Games Review: Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff

Didn’t I play this two years ago?

Oh, where do I begin with this. I could have sworn I played this when I downloaded this to my iPad two years ago, but then, it was called The Simpsons: Tapped Out. Anyway, the game’s premise is that you have to rebuild Quahog after Peter and the Giant Chicken destroy the entire town. So, a town is leveled because of a character letting shit go out of control. Are you sure this isn’t Tapped Out? You get different costumes for the characters, like goth Chris (seen above) and tweeked Peter. All of the jokes are there, from Bonnie being a stripper, to tweeked Peter, Crippletron, Peterdactyl, Commando Lois, even Quagmire shoving gerbils up his ass is in the game.

Unfortunately, to get anywhere near completing a portion of Quahog, let alone all of it, you either need to spend every possible moment trying to buy coins and clams to unlock the town. This isn’t all bad, since you actually get the game for free. But with jackholes on your friends list who just buy ungodly amounts of currency, you feel you’re lacking too much.  Your time in this game is going to be spent looking at this for 5 minutes until your timers are up:

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And let me speak of this Fremium principle. It’s fucking terrible. The game forces you to spend an obscene amount of money to get anywhere. This had it, Tapped Out has it, and it’s an increasingly growing trend. You get sheeple who will buy more currency, just to make their game look better. Since game companies can make more money through the sheeple buying more and more currency as an in app purchase, this is only going to grow more and more.

Anyway, this game isn’t terrible, and is technically sound. The fundamentals, however, make it incredibly boring unless you decide to pay to win. Because of this, and the fact that it’s just a copy and paste of Tapped Out, this makes it not worth the purchase.

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