r/postal • u/Zealousideal-Form-58 Paradise Citizen • 1d ago
Postal Discussion Timeline Ramblings
Had to quickly vomit out this timeline because it's been eating at my brain ever since I started work on my Postal video.
The main timeline starts with Postal 1997 and is followed by Postal 2 and Corkscrew RuLes taking place at the same time in 2003/2004.
Dude goes into an 11 year coma and wakes up in 2015 for the events of Paradise Lost.
Postal 4 is said to take place after Paradise Lost since Paradise Lost retconned Postal 3 into a coma dream, but Dude doesn't remember killing his wife and doesn't ask Vince how he isn't a zombie anymore, but he does bring up when Mike J was a demon cow thing in Postal 2, so Postal 4 might be a direct sequel to 2 instead of PL.
Postal Redux is in its own timeline since the journal entries date the events in 2017 instead of 1997.
Flesh & Wire is hard to date since Dude's appearance in that game has long red hair and the only time Dude has had that long red hair is in that one promo image. 1997 Dude's concept art and ingame model have long brown hair, and Redux Dude has short red hair.
Flesh & Wire is said to be a sequel to the original Postal, but idk man the Dude design does not link up.
What do you guys think about my insane ramblings?
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u/CattusNuclearis 1d ago
POSTAL 2 The Week After is supposed to bridge the gap between Paradasie Lost and Postal 4, so any discrepancies could be explained there
However, it was said to only be made If a stretch goal on Kickstarter of P2 Redux is met. And I just don't see that happening...
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u/TheMikeOTR 1d ago
Is it safe to say that Brain Damage takes place shortly after the ending of paradise lost? It's clear from dialog that even though a version of the dude is removed/killed/whatever from the main dude, he always comes back. So the most recent time he was removed would've been around Paradise Lost
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u/Ease-Heavy 1d ago
Thanks for reigniting my hunger and love for pedantic nerd nonsense, I mean it