Critical Error

By Jake and PeterLeisure Video Games Games

Critical Error episodes

October 15 The Serious Problem With Every Gaming Podcast
Are all video game podcasts, reviews, and essays basically the same? This week we ask why games coverage keeps repeating itself and what it would take to say something new.
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00:00 Every Game Podcast Ever
00:35 Is All Video Game Coverage the Same?
02:47 Overviews as Analysis
07:00 The Intentional Fallacy
10:57 Ocarina of Time and the Remake Discourse
13:55 The Problem With Video Game Essays
18:50 Why Are All Gaming Podcasts the Same?
22:47 A Podcast Should Be More Than Its Hosts
24:35 Going Independent Just to Make the Same Thing
28:57 Is Games Media Becoming Irrelevant?
32:31 Games Media Hasn't Adapted to the Internet
33:29 What Is a Video Game Critic Actually For?
35:24 The Problem With Games News Podcasts
37:59 Being Sad About Layoffs Is Not a Position
40:22 Cruel Optimism and the Games Industry
44:09 Longer Doesn't Mean Deeper
45:41 What Does It Mean to Closely Read a Game?
47:52 How Much Plot Summary Is Too Much?
52:37 The Worst Video Essay Writing Trend
55:36 Critical Error Royalty
56:31 Peter's Prepared Segment
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Hosted and created by Jake Steinberg and Peter Hunt Szpytek
1 hr 2 min
October 08 THE WORST VIDEO GAME TITLES OF ALL TIME
This week on Critical Error, we put gaming's greatest (and stupidest) names on trial.
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00:00 Don't Judge a Game by Its Title
00:31 William Shakespeare Is a Hack
04:06 Donkey Kong Bananarama
08:35 Lizard's Religion
12:57 Disney's Bug-Man 2
15:32 Extremely Violent Siblings
19:13 Space Lady: Anxiety
22:26 The Universe Stops at Your House
26:03 Symbolism: Fantasy Again
30:39 Nietzsche: Washing Machine
34:12 Space Wizards: Unfortunate Situation
38:12 Pocket Monsters: Big Sky Objects
41:57 Pokémon: Alphabet Backwards
44:50 Blood-Related Adjectives
47:15 Dang It Grandpa: Gun Fun
49:28 Azure Aristocrat
52:50 Disney's 179 Days Per Person
58:46 Critical Error Nation and Patreon
01:02:11 Microfiction
01:04:17 Closing Discussion
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1 hr 7 min
September 24 You Haven’t Played Enough
How long do you have to play a game before you’re allowed to have an opinion about it? We talk Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave, 100-hour games, the dreaded “it gets good after 40 hours,” and why gaming culture mistakes endurance for acuity.
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0:00 Cold Open
2:11 How do gamers relate to time?
1:00:12 PATREON THANK YOU
1:04:05 Jake's Written Piece
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1 hr 7 min
September 17 Did Reviews Make Us Dumb?
Videogame reviews have become overview trailers combined with thumbs-up-or-down referendums on personal taste. We talk about what happened to interpretation, and whether criticism has taught us to stop reading games deeply.
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0:00 Cold Open
0:30 Did Reviews Make Us Dumb?
57:33 PATREON THANK YOU
1:00:05 Jake's Written Piece
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1 hr 9 min
September 17 Is This All Reviews Are For?
Videogame reviews have become overview trailers combined with thumbs-up-or-down referendums on personal taste. We talk about what happened to interpretation, and whether criticism has taught us to stop reading games deeply. Link to Jake's blog about Wolverine reviews that is mentioned a few times: https://jakesteinberg.substack.com/p/perfectly-functional
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0:00 Cold Open
0:30 Did Reviews Make Us Dumb?
57:33 PATREON THANK YOU
1:00:05 Jake's Written Piece
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1 hr 9 min
September 03 Why Is Every Game an 8/10?
Have you ever seen so many 8 out of 10 scores in your life?
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0:00 Cold Open
1:20 Why so many 8s?!
52:39 PATREON THANK YOU
55:58 Peter's Written Piece
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1 hr 10 min
August 28 You’re Gaming on Their Schedule
We spend months getting hyped about video games, but then only a week really talking about them? That can't be right.
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1 hr 9 min
August 28 You’re Gaming on Their Schedule
We spend months getting hyped about video games, but then only a week really talking about them? That can't be right.
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1 hr 9 min
August 21 The Be Nice Brigade™
Is "negativity" really the problem? -- Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/c/criticalerror/membership Spotify ▸ https://open.spotify.com/show/2vBGKwB2eZu6yXEEDUYvbM?si=8c082eae408f41f4 Apple Podcasts ▸ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critical-error/id1831034969 -- Follow Jake on YouTube: @JakeSteinberg Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/jakenoseit Subscribe to Peter on YouTube: @peterspittech -- Write To Us ▸ [email protected] | Use Subject "Hey Jake and Peter" -- Hosted and created by Jake Steinberg and Peter Hunt Szpytek --
1 hr 12 min
August 13 Genres Are Destroying Your Brain
Do you ever get the sense people are just following a script?
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0:00 Cold Open
0:40 Intro Sequence
0:59 Podcast
47:50 THANK YOU PATREON
51:06 Jake's Pre-Written Piece (Long one this week)
1:07:36 End Screen
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1 hr 8 min