Description

Se sabe de Dude, solo que lo desalojaron de su casa (hay una camioneta de mudanzas estacionada frente a su casa) y, como resultado, se volvió loco, pero no se desarrolla ninguna historia real durante el juego. El manual (War Journal en Redux), sin embargo, menciona que Dude cree que su ciudad está bajo algún tipo de brote de locura y que depende de él detenerlo, así como el diario del juego de Dude despotricando sobre "limpiar" la Tierra. ## Personality POSTAL "The Earth is hungry. Its heart throbs and demands cleansing. The Earth is also thirsty." — Home opening cutscene Here, very little is known of the Dude, only that he's been evicted from his home (there's a moving van parked in front of his home) and has been driven insane as a result, but no real back story evolves during the game. The manual (War Journal in Redux), however, does mention that the Dude believes his town to be under some sort of madness outbreak and that it's up to him to stop it, as well as the in-game diary of the Dude ranting about "cleansing" the Earth. By the end, he has a breakdown, collapses, and is contained in a mental asylum for study after either attempting a massacre at an elementary school (original) or witnessing what appears to be his own funeral (Redux). Redux's Rampage ending implies that his condition is beginning to worsen, seemingly locked in an "endless struggle against himself". The Postal Dude is never seen directly, only being seen as the player's sprite in gameplay and in the surreal images that play before each level, although his image is heavily distorted. His true identity is thrown into further chaos as of POSTAL Redux, which reveals the existence of multiple Postal Dudes; four of which band together to break the Campaign/Rampage Dude out of the asylum in the Co-op ending. This is thrown further upon the completion of the Super Delivery campaign, where the Co-Op Dudes (red, blue, yellow, and green coats) lie dead at the grave in that campaign's version of "The End". The Postal Dude's original appearance. By default, he wears a red trench coat in the original disk version of the game and a black coat in later re-releases and as the default color in Redux. The only clear image found of him is in concept art and a photograph that appeared in POSTAL's advertising campaign. In the photograph, the Postal Dude differs greatly from his later appearances, being a troubled young man with a mop haircut wielding an AK-47. In the Steam Trading Card Artwork, Profile Backgrounds, and the original POSTAL's "about" section on RWS' website, he uses his POSTAL 2 appearance with a plain blue T-shirt, longer and more unkempt hair, and fingerless gloves. The Demon In the game files of the original POSTAL, the voice files of Rick Hunter are labelled as "Demon". The reason for this is that the voice heard in the game is not the Postal Dude verbally, but an inner one, implying either unhinged thoughts, demonic possession, or both. The grunts and moans were separate voiceovers done by Vince Desi. When POSTAL 2 came around, the devs simply decided to keep Hunter as the voice of the Postal Dude. In a 2007 interview on the now-defunct Postal Nation, it was explained as reinventing the Dude's character between the two games, and a natural decision to have Hunter voice the role in full. This continued in POSTAL Redux, with the Postal Dude's grunts now being replaced with ones recorded by Hunter. Hunter had also re-recorded all of the Dude's lines.