/vr/ - Retro Games

There's really no other game like it.

Postal III is kinda similar, except linear and shitty, so it feels like a completely different experience despite having a partially similar style of humor.

Some people will tell you Hatred, but that's NOTHING like Postal and is tonally COMPLETELY different.

Unless there's some indie game that amounts to a glorified trolling simulator (which is basically what Postal 2 is) then there's really no alternative to it. It's a one-of-a-kind experience in gaming.

>jank

>>5344292
Not retro.
>>5344693
Avoid Postal III at all costs. It wasn't developed by RWS, and it was so ugly, so shitty that the original creators themselves retconned all of that with the Paradise Lost expansion for P2 (in fact OP, if you didn't play that, fucking play it already. It's exactly what you're asking... More Postal Dude, a "new" map, new missions on a whole new week, new weapons, crouch-jumping and plenty of other differences that you'll like).
>Hatred
I agree with what you said. I could talk more about this one but in the end OP just needs to know that that's not exactly what he's searching.

Finally, there isn't anything like P2, not even a spiritual successor (for plenty of different reasons). I could suggest you Hotline Miami for the violence alone and a very good plot, but that's way too far to the feel and overall what POSTAL 2 achieved.

>>5344292
It's been years since I first played this, and I still can't pinpoint what makes this game so good. It's supposed to be bad, actually it is, but at the same time it isn't. It's so much fun, but it's so janky it shouldn't be, yet it is. No wonder they couldn't follow it up and had to get another developer to do it, I bet they don't even know what they did right themselves.

>>5345004
Read this >>5344959

>>5345004
>It's been years since I first played this, and I still can't pinpoint what makes this game so good. It's supposed to be bad, actually it is, but at the same time it isn't. It's so much fun, but it's so janky it shouldn't be, yet it is. No wonder they couldn't follow it up and had to get another developer to do it, I bet they don't even know what they did right themselves.

I can try to offer reasons: Freedom and effort. The entire core game is effectively a video game milgram experiment, constantly putting you into realistic situations where you know you can go in shooting,but you don't have to. There's effort everywhere, police will come to a crime scene and attack the first person they see, even if it's a cat, if you shoot someone in the leg with a sniper rifle, they go down but don't die, there's so many little bits of detail etc. added to the game.
It's actually more fun to play the game and try to act like it's real life, hiding in closets etc.

>>5344693
>Some people will tell you Hatred, but that's NOTHING like Postal and is tonally COMPLETELY different.
When they say this, they mean Postal 1. Hatred is pretty clearly a weird sendup of the first postal

>>5344930
>jenk

>tfw no mod that lets you play as Postal Dude in Deus Ex or JC in Postal II

>>5345004
>I still can't pinpoint what makes this game so good

It's actually one of the best designed games ever made.
>open-world game where you can go in every building
>more than 1 way to accomplish most of the non-linear missions (even if this isn't the case for [most of] the linear missions)
>never forces you to do any combat
>never punishes you for playing the game the way you want to

How many games can make all of these claims? And that's without even getting into all of the secrets, the high rewards for exploration, the lack of any restrictions on the player whatsoever, or the fact that it's one of the few games ever made that's actually legitimately funny. It's a master class in game design. The only thing(s) holding back is inefficient programming (which is mostly an issue with long loading times) and combat mechanics that probably wouldn't be fun enough to work on their own in a purely linear and pure action-based game (though even then they're still fun, just not Doom/Quake level or whatever).

>>5345973
>(which is mostly an issue with long loading times)

I'd kill for an optimized version of the game with no loading screens at all when running around town.

>>5345973
>that feeling when you finish P2 without doing anything more than pissing on people, feeding doggos and feeding cops piss soaked donuts
Felt nice.

As others have said, it's unique. Sorry.

But I'm going to recommend Kingpin: Life of Crime anyway.

>>5344693
>Some people will tell you Hatred, but that's NOTHING like Postal and is tonally COMPLETELY different.
Hatred has pretty much same tone as original Postal, second Postal just changed that tone.

>>5344292
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_xh_1rqeNE

>>5348053
Seconding this and Paradise Lost

That's literally a Postal 2 mod.

>>5348053
I never finished this.

I'd suggest Painkiller instead.

>>5348356
Meant for: >>5348053

>>5348380
Painkiller couldn't be any more different than Postal 2.

>>5344292
Deus Ex.

I'm being serious. When I first played through Postal 2, I remember thinking "This is a lot like Deus Ex."

Both games reward you for exploration, have open-ended environments, and multiple ways of completing tasks. They even feel similar due to the Unreal engine being used.

Sure, the atmospheres are vastly different. But I would argue that they share a satirical sense of humor, and allow the player to indulge in similarly sadistic and cruel actions without significant repercussion.

>>5348685
I'm not sure I agree with this, but it's an interesting perspective.

>>5344292
Trick question, Postal 2 is very much kusoge.

>>5344693
>Some people will tell you Hatred, but that's NOTHING like Postal and is tonally COMPLETELY different.
Maybe because they're comparing it to the ORIGINAL postal, you dumb twat. Which plays almost exactly the same.
Jesus fuck, lad, get your shit together.

>>5348685
What kind of trolling can you do in Deus Ex?

>>5349394
tasing children is pretty troll

>>5349394
Can throw guys against walls so hard that they explode.

>>5348649
I was talking about ED, which I remember being pretty linear.

>>5344693
Hatred basically looks like a remake of the first Postal

>>5349394
killing children with second hand smoke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in8T0XTkSjw

>>5345973
It's one of those games where you'll find at least two or three new things every time you replay it.
Just recently I found out that you can make Mike J do all kinds of dances by pissing on him and there's even music playing in the background when you do that.

Literally the best game ever made.

>>5345004
>I bet they don't even know what they did right themselves.

especially when the (first) expansion is entirely linear. far from bad but lacks what made the main game special. too much emphasize on "story" as well

at least Apocalypse Weekend added dismemberment, which they added to the Steam Postal 2 release

anyone know anything about that Russia only expansion?

>>5352556
>anyone know anything about that Russia only expansion?
You mean Corkscrew rules? I hear it's more of the same. Not as good, but if you're a Postal fan still palatable.
Actually, I recently learned that the game released in japan and they made an english dub just for them for some reason. I might actually play it if I ever get my hands on that version, because it sounds fucking hilarious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J62LowYltu4
>Where's my dick? Damn, I knew I should go easy on... JERKING OFF

>>5344292
blame that edgefest called doom

>>5344693
>Some people will tell you Hatred, but that's NOTHING like Postal and is tonally COMPLETELY different.
Isn't Hatred just a Postal 1 clone?

>>5352864
>>5352867
What a disgusting game, Russians really can't do anything good on this industry, i think you can count the exceptions on the tip of your penis

>>5352938
Someone is currently porting Postal III into the Postal 2 engine in the form of a mod titled "Postal III Unreal". There is already gameplay footage of it (in WIP form) and it looks pretty fucking great. The graphics are pretty much Postal III's graphics and the core gameplay mechanics look to be identical to Postal 2's.

>>5353016
I already know that, hopefully it can redeem itself

>>5352938
>i think you can count the exceptions on the tip of your penis

>>5352580
It's actually available on both Steam Workshop and ModDB, however only with English text. Nobody seems to have tried to extract and repack the English dub yet.

>>5345570
You can play the postal dude in any RPG, you just have to make your own rules.

>>5344959
>Not retro.

The platform for Postal 2 was released earlier than 1999, rulesfag.

How the fuck do you play Corkscrew RuLes! nowadays anyway?

>>5344292
My Summer Car

>>5354982
>My Summer Car

How much random shit can you do in that? Screenshots make it look like it's just car maintenance and randomly driving around.

>>5355201
There's some stuff you can do in regards to interacting with NPCs but for the most part you can't really do much with the other people in the game other than piss on them and punch them, and there's one alcoholic you can drive to suicide. It is still a really fun game if you like to do random chaotic shit. You don't even have to build the car if you don't want to, but the attention to detail they put into building it makes it pretty rewarding to do, and driving it around like a lunatic in a car you put together is pretty fun. It does have a lot of mindless driving you have to do though, and it's very easy to kill yourself just making the first trip to the grocery store, so it's hard to recommend to most people.

>>5355262
>and there's one alcoholic you can drive to suicide

I did not see this series of words coming.

>>5353727
full thing is on the steam workshop

>>5352938
>Russians really can't do anything good on this industry

I remember this being pretty fun and its even retro.

>>5357546
What about if you don't have Steam?

>>5357589
sux2bu

>>5352861
pretty much but with the 1st person mod it feels like Postal 2, minus the urination button & sense of humour, though you can still have a laugh going nuts in it