Man, the publicity stunts for some games and especially GTA4 are getting more and more ridiculous by the minute. I remember Fallout 3 having the "highest selling opening week ever ever ever, with 4,7 mil copies sold" (to retailers) and to this day there are still around 2 mil copies sitting in stores. Anyway...

...Yes, GTA4 has good humour and even inspired in a couple of scenes and radio shows, which i guess could translate into decent/good humouristic writing, but this is ONLY if you are talking about each scene independently, becasue the story as a whole is uninspired, uninteresting and mostly, downright boring.
Good writing doesn't only mean good jokes, but most importantly it means building up a coherent and at least remotely interesting plot, which the writing in GTA4, needless to repeat, does not. There's really nothing remotelly poignant in the entire game writing and story wise, just a bunch of (mostly funny and mainly due to Nico's accent) jokes made by or directed to characters that come and go, and come and go, and come and go...and generally have nothing to do with anything...
Yes, there are a few themes thrown into the mix, but everything that is not the next (mostly funny and mainly due to Nico's accent) joke, takes a backseat and has no real bearing on the characters and plot.


I admit, i laughed a few times, so it's ok i guess, i've seen movies with worse writing, though i've played games with (much, much) better.

Well, being from Chicago, I can say that the majority of the writers at the Tribune Co. are morons. To actually compare GTA 4 to some of the greatest books and movies ever written is laughable. Not to mention its far from being the greatest video game story.

Well, being from the US, I must be qualified to say that everyone in the country is a genius.

Yep.  No logical fallacies there.

 Well being that I actually get their newspaper, and read it everyday, i think I know what goes in there on a regular basis.   Whereas you have talked to how many of the 400 million people in the US to be able to come up with that conclusion? 

GTAIV is really good game but I thought the story was shit and characters poorly developped. To me it was: Niko Bellic, go kill some guys for some reason.

Also, the Housers didn't create GTA nor did they create the studio behind GTA: DMA Design (Rockstar North).

So how much worse are your other papers if you're willing to read a paper filled with moronic writers?

Oh and I think Words was actually playing up that you can't necessarily tell if someone is a moron based strictly on their writing, but I don't know. I'll let him explain himself.

so, if my interpretation skills are fine, he's saying that both the world created for GTA IV and the story which unfolds in the game itself is also amazing, but apparently the highlights are from the world, which, well, I wouldn't say it contains "the greatest writing of the century".

Well the only other papers are a local one, which i do get and for local news is pretty good,  and the other is only available on Fri, Sat & Sun.  Its a better paper, but i wanted another everyday paper.  So unfortunately I'm kinda screwed with options.

And I know that you cant just say that they are morons just from their writing, but some of the stuff they put i their articles are unbelieveable.

Do you live outside of Chicago? I just find it baffling that a major city only has one weekly paper.

Yes just outside of Chicago,  The other main Chicago paper I do believe is an everyday paper but only to people in Chicago, I think.  Its not available for me to purchase everyday, otherwise I would have.   That paper is The Sun-Times.  I will look into it but last time I check it was only available to me during the weekend.