Regarding video games based on movies or television programs, you can certainly do much better than “Family Guy Online”, a short -term mmorpg game of 2012. The game allowed you to create your own character and To walk Quahog, performing important tasks for the characters like “Beating Chris” Bully “or” Help to starve an appointment “.
It may not seem exciting for you, and it also does not seem exciting for players at the time. This is why the game has never been popular enough to justify the release of the beta phase. After only eight months of publication from the public, the developers announced that they would close the game. In January 2013, the game was no longer; The closest thing you can play is watching old videos of procedures on YouTube:
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If I had to guess why the game never took off according to the gameplay I watched, I would say that it is because the game has little appeal for fans outside the show. You don’t need to be a fan of “The Simpsons” to appreciate the magic that was 2003, “The Simpsons: Hit & Run”, but it is very difficult to imagine a fan no “Family Guy “Finding something interesting about this game of” Family Guy “. There are very few skills or strategy necessary to accomplish one of the tasks; To win the fight against Chris’s intimidator, for example, all you have to do is click on the intimidator and click on the press button below. As long as you can do, you have it.
Regarding video games, “The Simpsons” reigns in supreme
Unfortunately, “Family Guy Online” felt too much of a laziness treasury to be a success. There were few coherent scenarios, the story of the game opting rather for a chain of references to the show. Often, your price for having completed a task was that you could watch a clip for the show, but if you want to watch “Family Guy” clips, you can already put the show at any time. The game was an announcement for the show first, and a second playable game.
Meanwhile, “The Simpsons” published another video game almost the same, a mobile called “Tapped Out” where users were able to design their own city. Described in advertisements as “addictive of life”, this game is very fun (too fun, even) for all those looking for a regular dopamine supply. I started playing the game in high school and had to leave after a few weeks because it took all my free time; Meanwhile, players will still talk about this game today as if it was an addictive drug.
“I liked this game so much that I had to stop the cold turkey,” wrote a Redditor In the Subredit “Simpsons”. “I woke up in the middle of the night during special events to make sure I have all the collectibles. It consumed me and I loved it. I tried to print my city at work in color and I was in trouble, so everyone needed a code to use the printer. “”
“Tapped out” lasted more than a decade before the developers, EA Mobile, closed it in January 2025, and many of its players are still struggling with the news. The sub-sworn of the game, which has 74,000 usersis now filled with messages moving the game stopping and wonders if there is a way to come back. But a bit like “The Simpsons: Hit & Run”, it seems that “Tapped Out” has disappeared for good.
It was sad to see the two main video games “Simpsons” unfold, but both had a massive impact, much larger than the RPG “Family Guy” could never dream. Do not tighten too much on “Family Guy” so as not to be as good as “the Simpsons”, but the man, the supremacy “Simpsons” must even extend beyond the field of television. And not to add the insult to the injury, but the “South Park” games are also great.
