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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.'"
Anyone who leaves Uma "swingin' in the breeze" deserves to be taken out back and have some pain shared with them, Linux community or no. ;)
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
As much as Linux ported games being a good thing, can they please just let this lousy piece of software die? All the game has going for it is the initial 5 minutes of bliss you get killing people. After that you spend as much time playing as you do loading.
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That problem existed in the first version of the game.. the 1337 patch corrects that.
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 > *
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.
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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 shows us a group of people who enjoy this; their behavior is perfectly believable. The 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment shows us that the capacity for cruelty and abuse of control can exist in all of us. Games like Thief (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?
We're indie. We're working on our 14th game.
Jesus Christ these guys are unfunny retards.
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.
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." - Denis Diderot
...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? P.
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 constant, not a variable, no matter how much of them dies of age, sickness, criminal act, the number remains globally unchanged.
There IS a tendancy to slightly raise depending on the country (the US and Canada namely) but we have A LOT more items to tackle to drop the criminality rate before getting to movies & games.
I means, for how long exactly have horror/action movies been around ? Quite some time right ? Even before they begin rating movies PG-13
yet...there were criminals before.
Heck, I've insanely played violent games ever since I'm a kid and if there's one lawful guy around, that would be me.
Try to put all the hype and fanfare aside, people scream at violent games & movies because right now, they're the target but they forget more important items such as.... education, if parent's weren't all doped, they'd probably take more time to raise their children correctly.
If those parents were less poor, they'd probably see more solution than take dope
If those parent had better education, they'd know better than to drop from school.
I'm running slightly off topic here, but I feel this is where you were going with the popularity of violent games like postal 2.
Oh...I played Thief's game and never broke in a house
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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)
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