Brain Damaged proves that I was right about one thing:

[docbell1516]

The entire point of Postal is not to do edgy ♥♥♥♥, but to GO POSTAL.
This was the main focus of the franchise since 1997, and the games have been going in different directions with that focus.

The original was an isometric shooter with a dark tone and a sense of playfulness to the proceedings. 2 chose to embrace the playful edge and was a full-on FPS comedy where you could choose to play pacifist if you wanted to. Ditto for 4, and now Brain Damaged is a retro throwback FPS with retro visuals and surreal enemies.
This is why I roll my eyes when I see people like Synthetic Man ♥♥♥♥ on 4 for "not allowing you to do edgy ♥♥♥♥": because he, and many other 4 haters, MISS THE POINT OF WHAT POSTAL IS. You wanna know who else missed the point? Akella, who developed 3, which is rightfully considered the worst of the series. They had a morality system in place, and thus threw the entire point of Postal out of the window! When you forget that Postal is about Going Postal, you fail utterly.

[UNBREAKABLE]

Yeah, folks also still have the idea P2 was made to offend people as much as possible even though the folks from RWS that were there during its development say otherwise. They just wanted people to laugh above anything and not go out of their way to be edgy or offensive.

Postal has always been about a psychotic man who is one minor annoyance away from just leveling the town. He's trying to be normal otherwise and it's usually up to the player (i.e the demon) what kind of man he is. Brain damaged let's us give a better look inside his head.

[docbell1516]

Originally posted by UNBREAKABLE:

Yeah, folks also still have the idea P2 was made to offend people as much as possible even though the folks from RWS that were there during its develooment say otherwise. They just wanted people to laugh.

Postal has always been about a psychotic man who is one minor annoyance away from just leveling the town. He's trying to be normal otherwise and it's usually up to the player (i.e the demon) what kind of man he is. Brain damaged let's us give a better look inside his head.

You hit the nail on the head.
The Postal Dude is a complete wanker. That's the entire point of each entry, be it how the original portrayed him as a paranoid killer with an arsenal of weapons to complete his paranoia-driven "mission", or the sequels, which turn him into an unsympathetic comedy protagonist who we love anyway because he has a "devil may care" attitude and a warped sense of humour... and an arsenal of weapons to complete his errands.

[Zero(the number)]

Originally posted by UNBREAKABLE:

Yeah, folks also still have the idea P2 was made to offend people as much as possible even though the folks from RWS that were there during its development say otherwise. They just wanted people to laugh above anything and not go out of their way to be edgy or offensive.

Postal has always been about a psychotic man who is one minor annoyance away from just leveling the town. He's trying to be normal otherwise and it's usually up to the player (i.e the demon) what kind of man he is. Brain damaged let's us give a better look inside his head.

even if the devs say that most of the fanbase grew to love postal because of that edgy humour the first game literally had a school shooting and the fact they are pushing away the edgy jokes is obviously gonna piss off a large part of the fanbase but i dont think this applies to brain damaged since there are some edgy jokes in the game but it would make sense for postal 4 since postal 4 is like babies first postal its just piss and poop jokes no real humour