The Most Offensive Game Franchise Ever 

So this video is where I disappeared to for the past month. I know it's easy to hate on a creator for trying new things, but my moods and drive to make videos drops massively when I can't actually BE CREATIVE. So please, just give it a chance, much love! Also, I know it’s cringe to hear, but if you have the ability to share this video anywhere, be that Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, anywhere at all, it would really help this video get out there, thanks :)

Postal is a satire about how anyone can just snap and go on a murder spree. I actually love how Running With Scissors updates their older games to this day. Most game developers don’t do that for newer computers.

Just wanted to say, I believe that Postal 1's ending was meant to imply that he never actually killed anyone, and just hallucinated the whole thing during a mental breakdown. Hence why there's no evidence at the end of the game that he killed people.

Fun Fact: when the US Supreme Court was deciding a case on whether sales of violent video games to minors should be banned in California, Justices Kagan and Breyer played Postal 2 as an example of a violent, offensive game. Breyer was disgusted, but Kagan was having fun with it, and the court ruled 7-2 against banning violent video game sales to minors, I believe citing the fact that it should be up to the parents to decide what kind of things their children should be exposed to, and that the children would just get adults to buy the games for them anyway.

Honestly, the fact that the first game ends with him collapsing in a pile of pain upon the discovery that he cannot kill children is way more clever than basically any other game of this type

I met the main guy behind the studio at a gaming convention. Vince Desi. I was eating a whole ass pizza lunch with a friend, and he sat down at our table. Neither of us knew who he was, we asked and he explained. He then asked to only have the pizza crust and not the pizza itself. After that weird request we helped at his booth and he gave us both jobs. Cool guy

Postal 1, 2, and 4. What an amazing trilogy.

It's genuinely sad to see what postal 3 could have been. The art style is so appealing and the starting development seemed really promising if it wasn't for the poor financial aspects, budgeting issues and layoffs

I love how the news and media would freak out about violent games but nowadays they don’t even cover games that are violent.

I was doing a pacifist run when I tried to get Gary's autograph, but for some reason someone waiting in line aggro'd Gary so everyone pulled out shotguns(Hestonworld moment) and started killing each other. After Gary massacred everyone else around him, he got stuck kicking a corpse and would never go back to his desk to let me actually finish the task. I tried making friends with him by kicking the same cadaver but I guess I got boot dirt on his suit because he immediately started lobbing grenades at me. Cut to me trying to lead Gary Coleman around the mall while he ripped me apart with an assault rifle, hoping he'd accidentally shoot someone else and THEY would kill him. After 20 minutes of mass slaughter, a few cops FINALLY managed to kill Gary and I could take his autograph from his tiny, headless corpse. Modern gaming needs more moments like this.

It still amazes me that you can complete postal 2 while committing no crimes or killing anyone, it’s not the easiest path but you can still do it.

For all of you wondering, the intro song is called *Stands With Fists - "That's The Break".*

Hearing Oblivions absolutely beautiful and peaceful soundtrack while talking about Postal 2 is the most emotional whiplash Ive had

"Hey, wanna sign my PETITION?" Every line is gold just in the delivery.

FunFact: Uwe Boll once said in an interview that he never was a gamer himself and that he couldnt care less about games, he just knew he could make a shit load of money with game to movie adaptations. brutally honest man!

For anyone wondering: song at the start was "Thats the break" by Stands With Fists. Song at 19:06 is "Vigahugr - Lust For Battle" by Einar Selvik

That new ending with the funeral to me seems to represent the results of the player's actions. Having taken everyone out, there is none left to attend the funeral. Having noted and realized his actions, the character then realizes what he has done after coming back to his sense and then proceeding to have a severe mental breakdown.

Despite Postal 2 being a very silly and satirical game, it's also one of the best examples of how to make exploration meaningful and rewarding. There are so many cool secrets and hidden caches on every single map.

Postal guy's inability to harm the elementary schoolers is a really cool artistic touch and it's even cooler that it's left ambiguous. Maybe he couldn't bring himself to harm kids despite plotting out his fantasy of doing so. Maybe he was so disgusted with his actions at that point that he was subconsciously rejecting the reality of what he was doing. Maybe the whole game was just one big delusion.

"(the creator of the movie) doesn't take himself serious" but challenged everyone who critiqued his work to a boxing match, doesn't really add up but anything besides this a great summary of the game genre and series. Much love and respect, keep it up and stay positive!

Postal 3 definitely deserves an update or a remake at the least, it had soo much potential, it was simply struck by an unfortunate circumstance that made it what it is

The way I got into Postal was that one day, as a middleschooler, I randomly decided to rummage through my father's mysterious plastic bag of random cds, and one of them just had "postal 2" written on it with a sharpe. I put it in, and the rest was magic.

One weird fact about Postal 1 - if I remember correctly, the voice we hear in game IS NOT the voice of the Postal Dude (protagonist), but the voice of a demon living inside his head. The little hint about it is hidden in the game files. This fact makes the game even more disturbing.

20:35 “Yeah it was pretty cheap since it’s JULY and all.”

You know an issue is really bad when even Running With Scissors has to outright change the ending.

no one's mentioning it, but according to the developers, Postal 1's ending was meant to be something so unimaginably evil that not even postal dude could do it. that unfortunately didn't apply any more when the redux was released.

The creators had this interesting quote about why they changed the first postal’s ending in postal redux: “The whole idea of the original ending no longer applies anyway - it was supposed to depict something that, at the time, would have been completely unthinkable, and out of touch with reality. Tragically the sad truth is that, in today's world, it is no longer an unthinkable nightmare but a very depressing reality. “

35:17 "ok, either my head wound is kicking in or some gamedesigner was smoking crack" best and most honest line I have ever heard ina videogame

TPTV, I just wanted to let you know that this video is actually how I discovered the existence of this franchise (I'm 22 so too young to have known about 2 when it came out)! And you've made me totally fall in love with it. The humor and content is right up my alley plus I love any game that's famous for making parents mad lol. Thanks for the great video! I've watched it multiple times now and it's always fun :D

Fun fact: postal2 has a grave in the graveyard with the name "Postal storyline".

"Do you think video games are evil?" "You'd know if it was up your a**." "You're not really helping!" This is S tier dialogue!

Postal 1 walked so hatred could trip down the stairs and break it's neck

I love Hestonworld difficulty in the second game, because half the time I'll be wandering around minding my own damn business, then turn a corner and find the street covered in corpses and body parts like the end of The Hateful Eight, and I had absolutely nothing to do with it. The NPCs are almost more psychotic than you are on that mode; I can't even stand in line at the bank on Monday without a gargantuan firefight breaking out around me for seemingly no reason.

One of my favorite things about the bank errand in Postal 2 is that, during one playthrough, I did exactly as the robbers said. I stood still and didn't move. Everyone got shot *except* me, and I was able to just casually walk out the front doors unharmed.

i remember a friend saying that I should play Portal. My 12 year-old self googled it and got a free version online. Although, being a 12 year old, I did not notice that the R was an S, and I was scarred for life

The fact that you can choose whether or not you want to kill makes the game 1000x funnier

regarding Postal 1 i must say the ending really made me feel uncomfortable not talking about the kids stuff since i played redux. Just the way the animation just weirdly wobles around, the art feeling incredibly closed in like the walls are seconds away from crushing postal dude, the weird tantacles seemingly nearing postal dude with the intend to just pull him into their grasp all while instead of helping the dude we just hear a news report or puplic speech that tries to sound like they are concerned and understanding but we see what is going on. Instead of getting the help he needs he is left to suffer and be tortured by his twisted mind prisson. I love this scene because it so perfectly makes me feel unwell.

I remember playing Postal 2 and going to the church to confess my sins. I was waiting at the end of the long line and someone cut me and I couldn’t hop in front of him so I had to accept it. Combined with the long line and someone cutting me I thought after like literal 7 minutes of waiting “F**k this.” and pulled out my M16 and just pulled the trigger thinking “Ehh… it just another sin to confess to.” Sometimes it really is easy to tip you over in that game.

Fun fact: In the game “Oh Sir: The Insult Simulator”, one character that you can unlock is in fact the postal dude, voice and everything

0:35 so postal predicted CYBERPUNK

One thing I also noticed about the ending of Postal Redux when I played was that at the final level with the church it's displayed that one hostile is present. When the coffin is lowered that number drops to 0, which makes you think where RWS was trying to go with that little detail.

In postal 4, there was a bug that you couldn't get the pacifist ending in any way, besides cheating. Scissors fixed this last week or so and my friend, who tried to get every pacifist ending that is possible in the postal games, immediately got on postal 4 and was the FIRST to get the achievement without cheating She even filmed it

The school ending is actually really powerful I didn't know that was a thing, it's creepy and weird especially given the graphic style and the way the kids are all faceless and look the same. I get why they removed it but the funeral ending doesn't quite have the same level of "wtf" as the original.

i love how most of this video has footage of brutal violence accompanied by some chill psychonauts tunes. great vid, ive already watched it before but i wanted to revisit and the time just flew by. your vids are always so entertaining and fun to watch

Love this video man great job, your content has gotten me through some lonely times

Well, the twist at the end of portal 1 seem that his fear of being experimented on, which was one the main reason that fueled his rampage, ironically happened because he went postal. So he effectively caused his own doom and made his own fear reality.

One thing I may add to this topic: despite it quite "cartoonish" looks and apparent "clunkyness", Postal 2 had some nicely done technical features: NPCs had ability to react both to Dude's or other NPCs action in various ways (like when walking with unzipped pants), they also had functional facial expressions. You may use kick to open doors or deflect incoming rockets. You can precisly cut of limps or part of it, or decapitate someone and move the head by kick or showel (and NPCs would still react to this). You may even choke of your own piss, eat a shit, lure cops with donuts and we still didnt mention all actions that are possible. Even if we found some features "immature" or "disturbing", the amount of care and passion RWS put into Postal 2 is incredible and adding gameplay as violent as player, truly put the game much above type of gore slasher, as many would like to see it. Also, any video about Postal 2 without Tora Bora map is incomplete.

just came across ur channel m80. plz never stop making these vids man, i love throwing them on while endlessly toiling away in fear and hunger. i cant imagine how long it takes you and other channels like urs to make these amazing pieces, but i thank whatever madness or inspiration that drives you. My guess is a little of both😁

2:58 No lie there, hatred is probably one of the most controversial games ever

I can't tell you how disturbed I was while watching you explain postal 1. I only played Postal 2 since my childhood and thought that Postal 1 was the same but older. Oh man how wrong I was.

Fun bit of trivia: I spoke with the founder of Destructive Creations (dev behind Hatred), Jarosław Zieliński a couple of times. He says that Hatred was the kind of game that he really wanted to play and make when he was an edgy teenager, before he started gamedev work, and so he said that its development was, for him personally, kind of a way of making his teenage dream come true lol. Think abt that what you will, just putting it out there.

i still watch this video almost daily. just love your voice and humor. i have probably seen it over 100 times now. but i still laugh as much. keep up the content😌

One thing ive never got, even though you technically dont HAVE to kill anyone in Postal 2, you almost have to to survive at least a few of the chores (the steak one and the krotchy one come to mind)

I feel like the elementary school being added in was a creative way of showing how you've become a monster without actually having to harm the children. You took yourself here to act upon your urges, even if you didn't hurt them, the thought of actually doing it shows how far the main character (and also the player) have fallen from humanity. The ending shouldn't of been changed because it reflects on the player's actions. It's in your face but it shows that this isn't some self expression brought on by society, you're just a guy who wants to hurt people.

The first Postal game is such a product of its time, I love it. The gritty atmosphere, the edgy quotes between each stage, disturbing premise and visuals.... I all just screams late 90'.

The song/music at 0:41 and 26:08 is called Half Alive, made by Chuck Sims. Love that theme, I hope this'll help someone searching for that song ;)

Glorious video! So well done i have to watch it again and again and... Well done!

I remember I heard someone said they thought the postal 1 end was the postal dude seeing a funeral and realizing that the burial of the dead was evidence that the people he was killing actually weren't monsters like he thought

Being offensive is literally a game mechanic, without it there is no game

Great video, I'm leaving a comment to support your channel. Keep up the good work!

13:45 really reaching to make that reasoning fit lmao

I love the Paradise lost ending where the town gets nuked AGAIN. It's just a good way of having "all your actions didn't matter" because frankly the game is only as violent as you are

As someone who considers myself to be pretty sensitive, I’ve never really considered the Postal series to be anything that shouldn’t exist or reprehensible to own/play. The thing about Postal is that it makes fun of and satirizes so many groups and types that you can tell that none of it has any actual malice behind the depictions. It’s just a video game where you can comically murder anyone you want and pee on their corpses if you feel so compelled to. Frankly I just think that news and media want something to cry about and blame for issues that are more deep than just video games inciting violence. It’s easier to blame something that doesn’t have a voice to argue back than to actually analyze what’s really wrong

I love how you can cash out the check, and then when the alarm is already on, you can still head to the vault and steal the money, plus no police chases you because you didnt trigger the alarm

Postal 2 was so progressive for its time. It even had a gay dance bar. With a balcony overlooking the dance floor. Where molotov cocktails spawned ....

One theory I've seen going around for postal 1 is that there wasn't any killing at all, that the entirety of the game's events took place in the postal dude's mind, which would be a kind of interesting parallel to the person playing the game. At the time postal came out, video game violence was a hotly debated topic, and what is playing a violent video game besides playing pretend with extra steps? Postal Dude could have been isolated as a result of having violent fantasies, and in solitary confinement his mental state could have deteriorated to such a degree that he's convinced he's living out those fantasies. I'm pretty sure that's not the intended message, but I enjoy thinking of messages you /could/ take away from a story, even if it's inaccurate

The postal games were the definition of dumb fun, what other game lets you piss on everyone you see and light them on fire. It's basically an edgier GTA

Just gotta say, love your inclusion of the cello version of Rebel Path in your videos

Jesus Henry Christ! I remember playing postal as a kid without a single thought in my head about it being offensive. I just thought it was cool that you could pee anywhere

Honestly I feel like an idiot, I'm 35 and always thought "Going Postal" had something to do with the Post Office worker going insane. This franchise eluded me through my lifetime, thanks YT. You're a real one

12:19 *London* *but* *with* *guns*

Love the videos. These long video game review videos are the best. You should try cyberpunk? I hear a lot of music clips taken from the game in your videos. That would be a fun one.

"they somehow made the finished game look worse than the pre-alpha" it's incredibly sad that that's common with tons game nowadays battlefield, cyberpunk, back4blood, the list goes on

The amount of optional BS in Postal 2 is amazing. You can find Al-Quaeda behind your house, on, I think Thursday, and go defeat them, ‘Murica style, and the game never even so much as hints at this being a thing.

I've definitely seen this video before but that intro is still so cool

Amazing video like always

Postal 1 and 2 were good fun for their time. About 10 years ago, I got the Postal X collector's edition that comes in an actual box of Crotchy-Os. It has both expansions for postal 2 as well.

Dude, one hour video?? Totally deserve my thumbs up, pal!!

I honestly love your theory for the ending of postal 1, it really does tie everything together in probably the most sensical way we could speculate. Might just be a theory, but thats definitely the idea I'm sticking with

What a nice video. No lie here. I really enjoyed spending an hour listening to you talk about one of the franchises that I really like

Personally, seeing Postal 1's ending being so dissatisfying is fitting, why reward you for going out and causing a mass genocide on your home town? It ain't meant to be a good ending, you're not meant to feel good about it.

What a ride it was indeed, had never heard about the Postal games, butan, what an amazing video!!

i remember hearing from the devs somewhere that the quotations from the dude are his psychosis speaking and the actual damage sounds and grunts are the dude's actual voice, which makes sense since they were two different voice actors in postal 1 also, a real fun thing to do in 2 is crawl all over the place each day since there's some secrets that only show up on certain days

The song at 0:15 is called Stand With Fists - That's the break (absolute fkn banger)

Ya know honestly I didn't even know there WAS a Postal 3 but I'm kind of annoyed hearing about it because there's a lot of potential from what you've described. Like even the morality system could have been done right, and had you either become a homicidal cop or just a homicidal regular guy. That moral ambiguity thing could have really been driven home by that. Like "Nah, either way you're friggin evil, just you get paid for it as a cop".

22:20 in the upper-right corner, you see: "it looks like you are stuck" *gets tp'd* "there you go, stay outta that spot!"

Gary passed so he could make a more convincing appearance as undead-demon-Gary in the game. Truly a man willing to suffer for his art.

You didn't mention how in Postal 2 waiting at the bank, people keep pushing in front of you and the sound of the clock ticking gets really loud. It pushes you to do something.

Honestly the only things I can say were good about postal 3 was Corey cruise as postal dude (he did a good job with what he was given but he has since done much better in postal 4 and brain damage so I’m glad they kept him around) the postal dudes design as the brown trench coat with the green alien on the T-shirt with the addition of the fingerless gloves makes for a good design for the dude(they also made it look even better in postal 4). And finally the main theme the country style theme kinda fits in a postal game

18:37 Christmas vacation reference

this game is the perfect embodiment of "aw shit, here we go again"

i know this video came out a long time ago, but i think the scene with the elementary schoolers in the first postal is where the dude finally realized what he was doing was wrong because he saw his own dead son as the children. that's why they all look identical to each other, they're all his dead son and he can't kill him. this could be because the son is already dead, but i think it's more symbolic of his love for his son and how he, the monster of the entire game who kills all that crosses his path of rage, couldn't bring himself to harm him (or the children he replaced). the post-hardmode scene is almost certainly a flashback of the funeral of his son and the children laughing is likely a callback to the elementary school level. this is more speculative, but maybe the son was killed by something other than disease, perhaps a person. this may explain why the dude couldn't kill the children at the school, because he would become the same type of person that killed his son (and ruined his entire life). it's this event that the flashback arises from. at the funeral, his current self falls to his knees because he realizes the gravity of the situation and thinks of all the other lives he's ruined on his rampage. he can't bring himself to hurt anyone else and the imagery of his son as all the children is what forces him to this conclusion.

For anyone wondering, the song in the intro is That's the Break by Stands With Fists

The Windows disconection sound at 16:39 had me confused for a minute so i paused the video anf only figured out it was in the video after i gave up and went back a few seconds to contniue watching.

I've found postal 1 to be the most interesting when it comes to its story. It's two completely different interpretations of the events depending on the difficulty was such a good idea. Normal depicting a man relishing in the atrocities he commits and hard, depicting him scared out of his mind fighting for self preservation. There's just a whole lot that they did with 1 to make it more palatable and thought provoking than something like hatred.

Seriously man, I know I'm just another comment out of thousands, but thank you for this. Actually pumped to sink an hour in to this. Best way to start 2022 mate, hope everything's good that way.

McDonald's ad at this scene 21:07 came to me 😳😳😳

I've seen the petition meme so many times and it's cool to finally see where it comes from

I remember buying Postal at a store in the US when I went on holidays there and brought it in no questions asked. When Postal 2 came out I ordered it directly from the RWS website and received it with no issues. Thankfully Australian customs couldn't care less about the censorship of the rOFLCopter.

Just started the video. Wasn’t expecting an hour long breakdown of Postal, but holy shit am I here for it!