One of Rockstar's most fondly remembered games is PS2's Bully, but a sequel has just never materialised. Will we ever see one?
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!
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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.
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."
The classic Rockstar irreverence made the first Bully charming, but it might not fly in changing times without a stronger narrative.
Bad idea?
It would be a breath of fresh air in this overly PC orientated society. It's the best idea to just stick to your vision no matter what. If you're worried about offending someone then you might as well throw in the towel. There will always be someone who's offended over something, especially in the snowflake social media outrage culture bubble.
While I support Billy 2, apprehension makes sense. Rockstar main goal is to make money. Hell a sequel under a different name would be a less PR hit.
Their goal would hardly be to make a loss that’s just stupid. Their goal is to make quality games and the reviews and sales show it. Quality sells
Rockstar thrive off of bad pr anyway. They are the poster child of "any pr is good pr".
Bully 2 > Bully 1 > Red Dead 2 > Red Dead 1
That’s what they should have made instead of Res Dead 2.
yeah with the Fragile Babied Culture we've turned into now. seems like a bad idea. people are such Butterflies now that you Dunno which direction you walk wont hurt there feelings ,i hope this is just a phase and will realize we cant live like this ,i feel like its mostly North America getting Weaker and will be pushovers when this generation grows up and have to lead the country. everywhere you look your stepping on glass with a blindfold on
The irony here is so many folks are offended over people being "offended". Which crowd is projecting offense?
Oh God we don't even have a confirmation and here we are. Quit writing articles about how sensitive you are. Instead write about what you would like to see Bully 2 accomplish even if you want to inject your agenda into.
There is a very high likelyhood that they're not even working on this. Not only that, but they're probably not even thinking about it. The first one didn't actually do that well, so they probably won't bother with a second one. If anything, they're likely working on GTA6.
They had several teams in the mid 2000s but since last gen lots of those teams have been silent
I'm not sure why you got downvoted.
Bullying is such a hot topic and is the cause of many children developing depression and even taking their own lives.
There's no way Rockstar makes this game. It would be the equivalent of making a game where you're a school shooter. The one indie dev team that did attempt that got panned back to the stone age. And rightfully so.
I don't think that's true, I've never played it so obviously I'm not an expert but as far as I know it's about standing up to bullies not being one yourself. In this time when kids are hanging themselves in their bedrooms because of bullying a game that empowers them might do more good than harm.
Not in soft generation
They could, but the generation that was raised by South Park and the Simpsons suddenly became sensitive.
Bully is probably considered worse than GTA by today’s standards. Muh tropes!
No
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.