Yup, those were the days! I feel like I'm from the Stone Age.
It'd be nice to see another Mechwarrior game. I'd like for it to be more like Mechwarrior 3. Microprose did a good job on that one and I really liked how it followed the Battletech boardgame's rules for building and arming a mech. You could even print out your mech's stats and use them for the board game! I had a Dire Wolf I called the Deathbringer that was a very vicious LRM Boat. One good salvo would completely destroy an Atlas before it could fire a shot.