inFamous about quality and not length: Three-minute-long campaign confirmed!

8:01 AM on 11.13.2008   |   Jim Sterling

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Whenever a developer starts espousing the fact that its game is about quality and not length, you can guarantee that the game will not be long. Sadly, the quality part of the conversation doesn't carry with it the same assurances. This is how our industry works.

inFamous developer Sucker Punch is doing some prep work ahead of the game's release, making sure we're all aware that this open world game will be far from a drawn out affair.

"Look at God of War -- it is an excellent game, an instant classic, and it's only like seven hours long," claims creative director Nate Fox. "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. 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."

Yeah ... it is now confirmed that inFamous is short, and not confirmed that inFamous is high quality. This is how our industry works. 

Fortunately, the game at least looks fun, despite being somewhat generic in terms of aesthetic and premise. Fox also promises that the game will come packing Trophies, claiming Sucker Punch would be "jackasses not to support them," since they are "videogame crack."

Sucker Punch are now drug dealers. This, also, is confirmed.