Quite honestly, if you take a poll, almost no one that plays computer games has also read "Catcher in the Rye". That says a lot about you. It may say good things, it might just mean you're weird.
But if you think that you're a better critic of story-telling because you prefer Salinger to Crichton and think that Half-life2 has a good story because it is barely hinted at, then I don't know what to say to that.
Did you think Halo had a good story or that the idea of a halo world was cool? Maybe you should read Larry Niven's Ringworld. They pretty much ripped it right out of the book.
You know what you should do? You should stop thinking that your viewpoint is the only one that matters. Do us all a favor, get a piece of paper and a pen and make 5 dots a second every second for more than 38 years. When you're done & try to find the dot out of the 6billion people on the planet that represent you.
You are an insignificant, meaningless, waste of human skin. Stop believing you are anything more than the other 6billion thinking, feeling people on the planet.