Returning again

Well, once again, after trying other games, and watching those games decrease in quality for one reason or another -- WoW: L33t-speaking juvenile delinquents rule that game; molasses-slow support from Blizzard; glazed-anime look; utterly static environment... EQ2: hated it at launch, loved it as the retooled it for the past seven months, hate it now that they've done their "combat upgrade and the re-tiering of the zones to eliminate enjoyable solo capacities at lower levels (basically the first half of the game). I have returned to AC1.

Started AC1 when it launched, through Dark Majesty, left to try other games like EQ2, WoW, Lineage II, Shadowbane, DAoC... and always returned to AC1. And yet again, I am back (with ToD).

Just something superior to the others about this game. My only wishes remain a more robust crafting side (actually harvesting resources and crafting armor, weapons, etc. from scratch; suggestion look at horizons for ONLY it's well-implemented crafting side), a quest journal, and a banking system.

It's tremendously sad that the games I fall back on, the games that get more things right than wrong, are the ones that came out BEFORE 2000: UO, AC1, EQ1.

So, anyway. Can't wait to rebuild a character from scratch and feel "fresh" in the world again!