Holy crap Lois, they’re making a Family Guy MMO (that’s massively multiplayer online game), for some reason. So if you’re tired of stomping around Warcraft or whatever you can pretend to be a virtual Family Guy character and walk around Quahog making lazy pop culture references with other Family Guy fanatics. Wow!!! It’ll be like TV Tropes and Second Life had a baby, except with over 9,000 times more epic random for the win purple monkey dishwasher. I’m guessing there will be some “game” elements, like, I don’t know, beating up the chicken guy or the evil monkey (remember the time Peter beat up the chicken? Remember?). Will there be gang wars between Simpsons fans and Family Guy fans? Who knows! Nobody knows anything about this thing yet, all we know is there’s a site where you can pre-register for a beta, and if you view the page source, the description says “Sign up for the Family Guy Online today and receive news & events about the upcoming MMO!” So yeah.
Any MMO based on an animated sitcom is going to be horrible, but I gotta wonder why they didn’t do this for The Simpsons first – Springfield is a dense location with lots of places to explore, people are still obsessed with “Simpsonizing” themselves and celebrities (I have never, ever seen anyone on the internet “MacFarlaneize” anything), etc. Maybe they tried and it never came to fruition? Maybe Fox did some studies and discovered “the gaming community” knows The Simpsons is horribly lame now? The world may never know.
Anyway, here’s some funny tweets:
im so happy i get to be to introduce all my followers to the newest addition to the MMORPG "family"……. http://t.co/Vds41Q5
— Big-Tity Honker's (@BikiniBabeLover) June 16, 2011
im not going to break the NDA, but i will say that the family guy online mmo is freakin sweat 😉
— woke weedie (@420WeedLord) June 17, 2011
The first guy who signed up for Family Guy Online gets to be Stewie . the rest of us are Fucked. Thanks Capitalism
— Jackson (@tree_bro) June 16, 2011
@rubbrcatsimp @BikiniBabeLover accepted quest "Freakin' Sweat, Lois" sweat collected 0 of 12 drops
— Just like Bob! (@AlmightyBoob) June 16, 2011
how can you make a family guy mmo? you'll be mid way through a raid and suddenly you'll be in an unfunny 1980s tv reference
— Cool Murray (@ABigBagOfKeys) June 17, 2011
guys lets all sign up for this family guy mmo and then roleplay as simpsons characters and never break character ever
— J. Lesley Feezberg (@satellitehigh) June 17, 2011
Sounds like a plan, y’all. [Family Guy Online]
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