User blog comment:SirLinkalot96/Bully Discussion 1/@comment-2099017-20160902173108

There may be a few things that I would change in Bully.

I would change the respect system in the game. Make it a lot like Grand Theft Auto 2's. In that game in order to work for a certain gang, you would have to kill as many of their rival gangs till you had enough respect. That would have been an interesting dynamtic to see in Bully.

I would have at least made the map bigger, expand it to the size of a county rather than just a small town. Don't get me wrong, the "small coastal town" feeling of Bullworth was a good change of scenery from the big cities of GTA, but I felt Bullworth could have been bigger. If Rockstar would have made the map the size of a county, then there would also be more places to explore and probably also more activities to do. Maybe they haven't thought of the idea at all or maybe they did but couldn't because of the limitations of the PS2, I don't know. But you got to remember, the original version of Bully ran on an advanced version of the game engine used in GTA: San Andreas and that game was able to fit an entire state. And according to SWEGTA on YouTube, Rockstar planned on having Bully set in a big city with a subway system and all that. So yeah, if I had a hand in the creation of Bully over a decade ago, I would have made the map bigger.

I would have made an actual week calendar in the game. Bully: Scholarship Edition had five days in total where classes were available, but no weekends. I would have added weekends just so if players wanted to, they could focus on school Monday-Friday and do missions Saturday and Sunday.

And lastly, I feel that there should have been some way to play music in the game. Don't take me the wrong way, I love the OST and I'm thankful that Shawn Lee put so much work into the game, but you know how annoying it is to hear the free roam song all the time? Rockstar should have added an MP4 player or something in the game and record stores just to buy some songs. I know that the original game would have had problems due to the PS2 limitations, but that probably wouldn't have been a problem for the remake on the PC and Xbox 360.

Those are the things I would change about Bully.