You'll never see gang in leather jackets/armor with tommy guns and wakidzashi (or how it calls...), you'll always see metal armor+sniper rifle/bazooka on encounters, same items every time, so yea... it's different game, when everyone forgetting about roleplay.
If you are that picky about roleplay, complain about how people run all the time to get somewhere, or why no one eats/drinks/sleeps or how, well you get the point.
You can waste your time trying to make all those skins, but honestly - it'll be nothing more, than WASTE of your time. The reason is simple - server already crashes frequently (too frequently, to be honest...), so putting another tens of thousands pictures into server just because you don't like 3D models (have you seen that models? Why are they so bad in your opinion? Tell us, please...) is just plain stupidity, and it won't make server work any better... Have you ever thought why GM's are removing skins (other than long-hair dude) from players? It's not their malice, it's for better stability of the server, 'cause there won't be as many pictures to manage, acess and display.
Just a fast question, if im not mistaken, the graphic stuff doesnt stress the servers becouse its not for the servers to handle. They merely give you a destination and those stuff but its your computer that handle the graphic part.