Bully: Scholarship Edition

This game is very well written and stands as one of the best games of it's era. This port of it in particular has a tendency to crash randomly, which is a shame, but I still play it because of how encapsulating it's story is.

This is such an old gem. I LOVED playing this on PS2 and it was nice to give her some playtime as good ole Jimmy once again. Simple but fun. Just a good classic if you have never played it I recommend it. When in doubt SAVE. I save after missions and between classes. But I'm trying not to fail any classes on this play through. Good luck bullying the kids! lol

i like to jump high school kids and beat them up nice game 10/10

such a fun good game btw scholarship means university

It may be the nostalgia talking here, but I loved this game back then, and I still love it now. It has always been one of my top favourite games. These types of genre of games takes so much time and money, but gosh do they do their best with it. So much to love about this game, I just love it. Happy to buy it myself and forever cherish it. Thanks to my bother who introduced me to this game, love for all!

Gary must be behind all of the glitches in this game...

This game perform well in my low end laptop but the game close automatically. I dont know why and what i do.
Not Running Continuously automatically close over a period of time repeatedly.

This game is unplayable without community patches. Horrible port

Bully: Scholarship Edition (Steam) – Fantastic game, awful port. Constant bugs and crashes made it unplayable for me on PC, which is a shame because this one hits hard on the nostalgia. The music is amazing — that weird little soundtrack sticks in your head for years. Still one of Rockstar’s most unique and charming games. If you can get it working, it’s a blast. Definitely deserves a sequel or a proper remake that doesn’t self-destruct on launch.

Bully: Scholarship Edition is a pretty good Adventure open world game and it’s not really surprising since this is made by Rockstar, although it does have some flaws that holds it back from being really great that’s with this port of this game, anyway let's talk about the story.

15-year-old Jimmy Hopkins has it rough from being kicked out of seven different schools, his mom being married for the fifth time and now he's headed to Bullworth Academy considered to be one of the worst private schools in the country.

Jimmy is not a bad kid he can be a bit of a jackass and he has his own issues but despite him looking like a bully, he actually is a pretty good person who stands up to bullies, but as soon as he arrives at Bullworth the young man's going to be put to the test as he's going to be made to face the different clicks of the school, the bullies, the abusers and the manipulative psycho leading practically all of them.

Now the likes, the story is very good it does have a lot of plotholes though, but that was due to cut content, but anyway the story has a lot of good twists and turns, interesting missions and well-written characters and despite the name of the game being called bully your not a bully it's actually about fighting against bullies whether their kids or adults, it also has a bit of a heartfelt message which I found good, it feels like a good indicator in the kind of storytelling Rockstar would be famous for with their Red Dead Redemption games and the kind of messaging it has while still being a fun game, basically this game’s story is a sort of in between old Rockstar to new Rockstar. There’s also plenty of memorable moments and some pretty memorable dialogue, also the game can be quite funny I mean what other game can let you knee a little person dressed as an elf in the balls.

The gameplay is very good it's like their other games like Grand Theft Auto, with traveling around the open world doing missions as well as the main story with plenty of fun mini games you can do, but what helps this to stand out from their previous works is the gameplay, while it is generally the same you're not going to have access to guns and the like, the arsenal you have is more juvenile but I don't mean that as an insult, like instead of guns you can have a slingshot, marbles and a graffiti can, stuff you suspect a classic bully to have, hell the only gun you have is probably the firework Cannon and my personal favorite the potato gun.

Anyway you mainly deal with opposition with classical fisticuffs, punching, kicking and as you advance those the game you can learn new moves like kneeing someone in the groin, you can also improve your character via lessons since Jimmy is a kid he has to go to school but each class you take you can learn different moves or things to improve your characters skills or how to traverse the world. There's also plenty of really good side missions and mini games that really help break up the monotony of the main story.

The characters are all really good very well written with their own unique personalities I think my favorite characters has to be Jimmy yeah he can be a bit of a jerk, but he's actually a very nice kid and he just wants to have a nice quiet time at school, but he gets pulled into the insanity of Bullworth it feels like what if a real person was just dragged into a rockstar game and deal with all kinds of crazy people that’s in those games, he's also the kind of kid that can just roll with the punches and not afraid to get his hands dirty.

I also like Pete he was a good side character he's generally a sweet kid who's just wants friends, I like Gary as he's just a crazy over the top villain that wouldn't be out of place in a GTA game, I liked Johnny the leader of the greasers as he was cool he feels like a '50s motorcycle punk/delinquent movie somehow got transported to the modern world.

The graphics are good for the time this game was released, very detailed with a nice set of colors, scenery and detail that makes you stop and stare sometimes. The levels are very good and quite diverse with each part of bullworth from the school and the town feels like a real place, it’s very distinct and give good incentives to explore every inch of it. The music is very good some nice tracks; the voice acting is very good, there are some parts that do feel a bit phoned in here and there, but other than that it's very well done and each voice actor does their best.

Now the dislikes, now as I said this is somewhat of a bad port in my opening and it's true, when I first started the game it had a real bad crashing problem, there is a fix I was able to use that at least stopped the crash or more precisely the crashing message to appear, unfortunately another big problem is that the game just randomly shuts off like you could be playing it for like a few hours or even like 15 to 20 minutes and for some reason the game just shuts off for no reason, I don't know why I never could get it fixed.

Also I don't know if this is my controller or could be the game itself sometimes when I was opening like the pause menu it would open and close like real fast sort of like flicker open and I would have to click a few times before it could finally open, it also affected on how I saved, like I accidentally deleted my save file which made me have to start the whole game again. So I suggest when you save the game you make two save files instead of one, also unplug and then replug your controller that seemed to correct the issue for me.

There is also a lot of plotholes in the story, like consider the villain Gary He's supposed to be this big integral part, but he only shows up in the first chapter, then one time in the second chapter and we don't see him again until the Final Chapter, I mean his presence is felt throughout the school but I always wondered like where is he I mean he's supposed to be going to the school and we don't see him.

But again like I said these plot holes came about because of a lot of cut content. I also would have liked a few extra missions after you beat the main game, like what they did after Red Dead Redemption. Just a little warning there are a few missions that do feel gross and also feel like a contradiction to Jimmy's character, the missions are one stealing panties and another mission where you have to take pictures of an unsuspecting teenager and one were you roofy a unsuspecting teacher to help the lunch lady get with him. Rockstar has said it was a different time but even so that feels like a poor excuse and again these missions feel kind of out of character for Jimmy to do. Finally the game doesn't have any achievements which definitely felt like it was needed.

So now that is done Bully: Scholarship Edition is a pretty good Adventure open world game and it’s not really surprising since this is made by Rockstar, although it does have some flaws that holds it back from being really great that’s with this port of this game, it has a very good story, very good gameplay and really good characters, so I do recommend this game, but I do recommend getting it when it’s on sale and have a lot of patience and you may have to fiddle with it to make it work.

Great game, but mods & endless fixes do not solve the crashing issues. Rockstar needs to update the port.

Buy the PS2 or Xbox 360 versions.

The original Bully is great! But i can't recomend this one because the lack of checkpoints in missions can be freaking infuriating, some missions can be easily failed, and sometimes the game just crashes right when you're close to finish a long mission, making you have to replay the whole thing.

when having shadows and anti aliasing (maxed out 8) on i experienced crashes but other than that the game plays very good.

good game to play. I would suggest looking at the work you'll have to put in before buying this it is a very great game but it dose have problems where it will crash randomly makes sense since the game came out in 2006. the story holds up really good but you'll have to download some patches to fix the game from crashing and i would suggest buying a xbox controller keyboard and mouse will give you pains of child birth.

this game is the best nostalgic game ever made by rockstar, make sure to try it out

It's very good, but it crashes very often, fortunately there are mods that solve that problem, one of them is Silent Patch and that's the one I use.

I really like this game, but I CANNOT recommend the steam/pc version at all.

This game is buggy as hell. Crashing, random freezing and cutscenes bugging out, making me lose progress are some of the reasons why this game is really getting on my nerves. I just lost 3 hours of progress, because a cutscene bugged out, essentially soft locking me (I wasn't able to do anything, couldn't move. I just had to watch Jimmy stand there.)

Yes, that's totally on me for not saving every single time I finished something... But that shouldn't even happen in the first place. And yes, I have the Silent Patch installed.

If you want to play Bully, play it on ANYTHING else other than pc, please.
[P.S. the keyboard and mouse controls are horrid as well...]

Very simple and addictive game! Good storyline and character development. Mechanics take some getting used to though.

Buggy sadly, get a rom. Even with the work arounds there are lots of soft locks.

this game is great for people who want to be a public menace witout repercussions in real life

The game is awesome. We don't see games like this these days because society today has become sensitive to absolutely everything. I would love to see Bully2 but I don't think it will ever happen.
I'm sadly tho that I had to refund it cuz it doesn't start. I don't know whats the problem but the memories from when I played it as a child will be forever in my heart

Had to download some shit to get it working, without the game crashing every 10 minutes.

But when I fixed the problem, I had a lot of fun with this game.
I like the very simple but engaging story.
It's just a funny adventure game with similarities to the GTA mission structures, In general this game has more similarities to GTA then you might think, (no wonder coming from the same devs).
The different subject classes had some cool mini games (I suck at geography).
What I didn't like about the game was the old feeling movement and kinda repetitive gameplay.

Still, the game is a 7/10 for me.
Boink!

Such a great game.. shame to see it so buggy. worth if you get it on the cheap and constantly saving lol

BULLY IS A HAVE TO PLAY GAME! its childhood game but dose keep crashing on windows ten? any known fixes

🔔 Um verdadeiro absurdo esse jogo estar com as análises ''Muito Positivas'', Bully em si é um jogo 10/10, joguei muito quando era criança mas finalmente joguei do início ao fim, e claro, crashando tantas vezes que não consigo nem contar nos dedos das mãos. Há mods que ajudam e tentar evitar isso de acontecer, mas mesmo assim, sofri vários! Pra quem quiser estressar e tentar zerar o game na Steam, recomendo criar o hábito de salvar bastante, ter paciência (e tempo), e procurar pelo Silent Patch, ele ajuda nesses crashs, mas nada garantido. Busquei maneiras e maneiras de tentar melhorar isso, e mesmo assim rodou feito uma bomba atômica, atente na hora de comprar por que é repleto de problemas.

This game is worth buying the story combined with all the other stuff you can do is going to make playing worth the money/time. The only really frustrating thing is that the game crashes every now and then which can make it really annoying when you have come far into a level/task. The graphics is good for the age of the game and during the duration of me playing the game it seemed to not have any visual glitches/bugs at all, I would recommend buying this masterpiece of a game.

Amazing game. Its a shame Rockstar doesn't create these kind of games anymore. We should have a bully 2. This story is very deep with twists and plots. Spend time enjoying all the activities on this game as you get great rewards that make the game much more easier. Fun times with this game.

this game is peak however note this game needs to be patched with the 3.0 silent patch of github to work i love the game but rockstar is selling a broken product and it really sucks for people who haven't played the game.

how to fix it:
download the silent patch from github
unzip to main directory of the bully files
change settings in the github config i recommend changing the memory release
then play the game

its a simple fix but on that shouldnt be required but the ost in this game alon makes it worth it

you can dm if you need help with the files and installation if required

also play the game OG first then try mods some really good ones such as the online and zombie mod this game has it all

here is the issue, the game is AWESOME i love it, one of my favorites from my childhood. however, the bugs and glitches it encounters are TERRIBLE and happen far to often, im actually to the point i cant even launch the game now as of writing this review...and am looking into fixing it, if anyone could help id be greatful

i played this game alot when it came out and its just as fun the controls are a little werid on pc for my taste but i just plug in a controller, also it did seem to crash a lot after the first day of playing so i reccomend downloading the silent patch havent had any issues scince then

Game so good I translated the entire thing in Romanian just for the love of it.
Have all versions of it, even on PS2, finished it on all devices, simply my favourite game oat.

my first time ever playing this game, its very good had a lot of fun playing it, the only problem i had with this game it crashes a lot out nowhere, and the button mapping on the controller was absolutely trash, all my buttons was reverse my x button was my y button and vice-versa same with my A button being my B button, but that something I could look into but I was lazy to do any research into a game that I played every Sunday, but all in all this was a great game and I will recommend if you ever want to experience this game I would say get the 360 version or the ps3 version of the game due to the version on PC crashing a lot

Fun game to play, finally decided to go for the 100% and it took about 20 hours to do so, The game crashes a hell of a lot even with silent patch, but hey i was able to play despite those few issues. Still a shit tone of fun to play and i wish rockstar would just make Bully 2 already. P.S Fuck you Gary

I still remember playing Bully on my PS2 like it was yesterday. I didn’t have a memory card back then, so I’d leave the console running overnight—just so I could pick up right where I left off in the morning. This marks probably the tenth time I’ve completed the game, and honestly, it never gets old. There’s just something about Bully—its charm, its world, the characters—that no other game has ever matched. A true classic. Nothing will ever quite come close.

Very fun game, slightly janky controls, it does randomly close sometimes so be sure to save daily. The various incorporated mini games and stat progression through classes are great mechanics. This is a game for people who enjoy mainly side quests with a side of main quest. 4/5

its sorta good but still is prone to crashing with the silent patch soo I hope that Rockstar fixes it soon :((

one of the best games ive ever played now this version kinda sucks tho havent got it to stop crashing but dispite that ive beaten bully once again the added classes are nice just for geography alone for the first time ever ive got all the cards and rubberbands

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to attend a private school? This game has a pretty unique and interesting perspective into the world of a teenager attending a new school. Traditional Rockstar Game gameplay but teenager friendly.

How poetic, A great game ruined by one of the shittiest pc ports since The Last Of Us Part 1.

Don't buy this piece of shit.

please help me bro when i was playing bully scholarship edition the 30 fps cap is so bad when i watched the video people was increasing their psychology or removing 30 fps frame rate and i dont understand how to removed it can yall make it 90 fps

I think this was among, IF NOT the best games I have ever played. The story is cool, each character has it's own personality, and Bullworth is full of secrets and life! I bought it off a sale, but I would definitely spend the money for the full price, it's totally worth it. Bully has a unique charm to it, and I await the sequel more than GTA 6.

Great game. Low stakes world of a tough private school. Entertaining for those who long to reminisce.

fun game, crashes but just install Silentmode or whatever everybody is talking about, you can even shove the prefects (teachers) in lockers.

This game is near perfect its just a shame that for it to run well on your computer you likely have to mod it which isnt difficult using guides from the community hub.. so if you dont mind that I find this really enjoyable and play this version when I dont have access to the ps2 version ^_^** This game has a lovely story and I find it really enjoyable how each of the characters all have their own distinct personalities even if they dont play a big role in the plot which makes the world so fun to play around in even without doing missions; replaying the game I keep finding new things I hadnt before.. so great replay value if you like it enough to want to play over and over again

Tbh it runs VERY WELL on the steam deck! But I've seen many reviews not recommending it in general so all I've got to say is that..

It runs beautifully on the steam deck :D

This game is a hot mess scam. I have no idea how all these positive reviews are for a price like this you want something polished. Even all the community hub post modifications and anything reddit and internet has to offer didn't fix this game's sudden crashes and memory problems.

Yeah nah dude I contacted the support for a refund. Rockstar get your sh*t together before you scam people. Can't believe it's the same company making GTA and RDR... Stay away from this one at all costs dudes!

Great game, but my save file got corrupted mid playthrough. idk what it was, as I had the silent patch installed.

very fun game and also very nostalgic for me and maybe even for you

I LOVE this game, and I keep returning to play it, but it always hard crashes, and I stop playing it.
I've tried many fixes recomended online, but it's never enough.
ROCKSTAR GAMES, MAKE A FIX FOR THIS MASTERPICE!

The game is 10/10, but it is unplayable for WIN 10.

One of Rockstar's greatest games of all time. This game is a masterpiece from start to finish. The diverse cliques and gangs, they way they dress, their stereotypes, and the way they interact with you is so entertaining. Shawn Lee made an absolutely incredible soundtrack for this game. The story is super fun to play and it is so memorable. It reminds me of when I was in high school and how much I wish to go back. Amazing game 10/10.