Postal 2 Shares Pain In Direction Of Linux 23
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 (Score:4, Funny)
Parent is trolling (Score:1)
Re:Uhh how about no (Score:1)
Re:Uhh how about no (Score:4, Funny)
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 (Score:2, Informative)
So the game sucks, so what? (Score:5, Funny)
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? (Score:3, Insightful)
You can port Postal 2 to Linux and it'll still suck.
Capitalizing on Personal Violation (Score:5, Interesting)
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 (Score:1)
Re:Capitalizing on Personal Violation (Score:1)
Re:Capitalizing on Personal Violation (Score:1)
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 ? (Score:1)
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 (Score:1)
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 (Score:2)
Sorry, I think I've missed something here - since when did Linux need saving?
Re:Postal shmostal (Score:1)
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.... (Score:2, Funny)
Mac version? (Score:1)
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)