The strides taken since the game’s initial release could make for a new ambient dialogue system that really elevates the interactivity and immersion. The original game had something similar to this where you could humiliate enemies or calm them down, but it was fairly rigid.
This was revolutionary for open-world games and would work perhaps even better within a setting like Bully, where antagonism is the name of the game. The most obvious one is Red Dead Redemption 2’s chatter systems, where you can walk back or escalate conflict at the tap of a button, or simply greet every NPC on the map. There’s a lot to learn from here, and many parts of the tried and tested open-world formula that has since been iterated upon that could work really well within the world of Bully. Since Bully, we’ve had GTA 4 (opens in new tab) and GTA 5 (opens in new tab), LA Noire (opens in new tab), two Red Dead Redemption games and even Max Payne 3. Bully 2 Game Awards 2021 reported cancellation Two years have since passed with little else beyond speculation about the existence of Bully 2, and with Rockstar now supporting GTA 5's arrival on PS5, we suspect any word, good or bad, is a ways away.
The painting depicts the animals on the Bullworth Academy crest, and it was created by a fictional artist named Matthew Morse, suggesting a Morse code signal hidden in the painting.įrom there, internet "insiders" claimed that Bully 2 was coming in 2020 with virtually nothing to go on besides these hardly subtle nods and winks to the first game from its developer, Rockstar. The GTA Online Casino (opens in new tab) arrived in the same summer, adding a painting into the game also titled Canis Canem Edit (opens in new tab). In Red Dead Redemption 2 (opens in new tab), released in 2018, for example, one of the game’s more involved side quests rewards the player with the Calloway Revolver which has Canis Canem Edit engraved on the side (Bully’s official title in the UK). Alas, these rumours did not come to fruition in 2020 as suggested, but they are worth mentioning with regards to how much the community cares for the idea of Bully 2.