GTA4 is a quality title, but there are greater stories - Max Payne, any of the Metal Gear Solid series, Final Fantasy 12.

I talk to roughly 20 of them daily.  I bet that's more than the number of newspapers you read daily.

In the end, it just seemed pretty ignorant of you to call a lot of people you've likely never even met morons.

Take a look at this article for instance.  All it really consists of is a basic overview of GTAIV, some sales figures, a bit of information on the company that created the game, and a sensationalist title.  In fact, there's very little in the article even related to the headline at all.  It's a pretty normal article all things considered but with the headline, it has managed to suck in a variety of readers and get copy/pasted on several websites. 

Whether or not you like the title or even the article contents, the author has successfully managed to get hundreds of people who don't even normally read the Tribune to read his article.  I can think of many adjectives for it, but moronic is not one of them.

I said the writers that work for the newspaper, not the newspaper itself.  And there are probably 20 writers for the Tribune Co.

As for the rest of it,  while they dont talk directly about the ridiculous title of the article.  They do hint at why the article was named that way,  talking about all of the lines of dialogue, about how the music talks directly to the player and not the avatar.  About all of the things that actually mimic real life in a video game.

That is truly funny.  JRPGs . . .

GTA IV actually was interesting, stuff I actually listened to.

One of the first games in years where I didn't skip cutscenes.

The TV station on it was awesome even.

The hate for this game is so stupid it's not even funny.

Rated too high, fine.  So was LBP and Half Life for example, and people don't hate those.

JEALOUSY FRIENDS IS WHAT IT IS.  

GTAIV was a good game but it was kind of overratted as I only got about 1/3 of the way through before getting bored of it. I personally thought MGS4(or any MGS game for that matter) had a better story than GTAIV.

wow, this is really sad. there are so much better stories in video games, so much better. take FF4,6-10, any of those games has a MUCH better plot.

i mean, GTA4's plot was something i can go outside in a bad neighborhood and see in real life.

No, it's by far NOT the greatest writing of the Century.

A few points:

--You seem to be arguing that sensationalist journalism is a good thing.  That's dangerous territory, my friend.

--According to Godot, the basic background information in this article is wrong anyway. (see below)

--The article tries to compare the game with the twelve labors of Hercules and opera. The writer then uses quotes to compare the game with Iron Man and Speed Racer.  That's just ridiculous.  The writer has completely lost his original point, if he ever had one.

--Many posters here seem to think that the actual plot has trouble standing up to other pop culture movies and games.  That's pretty damning for something that is supposed to be the greatest writing of the century.

--The article sort of weakly makes the point that the city itself is a commentary on our own culture.  I think that actually has some merit.  If only that was fleshed out more.

In other words, I think this was poor writing and poor journalism.  It could have been a much stonger article.

How terrible! Mainstream press finally giving video-games some praise!

What makes you think I'm arguing it's a good thing?