Indeed, I've guffawed and gurned with joy at this game so many times. There's so many little surprises along the way, even just moments of wonder at the detail - lots of "ooh" and "ahh" moments, e.g. scuba diving to get submarine parts and seeing entire container ships and aeroplanes that have sunk/crashed, and swimming about the wreckage, sometimes hiding from a shark that's happened by overhead.
 @ "GTA widows".
I'd say it's a fair bit better than GTA IV - the tone is less dour, the range of characters is better (although they still missed a trick by not having one of the main three be a woman - just imagine a female Trevor!  ), the shooting, driving, and movement mechanics are all far superior, the game world is infinitely better - far bigger and with a big variety of landscapes with the chance to gain innumerable views that inspire awe, a better range of random events, more depth to the in-game world (including the in-game internet - Bleetr is damn funny), far less filler missions, more 'big events' during missions to make them interesting and exciting and unique, etc.
I did love playing GTA IV, but GTA V improves on it in almost every way - there's very few downsides to it.
However, the cops can be too aggressive when they are onto you, you can die too easily in this game (in IV you could jump out of a chopper and crash land in the sea without getting hurt - do that now and you'll die instantly ... laaaaaame, but even taking a tumble down a hillside can snuff you out, I've also had cars explode instantly when spinning and hitting an object at the wrong angle, e.g. their version of an R8 with the exposed engine on the back) ... the in-game stock market isn't as developed as it could have been because outside of missions you have no real way to use it to your advantage (stock tip offs, or understanding the flow of the market) let alone influence it (e.g. buy stock in Cluckin' Bell, and then blow up a load of Burger Shot vans to drop their stock - rumours are out there that you can do that, but others like IGN have found that to be false), there's a range of people you can use in your heist crews, but there were some I never used once (a tip would be to use the shittest ones early on with low percentages to try and increase their stats, and their percentage will never change - I always went for the best but most expensive) ... there's also moments of less than joined-up thinking - you pilot a plane as Trevor before Flight School is unlocked - tutorials are just boxes of text in the top left as you're doing whatever task you're being taught for the very first time.
*gasp*
When getting a vehicle from the impound lot, you don't get to preview it - you just have to splash the cash and see what it is you get (and it'll usually be some car you deliberately abandoned a while back anyway) - the stunt jumps are oddly difficult this time around (I've passed a couple, but failed so many times more) - you take too much damage from bullets (so, yet again, you spend so much time and money going to buy new body armour ... if you can pick up ammo and weapons in battle, why not body armour inserts? ... the most expensive armour doesn't seem to be all that effective) ... likewise, enemies are too accurate (being really far away, yet still hitting you/your vehicle with ease and consistent accuracy) and cover is inconsistently effective (when you pop up to shoot someone you'll often get shot, not a near-miss, but shot). There's also some side characters who get not much of a look in (e.g. Nervous Ron, and Wade), but perhaps they're saving those (and some awesome, but unused, locations) for expansion packs? There's a version of the Playboy mansion in there, but it's just there ... maybe in an expansion pack there'll be missions relating to it (and other) cool places?
*gasp*
In spite of those numerous annoyances, the game is decidedly superior to GTA IV in my view - it gets so much more right than wrong. 
I finished the main story last night (for those in-the-know, I chose Option C, the best and most elaborate of the bunch) and clocked in at just shy of 70 hours (obsessed, much?), and I've still got side missions and collectibles to get, and there's even areas of the map that are still covered up.
At the end of the credits you do indeed get a Psych Report from Dr Friedlander regarding your personality (how you played the game and what you did) ... but you're in for a long wait ... I'm not sure if you can skip the credits to get there, so I didn't want to chance it, and ended up sitting through the credits (lots of nice landscape shots though) - the credits rolled for 35 MINUTES!
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