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Is Guitar Hero breakin' the law? Breakin' the law?
If Game Stooge had its way, these guys wouldn't be the only ones with Guitar Hero-related legal woes. It may be a little hard to swallow, but a recent editorial on the site makes the assertion that having to unlock songs in the game before you can play them is an illegal practice -- "quite illegal".The piece insists that the reward for mastering hot licks should not be the rest of the game, but bonuses like the achievements system of Xbox 360. Although Game Stooge doesn't say so, it's an argument that could be extrapolated to most games, which often require completing one stage before playing the next. It's here that the plot sort of gets lost, when Game Stooge suggests that advertising more features than are immediately available is actually illegal. The idea is almost kind of cute, like your mom suing you for not honoring the "Good for 10,000 World-Class Backrubs" coupon you made her when you were seven.But before Game Stooge proves that there's nothing more rock 'n' roll than an understanding of the legal system gleaned from Phoenix Wright, does the editorial have a point? If you buy a game, should you be able to do whatever you want with it from the word "go"? Or should you, like a young Stevie Ray Vaughn, have to play until your calluses fall off and then glue them back on?[Update: The Law of the Game, new kid on the sparsely populated legal video game blog block, tackles the GameStooge editorial, with real-sounding legal terminology. You go, Matlock!]
PQ2 coming to US
Game Stooge has up a press release from D3Publisher of America stating that PQ2: Practical Intelligence Quotient is coming to the US. For those not familiar with the series, it has you use an avatar to get out of block stacking mazes as quickly as possible and your intelligence is graded on how well you did. Given that, I'm sorta pissed at my college and pre-college education, because not once did I get a course on block stacking and that's why I'm such a dummy now. To help educate myself, I may have to pick up PQ2: Practical Intelligence Quotient when it arrives in non-Japanese form in the US. PQ2 will have more than 250 puzzles and will support Infrastructure mode so you can beat you friends in a video game and use that hollow victory to point out how stupid they are and by proxy how much of an idiot you are for hanging out with them. The game is a PSP exclusive, which obviously means PSP owners will be the smartest of all console owners after the game comes out. [ Thanks Jonah! ]
