Submitted by Colonel Finn - April 30, 2008 at 7:30 am -0500212.20.233.2
He didn't lump it in with them. He used them as a reference for the cultural expressions of the generation who see GTA as a cultural milestone.
He certainly didn't decry mindless action movies (something I certainly grew up on) nor did he make any disparaging comments about Japanese Graphic novels or Euro-american post apocalyptic fantasy.

In short I think this is not only a very well informed and well written piece, it's a wholly valid point about the direction of the games industry.
It's typical that in the same fashion that people mindlessly scream out the horrors of videogames without really understanding them, this is stream of comments insulting and arguing about an article they haven't bothered to read properly.

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