The Horror of Postal Brain Damaged

[@abuffwizard2]

*POSTAL Brain Damaged review:* kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5TYqpyIlNB9abs

[@krzysztofstopa5965]

i like this because its a break from the dark humor and comedy of postal, as much as i love the comedy and humor in postal there needed to be a break

[@ABuffWizard]

I feel like all the humor and satire is still there. It’s just Brain Damaged has its focus set on shooty gameplay, meaning it’s not reliant on the comedy to carry the whole experience.

[@monkaWGiga]

Don't get it wrong, it's still mostly a comedy. It's just willing to have a few more horror and darker moments. You can even augment your piss with freeze energy now.

[@Spidermandan2099]

Postal 1 was way darker so I feel like it's going back to roots here

[@thetruepostaldude9980]

@@Spidermandan2099 I wouldn’t mind RWS returning to that old horror atmosphere of Postal 1 & Redux, not exclusively but just as a breath of fresh air to the other end of the extremes of Postal, satire and toilet humor.

[@totallynoteverything1.]

@Russian Invasion of Ukraine Hatred is unintentionally funny

[@rainbowdrinks]

Running With Scissors could literally make a horror game if they really wanted to

[@KikoElGatito]

Fr tho, like as silly as a monster with a literal assface may be, the way it along with some other monsters feel like something out of a silent hill game what with how there's a body horror element what with it having obviously human like parts being either fused together or with something else. Like RWS could really make a horror parody game or straight up horror game as they really got the skills to do so as they clearly understand horror elements.

[@rainbowdrinks]

@@KikoElGatito Postal 1 is already dark, it's time to double down

[@KikoElGatito]

@@rainbowdrinks for sure, be it from the interface, the war journals with the creepy backgrounds, the music and sound design, and just the general atmosphere definitely screams horror game.

[@JRSLVVVVRZYVV]

Postal Brain Damaged wasn't developed by rws soo im not sure about that.

[@yoshi9538]

​@@rainbowdrinks quadruple down is necessary I feel

[@VSPhotfries]

I mean, OG Postal was pretty much a horror game, so... Makes sense.

[@amirking5452]

Even postal 2 has creepiness to it, like the Pandora's toolbox sound effects and certain locations have weird things in them

[@kermit4036]

Postal 1 wanted to be a satire on everything edgy. The result? A horror game where you're the monster

[@anormalmonkey9702]

İ legit got truma when i plyed postal 1 whem i was a kid

[@NikoBeIIic2008]

not the type of horror everybody knows

[@lightinabox6931]

Moving to "paradise" was a tragic mistake.

[@belinskiparadox7687]

"There is the unmistakable insane of an AK-47 rifle" *Shows M16*

[@tuerculosisgaming6307]

Or AR-15

[@Wilcocliw]

Demon dude literally said he is a Jungian persona, which would be the shadow (which is kinda like Freud his id) the big twist compared to the Id of freud and Jungs Shadow is that, the shadow is built up fro childhood trauma etc. And that the big goal in Jungian theory is not to destroy the Shadow but to encorporate it, hence he also loses some brain fuctions. Because he isnt a whole person anymore. For anyone interested in Jungian theory I recommend Anthony Starr "the essential Jung" . I got to admit, that it takes some serious interest into psychology to actually integrate that into a boomer shooter and specifically Postal lore. So props to them

[@whoareyoutoaccuseme6588]

Alter-Dude says that he's already been "killed" several times before, and after each time he still persists like a growing tumor. So I don't Dude'll really be rid of him unless, like what you said, he incorporates his shadow. And each time he refuses to do that, his braind damage only gets worse.

[@synthesoul]

Well based primarily on story elements we know for a fact that there are three Postal Dudes in this game. We have the Conscious Dude, The "Dream" Dude, and Demon Dude. From the beginning of the game we are presented with the Dream Dude telling us the story, my theory is that this beginning sequence would be considered a part of The Dude's subconscious. The next scene is a recollection of when The Conscious Dude laying on the couch and falling asleep. You have to remember that thematically this is a big event. Because at the beginning of the scene the player is immediately shown the expectations of The Dude's character, a reclusive young adult surrounded by filth and drugs. His house is run down, just like you would expect. The Conscious Dude is expected to behave just like the classic Postal 2 FPS. Now during the entirety of P:BD this game plays like a "Boomer Shooter" a modern game that is supposed to play like games during the DOOM-era. This is yet another completely different shift in gameplay from the other entries, yet it's not too far off. Think about Demon Dude, what is it about him that makes him so unique? We have had so many Dudes over the years in different media. Could it be the fact that pretty much "Old" Dude. This is the conflicting aura of the story. The most challenging part of Dream Dude's journey through his psyche is facing his old self. All Dudes are pretty much unrelated, but this is a unique case where two of them are existing on one plane. Even if it's in Conscious Dude's mind we still have an instance of this event happening... Anyways The Demon Dude seems to be a manifestation of the expectations of all the older titles. Most old fans will recognize this character by his dark energy and menacing red eyes. This is the energy of going Postal and mass murder. All Dudes subconsciously desire to become this, but this battle between Dream Dude and Demon Dude is the Conscious Dude's way of overcoming his social anxieties. Or it could be a simulation considering he woke up with a chip in his head.

[@TimeBomb014X]

I feel like the inclusion of OG Postal Dude voice Rick Hunter may have been a late development thing, since early on in marketing material and the OG teaser, the main threat was Postal Dude's alien shirt hence why the last chapter is heavily space and sci fi based, however I think at some point either RWS or maybe they got contacted by Hunter and they probably reworked it so Other Dude would be the main villain as to involve him and accidentally created more lore and speculation, Multi Dude Theory? Merging of The Dudes, Dude Cognitive disassociation?

[@ABuffWizard]

It’s a lot to speculate about. I’m not super knowledgeable about the development of Brain Damaged or Postal 4 and how they’re inclusion of Hunter might have come about. Whether it’s anything story/lore related or just fan service it’s still fun opportunity to include the OG voice!

[@TimeBomb014X]

@@ABuffWizard I think it's fan service because of the big love the Postal community has for Hunter. Neither do I, but looking back at the original teaser, it featured the alien on Dude's shirt giant sized and attacking The Dude, plus in early promo stills like the art work you see a giant alien in the background. So I think that was the idea at first and I believe it's a late change in the game because act 3 is more heavily based on Sci-Fi movies and space levels that I think the focus for Other Dude came much later with the levels and enemies already made. Anyway that's just speculation on my part but I enjoyed your Postal videos, keep up the good work and just remember to sign any petitions a ginger haired man in shades ask you to sign

[@ABuffWizard]

Will do, thanks mate!

[@sibel9272]

@Ciaran Is THE BEST Kill the past is also a main theme with suda51.

[@KnoxCarbon]

Games change a lot during development. Brain Damaged seemed to have a more grimy, darker color palate in the alpha than the more saturated final. Most of the weapons were changed dramatically or cut outright. Remember that weird-ass clown gun?

[@DrWhite]

I'm surprised you didn't touch on the cutscene after the first boss, where the dude remarks that only his weapon understands him, only to be shocked when his shotgun replies in kind and how it then transitions into the asylum levels. I took this as a subconscious awareness of his own madness, owning up to the fact that his attachment and anthropomorphic view of his weapons is madness.

[@warworks]

Its also a reference to Postal 1

[@Oldsparkychair]

Game series, known for humour and vulgarity has deeper lore than some AAA games. It's also kinda funny

[@papabasar]

Why are we still here? Just to suffer? Every night, I can feel my leg... And my arm... even my fingers... The body I've lost... the comrades I've lost... won't stop hurting... It's like they're all still there. You feel it, too, don't you? I'm gonna make them give back our past!

[@JacobVonRoker]

@@papabasar johnny "poopsy pants" sasaki is immune to SOP because he's afraid of needles

[@papabasar]

@@JacobVonRoker You've guaranteed the status quo will go on, for a while longer at least... War... Will continue as an institution. As an industry. Men will fight for reasons they don't understand, causes they don't believe in... But at least I'll leave a worthy successor...

[@Oldsparkychair]

@Steven Armstrong I'm actually your younger version, friend

[@BigK13372]

And that is what we call bathos

[@adrienmack8158]

4:53 Another hint you missed is something I'd say is a even stronger link to the original dude, the rolled sleeves, none of the other dudes wear the trenchcoat with the sleeves rolled except the other dude, and the original dude.

[@ABuffWizard]

Very good point, I had not considered to examine the fashion further after I noticed the gloves!

[@adrienmack8158]

@@ABuffWizard this was the very first thing I noticed when first saw the final scene (I don't own the game yet) along with the fact that the color of the gloves are wrong. The gloves in original Postal and Redux is that the dude's gloves are always red, the only dude with black gloves is the one from that game that does not exist and Postal 4 dude with 2 different outfits.

[@OperatorMax1993]

Also don't forget the combat boots Which makes me think the dude served in the military, maybe invasion of Panama in 1989-1990 or Gulf War in 1990-1991

[@adrienmack8158]

@@OperatorMax1993 I never took note of the kind of boots, since all of the dudes wear boots, but how the boots are worn. Only the original dude wear the boots with the pant legs tucked in the boots (and maybe the other dude, but he doesn't have pants) while all the other dudes wear boots with the legs going over the boots (I'll count the Postal 4 dude Because he will do this too, when he gets pants)

[@v.k.rt.m.6030]

@@ABuffWizard But weren't the gloves Red?

[@p0oque]

The aesthetic of postal brain damaged is so good. I wish more games did style over realism more often

[@JakeTheVoice]

Fun fact: when I used to work at Hyperstrange, I actually suggested rewriting the final line to tie in with POSTAL: Special Delivery ("Who came in here and moved around all my furniture?") Originally, it was accepted, and I was hoping to see if the game could be potentially tied into the first as a result with this line -- I actually thought it'd be an interesting red herring to see if people would try and connect things to the events of the first game even more. Turns out this was changed to something more jokey and silly when the game came out. Oh well - the more you now!

[@onurcelik8560]

It's still crazy to me that they made bunch of spinoffs and add-ons without making postal 3, but then they released postal 4. I think its a half life reference.

[@shotgunkaius]

oh, no they did release postal 3

[@XXXXD]

@@shotgunkaius No, Postal 3 doesnt exists.

[@ReverendSyn]

@@XXXXD *As a matter of fact it does. Played it myself. You can even find playthoughs on KZbin.*

[@goodboy9318]

@@ReverendSyn Scientifically not possible

[@SurmenianSoldier]

@@ReverendSyn Doesn't exist, you're just hallucinating it existing.

[@fawful7457]

My favorite part of Brain Damaged is the asylum chapter since it has more horror aspects than the chapters before and after it

[@juanjuanero5834]

Even being super comedic and over the top, it's so cool seeing brain damaged expoloring more of the dynamic between the dude and the demon, even if every little fact we get from this storyline is up to debate.

[@sirseb6684]

This is really good. You put actual effort into your videos. Hope you get some more recognition! Keep up the good work lad.

[@ABuffWizard]

Hey thanks man, I appreciate that. (:

[@BitestheStuff]

Oh man, they sneak the Goliath around in the game. I've been legit jump scared because it just sometimes appears in places you don't expect, and it's a bullet sponge to top it all off.

[@whoareyoutoaccuseme6588]

Remember when they keep teasing us with that enemy in the asylum with all these cardboard Goliaths around to jumpscare us, only to throw a REAL Goliath right after? Yeah, the asylum level really rocks. Especially with that roller coaster segment.

[@froelhoates]

I like to think that the whole suburbia level is about the Dude’s longing for normalcy, a “perfect” life, even though he’s aware a suburban neighborhood is no where close to that, nothing but a mere facade, and he envies it. But such as life, everyone puts on a mask. Peace is something the dude will never have in his life, everything is a mess. And I like to think that the music from that level, especially in the middle part portrays that bittersweet and yearning feeling he must feel. But that’s just my interpretation.

[@ForestBoyProductions]

Yeah, the cage monster actually really freaked me out. I was generally just enjoying the ride but I dreaded whenever they were nearby! I think it might be a reference to bloodborne or dark souls, personally. I remember seeing a note on a corkboard in the asylum that said "A hoonter must hoont." which is a little joke relating to Eileen the Crow, a character in Bloodborne.

[@mwezi4193]

It's description or lore page or whatever says smth about bloodborne

[@Abel_Unstable]

Those monsters destroyed me so many times too, they always one-shot me out of nowhere.

[@whoareyoutoaccuseme6588]

Some of the monster designs in the game were really good. I wish they employed more of the Silent Hill-esque design philosophy to more of the hostiles. Not to say the furry and cosplayer enemies were any bad of course. I just like how they can go from being tongue-in-cheek goofy to straight nightmare fuel. Adds more variety that way.

[@ABuffWizard]

I do prefer the more horror oriented monster designs, it might have been cool to see it gradually devolve into a full blown nightmare at the end of the game. It's a good all round balance though, I think

[@fawful7457]

This is why chapter 2 of brain damaged is my favorite because of some of the eldritch horrors in that chapter.

[@whoareyoutoaccuseme6588]

@@fawful7457 Yeah, for this reason "All Are Mad Down Here, Dude" (Mental Hospital Level) is hands down the best level in the game.

[@fawful7457]

@@whoareyoutoaccuseme6588 Definitions of Insanity is also solid as hell, search for the cure is also great, Area 69 was also creative, and S.I.P had the most mechanically intricate boss in the game. Souless Asylum is hands down the best chapter of Brain Damaged. The enemies in that chapter left the biggest impression on me too, like we have Nurse Joy, Lobotomized Creeps, 5G Towers, Illuminati, Vaccinated, Tin Foils, Clown Elementals and Lost Clowns. Whereas American Dream Gone Wrong is the runner up in my eyes and No-Life Matters while still good, is not as memorable.

[@whoareyoutoaccuseme6588]

@@fawful7457 I personally don't find Search For the Cure that amazing, though the alien ship segment was a a pleasant surprise. Bigger On The Inside and Sniffing In The VIP Area were the weaker levels of the other two chapters but their secrets were at least very memorable. On the flip side, T-Day, Area 69, and Fluffy Friends' Festival Of Fun are my personal favorites in their respective chapters since they are just so exciting to explore. As for the boss levels, Black Friday Showdown is my personal favorite. Karen may have the second most basic fight mechanics (next to Tesloborgelion) but she was just so fun to fight, no matter how high up the difficulty. Plus, it's the only one with an actual level leading up to the boss fight, secrets and all. S.I.P. can do without, but I wish Cruel Dude Thesis had a bit more to it. And yeah, you're right about Chapter 2 having the best variety of enemies. The only interesting enemies in Chapter 3 were the Fluffy Friends, RPG Table, and the T-8000, since the rest just feel like more powerful reskins of previous enemies.

[@madmonty4761]

For being a jokey game the enemies have pretty good body horror

[@thezambambo2184]

Even the Fluffy Friend's are horrifying in that their suits look to be not suits, but actual fur

[@madmonty4761]

@@thezambambo2184 how to you explain the "cut" down the middle

[@thezambambo2184]

@@madmonty4761 To be fair, it's a dream, but it could be a suit of actual fur fused to them

[@madmonty4761]

@@thezambambo2184 ok but the saxabone

[@thezambambo2184]

@@madmonty4761 Cybernetic mutant possibly?

[@mansiselyn]

Postal: Brain Damaged feels like how Postal Dude seen his escape from the insane asylum

[@OperatorMax1993]

The P1 dude doesn't just wear fingerless gloves, but also has long hair, wasn't wearing glasses, didn't have a goatee (because his in game model didn't have one though in the concept art he does including the Air Force Base loading screen), wears a red shirt with a strap, a backpack, jeans, and black combat boots with his pants tucked in (which makes me think that the Dude used to be in the military during the invasion of Panama in 1989-1990, Gulf War of 1990-1991, and after he did his time he continue to live on as a raver doing LSD in his spare time, listening to Drum 'N Bass, becoming a fan of DOOM, Mortal Kombat and System Shock 1 (because that's what plenty of 90s teens did) The caged mass of flesh makes me think that these must be the many, many, many victims coming back to haunt him, and maybe the dog with the house on its back is the dog that barked on him during the Junkyard level in Postal 1 Anyways, it would be really awesome if RWS made a horror or survival horror game (basically "Fight Club" but with a postal worker gone postal), like they already succeeded with making players including myself feel uncomfortable And it kind of sucks that they forever stuck with the immature humour (Don't get me wrong i loved it in P2), and tried to "catch lightning in a bottle" (by that i mean follow the same formula like what Capcom did with RE5 ) with Postal 4 and not being as good It feels like P1 and P2 is sorta like Terminator 1 (horror) and 2 (action), with 2 playing a big twist (p2 straying away from horror) Again, would be awesome, cool and terrifying if RWS made a horror game or retained the elements :)

[@h0b0c0p8]

When fighting the Other Dude, the battle song is with Japanese lyrics. I know the lyrics are silly but I believe you mentioned how Postal 1 had some japanese stages.

[@ABuffWizard]

The lyrics are honestly pretty funny. And there was Japanese stages for Postal 1, the intro texts are written in haiku form!

[@YourLocalImbecile]

I think in my opinion that this might be a hint that...maybe soon enough the "demon" or the evil side of the postal dude might beat the sane postal dude and might go back to how it once was..back to postal 1 vibe and cause total mayhem again perhaps?

[@pootissandvichhere9135]

Alter dude really means when he cannot die that he’s not going to be forgotten. His visceral “death” is dude thinking he shut him up for good this time represented in what he wants to see in his mind back in control. But he just comes back. He’s Dude when he gets fed up with the insanity of staying sane in a mad world. Note that you have to use violence against bosses to proceed. You practically have to kill enemies to survive the levels. Alter Dude is a shadow. A mask dude puts everything he hates about himself in an effort to toss it all away. But he can’t. Because the absurdity, insanity, stupidity, and cruelty of the real world cannot be avoided. Dude needs Alter Dude to survive usually, to fight back. However, Dude can be very caring and introspective as seen in pacifist endings. He simply leaves The Bitch to wallow in her own self inflicted misery in 2, and in 4 can walk away from Edinsin with a jolly demeanor. So while dude can never shut Alter Dude up, it’s possible to ignore him. Which honestly is the best way to deal with a shadow, just let the urges pass over you and ignore them. Also, the brain damage is still literal. Dude is trying to numb himself with alcohol and drugs. He’s trying to kill Alter Dude in a way that matters. But there is only one. And dude will never survive it.

[@l1ndblum]

Interesting content and the narration sounds brilliant as always!

[@DimentiosLoyalest]

The Goliath genuinely sets off every fight or flight response in my body and I actually ran away in terror every time I saw one desperate for a corner to peek it from to avoid that nightmarishly fast charge and blood curdling screech of it's. And you better believe it was priority #1 whenever it was around I do not care what other enemies wanted me dead.

[@KiluKahur]

One other thing about the Other Dude, along with the fingerless gloves, his sleeves are also rolled up - another thing that's only really depicted in POSTAL 1/Redux.

[@wheelsOG]

why the saxobone got me feeling some type of way doe 🥵

[@brainsploder4841]

Suboxone

[@ABuffWizard]

Trombussy

[@samuelsolomon7330]

My interpretation of the ending cutscene is that the dream is something dude goes through very often, almost daily, as the other dude implied this has happened many times before. It's a constant fight against the other dude, or his "id". Much like us, the voice in your head telling you to do the worst things imaginable will never go away. Life is a constant war against our own worst impulses, and a psychopath like the postal dude is no exception. We can ignore that terrible voice all we'd like, but it will never leave.

[@SynthLizard8]

I certainly wouldn't mind Fluffy friends and Lizard-Dudes in my "nightmares"

[@madmonty4761]

Furry

[@SynthLizard8]

@@madmonty4761 Scalie actually but close enough.

[@whoareyoutoaccuseme6588]

Oh God, I can still hear their obnoxious death cries in my nightmares.

[@EnclaveSOC-102]

Same here.

[@NebLleb]

The horror elements are really delved into with Episode 2, which is easily the best episode out of the three.

[@bigsmoke3650]

its proud to be from a country where this amazing game was develooped

[@JRSLVVVVRZYVV]

Poland Mountain

[@theandrzej2890]

When I first saw the orchestra monster in the first level, immediately I went to google the model. I'm not disturbed easily, but hyperstrange did an amazing job creating the monsters, although taking just a little bit of inspiration from other games. If there's ever a postal 5 I would love for it to go back to its roots. Yeah, the 4th one is alright, but it's just ,,haha funny random Postal 2 HD''. Maybe a continuation to what happened to dude after getting rescued from the asylum? He may go on another killing spree after getting released, or something like that. Just in my opinion, the pissing psycho got kinda boring, but I would like a Postal with just the psycho. A snapping between realities like in apocalypse weekend would be cool, seeing the world as normal, but then having some sort of enragement or seeing the reality of what we've done.RWS really could explore the more disturbing/creepy/darker/horror'y side of Postal, and I'd like to hear what you think of this. And as always, keep the good work up!

[@madmonty4761]

The saxabone?

[@majinlilkek4367]

What if at some point in the Dudes live something really traumatic broke him and hes been in a Asylum ever since. Like none of the Postal Games make any real sense except the 1st one. Postal 2 could very well be a dream or hallucination. I feel like the dude dreams Postal 2 because he wants to escape the Asylum and dreams of a normal life. Like the errand list and the game taking place in a seemingly normal city points to that. But there are cracks everywhere like the weird sounds, the hell dogs, people going insane and so much more. The fact that he pisses on his dad's grave and the abusive relationship with his wife also point to the fact that the Dude probably had a shitty life before coming into the Asylum. The fact that every subsequent entry in the main series repeats the formula of P2 could mean that the Dude always makes up a new cycle of Monday to Friday (or Sunday) in a different setting but with the same exact purpose. I dont think anything that happens in any of the Postal games (except maybe P1 but I'm not sure) ever really happened. Everything feels to surreal and in some ways unsettling. If you remove all the haha funny from P2, it is really, *really* disturbing. The most unsettling thing about P2 is that Paradise isnt like a super creepy and disturbing place at first glance, but then you add the Dude and his errands and the whole town turns into a fucking place of horrible mutilation and mass murder. Even if you play on pacifist, the people around you turn into serial killers and at the end of the week the whole town has become a battlefield. Also what if the Dude is a Veteran and that's why he imagines all the Al Qaeda/Taliban, but that's probably reaching a bit too far. This is probably a little bit incoherent but it was more of a ramble anyways.

[@Neon_Henchman]

Because of you, for almost a year, I've gotten a great appreciation for the series, and it's not due to its weird humour, but rather the very dark subject matter. Thank you for showing me a part of the series I'll actually enjoy to the fullest.

[@ElFacuPanterA]

The horror of human limits and fantasy from irrational fear through violence it's amazing, terrifyingly amazing.

[@catchtherainbow3523]

at this point "[p o s t a l - 3]" is like some sort of anomaly and hazard to the postal fandom like "[t i b e r i u m - t w i l i g h t]" is to cnc fandom

[@hamac6156]

One of many things that are fuzzy about this saga is that we never have any good explanation about the family, and even the tombstone ending in postal 1

[@Andriej69]

Postal franchise has a better lore than pretty much everyone gives it credit for

[@MrPlea6]

I remember playing the game on easy mode and when I got to the boarder level my game crashed, and I lost all my progress because I had no idea there was a save button, then I said "Huck it" and turned the difficulty to postal.

[@sharpshot404]

I wish there were some analysis on postal 4, the boss’ reveal of who he is and his callback to the first game are of note but the weekday endings with the pacifist ending seem to show the demon in another form.

[@Shef3341]

Running with scissors are a perfect balance of disturbing horror and dark humor

[@xossminmin2745]

It feels like SH but more cheerful Also some enemies seem to be inspired by Silent Hill like crawlers with lips instead of face or caged beings and psychological and societal commentary in monster symbolism reminds me of SH too

[@NEEDbacon]

Instead of being a schlupy everyman or truck driver doing their best to survive. You're instead a paranoid Schizophrenic who "Always knew this day would come", and the town couldn't come up with something worse then day to day living.

[@Huy-G-Le]

It is equally incredible that this game design philosophy went so deep, but also the fact that this game is made using Unity of all engine, and also another weird thing, that NO ONE had make an all enemies videos for this game yet as of 2023.

[@thespecialist3608]

“Until it spots you.” That was utterly horrifying!

[@StagFiesta]

What I always wonder is, Rick Hunter voiced the Demon Postal Dude in 1, AND the Postal Dude in 2, but in this one Rick is designated the "Alter Dude" While Corey Cruise, who was the Dude from, the game that as you put it which does not exist [and the alter dude from Postal 2s Paradise Lost], is voicing the Dude in Brain Damage. Was Corey Cruise dude the true dude? Or am I thinking too deep into this series?

[@Abel_Unstable]

First. Nice video btw, I was just finished playing Brain Damaged. Super fun.

[@maajestiic7098]

i really wish base postal had a more thought out lore

[@punkbnuyyy]

5:26 -Casually points camera at an AR-15- '...The unmistakable image of an Ak47 assualt rifle...'

[@ABuffWizard]

*_”unmistakable”_*

[@inkmime]

Brain Damaged feels a bit like a tonal link between Postal 1 and 2. You still have a lot of the general gags and grossout you get from Postal 2 but there's always just a bit of Postal 1's uncomfortable vibe sorta creeping along the edges. It almost feels like the two games are fighting over control of the Dude's headspace and I kinda like it.

[@swaggerdagger8976]

bro i was thinking since this game takes place in the dude's head someone would try to psychoanalyze it but i didn't think anyone would actually fucking do it 💀

[@skipper-morgan]

this fixed my brain damage

[@cacamilk4u]

I was just starting to close my eyes and pass out at the end of the video when all of a sudden got scared and woke me up so fast when I heard the screaming I thought it was from outside lol .

[@ABuffWizard]

Terribly sorry. If it makes you feel any better it jumpscared me the first time I came across one haha

[@cacamilk4u]

@@ABuffWizard lmao nah its okay and awesome job tho with the video just sucks that I never gor to play any of those games and still want to but I only play console .

[@ABuffWizard]

Thanks, mate. Postal: Brain Damaged is on consoles if you like the look of it (though I can’t imagine playing it with a controller!)

[@cacamilk4u]

@@ABuffWizard oh okay ill check it out :) and ill see how it feels lol

[@Iron_Soil]

Sorry guys but Postal bd>Postal 4

[@marko-gj1uj]

No Way, Sherlock.

[@Iron_Soil]

@@marko-gj1uj not everyone thinks so

[@Gabriel-all]

@@Iron_Soil Everyone thinks Man, postal 4 sucks

[@陆弘毅-s1e]

5:27 the news clip calling an ar15 an ak47 gave me brain hemorrhage

[@KiddSteely]

oh this video was perfect. I had never thought for a second of the deeper meaning of the other dude

[@DionneDion]

Honestly, the writing and environmental story telling is more clever than in POSTAL 4. It's so weird that the rights holders to their own franchise (RWS) don't even know what to do anymore with their IP and that some third party developer made a POSTAL Game that kept it's edginess of postal 1 and the goofiness of postal 2, making it seem more like a true sequel to POSTAL 2 than POSTAL 4 itself claims to be. Sure, the humor can still be a bit immature but at least it seems more clever than POSTAL 4, that's trying to make it seem like they're trying to attract a younger audience or something. I mean POSTAL 4 is literally the definition of "peepee poopoo haha funny sex word".

[@VB-92]

Maybe Postal 4 would have been better off as a blend of 1 and 2. Like having a mix of seriousness combined with the humor. Actually here's an idea, the more you senselessly kill and hurt people, the more you become like postal 1 dude, the less funny and more dark the game becomes and the more you avoid going on killing sprees and only fight back in self defense, the more the dude acts like his joke cracking postal 2 self. Would have been a neat duality.

[@Bernadottes777]

Awesome work, thanks

[@JackOfAllTradersOriginal]

i find it a bit funny that postal redacted dude is the exact same as the weird halucination dude from paradise lost

[@Italianshooter01]

There is no fucking way that you turned a postal gameplay in a silent hill video💀💀💀

[@heyjohn14]

fun fact: the karen boss is based off the karen featured in viva la dirt league

[@cordan305]

I HATE going into vents or anywhere in water or where it’s like in a poorly lit, deep area in this game because of those godforsaken Crawlers. Sure, their design is funny in a way but it’s also terrifying with the way they slowly crawl over to you.

[@barricadedpurifier]

If Silent Hill and Doom had a Child but if it was set in the Postal universe

[@whoareyoutoaccuseme6588]

Throw in Psychonauts into to mix as well

[@fenrirsrage4609]

I find it funny that watching this Civvie immediately qent for Mr.Toot as the representation of the marching band while you focus on arse face and saxobone

[@rbahiaofc]

the fact that postal 4 retconned the fact that postal 1 dude and postal 2 dude are the same puts this game in non-cannon makes me so freakin sad

[@countdrak3247]

I thought the "Boss" was P1 protag in P4? No? Cuz i don't get whatcha mean?

[@rbahiaofc]

@@countdrak3247 the p4 boss is dude's father and he is p1 protagonist that's why brain damaged goes into non cannon cuz this dude is dude jr

[@rbahiaofc]

@@countdrak3247 and i was trying to say that postal 4 proves that p1 dude isnt p2 dude

[@rbahiaofc]

Now that i think about it the evil dude maybe is just his trauma with his dad

[@joshuagraham2843]

postal dude kills evil postal dude from posta 1 i mean he defeated postal 3 due in postal 4 sequel postal brain damage is a in between prequel postal 1 and postal 2

[@CoralCopperHead]

1:30 Just gonna... walk right by the fact that they're not just body horror, but sexual horror as well? I mean... if that's what it takes to avoid demonitization, then sure, it's just... uh... That stuff is just *_too obvious to ignore._*

[@Cure_Diarrhea]

i want Arseface to eat me out

[@MrZancar]

this video cured my depression

[@TristenTheArgonian]

Theres also the rolled sleeves the dude has in Postal 1

[@madmonty4761]

The saxabone looks like its stuck between pain and pleasure its horn sound when it sees you is either the pleasure or it screaming for help

[@enocescalona]

I so hope Running With Scissors makes a horror game again.

[@spoohater6949]

It makes me wonder if the voice we here in postal 2 is in dudes head and not his actual voice

[@cruisinagain1698]

Could you do a video laying out the connections of the games? i feel like there is a inner story laying inside the game since 1 doesn't end in death, but getting entrapped in an asylum maybe be released into society, and either causing him to be a functioning member of society in 2 or a mass murderer. In this video he seems he does want to cut the murdery side of his life off as you present, maybe making a deeper mental connection in this seemingly shallow series with too many dick jokes.

[@Hunterb0t12]

I know nothing of this series so I’m new to it. 3:15 this scared the shit out of me

[@gibbings5534]

If this is all related to the dudes experiences in paradise, i wonder where the furries come in

[@whoareyoutoaccuseme6588]

And to an extent, Elon Mu--ahem-- Leon Dusk.

[@NEEDbacon]

Paradise seems like the kind of place that'd have an expo for them every odd year.

[@nosleeplessnights9]

Hey, random day in the internet and the almighty algorithm showed me this video ;) First of all, wow, it's such a beautiful essay diving deep into the design of PBD. I absolutely love the interpretation down the horror avenue. Also, to answer your thoughts about the Goliath: I was the writer in PBD, and while character design was complete, I couldn't help myself not to insert a wink to Micolash (hence "The host of nightmares"), so your intuition was well in line with author's intent ;)

[@tiberiusfemur374]

(Slight Spoiler Warning cause I have to give certain details to explain myself) I have no shame admitting it was Civvie who showed me the Postal series through his videos on Postal 2. But this game I experienced for myself first. And yeah, it creeped me out at so many points, especially during the second act. The enemy design mixed with the artsyle and music was just an offkey note of reality. But I felt something else during this game and something I wasn't expecting: Confidence and love of life. I was in college, ready to go with a club to a anime convention. It was gonna be the first I had made a full on costume for, with sewing work props and everything. I had felt it was going to be the start of a great hobby and some of the meetings offered were going to be my entry into several creative fields. Take a solid guess what happened. After that, everything just got worse and worse. It felt like people were loosing their minds. Distance learning was a disaster, so many projects were forced into the can because prices went nuts, and everyday all I could hear was how everything sucked and we were all gonna die. Every time I tried to look for a straight answer to what was going on, I was greeted with nothing but shouting matches were everyone was blaming everyone else and giving evidence (whether real or fake mattered not) to why the other was the devil incarnate and why they shouldn't be allowed to live. And even worse, every avenue I had to try and relieve myself of stress and worry was completely closed up. It seemed all anyone had to give was either more shouting about our inevitable death or screaming at the audience that trying to be happy means you're mentally disabled. If not, it was self-righteous journalists and incompetent businessfolk. Add that to me leaving the net of college for the 'real world' in a retail position and I entered a very dark slump. I couldn't write, couldn't think, could hardly smile for more than a few minutes. But then I found this game and this series, with a world just enough like our own to seem real. But you weren't some poor helpless sap, you were someone who wouldn't let it all ruin your day. You'd fell every oak before you and still come out alright. You storm the Great Wall of Mexico, battle Karens, aliens and 5G towers and, once you kill the cursed virus by p!$$;g liquid nitrogen in it's eyes, you storm a convention hall and get glomped by furries kaijus. This was the message the world needed. Not 'Life Sucks Then You Die', not 'Ghostbusters is F+#7!g Stupid' and not 'Wubba Lubba Dub Dub.' The world is looney, the world is scary, and yeah, it can seem it's all out to get ya. But you CAN beat it. You CAN power through. You can win.

[@vezqyyexe]

Postal is on a of my favorite videogame Titels and I like you're videos about it

[@christopherwall2121]

The best thing Running With Scissors did after The Game That Does Not Exist was keeping Corey Cruise on as a voice for the Dude. This one act made the sweetest lemonade out of Akela's lemons by letting the games go in a more psychological direction like here.

[@aaronfpokemon]

This video is so EPIC! Also ass face is my favourite

[@coolwolf506]

I really just want to see a proper second game of the original postal (if that makes any sense) without holding back just to see how much controversy it can start up. Because a lot of shootings are still happening but we have brushed them off for so long and if a game about virtual shootings conjures up more attention than actual shootings, it says something.

[@Gerbrandt0245]

This cant be good for me, but I feel great.

[@Rad-Dude63andathird]

0:58 Just to be a total lore nerd for Postal of all things, the pandemic became a thing by the time he got to Edensin.

[@GenericPhantom1]

Rick Hunter's voice lines in Postal 1 are classified as Demon. So maybe Postal 1 is an alternative universe where the demon wins. I feel like Running With Scissors is doing a FNAF where they just make something really cryptic and make us figure it out. As if I care what is the storyline of a game where you pee on terrorists.

[@junojun722]

So, basically, Brain Damaged - Postal 1 - Postal 2 - AW, 3 (nightmare), PL, and 4? Or just Brain Damaged - Postal 1?

[@junojun722]

@DeWidox 01 Oh.. makes sense, thanks!

[@EVERYTHING-mb6um]

4:20 morbius

[@ABuffWizard]

he’s morbing out!

[@henrikthortonson2093]

I just subscribed to you. I enjoy your Postal series lore and dissection videos.

[@ThomasL1d]

I think the postal dude is the same guy throughout the series but after 1 he got a further grip onto his sanity and weakened the demon until it came back in brain damaged

[@myboysd5772]

damn, really good video i appreciate the you put into this thanks !

[@teslashark]

Finally, a Silent Hill FPS!

[@whoareyoutoaccuseme6588]

Silent Hill + Psychonauts + Doom Eternal = Postal Brain Damaged.

[@CallForGrandPappy]

Really glad I got this recommended to me, always thought the first games tone was really unique and RWS does a good job at comedy and horror.

[@proto_shane5059]

oh hey its the cage dudes from darksouls 3

[@julios999]

The torture-execution method you showcase: «Execution of Captain Kidd» is not medieval times but modern times [1701]. Otherwise it would been 1450+- or prior. Aside from that, thanks for the document, it was very interesting!

[@wheelsOG]

postal do be crazy doe

[@vnkfrancis1328]

Something tells me if Dude went to Silent Hill the town would spawn all the enemies intact maybe with a F.Bacon makeover and probably he'd became a new nightmare host or some sort of pit that town as an entity can borrow negativity from. It's just a speculation and I have too much free time on my hands

[@madmonty4761]

Interesting how the dude sees golden retrievers as the violent dog even though golden retrievers are some of the kindest dog can this mean the dude has buried his feeling of love and kindness deep inside of him

[@Fenrize]

Pretty ironic since he owns a Pit Bull (not saying they are 100% of the time dangerous or aggressive, it's all about how you raise and train them but still they have the reputation). Maybe it's just an another way to show how he sees the world around him? Made me wonder if everything in his mind is literally flipped upside down as in something generally considered to be safe & friendly becomes dangerous & threatening in his mind. Would explain his seemingly happy and sarcastically joking demeanor when he's killing people, like he's "having fun with them".

[@madskely6611]

"The unmistakable image of an ak 47 rifles"

[@mwezi4193]

The caged mass of flesh reminds me of the similar enemy from dark souls 3. And I think the levers just supposed to look like a dick

[@redstonistlab3014]

yes