InFamous development plagued by lack of direction

gauntletpython - 75 days 20 hours ago

Game came out nothing short of amazing, so it was all worth it! This game is still up there for me, don't know which will be my GOTY, inFamous or Uncharted 2:\

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lovesall - 75 days 20 hours ago

I am glad to say that the final product showed no sign of lack of direction

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Ninjamonkey - 75 days 20 hours ago

Infamous was an alright game but theres so much room for improvement there.

Ive not completed it yet because it is just too repetitive. I completed the first island afer doing loads of samey side missions and those underground bits which always felt the same.

I got to the sencond island and did half of that but afterwards I just felt like I was doing the same things time and time again. Coupled with the shallow story I realised that every mission felt like a chore so i stopped playing.

Its annoying becuase so much of the game is RIGHT. The fighting is pretty much spot on with really fun abilities. And I loved how slowly you built up knowledge which meant you could travel faster. The climbing animations were great and technically the same was of high quality.

They just need to get the story and gameplay right. If they do then infamous 2 will be a day one but for me.

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boss_killa - 75 days 20 hours ago

Infamous turned out prety damm good.

the only issues i had with it were the graphics and some glitches here and there. i hope they turn to Naughty Dog or Guerrilla for some help with their visuals for Infamous 2.

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BlackPrince 42 - 75 days 19 hours ago

Were it not for Uncharted 2 coming out this year I'm fairly certain inFamous would have been my GOTY. I'm hoping now that SP has an engine and a style nailed down they can do for inFamous what ND did for Uncharted, improvise and expand on all their good ideas.

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tripewire - 75 days 19 hours ago

Damn. More game dev's need a lack of direction.

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blu_yu_away - 75 days 19 hours ago

Never would have guessed this looking at the finished product.

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redDevil87 - 75 days 19 hours ago

one of the best games i've played in a while

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mrv321 - 75 days 18 hours ago

inFAMOUS has some of the best bosses and min-bosses ever, so much so I wanted to play against them more.

The metal ones are so outstanding... the litrally put most other games to shame.

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Kakihara - 75 days 17 hours ago

Chris Zimmerman walks into the office, takes a look around. Suddenly everything goes sepia tinted and time stops. Chris says to himself, 'Hmmm, I could add a bunch of varied side missions and make the game that much more enjoyable for the player ... or I could just repeat the same old side missions over and over and take the rest of the day off ...'.

Crappy jokes aside though, I really liked Infamous. I just felt it was a little too padded. I would have been happier with a shorter game that had better pacing. Having to remove the enemy presence in an area tiny piece by piece got so frustrating I just gave up on the side missions after a while and left the final island almost completely enemy controlled.

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ZombieAutopsy - 75 days 17 hours ago

anyone else think theyre gonna pull a Naughty Dog and throw us some MP for their next game. I do but im not sure what itll be like, any ideas?

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Figboy - 75 days 17 hours ago

to try and spin it into a bad thing.

a few key things about his comment:

1) "First Year" - games are so raw and incomplete during the first year of development that this lack of direction doesn't surprise me.

it's not like they had cole and a city up and running. first year includes defining the budget, hiring the art directors, programmers, concept artists, etc.

it is the "drafting stage" of game development. nothing is final, and everything is pre-production and concepting.

2) We ALREADY KNOW how inFAMOUS turned out, so, clearly, Sucker Punch found their direction, because inFAMOUS is one of the most polished, focused games released this year.

hell, i've worked on projects that were 2 or more years into their development that still lacked focus and direction.

Sucker Punch was transitioning in more ways than one (moving from stylized graphics in Sly, to more "realistic" graphics in inFAMOUS, and moving from the limited PS2 architecture, to the complicated and potential filled PS3 architecture).

they did a fantastic job, and if Sly 2 is any indication of how Sucker Punch improves over the original (Sly 2 and Sly 3 are SOOOO MUCH better than Sly 1), then inFAMOUS 2 is going to be simply phenomenal. the first one is already one of the best new IPs this generation (with, in my opinion, Uncharted being the best new IP this gen so far).

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monkey602 - 75 days 15 hours ago

I just got my Platinum in this game a half hour ago. I love inFAMOUS such a good game.

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djfullshred - 75 days 12 hours ago

Interesting to hear they struggled for while, when the final product turned out great. This game is one of the top next gen games I've played, IMHO.

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DigitalAnalog - 75 days 6 hours ago

Infamous was pretty much a double AA title for me. Great game but it was way too buggy, the city was too small and repetitive side missions just to extend the game time.

Hopefully they can do a lot more in the sequel.

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P_Bomb - 74 days 22 hours ago

Never had any bugs for me, not even a freeze, and I platinumed it. Even Uncharted 2 froze up on me last night. City was the perfect size imo, especially since you can't drive or fast travel. Train doesn't count, I mean like in Oblivion or the cabs in GTA. Trying to find 350 shards by running around a map the size of San Andreas? No thanks. Never bothered with the pigeons in GTA4 either.

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Lipscomba - 74 days 20 hours ago

If Infamous is the product of lack of direction, please continue!!!!

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jerocarson - 75 days 17 hours ago

even without direction, the managed to put out a master piece, imagine the possibilities now that they have a direction...
it only gives direction to the directionless!
cheers

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