Definitely recommend GTA V. I despised GTA for years, I played GTA 3 when it was new simply because it had taken over the world overnight and had to try it even though nothing about it seemed at all interesting or enticing to me. Sure enough, it bored the shit out of me, regardless if I was playing it "properly" i.e. story missions or just screwing around trying to have fun fighting cops and victimizing random hapless NPCs. I avoided GTA for years after that. Right after Red Dead Redemption came out, I was hearing people rave about how good it was and how "It's nothing like GTA, so if you hate GTA try RDR anyway." I tried RDR and sure enough I love it to death. Then I heard different people saying "Why do people keep saying RDR isn't like GTA? IT'S EXACTLY LIKE GTA IT'S BASICALLY GTA 4 SET IN THE OLD WEST." Hmmm. After playing through RDR twice, I decided to try GTA 4. Yep, I loved it. But I wanted to "do things right," so after just a few hours I decided to go dig out my old unfinished copy of GTA 3 and started a fresh game, beat it in a week, loved it. Picked up Vice City, beat it, loved it. Picked up San Andreas, beat it, loved it. Went back to GTA 4, beat it loved it, played both of its DLCs, beat them, loved them. Suffice it to say I was more than ready for GTA 5, and it did not disappoint. Very likely my most played game this gen (i.e. the PS4 remaster) and I don't even touch the online portion. GTA 5 is the pinnacle of the series IMO.
Can't recommend Skyrim, never played it, absolutely zero interest in ES. My ex loved them and I tried her copies of Morrowind and Oblivion... I just generally am not interested in 99.9999% of western-made RPGs.
