It looks like RWS was planning on publishing some Postal spin-off game but later pulled the plug because of accusations of the game using AI generated assets, despite there being no proof and the only evidence is the art-style giving the vibe and the appearance of a triple-barrel shotgun.
I personally think the game looks garbage either way because it looks like someone put pixelshit billboards in the Unity engine, but I can't tell if it's AI generated or not. If it is AI generated then I'm pretty sure it was an image to image conversion which to me used enough human input to not be considered "slop", but I don't know what other people think.
The anti-AI crowd can be a bit extreme to the point where even the use of AI filters is enough to call for boycotts. And personally, I think AI slop is 100x better than "asset flipper" slop because at least AI will produce something that is somewhat original, even if it is using data from other works.
@beardalaxy It turns out that they probably were using AI. The dev team used outside artists and perhaps they were using AI as a shortcut, at least in the trailer. They claim the in-game assets were legitimate.
However the controversy was so bad that they closed down the studio. That must really suck.
@xianc78@gameliberty.club Wew lad, canning a project over an Internet comment section. Really surprising that RWS is still around, considering what little output they've had since POSTAL 2 has been bad.
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>Really surprising that RWS is still around, considering what little output they've had since POSTAL 2 has been bad.
I can only assume that Postal 2 has attracted new players over the years as people are looking for games that aren't afraid of being "politically incorrect", and that's what's keeping RWS afloat all these years.
The game is often recommended by YouTubers like SyntheticMan and on imageboards when people ask for good Western games or offensive games.
@xianc78 I wonder if the dev team could sue RWS over it if they could prove they weren't actually using AI.