Talk:Postal (video game)

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Added cover art from the official Postal website, more information, reviews, etc... This is my first edit, so I hope it was okay :)

So What?

Can anyone offer some kind of clue as to what this game is about and why it is so controversial? At least offer an outline of the story or something? --Do Not Talk About Feitclub (contributions) 08:29, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

There's no story. You just walk around and score points by killing passers-by for no apparent reason. Allegeldy, the game is also quite bad, and it's painfully obvious that the programmers just included all the violence because they didn't have any interesting ideas, otherwise. 81.232.72.148 23:26, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

But what's the controversy? The article claims that the game is controversial, but there's no indication of what controversy there was. Can someone add a "Controversy" section explaining this? Or at least a sentence? --Elysdir 23:47, 1 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

well actually there is a story, it just the story of a psychopath who has to do some daily chores, you can actually go through the game without killing anyone, the game really is only just as violent as your are ;) , but mostly the game is more humoristic than violent in a "how offensive can we get" sense (shodan | wikipedia at domn.net)

The story mode's only in Postal 2. In the first game you do, indeed, just wander round gunning people down. Humourlessly. It's not a terrible game, but it's doubtful whether it would have even been heard of if it weren't for the controversy.

I would like to point out that Postal 1 most definitely did have a story. This was back in the day when game manuals actually contained relevant information, such as Fallout 1 and 2. If I recall correctly, you perceive the world to be going insane, and your goal is to make it to the center of the mess and discover what went wrong. In the final level of the game, however, you realize that you've gone insane and you shoot yourself. (the final level being a playground full of children, children being invulnerable in Postal1)Floydzamarripa (talk) 11:20, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It would certainly be nice if any of this information was in the article. There's plenty of stuff about the technical info, but not a single word about what you do in the game! (71.192.34.220 (talk) 19:08, 14 May 2008 (UTC))[reply]

Uwe Boll

first , OH CRAP :(((( second I find it really funny that someone put that in the summary as if it was that important on the other hand this is usually the worst thing that can happen to a game in my opinion, so I guess I just find it funny that someone else had the same opinion ;) (shodan | wikipedia at domn.net)

Why don't you just say all out that this is a bad game? -Izaak (sorry, I'm not using my account because Ami***** banned be because he was on a field day).

Kimveer Gill

In the same vein as Klebold & Harris of Columbine infamy are mentioned in the Doom article, should there be anything about Kimveer Gill and the Dawson College shooting mentioned? Gwrtheyrn 00:13, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I withdraw the above, it was Postal 2 that Gill played Gwrtheyrn 00:23, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 16:20, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

SVGA is 800x600, not 640x480 (it says so in the article linked) VGA is 640x480. This should be corrected in the system requirements. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.23.5.73 (talk) 13:38, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]