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!
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.