Yahtzees latest review of EVE is hilarious and I agree with what he says, but it also makes me reminisce some great moments in MMOs.

I was never a fan of WOW, I played another called Lineage 2 and just like all MMOs some parts of the game got tedious: like running for long distances, looking for hidden things, killing hundreds of slow spawning mobs to get one item, etc.

However I will never forget how happy I was when finally finishing the challenges to change class and receive superior skills, saving enough money to get advanced weapons and armor, even better when you find weapons, armor and other valuables, and winning prizes in game.

And the best part was the great glories for your hard work like creating a good clan and beating challenges as a team, defeating other clans, killing bosses so big they couldn't fit on your screen with 50 people and a strategy, taking over castles and taunting the losers!

Then there are the little evil things that put a smile on your face such as getting away with murder and theft, bullying weaker opponents with friends and abusing each other no end, and my favorite is going for a good killing spree and chasing people of the servers. Yes I was a bastard :)

You have to work to get there but I never got a greater satisfaction from a game like
Lineage 2. Not even in games like CS and FF could compare to that glory I got in L2.

I stopped playing L2 because there were soooo many bots, but has anyone ever had the same glory in a MMO even if you dislike them now? Can you remember time you got so excited you just had to tell everyone even though you knew they didn't care?

I stopped playing MMOs altogether but I still talk to all the people I met from overseas, guess im just saying that MMOs are maybe not as bad as Yahtzee says, everyone has there own opinion and good on them for finding something that suits them. I gotta say I will miss those great moments.

I'm gonna go with City of Heroes. I grew up in a family filled with EverQuest/World of Warcraft fanatics... In other words, the word MMO was synonymous with chainmail and swords for me, and that just wasn't my cup of tea. When I heard about City of Heroes, though, I was intrigued.

I was blown away, to say the least. It quite simply amazed me that it was possible to play an MMO that was set not in a mystical forest, or a gloomy dungeon, but a cityscape. The array of powers and character customization choices filled me with glee just about every time I played, and I never stopped enjoying the fact that it was set in modern day.

A year or two later, I was weary of MMOs in general, as I was never a fan of the daily grind. Still, I can recall that magical feeling like it was just yesterday.

I'm rather too impatient for the MMO's but have only really flirted with two, those being eve which I found fun but somewhat lonesome and too much of a learning curve to get a real taste for in the 14-day trial.

Also have played SWG sporadically over the years and having had a crack at again recently and even though it's a dead shell of what it once was/could of been it's still star wars and the space part of it is quite fun.

Frankly the best thing about an MMO is always gonna be the people that live in that world, but the tedious and addictive grind is a truly terrible thing

WOW looks like a cartoon full of people taking their play time far too seriously.

Space Spoons:
I'm gonna go with City of Heroes.

Guess What. In city of heroes you character can get a JOB in the next update.
Thats exactly what a MMO needs...right?