GTA V Maker Wants to Bully Again
Rockstar leader wants sequel to the controversial title
Everyone heard about Bully back in 2007/2008, right? You know, that thing Rockstar did that Rockstar are really good at doing? Yeah, that's right, making controversial games.
Well, just as every GTA title in the history of GTA titles ever has done, Bully had people kicking up a fuss, and unsurprisingly, Rockstar's Dan Houser wants to make a sequel.
When asked about Bully in a recent interview, he said "I thought, we thought that the word's strong, it's a strong word, an emotive word. Maybe too emotive in some ways, but we were confident we were not making a game which you were a bully. You were equally not lilly white of course, but you were not a bully. You were sort of standing up to a culture that encouraged bullying by being this tough kid that wasn't sucked into that kind of world and was friends with some of the weaker kids, but by no means a saint.".
People got their backs up and loaded their guns straight away, giving Rockstar no opportunity to explain what Bully was all about.
"It's not that, it's not that, it's not that," he said. "But we never got a chance to say what it was."
When a sequel to Bully was suggested, Houser said "I know I want to, well, hopefully, you never know. There's a lot of directions I could go with that one, it's funny."
He even joked about the idea of Bully protagonist Jimmy Hopkins being an adult, and the main character of a GTA title. He did clarify "that likely won't happen", though.
I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
Nice one Polygon
Well, just as every GTA title in the history of GTA titles ever has done, Bully had people kicking up a fuss, and unsurprisingly, Rockstar's Dan Houser wants to make a sequel.
When asked about Bully in a recent interview, he said "I thought, we thought that the word's strong, it's a strong word, an emotive word. Maybe too emotive in some ways, but we were confident we were not making a game which you were a bully. You were equally not lilly white of course, but you were not a bully. You were sort of standing up to a culture that encouraged bullying by being this tough kid that wasn't sucked into that kind of world and was friends with some of the weaker kids, but by no means a saint.".
People got their backs up and loaded their guns straight away, giving Rockstar no opportunity to explain what Bully was all about.
"It's not that, it's not that, it's not that," he said. "But we never got a chance to say what it was."
When a sequel to Bully was suggested, Houser said "I know I want to, well, hopefully, you never know. There's a lot of directions I could go with that one, it's funny."
He even joked about the idea of Bully protagonist Jimmy Hopkins being an adult, and the main character of a GTA title. He did clarify "that likely won't happen", though.
I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
Nice one Polygon
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Comments
Daz 26 Sep 2013 01:20
1/2
I still wonder why was the name changed to Canis Canem Edit over here.
config 26 Sep 2013 17:31
2/2
@Daz because of f**ktard Daily Mail readers and ignorant politicians like Vaz getting whipped up to a frenzy over what they thought was a bullying simulator.
