Bully - PS3 edition

Zero-Cool

Rockstar's excellent last gen game Bully has been rated for PS3. Dunno if it's a HD remake or not but im mad to play it again. I read an interviewa few months back saying they would love to go back to the bully series after GTA 5. Releasing the old one could go with a nice annoincement of a possible sequence.

I would love to play this again, anyone else?

Retr0gamer

For me it's far and away Rockstars best game. The smaller world is more detailed with better characters and you are much freer to cause mischief which is what sandbox games should really be about.

johnny_ultimate

I love Bully - it's a playful, smart and very entertaining twist on the Rockstar formula. It's one of their best games no doubt, but 'far and away' their best? Red Dead Redemption would like a word about that...

Retr0gamer

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

I love Bully - it's a playful, smart and very entertaining twist on the Rockstar formula. It's one of their best games no doubt, but 'far and away' their best? Red Dead Redemption would like a word about that...

It had a good story and well designed missions but the open world really wasn't well utilised and was quite boring. Bully I thought did sandbox a hell of a lot better.

thorbarry

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It had a good story and well designed missions but the open world really wasn't well utilised and was quite boring. Bully I thought did sandbox a hell of a lot better.

All my friends say this to me as well I was never board once playing the game, i put a lot of hours into it. I loved just roaming the vast land

Zero-Cool

I never finished Bully so would really like to get it again. With any luck, we will get a Warriors HD remake as well.

johnny_ultimate

Nope, sorry, can't accept that the Red Dead sandbox wasn't well utilised. It's the Western frontier - a huge, empty landscape populated by a man and his horse is one of the defining characteristics of the 'genre'. Rockstar nailed that sense of barren desolation with sweeping plains and amazing sights, but still provided an atmospheric world full of worthy distractions and diversions. Dens of inequity, well hidden treasures, damsels tied to railtracks, roaming unbroken horses... it was a brilliant sandbox, perfectly in tune with the stories and settings that inspired it.

Bully was equally brilliantly designed, and rightly confined to a smaller space. They both succeed expertly at what they set out to do, even if their individual goals are notably different.

Retr0gamer

When I got asked to do the same random mission for the 5th time it stopped being fun. The open world for me was just somewhere to travel to get to the next mission, nothing more really other than a few ok side diversions.

Being empty and lonely might have been thematically accurate but I had more fun doing rotten egg drivebys on my pushbike at random passersby.

Redemption also relies too much on combat for near all its missions and to be honest the combat in rockstar games is usually terrible. At least in Red Dead it was a massive improvement and fun but not quite there yet. I preferred the variety of missions in Bully.

Both great games but I just had a lot more fun with Bully.

Funny that I much prefer the Rockstar games from the studios that don't do the GTA games The less said about crappy Manhunter the better.

Pixelbastardo

sheehy83 wrote: »

Rockstar's excellent last gen game Bully has been rated for PS3. Dunno if it's a HD remake or not but im mad to play it again. I read an interviewa few months back saying they would love to go back to the bully series after GTA 5. Releasing the old one could go with a nice annoincement of a possible sequence.

I would love to play this again, anyone else?

source ?

great game,

balkieb2002

sheehy83 wrote: »

I never finished Bully so would really like to get it again. With any luck, we will get a Warriors HD remake as well.

Yeah same here on both part.

Got quite far into Bully on PS2 though my time keeping was terrible so always kept missing the classes. Really did like the setting and it had some great characters.

Didn't get to play alot of the Warriors but for reason the mission/mini-game where you had to steal car radios always stuck in head (I liked using the anologe sticks to twist the screws!).

Red Dead is next on my list though (one of the reasons I bought a PS3 again!)


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source ?

great game,

Link to Source - Also say Vice City Stories has been rated.

ShaneU

Bully? No such game was released here, now Canis Canem Edit, there was a great game :pac:

Potential-Monke

^^^I was just going to say. Although, was it not released a Bully and very quickly changed to Canis Canem Edit? Can't quite remember.

What i do remember is a great game which, for some unknown reason, i didn't play a whole lot of. Was there something else out around that time which might have got my attention more (in PS2 terms?).

Hopefully it's a HD remake, would love to actually play through it and finish it. And now that SA is re-released, when are they releasing Vice City for this gen that's not on a poxy tablet? Especially with Stories being rated.

johnny_ultimate

When the game was re-released on Wii, PC and 360, it was 'Bully Scholarship Edition' as opposed to Canis Canem Edit on the PS2.

Oh, and since it already exists in PC and 360 form, there technically is a 'HD remake' already. Although baffling that they'd only release the PS3 version now - years after even the first re-release.

v3ttel

Hmmmm, I remember I got it for the PS2 as a present. I enjoyed it when I played it, but for some strange reason, I didn't play much of it at all.

I think I might see if I can pick up a copy of it for the 360 and give a run through over Christmas. Thanks for the reminder Sheehy.

deathrider

ShaneU wrote: »

Bully? No such game was released here, now Canis Canem Edit, there was a great game :pac:

Wasn't it released as Bully: Shcolarship (or something similar) Edition here on Xbox 360? I've got the PS2 Edit, and I've been treathening to replay it for quite some time now. Secretly though, I'd love to just pick it up on 360 and play through it there instead.

Zero-Cool

Lads im fairly sure it said bully on the front of the box.

I saw rockstar got some other games rated for ps3 as well. Midnight club, mc 2, mc 3, vice city, red dead revolver.

I would love to play manhunt again.

johnny_ultimate

sheehy83 wrote: »

Lads im fairly sure it said bully on the front of the box.

Original PS2 release:



360 / PC / Wii release:

v3ttel

This is difficult enough to get for the Xbox now.

Tried my local Gamestop, HMV , etc, no joy. I expected as much considering the 2008 release date..... but it's not available on amazon.co.uk, Argos, Smyths, Gamestop.ie, Gamesnash.

Any suggestions where to get my hands on a copy?

deathrider

sheehy83 wrote: »

Lads im fairly sure it said bully on the front of the box.

I saw rockstar got some other games rated for ps3 as well. Midnight club, mc 2, mc 3, vice city, red dead revolver.

I would love to play manhunt again.

Ah, man, I played the hell out of Midnight Club 2. Loved that game!

EyeSight

i liked the game a lot but after the story finished there wasn't much to do.

i would LOVE a warriors remake. that game was brilliant! i love what they did with the story and the analogue sticks. im so pissed off i sold that game

GRMA

I didn't like it the first time round, only played it for a bit. I was put off by the fact that you control a guy who seems to be an utter scumbag, wayne rooney lookalike. I thought it would be a bit more lighthearted.

I only played it for a couple of hours. When you get into it does it get better?

RobertFoster

Rooney10 wrote: »

This is difficult enough to get for the Xbox now.

Tried my local Gamestop, HMV , etc, no joy. I expected as much considering the 2008 release date..... but it's not available on amazon.co.uk, Argos, Smyths, Gamestop.ie, Gamesnash.

Any suggestions where to get my hands on a copy?

It's €10 on Xbox marketplace until December 31st.

Retr0gamer

GRMA wrote: »

I didn't like it the first time round, only played it for a bit. I was put off by the fact that you control a guy who seems to be an utter scumbag, wayne rooney lookalike. I thought it would be a bit more lighthearted.

I only played it for a couple of hours. When you get into it does it get better?

Well you judged the game all wrong then and probably only played a few minutes of it because the guy you play is against the bullies, something the tabloids also failed to pick up on.

GRMA

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Well you judged the game all wrong then and probably only played a few minutes of it because the guy you play is against the bullies, something the tabloids also failed to pick up on.

I played it for about an hour - I remember a mission where i had to make some poor guy cry?

If you end up beating the crap out of bullies then I must give it another look!

deathrider

GRMA wrote: »

I played it for about an hour - I remember a mission where i had to make some poor guy cry?

If you end up beating the crap out of bullies then I must give it another look!

As Retr0 said, you've got it all wrong here, man. You do look like a bad guy in the beginning, and from what I call recall you've got a bad history too. However, you spend the majority of the game standing up for the little guys and beating the crap out of the real sumbags. You're not a GTA gangter in this one.

v3ttel

RobertFoster wrote: »

It's €10 on Xbox marketplace until December 31st.

Oddly enough, the last place I'd think of looking...generally the games on demand are quite expensive to the point where I've completely forgot about it as a resource (Max Payne, FIFA Street - 59.99)...but €10, can't go wrong for that. Thanks, looking forward to getting my hands on this now.

Zero-Cool

Holy crap, playstationer.net just said canis canem edit is on ps store right now for a tenner. You have to search for it, can anyone confirm?

johnny_ultimate

sheehy83 wrote: »

Holy crap, playstationer.net just said canis canem edit is on ps store right now for a tenner. You have to search for it, can anyone confirm?

Yup: http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2012/12/19/heads-up-store-update-19th-and-21st-december-2012/

PS2 version for the same price as the Scholarship Edition on 360? Bit of a short shrift for Playstation owners, TBH, although I guess a cheap release from Rockstar's perspective.

Zero-Cool

Well I was expecting it to be 15 quid so thats good but I really to play the extended edition, sounds like they made some good additions.

Shiminay

I had this on XBox and was loving it until 50% of the way though I hit a game halting bug which affected a ton of people. 18 months after release, it still hadn't been (and was clearly never going to be) patched. Completely unacceptable as far as I'm concerned and many curses were levelled at Rockstar for that - mostly because it had been one of the most enjoyable Sandbox games I'd ever played up till then.

Zero-Cool

Anyone get this today, thoughts on it. Last gen games tend to be seen through rosey glasses until played again. Im broke til after Christmas so wil be waiting for the new year.

corcaigh07

make sure you buy Bully with Microsoft Points, Rooney10. brings the price down to 840 points. Bully for XBLA money is very good value in fairness.

GTR63

Shiminay wrote: »

I had this on XBox and was loving it until 50% of the way though I hit a game halting bug which affected a ton of people. 18 months after release, it still hadn't been (and was clearly never going to be) patched. Completely unacceptable as far as I'm concerned and many curses were levelled at Rockstar for that - mostly because it had been one of the most enjoyable Sandbox games I'd ever played up till then.

Same thing happened me, traded it in then in disgust. Regret that now though I adored the christmas missions.

Zero-Cool

What was the bug?

Looking back at this review, looks like I missed a lot of the game, Only remember going to the local town once, don't mind all the jobs you can do there. Definitely need to pick this up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTra_KNcH2Y

Downlinz

Fantastic game, Rockstars best and one of the most underrated titles from the previous generation. Would highly recommend it.

yoyo

This was a fantastic game, played the HD remake on the Xbox 360 only again there recently, one of the only games I'm near 100% completion. Fantastic soundtrack as well, bring on Bully 2 hopefully!

Nick

Mc Love

Strangely never ever played this game when it first came out and after watching a video review, looks like a gem. Might give it a go

Penn

HUGE bump.

Bully (Canis Canem Edit) coming to PS4 today. I played it on PS2 years ago but never really got that far into it before I got bored and moved on to something else. However I'm feeling stuck for things to play so going to give this another whack. I'm more patient and attentive now that I'm a bit older. Looking forward to it.

Riesen_Meal

Penn wrote: »

HUGE bump.

Bully (Canis Canem Edit) coming to PS4 today. I played it on PS2 years ago but never really got that far into it before I got bored and moved on to something else. However I'm feeling stuck for things to play so going to give this another whack. I'm more patient and attentive now that I'm a bit older. Looking forward to it.

It's up on the store already, got it at the end of 360s life cycle having never got it on PS2 and never properly got into it either...

Also Manhunt is also on sale - another fine Rockstar game

Robsweezie

I just downloaded the scholarship edition off xbox live for 3 euro. Shame the ps4 didn't use that version.

CiDeRmAn

I have it on PS2 and 360, never got into either, don't see this as making much difference in that regard.

CiDeRmAn

Fieldog wrote: »

Also Manhunt is also on sale - another fine Rockstar game

Manhunt was vicious fun on the PS2, and it's set within the GTAIII/VC universe too.
Well worth playing that again, sneaky sneaky like...

B.A._Baracus

Penn wrote: »

HUGE bump.

Bully (Canis Canem Edit) coming to PS4 today. I played it on PS2 years ago but never really got that far into it before I got bored and moved on to something else. However I'm feeling stuck for things to play so going to give this another whack. I'm more patient and attentive now that I'm a bit older. Looking forward to it.

The exact same thing happened to me... twice :pac:
Like you I played it on PS2 and I just seemed to stop playing it after a few hours. Even tho it really is a good game. Then I got the xbox 360 version and the same thing happened.

I remember trying to play the ps2 version again a couple of years ago but the loading screens became too annoying. They would be near 30 seconds entering each area.

But if Rockstar are re-releasing this I smell a sequel coming.