Looking for system for my group... Recommendations?

[Knaight]

I haven't tried GURPS but i hear bad things about it all the time. Is this all hate coming from people that are settled on their own games or legitimate problems with the system?

There are things that are absolutely amazing about GURPS and the GURPS line of books (particularly as regards splatbook research, which even the detractors generally admire). There are also things about GURPS which are intensely frustrating. How much these varying things matter to people varies, and so GURPS ranges from a beloved system to a despised one, with a distribution skewed a bit towards both ends.