbox gameplay: Approach your daily set of Errands in a non-linear fashion! Seek out optional Side Quests for additional rewards! Or ignore all of that and just cause general pandemonium at your own leisure!
Jon St. John, industry veteran and legendary voice for Duke Nukem, in the role of the POSTAL Dude!
A brand new town to explore: Discover Edensin and unearth the dark secrets of this gambling town! Visit the local penitentiary, but don’t become a permanent guest! Meet the mysterious and exotic locals at the Mexican border! Keep them doggies movin' in the western Ghost Town! Cruise the roads in style in your own fashionable Mobility Scooter! Test your luck at the casinos on the Zag, all under the watchful eye of the monolithic ERC Tower!
Pacifist vs. Aggressive: Enjoy full freedom in your choice of playstyle! New ammo types and other tools to greater support peaceful (or non-lethal, at least) confrontations, but violence is still always an option too!
Over-the-top arsenal: Series classics return such as the iconic Shovel, Gas Can, and the famous boomerang Machete! Brandish new weapons like the AK, Ingram, and Tazer Baton! Set traps and unleash feathered chaos with the new Pigeon Mine! Get creative with the Spurt’n’Squirt’s unique liquid ammo types: Fill it with water to put out fires, gasoline to create an improvised flamethrower, or urine to shower Edensin’s residents!
Potent Power-ups: Add that familiar POSTAL twist to your weaponry with power-ups such as the classic Cat Silencer, the slow motion-inducing Catnip, and the dual wielding Energy Drink! Supercharge your fists, mighty foot, and urethra with a dose of the testicle-shrinking Vitamin X!
Bevy of interactivity: Feed Doggie Treats to strays to gather canine armies to do your dirty work! Grab and carry around objects to stack them and reach new areas or just throw them at others to annoy them! For the first time in the franchise, use and flush toilets!
The game plays much like Postal 2, since it is open world and you have "daily quests". For now, there is only monday, but there will be a full week, when the game leaves develeopement stage.
Yeah, the game is a bit buggy right now. But the developement is fast (I own the game since the very first day), new features are added quite often and the bugs are fixed one after another.
If you like Postal 2, you will like Postal 4. Let's not talk about the thing, they called Postal 3...
And now, will you please sign my petition?
Postal 4 isn't a bad game, it's actually pretty good. And if you're a fan of the series I would recommend it, but Postal 2 just felt more enjoyable to play. If you aren't already a fan of the series, play postal 2 instead. At least this game isn't Postal 3 though.
This game is what happens when you dump a game in Early Access, while having an army of apologist fanbois that will defend your product to the death with the evergreen "It's not even finished yet, so it's not fair to criticise this!" No one has the guts to simply say "This is a buggy piece of crap and nothing works right." or "None of the missions in this game are any fun at all!".
This game is what happens when you give any credibility to youtube "personalities" who consider "so bad it's good" a badge of honor - after all, you can make teh funneh videos from low-effort crap, which brings in the views. RWS in turn probably figured "Hey, this will do! It's perfectly fine to release P4 in the sorry state it's in. After all, hurr hurr, it's Postal, it's supposed to be janky!"
Postal 2 was never "so bad it's good", it's genuinely good. Postal 4, on the other hand, is atrociously awful. RWS must've bribed IGN with truckloads of Doritos and MTN Dew, considering they let them get away with a 2/10. It has no redeeming features whatsoever (apart from letting you pick the Postal Dude's voice - but the downside to that is that you would still have to play the the actual game). There is not a single mission that is not aggressively tedious. The open world is a pale imitation of Postal 2 - and way too large, with lots of boring, empty filler inbetween. As it stands, this thing is unsalvageable. While RWS keep dutifully patching it, I doubt it will be enough. In order to make this thing remotely enjoyable, they would have to outright axe 80% of the game (including scrapping every single mission and designing them over from scratch) and then bring the remaining 20% up to P2's standard. But with the devs being hyper-defensive of P4 on various forums, I doubt that this is going to happen.
Avoid at all costs. Do not waste time or money on this. Not even if you‘re morbidly curious or it eventually sells for 2 bucks, as all of RWS‘ other games do. Best pretend it never happened.
