Bullying Kids The Video Game
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- Опубліковано 24 тра 2022
- Bullying Kids The Video Game
This video essay looks at the bully, or Canis Canum Edit, as it was later Renamed. One of Rockstar's most controversial games, that neary got banned for being too offensive.
The Bully is basically GTA in a boarding school and plays like you'd expect.
But was the Bully Video game really as bad as people say... Let's take a closer look
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The funniest part is that the main character of the game is actually against bullying, so it’s absolutely clear that adults never played the game
Its pretty much Bullying against bullying, one is for good while one is for dominance
Do you think adults have the time spare to play every game their kids own? They have to make decisions about their kids education with the minimal information possible (what's shown) and still get it right.
@@davipenha then they should stop bitching about video games
@@davipenha maybe they just shouldn't buy the fucking game for their kids in the first place, dingus. bad parenting is bad parenting.
Yeah ok dude lets not pretend like the parents are just dumb, ignorant and wrong in this case. The game has you complete tons of quests where the sole mission is to bully nerds lmfao.
Jimmy: Goes on a crusade to violently stop bullying in his school
Some Karen: "This game encourages bullying"
Oh god, imagine a real karen learns that such a game exists😳😳😳
@@andylaw3222 there was a whole damn controversy from karens back when the game was released
@@friendlyhere7042 Really? Didn't know that, we don't really have karen's here in germany. Maybe a handful but encountering one in real life is VERY unlikely😁
@@andylaw3222 I need to go to Germany.
@@andylaw3222 oh come on dude it's the country that keeps banning some video games becuz they are too violent, even God of war 2 had to be changed for it to be sold there
I like how we all collectively just got over running over hookers in gta but a kid fighting back against bullies is a bridge too far
331 likes with no comments? Not anymore
I'm pretty sure having sexy times in the car which is censored is more controversial than knocking their heads off mortal combat style, the collective adult mind is an asylum and makes no sense
@@GamingPandaCat exactly
Yeah, I would expect from a title called “Bully,” the primary objective was to be the worst bully you could be and thus deserving a censored name because kids would pick up that behavior, but it seems only half this game really involves you being a bully. If anything, you’re *fighting* other bullies and aren’t forced to become one.
@@GamingPandaCat the older I get, the more I realize just how much of an asylum it is. Collective batshit and much like herpes, it's contagious.
Oddly enough, the bullies faction, even by being the first group to be Jimmy's antagonists, stayed with him even when every other faction dissented him
Duh. Russel is their boss. Russel stays with Jimmy till the end. The Bullies are essentially the rebels who only listen to Russel.
@@arthurmorgan2887 based russel barnyard grind
@@alexiosmonary3388facts
Why does this comment section have such an excellent vocabulary?
@@mrpenguin8731?????
My favorite thing about the game is Jimmy himself, he's willing to stand up for the little guys but is still not beyond being an ass sometimes.
I also love how straightforward he is about kicking everyone's ass.
Any faction: "What're you gonna do, fight me?"
Jimmy: "Yes"
“I can’t take back this planet with a single digit army!”
Jimmy: *Time to Rip ‘n’ Tear.*
"This is America. We'll go in with threats and bribes, and if that doesn't work, we'll be at everyone senseless."
Jimmy was definitely bout it.
perfect meme
“I hate everyone equally” - pretty much sums up Jimmy Hop’s persona.
This game is summed up well by Russel in the second to last chapter.
"Russel likes to hurt people... for peace."
Russel doesn't like hurting people unless they deserve it
@@DepressedCrow idk about that chief. I mean his clique are called the "bullies".
@@fabiancorrea8279 well jimmy said that he need to stop bully weak kid and bully people that deserve it
@@justacheapcopyofcherryguy3018 so it's still bullying. Just targeted at a different group.
@@whannabi at what point does it become self defense
Whoever voiced Jimmy deserves an award every fucking line is absolute gold, largely due to his delivery
Gerry Rosenthal voices Jimmy
Ikr its amazing
The best part is that Gerry cares about his fans and he actually played this game before lol
"What the hell are you talking about?" My favorite negative voiceline from Jimmy to other students
A fact that I know is he didn’t do the mocap because there was a different actor before him. His voice can still be heard slightly if you look harder into the audio files
It's so crazy. Despite the utter cynicism of the Bully universe, it's a surprisingly optimistic story of an ultimately good (if anti-heroic) guy triumphing over a status quo built on preying on the weak and defenseless.
Yes Man
Your vocabulary is immaculate 🤯
Only just got it recently, when I showed it to some of my friends, they wanted nothing to do with this game and took it way too seriously, been a victim of bullies myself when I was still in high school, but I love this game so far, lots of fun, now adult I just seeing this game as just a game among others, I'm just laughing it out when I play it, don't need to take it seriously gheez...
Some people just take everything all too seriously nowadays...
The thing about Bully is that everyone was a bully in Bullworth: jocks, nerds, posh kids, teachers, adults, everyone was bullying each other throughout the whole game.
Just like real life?
@@OakkarMg210 what real life do you live in nigga that not my school experience
@@OakkarMg210 100%. Even I was one.
@@OakkarMg210 What I meant is that the media made is look like YOU are the bully, in the game, which is quite the opposite. Jimmy is just a kid getting by.
"everyone was bullying each other" - from what I gathered from this video, everyone is a complete and utter fucking psychopath, not bullies.
I'm shocked Rockstar invented bullying just to sell this game
dont forget. they invented crimes to sell more gtas
Best promotional DLC ever
@@themanok178 Absolutely despicable
@@OGEdgyUsername tell me about it
what did frogger invent?
If anything, it seems like Bully actually delves more into the psychology of bullying, showing the environmental, familial, social, personal, and many other reasons everyone in the game bullies everyone else.
are you kidding me with that liberal shit it shows that humans suck thats it
as if angry moms would ever care about any of that, they see superficial violence they blame video games. This sort of mob mentality of cancelling things from their superficial appearance is at this point expected
@@irgendwer3610 all thanks to Lieberman if I recall. Could be mixing up different people but I think he was the main whiner that caused the rating system to get created then afterwards continued to whine when developers made things that followed the M rating qualifiers.
@@DisorientedWandererwhose lieberman?
@@victorhurwitz5559 US senator of Connecticut back in 93 who ranted about violence in video games. Him and another threatening Nintendo and Sega with government regulations is what lead to the esrb ratings. Waved around a plastic gun from one of those arcade games proclaiming "they're teaching our kids to kill!". Spent later years bitching about GTA and manhunt.
“I wanted to pull a harmless egg prank on the lads, Russell, however, is wanting to cause permanent spinal damage.”
Brilliant.
28:36 xD
LMFAOO
*"Russel... 👏... Likes to hurt people... 👏...For peace"👏*
What a fucking legend
Cool
The same way as USA goes to war for “peace”😹
"Russell can Comprehend Prison?!" This line had me dying
Same XD
Even complete idiot's can read a scientific novel and understand every big word used in the dialogues and monologues. It's not a surprise to me.
Is just so funny how dumb jimmy tought russel was
Russell is my favorite character
Same lol
Russel is peak character development. From a violent beast to a man who likes to hurt people for peace.
I think we all underestimated how crazy a line “why in my day we felt nothing of castrating the new boys” really was.
I didn't even know this game was considered controversial. Though the game is called Bully, it discourages bullying. People can can be so ignorant sometimes. It's especially ridiculous that they bullied Rockstar to try to get rid of it without even knowing what it was. What a sad bunch of hypocrites.
My parents let me play the punisher which is an insanely violent game, but I had to pretend bully was a different game to be allowed to play that
One idiot went on live television and got mad at it, then later in an interview literally admitted that they knew nothing about it, they were just told that it's a game called bully about bullying people.
What's even sadder, gta is hated by the parents even though they're the ones who got the game for there kids to begin with
@@spade8094 that’s not always the case lol what about teens
@@Yesmanpersondude assuming the teen did something bad bc of the game. the parents didn't rase the teen right
I love how Gary invented the term femboy just to make "Bully"
Pete the original Femme Boy
The girliest boy in the school 😳
That is technically true. The word femboy haven't been used in media until bully.
@@amirhaikal6672 damn we live in a society
@@amirhaikal6672 that’s a huge cap. The term has been around since the 90s and has always been popular.
I also love the detail of the final mission where you have to take down the leaders again, and how every leader is in their arch nemesis' building. Like you said, the nerds were at the gym because that's where the jocks were hanging out. The jocks were at the library because that's where the nerds were hanging out. The greasers were in the girls dorm because..Well they had some girl problems in the past. And the preps are in their own luxury house because they honestly only care about themselves and it shows how they think so highly of themselves compared to the other students.
1:04:29 Thats actually a theory in the community. I know 90% of media has a "it was a dream" theory but in Bully's case, after surviving an impossible drop, everything goes perfect for jimmy, the game kinda loses cohesion and everything feels strange, and you start the last chapter: an "endless summer", where time wont pass, no one ages, and everything stays the same forever
I’ve read up about that. It’s certainly more believable than a lot of other media that has the “it was all a dream” theory.
Jimmy got into a comma, gary dies, jimmy still was expelled, his mother never came back from him,
Its a game lmao not everything is a conspiracy theory
@@ElRiki428that’s just what the shadow government wants you to think so that they can sell more butter!!!!!!
@@ElRiki428 It's... not a conspiracy theory. It's a *theory*.
“Russel can comprehend prison?!”
This line shouldn’t have made me laugh as hard as it did.
Thats the one that got me the most lol
True lmao, the absolute disbelief in his voice got me good
Only 2 more likes for 506!
Same😂😂😂😂
Russell likes to hurt people... for peace
There is something special about this game that I can't describe, it's not flashy or have a mind blowing story or gameplay, but it will always have a special place in my heart
Is it perhaps nostalgia?
@@vodkawhisperer3923 lol maybe. This game was a banger
@@vodkawhisperer3923 maybe but not necessarily. It's also just a really good game, back when Rockstar actually did effort on their games and there was no online multiplayer to milk people out of their money like GTA5 nowadays
Being the person in a position of power but bringing balance to an unkept and abusive school social environment through uniting the school body over time through earning their respect with the chaotic and controllable freedom of an ideal movie school environment. All the bs, development, systems you can understand, and an open world that feels encouraging for the player to want to explore. Plus playing a game from the ideal protagonist understanding the world around you alongside the player you can really understand the characters and their motivations no matter how random or not thought out they are. It's charmingly simple yet interesting for the average kid in school within a fleshed out imperfect school environment.
It's not nostalgia. I played this game for the first time a few months ago and it's fucking grade A
Probably the most “feel good” Rockstar game that was ever made. No killing people, but still has that Rockstar structure.
36:04 *"No, cousins are legal. Oh... You meant Lola..."*
*Alabama intensifies*
I love the portrayal of our main protagonist in this game. Jimmy despite being smaller than any other bullies, he still has balls to stand up for himself and protect the weak as potrayed in the storyline. He's the kind of character that you don't want to get on his bad side. He's a sarcastic jerk but he is not picking the other kids. It's one of the interesting characters out of any rockstar games.
Just like in postal your only as bad as you choose to be
@@TheRealRusDaddy exactly. He’s just as much a bully as you decide
He only fought back when the cliques would piss him off. But in the end, he would tell them to stop bullying the other kids, not just him.
he honestly reminds me of james adams from the CHERUB book series
Kinda like a honey badger. Not even lions will fuck with them cause, even if the lion would win, there's a good chance the diminutive honey badger will rip its face off before it goes down.
I love how cynical and unforgiving _Bully_ is towards parodying the American education system. I thinks that's the main reason many parents got subconsciously pissed at the game, because it highlighted their lackings when it came to raising their kids.
This is an excellent game, wish Rockstar had stayed in that path instead of becoming money-hungry with the success of the GTA multiplayer.
So a bunch of lies is a parody? A parody of what?
@@lewispooper3138 your question is literally answered in OP's comment lmao
exactly
@@lewispooper3138 please put it down.
@@lewispooper3138 learn how to read and you will understand.
I still believe that jimmy being in a skeleton outfit, in that exact style, is a direct reference to johnny lawrence in the original karate kid. A movie widely known for its portrayal of “fighting back against the bully”. I like to think that this is almost even foreshadowing Gary’s betrayal, he told jimmy to wear this costume and johnny lawrence is portrayed as evil in the og kkid movies, he’s the bully, but aftee halloween, shit hits the fan, hence the betrayal. Cool little reference in my mind, even if it isn’t really.
7:45
"Ah, mon amour ce fromage est très bon" is french. Ah my love this cheese is very good.
we say c’est instead of est outside of formal contexts :)
Also fun fact, The Arsonist in the Gym yelling "I regret Nothing!" is actually a Postal reference.
Postal Guy is on the job! He does regret nothing including burning down school stuff and a risk of killing 15 year olds!
isn't that a reference to the Postal 1 original ending? (the one with the school and the rocket launcher?)
No one in the gym signed the petition
He even kind of looks like the postal dude.
The arsonist named Gurney
I think it's really creative how rockstar went on to show that bullying can be by manipulation and pyschological as much as it is physical violence.
tru
@@Karlach_ tru (it’s chain time)
@@josephdavison4189tru
(Alrighty)
@@flavoredtoe15 tru
@@silasmann8059 tru
Fun fact: in the fight with Edgar, if you lose , there was a cutscene where Jimmy drown in the acid while Edgar laugh and insult him . Obviously , the developers cut It cuz It was creepy for a game like this
Incredible protagonist, beautiful OST, a cynical and mysterious story, a good sized map filled with loads of Easter eggs and activities, tons of side missions, lots of achievements, 3-4 different houses to live in, and so much more is why this game is such an underrated gem. Played it for so long ever since I bought it when I was 10, still own it on PC and Xbox 360, I'll never stop playing.
"I just wanted to pull a harmless egg prank but Russell was inflicting permanent spinal damage" best line
That power bomb on the edge of the pavement tho.
"It's America! We go in with threats and bribes until we get what we want" and "Russell can comprehend prison?" This game was great man
You god damn right
Something I do want to say, while the teachers don't like their jobs or care about the students, I don't think the same holds for Crabapple. He's incredibly inept, gullible, short-tempered, and stubborn, but I think he does genuinely care about the kids he's charged with educating and keeping safe. He's just very bad at it.
Honestly the ending cutscene where the head just completely gives in and says that everyone who helped jimmy is amazing and untouchable and anyone opposed to him or his allies are just done, even the faculty... so therapeutic. It doesn't ruin his character wither as hes still pretty much just spoiling the shit oht of one specific kid again, but at least someone who looks out for the little guys this time lmao. Great way to end all the bs that school put jimmy through lol
If bullying is so bad then why do our public schools consistently fail to stop it from happening?
Stop it?
They encourage it with reverse psychology. Like those anti-smoking ads.
toughen up
@@bloodysimile4893 tru deym
Because they're lazy assholes who would rather pretend to care than actually do something.
@@thekidnamedfinger420 bad attitude
I think the lines " alright I'll kill the boy
NOT THE BOY, BOY
THE PLANT, BOY" are my favorite by far
boi
BOI
BOAH
The only thing I hated in the story was the start of Chapter 5
You've literally taken over all of the student factions, only to get hated 20mins later.
* School library gets infested with Rats *
Nerds: "IT'S YOUR FAULT, JIMMY!"
* School Gym burning *
Gym Teacher/Jocks: "I'VE TRUSTED YOU, JIMMY"
Like, why or how did they think Jimmy set it all up? and they all somehow listened to one guy without proof. It doesn't make sense to me.
It was Gary's fault
@@user-sl3wk1oe5q Yeah but how did he even easily convinced everyone that it was Jimmy's fault without showing proof or evidence? and why would everyone think Jimmy would do that after all the good deeds he has done for them? lol
I only have one major complaint about this game, and it's the fact that, other than the nerds, none of the factions got fleshed out. I remember Algie, Earnest, Fatty, Beatrice... I remember close to nothing about the other factions. Hell, I'm not even sure which of the jocks was the faction leader!
Jocks IS the most bland faction. But other cliques had some fleshed out character, tbh. I can remember each cliques' bosses. Johnny, Greasers, obsessed with love and a bit not right in the head, paranoid. Derby, rich brat, striking platinum blonde, is in an incestous engagement with Pinky, his cousin, spoiled and manipulative, prideful. Several other members of cliques like Norton, Trent, Gordon, Kirby, etc, etc.
@@arthurmorgan2887i only remember the greasers and johnny because of the outsiders
Jock was the most underdeloped faction which is a shame since its my favourite cliche. I honestly wouldn't have mind if they cut out the townie faction all together and instead used that chapter on jocks.
This game ironically had a rather realistic depiction of a strict school. Not all bullies have sh-tty background like Jimmy, some people are just a-holes, and most of the time, you have to actually fight back, either physically or emotionally. Some teachers/director, are either oblivious or straight join to the bullying.
I think that's why old people got mad about it, because a lot of people have mix memories of their times in school/high school/college/university, either exaggerating the bad or the good times they had.
I also love Jimmy, he aint the typical hero trying to make everyone friends, who doesn't even says bad words, Jimmy will defend you, then flick your forehead at the same time. It makes him more human, when he finally gets to power, it goes over his head.
I'm a bit sad that Rockstar doesnt make their games as interactive as they are. In a way, Bully reminds me of Mount and Blade, on how alive the world is.
Its why I liked this game a lot. Instead of kids being the big bullies, everyone is. Just in their own way, and the worst, is the ignorant principal
MY GOD! What a way to mention Mount and Blade, haha! But yes, that's very true. Hail to you, brother of war!
Man, they nailed the family/child dynamic. My mother is basically a carbon copy of Jimmy’s mum. I also became an abhorrent little asshole to literally everyone, for the longest time, because of it.
But ya also have a good heart . Those who suffer know more bout other's pains than those who dont mate.
Feels bad man hope u doing well
At least hes honest
you mean that you chose to be a assholes?
@@Chiller07Nobody asked
53:50
I was about to disagree here but now that I think about it, I’m sure why that mission felt short is because I never really got caught doing that mission and when I did, I had the go kart unlocked which I used RELIGIOUSLY to move around. The trip back and forth felt so god damn fast lol
30:55 Jimmy’s got them godly roasts 💀
This game is iconic man. The music, the characters, comedy , all hit. Such unique missions and it really put me in the world for the time I played. Definitely a big part of my childhood now
yeah absolutely iconic, no doubt
It's a historic game I hope it gets a sequel
the music definitely
@@TotallyPointlessTVGet lost
@@TotallyPointlessTV50:29 Joseph Seed AKA The Father
Really enjoying the new direction this channel is taking the combination of nostalgia and humour is spot on.
Happy that the humor carried over from his MMA videos
@@PoptartParasol Definitely, tbh I think the new content showcases his humour better as it's a more diverse set of subject matter.
Yuh frll
38:18 - favorite lines in the game 🤣
Exactly my thoughts!
honestly this game genuinely needs its own movie adaptation I absolutely love it
As someone who grew up and is a tremendous fan of this game, only ten minutes in and I really appreciate how well you’re handling this game, it’s been one of my favorites for a while and seeing such a succinct video on what makes it good is really fun to watch
And you wear the varsity jacket, the best outfit for him in the game lol
Jimmy's first rise and fall is a perfect example of a certain saying.
"You can take power with bayonets, but you can't sit on them."
"You can build a throne out of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long." I think is the way it goes.
@ElodieHiras I have never heard of this saying before.
@@ElodieHirase.
57:51 "We don't have the firepower"
Russel: "No, but Russel has the mass"
hey, you are the guy that grows guns!
"Russel out"
I loved when he said, "It's russeling time" and Russeled all over them.
@@olamias truly one of the russels of all time
"Russel, likes to hurt people for peace." -Russel
7:00 "that was not consensual"
THANK! YOU!
This game is literally my happy place. I remember playing this game religiously on the ps2 sitting criss cross on the floor after school and struggling with certain parts because I was a stupid fucking kid but going back and playing it as an adult a few times over never gets old to me. The story, the game play, the open world concept and side missions. This game is a true cult classic. I would buy a sequel or a remake without even thinking twice.
Same here. It’s one of my favourite games of all time and a sequel would be so nice to see.
I loved the lines of dialogue about russel like "russel can comprehend prison?" and "Russel, likes to hurt people, for peace"
Man this game ended up being the complete opposite of what I thought it was when I would see the game cover as a kid. I was thought you woulf go around stealing people's girlfriend's and robbing them while beating up teachers or something; turns out, its insanely well written, has surprisingly good dialogue, and even has a decent message.
The fact that anyone could be mad about this is really puzzling, especially considering how many "normal" people i know who liked to casually hop on gta4 and gun down droves of civilians while avoiding the cops (shrug)
This is exactly why this game had so much controversy around it and was even banned in some countries. Because people who haven't played it thought that the game was about bullying others for fun. If every Karen who complained about the game actually sat down and completed the story, most would realise the game is actually anti-bullying.
@@BL00DYME55 Reviewing before playing or watching a media source materialis a negative aspect of reviewing, as it prevents you from getting the context you NEED to understand the source material's message.
@painandpyro Man what? Gay lmao.
@painandpyro Nobody cares about your useless childhood. Get. Lost.
@@BL00DYME55 Not like this same sort of thing didn't happen before. Go look at the laughable ideas and controversy around "Night Trap" in 1993. Though, please mind, it *WAS* in 1993. Many adults didn't play video games then, the industry was still very young. I'll give those in 1993 somewhat more of a pass, but not a huge one for lack of thorough investigation.
"No sight in end" at the 28:54 mark, kek.
Had to rewind to make sure I heard that right...
With "In End no Sight"
34:00 it's the Filipino noon-time show scene for me
Bully in the cover name is just a perfect disguise. You're actually changing the school of chaos to proper order with no bullying! Good to see you actually making a video of this game!
Yeah. People are stupid.
There has been other titles that represent what the good guys want to stop.
For example, The Lord of The Rings. It's the title, and the antagonist (Sauron).
Bruh jimmy does a lott of bullying to get what he wants throughout the game lol
@@matthewlambert7501 Sure, but as far as I remember, he only messes with the biggest assholes.
@@matthewlambert7501 yes, but mostly he's against it if they don't deserve it. he doesn't bully random people unless you make him do it, he is just a video game protagonist after all.
@@matthewlambert7501 Knocked some sense into them and that's what it took for them to behave. Sometimes that's the only thing that works.
17:23
Sadly that’s not the case, if you take too long without sleeping Jimmy will actually pass out from exhaustion.
If that happens you could get robbed in your sleep…every single time this happened to me my shoes were stolen.
They nabbed my Yeezys in my sleep.
@Arbid Rahman
They took my Yeezys man
Ohhh...that explains why i see jimmy with only socks on even though i remember giving him shoes
Aw hell nah they took my yeezys cant have shit in bullworth
Omg they took the yeezys!
You BASTARDS!
Stealing pocket change is not so bad but the yeezys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😔
god that typical villain-esque rant from gary still sticks in my memory to this day. him going on about how he "runs [jimmys] world" is just. astounding to me
58:00 I love how these kids roll deeper than organized crime
It’s just got such a character… from the way Jimmy runs, to the map/clock, the buildings… the way the staff and teachers talk to people, it’s all just so connected to itself. I completed it again a few months back for the first time in 10+ years, I’d highly recommend it to anyone!
"Russell can comprehend prison??" is honestly one of my favorite lines. The delivery & timing of it all. I played this game long before i knew anything about Rockstar or GTA, i just remembered enjoying the story & mechanics so much. I think i spent way too long with the side quests & yeah the ending seemed hella rushed for a game so robust but oh well, glad Jimmy & Pete got their happy ending so its fine :)
My favorite is still "I get it sir, you want me to kill Derby Harrington, yeah ill get right on that."
@@mugoftoothpaste1507 Jimmy was down for murder and I can respect a man with ambition
12:25 That's called psychopathic behavior.
XD lmao
“Cousins are legal, oh, you mean Lola?” God this game has too much hilarious quotes.
This game came out at a time when I was in school in a rough area and of course, was bullied. It was a great way to let off steam through relevant events and brought a lot of comfort after a shitty day.
Bruh.
@@skyral4137 better than bullying back
@@skyral4137 What do you mean “bruh”? He or she said something very valid. This game came out at a time where I was made fun of at school too. I was an awkward, skinny and tall black girl just trying to get through school. I loved playing this game.
The fact we never got a sequel to this masterpiece with a new story is a crime. This game was incredible, and is still great to this day. I wouldn’t have minded the ability to have more boxing challenges though
Brother they developed a hole ass sequel just to get it canceled.
@@Mentelgen-1337Did they really?
@@visassess8607 well if I wasn’t lied to yes.
@@Mentelgen-1337 I vaguely remember hearing of a sequel that was in the works. I didn't think of it much, and the last I thought of it might have been in 2008... Good grief...
Also somewhere 2019 Rockstar was concepting to do a Bully Prequel, in a suburban environment but it is cancelled very early.
26:39
Was this supposed to be hilarious? I laughed so hard at this part
You want me to kill Elon musk.
Not the man, man! The company!
During the winter season in this game, you can play snowball fights with other bullies, which makes the season pretty wholesome.
It's small things like this that make this game a masterpiece
What I love about the game, especially the final fight despite being kinda easy, is how Gary and Jimmy contrast each other.
Jimmy on the outside looks and acts lile a typical ,well, bully. But he's actively against it, never picks on the smaller kids and is trying his best to bring some order to the school even if his methods are questionable.
Whereas Gary is the *REAL* namesake of the game, despite *looking* like a prim and proper student for the most part. He's the worst kind of bully, in fact. The kind that manipulates and has others do his dirty work *for him* while he seems innocent by comparison, all the while pitting people against each other for the kicks. Even his motives are born out of pure narcissism and a need to prove he's smarter than everyone.
And *that* was ultimately his downfall. Unlike Jimmy who ,over the course of the game ,becomes tough as nails to keep the school from falling apart, Gary never changed, never improved.He just laughed at how much chaos he was causing from the shadows, until Jimmy brought him out into the light and exposed him for the sociopath he actually is.
Why is this a less cosmically threatful version of Joker and Akechi from persona 5
The nice thing about the fight with Gary, in my opinion, was the fact that it was easy. Most of the fights Gary running off like.a coward until you confront him, and just get a chance to kick his smug little ass.
@@maggotsman.What the fuck you're right
Gary = Israel, the Colonial Project & Apartheid Regime that also serves to wreak havoc in West Asia. (look up Lavon-Affair or USS Liberty lol)
A near perfect description.
@@maggotsman.thats a great comparison, shout out akechi tho thats my goat 💯
I love Bully, which is why its flaws are so upsetting to me, because I can feel how they prevent the game from being even better. My three big gripes with Bully are as follows:
1) The reputation system and the plot as a whole would’ve worked better in a less linear story. Every single npc is so lovingly crafted to be an individual, it’s a shame the linearity of the game ends up wasting their potential and turning them into set dressing, and you aren’t given more opportunity and agency to explore and build relationships with characters and cliques of your choosing. Furthermore, it would be fun to be able to fail or even sabotage quests without being forced to restart the mission, and have that sabotage or failure become a canon event in that playthrough (unless you reload). For instance, it’s actually possible in game to fail the mission The Candidate by shooting Earnest’s speakers, and I would’ve loved if I could’ve used that as a way to gain Jock respect and lose Nerd respect. More player choice would also help spice up the honestly slightly mediocre gameplay of fighting and fetch-quests.
2) Gary also felt like very wasted potential in the story. There exist trailers and unused cutscenes that imply he was originally meant to stay your friend for much more of the game rather than quickly betraying you at the end of chapter one, and I think that would’ve made his manipulation and betrayal hold much more weight. As it stands, in the final game, he’s kinda just spoken of in passing, another npc walking around campus, occasionally showing up in the background of cutscenes. He’s weirdly enigmatic, not in a cool way, but in a shallow and underdeveloped way: he magically convinces people to do his dirty work and believe his rumors, even though he’s written and acted to be a bad liar, and most everyone from Pinky to Algie knows he’s a sociopath not to be trusted. I also found that Peter Vack’s voice acting for Gary ranged from fucking perfect, like whenever he’s tormenting Petey, especially about the swim team, to slightly cringy and phoned in, like whenever he’s monologuing or when he does his deep and slow little chuckle.
3) I never liked the ending for how lucky and matter-of-fact it felt. Having Gary get in trouble because Crabblesnitch just so happened to hear his whole monologue made it feel extremely flimsy, fragile, and unearned. An easy fix would have been to have Jimmy or a friend have a powerful tape recorder in their pocket while chasing Gary to record his evil monologue to show to Crabblesnitch later, and it would thusly feel so much more rightful and rewarding when he gets punished. It’s also disappointing you never get to see the hurt on Gary’s face when he realizes he’s failed; it would have been so cathartic and so earned for us to finally see him feel the weight of his karma.
A couple other things about the ending:
- How the hell did Gary get all the cliques to riot and fight each other? And what did doing so accomplish for the story?
- Why does Johnny go back to hating you like everyone else even after you just SAVED HIS ASS FROM A FUCKING ASYLUM?
- Why is everyone cheering for Jimmy in the final cutscene? How did they suddenly start loving him again? Did they learn about Gary’s evil schemes? If so, how did they find out so fast?
And then there’s the technical critiques: It’s a shame so many things like bike tricks and a second story for the boys’ dorm had to be cut due to budget restraints and deadlines. Funhouse Fun was originally meant to center around using the funhouse controls to torment the Jocks, the dialogue for which is actually left over in the game files, but aside from that one moment where you trigger the grim reaper statues to hit them, it ended up being another simple beat-’em-up and escort mission. Had Rockstar and the PS2 been able to pull it off, it would’ve been nice if Bullworth Academy had more student npcs, so they didn’t have to reuse the same ones all over the map.
Also that mission where you take compromising photos of Mandy without question and then a couple missions later go around destroying the posters of those photos which makes her like you while hiding the fact that it was you who took the photos in the first place always felt really gross.
6:09 It's really funny when you put in perspective that both Bully and San Andreas did the feature before Red Dead 2, a decade early.
19:32 - Fun fact: if you keep grabbing Russell every few seconds, even though he’ll push you away, it resets the charge timer. You can go the whole fight without having him charge at you this way.
This was Rockstars FINEST work in my opinion. Well written, excellent characters, missions that kept you engaged from beginning to end....it was almost perfect
Red Dead 2 was awesome.. You should play it.
@@dannygreen5477 i played the shit out of rdr2 3 times. Never finished it. Story was way Less fun than open world fun and immersion
Ive beaten it many times.
Canis Canum Edit is still Rockstars finest work..
@@loki2655 I love the music in it, funny, alive, sad, sneaky, exciting, action, emotion and everything else, it's really great! I made a mistake and didn't buy it when it was on sale for just 5€, god that was dumb😑
@@dannygreen5477
That is the most overrated Rockstar game now.
1:00:27
“It’s America! We go in there with threats and bribes”
So true yet also so funny
Jimmy Looks like a 30 Yr old man
When I was in middle school for two years, I was bullied for those two years straight. It was awful, while it never got physical until it stopped in high school, but while I was trying to report the bullies to the counselors they would tell me that they will do something to stop it. Yet they never done a thing.
For over two years, me and my mom struggled with the school system since those years and nothing came to action. When I entered into high school, nearly half of my classes were occupied with the worst one. It wasn’t until in the middle of the first semester, I got my self into a fight with the bully who tormented me since middle school. Even though I got myself a three day suspension, a cracked nose, and was grounded by my mom for the fight, the school listen what we said and were separated from him to opposite sides of the school.
Ever since then, I couldn’t care less what any school official would say whenever they wanted to meet with me due to having an IEP and would often wouldn’t see them at all. I remember talking to my aunt about when she said when her son was bullied both ms and hs and how the school system did nothing and I told her about what happened to me and she wasn’t surprised about it for she worked within public schools. I helped my cousin where I can and I consider him a brother to me. Bully shows off the school system of what GTA shows off about society and I really enjoyed the game.
And if I would give advise to anyone, never start a fight, but always finish the fight.
Edit: didn’t expect to get this response over a bully video. Thanks a lot for you madlads for responding. Now that I have finished high school, I’m glad that I’m out of that hellscape. While starting adulthood has its own problems, at least I’m better off now than I was before.
i was once like you before, i had a bully who keeps harassing me during high school, told my teacher about it, nothing was done. i even escalated the matter to the principal, and guess what, the bully still gets to attend class as normal so that he can keep harassing me more.
one day when i was ready to head down to the cafeteria for break time, my bully came out to confront me. the both of us spewing insults at each other before he started to attack me. however, i managed to gained the upper hand and threw him down on the floor. i then proceeded to beat the hell outta him until he told me to stop, but i kept going. eventually i got caught and was immediately sent to the principal's office.
the principal told me that expelling me was the only right thing she could do. i rebutted her statement with this: "if you guys aren't willing to do anything about it, then i have no choice but to take matters into my own hands. i have reported this case of bullying many times and nothing was done about it. you are giving me the impression that bullying is okay but standing up to them isn't. if you were to be me in this case, what would you do?"
and that is the time i told myself that i should not rely on others to fight my battles, rather that i learn to stand up for myself. and no, i do not condone violence against bullies, but if no one is willing to help you, then it is up to you to decide whether you want to let it slide or end it here and now.
I’m a boxer so they wouldn’t be able to take me down, especially wrestlers because I’m not stupid enough to let them get ahold of my legs or just me.
@@kenyalmb good for you Gordon.
@@Aceriex Damn, I'm sorry it ended up being like that, did you end up getting expelled? I remember something similar happened to me but I just ended up ignoring it my entire life until I eventually finished highschool, I didn't really get into fights because the people who bullied me only had throat and nothing else, so I eventually let it slide. Although when I was a kid, there was this bully who punched and beat one of my friends, I tried to get him off of him but ended up getting punched myself, so, much like you, I ended up beating the shit out of him until I broke his nose and almost asphyxiated him. I believe in general, unless it's an extremely strict school, and even then, the educational system just doesn't care about bullies. And when people who finally defend themselves against bullies end up always being the ones getting caught. Adult life might not be a piece of cake, but honestly, it's light years better than teen/early adult life.
i got lucky cos my parents begged the principal to give me another chance, and the principal reluctantly let me go with a warning.
I think its stupid that the teachers get mad at you for wearing something like a leather jacket yet the greasers are allowed to wear leather and Jean jackets and the teachers just let them go.
I think they still wear the school's vest under those leather jackets or jean jackets.
I think it gets explained away with the lore being that since they’re always working on cars/bikes the shop teacher gives them a pass
Ironically I feel it’s kinda more realistic. I didn’t go to a fancy pants boarding school but I did go to a relatively reputable uniform school. The rules were hella biased and most often some kids could wear literally whatever they wanted and never get in trouble while other kids would get a shitshow thrown at them by the adults for not having the school’s emblem patch sewn onto the uniform pants. It all depended on your reputation and status, both in school and outside school (aka how much money your parents had)
39:00 “You just kissed every boy on the block.”
i get the joke! BUUUUT considering jimmy can kiss one boy from each clique (and Gord is the one from the preps he can kiss), that number might be a bit lower than you’re anticipating 😅
Geez what's so good about this girl. Her haircut???
Only in the Scolarship Edition
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The prank in question (3rd degree burns and permanent brain damage)
I just wish Rockstar would’ve inserted Gary more in the story than just the beginning and End. I want to see Gary backstabbing me, not hear about it from characters after i just got their trust doing missions. But i get it, Gary being the master manipulator pulling the strings was the twist in the end
PLus it speaks to what a coward Gary ultiamtely is. He's so scared of you he refuses to face you until he has no other options, which is ultimately what ends him, as he feared.
a lot of people complained about his boss fight being too easy but I think that was the whole point. Gary fought with his brains and wit, muscle wasn't his strong suit. Sure he could fuck you up when he kept himself out of reach (he did it for almost the entire story and even the first half of his boss fight), but the moment you get into a one on one fist fight with him he goes down easy because Jimmy was flat out stronger and a better fighter.
i wouls have enjoyed that being added to the story. his background being elaborated on would have been interesting.
Yep that is how they operate anyways, behind the scenes... 😐
I just want to point out, after unfortunately much real-life experience with a couple people with personalities exactly like Gary, his behavior here is not delusion; he's not insane (at least in the way you mean) and he didn't start rumors about himself. It's that he honestly thinks everyone, you included, really actually are secretly plotting against him. He assumes you've been spreading rumors about him automatically. No evidence needed. Why? Because it's what he would do! It's hardcoded human nature to believe that most people are like oneself, and since he's a lying, manipulative, entitled asshole plotting and backstabbing, he honestly thinks everyone else is the same way. In his mind he's just protecting himself and giving others what they deserve. In people with these types of narcissistic, borderline sociopathic personality disorders, these tendencies of assuming shared behavior and motivations eg; that the world is out to get him, are often exaggerated in their natures to the point of paranoia.
Whether by luck or by actual research, R* did a good job portraying this. Granted it's an over the top performance because it's a non-serious videogame, but still.
Love this comment!
“I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.”
its like stalin and his purges.
@@cjeromet1971 Though Stalin (and most dictators) do have similar personality traits, the purges were mainly to justify the continued existence of the State and it's brutal methods and laws. With those systems of government, there always has to be some enemy; some threat big and continuous enough to require the police state. Without that, the people might start thinking that maybe we didn't need the constant surveillance, spying, oppressive laws, and massive State bureaucracy...
Sadly even our Western "free", "democratic" governments still engage in minor, less obvious versions of this behavior today. You can see it in the constant drafting of new laws, prisons packed with minor drug offenders and other 'victimless crimes', and the perpetual justification of terrorists every time the state wants to take more of your freedoms and rights away, or engage in more spying, or whatever else. Stalin's purges were just this methodology taken to the extreme -- but any government of sufficient size (and the inevitable corruption) after a while exists only to perpetuate itself and gain power, and do so there must always be enemies to justify things, real or invented.
Lol sorry I didn't intend to write a thesis on this. Anyway to tie it all together, it should thus also come as no surprise that folks of similar personality to Gary often gravitate toward positions of power and authority: government, police, you name it. Most well-adjusted decent people see government, police, and use-of-force as necessary evils and methods of last resort, respectively. They participate in them because someone must, but only to the minimum necessary. The Garys of the world however see them as handy excuses to bully others and power trip. Cops do it openly and directly, politicians hide behind a facade of words and public image, while delegating the backstabbing to someone else, but the same psychological forces are at play. And that's why policing and politics are in the state they're in, because such are the majority of people in those professions.
And now that I've bored the hell out of everyone, I'll shut up.
Wow yeah right ON!
"Russell can comprehend prison?!"
Fuck all, what is this game? LOL
8:46 now i see what you mean by “loud music”
bully sequel cancelled.
because rockstar couldnt figure out how to implement online multiplay and endless microtransactions.
the company is all about that today, not about making games.
the only micro transactions in rockstars games recently have been buying mf shark cards, which is literally just a waste considering grinding heists you can make a load of money quick anyways. i don’t see how you consider that “endless micro transactions”. this isn’t fortnite pal.
@@ThePWNDR do you think it's a coincidence that rockstar just recently announce gta6 in the making. If they weren't making bank off of something then it would've been made much sooner hm, let's see what their most updated, most played game is with it's shitty economy and having the inclusion of micro transactions while letting any kid play the game online as you can just buy it digitally now, it's borderline exploitation
@@ThePWNDR cope
Guess that’s why they abandoned Red Dead Online which sucks compare to Red Dead Redemption 1 online
Cry.
Something bully nails is simply its identity. There's no question about Bully's identity as a game. The music score always fits the situation quite well if it be the various clique fighting themes, or the various mission themes. The world while nothing groundbreaking when compared to other rockstar titles, is crammed full of a certain character that you can't overlook. Each part of Bullworth feels like something you can find in small north-eastern coast towns. (Since this game for some reason really screams.. Conneticut or Massachusettes for some reason. Maybe its what the developers were going for, maybe not. Regardless it screams that New England type look)
oh they definitely were going for that. Not to mention they aimed to make the game feel sort of 'timeless' to a degree; yeah certain aspects of it could become outdated but at the same time it had this sort of feel and tone that never really goes out of style, it always feels welcome and familiar no matter what. Kinda like beloved 80s teen flicks like the Breakfast Club or Ferris Buller's Day Off.
i feel like it reminds me a little of New Jersey, but I'm no expert
This game actually does take place in the New England region of the US. My guess would be West Haven.
But does it also for some reason really scream that New England type look for some reason?
I heard somewhere it's supposed to be New Hampshire
Gary is one of the best examples of a great villian
Think of teenage version of Dimitri Rascalov with maybe some Tenpenny thrown in.
Kinda impressive how they made a manipulative high schooler feel like an actual villain.
I'm actually grateful that Rockstar locks zones and only unlocks them through story progression. Open world gaming seems to be the big trend right now and personally it's very overwhelming. Having access to everything immediately makes the progression feel very backwards and you may either end up completely overpowered or somehow did something in the wrong order. Not to mention, having an entire map to explore straight out of the gate is overwhelming because you feel like you absolutely have to explore all of it in fear that you might miss something.
I think I like Saints row 3's progression. all of the map is open to you and you can move around it freely after the first 2-3 missions. However the game itself mostly sticks to one main zone for the first half of the game or so, only later introducing neighboring areas and giving you missions there. So if someone has played the game before, they can easily go to some of the shops outside (though the only one I'm aware of would be leather and lace but still), or do some activities outside of the main area. Dlcs tend to break that somewhat, but I can more or less understand it since you can start them at any time.
Gothic 2 did it best imo
some games do it well tho e.g botw/totk
Or it's just unused space. Why have it if you don't need it?
Good example are the locked islands in GTA 4. You can fuck around with a 6 star, but to get anything important, you gotta deal with that bastard Roman. Lol.
In San Andreas going into the map outside the city without progressing the story actually gives you an automatic 6 star wanted level
We desperately need a sequel to this! In fact this deserved a sequel years back.
Bully 2 was cancelled in favor of GTA 6. Who knows how far along its development was before it got canned.
@@hyndquart5241 actually that was a rumor, the game that had gotten canceled was Volt, Bully 2 just has less people working on it
@@ahhhhhh2947 well thank fucking god honestly
@@cabezadepija7318 maybe we got the chance to bully them it would be fun ngl
@@Glarkk it would probably get boring quickly too because they'd probably be brainwashed into bdsm too and actually enjoy it... awkward
36:09 hold up
34:38 Why he sound like scout from tf2
your martial arts videos were pretty good but your recent video-game and movie hour-long video essays have been AMAZING
i hope you keep making this type of content, it's some of the best I've seen in a long time
I 100,000% agree. The first vid I saw was the Downpour one and I subscribed 5 minutes in. Madly in love with this content.
The video game videos are why I’m here
Hope he does more mma stuff, but I think it would clash too much with the content he is making now and the fanbase he is forming. Sad ;-;
I agree with this also!!!
Its a lot like pyrocynicals best stuff
8:15 I remember the dramatic irony of this as a lil kid thinking, "I know what I saw, a shit ton of bullying" then additionally thinking, "Maybe he's right and I'm the crazy one"
only for a dude to come out with a slingshot
How did he get through the whole video without ever realizing the game is just called "Bully" with no "the" 😭
I agree, it irritates me more than it probably should
1:00:37
He sums up American mentality pretty well
5:05 This moment really changed boys across the globe
"Femboy"
as a femboy i can tell that this is a certified hood classic
I screamed when I heard the word "femboy" in a rockstar game from the 2000's
femboy 🥺
Your gaming content is finally starting to get the recognition it deserves man. Keep it up. Your interaction with your subscribers is also top notch. We feel like you actually appreciate us. Definitely one of my absolute favorite channels on UA-cam. Thankyou for what you do, Brother, it's appreciated by all your fans.
Well this is a good and a bad thing. obviously hes getting more popular, but if he gets to popular then the top notch interaction will be gone. Still tho, this channel is fire
@blue guy you're is short for "you are". I was using the possessive form "your" in each instance that I used it.
When I go to the gym, I often put on Gary's boss fight theme when I'm at the punching bag. There's just a specific feel that music gives that makes me motivated.
26:34 He became a gta character real quick 💀, someone get Jimmy on gTA 6 pls
I loved this game as a teen. I thought it had you play as a bully initially too (which I guess is partially true) but it really was the opposite. And had such a tight, fleshed out world for the time that still runs circles around some modern AAA titles. Still waiting on a Bully 2 FeelsStrongMan.jpg
This goes to show that no one, not even congress, wants to see their puberty-strickened past come to full light. Yeah, and bullying sucks while kindness swallows.
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classic yt user with their name as their username
has the thinking capacity of an oven
@@afj810 yet you couldn't come up with an original insult