Playing Postal 3: No Catharsis to be Found
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- Опубліковано 28 лис 2024
- In this review I try to capture the tedium and nonsensical bullshit that is in Postal 3, I do this by playing for the best ending and cataloguing it start to finish. It's not as good as Postal 2, in case you were wondering. This review does kinda require at least a passing knowledge of Postal 2 in order to get the most out of it, but hopefully it's entertaining regardless.
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Additional audio supplied by Pleyway the Sweed, and Unusual Goth.
Music taken from either Postal 3 itself or Kevin Macleod of incompetech.com
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"Node Graph out of Date. Rebuilding..."
THIS IS A SOURCE GAME!?
Oh yeah. It was even in the first minute of this video.
Seriously, though. What the fuck.
Adding onto that, that Node Graph error means that AI pathing is either nonexistent or is configured for an older version of the map, and will show up only on the first boot of the map.
This means that some of these levels weren’t loaded/tested before release. Thanks, Russia.
Is actually hunt down the freeman
@@ArmoredSoul1 It's hunt down the freeman but it's trying to disguise itself and miserably fails and people still think it's shit.
Adolf Hitler i call you a fake
POSTAL III Story line conundrum: Car out of gas. Spawns with petrol canister and finds hundreds more. Hmm...
And waste it all by pouring it on people and the ground.
I just like to pretend that the cans are full of diesel or kerosene so I can sleep at nigjt
“I don’t wish Uwe Boll death...he has to be present when his film’s being made, that’s punishment enough”
To be honest, I think we should be thankful this horrendous game was released, because if it didn't fail horribly, we wouldn't have Postal 2 on Steam, and in turn we wouldn't have all the awesome updates for Postal 2, and in turn we wouldn't have Postal 2: Paradise Lost, and in turn we wouldn't have all the hilarious jabs at Postal 3 found in Paradise Lost, and in turn we wouldn't have both of Postal Dude's voice actors in the same game. So, thank you, Akella, for making this abomination!
The Shotgun Gamer I'm with you on that, RWS did make the best of a bad situation with this game.
Tehsnakerer Borderlands 2 was in ' Bad Games ' wtf ???
ZakX11 Borderlands 1 as well
Tehsnakerer May I ask why ? It's an expansive and amazing series...
ZakX11 I find it boring and unfunny.
Fun fact: Just mere months after releasing the game, Running with scissors halted all sale of the game, apologized and refunded purchasers their money.
I never got my money back!
The Gaming Survivor Did you buy through steam?
Yes.
I want my money back but dont know how to get it ;(
The Gaming Survivor Well. Sorry.
You see how it keeps saying "node graph out of date rebuilding"? That means the graph for AI movement is either nonexistent or made for an older version of the map. It auto generates the first time the map is run.
The FIRST TIME the map is run.
Some of the maps in this were literally not even loaded before release.
This only means that the version that actually was used in a steam wasn't run. This doesn't mean that the maps were never launched you idiot.
@@Hsaelt Still means they didn't adequately test. Any programming professor worth their salt would knock you down a lot for not testing enough.
@@Jamie-kg8ig I doubt those russians tested it at all but my point was different.
@@Hsaelt no, it actually means they didnt make any pathways for AI to follow, or they didnt make it for the right version, which was what the OP was talking about. the fact it still happens means they, while likely knowing about this, didnt bother to simply load all the maps and get the AI paths made
this is a thing in hunt down the freeman as well, i believe
This game looks and feels allot like Ride to Hell: Retribution. The running animation, the camera etc. It just feels allot like it.
***** Maybe the devs of ride to hell smoked alot of weed and played Postal III
HellishMess They did a good job. Of smoking weed.
Cats of hell: Mexicans
Play POSTAL 3 is a ride to hell
I want to make a jab at one of them for being the worse game of the two, but I can’t. They’re both terrible. I’d even say they both at least look like a fun kind of terrible; Ride to Hell probably wins on that front, but I mean, I keep coming back to this video for a reason.
That's sad, loved Postal 2, was hoping this was just Postal 2 with updated graphics.
That's all I wanted.
+Gerald L Or at least Postal 2 in third person
Third person
They released paradise lost. Go play that. Its great!
actually you wanted this and not that old garbage
Brad Maxwell speak for yourself and your bad taste
I really don't understand why a POSTAL game would have a morality system to it. The whole point of the POSTAL games is to go postal. Why punish your players for doing what the series is meant to be about?
While it's poorly done and only detracts from Postal 3 (which already has a lot going against it), a morality bar in a game like Postal could work but only really as something to be taken the piss out of, or a distraction with very few effects, or both. In Postal 2 you don't need to kill anyone to progress but it makes it easier, and not killing anyone as a matter of course is only fun as a self imposed challenge, and the game doesn't make any judgement beyond the ending score screen giving you a title for it.
The morality bar just feels like a weird way of giving that idea a gameplay purpose, but it's bad, and yeah, goes against going postal.
@@Tehsnakerer Actually a blue/orange morality system would fit perfectly in Postal, where its completely not related to our black/white morality system in real life.
@@Tehsnakerer could've been restored by some absurdly token actions. Donate 1 dollar to a charity tin? Full karma, even if you killed a civilian for the cash. Hold a worthless picket sign for a meaningless political cause (i.e. Ban RWS from making games, make sex illegal, etc). Or even help an old lady across the street (with the use of a boomerang machete toss).
It's like Red Dead 2 where you play as an outlaw but can't do anything evil otherwise a possie will spawn out of thin air to hunt you down
13:10 Speaking of kicking on the source engine: Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
The greatest kick in a first person game next to Fear.
I would also argue the Dying Light drop kick. But if that dosn't count I would say Dead Island kick
As someone who hasn't played a Postal game, this game looks like some game you'd see Jimmy playing in GTAV.
Play literally any other Postal game. Its a great series
@@sirsmellybottom7480 yeah
The second one is the only one worth playing now.
As someone who has played every Postal game, I know exactly what you mean
MFW Jimmy gets the Shitstick 9000
I like how the game says "Is that any reason to wish Uwe Boll harm" but he's the only director on earth who literally beats up movie critics in cage matches for not liking his movies
Hey, they were *boxing* matches!
I mean, that is a joke; you can kill him in-game with no consequence.
My favorite thing about that is when critics like Shaunbaby and the writer Roger Avery challenged him to a fight, he ducked out because they most likely would have beaten the shit out him. I don't wish death on Uwe Boll but I do think he should have gotten shit knocked out of him to bring him down to earth!
so you’re telling me you’ve been doing these reviews for almost a decade and you still are under 100k subscribers? Damn. You’re my new favorite game review channel recently, so much and such salient points.. love, a new fan
Watching this video is surreal. It's 7 years old! But the jokes, writing, and analysis is absolutely stellar, and has the same feel as a the newer videos. Amazing job mate!!!
I do apologize for my recorded audio, headset went to shit an' had to record it on the mic of my webcam. So yah.
Just clearin' this up for anyone else wonderin'
According to a thread on the currently gone RWS forums, that "Friendly Fire" cutscene from the police station mission is a bug and the cutscene that SHOULD play if the Dude gets on the force is buried in the files. Forgot what the method to make it play is, so unfortunately you won't be able to see it if you ever go insane and play this POS again.
It plays if you fail the mission. They got the cutscenes mixed up.
Yo, man. I don't know if you knew this, but I was just looking at the Postal 3 page on Running With Scissors' website ('cause reasons) and I saw they featured your review in the media tab on it
Thanks for telling me, had no idea. That's really cool and more than a little surreal
Tehsnakerer dude, ur a fucking legemd to me.
We're fans of your work and we figured this excellent treatment of Postal 3 would serve as a prime showcase for why no one should ever pay money for it (which is what large chunks of that page are dedicated to doing).
But yeah, excellent video!
We sort of love you RWS ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
This is actually pretty cool.
I may just be a terrible person, but that "aaaahhh!" made me laugh every time.
I guess there must be a mindset in which that scream would be funny, otherwise - why would they do that? They must have felt it was. And you prove that it can be. But it would piss me off personally. I am very sensitive to sounds and I guess I would just quit playing this game after it did this the second time.
@@unfa00 It's only funny in the fact that it pisses off Snake, and Snake's reaction to it. So it is a joke at the player's expense because only someone who's not the player can find it funny.
I don't know what it is about Rick Hunter (postal 2 dude) but despite hearing a line from him about 50 times it hasn't lost it's charm. Why doesn't p3's dude lines stick the same way?
This comment is two years old, but I'll respond anyway. It might be that while Corey (the P3 Dude) isn't a bad actor or even the worst actor to get for the Dude, he just isn't the best actor either. Rick Hunter is the peak and pinnacle and has been since the first game, which was more Nightmare Fuel than black comedy and yet he pulls off both.
It's because of the emotional range. Corey and John both say lines with emotional tones. Rick just does a deadpan monologue, occasionally having a slight sarcastic tone or slight anger, but never really changing his voice. It works because it makes you think of The Dude as someone accustomed to the insanity of Paradise.
@@tragedyplustime8271 I think Corey actually did a much better job in Postal 4.
Postal 3: Node Graph out of Date
I love the HL2 Ricochet and Wood Breaking sounds. It seems like the only functional parts of their game are the engine they got given
Conclusion=play postal 2
Actually I don't need to tell you that
know what is the one good thing about this game?
pushed the devs to make postal 2 even better. that's it.
There's only two good things I can say about this. 1) Corey Cruise (the VA hired for Postal Dude in Postal 3) does a serviceable job with what he's given, and 2) Some of the music is actually pretty good. The track for the homeless raid on the police academy is a good example.
I just recently discovered your channel, and I've fallen in love. I absolutely can't wait to see what you make in the future!
hory sheet it cardboard pirate headman wat are you dong here?
Hey where is your new video i need it
Lmao I remember when you yelled at me on a stream for a valid point
I've seen this video like 2 or 3 times, and I have to admit I laughed at the joke about the jacket holding a bunch of cats every time
I forgot this game was nicknamed "Russian Postal," and that Akella was a Russian company, so you can imagine my surprise when I saw Wargaming and Gaijin in the credits,the makers of World of Tanks and War Thunder respectively, among many other notable projects. Of course, Russian studios are notoriously bad at communication-I've learned that from playing the aforementioned games for the past four years-so it's not surprising that this turned out like it did.
427Arbok
In addition all three of these companies are pretty shady
Akella especially, when it existed it used to publish games with a terrible anti piracy system that harmed the actual owners of cds and not the pirates. Not to mention that antipiracy software is super outdated and if you are unlucky it may completely break a newer OS (beyond windows 7), forcing a full reset
If you got past the protection untouched, there would still be a chance that the game just wouldnt work. Never understood why but it happened to not only me. Some discs just were broken
Fuckella has reputation of EA in the Russian gaming community. Their main profit was coming from adapting games and they were doing so fucking badly (big prices, bad translations, butchered mechanics). This is one of their first tries to make game by themselves and it became infamous even before release because game was delayed 3 times and budget was cut 2 times (seriously). This game is the biggest example that you shouldn't give a right to create sequel to greedy stupid dipshits Akella directors are.
Wasn't Corkscrew Rules the 'Russian postal?', a commercial expansion, which was also made by Akella? And some say that it's even worse than Postal 3?
I guess the "police music" at 24:55 is supposed to be like a budget version of the Beverly Hills Cop music.
It's sad that the growly demon voice has been replaced with...Duke Nukem.
FFOF looks entertaining.
Aw man, you must really hate the new voice then.
Oh man do I have news for you
psych0p0ptart What News...?
Sgt. Smith Postal dude in 4 is voiced by the same actor who does Duke Nukem, JSJ
psych0p0ptart Oh. I didn’t notice his comment was 4 years old... I thought he wrote it when Postal 4 was already in alpha.
Just wanted to let you know your videos have been a major part of my internet life and my inspiration for some of my videos! Please keep bringing them out!
The best part is, the pacifist ending makes a joke about using the gas you find to escape town
How do you only have 2k Subs. This was one of the most in-depth reviews I've seen in a long time.
>Grand Ages: Rome
>Bad Games
Well, excuse me, mate, some of us like our city builders bland and unchallenging.
nice, I remember playing it exactly for those reasons
“Catnip saved me.”
-Tehsnakerer
This is the video game equivalent of the Star Wars reviews by Mr. Plinkett.
Didn't even know that there was a postal 3 until this video.
Micah Morris Didn't know anyone played the game to completion till watching this :P
I hope you’ve forgotten about this game by now
To be honest, I hope RWS comes out with a REAL Postal III. It would be awesome to see an sequel made by the original dev team and make something great out of the idea, rather then this mess.
Name it something like Postal III- RWS Edition and rename this version Postal III - Don't Buy version.
Kinda funny is that for Postal 3 on the RWS website it has a 'Disclaimer of Shame' that says 'Postal III is a third-person shooter in which you… ehh… uhm…
Alright I’m going to level with you - don’t buy Postal III.'
No regerts
Now THIS is a review. You've earned a subscription m8.
What was the game that was showed at e3 by running with scissors? EDIT: Thanks for the 13 likes, but seriously, did anyone know what game it was?
I believe it was the “Paradise Lost” dlc for “Postal 2”
AAAAARGH!
Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?
I know this is a old comment, but Snake's reply of just 'Cheers' to one of the times it happened makes me laugh like crazy whenever I rewatch. It's so simple, and funny. (unlike Postal 3)
I honestly like Corey as The Dude. Rick Hunter is still my favorite but I like P3 Dude’s voice quite a bit.
There's no real point in mentioning it now, but during the HIV cat mission, you are supposed to spray on the ground and the cats walk up to it. Not spray the cats directly.
The info might be old but it made me laugh. I always thought it was funny that it was treated like cat pepperspray.
We don’t talk about Postal 3 it never happened
Watching this game is making me die inside.
if Postal 3 was actually able to be made by our magnificent overlords at RWS, we could've gotten a wonderful trinity of Postal games. think about it:
Postal: Isometric shooter
Postal 2: First person shooter
Postal 3: Third person shooter
but, RWS just couldn't, and so much had happened to their Postal glory.
Fun fact: the best reviewed work Uwe Boll performed is his restaurant in Canada.
I really hate that THIS had to be the stinker of the franchise. The game’s aesthetic and art style is so awesome, but that doesn’t really matter when the game shits itself and crashes every five minutes
All I want is a postal 2 in a new engine. Is that so much to ask?
It'd be too pure for this world
No.
Excellent long format review. Need more people that do these.
I liked the postal movie. I liked it as people like the room
When postal 3 came out in 2011 it took me a long ass time to realize that the gas canister can be used for fuel took me 5 years to realize that O_O
Watching this knowing theres a postal 4 demo brings me peace
Really great review, and the bit with cat sounds was completely hilarious.
Glad you enjoyed the video
0:41 that trashmasters logo is simply majestic
I watched much of this review with my jaw dropped. This was a real game. And a movie was made about this franchise.
This might be one of your harshest reviews! And I absolutely love it!
I felt your pain with the pen bit at the end of the video xD
FYI, Akella was a Russian game developer and publisher infamous for crappy quality of 90% of their products (the other 10% are likely an exception from the rule). Among the shitty things they did are:
- "Trash and Cash" development (Akella developed some horrible fighting game tie-in for equally shitty Russian movie Shadowboxing. The development cycle lasted 2 months. The game was sold for 20$ equivalent in RUR).
- Corsair 3 release calamity (Akella managed to release the game they developed in version 0.99. This was back in 2005, way before decent internet speed so if you wanted to patch this shit the you were out of luck.)
- Selling free demo versions of games on DVD disks. 80% of space on these DVDs was filled with adds.
- Using fucking StarForce as a DRM of choice.
Thankfully, Akella went bankrupt in 2012. Rest in piss.
oh jesus the postal dude's voice...
Worst part about the gas can problem is that they could've easily implied they were empty and that's why they're explosive. A barrel of gas filled to the top and sealed would just leak if you shot it irl. Maybe start a fire if the trail gets a spark. But if you take that same barrel (sealed of course, the pressure expansion is the boom) and put just 1/20th of the gas and shot at it the explosion has a much bigger chance to happen. It's the spark that's dangerous when you're dealing with fumes, and it would be much simpler to imply that there's gas cans littering everywhere bc they're empty from being stolen and used to escape similar to postal dude's plan as well.
9:04
"Seriously, you should never use anything other than the M16."
- Golgo 13
no gary coleman 0/10
I WAS excited for this at one point
Postal 3 punishes you for doing what you want to do in a Postal game.
Then again, like you said, it’s not as punishing when it’s bad...
Why would they make it third person?
Postal 4 says no
I mean…up until P4 each postal game has had a different gameplay perspective.
I'm sure people who played 1 asked the same question about 2 making it first person
Well thanks to you now i don't have to play Postal III, haha! Btw, what is up with that bouncy camera, especially when you are running? It's looks terrible. I really think this game should of been in first person anyways but i'm pretty sure it wouldn't of helped much. I know i might give it a shot if it was in first person though.
Your long videos are very nice, I like how thorough you are
Bad Games: Borderlands 1 and 2...so that’s where all of the dislikes come from
I wasn't worried, but it's good to know they came from idiots
@@Tehsnakerer I don't like game therefore anyone who does is an IDIOT. Why?
I was going to buy Postal III till I saw this video. So far Postal Redux and Postal 2 (along with the DLC) are the best in the series.
Nice job on the video.
my main criticism of this game, having never played it, is that I dont really like a lot of the background music
tbf abruptly cutting off a line at times can be hilarious and i don't know why
I could live for a billion years and still I'd never understand why or how anyone could have thought that a morality meter would be a good idea... FOR A POSTAL GAME. Like... wtf were they thinking?
The gas can plot hole can be explained away easily. The cans could very well be kerosene. And the story was written by RWS. Though this doesn't make this game excusable.
The only thing I liked of this game: the music.
That's it.
there are three endings. two are good endings. one of the good endings involves dude becoming president, the other has him talking on a talk show because he didn't kill anyone
Fun fact: owning all of the Postal games and reviewing them favorably on Steam, and then sending your Steam profile to Vince (RWS's CEO) means he will send you a free Postal 3 key.
Can we just mention the out of date Node Graph at 2:11
Very important question: can you perform rocket jumps in Postal 3?
Might be just because I played Corkscrew Rules before this, but this felt at least somewhat solid, if extremely mediocre and unfinished thing.
Again, not yet fully taken it to the end, and double again: played Corkscrew Rules before this. Trust me, it changes perspective so much.
i just noticed that in some cutscenes theres hl2 blood which is from a really really early build of the game from like 09 or something lmao its like a never ending shit pile
18:22 see, it’s funny because “douchbag” is a thing people say, and his name is unfortunately “Deutshbagge,” which is unfortunate. Did you get the joke? I get the joke! It’s funny, it’s unfortunate. Am I dragging this bit for too long? I probably am. (That’s unfortunate)
Oh yeah, Jon Merchant got paid fairly alright, you know with all that "Producing and co-directing Paradise Lost" thing that he did afterwards.
No but seriously, this review's a damn classic.
Wait the mayor's name is... Chomo? Goddamn that might be a little too far...
True to real life I guess.
Honestly the best things coming out of this game was the extra postal 2 content rws added after this game and that "Goodbye almond eyes" version it has...imo atleast
34:51
oh nice i just noticed i used that subway road when i was in summer vacation
that's cool
The best thing we can do is not forget this game, support the players and RWS- and pray that someone completes Postal III: Catharsis Reborn 😭
The best thing about this game is Cory Cruz as The Dude, I mean, the guy from Postal 2 (who’s name escapes me) was better. But he still did great with the shit he was given.
Remember when in Postal 2, if you kill no one in the game, the ending calls you Jesus? Why couldn't postal 3 do that instead of stupid branching paths.
How did they fuk up. They had the frickin Source Engine.
The madness is over now Snake...you've earned your rest. Now play a game that's actually good, shocking I know! :)
This... Was a *SOURCE GAME??*
Good engine doesn't automatically mean the game will be good. Hell, Valve will let anyone use the Source engine for basically anything - look at crap like Hunt Down the Freeman.
So weird seeing fistful of frags at an earlier stage
Those AAARrrrgghhhhH!!!!'s always caught me off guard and made me jump. xD
Wasn't the "brand new non-postal production) just Postal 2 Paradise lost
You know a game is bad when the steam page for its sequel refuses to acknowledge its existence.
see, this is why you don't make a part 3 on the source engine
Ride To Hell was like the The Room of video games.
There's like two good things about this game, the Dude's voice and the OST.
That footage that played in the middle of the video, I was just curious but, is that from the Isle of Sheppey? O_O
It is!
@@Tehsnakerer Holy shit, that's where I live! XD
I used to live in Warden Bay, and I'm pretty sure those cliffs, woods and caravan park is in Warden Bay, if I'm right.
I live in Minster now, though.
@@tsnophaljakarax9963 Those were right around there yep, I holiday there at least once each year
if there is going to be a postal 4
i just want them to use the same good formula that they used for Postal 2
(Good story,gameplay,etc)
This what Cyprus was up too before he tried to take over Sunnyvale
why did a deaf person start monologing halfway through the video?
I smashed through all of postal 3 in like two days and jesus christ don't make me go back