What I would give to feel how afraid I was running through Kithicor forest at night in original EQ.
And to feel my heart race after aggro'ing something racing to the zone line with it on my back, picking up others along the way. One mistake with my path and I was dead with some exp loss to boot.
To hear someone cry out, "Dorn is Loose!" in a low level zone, and preparing yourself to run for your life if he starts coming your way. That NPC would kill anyone it saw.
Games are just too EZ now.
It's going to take a fringe game that brings these elements back to a game and it catches on. I sure hope I find it when they make it, because the thrill is gone from these games.
I used to be scared out of my mind in some places in EQ especially. Thoughts of dying and corpse runs added even more horrors, but that's what made it so fun. Sure it hurt to lose exp, but it made staying alive a battle in itself.