It's a question we've all asked ourselves at one point or another in our lives. Why isn't there more female screaming and people pissing on themselves in videogames? The Postal series tried to bring these noble experiences to the world of interactive entertainment, but for all the franchise's tastelessness, it were these two items that were considered too extreme for Western audiences.
"Well, it was kind of weird and amusing when we had to cut all the female moans and screams out of Postal 1 for release in Britain due to sensitivity surrounding the tragic death of Princess Diana," explains lead designer Steve Wik. "Interestingly, we had problems with the pissing in Postal II in America. It seems that some consider it a 'sex act.' It's ironic because the only reason we put it in the game was to provide a method of putting yourself out when you caught on fire! ... We were so naive ..."
It just goes to show how dirty minded the so-called moral majority are. Only someone with a truly filthy mind could see a man pissing on himself to put out a fire and instantly link it to sex, but it's ironically how the moral fundamentalist right-wingers seem to think.
That said, I think linking female screams to Princess Diana is far more stupid than linking urine to sex.
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12:00 PM on 08.31.2009
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What makes you think the ESRB raters are fundamentalist right-wingers? You have zero evidence to support that. Plus, the creation of the ESRB stemmed out of congressional hearings headed by Herb Kohl and Joe Liebermen who are most certainly NOT right wingers nor fundamentalist.
Please don't use the opporunity you have here to spread your mindless bigotry.
That is all.
It was less a game and more an Anthropological Test. Everything in the game was designed to put you over the edge and go ape shit. Those who stayed calm the longest and did all the chores on the list as peacefully as possible were reported to governments as possible serial killers, I'm sure :|
Oh, and I eagerly await Postal 3.