World of Warcraft - subscribtion ending soon. IMO the game is not worth my time nor money due to some glaring issues.
I quit the game more than 7 years ago mostly because of the absolutely miserable, ridiculous player community, but also because the balancing and itemization for a hybrid class like mine (shaman) was arbitrary and poorly implemented.
Anyway, stuff I've been playing lately besides Planet Coaster:
- Mass Effect Andromeda: This is the only game I've purchased on day one in several years, and that's due to the trust and goodwill Bioware has built up with its excellent games, especially the earlier ME games and Dragon Age: Inquisition, which I thought was phenomenal. I always love playing in the ME universe, but it's true, this game is underwhelming. The combat is smoother and much improved, but the story is severely lacking, the writing is not good, and there was little imagination used in depicting what another galaxy might look like.
- Mortal Kombat XL: Got it for dirt cheap on Steam. Hadn't really played an MK game since MK III. Well, XL is awesome and even the story mode is surprisingly fun, with exceptional production values. I don't expect a deep story from MK just like I don't expect a Jean Claude Van Damme martial arts flick to be Oscar bait, but this is a really well-made game.
- Jet Grind Radio: A nostalgie impulse buy, also got it deeply discounted on Steam.
- Shaolin vs Wu Tang: Another Steam impulse buy during a sale. (See a pattern here? lol) I just couldn't resist, this game is at once ridiculous and glorious. I like pretending to be Jia Sidao from Marco Polo and doing all sorts of awesome praying mantis style kung fu. If you love kung fu movies, or you grew up like I did in the New York City area and they used to show kung fu after Saturday morning cartoons, you will love this game. It's basically a playable classic kung fu movie, embracing the awesomeness and the cheesiness.
- Siralim 2: Imagine the original Dragon Warrior on NES, mixed with monster hunting, and all the depth, talent trees, min-maxing, gear, and customization of a modern RPG. There are 600+ monsters in the game, each of them with unique abilities and attributes, and basically your party is composed of you (a wizard) and six monsters who fight for you. Those monsters can be any of the 600+ in the game, as long as you can defeat them and tame them. The number of combinations and play styles is almost limitless, the gear can be gemmed and customized just like any modern MMO/RPG, there are an absurd number of abilities to invest talent points in, weapons can have multiple enchantments, yadda yadda...If you like the nostalgia of old-school RPGs and the depth of modern RPGs, you might get addicted to this game.