Criminals. Superpowers. Criminals with superpowers. For a genre that's all about being able to do anything, sandbox games have become mighty predictable. But you only have to look back as far as the end of the last generation for the antidote to the industry's myopia. Bully. A game that few people talk about now, but which remains easily the equal of GTA IV in terms of playability. It needs a sequel. Here's why.
Inside Rockstar New England's attempt to develop a sequel to one of Rockstar's most-beloved cult classics and the crunch issues and layoffs that followed.
Rockstar should just completely close Grove Street after that mess and reinvest that studio's money into New England's Bully 2 development.
This was a great read and really sounds like Bully 2 was going to be something special!
@porkChop Thanks for the clarification. That is indeed confusing since they are regularly tasked with Rockstar ports and CJ's street in San Andreas shares the same Grove Street name (although after looking it up, its actually named after Grove Street in Gainesville FL, where the studio is located. Coincidence or purposeful?). Either way, Rockstar is giving them money and should be cut off after that mess of a remaster!
@Rimeskeem
Grove Street Games did the Definitive Edition and Rockstar just published the Xbox, Playstation, and cellphone editions. Nintendo supposedly published the Switch edition of the trilogy. The original three games were developed by Rockstar and published by Rockstar.
Imagine the quality of the GTA trilogy if rockstar actually made it.
Instead they palmed off the responsibility to a external mobile dev team that had completed the mobile ports which had concessions that were made to the games to make them run on mobiles like the iPhone 4.
So no I don't think the trilogy took any resources away from rockstar aside from one guy to oversee it from rockstar.
imagine knowing what you're talking about, rockstar didn't technically make even the gta trilogy... they outsourced it.. which is why it was horrible
Well, way to ruin my New Years game informer.
Edit: Very interesting read behind Rockstar if you are a fan.
One of Rockstar's most fondly remembered games is PS2's Bully, but a sequel has just never materialised. Will we ever see one?
In an age where Dr. Suess is called a detriment to childhood development... yeah Bully 2 isn't happening.
They just need to rename it to fool the so-called "concerned parents"....or just moms...
maybe call it Pushy lol!
Yeah like people are carjacking in chicago because of GTA... not because ya know, it's chicago.. so lets ban gta 🤣
Hell even GTA is pushing it by todays standard.. I miss the 90's more everyday
They could, but the generation that was raised by South Park and the Simpsons suddenly became sensitive.
I feel like it has to do with a lot of the younger generation being told to "be a man" and "grow up" and at the same time hold in pent up frustrations through the course of their life including bullying in schools or at home and poor parenting. I want a bully 2, but not for this generation.
Well if being told to be a man is so harsh, I wouldn't want another WW2 situation to happen anytime soon. My grandparents generation were tough as nails, but today Millennials and Gen Z are weak AF. Our society has been demoralized though marxist ideology over the past 30 years, and there might be no going back unless the general population gets smart fast.
@sophisticated
Regardless, i wouldnt want them to release a bully 2 and it ends up turning into a shitstorm because people can't handle what the game is supposed to be. Kinda dumb to think about because of all the gorefest games we have like mortal kombat, gears, etc. But it's true. I do really hope we can get a bully 2 though. Or maybe it might not even be that bad if they announced it. Most of us are probably overthinking it tbh. I just don't wanna see companies going belly-up because people are offended by works of fiction.
Agreed. Hell, Dr Seuss, Mr Potato Head, and being white is getting cancelled. Imagine not enough of minorities in the prep school, these people will complain about anything...and it's why gaming and entertainment as a whole will never be as good as the past.
Creators have to walk on eggshells to make sure their content checks all the boxes.
No one complained about Dr. Seuss or Mr. Potato Head. They're private companies and made a business decision all on their own.
Thats called a free market economy.
@SpinalRemains138
It is a race to be the most woke. Big corporations are competing for the 1% of "woke" lunatics on twitter. It makes the other 99% of us have to deal with inferior quality. In reality they are just digging their own graves driving away all their customers.
@combolock
and the saddest part is it accomplishes nothing. because literally no one asked for any of it. We as a society pay too much attention to vocal minorities. Most people could give 2 craps about any of that. especially in todays post covid society
I would play it if the story was just as good as RDR 2 I have Bully for PS2 and also bought it cheap for the XB360. But if Bully 2 came out I wouldn't be surprised if you have the parents groups getting all pissy about the game and start saying think of the children.
Talha Amjad writes: "Rockstar has not confirmed whether Bully 2 is coming out or not, but we can still talk about aspects and features of the game that we would like to see."
But what I found is unable to steal cars was really annoying. The do not have to make it like GTA where you shoot people up but stealing cars is ok...If they add things like this into it I would be interested
A sequel to Bully has been one of my most wanted games for quite a while. I still play Scholarship Edition waiting on Rockstar to finally announce Bully 2.
As far as I am aware bully 2 has been announced so this article is stupid I wish people would get there facts before posting
Gamespot had the article confirming it's in development
Id rather they made ManHunt 3
I approve for Bully 2 set in college.