Postal 2 Shares Pain In Direction Of Linux

michaelsimms writes "LGP has announced that [ultraviolent FPS] Postal 2: Share the Pain is coming to Linux this summer. Featuring Gary Coleman, Postal 2 is just like Postal Plus, but fully 3D, and with many more ways to get Postal Dude covered in blood and gore! Applications for Beta Testers are now open." The official Running With Scissors press release is delightful, claiming the company "has reached deep into their hairy chest and clutched their cold, cold heart to take pity on the bastard stepchildren of the gaming world", before noting: "'My development guys wanted to finish animating Quentin Tarantino's sequel to The Passion first,' said former altar boy and RWS CEO Vince Desi, 'but when I told 'em this project was for the Linux community, they left Uma up there swingin' in the breeze and grabbed hammer and nails and got right to work.'"

Uma

[daeley]

Anyone who leaves Uma [google.com] "swingin' in the breeze" deserves to be taken out back and have some pain shared with them, Linux community or no. ;)

Parent is trolling

[Carlos Silva]

That problem existed in the first version of the game.. the 1337 patch corrects that.

Re:Uhh how about no

[TechniMyoko]

and please, some one please kill gary coleman off

Re:Uhh how about no

[obeythefist]

One of the many, many things you can enjoy doing if you buy the game.

Otherwise it's thoroughly disturbing, although setting elephants and dogs and cats and people on fire does have some twisted appeal.

Re:Uhh how about no

[Peteroo]

The loading times were an issue with the Windows original only until the patch was released. And, since the patch is already incorporated in the Share the Pain edition ... Peter

So the game sucks, so what?

[almaon]

You get to pee on Gary Coleman.
Get to set fire to Gary Coleman.
Use a shovel to hit Gary Coleman.
Use a cat's anus as a silencer on the end of a shotgun on Gary Coleman.

These attributes make it worty of a port to every platform, just not just Linux.

Northland, Railroad Tycoon and certainly Tux Racer do not share the vision and grace that Postal 2 does in this regard. None of the forementioned games include water-sports with Gary Coleman. Thus Postal 2 > *

Why?

[Prien715]

You can put a shitty picture in a good frame but the picture's still shit.
You can port Postal 2 to Linux and it'll still suck.

Capitalizing on Personal Violation

[MiceHead]

One aspect of Postal 2 that I haven't seen in other crime-centric games is the ability to forcibly enter a suburban home. That, itself, is a step beyond the acts of personal violation we've seen in other titles. GTA-3 allows you to eject an adult from his car and take it for your own. I feel relatively safe when I'm in my car; and I'd feel relatively well-violated if someone snatched me from it. But I imagine that's nothing compared to being abducted (or otherwise intruded upon) in the sanctity of my own home. (Violation of person would be an even more extreme example.)

Postal 2's creators believe there's an appeal in the act of violating another human being. A Clockwork Orange [imdb.com] shows us a group of people who enjoy this; their behavior is perfectly believable. The 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment [guardian.co.uk] shows us that the capacity for cruelty and abuse of control can exist in all of us. Games like Thief [thief3.com] (audio/flash) distance us from this by changing the setting somewhat. In breaking into those medieval homes, there exists the sense of being somewhere I shouldn't, but I never really felt like I was terrifying anyone. Knowing what we do about human nature, would the Thief series sell even better if the victims were people from our own experience?

The consensus here seems to be that Running With Scissors will not gain much by porting the title to Linux. Would an improvement to gameplay make a title centering on home-invasion more interesting [theolympian.com]?

Re:Capitalizing on Personal Violation

[linzeal]

Damnit ran out of mod points, but all in all some saliant observations amongst the "fan boyish" yelping in other posts on this article.

Re:Capitalizing on Personal Violation

[Brakz0rz]

How dare you compare "A Clockwork Orange" to a game like Postal 2?

Re:Capitalizing on Personal Violation

[BinLadenMyHero]

In GTA3 (well I really played Vice City, but I think GTA3 is the same) you can enter do most anything to anybody, including entering a store and start jumping over the salesman head, and that will pass as normal, like nobody gives a shit. You can pass right in front a cop with a machine gun in your hand, and he will do nothing.

That's a thing I liked from Postal2: if you enter a stranger's house, or a prohibited area of a commercial building the guys get angry at you. Just draw your weapon on the streets, i

Overeacting ?

[Programmer_In_Traini]

This is type of comments where I tell myself : Oh, hum...well, that's interesting.

But... don't you think that's overeacting ?

Did crime rate go insanely up (or down) with the popularity of GTA 1/2/3 ?

Does the fact that I like Unreal tournament makes me a serial killer (or even a potential one)

I understand all too well the point you are making but then I feel the urge to remind you not to put us all in the same basket.

There are some crazy twisted and retarded bastard on the face of this earth. This is a

Postal shmostal

[Brakz0rz]

Crappy models, crappy theme, crappy game.

This is not the 'Killa app' to save linux that's for sure.

Postal 2 would be more fun if it was an actual postal route and your biggest concern was a dog biting your ass.

Re:Postal shmostal

[Gilesx]

"This is not the 'Killa app' to save linux that's for sure."

Sorry, I think I've missed something here - since when did Linux need saving?

Re:Postal shmostal

[88NoSoup4U88]

Only thing I could do here , is mod you 'informative' : One of the worst FPS-games ever released, which tried more to surf on controversy, than good game mechanics.

While Running with scissors likes to blame it on people illegally downloading their game, I would rather call it survival of the fittest : if your games are shit and the whole devstudio seem to be acting like a bunch of 15-year-olds : You get what you deserve.

Finally....

[__aamkky7574]

...the killer app to persuade me to wipe my harddrive and install Linux. Or perhaps I should wait for the port of Hooters Road Trip [metacritic.com]? P.

Mac version?

[koi88]

No mention of a Mac version...
Surely, if it can be ported to Linux, it can't be so difficult to port it to Mac OS X...?
Pleeeeeeaase?
(I really liked this game but I won't buy a PC just for that)