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|title=<center>Family Guy Online</center>
|image=Family guy online logo.png
|status=<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span>
|imagecaption=The game's logo.
|status=<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''</span>
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'''Family Guy Online''' was an online MMORPG from 2012 to 2013, set in the city of Quahog, in the game you can customize your own character and take on missions given to you by other Family Guy characters. However, due to the fact that Fox was making almost no profit it was shut down a year later.
'''''Family Guy Online''''' was an online MMORPG from 2012 to 2013, based on the long-running animated sitcom series of the same name.


There are many gameplay videos on family guy online but no way to play the game, the game was shutdown and taken off all websites that had it. Family Guy road to the multiverse had been poorly reviewed receiving a score of 40 on Metacritic.
In the game, the player could customize their own character and take on missions given to them by other ''Family Guy'' characters in the city of Quahog. However, due to the fact that Fox was making almost no profit from it, it was shut down a year later, with no mirrors in sight.<ref>[http://www.pcgamer.com/family-guy-online-to-shut-down-cut-away-gag-explaining-why-not-that-funny/ PC Gamer article speculating why the game was shut down.] Retrieved 13 Sep '17</ref>


Nothing has resurfaced on Family Guy Online, no textures or models, the only proof of Family Guy Online is gameplay videos posted to YouTube.
==Availability==
The game itself is lost, however, there are many gameplay videos on ''Family Guy Online.''


==Videos==
On June 12th, 2020, LMW Discord user Smoke uploaded a few cached assets from the game, dated to be from August 2012, to MEGA.
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On September 5th, 2022, LMW Discord user Goldnchld found that Discord user Daver had uploaded 2,621 files from the game to Bluepload via the Flashpoint Web Cache Recovery Index.<ref>https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YGO5f0nXCKTE1b-fe4grhim3yIihoG81rjCPHx4puBM/edit#gid=141558279 Retrieved 05 Sep '22</ref> It contained 1,310 folders of asset and cached metadata files for the game, with dates ranging between September 5th, 2012 to November 10th, 2012.<ref>https://bluepload.unstable.life/familyguy.zip Retrieved 05 Sep '22</ref>
{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8GZMlFTg3o|320x240|center|''Family Guy Online Gameplay'|frame}}</div>​


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==Gallery==
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===Footage===
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  |id1          =_8GZMlFTg3o
  |description1 =Gameplay of ''Family Guy Online''.
  |service2    =youtube
  |id2          =oZ0OzEbaScY
  |description2 =Debut trailer for the game.
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===Videos===
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  |service1    =youtube
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  |description1 =MonitorLizardTV's video on the subject.
  |service2    =youtube
  |id2          =Mc8pyBkwcsg
  |description2 =A video by Goldnchld showing a Choco Taco model from one of the cached asset files.
}}
 
==See Also==
*[[Family Guy (partially lost unaired pitch pilot of Fox animated sitcom; 1998)]]
*[[Samsung Doorways (lost Family Guy AR game; 2018)]]
*[[Family Guy: Road To Death (partially found prototype build of third-person shooter based on Fox animated sticom; 2010-2011)]]


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==External Links==
==External Links==
*[http://www.pcgamer.com/family-guy-online-to-shut-down-cut-away-gag-explaining-why-not-that-funny/ This article on PC Gamer explains why it was probably shut down]
*[https://mega.nz/file/A54TjQKL#FbCWVG1sIdEx6xZxyL-cV-EfAoqKHxXH3rN3Y4x30Js The MEGA download for Smoke's cached assets of ''Family Guy Online''.]
*[https://bluepload.unstable.life/familyguy.zip The Bluepload download for Daver's cached assets of ''Family Guy Online''.]
 
==References==
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Latest revision as of 15:36, 4 April 2024

Family guy online logo.png

The game's logo.

Status: Partially Found

Family Guy Online was an online MMORPG from 2012 to 2013, based on the long-running animated sitcom series of the same name.

In the game, the player could customize their own character and take on missions given to them by other Family Guy characters in the city of Quahog. However, due to the fact that Fox was making almost no profit from it, it was shut down a year later, with no mirrors in sight.[1]

Availability

The game itself is lost, however, there are many gameplay videos on Family Guy Online.

On June 12th, 2020, LMW Discord user Smoke uploaded a few cached assets from the game, dated to be from August 2012, to MEGA.

On September 5th, 2022, LMW Discord user Goldnchld found that Discord user Daver had uploaded 2,621 files from the game to Bluepload via the Flashpoint Web Cache Recovery Index.[2] It contained 1,310 folders of asset and cached metadata files for the game, with dates ranging between September 5th, 2012 to November 10th, 2012.[3]

Gallery

Footage

Gameplay of Family Guy Online.

Debut trailer for the game.

Videos

MonitorLizardTV's video on the subject.

A video by Goldnchld showing a Choco Taco model from one of the cached asset files.

See Also

External Links

References

  1. ↑ PC Gamer article speculating why the game was shut down. Retrieved 13 Sep '17
  2. ↑ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YGO5f0nXCKTE1b-fe4grhim3yIihoG81rjCPHx4puBM/edit#gid=141558279 Retrieved 05 Sep '22
  3. ↑ https://bluepload.unstable.life/familyguy.zip Retrieved 05 Sep '22
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