I really enjoyed reading it, but it just reinforced my feeling of disconnection from normal gaming. I hadn't played a "play it sitting in the dark alone" game in 4 years, but the last one was GTA3. So I bought a 360 and a live account to play with friends across the sea, and after diving into GTA4 for a solid week I found I not only didn't really enjoy it at all, though I sure did experience a lot of adrenaline.
Listed the 360 on craigslist yesterday and back to a much more interesting game (life).