By Jim Rossignol on July 23rd, 2008 at 9:07 am.
Weapons that you have to feed seem to be something of a theme this week. Here’s the trailer for politically dubious murdersim, Postal III, in which the dev team (Running With Scissors) show off the use of their angry-badger weapon.
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23/07/2008 at 09:16 cullnean says:
was it you who did the devils advocate on boring weapons jim?
if so this weapon is a gift from the gods, screw ak47′s bring on the badgers, also because of you im now playing stalker rather than my usual diet of mmo’s you swine!
23/07/2008 at 09:27 AbyssUK says:
Wow you’d think after all this time they would have worked on the graphics.. its looks almost identical to postal II..
23/07/2008 at 09:39 The Poisoned Sponge says:
One question: Why the hell hasn’t anyone ever thought of an angry badger on a harness before?
Genius…. pure…. genius…
23/07/2008 at 09:46 Koopa says:
Those flame effects seem really bad after seeing the fireworks in Alone in the Dark, or Far Cry 2.
23/07/2008 at 09:47 feitclub says:
Awww, I was hoping to see the vacuum cleaner loaded with spunk-rags. No, I’m not making that up…they discussed it on the GFW 1Up podcast last week.
23/07/2008 at 10:09 Someone says:
Looks great but why third person?
23/07/2008 at 10:29 mister slim says:
Okay, now we need retrospectives on Oddworld Stranger (Does complaining about lack of a PC port qualify it for RPS coverage?) and Armed & Dangerous (though I guess the sharks were capable of finding their own food).
23/07/2008 at 10:32 Zerimski says:
That was…really boring. Give me a shark launcher any day.
23/07/2008 at 10:34 Smee says:
Sorry, a badger? Are they supposed to be very dangerous, then? I only ask because I was reading the aborted Black Isle Fallout 3 Van Buren design documents the other night and at one point they mentioned that the player could get an angry badger as a Dogmeat replacement.
Ah, synchronicity.
@Mister Slim – add the alien parasite from Half Life: Opposing Force to your list, and in a way, the barnacle grappling hook.
23/07/2008 at 10:36 Phil says:
I don’t care if the game is as unholy an abomination as Postal I and Postal II, any game featuring the mighty honey badger is a win. Ah, the honey badger, the only creature on earth that when faced with a rampaging lion thinks, “right, I’m going to eat it’s testicles.” See “Do honey badgers emasculate their prey?”
@ http://www.honeybadger.com/FactFile/F.A.Q.htm
23/07/2008 at 10:51 James G says:
Does anyone else remember this story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6295138.stm
“British forces have denied rumours that they released a plague of ferocious badgers into the Iraqi city of Basra.
Word spread among the populace that UK troops had introduced strange man-eating, bear-like beasts into the area to sow panic. “
23/07/2008 at 11:03 Ian says:
If you combined a honey badger with a grizzly bear you’d have yourself an animal. I like the story about the guy in the woods in America who shot a grizzly with his rifle from a hundred yards or so away, and then made the mistake of resting his gun against a tree while he went to admire his, ahem, “kill”.
Back on topic, where the hell does he put a live badger when he’s not using it?
23/07/2008 at 11:16 DSX says:
Brilliant. Snake launcher should be next. And yes, badger storage is indeed a very relevant question.
23/07/2008 at 11:22 cullnean says:
he keeps it in his pants……..sorry thought you daid tadger Wooooo see what i did there.
ill get my coat
23/07/2008 at 11:31 Kazz says:
wow, that looks like….crap? sure some teenagers will find it fun and hilarious though
23/07/2008 at 11:41 Pavel says:
Third person perspective sucks in this game.
23/07/2008 at 11:41 Andrew Wills says:
Erm? Missing cubemaps ahoy? Check out the glass on the cars and the bench in the shop… Purple textures!
Looks fairly amusing, and the angry badger is the stuff of pure legend.
23/07/2008 at 12:00 Stuart W says:
I’m enjoying the comments, please keep them up!
Just a note on the “that looks crap” comments – yes, it does a bit doesnt it? and it does look like its a “hilarious” game aimed at teenagers with personality issues. But on the other hand, so was Postal 2 and that didnt stop it being one of my guilty pleasures. Somehow, despite the almost desperate attempts at controversy and the dodgy grpahics it really did work as a piece of entertainment. I dont know whether 3 will follow the same fine (?) line but i dont see anything in the video to suggest otherwise despite the apparent validity of the “it looks crap” comments here.
Can only wait and see… but the Badger is brilliant.
23/07/2008 at 12:35 Calabi says:
Yeah it looks crap, so what, at least their putting gameplay above graphics.
Has anyone noticed where his other hand is.^^
23/07/2008 at 12:35 Albides says:
Badgers badgers badger badger badgers!!!!
Also badgers!
23/07/2008 at 12:38 Alex McLarty says:
Albibes, I second you:
Badgers, badgers, badger, badger, badgers!!!!
23/07/2008 at 12:44 Albides says:
No, no! I appreciate your passion for badgers! Badgers are fine! Extraneous commas aren’t! Exclamation marks, also good!
(Interrobags, even better, because it sounds like a some sort of improvised orgasm device!?)
23/07/2008 at 12:49 The_B says:
Snaaake? Snake, it’s a snake!
Remember kids, if you can’t think of a funny comment, pull out the memes.
23/07/2008 at 13:10 sana says:
Obvious standard Source Engine sounds are obvious.
23/07/2008 at 13:13 AbyssUK says:
Oh the game will be funny to play, but they should have at least tried to make it look alright.. that movie above looks terrible. Postal II looked at least average compared to other games released at the same time.
23/07/2008 at 13:20 Plum says:
The other hand is grabbing it by the rectum. This is how the level of anger is controlled. If it’s a burly man then you clearly need to squeeze quite hard for maximum ferocity. For weaker foes, you can get away with a more relaxed, almost caressing grip.
23/07/2008 at 13:25 Pus Filled Sac says:
The WAR trailer looked bad, but the bad graphics here allow for a certain charm. You don’t need photo realistic graphics, advanced physics systems and a billion pixels per eyebrow when a handheld badger is mauling someone. Good graphics might even take away from the experience.
My main concern with this video is that he didn’t appear able to deploy the badger on the dog running past.
23/07/2008 at 13:36 Calabi says:
He better be careful he dont stroke the badger too much, or he’ll go cross eyed.
I saw a monkey item as well, I wonder what he does with that?
23/07/2008 at 14:12 B Rad says:
This looks like shit
23/07/2008 at 14:20 Pavel says:
To Albides – DAMN that video is addictive! :D
Badger badger badger badger badger badger….
23/07/2008 at 14:23 MetalCircus says:
Postal 2 is still one of my faveourite games
23/07/2008 at 14:24 Little Green Man says:
Mushroom! MUSHROOM!
And it looks a bit meh, apart from inventive weapons im thinking 40-60% score, lower if buggy.
23/07/2008 at 15:00 Demikaze says:
I prefer llamas.
23/07/2008 at 15:12 Iain says:
I haven’t seen player movement so disconnected from what the avatar legs are doing since Deus Ex. That looks utterly pants. Big, fat, baggy pants with a broken elastic waistband.
23/07/2008 at 15:26 Ian Dorsch says:
“I don’t care if the game is as unholy an abomination as Postal I and Postal II, any game featuring the mighty honey badger is a win. Ah, the honey badger, the only creature on earth that when faced with a rampaging lion thinks, “right, I’m going to eat it’s testicles.” See “Do honey badgers emasculate their prey?”
@ http://www.honeybadger.com/FactFile/F.A.Q.htm
Thank you so much for that. I love the second question too: “Are honey badgers invincible?”
23/07/2008 at 15:32 The Kins says:
It looks very unfinished (no cubemaps) and with lots of placeholders (the damage sounds from HL2, no proper gore effects) but it looks like it has the immature, backyard Postal “charm”. Looking forward to it.
23/07/2008 at 15:52 Sal says:
reminds of that game…where they had some sort of Shark gun/bomb…
23/07/2008 at 16:37 RLacey says:
Armed and Dangerous?
Does it fire shurikens and lightning? If not, then count me out.
Or something.
23/07/2008 at 16:51 Zed says:
Badgers are badass.
Too bad it’s a melee weapon. A seek, destroy and return badgerang would have rule.
23/07/2008 at 17:12 Dinger says:
Question: When he’s not using the badger, where does he keep it? I don’t think I’d be comfortable putting that back in my pocket.
23/07/2008 at 17:40 Kieron Gillen says:
The Cassandra Project actually had a Badger-based weapon modelled. It was the Badger bomb. It was a badger with a bomb on its back.
KG
23/07/2008 at 18:23 Cooper says:
Obligatory Uncyclopedia link to ‘List of weapons that don’t exist but should’
23/07/2008 at 18:26 KingMob says:
http://www.honeybadger.com/FactFile/F.A.Q.htm
Thanks so much for pointing me to this link, Phil. I think we’ve all learned a lot today.
23/07/2008 at 18:32 rubthisway says:
Armed and Dangerous was ace! I’d totally forgotten about that peculiar slice of oddness.
23/07/2008 at 18:55 Wayne M says:
Why don’t they go the whole hog (No pun intended) and use Ruth Badger in a Harness. She wouldn’t need to eat her victims, she could just Hard-Sell them to death!
p.s She’s also a right chunky minger so the low quality graphics would more than likely improve her mush.
23/07/2008 at 22:07 Jetsetlemming says:
Is it that hard to throw in some cubemaps in your E3 demo level? Really? Step 1: Place a cubemap. Step 2: Type “buildcubemaps” in console ingame. Easy, and prevents that ugly purple missing texture crap!
I don’t care about the graphical quality, at this point Running With Scissors is downright indie in quality, but goddamn visible error textures that are so easily avoided ingame, come on. You saved a whole 30 seconds not adding them.
24/07/2008 at 05:34 gentlemensclub says:
That guy with the dog doesn’t run while everyone else does,weird. The maps look full of stuff. Hope this is available on steam!
24/07/2008 at 06:15 Mr. President says:
Metal Wolf Chaos?
Badger weapon or no, I’m still staying away from this.
24/07/2008 at 16:26 malkav11 says:
For those wondering about badger storage – it *is* a Postal game. I’m pretty sure you are better off not knowing.
24/07/2008 at 20:47 GeorgeR says:
Wow, that is just ridiculous, I think I’m in love. But still… I think I’m with Mr. President. Unless something really comes out that shows me different I won’t be picking it up.
25/07/2008 at 13:51 KindredPhantom says:
Someone should badger them for a release date.