DieRuhe: Apropos of nothing, I miss the "workout" feature from San Andreas. I always though Niko's belly was a little too large.
I liked it because there was a direct connection between gameplay and player physicality (fat guys took more shots, skinny guys ran fast and muscular guys punched hard, it was NES
Ice Hockey all over again). I would, however, prefer such a system to be implemented without the need for maintenence. For instance, if you want to be fat you have to gorge yourself, but not have a continual need to do so in order to stay fat if you decide you want to ride a bicycle for a while. Likewise with muscularity, once you hit the threshold you should just stay there until you decide to eat or work on the treadmill. I realize it's more unrealistic, but I think it would streamline the process for player's who want to maintain a given physical stature while retaining the satisfaction of reaching that state, because you still have to work at it in some way.
I apologize for the poor sentence structure but I wanted to get that thought out in a hurry, as I have to leave like right now.