Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/Nintendo 3DS

It's the countdown to the close of the SaladCast for 2015 when we’ll do a countdown to close 2015. Until then have a regular SaladCast.

There are NO Star Wars spoilers here. You’ve all seen it already anyway.

The Wii U really wants you to know about Nintendo Direct. It's really important to it that you watch it in action and give it your warm encouragement. In fact it won’t shut up about it. Beeping and dinging and jingling in the corner of the room. Frustratingly needy thing. You know sometings it makes you feel like you could just.... oh shh shh, it’s coming over.

Hey Wii U how’s it going? What you got there? A suspiciously heavy looking lead pipe with Mario Tennis written on it? Better cut to the SaladCast before I listen to everything you could possibly say you wonderful console you.

It's time for the fifth SaladCast GOTY award show! Difficult year this one as the team have mostly played different games from one another which inevitably make comparisons hard but we give it a shot anyway because why not!

Discussed in this episode: Bayonetta 2, Elite: Dangerous, Guacamelee, Bravely Default, Mario Golf, Sonic Boom, Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Alien: Isolation, Child of Light, Guilty Gear Xrd, Destiny, Driveclub, Assassin’s Creed Unity, Halo: The Master Chief Collection, Far Cry 4, Fifa 15, Infamous: Second Son, South Park: The Stick of Truth, Watchdogs, Grim Fandango, Luftrausers, Nidhogg, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Threes, Titanfall, Transistor, Towerfall: Ascension

Running late but sounding great, it's another episode of videogame podcast The SaladCast. December is a busy time for everyone as Dan entertains guests with mince pies missing out on the discussions including:

The Playstation Experience, The Game Awards, Uncharted 4, Zelda for Wii U, Steam auctions, the year of broken games, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Bayonetta 2, Street Fighter V, Final Fantasy VII, EVE Online, Torchlight 2, Guild Wars 2 and Valkyria Chronicles.

According to dispatch emails from Tesco Direct, games can now be shipped and have a chance to arrive BEFORE they were shipped. If there's some secret time travel tech being used in large scale consumerism then local business is really going to struggle now. Does Amazon have secret teleporters? Does ASDA stock it’s shelves by ballistic cannon? Does Morrison’s have high speed underground mag-levs deploying pies across the nation? If any of this is true, the Pizza delivery business needs to invest now!

In this episode of the SaladCast: Bayonetta, Civilization: Beyond Earth, Titanfall, Awesomenauts, Theatrhythm: Curtain Call, Halo: Master Chief Collection, Super Smash Bros. For Wii U, Valkyria Chronicles, Toybox Turbos, Dying Light, Human Resources, PS4 firmware and mispronunciation.

Leather Jackets are pretty loud. Dan wears one for the duration of this episode of the video game podcast, "The SaladCast". See how many times you can hear it squeak and then see if remember anything that's been discussed. You may have missed many of the informed discussions covering an array of topics including kitchens, toothpaste, Destiny, Minecraft, Super Smash Bros. Final Fantasy XV, Theatrythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call, FTL, Planetary Annihilation, Guild Wars 2, Batman: Arkham City, Guacamelee, Threes, Mario Kart: Super Circuit and plenty more.

At this moment, writing something topical and entertaining seems to be the last thing my brain wants to attempt. Having just finished my working day, my thoughts are littered with fragments of code, all swimming through a sea of tabs, keywords and semicolons, battling for my attention. They will not get it now but their time of rest is some way off. Developers are weird.

In this episode we discuss our old game making endeavours (again), Unity, New 3DS, Twitch, Quantum Break, Pokken, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions, Gamergate, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, Starbound, Kerbal Space Program, Batman: Arkham City, Civilization V, Mario Kart 8 and there's also our "now fast becoming a regular feature" bit where Zac gives FTL advice.

It's quite nice that the "home nations" can still win international medals at the Commonwealth Games. But don’t think too hard about it as you’ll soon realise that we’re only beating ourselves. I’ll take it though.

In this episode there’s a noodle fork update, Broken Age, EVE Online, Minecraft, Destiny, Crysis 2, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, Super Time Force, Titanfall, The Pinball Arcade, Kerbal Space Program, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and chicken produce enhanced by the wind.

Replace “Chip” with a less clean word.

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In this episode, running really long, we talk about Mario Kart 8, Watch_Dogs, Wifi interference, Smash Bros., Garden Warfare, FTL, Transistor, New Super Mario Bros. U, PixelJunk: Eden, Super Hexagon and personal finance.

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As Odysseus sailed the ocean there came a faint sound drifting through the air. An enticing sound that would bring all but the strongest of men to their knees. Many a soul would do anything to get closer to such a divine noise. "Niiiiiiintendoooooo".

Dan joins us in person to help discuss Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, Gone Home, Kerbal Space Program, Trials Evolution, Super Smash Bros. Wii U, Bravely Default, PvZ Garden Warfare and Guild Wars 2.