I dreamed about this game for every night while playing it and for a solid week after it went back to Gamefly. Every once in awhile, when something reminds me of the game, I start to think about the damn boxes again during the day. You are not alone. I do know a technique though, maybe we can share. Baaahhh.

I will give it a try...but I'm not sure any new game will embrace the core values of the older gen of MMO's.

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The core values of grinding all day and losing all your exp when you die. No thanks. Go back and play P99 on EQEmu and you'll see that Everquest was a bitch. My little brother is like you. He still, to this day, suffers through thousands of lines of code to build the perfect EQ server for himself. Nostalgia is cruel. It keeps us from moving on and enjoying new experiences. I do remember when I got MKII for my Sega Genesis. It was glorious, but so was MKIII, then MKIII Ultimate Edition. MK9 is pretty damn awesome too. I play SWTOR, Rift, Defiance, and DCUO. They are all awesome well thought out games with much kinder gaming environment for their player based. Your standards are too high. When you experienced those games in the past you were a different person. When I was a kid I didn't like green olives and could eat candy all day. Neither of those statements are true now. And to answer the question as to which recent games blew me away, had to be Dark Souls, Arkham Asylum/City, and any Assassin's Creed. I realize all of these are single player, but maybe I'm not into eating candy all day any more anyway.

Duke Nukem 3d, Doom, and Marathon all around the same time for me. Console was Goldeneye.