inFamous will be "about quality", not length, says creative director

Sucker Punch creative director Nate Fox has said developers should focus on quality, not quantity - suggesting inFamous is being produced with the former firmly in mind.

"Look at God of War - it is an excellent game, an instant classic, and it's only like seven hours long," he said in our Live Text interview. "GTA IV is 30 hours long, and people wanted more? That just tells you how excellent that game is.

"It seems to me that it's not about length, but about quality," Fox continued. "And because I love both of those games, I hope that developers never try to shoot for a long game, but instead for the most fun they can pack onto the disc - at any length. That's what we're doing for inFamous."

Sucker Punch is best-known for producing the Sly Raccoon series on PS2. However, their new game is a PS3 exclusive with a much darker tone. There's no word on when it'll be released yet, but Fox hinted that a downloadable demo could be in the works.

"You can expect to see some downloads from PlayStation Network closer to our release date," he said. What about downloadable content following the game's launch? "You'll have to wait and see."

Fox did confirm the game will feature Trophies, however. "We'd be complete and total jackasses not to support them," he observed. "They are videogame crack and everybody knows it."

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I'd rather have a quality game then a long and boring one like GTA IV.

After playing the "filler" type sandbox games , I think this is a good direction. Cut out all of the fluff and get us to the action and fun stuff.

After playing the "filler" type sandbox games , I think this is a good direction. Cut out all of the fluff and get us to the action and fun stuff.

 

Nike_Air

After playing the "filler" type sandbox games , I think this is a good direction. Cut out all of the fluff and get us to the action and fun stuff.

Nike_Air

I agree, which is why I find alot of sandbox game boring.

And from the trailers I've seen, it seems like they really are following this direction.

Uncharted for PS3 was pretty short, but it's also one of my favorite games this gen. If they do it right I don't think it's necessarily a negative.

another AAA hype by cows now is at A hype

Bluray+cell ot the rescue!!!

Sucker Punch creative director Nate Fox has said developers should focus on quality, not quantity - suggesting inFamous is being produced with the former firmly in mind.

"Look at God of War - it is an excellent game, an instant classic, and it's only like seven hours long," he said in our Live Text interview. "GTA IV is 30 hours long, and people wanted more? That just tells you how excellent that game is.

"It seems to me that it's not about length, but about quality," Fox continued. "And because I love both of those games, I hope that developers never try to shoot for a long game, but instead for the most fun they can pack onto the disc - at any length. That's what we're doing for inFamous."

Sucker Punch is best-known for producing the Sly Raccoon series on PS2. However, their new game is a PS3 exclusive with a much darker tone. There's no word on when it'll be released yet, but Fox hinted that a downloadable demo could be in the works.

"You can expect to see some downloads from PlayStation Network closer to our release date," he said. What about downloadable content following the game's launch? "You'll have to wait and see."

Fox did confirm the game will feature Trophies, however. "We'd be complete and total jackasses not to support them," he observed. "They are videogame crack and everybody knows it."

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I'd rather have a quality game then a long and boring one like GTA IV.

jakarai

SOunds about like what 85% of games are going for now a day.

What happened to the days when you could have a fun game that also happened to be longer than ten hours?

SOunds about like what 85% of games are going for now a day.

What happened to the days when you could have a fun game that also happened to be longer than ten hours?

vashkey

SOunds about like what 85% of games are going for now a day.

What happened to the days when you could have a fun game that also happened to be longer than ten hours?

vashkey

What days are you talking about?

I think short games suck. $60 for a couple hours of game is not good at all. It blows my mind how people defend developers doing this. For games I always prefer the single player campaign over online unless it is a game like WoW or something. I think though if a game is 6-9 hours long it better at least have online and not some throw together online either. I just do not understand why so many are happy with short $60 games. Maybe it is just gaming has been so infested with fanboys that are more afraid of saying anything bad about their console instead of wanting a good value product.

A game does not have to be short to be good. It is just developers are allowed to get away with it.

[QUOTE="vashkey"]

SOunds about like what 85% of games are going for now a day.

What happened to the days when you could have a fun game that also happened to be longer than ten hours?

W1NGMAN-

What days are you talking about?

aanother short single player only gamm,yay? I hope the quality really makes up for the length.diped

Not confirmed to be single player only.

Why can't they do both? :|

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God of War is at least a 10 hour game if you play it on normal or higher. Whats he talking about? :?

And sandbox games only take as long to finish as you want them to.

Quality and length walk hand in hand as far as I'm concerned. That was not a wise thing for him to say.Pariah_001

Sounds like predamage control, why can't they do both, oh well, I just hope they'll be enough replay value and lots of things to do, I like openworld sandbox type of games.

how long was God of War, Dead Space, Devil May Cry, Ninja Gaiden?

I agree, its all about quality, I've put over 300hours on DMC 3 and NGS each. its quality.

these days, devs are really lazy, thats why most of them tkae the 'easy' way. make an online shooter, because thats guaranteed to have high replay value. their single player is always short, Gears 1, CoD4, etc 

God of War 3 will be no longer than 10 hours and it will be a better game than all these crap released today. 

AKA its a short game and thats their excuseEltroz

LOL,

aka, this damn PS3 is a pain to work with.

I think he making excuses to be quite honest.

[QUOTE="Pariah_001"]Quality and length walk hand in hand as far as I'm concerned. That was not a wise thing for him to say.Thewbacca

Portal wasn't a good game, it was a good experience. Atleast in my eyes.

Sounds like a 10hr sandbox game......how does that work exactly?

He kind of made a mistake talking about GTA4....saying it was a great game and long with high quality, which was good for the consumer. Then goes on to say how it's not important to him to replicate that? I'm kind of confused.

another AAA hype by cows now is at A hype

Bluray+cell ot the rescue!!!

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Care to explain when it was AAA hyped? :lol:

Considering this is Suckerpunch I'm pretty confident this will be a quality game. They went with quality over length with the Sly Cooper franchise and those games were fun as hell.

[QUOTE="Eltroz"]AKA its a short game and thats their excuseTheOwnerOner

LOL,

aka, this damn PS3 is a pain to work with.

i really do hate to agree with you, but it's true, unfortunately. :?

SOunds about like what 85% of games are going for now a day.

What happened to the days when you could have a fun game that also happened to be longer than ten hours?

What days are you talking about?