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Family Guy Video Game in the Works
antifoidulus writes "According to Businesswire there is a Family Guy video game in the works, set to hit the street sometime next year. The game is being developed by Take-Two Interactive. The press releases contains only a few scant details, but the game will be a 3rd person action game that puts you in control of various members of the once cancelled animated family." From the article: "The massive licensing and merchandising program on tap will coincide with the new series launch for Family Guy on May 1st, and is expected to be one of the company's largest product blitzes to date."
the object of the game will be to end the life of the wife, with the knife!
Good luck and please make it so that it doesn't suck like the Simpson's video games have!
Ok, who told the Studio execs that there's other ways to make money than just produce a cartoon show?
Guess it was downhill from the first DVD, see how long it takes for the Stewey branded Diapers.
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It could be great like Simpsons Hit and Run, or lame like the Futurama game...
Here's to hoping it is good...
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Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
The US version will have all nudity heavily pixelated in accordance with strict republican censorship standards.
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They've got to have a testicle level. It's a bad day to be a sperm!
Family Guy Tennis
Family Guy Go-Kart Racing
Family Guy - Stewies Quest for World Domination RPG
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Family Guy: Apocalypse, using the super uber cool Half-Life 2 engine.
Giggidy giggidy giiggidy!
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I'll stick to drawing boobs on the etch-a-sketch...
This game is freakin' sweeeet!
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Ever so slightly off topic but, if the makers of Futurama made a video game that was actually good, would the whole making tv and films out games fad that hollywood has been going through help bring Futurama back to life?
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Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Okay, the answer is obviously "to make money", but it's still sad. Shows rarely seem quite the same after all the movies, video games, etc based on them come out.
Let's hope this isn't going to be another Simpsons game.
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Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Nothing bugs me quite like a video game based on a tvshow/movie that uses the same characters but different voices.
"The talented voice cast includes: Seth MacFarlane (as Peter Griffin, Brian Griffin, Stewie Griffin and more), Alex Borstein (as Lois Griffin), Seth Green (as Chris Griffin), and Mila Kunis (as Meg Griffin)."
According to that statement it appears they will use the regular people for the voices! Excellent.
Maybe the voices will be more believable than in Simspsons: Hit and Run. Heck, maybe it'll be a better game overall... but I doubt it. Games made after TV/Movies are usually fun for a while, but not for extended amounts of time (for me, anyway).
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Im drunk at work right now, so forgive any misspellings.... If it is made as an RPG, similar in style to earthbound... count me in.... Or possibly a top down action shoot em up, a la Zombies Ate My Neighbors. just my 2.
Paul W.S. Anderson will produce the movie?
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This kind of thing (animated series) doesn't need a video game, because it's GREAT the way it is. A video game, which who knows how seriously it will be taken (its production, not its content), is just cheapening the brand for true fans, ESPECIALLY if the game sucks.
And no, if it's good I won't take back my complaining. I just won't tell anyone I like it.
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The massive licensing and merchandising program on tap will coincide with the new series launch for Family Guy on May 1st, and is expected to be one of the company's largest product blitzes to date.
Product blitzes! Mechandising programs! That sounds like an AWESOME game.
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Bah, that wasn't flamebait.
I find Family Guy to be way overrated. Its like Simpsons, but on speed or something. Once in a while, its funny, but they really over do it.
Family Guy: Attack of the Evil Monkey?
The game might have the same characters, but I don't expect the game to have the same humour of the show.
I find Stewie and Brian to be the funniest characters anyway.
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Family Guy has a more subtle and agressive humor that you can't find in Simpsons. They make fun Sex, Racism and Intolerance... it is freaking hilarius.
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Maybe the voices will be more believable than in Simspsons: Hit and Run.
Umm, Simpsons: Hit and Run did use the original voice cast. All the people speaking in the game are the actual actors.
Only complaint I had about Hit and Run was that it was too short and the levels are too small.
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Another game which is tied to a marketting schedule and not a development schedule. I'm sure it will be a rising success like the Matrix game and the recent Lord of the Rings game.
I must agree. The humor is too "in your face," with no subtleties at all. It doesn't seem to expect much intelligence of the viewer. The writers of the Simpsons, on the other hand, seem able to express big thoughts with small words, much like e.e. cummings.
You know, like diamonds!
Its like Simpsons, but on speed or something.
I've heard this before. Often from some of the same people who liked the Simpsons better "before". (Obviously I do not know if you personally are in the second camp) The thing is the Family Guy style is almost exactly that of the Simpsons from the "before" time. Meh.
Congratulations, Take-Two Interactive, the last horse finally crosses the finish line.
| The humor is too "in your face," with no subtleties at all.
Ahh - but were there really no subtelties, or did you simply miss them?
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C'mon... tit, dick and fart jokes can be fun even if you are smart. If I want high-brow, I won't watch the Simpsons either... I'll read Proust or something.
Take a look at the Simpsons games.
1. Road Rage - It was just a simpsons-themed Crazy taxi. Game got incredibly boring after awhile.
2. Hit & Run.I was actively playing this game until I got Katamari damacy(and then burnout 3).
They really could have gone further with H&R. With over 16 seasons of content, the missions ended up being "go from a to b". Congradulations, you just re-created Smuggler's Run in Springfield.
Whether it be minor or major characters, they could have fleshed out the missions to go beyond driving and stuff it full of fun references. How come no Kent Brockman on the radio whilst driving? Thankfully it only cost me $20, as it is no Grand Theft Auto.
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I always thought it would be cool to have a Sims2 version with all of the Simpsons characters in Springfield. To bad Family Guy doesn't have more characters.
What the hell are u talking about. Family guy is way better than the simpsons and it has always been. Family guy has been off the air for a while now and most fans have seen every show, yet everyone I talk to still really enjoys it. If I see a repeat of the simpsons I just change the hannel but somehow Family Guy is diferent. It is one of those very rare showsthat you can watch over and over again and almost never get sick of. THANK GOD FOR FAMILY GUY AND SCREW U SUSO
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Why do the chins on all the male characters look like a pair of testicles?
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Or, it's one of those shows you watch about 5 seconds of, and think, "my god, how can anyone watch this crap or see any humor in it?"
Which I still think, every time I land on Comedy Central and they happen to be playing it.
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And apparently German for "Doh!" is "Dnein!" I could be wrong about that though. The jetlag hadn't worn off by then either...
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I would wear, err, I mean buy...yeah thats it - buy a pair for my son. ummm, well I don't have a son yet, so I will just ummm stock up, just in case.
Also, it's not hard to come up with comical juxtapositions of particular cultural icons. Observe:
Peter: "Hey, i-it's like that time that the Beav witnessed that mob hit!" [cut to black-and-white scene of child looking in horror as gunshots are fired, perhaps injecting a bit of Road to Perdition by having Ward as one of the mobsters]
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1. Take the latest Leasure Suit Larry Game.
2. Replce voices with Family Guy Cast.
3. Replace Graphics.
4. Release "Family Guy: The Quagmire Conondrum"
5. Profit!
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I would wear, err, I mean buy...yeah thats it - buy a pair for my son. ummm, well I don't have a son yet, well not one that I didn't buy, so I will just ummm stock up, just in case.
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If this is anything like the Simpsons games, it's going to be friggin' awesome! Anyone who can take a comedy show that pokes fun at family and culture and turn it into a game where the characters run around bashing things is getting my hard-earned dough.
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This is not a sequel to 'The Guy Game?' Damn!
Wow, when I read the first part of your post, I really thought it was going to turn out as a joke, but somehow it maintained its unabashed and unwarranted praise for a program that is not separated so much into episodes as it is into memorable bits. If I recall a joke from the show, I can almost never remember what episode it was from because almost every joke is a complete tangent from the main, usually generic, plot. Maybe it's rewatchable just because of that. You can never remember which jokes are coming because there's no way to remember any of them in a context of any sort. Woo! Epiphany!
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How come no Kent Brockman on the radio whilst driving? Not to be the pedantic Simpsons fan, but Brockman is on TV. KBBL would've been good though...
That'd be:
Family Guy: Dance Dance Revolution!
So whats your objection? You state that they took the framework the Simpsons were using at the time, that being the frequent cut-away, and build the episodes around that. The Simpsons has always been infused with pop culture references as well. I didn't comment on the quality of one show or the other, merely stated that some people who claim to not like the style of the Family Guy do claim to like the style of older Simpsons episodes which are the same style with the Family Guy pushing the format just a bit further.
in the future, please keep it to yourself.
all of my friends are like in_fucking_sanely into this show. and i have to say that i just don't get it, either. if i'm baked out of my mind, it's funny. but i've watched it sober and i laff like once and episode. maybe twice. i actually don't think it sucks, it's moreso that everyone is so god-dammed gung-ho about it and they're setting my expectations way to high. and yes i know eveyrone borrows plotlines (hello "simpsons did it" episode of south park) but for gods sake there are 4 zillion programs out there to rip off, why does it always have to be the simpsons.
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It'll never work. How can they make the characters on the game "life-like"?
Hell, I'll buy the game just to hear Stewie scream "Stop mocking me!!!" to the broccoli.
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I did misinterpret your tone, though. It struck me that you were praising Family Guy rather than drawing attention to the apparent hypocrisy of certain fans. I'd like to add to that certain other fans who hail the purported unprecedented creative genius of Seth MacFarlane while blissfully ignoring the liberal (and freely admitted by MacFarlane himself) borrowing of humor from a particular era of the Simpsons.
That said, I do find Simpsons episodes of that era to be more story-based than Family Guy. With Simpsons, I remember particular episodes and generally the context of jokes within. With Family Guy, I really have to struggle to recall the episode in which a memorable gag was featured because of the completely tangential nature of most of them.
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Don't get me wrong, some of the writing is pretty funny, and the animation looks fine, but I can't shake the feeling that some of the humor is pretty targeted. By that I mean pandering to the Angry White American Male of the 21st century. There is something forced, imo, about shows that pretty much scream, "Look at me, I'm politically incorrect! I don't care who I offend!"
Family Guy isn't the only one like this...it seems to be a marketing trend. I'm not some thin skinned knee jerk lib'ral feminist hippie faggot communist =), but when writers do that I feel like they're treating me like an idiot. I know pandering when I see it...anymore, we all should.
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I know Kent Brockman is on TV, but he's so egocentric I think even he would like to hear his own voice on the radio. Who/what voice does the news when scripts call for it?
I bought one game from Take Two - Lemmings. It didn't work. After hours talking to support, they realized it was because I had a wheel-mouse. They said wheel-mice weren't popular in their offices, so they never tested them. After an exhausing Alta-Vista (pre-Google) search, I found that the game failed to work with many PS2 input devices and would also crash if a USB device was plugged into the computer. Since they refused to give a refund for an unplayable game (remember, in-store policy is if it is opened it can only be exchanged for THE SAME game), I won't buy anything from Take Two again.
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Lets hope its better than The Simpson Road Rage game.
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freakin sweet...
Family Guy, which I love, is different and very similar to the Simpsons (which I also love) at the same time.
My first thought is people will be looking for any similarities to Simpsons games.
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Oh my god! I just submitted this exact same post! Ok, maybe not exact, and you fleshed out my ideas better and made much more sense, but still. Dammit. You even trumped me on the example.
:)
Anyway, you're right, maybe I noticed the formula quicker since I first started watching it on DVD, at which pace you can easily see how predictable the jokes become.
Let's hope they flesh it out a bit for the comeback. Call me crazy, but I love an underdog.
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... movies based on video games, or video games based on movies (or a TV series)?
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The press releases contains only a few scant details, but the game will be a 3rd person action game that puts you in control of various members of the once cancelled animated family.
I want a Family Guy adventure game!
I've a theory that just popped into my head. I think that Family Guy may be relatively unique in that it's a show that appeals to a very broad section of the population due to its use of incredibly mainstream yet still specific pop culture references that people are only now able to get into because of a previously volatile and sparse airing schedule. Now that it is on nightly on not one but two basic cable channels, people are able to tune in to it nightly, confident that they have found a lost gem of a series, cut down before its time. They then go on to spew one-liners and recount the various shock-value bits to friends, believing they are evangelizing some little-known treasure.
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Nothing about Family Guy is subtle. Sorry, I'm not buying it.
Futurama had subtle jokes, like when they used the X-Ray on Bender's head and the CPU inside was a 6502, that was subtle.
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That is why the tie-in joke parent specified RESTAURANT, not GAME.
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Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
After watching many episodes I'm convinved it's really just a spout of social commentaries by three old cynics.
One pretends to be a family guy, another is dressed up as a dog, and the other one thinks he's a baby.
I don't get it.
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I find Family Guy to be way overrated. Its like Simpsons, but on speed or something. Once in a while, its funny, but they really over do it.
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I have to admit... I was first turned off from Family Guy because I found it to be very similar to "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home". In fact i'm still convienced that the characters were modeled after this little known Hanna Barbera cartoon. The "why me" father figure... the brain damaged son with bad hair... the wife that puts everything into perspective... the daughter who's obsessed with losing weight... and the child/baby who's plotting for money/world domination. It grows on you and you accept the fact that it's just a very good parity of the old great family comedies like "All in the family" and "Happy Days". It makes you sit back and smile and question whether or not television has improved over the past 30 years.
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It's one of those shows where you can watch each episode 10 times and still notice something different each time and still be taken by suprise IMO.
I've got a soft spot for Family Guy - watching it caused me to laugh when nothing else could.
uh. keep what to myself... the whole statement? or just certain parts of it? If your gonna be an ass, you could at least be a bit more precise.
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The word on the street is that they had to delay the game until Blu-ray came out, as they couldn't squeeze all the necissary racism onto a standard CD or DVD.
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There are plenty of 1% jokes in there...you just happen to be in the 99% of people too dense to get them.
You, sir, are in desperate need of a life.
Interesting you say that. All of my friends who are HUGE family guy friends are not pot heads - many of them are avid anti-drug people. And I actually first saw and became addicted to the show before I had ever touched marijuana (when it was originally aired). One thing i've noticed, though - engineering-oriented people tend to not like it as much, mostly because they find it too random and unstructured. Scientists, mathematicians, and lovers of discovery in general, however, are absolutely enamored with it. I think it has to do with a whole true vs false intelligence thing. Those with true intellect love family guy, and those who pretend they're smart (ie - engineers) want to find anything they can wrong with it simply because it's a generally popular series that they don't have the brains to grasp it. It makes them feel inferior. Those with God complexes HATE that.
I'll tell you what. You and all your imaginaut "lovers of discovery in general" can go to your ramshackle "HUGE Family Guy friends" clubhouse and talk about that time somebody did something. Those of us apparently unable to withstand the unprecedented randomness of your tired, predictable fast-cut pop culture regurgitator will somehow manage without your truly dizzing and, frankly, rather frightening intellects that are uniquely suited to interpreting the brilliance contained within such bits as "Peter's ancestor was tiny and fought chickens."
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I feel sorry for the man who no can longer laugh at a joke but can see only "humor devices" instead.
Oh, good, we need more of those.
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I guess it's time I take a long look at where I am in life right now and how much time I've wasted not randomly mentioning things from the 80s.
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Just listen to the damned theme song, and notice which attitudes they mock and which they endorse.
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