These Seven Games Are Coming To Xbox Game Pass (August 19-28)

Looking forward to playing Gears of War at some point, but the last few months have been pretty weak for me

I'll give dragon age a go alright decide for myself if it's hot or not!!

Dragon Age! Let's goooooo. I've been waiting for that one.

Nothing for me amongst this lot; I've pre-ordered Dragon Age and very much enjoyed it. I pre-ordered Gears of War Ultimate Edition, and played it through countless times. I'll play this version at some point, on the code that I've been given.

The only other game of substance is Persona 4, but I'm not sure it is for me. The only other game that I have played that is anything like it is Metaphor, and that game became a grind towards the end, and I worry I would find Persona 4 the same. Either way, Metaphor has put me off.

No idea why they do it, but once again it seems to me that Microsoft frontload Game Pass. The first 4 months were solid, but since then.... not so much....

Sad to see Dragon Age: Veilguard to have done so badly that it is given away on the PlayStation, and included on Game Pass on the Xbox, @Lup & @Ricky-Spanish. The game was unfairly given a bad reception when it first released, mostly by people that didn't even play the game. It deserved so much better. Hopefully now it will get played by more people, but you just know that even those that beat down on the game, without playing it before, will not hold their hands up and say they were wrong if they play it now. Even if they enjoy the game, they will not admit they were wrong before.

@Fiendish-Beaver It looks good to me definitely worth a try!
I'm not expecting it to be amazing but it couldn't be as terrible as some make out!
I wonder why it got so much hate??

Glad to see Persona 4 Golden get back on the service. But I will say one thing...

We're about to have a bunch of stuff announced, and shadow drops almost always happen. Don't guarantee this is it until the last conference ends.

I think the two biggest issues are that you basically could play as a really, really nice character, or a really nice character, or a nice character, @Ricky-Spanish. There were no evil choices, nor could you do an evil run.

The other biggest issue was that one of the characters is transgender, and some people just couldn't get past that, despite the fact that the issue was dealt with well, and in many ways led (for me, anyway) a better understanding of the issue. What really got me about that though was that you could completely skip that characters story arc if you wanted to. I'm not sure whether you had to recruit the character, but you could certainly skip their story arc if you wanted. I, as an old straight white guy, chose to do it, and found it thought-provoking...

@Fiendish-Beaver They sound like very trivial gripes over the game!!
It wouldnt ruin the game for me if you could only play it as a nice character and the transgender thing people will always beat with a stick who cares t's not something that would bother me!
To be honest it's probably just the world right now everyone is just dying to be offended by something political correctness gone wrong 🤦

You are totally right, mate! The world has descended into madness, @Ricky-Spanish...

Honestly this is the first month this year I felt was a little light. But Gears Reloaded will be sweet.

Honestly still catching up on last month’s insanely stacked plate (Tony Hawk 3+4, Descenders Next, Wheel World, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, Grounded 2, Abiotic Factor and My Friendly Neighborhood are all games I’ve been playing just from July. All Day One and that wasn’t even all of them!).

So a bit slower month might be good!

Backlog, then. Good offer, anyway, specially for Gears and Herdling, that looks good in the previews.

Picked up Dragon Age physical for $18 or something and had a great time. That + Gears and Persona to me is a great 1/2 month. Plus Herdlings is a longshot for me but who knows ...

Nice to see DA: V coming at last. I was holding out for its arrival so I'm keen to get hands on. This is a very solid month IMO.

Veilguard has the most vanilla story of any of the series but it isn’t that bad. It looks good and the combat is the best of any DA game.

@Fiendish-Beaver wow, somebody being reasonable and thoughtful on a devicive subject. Is this still the internet!

@Fiendish-Beaver I believe DA:V would have been on Gamepass regardless if it sold well or not. It is an EA game and all EA games come to Gamepass after about a year. I knew this so wasn’t tempted to buy it. If others did the same then could explain poor sales on the Xbox.

That is a good point that I had not considered, @AlwaysPlaying. Personally, I always tend to buy my games, and if I am particularly interested in playing a game, then I am not one for waiting. I will buy it straightaway, even if I know that in a year or so I could be playing it for 'free' on the Game Pass. But maybe that's just me...

I played Veilguard on PS Plus and thought that it was very decent to play (at first) and looked great in some locations. I never finished it though because I thought that the writing, dialogue and characters were all lacking for me to get invested in.