The third game in the BioShock series leaves the bottom of the sea behind for an entirely new setting - the floating city of Columbia, circa 1912. Come to retrieve a girl named Elizabeth, ex-detective Booker DeWitt finds more in store for him there than he could ever imagine.
It's a biggie! The milestone of 100 episodes has been reached and by total luck it’s also time to sort out the weak from the guff as we do The SaladCast GOTY Awards 2013! Get hype!
It should come as no shock that there will be spoilers and dumb decisions ahead. You have been warned.
With the PS4 out in America and the XBOX One release looming there's a bit of an expectation to talk about them just a little. Not being the types to disappoint, there’s a lot of discussion related to the new black distraction oblongs.
We are also joined by DJKippling off of twitch and being Rob’s brother.
This episode we talk about PS4, XBone, Knack, Killzone: Shadowfall, Resogun, Bioshock Infinite, Tomb Raider, Battlefield, CoDBlOps II, The Swapper, MtGDotP 2013, Civ 5, GTA V, Pokémon XY and probably some other stuff.
Compliments from your Mum always feel loaded. To that end, it's probably a good thing that ours aren’t listeners of the SaladCast. They could make it weird.
This week there’s more XBOX One and PS4 news, SimCity patch news, XCOM: Enemy Within, Saints Row IV, The Bureau, Guild Wars 2, Gunpoint, Plants Vs Zombies 2, Bioshock Infinite and Awesomenauts.
Rob decides to take a weekend break in London on a Podcast weekend, forcing the team to phone it in. When we say "phoning it in" it's not to say that your getting a half-arsed show. You are most definitely getting all of our arse.
This week there’s Bioshock Infinite, Dark Souls, XCOM, Infamous, DmC, MTGDotP 2013, SimCity, next Gen game pricing, EVE, Puddle, Spiral Knights and our ignorance towards sports games.
Wrapping up our E3 extravaganza are Nintendo's direct streams and Sony’s bomb dropping conference.
We talk about Mario Kart 8, Super Mario 3D World, Super Smash Bros, Wind Waker HD, The Dark Sorcerer, Assassin’s Creed IV, Beyond: Two Souls, The Last of Us, NBA 2K14, Diablo 3, Final Fantasy XV, Kingdom Hearts 3, Elder Scrolls Online, Destiny, Mad Max, Killzone Shadowfall, The Order, Pokémon X and Y, Donkey Kong Country Returns 2, Bayonetta 2 and Fantasia.
As we draw ever closer to the "reveal season" some news just can't contain itself and slips free. This way it gives us something to talk about before the noise of E3. The games are coming and we must be ready for them.
This week there’s DmC, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon (and whether or not it’s racist), Bioshock Infinite, EA and Star Wars, Gran Turismo 6, Burnout Paradise, Star Trek, Half Minute Hero and Crysis Warhead.
Greece should have won Eurovision clearly.
The return of the sun brings some danger with it. Some people may try and convince you that there's a better world out there in the light. All you will find is MORE world. It’s like a disappointing RPG. Count on the SaladCast to provide you with useful public service information.
This week there’s Nintendo Direct news, Zac getting a 3DS, Spec Ops: The Line, Kerbal Space Program, Sim Farm, Injustice, children with footballs, Assassin’s Creed Revelations, the Tog scale, Burnout Paradise, Guild Wars 2, Planetside 2, Bioshock Infinite and more.
Everyone needs to get piz’d.
In the wake of the PS4 reveal GDC doesn't have the same gravitas of previous years for video game news. In reality this event isn’t really for us consumers, it’s for the developers. It’s in the name... So while we hold on for E3 we’ll just keep doing what we do: playing games and talking rubbish.
This week we talk about Lucas Arts and their work, Assassin’s Creed Revelations, Bioshock Infinite, Need For Speed: Most Wanted, Guild Wars 2, Planetside 2, new Metal Gear Solid, DiRT 2 and 3, Bit Trip Runner 2, SONY hardware and more.
The weight of the backlog is firmly upon us now. Fortunately it's one of those points in the year where there’s a lull in the release schedule allowing us to begin the catchup. Although Zac seems to have gone a bit far with the idea.
Aside from starting a proper argument about DiRT 3 being potentially worse than DiRT 2 (somehow), Zac catches up with games he’s already played to death in the form of Rollercoaster Tycoon and the "relevant again" UFO: Enemy Unkown (the first X-COM, don-cha-know). Rob finishes Outland and gets a but further with Sonic Generations while Dan continues to lose himself in Skyrim.
Just for the record, all the things people say about beer and wine and mixing are totally true. All of them. Even the bits that contradict the other bits. Rob is living proof of this and is nursing a monster hangover. Don't mix. You will thank us one day.
We talk a lot of games and kinda just run out of material, and pad for a bit at the end. Fine if you're in a rush and need a slightly smaller salad morsel. There's some Bulletstorm and Kinect Sports from Rob, the usual Teraria, Minecraft and SpaceChem bit from Zeg and Dan finishes Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood at last.
