(Off-topic: Hey last, do you remember me?
We played the japanese DOMO back before the english one came out, I got to about level 20 or so, then stopped playing for various reasons.)
On-topic: Two games will always have a nice, solid place in my heart.
PSO PC: I remember I had bought the PSO for the dreamcast and was loving it, then a month or so later I found out that you could get online with it and play with other people, and I wanted to do it so bad. But, however, I couldn't because we had dial-up, or something like that and it wouldn't let the dreamcast connect to the internet. Anyway, I, as a 11 or 12 year old, set out in search of a way to connect my dreamcast to the internet. In my search, I found out that there was a PC version that you could download the trial for. (Back when you had to pay for the game). So I downloaded the trial and was just walking around randomly when I saw alot of sonic characters, and some other random sprites that I didn't think you could play as. That's when I learned about how to hack on PSO, and I even made my own clan and what not. It was really fun. I ended up playing the game for about 2 years, and the time I spent with all my really close friends I met on there will never be forgotten, since I played with alot of them for about 4-5 more years after that, and still talk to a few of them.
The second game is City of Heroes: This was actually the game that pulled me away from PSO. My brother-in-law come over to my house one day and was playing it on his laptop, and I loved superheroes so I was amazed by it. He let me play it one day, and I started playing it for about 3 months. After that, I think I moved onto WoW for a few months, then onto other games. However, last year I went back to CoH, and that's how I learned how to role-play and make backgrounds for my characters and everything. I really think that is what makes City of Heroes so good, the customization for one, but then also the community and the role-playing. For me, if I wasn't role-playing I probably wouldn't have played CoH for as long as I did.
And wow. That was alot more text than I was planning on typing. :| Oh well.