Why Postal 1 is an Artistic Masterpiece
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The thing I love about Postal 1's ending is that there is NO 'victory..'
There are no rewards, no sign of winning, just an Ending.
An Ending to the Dude's Madness after the Demon left him leading to what he's done.
What. A postal 1 review. With no moralizing, no guilt tripping target audience, no hate speech against the outcasts of society, no preaching about how pixels on screen are evil? Just an actual adult discussion of an adult topic? Consider myself shocked, it's a wonderful review, I hope it gets popular.
I'm really glad you liked it. I wished there was more of this sort of thing on the internet, so I made it myself.
I've seen a theory that the Postal Dude from the first game is a war veteran suffering from a very bad traumatic breakdown. I think the art of him backied into a corner while clutching his rifle like it's the only thing that can keep him safe in the entire world backs this up pretty well.
What I like about the Redux ending is, by having Christopher Corey Cruise deliver the ending monologue, it takes the series-wide running gag of the various voice actors who've voiced the Dude play against each other and gives it a much more grim spin.
If you play on hard, the level intro quotes change into longer diary entries where the Dude feels vulnerable and believes the madness disease came from the Air Force Base.
When it comes to why these tragedies happen people want easy answers to a difficult question, for someone to snap like that allt has to go wrong in their life, for me it was being taken away from home, not being listened to in said grouphome and school, being told my autism basically makes me mentally challenged when its not, being bullied and being put on medication I didn’t need causing me to have psychosis. You don’t just wake up with homicidal urges, they build up under a giant pile of shit being thrown at you when you’re vulnerable
Exactly, and there’s a lot of shit out in the world, I stay away from it and I don’t listen to people who are negative, like people in chat rooms on VR
feels so weird reading this, made me feel like im not the only one experiencing something similar. feels almost cozy
I'm glad I can make people feel seen. It's the only thing that really matters to me.
@@chuckblaze5147 The only thing i can tell you is to remind yourself of your own humanity and to not give into those urges, seek help, professional or from your inner circle if you have one, even something like this is a defense mechanism and you are going to have to manage it but trust me, its possible and its worth it, to this day when something pisses me off i still get those urges (Especially if its someone taking advantage over someone vulnerable) The trick is to walk away when you get those urges, weirdly enough joining a martial arts class helped alot to understand what i'm physically capable of to help control my emotions in such times, especially if you have a good teacher that says to train a martial art not to fight but to walk away.
@@Creepley It genuinely warms my heart that that is your goal, the first step to improving mental health in society is to seek understanding and to offer a helping hand, whether thats genuine therapy, advice or just an ear to listen to or a shoulder to cry on, the smallest things can have a huge impact on people
The diarys are much different when you play on hard and above. On hard the diary's become "War Journals" and he is genuinely delusion but he does belive he's the hero, it makes the ending make more sense.
I love Postal 1 mostly for the atmosphere/aesthetic, it's really unique. The music is especially great.
The game had me in a really weird detached headspace on my playthrough, more melancholic than any. I was enamored by the story/journal entries, it really hits different having experienced mental illness. It's weird to say but I was kinda immersed.
Personally I think the Dude is implied to have SEVERE schizophrenia (the majority of schizophrenic people aren't extremely violent lol). He has extreme delusions that a delusionsal person could actually believe irl.
This came up on my feed.
I always like finding smaller channels as I find them more genuine and real. With real opinions and not pandering to trends, devs, or sponsors.
Great video and dissection of Postal.
Well done 👍
This game is a masterpiece and one of the BEST horror games ever made. Yes its horror i dont care. I love Postal 1
I agree.
Postal 1 is when you shower but forget that you are still wearing socks
The thing that always hurt me the most about Columbine is that any single adult in either Eric or Dylan's life could have stopped it at any point if they only paid the bare minimum amount of attention or cared at all. And it has nothing to do with rock music or video games, these kids - Eric especially - gave out every single warning sign imaginable, there was every chance to stop them from getting weapons, from spiraling out of control, to "discover" their out in the open plans, someone just had to pay attention and say something and the lives of so many people could have been saved.
When I was a kid, and bullied in school, the initial impact it had on me and in school was way more than just the metal detectors: the bullying fucking STOPPED. People started to crack down on that shit, it wasn't like now where we have school staff and students trying to be more socially aware of what's going on and call out toxic behavior just because it's the right thing to do, though. No, it stopped because we were scared. Most of the news was looking for a scape goat, but as kids it was extremely simple to us, when you push people too far, they snap, and there were some kids who were pushed.
Of course that simplistic understanding doesn't really tell the whole story, and is in and of itself, of course, rather famously, a part of the problem. Adults found their scapegoats in the form of music and video games and then they just... moved on. We had metal detectors in schools for a while and then we just... moved on. It was like a jumpscare or something, everyone was afraid that it could happen again, and everyone thought they knew the answer, and after a few years of it not happening again, we just allowed ourselves to think we were right, and just sort of relaxed, thinking the moment had passed.
But nobody learned anything, and now it happens every other week. I don't keep up with this stuff anymore, because how could you? It's one of the most emotionally draining things in the world, and there's just too much to keep up with. But Columbine changed my whole outlook on the world, so at least in that case I can say with certainty that it could have EASILY been stopped, many, many times. This is also probably true of every mass shooting since. The circumstances of stopping them are almost certainly not the same, but if you think about it rationally... mass shootings aren't, like... in us. Could you do that? Could I do that? Do you know anyone who could do that? It doesn't come out of nowhere, is my point, people don't just decide this, nobody is "just one bad day" away from mass murder. It would have to take a LOT of circumstances piled on top of each other to create a situation like this, and every one of those is an opportunity for an intervention.
I still think a lot about Columbine because it was such a huge turning point, and the thing that I still think is the absolute worst part of the whole tragedy, the thing that still hurts me so bad after all this time, is that it was completely unnecessary. None of it ever had to happen, it wasn't written in stone. All someone had to do was say something. When it comes to that hard truth, questions like "why" don't really seem to matter to me anymore.
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@@freak-igN8T Then why bother commenting?
@@freak-igN8T I am :)
If you're saying what I think you're saying - That is the point of the video. The only way to stop these things from happening is to help the people committing them, And I believe that starts with not demonizing the people who are most likely to commit them. If everyone sees you as a threat if you have homicidal ideation, how are you going to get help? If not a single person in your life cares about you, why the hell would you care about anybody else? Thank you for putting so much thought and effort into your comment by the way.
I think the ending monologue is also a criticism of the media. The Demon in the Postal Dude's head (the voice lines) and the reporter are both voiced by Rick Hunter, implying the reporter is the Demon in some way.
Never thought of that. Makes a lot of sense!
Its imo, a critique on howthe media tends to overly focus on the perpetrator and make him the "big star" of the tragedy, resulting in other mentally ill people seeing the amount of attention given to the person, and giving them the idea that if they follow in their footsteps, they'll finally be heard in someway shape or form. Just my idea
Only you can stop the evil
I love your analysis on Postal 1! It's straight to the point and doesn't sugarcoat anything.
Also, Spec Ops: The Line is another game that forces you to not only reflect on your actions but also reflect on video games as well.
...You're supposed to reflect on Spec Ops? All I took away from it is "the developers have outright stated in the most pretentious way possible that they don't want me to play their game so they aren't getting my money."
@@CoralCopperHeadYeah, the story isn't NEARLY as deep as the internet claims it to be
Back in high school there was a kid in my science class who was always quiet and this other kid would always give him shit for everything. I would talk to the quiet kid once in a while very little but still enough talk to stop and say hey and catch up. I went up to him because he looked even more obscure than before he just stared at the ground the whole class period. I sat next to him right before the bell rang to release us from school because it was the last period and I asked if he was okay and he just let it all out. He said he’s sick of how he has to deal with crap from people he doesn’t know or talk to and he straight up said it makes me want to bring a gun and solve the problem, this was 2012 weeks before Sandyhook. I went cold and froze, I felt the goosebump all on my back and my legs went kinda numb. I noticed he saw me kinda react idk I didn’t see me face at the time I probably went pale. But with my lip quivering I told him that would ruin not just his life and the people he was gonna shoot but everyone who witnesses they’d would be scared for life and to think about his family how would they feel and idk what else my 16 year old self said. The bell then rang and he said I made him think deep and he thanked me. And I know “why tf didn’t I tell someone, he could have gone through with it the next day or something” I know I thought that for years until i saw him on Facebook suggestions with a wife and a daughter, if I would have told on him it could have ruined his life and he would have never met the love of his life. Feels like this should be on Reddit but it’s in comments on a very old video that I randomly found in my algorithm
Thank you. I wish more people empathized or attempted to understand what others, particularly the unwell, are going through. In my opinion, it's the only way to stop shootings from happening.
I like the positive ending of the video, it gives me hope that people on CZcams still want to deliver a meaningful and helpful message.
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it!
I 100% agree. The people who are most demonized or reviled often don't deserve it. You made a nice, deep feeling video.
They are pretty well points my dude! Also, i sometimes believe the game itself is just disturbing in a way not just the visuals and atmosphere, but it's own in game environment, easter eggs and hidden things that happen such as ostriches somehow appearing, Used Fruits, some areas that may not make sense, the creepy dumpsters with flesh (first appears in marching band level) And also even the weapons the users wield as well, the guns are unusual in design, napalm launchers being used, even rocket launcher dudes, sometimes other characters can fire the rockets rapidly.
Makes me think the postal dude was pretty right and he gone insane as time goes by im guessing the more satanic insane schizophrenic descending to madness from the Diary segments of how he rambles is like how he remembers it as it was rather thinking he was doing the right.
Oh, the Ostriches aren't random; Arizona actually has an Ostrich farm where you can visit and hang with full blown Ostriches. It's kind of cool.
I also like hotline Miami 🧖🏾♂️👍🏾
Postal is so much better than Hatred.
I feel like you could've at least had the ending play in the background while you talked about it :P
i know this isn't the point of your video, but i LOVED the audio design in the first game, it really enhanced the experience for me and made it more immersive and fun. the dialogue is really good, but also the music and sound effects. whenever i played it i felt like my head was going to explode, but i loved how intense and overwhelming it could feel. i don't think i've have another game experience like that. i haven't played the redux yet, but i hope they kept the vibe the same
Hotline miami is so good
I always tought postal was heavily inspired by unabombers books about industrial society and Frederich Nietzches description of nihilism and its consequences on man
The meaningless world full of suffering that has no sense, the existing people where there is no happiness nor pain and the unberable lack of any form of social cohesion and being in syste without a body to kick, soul to curse or head to answer for the misery as i look back from 90s to this cancer is always beating into my eyes
Postal is not just a game, its a fashion statement
I did play Postal Redux on PlayStation, because it's changing to the end where the Dude head to the cemetery where someone is buried. The Dude screaming and cries.
It's weird, but Manhunt doesn't make me feel the way Postal does. I fucking love Manhunt, and I love it's brutal subject matter, it doesn't make me feel uncomfortable sneaking around and brutalising people from the shadows. Postal makes me uncomfortable as fuck, even playing it a couple of days ago, it makes me feel wrong even when Manhunt, Hotline Miami and Postal 2 don't
I agree with this. Although it's one of my favorite games, I never really understood the "uncomfortability" some people felt playing Hotline Miami, but the sound design and ending in Postal did get to me. Some of the voicelines like the "has anyone seen my ear?" one gave me actual chills.
Genuinely really dug this video and your sentiments you shared! Great job!
I'm glad you liked it!
oh yeah the columbine incident happened a time later that game.
so one of the only times that had something close to postal,unironycally was pico's school,yeah,that pico that now looks like a teenager on the better years.
damn tom went wild when making those games.
Spec ops the line also makes you question your actions
Not really
The game railroads you into shitty situations that are outside of your control and then expects you to feel bad when your dumb ass of a character goes off the deep end after pissing into the wind for five to six hours
I can understand the pressure to remove the original ending. The game was released 2 years before the first major school shooting in the modern United States. Intense scrutiny of violent games and media coverage was elevated in the following years. So much that the term "going postal" is no longer in the current zeitgeist and replaced with "school shooter"
So i have a theory that the events of postal 1 and 2 are the same. Both games take place in the same town. Both dudes are nearly identical. My theory is that postal 2 and 4 is The Dudes "Pyro Vision." While the actions in postal 1 is the brutal reality of a crack addicted paranoid schizophrenic hallucinating, shooting a bunch of TowleHeads and something about petitions and elephant foot waste baskets.
thanks for making this video and spreading that message
Thank you for commenting and making me feel nice!
Got through Postal 1 just fine, almost entirely because of the way the game presents the mayhem. Dude's after "hostiles" and any innocents are just caught in the crossfire outside of player control.
...Couldn't get through Hatred 'cause, while I could giggle at Notim Portant's edge from a distance, it got kind of hard to keep going after a while because the main objective was literal hate-fuelled slaughter and I used hitting a brick wall at the military base as an excuse to stop my run at the "good ending" of the military stopping the psycho.
I regret nothing.
thank you
underrated video, that's a pretty fleshed-out postal review, 5 star.
Thanks! glad you enjoyed it!
I liked Postal Redux for it's unsettling atmosphere and artstyle more than shock value. Also the Rampage music slaps.
Honestly, I’m glad they replaced the ending level. The original had no effect on me because it was just a cutscene and not gameplay- the rest of the game’s deaths were on me, but at the school? That wasn’t me pulling the trigger. Making it a cutscene ruined the point.
Beautiful video.
Thank you!
I can fix him.
good job
Hotline Miami got mentioned,thick skin detected
my favorite hotline miami quote is when jerkit said "i like hurting other people" and got a grip all over the mobsters
Balls to the walls
It looks fun
I like postal 1 better than 2, I just don't really care for the toilet humor and sex jokes of 2, I'm solely here for the violence and maybe some of the absurd but ordinary situations the dude finds himself in. For this reason I like 1 better, the atmosphere is unbeatable
Ngl for me postal 1 for me is "Great story, not so game"
I wish there was a second Postal 1. Not postal 2 cuz that wasn’t really anything like postal 1
I do, too. You can try hotline miami or hatred. The former is an amazing game that I highly recommend, while the latter is not as good but is a true spiritual successor.
I’m pleased you had the authenticity to call the replacement of the school a cop-out, because I agree they could have adapted the ending to a different shocking setting to innovate on the meaning of the work instead of doing what they did, which feels strongly like copping out. I would’ve accepted a hospital, orphanage, college, etc-places which still elicit recoil to think about rather than that tired disgrace and direct comparison to specific real events Vince cited. Or an even more clearly imaginary level could have sufficed.
I wonder whether another news cycle would have helped RWS out financially, too, although I expect that they reasonably fear losing the privilege of being so open with their time and energy on the internet. And I suppose I prefer having my dude doll over their business manufacturing contracts potentially drying up, although that’s betraying of the subversiveness for me to say. I’ve got to buy the classic dude one of these days so he can have a -friend- bad influence.
I saw the title and honestly, ive never seen anyone say this about postal 1 (havent watched it yet)
Subbed, I love your empathy and educated approach to these sensitive subject matters and think you have valuable insight to add to the discussion this game presents. Keep being real dude
Thanks! I'm glad I can show more people my way of thinking. It gives me purpose.
Postal 1 postal dude is literally me.
We definitely on two separate wavelengths
YES IVE BEEN TRYING TO SAY THIS!!!
Keep trying, I know I'm going to! Glad you enjoyed!
it would be better if it wasn't in helicopter pov.
postal redux rampage is better
Nah it's just a fun game. And a pacifist run is possible by making the hostile kill eachother but that would require patience and a understanding of the AI.
@@drewrauch8929😐 there's still depth to those specific form of games... you do realise that right
Come on man, you have to sit down and realize why they had to remove the elementary school level. Just because something is shocking because it's "so bad" doesnt mean it should automatically be allowed to be in a video game for shock value or to get a message across.
I dont think video games are responsible for anything that a person does outside of them, but the niche audience that "wants" the elementary school shooting vs the rest of the world is very one-sided and unbalanced number wise, so why be choose at all? Very odd to openly show interest in wanting a school shooting scene back in a game just because it helps get the message across, within a game that has no message other than shooting people. Get a grip and stop looking so deep for your own weird satisfaction of violence. Funkopops are calling.
Nerd
Bros voice is literally 🤓
video was mid, seems a lil goofy with with constant "ughh mental illness bad,,reach out if you are sad 😢😢😢"
Back in high school there was a kid in my science class who was always quiet and this other kid would always give him shit for everything. I would talk to the quiet kid once in a while very little but still enough talk to stop and say hey and catch up. I went up to him because he looked even more obscure than before he just stared at the ground the whole class period. I sat next to him right before the bell rang to release us from school because it was the last period and I asked if he was okay and he just let it all out. He said he’s sick of how he has to deal with crap from people he doesn’t know or talk to and he straight up said it makes me want to bring a gun and solve the problem, this was 2012 weeks before Sandyhook. I went cold and froze, I felt the goosebump all on my back and my legs went kinda numb. I noticed he saw me kinda react idk I didn’t see me face at the time I probably went pale. But with my lip quivering I told him that would ruin not just his life and the people he was gonna shoot but everyone who witnesses they’d would be scared for life and to think about his family how would they feel and idk what else my 16 year old self said. The bell then rang and he said I made him think deep and he thanked me. And I know “why tf didn’t I tell someone, he could have gone through with it the next day or something” I know I thought that for years until i saw him on Facebook suggestions with a wife and a daughter, if I would have told on him it could have ruined his life and he would have never met the love of his life. Feels like this should be on Reddit but it’s in comments on a very old video that I randomly found in my algorithm