Bully 2 - 2012?

[Hayley]

O ye poor hopeful bastards

[King Cobra]

"Bully 2 - 2012?"

Now 10 years later....

Bully 2 must be coming in 2021!

Soon you're gonna see people with a white board, explaining conspiracies, decrypting the secret messages of bohemian grove and the Illuminati, and trying to communicate with morse code.     

[Hayley]

Bully 2 confirmed to release when the Lizard People bring about the second coming of Jesus. My friend's Uncle works for Rockstar and told him who told me so it must be true right??












Just kidding! I don't have any friends 

[Owais Qadri]

Yeh I hope it comes

[Crazy Snake]

I’m still slightly hopeful on seeing another Bully.

I mean it isn’t as bad as hoping for Half Life 3.

And look Doom went silent after Doom 3, then came back better than ever. And now we are getting a sequel to that.

Now would be the best time. RDR2 just came out. GTA is still bringing in a ton of cash because of online. No need to mess with the series. Although you can guarantee they are slowly working on 6.

Manhunt is the silent one I’d like, but less likely to see.

Max Payne maybe, but I think they don’t know where to go with the series.

I’m really hopeful tbh now is the best time, even if I am wrong.

[Hayley]

I have always acknowledged Sequel Gaps being a common thing. Kid Icarus Uprising was released 21 years after Of Myths and Monsters for example.

Half Life 3 ehhh sure I'm aware there's issues with it but on the bright side Alyx is coming after 13 years. Phrasing oh no. Bully is currently sitting at 13 years and I've always had an open mind that there might be another one so long as Rockstar hasn't firmly confirmed it's just a one-off and they're done with the series.

[Crazy Snake]

HL: Alyx got me salty af lol. Nothing more than a way to move hardware or at least a try to.

[King Cobra]

I’m still slightly hopeful on seeing another Bully.

I mean it isn’t as bad as hoping for Half Life 3.

And look Doom went silent after Doom 3, then came back better than ever. And now we are getting a sequel to that.

Now would be the best time. RDR2 just came out. GTA is still bringing in a ton of cash because of online. No need to mess with the series. Although you can guarantee they are slowly working on 6.

Manhunt is the silent one I’d like, but less likely to see.

Max Payne maybe, but I think they don’t know where to go with the series.

I’m really hopeful tbh now is the best time, even if I am wrong.

If they do another GTA, I would like to see Vice City on a new engine. I never did much with Max Payne. Manhunt I would really like to see another of, but the activist and censorship shit needs to go away. RDR2 had a good story, but the online didn't have a good start.

Bully is what we all have been waiting for but take-two seems to care little about it. The mystery game "Agent" was supposed to be a playstation exclusive, but at this point people suspect it that the project was dropped.

[Hayley]

If they do another GTA, I would like to see Vice City on a new engine.

Well with the surge of remakes it's not a ludicrous thought. Gotta feed off of people's nostalgia because cash money baby, which is clearly where Rockstar's priorities lie. Hell I wouldn't be surprised if they go this route before dropping Bully 2 or even GTA6. It's just easy money to pull this stunt rather than come up with original ideas.

[King Cobra]

If they make a GTA6, I hope it's simply in Vice City. Vice City was originally an 80s thing. I don't want to see an old vice city just remade and with better graphics.

I want to see a new spin on vice city with a new game. GTA 4 and 5 were based in Liberty City and San Andreas. The next one can only be Vice City or a location we have yet to see.

If we are truly lucky then maybe we'll get a curve ball and see a game we weren't expecting, but seeing take-two and their past record this isn't very likely.

Rockstar gets blamed for most of the issues people have, but it needs to be remembered that they are owned by take-two. Rockstar only makes what take-two wants. Rockstar may have good ideas, but take-two has to give the go ahead for the project.

This is a problem that occurs often when smaller companies are convinced into being bought out. Devs end up under a parent company who now holds the finacial backing and the say of whether a project is on the table or in the trash.

[Hayley]

If they make a GTA6, I hope it's simply in Vice City. Vice City was originally an 80s thing. I don't want to see an old vice city just remade and with better graphics.

Ahhh gotcha. Idon'tplay/likeGTAlmaosoI'mclueless

Still... a remake with updated graphics isn't totally out there.

[Crazy Snake]

Everyone I talk to has mentioned a new GTA set in Vice City. I myself want the same thing, and to this day VC is still my favorite GTA. You take the original game and setting, with characters and story (Closest Scarface game you'll ever see) and music. It all fit together really, really well. That is one reason I think we've never seen the city again (excluding Vice City Stories)

Liberty City is played out atm, and San Andreas is still fresh. So Vice City would be an excellent location. Unless they went back to the first two games. If not I'd still to this day like to see them do more with Carcer City. Every GTA game has mentioned the city in someway shape or form. Yet the only game to feature some parts of the city is Manhunt.

[King Cobra]

I was not happy that the map of San Andreas with GTA V was not totally used. The Casino strip was a major part in the original game and would have fit well in GTA V.

Manhunt is usually a linear game and never was open world. It was very much story focused. Same for Max Payne.

If any Bully game comes the map will need to be expanded for sure, since it was small even for the hardware it was released on.

The beta map was actually found to be bigger if I remember right, so it may have been a cut due to the time of development being shorter than needed.

If anything about games like Manhunt or Bully, the issue is that people remember the old and use it as an expectation level for the new. On modern hardware it's difficult to keep with the standards of the community as the bar is held high. This is an easy way to guarantee disappointment.

GTA is easy to follow the expectations of since it almost is like a mold they use in the method of development and people mostly support it. With 5 games now, and maybe 6 coming, it's a series that's easy to roll out.

Other games are very different and harder to build since some don't even have a second game yet.

[Crazy Snake]

True, but I can also say this, Bully while being successful in its own right. I think Rockstar totally knocked it out the park but in doing so didn't realize they would. Unlike any other title by them the game is simply pure bliss. I mean you can throw a ton of ideas into a new game. But how do you keep the magic that was there to begin with.

Like you said GTA, even Red Dead is a simple magic. Bully had so much more though, every character was different with a backstory. I could keep going, but we are all here for one reason, we love the game.

It'd be hard to create that same magic, and with that comes the fear of failing, or coming up short. Especially how hard the market is anymore, with reviews, or how easily fans or newcomers are to upset. And I think this is why we see games not turning into series, or certain series stopping. Along with a ton of other factors. We can only hope though.

[King Cobra]

The two games I really enjoyed was Bully and Manhunt 1&2. I certainly enjoy GTA and RDR games. Manhunt and Bully just feel more unique. Mainly due to lack of content released for those 2 games in the past years.

These games on release were hit hard though with the Jack Thompson disease of "games cause violence" shit. Manhunt was censored unless you got it early.

The ESRB rating system is totally ignored by almost anyone to this day. Issues are blamed on the devs, not the method of access to the game in the first place.

As a result they feel like it needs to be removed from the market "for the children" who aren't supposed to have access to it in the first place. This causes issues where now everyone who is over 20 can't get it when it is removed. Pisses off the gaming community.

Bully was caught in the middle though because it was a teen rated game. This made it easy to target. Every bit of the controversy failed.