Xbox One Sale Roundup: September 5th, 2017

xPut Name Herex said:Kind of. I think MS puts out the price as free, because they want to advertise the Game Pass- it shows both prices in the store when you look on the dashboard on Xbox.com. This site pulls their prices directly from MS, and it seems we are pulling the free price. It's not an isolated thing.

ThreeHaddock62 said:I checked DmC: Devil May Cry: Definitive Edition at the XBox store after I saw @ThreeHaddock62' post. It said:

$29.99 $9.90
save $20.00 - 6 days remaining
$0.00 with Xbox Game Pass

So, although I had originally thought a mistake had been made, I can now see the reason for the 0% off.

When it's a game in Game Pass perhaps it ought to be tagged as such (ideally with the discounted price and discount percentage operating as one would normally expect)? That said, I don't know what data you receive from MS and how the backend deals with that data, so it may not be easy to do.

Likewise I was trying to remember the name of a free puzzle game the other day and I discovered that when looking at the 'Latest Products' list there is no tag for Game Pass/EA Access - just lots of games showing as Free (eg Dirt 4, Titanfall 2 etc).

To be able to tell which content is 'real' free content and which requires a paid subscription to be able to play it for 'free', without Game Pass/EA Access tags, necessitates first following the link to the product (on TA.com), then from there following another link to the product page on the Microsoft store in order to see the price.

So the TA site should pull the "sale" price since that's what this article is. Free with pass, is not the same as free - since you need to buy the pass. Just like free with GwG is not free - since you need to pay for Gold.

People should be buying Resident Evil: Deluxe Origins Bundle and lobbying for Resident Evil to be the October TA Playlist game. The October theme is horror.

Those ones that are showing 0%, is that because they are either EA Access or Xbox Game Pass games?

Guess I should have read some of the other posts before posting, lol.

I've not played any of the Resi Evil games. Worth getting or not? If so, which order should I play them?

I have a fair sized back log of games so not fussed if I skip this time. Not the first time it's been on sale

ChrisChros87 said:I would play the remastered Resident Evil, first. This is a seminal game. Although there are survival-horror games that predate Resident Evil, it was Resident Evil creator, Shinji Mikami who coined the term survival-horror. Resident Evil. Many tried to emulate the game's visceral, horrific atmosphere of the game with varying degrees of success.

Resident Evil's legacy is substantial. Today, the survival-horror genre one of the major video game genres today rather than the scattering of niche games that existed before Resident Evil made its impact on the industry. Resident Evil was released on the PlayStation when it was trying to establish itself. Although not alone, it was one of the major games that gave the new console legitimacy.

It is worth while to experience the game for yourself and draw your own conclusions. The remaster is quite good so you can play a 20 plus year old game with a modern facelift. After you play it, you can decide whether or not you want to play other games in the series and in what order.

Thanks for that