I've seen plenty of reviews and posts about both games being fairly buggy, and the wife played on the same system.... Some examples, though, so you guys can know what I mean:

-Cole randomly tking cover against moving objects, then being drgged along "stuck" to them until teh game froze or he died.
-Couriers becoming stuck in architecture so they could neither be attacked nor could you fail the mission, but you then could not exit the mission, either.
-Cole landing waist-deep in the street and sticking there
-Enemies freezing in a "rag doll" state in the air from teh force blast power, and continuing to spasm there without dying, so you couldn't finish the fight to clear an area
-Cops in the "rescue the cops" mini-mission getting up after I revive them and shooting me, following me even if I run away, basically forcing a fail on the mission.

Since it was already a pretty derivtive story, and played too much like Spider-Man 3 (with many of the same more minor bugs), the graphics were unimpressive and even ugly at times (Spider-Man actually looked better....), and these glitches kept happening during story missions, I just gave up on it. I saw my wife finish it up, and come on... He's really the bad guy, from the future, and he made all this happen so that he would become the bad guy? That's almost as bad as his Batman voice, and I'm a comic book fan. I just thought it was a pretty awful story.

Heavy Rain, I seem to be one of the lucky ones, as I've only had one crash and a number of minor graphical bugs (screen tearing, loss of texture, and one sniper that is always hovering 3 feet above the building he's on). My issues with that game are just that it's a cliche ridden mess with plotholes you could drive a truck through, and my second playthrough is just revealing way too many other things wrong with it (just how little your decisions mean, for instance). Just really dissapointed with both.

I didn't say all my PS3 games were like that... Heavenly Sword, Little Big Planet, and Uncharted 2 all play fine and are all good games-- it's just these two that I'm really angry I even wasted money on (though, as I said, inFamous isn't as big a waste, since at least my wife liked it).

Personally, I would not have recommended it, though, and I see that the thread starter is kind of disspointed in his purchase as well... and he also seems to think the story was awful.

I have beaten the game at least six times, with well over a hundred hours spent with the game, and I have had one glitch that happened that I had to restart the game (Cole fell through the map) that entire time. For the rest of the time, I had no problems with the game at all. It seems like getting these glitches is just a hit or miss thing, because I know just as many people who had few or no glitches as I do people who had a lot.

Dude give spoiler warnings man. The game hasn't even been out for a year yet.

I think you should examine the story again, because you clearly missed some things

He didn't go back in time to make himself evil at all.  I don't think it's clearly described what happened in the future, but it's alluded to that Kesseler (future Cole) was unable to defeat something called the Beast.

So what Kesseler did is go back in time to create an alternate history (hence it being a one way trip, he's altered the future).  One where he would force the past Cole (your character) to get his powers sooner than Kesseler did in his timeline, and one where he would become stronger, faster than Kesseler did.  All in the name of being strong enough to defeat the Beast whenever it comes.

The game is great! Stick with it.

The game definitely is buggy but the great gameplay makes up for it. Most good games are buggy (looking at my ME2 copy).

On the corrections on my take on things: I was just watching my wife play, and certainly missed some things. I appreciate the attempt to make sense of it, but it's still not much better a plot... like you said, it's pretty unclear.

On the "hit-or-miss" glitches: like I said, my wife had maybe 10% of the ones I did, and really enjoyed the game. I just found that every time I tried to put any time into it, something would go wrong, and it had failed to grab me in the slightest by the time I was through with the hallucination missions. I'm not sure it would have gotten any better, but if I had a glitch in nearly every mission up to that point, you have to see where I'd be like "y'know what? I got other stuff to play..."

What was wrong with your Mass Effect? I had some weird texture issues my second playthrough...

I completely understand why you'd stop playing. If that happened to me, I'd have stopped to. I say hit or miss because I got that glitch in my 5th or 6th time through the game. I know people who had the same problems as you.

I feel the same way..

I think I will go back to it after a time, there is a long stretch this year where nothing good comes out (imo)

Well guess there isn't 10 hours of cutscenes like in every other JRPG :)

I'm finishing the game for the first time now, I'd say I'm about 80% done with it and it's a great ride. There is a lot to improve, but the basic formula is very well done. My main complaints from the top of my head would be the retarded super aim and motion detection of the enemy, you can be ten lightyears away and they can still pop your head with one shot across the city.

inFamous is all about fun, which I'm having, especially since I've got static thrusters :)