Rockstar Shelves Plans for Bully 2 Due to Limited Resources
With franchises like Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, Max Payne, and Bully, the guys over at Rockstar have more IPs than they know what to do with. With both a new Max Payne and GTA title on the horizon, plans for a Bully follow-up had to be put on hold.
It is clear that the guys over at Rockstar love the Bully franchise and would love to make a sequel, but unfortunately something like that isn’t in the cards for the studio right now. Speaking to Gamasutra, Rockstar’s Dan Houser explained why they can’t fit in time for another Bully game.
We have been meaning to start it for a while, but we have limited bandwidth and limited studios, and more games to make than we’ve started.
[They knew they didn't want to work on] Bully sequel instantly at that second with those guys — even though it is a property that, like Max, we adore and might come back to in the future. There was just no impetus to do that then.
So we said, ‘You can do Max, and then we will see what we can do with Bully.’ So it was really waiting for the slot to open up and the group to open up to at least start work on it.
Judging by the fondness that Rockstar has expressed for the franchise, it looks like a new Bully is only a matter of when.
6 Responses to “Rockstar Shelves Plans for Bully 2 Due to Limited Resources”
welp. now i hate rockstar
OOOOH NOOO! Rockstar, you have just shattered my dreams lol. But it’s good to know that you mentioned that a sequel could be made later.
Anyways I saw this a while back on the Wikipedia page of Bully
“In November 2009, The Gaming Liberty interviewed musician Shawn Lee, who scored Bully, and was asked if he was scoring any more games in the near future; he responded, “Yes. It looks like I will be doing the soundtrack for Bully 2 in the not so distant future…”"
Though I don’t know how long “in the not so distant future” is.
Next Sunday, AD.
I would have preferred Bully 2 before GTA V…I may be in the minority but playing a GTA style game kicking the crap out of middle school kids was amazing!
i hope they release a bully 2 soon. Bully was really fun haha. brings back memories =P. Good to know they plan on making it though.
Loved Bully, so this makes me sad, but as long as they do a good job on GTAV I will forgive them
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