DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Before people get excited... we live in current year. Imagine the current year cultural injection.
Prepare for the worst, but hope for the best.
Prepare for the worst, but hope for the best.
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Bully 2 news teased by GameInformer's Senior Associate Editor and Tom Henderson
Gamer_By_Proxy
Member
The Bully in school nowadays would just be someone that speaks in regular terms.
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mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
BRUH! I'm all in for a Bully 2. And I never played the first one. Was always a big fan though.
EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
Theoretically a modern day bully virtually bullies someone kinda through zoom, Twitter etc. I hope there’s a sequel.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Modern day Bully are now the TikTok/Twitter zombified trending masses browbeating the solo normalcy.
Should be called, 'Bullies' for the sequel.
Punished Miku
Gold Member
Bully 1 is on sale on Xbox at the moment. FYI.
SoggyBiscuit
Banned
I can't imagine what direction a modern Bully title would go in, too many people are too easily upset.
Maybe best just to leave a sequel shelved.
Maybe best just to leave a sequel shelved.
YeulEmeralda
Member
Ten years ago this would be great but nu Rockstar will fuck it up.
ozz ex machina
Member
Mission 1 would be to call the non-binary dude a dude.
AV
We ain't outta here in ten minutes, we won't need no rocket to fly through space
I'm gonna have to bite, because Gaf always acts like R* is the most woke developer on the planet and I'm not seeing it - what gives?
Disclaimer, I know that the lead talent is already gone and that future games will probably kinda suck as a result. But what's the with the turbo-woke accusations?
Was it just the feminist march mission in RDR2, is that it? All I can think is I missed something massive in GTA:O because I barely touched that dung heap.
Disclaimer, I know that the lead talent is already gone and that future games will probably kinda suck as a result. But what's the with the turbo-woke accusations?
Was it just the feminist march mission in RDR2, is that it? All I can think is I missed something massive in GTA:O because I barely touched that dung heap.
Gamer_By_Proxy
Member
Refer to someone as He or She without asking their pronouns first.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
There is literally no big budget, mainstream media that doesn't cater to the woke crowd today.
Rockstar doesn't seem particularly woke to me but they also don't seem stupid.
I'm also not sure if wokeness has reached its peak yet. Take a look at who Naughty Dog just hired. A seemingly insane, racist person who went after Naughty Dog for not being woke enough in TLoU 2.
Woke power is strengthening, not fading.
intbal
Member
Was that a very limited time offer? I just checked the MS Store on my Xbox and it's $15. That's not much of a "sale" for such an old game. Can pick up a physical copy on ebay for $11.
Punished Miku
Gold Member
I just noticed it last night and it was $5 or so along with Rockstar Table Tennis. RDR1 was $10. I guess I didn't know the dates it was going on, but I posted about it last night too. North America Xbox store.
Yoboman
Member
Could be the best part about it. Bullies not just jocks but idiot wokelords and edgy q anon freaks alike
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Yoboman
Member
Like modern South Parks best feature is making fun of modern culture. Rockstar are missing a trick shying away from it
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
They used to, I don't have much confidence in current R*. But, will be pleasantly surprised if so.
Edgelord79
Gold Member
I don't believe they would want to make a Bully 2 in today's social climate. Not sure how this would work.
YeulEmeralda
Member
AV
We ain't outta here in ten minutes, we won't need no rocket to fly through space
That's fine, but my question WAS about woke which like 6+ people in this thread have already accused R* of being. Happens every R* thread.
Then you ask what people are talking about and it's radio silence.
Phunkydiabetic
Banned
What a ridiculous statement. Their last game was a predominantly single player game that was massive in scope and budget. In fact, basically every single game they've ever released has been focused purely on single player content.
"Rockstar doesn't care much about single player games"
Haha
Phunkydiabetic
Banned
Manufactured outrage as usual.
Rockstar is "woke"
Rockstar "doesn't care about single player games"
And yet the evidence to back such ridiculous statements either doesn't exist or is so flimsy it means nothing. If you listen to people here GTAVI is already doomed, despite not even being officially announced yet let alone having any sort of information to base an opinion on.
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NinjaBoiX
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IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
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All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
People protested the first Bully game the day it was announced. There will be nothing worse than last time. Idiots will yell, the game will come out, people will like it, no one will listen to the idiots.
dotnotbot
Member
There were also rumors about GTA Trilogy remasters having content changes for modern audiences and it turned out to be completely false.
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It’s a completely different world today than it was back then. Snowflakes always win today.
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
bender
What time is it?
We are just in a different cultural climate. A lot of the satire in the old GTA games would garner a lot more scrutiny today than upon their initial releases. When GTA6 releases, it will be over a decade since the previous entry. The writing since the PS2 era has become more serious so it's probably time to retire a lot of the more sophomoric humor anyhow as it conflicts too much with the tone they are trying to set. GTA IV tried unsuccessfully to mix a serious narrative in a world full of dick and ball jokes and was a worse product because of it.
Droxcy
Member
It's been in the rumor mill for years already they'd be insane not to profit from the franchise. Will it be some woke bullshit that is super watered down and easy to sell..I hope not but we've seen GTA Trilogy get approved and released in a shit state, anything bad or offensive removed and rated down for babies to enjoy.
Hopefully without the brother at the studio they didn't lose focus on what makes their games fun and classic.
Hopefully without the brother at the studio they didn't lose focus on what makes their games fun and classic.
Yoboman
Member
It really isn't. I suggest you look up Jack Thompson
Every GTA and Bully were followed by controversy, attempted bans and censorship. If Rockstar can no longer handle the heat from that, then it says more about who they've become in 2022 than society
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AV
We ain't outta here in ten minutes, we won't need no rocket to fly through space
I think the satire in the older games would certainly draw more attention due to the presence of social media and clickbait websites that didn't exist at the same level in the early 2000s, sure, though I'm not sure how valid the scrutiny would be. As for GTA V I can't even really remember anything notable outside of the obvious jabs at consumerism that are in all of these games.
It just feels like that's not what people are talking about when they say "wokestar" and that I missed some event or news story. There's nothing woke in GTA V - hell, the biggest controversy outside interactive torture was that it was misogynistic somehow - and we haven't seen GTA VI at all yet. My theory is still that people are mad at the suffragette in RDR2, at least until someone can tell me what else they're mad about.
AV
We ain't outta here in ten minutes, we won't need no rocket to fly through space
99% true, they removed one image of a confederate flag from a shirt, that's it. Considering they kept in everything else including the cross-dressing psycho killer, it was a real nothingburger that some people on this forum got incredibly whipped up into a frenzy about.
