Salt City Gamescast: A Video Game Podcast

Midds is looking for a gift for a friend, which led us to talking about some of our favorite varieties of scotch. Pour a glass and relax, more games next week.

On this week's gamescast we dive into the remake of Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. Nick hates it and lets the world know. All three of us continue to beat the drum for Destiny 2 and Nick has final thoughts on Control. Notes: Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening 22:10 - 33:30 Destiny 2 33:35 - 47:00 Control 48:45 - 53:10

Andrew, Jared and Nick are all working their way through the latest Destiny 2 expansion.  Shadowkeep brings a lot of quality of life improvements and tweaks to existing systems. We dive in and talk about what works and what we feel still needs work.

Astral Chain is Platinum Games newest game and Jared and Nick picked it up to play on the plane ride to Chicago. We talk about Galloping Ghost, which is a massive arcade just outside of Chicago. Midds had a run in with an asshole goose in Untitled Goose Game.  Nick continues to be impressed by Remedy's Control. Notes: Astral Chain: 22:35 - 39:00 Untitled Goose Game 39:55 - 49:55 Insurgency: 49:55...

Jared and Nick finished up Fire Emblem: Three Houses and give their final thoughts on the divisive second half of the game. Is it good? Kind of. Is it bad? For sure.    

We are getting into the season of games at Salt City.  This weeks Gamescast has Midds giving Gears 5 impressions and Nick is working his way through the gorgeous Control from Remedy. Jared is lost to the world because Monster Hunter World: Iceborne is out. On top of all that we continue to discuss our progress through the last two years of Destiny 2 content. Notes: Monster Hunter: 15:45 -  28:45 C...

A longer than usual short is here in the form of a State of Destiny 2 discussion, we dove back in prior to the Shadowkeep expansion coming out. Jared, Midds and Nick talk about their complaints with vanilla Destiny 2 and how Bungie has changed the game since then.

Life is Strange 2: Episode 4 is out and Nick played through it. Still a heavy game, tackling difficult subjects. Midds has been tracking TI (Dota 2 championships), as well as watching streamers stand in lines in World of Warcraft Classic. Jared picked up the souls like Remnant from the Ashes, which is Dark Souls with Guns.   Notes:  Life is Strange: 5:30 - 21:00 TI/Wow: 21:00 - 47:00 Remnant from...

Nick finds out that Ramen can fix tables and cars.  Then we talk a bit about who would win between a Gorilla and a Grizzly Bear.  

Nick, Jared and Andrew talk about the latest games they are playing on Gamescast #20.  Andrew picked up Oxygen Not Included, which is made by the developers of Don't Starve. Jared and Nick continue to grind through Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Jared picked up Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3. Notes: Oxygen Not Included: 3:50 - 23:50 Fire Emblem: Three Houses: 23:50 - 49:55 Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: 5...

We have a new segment called Salt City Stories.  Join Jared, Andrew and Nick as they talk about some of their earliest gaming memories and why they keep playing games.

Nick and Jared talk some Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Midds is all in on the latest PUBG season, and Jared is working his way through Judgement.  Additionally, we talk about hang overs and how to cure them on this gamescast. Notes: Fire Emblem: Three Houses 18:50 - 37:50 Grim Dawn: 37:50 - 47:55 Judgement: 48:05 - 1:09:20 PUBG: 1:09:20 - 1:18:45  

A new Pokemon is coming, so Jared took on the monumental task of explaining all of Pokemon to Nick and Andrew. It went terribly. Turns out Pokemon are very complex creatures.

This weeks Gamescast covers the State of PUBG and the improvements that the game has seen. Jared played and finished Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night and Nick is still making Super Mario Maker levels. Additionally, Midds claims to have pilot friends. Notes: PUBG: 7:45 - 26:30 Grim Dawn: 27:40 - 43:00 Bloodstained: 43:10 - 1:07:50 Super Mario Maker 2: 1:07:50 - 1:23:50    

Changing things up this week. We got together and Jared showed Andrew and Nick a bunch of Shmups. Lots of good games were played...and at least a couple for perverts. Can't win em all. Jamestown, DeathTiny, Darius Burst, The Game Paradise, Senko no Ronde 2, Raiden 5, Caladrius, Ikaruga and Nex Machina are all covered in this experimental episode.

We had some extra discussions about Total War: Three Kingdoms during our last recording and wanted to release it. Additionally, we tried to record a Final Fantasy XV short a while back but it went terribly.  So you can hear a little bit of that magic after the closing theme.

All three of us are playing Total War: Three Kingdoms and are completely sucked into the quest to become the emperor of China.  We talk about the developers that EA has killed off,  the surprise release of Cadence of Hyrule, and just a little bit of Super Mario Maker 2.  Check the notes below for a Mario Maker course that Nick built.   Notes: Closed EA Developers: 4:20 - 26:10 Total War: Three Kin...

Midds has been travelling and primarily gaming on his Nintendo Switch. Sounds like a perfect excuse to talk about Breath of the Wild and the recently announced sequel.

E3 is upon us and we are ready to talk about all of the new games that were announced. We cover Nintendo, Bethesda, Microsoft and Square-Enix. Halo Infinite, Gears 5, Final Fantasy 7, Fire Emblem, Cyberpunk 2077 and more fill out this episode.

The World Health Organization has classified a Gaming Disorder as a disease. So we talked about it to see how we measure up! Then we talk a little about World of Warcraft, which seems appropriate.

Nick almost blew up the Westin, Jared went to Reno and Midds is heading to Florence.  So lets talk video games!  All three of us are playing the surprise hit A Plague Tale: Innocence. Jared started the Legend of Heroes series and is playing Cold Steel and Nick finally put the finishing touches on Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Notes:  A Plague Tale: 18:00-30:40 Trails of Cold Steel: 30:40-1:05:10  

Time to take a step back and talk about how Apex Legends is doing.  We talk about hackers, the disappointing season, Apex mobile and what Respawn needs to do to keep the momentum boing.

On episode #15 we talk Persona 5, Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, and Mordhau.  Jared finished up Sekiro after a grueling final boss and Nick finished episode 3 of Life is Strange 2.  Midds gives us an update on the state of Pubg these days, and we are all wondering why they removed chicken dinners. Show Notes: Small Talk/Game News: 0:00 - 35:40 Life is Strange 2: 35:40 - 46:00 Sekiro: 50:30 - 1:19:10 Pu...

TowerFall has come to the Nintendo Switch, so that gave us an excuse to talk about it.  We got together and played the retro throwback.  It is brilliant.

Episode 14 is here and so is Mortal Kombat 11!  We talk about the story and how it is ridiculous in all of the right ways.  Midds is playing a city builder by the name of Anno 1800, while Nick hints at Civilization VI coming to a future podcast.  Short segments of Final Fantasy XII and Sekiro make it into this busy episode as well. Game Notes: Mortal Kombat 11: 10:35 - 45:12 Anno 1800: 45:15 - 1:1...