User blog comment:SirLinkalot96/Bully Discussion 1/@comment-4833053-20160830220244

While I do love Bully, there were some areas that I feel Rockstar definitely could have improved. I would say that my main gripe with it was the final mission (Complete Mayhem). The final boss fight between Jimmy and Gary was so... Anticlimactic. I get it that Gary was more manipulative than strong, but the fight was too damn easy. I remember having trouble with the Norton mini-boss fight in The Tenements than I did with Gary. Sam and Dan Houser are great at what they do when it comes to story (Red Dead Redemption is by far my favorite story they have done. I enjoy it more than GTA V); however, I do feel that they could've improved on the final boss fight. Obviously they couldn't kill Gary because of the T for Teen audience, but the fight was just missing something.

Another gripe I had was the respect system. Honestly, I hated how EVERYONE liked Jimmy at the end of Bully. That's not how it is in actual high school Rockstar! I really wish they could've had a more dynamic respect system, but due to the hardware limitations at the time I assume that's why they couldn't. I really wish that they would have had a respective respect system with at least each clique. While they did have it through the story progression, I wish that it would have carried over past that. For example, you could literally beat the nerds to a bloody pulp and 5 minutes later they greeted you as if you didn't just previously beat them. If not for the hardware limitations, I feel that they could have greatly improved on the respect system. Perhaps in free roam if you would have beat up the nerds, their respect with you would go down but the jock's respect would go up, and vice versa. An always changing respect system would have added some more realism in my opinion.

Another gripe was ConSumo. Just, fuck ConSumo man. That mini game was so annoying.

Aside from the aforementioned gripes above, the game freezing randomly and annoying glitches (like the Ray one you mentioned) I really can't think of any other issues I had with the game. They could have improved on some more things that I'm pretty sure others will mention, but that's all I got for now.

For things I loved about the game, I loved the stereotypes incorporated into the cliques, the typical Rockstar humor, the setting, etc. I really wish that Rockstar would do a sequel, but like you said, it would always come with controversy.