One of my beliefs of what makes Postal 2 so special is that it can't exactly be replicated or built upon in the same way, and after playing this on-and-off for a couple years and trying to complete a full playthrough, it seems I've been proven correct.
There's nothing exactly wrong with it, per se; if all you've come to expect from the Postal franchise is random murder sprees and topical humor, you'll get it here, though with it being somehow more dated than its predecessor due to the crowbar-like inclusion of it in the main errands rather than just things you can happen upon if you looked hard enough. The main issue is the development and how the game runs.
See, the development of Postal 4 is the embodiment of 2 steps forward, one step back. For every 10gb update that adds some creative mechanic or new weapons that are genuinely fun to mess around with, it also breaks a number of things that to this day haven't been fixed.
For example, one of the first new things that was shown off because RWS finally got their hands on UE4 is the ability to piss in toilets, have the toilet fill up, and be able to flush it. Not only did this break some time ago, instead of fixing it, they included an achievement for completing the action, which everyone can still get despite no part of the process working. Seriously, there are achievement guides on Steam that detail how to get everything else, and then just shrug their shoulders and go "i don't know how but you can still get it" when it comes to that one.
I expect a Postal game to be janky and buggy; RWS is known for things like that. As much as I like Postal 2, I'm not going to deny that it's held together with spit and tape. But at least everything in the core of Postal 2 functions correctly. I never had to stop playing it because a game breaking bug happened, unlike Postal 4 where I had to stop at Thursday because I couldn't complete the last errand cause my game kept crashing.
All in all, treat this game is if it were still in Early Access if you want to preserve your sanity. If you want a game that at the very least sets out to do what it's supposed to, give it another year or so when they release enough updates where they steal the dildo bat from Saints Row or whatever that they also actually manage to make the game playable.
There's nothing exactly wrong with it, per se; if all you've come to expect from the Postal franchise is random murder sprees and topical humor, you'll get it here, though with it being somehow more dated than its predecessor due to the crowbar-like inclusion of it in the main errands rather than just things you can happen upon if you looked hard enough. The main issue is the development and how the game runs.
See, the development of Postal 4 is the embodiment of 2 steps forward, one step back. For every 10gb update that adds some creative mechanic or new weapons that are genuinely fun to mess around with, it also breaks a number of things that to this day haven't been fixed.
For example, one of the first new things that was shown off because RWS finally got their hands on UE4 is the ability to piss in toilets, have the toilet fill up, and be able to flush it. Not only did this break some time ago, instead of fixing it, they included an achievement for completing the action, which everyone can still get despite no part of the process working. Seriously, there are achievement guides on Steam that detail how to get everything else, and then just shrug their shoulders and go "i don't know how but you can still get it" when it comes to that one.
I expect a Postal game to be janky and buggy; RWS is known for things like that. As much as I like Postal 2, I'm not going to deny that it's held together with spit and tape. But at least everything in the core of Postal 2 functions correctly. I never had to stop playing it because a game breaking bug happened, unlike Postal 4 where I had to stop at Thursday because I couldn't complete the last errand cause my game kept crashing.
All in all, treat this game is if it were still in Early Access if you want to preserve your sanity. If you want a game that at the very least sets out to do what it's supposed to, give it another year or so when they release enough updates where they steal the dildo bat from Saints Row or whatever that they also actually manage to make the game playable.