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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.
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.
I am government man, come from the government. The government has sent me. -- G.I.R.
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
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.
-- Political fascism requires a Fuhrer.
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.
...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.