The closest I've come to Role Playing in any game was with Garry's Mod, back in version 5-6 ish. Thought it was a neat idea but it's so heavily reliant on the people that it's very close to impossible to pull off completely. There's a kinda neat type of enjoyment to be had to pretend you live in a little self contained world as some shop keep selling weird things you've made to other people humbly paying via their own virtual little job thing. It doesn't work though, and it's more a hassle then anything else :S 
 
As for GTAIV, I've taken the cab specifically to just use it as a screen saver type deal while I chill out somewhere else. Watching the streets go by and pedestrians get run over randomly sometimes or get arrested etc. Walking around the city can also have it's own unique joys too. Takes a specific type of person to actually play GTAIV online the way it's kinda meant to be played, that is to say it requires people desperate to lose themselves in the game.

I watched my sister play like that and then eventually when i get the game (I kill everyone and make it look like the complete anti of my sister)

Why was this thread revived?

Yes, I have done this before. It can be interesting for a little while. I really find a lot of fun in driving correctly for some reason.

Sometimes, but it's more fun to kill people at random and do crazy wipeouts on a bike. 

the most ive done is try to follow traffic rules. but that always ends with me speeding down the sidewalk hitting as many people as i can before i hit a wall

" the most ive done is try to follow traffic rules. but that always ends with me speeding down the sidewalk hitting as many people as i can before i hit a wall "

" San Andreas was the last GTA i played. As good as it was, i never felt the urge to play another GTA ever again. So no, i haven't played GTA IV and never reenacted a scene of it. "

I've tried driving within the lines and stopping and all that... for like 2 minutes and decided "Screw this shit!" and plowed through cars in one of those cop jeeps.

Holy damn i got to stop using my pc i got my name filled up on ever last post on this page(gta IV Forums)

" @Typetool:  Ah, i misunderstood the question, sorry. Me stupid man from Netherlands, me not speak English very good. "

" @GunnBjorn said:

" @Typetool:  Ah, i misunderstood the question, sorry. Me stupid man from Netherlands, me not speak English very good. "

are you really from there? "

Well yes, when i was younger. I did it more when playing Mafia on the pc, that game you really did need to watch out for red lights and speeding and then on the side you where just a crazy mobster. Also you could pump gas.

" Well yes, when i was younger. I did it more when playing Mafia on the pc, that game you really did need to watch out for red lights and speeding and then on the side you where just a crazy mobster. Also you could pump gas. "

I didn't care about traffic rules or what time it was, but I played once trying to see how far I could go without hurting anyone.  It doesn't let you do it for long.  Once you finish the Vlad stuff you have to shoot people almost every mission.  I aimed for the knees, called 911 a lot, and never ran over civilians.  By the end up the game I had still murdered like 300 people.
 
I know it's GTA and you aren't supposed to want to play it that way but they way they set up the story to be so at-odds with the game play I decided to give it a shot.

" @L4wz: why couldn't the hookers be part of your real life gameplay? "

" @DystopiaX said:

" @L4wz: why couldn't the hookers be part of your real life gameplay? "

Because we can get std's and die in real life. "

Eventually I got bored and started killing everyone in sight and banging hookers. What about you? "

what I want to know is why there aren't pimp missions like in Saints Row. When I want to feel like a pimp, my gangster simulator better let me feel like a pimp.

Well, I've tried... But as it would only take 5 seconds for some prick on wheels to hit me or some bum in the streets to make a stupid remark... The longest time before going mental on some dude who doesn't get what driving a car is all about or bums is about 5 seconds for me.

Nope. It's not real enough to play like real life.

" @L4wz said:

Eventually I got bored and started killing everyone in sight and banging hookers. What about you? "

My everyday life. "

" Yeah i do it sometimes. "

" Eventually I got bored and started killing everyone in sight and banging hookers. What about you? "

yep I do that sometimes. Except for pretending to gas up. 

I tried it, so then I got impatient, spawned a helicopter, flew to the highest building, then rocked jumped to my death.

I totally think GTA: 5 should have optional functional gas-stations. Maybe they could give a slight speed increase or something.

Yeah, I actually started out playing like that, safe and law biding... until my first "accident". Then things just started to come unhinged to the point where the only way I could have fun was picking up hookers and taking them to my special location and doing the old bump and dump.

Yeah I've tried it a couple of times, and after I'm done I go on a killing spree and hijack helicopters