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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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Family Guy: Apocalypse, using the super uber cool Half-Life 2 engine.
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I'll stick to drawing boobs on the etch-a-sketch...
This game is freakin' sweeeet!
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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.
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).
Maybe, but somehow Uwe Boll would get the rights to it.
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I'm leaning towards lame myself. The Simpsons has a very rich background with tons of locations and characters that the Hit and Run game could draw on to make a neat 3rd person game.
Family Guy doesn't really have all that much to draw on. I'm thinking it's gonna be more "a 3rd person game with Family Guy characters" rather than a "Family Guy game".
Never know though. Hit and Run was a good game but the ones before it weren't exactly stellar.
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But you have to remember how many crappy Simpsons games came out before they got it right.
Simpsons Hit and Run was an outstanding Simpsons game, but not really an outstanding game. It got very repetitive, and in my opinion has little replay value, but it was far better than any other Simpsons game.
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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After four seasons they were already heavily recycling jokes. I love futurama but I don't think it really has any mileage left. Be happy with the DVDs.
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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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If they don't do the "Remember that time when..." scenes, it's not family guy. :)
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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.
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.
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.
Or be the BEST GAME EVER, like Bart Simpson Versus the Space Mutants
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.
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.
correction: the TWICE cancelled animated family
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.
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Why do the chins on all the male characters look like a pair of testicles?
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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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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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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.
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.
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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Yeah but IMHO the cell shaded 3D scenes esp. the space fights and such were really worth it. I thought the animation was some of the best I had seen on TV. I like the one when Bender is floating through space with a civilation growing on his stomach. I love Family Guy, but I miss Futurama almost as much I wish they would create a super cartoon block (Simpsons 8, Futurmama 8:30, Family Guy 9, and then get rid of malcom and put arreted development at 9:30) best sunday night ever.
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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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I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that since it's going to be a Family Guy video game, there's a 0% chance that it will be another Simpsons video game.
Yeah, agreed, although I still love to watch Futurama. Family Guy isn't much different though. My girl turned me on to Family Guy, and I loved it for a DVD or 3, but then it started becoming way too formulaic. Allow me to illustrate:
1) Start Episode
2) Have some sort of ridiculous flashback with pop culture references and low-brow denigration (yes Jay Leno has a big chin, Courtney Love is trash, Models are thin, etc)
3) Show Peter do something stupid which creates a plan
4) More flashbacks/what ifs with pop references
5) Resolve plan, more flashbacks.
Seriously, it started getting on my nerves to the point that I groaned whenever someone said a flashback que line. "This better not be like that time...." "Peter remember the time..." "That would be like if X was like..."
I could be funny if I just made up some random stuff too. Like, remember that time I sprouted a Rhino horn on my nose and charged into Calista Flockheart, but I missed her cuz she's so thin? Mehhhahahah(Peter Laugh). Cuz she's thin. Mehehe. Freakin` sweet.
It's a fantasy within fantasy within a fantasy. May be Ok for some but I had enough. I'll tune in to see if it's refined a bit but I expect more of the same. Thank god for Stewie and Brian.
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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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I agree! Because we could all use more refined 20 minute animated TV shows in our lives. Imagine the possibilities if we got the animators of Family Guy together with the writers of Frasier. Patend Pending Copyright Trademark 2005.. Sucker
... 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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it doesn't really need that much to draw from.
GAMEPLAY is the key, not the scenery. scenery can be created.
futurama game had 'good' scenery(in the sense of futurama world) but sucked in gameplay.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
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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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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.
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.
Obviously they should copy the Hit&Run formula, because it worked. That being, use an existing engine and copy the gameplay from a successful game. Get the real writers and voice actors to create the content. Half the fun in Hit&Run was driving around, smashing into things and listening to the characters make excuses or berate you for your bad driving.
Bite the hand.
You know, King of the Hill is still around...only it airs (and has for a few seasons) at 1800hrs CST. It's been as neglected and butchered a show at the hands of Fox's crack schedule-makers as Futurama had been, and yet it's still around. Which begs the question: how much does Futurama's untimely demise have to do with Matt Groening and Co simply deciding to take a pass on being a bastard step-child to whatever sporting event was in season? You never hear of Mike Judge threatening to pull his show due to the far-too-frequent pre-emptions...of course, he doesn't have another cash-cow to fall back on.
To stay on topic, in regards to a response: Fox should bring back both Futurama and The PJs and do nothing BUT animated shows on Sunday. King of the Hill, Family Guy, The Simpsons, American Dad, Futurama, The PJs....wooooo!
(note: the PJs thing is a joke...but they could always add another animated show and be done with live action on the Lord's Day)
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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.
Why not watch Adult Swim? They're one of the main reasons Family Guy is coming back.
They have Family Guy at 11 and Futurama at 11:30 plus their other shows from midnight until 2. (Warning: May Contain InuYasha)
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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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The 4th season was made-up of the crap that was rejected in previous seasons... That is why it sucked so horribly.
Simpsons has gone down the same road, basically. The past 2 seasons have been utter crap, but I blame that on management, not the show itself. I won't mind if it dies off at this point, but it could still be a good show.
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Agreed, I love adult swim. But you are talking about repeat episodes. With them being played 5 days a week (Sun-Thu) you see futuramas 4 seasons and family guys 3 (and the first season was short, including weinstein I believe there are 51 episodes total) You soon start seeing repeats quite often. I am an adult cartoon junkie so I love other adult swim shows too, aqua teen, sealab 2021, and venture bro's are all great
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Ah, but the new seasons of Family Guy, the second half of the ATHF, Sealab, and Tom seasons, the ACTUAL Squidbillies show, another Perfect Hair episode, and a whole lot of new anime are starting in May.
Adult Swim is getting a LOT of new viewers, almost hitting 1 million on Wednesday for ATHF, and that means more new shows for us.
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Don't forget to watch American Dad tomorrow. From your post you make it sound like the new Family Guy eps are going straight to adult swim. I was under the impression that the would actually be run by fox, hopefully on Sunday night behind Simpsons and with American Dad.
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The new Family Guy episodes WILL be aired on AS either at the same time as on Fox or slightly after. I already saw the American Dad pilot.. if you want to it's on myspleen.net
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Don't forget Chris vs the monkey. Hopefully Quagmire is in it.
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Good point. Given my many many years as a video gamer, I also feel that it's certain that the "Family Guy" video game will be almost, but not entirely, unlike a cup of tea.