/vr/ - Retro Games

I THINK BULLY SUCKS

>>8167125
FFUUUUUUCCCCKKKKKK WHAT NOW BULLY BROS????

>>8167025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvJT6OPQuVg

>>8167025
this is an English language forum

>>8167025
I'm an idiot, but I thought when you prove something you have to prove the affirmative, so the burden of proof is on you that you're right.

I was really fond of Bully when it was newer and went back to it for the first time this year. I was really worried it was going to not hold up because it's an ambitious late PS2 game and I thought it would show. Turns out though: Bully is a fucking masterpiece.

The only problem with Bully is the frame drops, otherwise it's the best open world game there is

>>8167025
It would be perfect with a little more sexual innuendo and mild gore. It was too tame. Still a fantastic game and probably the best Rockstar has ever made, but it's not perfect.

>>8167240
Tell me how I know you're thirteen and never owned a playstation 2

>>8167240
Maybe you should have expressed your sentiments in a grammatically correct way then.

Spooky game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twqnv4SMI9o

>>8167025
Every time I see that MC, I think he's Bobby Hill.

I only ever got to play this a few times at my cousins house but I really should give it a go.
I see the Steam version is borked so might as well torrent and slap on the fan patch to finally play it.

>>8167930
Fucking same.

Between Bully and RDR 1-2 I really get the impression that Rockstar either doesn't care about GTA since SA or just treats it like cash cow, not without reason, and puts in bare minimum.

>>8167025
No, I agree.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPnig8iy7E8
Um based?

>>8167025
Why Rockstar never ported this game to PC? Did they lost the original code like Red Dead Redemption?

>>8171767
Holy shit turns out they did port the game. Disregard, I'm a retard.

>>8171767
Uhh...

>>8171791
Really not sure how you forgot about Scholarship Edition, Anon.

Also Canis Canem Edit is a better name than Bully

>>8167025
Yes it was. All downhill for Rockstar after they released this.

>>8167025
Honestly thought this game was like 10 years old. Weird seeing it on /vr/

It was cheap on Humble Bundle so I grabbed this and the Max Payne games for some weekend vidya.
So far Bully is playing like the classic Rockstar I prefer and I'm glad I saw this thread and hopped on.
I grabbed the Silent patch so everything is stable and so far it's fun as fuck, the freak show was a nice surprise lmao

>>8167930
bobby hill after he grows up and starts pulling stacies like mad

>>8172068
Maybe you were thinking of the Scholarship Edition for 7th gen consoles, the original was a late PS2 game. Original = barely retro, SE = barely not retro

>>8171802
>Canis Canem Edit
I remember worrying that the game wasn't going to make it to the UK after the hullabaloo over the perceived 'bullying' aspect. Media fearmongering as usual.

>>8171802
>Canis Canem Edit is a better name than Bully

lol no

>>8172167
You posted cringe

>>8167025
Never played. Should I play the 360 version, original or the Wii version

Why is Jimmy such a manlet?

>>8173241
It's a plot devise. Bullied for being a Manley so he pushes back and becomes the bully

>>8173282
*manlet

>>8172540
yep, as to be expected

>>8172665
bully is a boring name

I must be missing something.
I bought it earlier this year on sale after hearing how fantastic the game is, but quit when I got around 3/4 of the way through, I just wasn't enjoying it in the slightest.
The combat was very simple, I never really needed to use any of the weapons I unlocked, and I didn't find the missions or story particularly interesting.
I'm not trying to say the game is bad or people shouldn't like it, I was just really disappointed because I was expecting a game I'd really enjoy, considering I enjoyed the 3D GTA games from the era.

>>8173704
What did you enjoy in GTA that is not present in Bully? Let's find what you are missing together

>>8173236
PC version so you can play in 60 fps, beat em ups feel like crap at lower speeds. There's one mission that requires you to play in 30 to complete it, but other than that it all works well.

>>8173920
Cool. Thx

I bought Canis Canem Edit sight unseen just because it had the Rockstar logo on it. There was zero hype around it, no controversy.
I enjoyed the game. Why do people act like there was some great controversy around it?

>>8173590
lol ok eurofag

>>8173981
Bush era consveracucks said that a game with a school setting would lead to school shootings, being published by rockstar didn't help either. You could also kiss other boys with a glitch, although San Andreas's coop mode on ps2 already let you do this by pressing L1 when close to one another.

>>8173992
>You could also kiss other boys with a glitch
Pretty sure that wasn't a glitch. Each clique had one boy you could kiss.

>>8173992
Was Jack Thompson aware of the creepshots mission?

>>8169938
The Definitely cared about IV but yes this point still stands otherwise

>>8173907
I think I really liked the driving and the progression of weapons in GTA. Starting out with limited stuff like pistols and Uzi and then getting better stuff (especially in Vice City).
I also enjoyed the secrets more, like getting hidden packages felt more rewarding with weapons at your hideouts for example. Or doing ambulance missions to get infinite run etc.
Bully I never used any of the weapons and the hand to hand combat was much better than GTA, but I found it kind of dull regardless since there wasn't much challenge or need to do much different from the usual combo. On that note, what was the point of the rubber bands? I collected a bunch but it never seemed to unlock anything incrementally, and I didn't have the desire to try and find each and every one to see what I get.
There also were a few missions I liked in Bully (like attacking the nerd's compound was pretty fun), but for the most part they seemed quite linear and simple. Not to mention the story didn't seem to make sense? I don't know if this is a Scholarship Edition thing with extra content but you'd be working for the preppies to get respect then immediately turn on them.
Not to say that GTA didn't have boring missions too, but I felt more of them were varied or exciting.

>>8175054
>On that note, what was the point of the rubber bands? I collected a bunch but it never seemed to unlock anything incrementally, and I didn't have the desire to try and find each and every one to see what I get.
Rubber band ball, great for causing chaos in the boys' dorm, especially with the unlimited ammo cheat.

>>8171802
>>8173590
What the fucking hell is Canis Canem Edit

>>8175171
European version

>>8175171
The PAL title for the game.

>>8175176
>>8175180
Yeah but what does it mean, why would anyone buy a piece of shit called Canis Canem Edit, it sounds like a bad ps2 mod

>>8175181
Latin for Dog Eat Dog, you ignorant fuck. It was the Bullworth motto in the game.

>>8175181
It's Latin for "doggy dog" as in "it's a doggy dog world"

>>8175183
>>8175190
That's a legitimately terrible name eurofags

>>8175193
I hole-hardedly disagree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go. Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn't take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It's clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother's mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like it’s a peach of cake.

>>8167025

>>8175843
>JET FUEL CAN'T MELT STEEL BEAMS

>>8175826

This is actually a really good point.

>>8167025
it's up there with saint's row 2 or 3 and red dead redemption as the best GTA games.

>>8175054
>Not to mention the story didn't seem to make sense? I don't know if this is a Scholarship Edition thing with extra content but you'd be working for the preppies to get respect then immediately turn on them.
i haven't played bully in a lifetime but from what i remember of the original game the preppies reached out to you first but things go sour when gary turns them on you (he brings up an inbred joke that jimmy makes about them in the beginning which ironically turns out to be true as the leader of the preppies, darby is dating his cousin) and you making moves on pinky (darby's girlfriend/cousin) during the arc doesn't help smooth things over.

if you want to talk about parts that don't make sense try the nerds turning on you. you spend the better part of the game helping them out when they needed it and they practically spit in your face for almost no real reason. that whole section just felt like they realized that they didn't have a proper nerd arc and decided to shoehorn it with the jock arc.

>>8167025
>only exists so sheltered christian homeschoolers in 2006 can get away with playing gta without their mom grounding them

>>8176241
Actually based. You knew you were talking to a mouthbreather when all they could talk about was playing GTA.

>>8176241
bully was unironically better than most of the 3D & HD era GTA games.

>>8175826
It's 'intensive porpoises', you tit.

>>8176241
For a long time I bought the lie that GTA was just rampage mode and nothing else. Then I played Bully and Red Dead Redemption and realized their games actually had missions and a story.

>>8176309
only retards played them as just rampage mode games, that shit gets boring after like 10 minutes