Critical Error Is Not For Me

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.--00:00 Every Game Podcast Ever00:35 Is All Video Game Coverage the Same?02:47 Overviews as Analysis07:00 The Intentional Fallacy10:57 Ocarina of Time and the Remake Discourse13:55 The Problem With Video Game Essays18:50 Why Are All Gaming Podcasts the Same?22:47 A Podcast Should Be More Than Its Hosts24:35 Going Independent Just to Make the Same Thing28:57 Is Games Media Becoming Irrelevant?32:31 Games Media Hasn't Adapted to the Internet33:29 What Is a Video Game Critic Actually For?35:24 The Problem With Games News Podcasts37:59 Being Sad About Layoffs Is Not a Position40:22 Cruel Optimism and the Games Industry44:09 Longer Doesn't Mean Deeper45:41 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 Trend55:36 Critical Error Royalty56:31 Peter's Prepared Segment--Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/c/criticalerror/membershipSpotify ▸ https://open.spotify.com/show/2vBGKwB2eZu6yXEEDUYvbM?si=8c082eae408f41f4Apple Podcasts ▸ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critical-error/id1831034969--Follow Jake on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/jakenoseitSubscribe to Peter on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UCoitk5TUppjIS1huKsraU_Q --Write To Us ▸ [email protected] | Use Subject "Hey Jake and Peter"--Hosted and created by Jake Steinberg and Peter Hunt Szpytek

This week on Critical Error, we put gaming's greatest (and stupidest) names on trial.--00:00 Don't Judge a Game by Its Title00:31 William Shakespeare Is a Hack04:06 Donkey Kong Bananarama08:35 Lizard's Religion12:57 Disney's Bug-Man 215:32 Extremely Violent Siblings19:13 Space Lady: Anxiety22:26 The Universe Stops at Your House26:03 Symbolism: Fantasy Again30:39 Nietzsche: Washing Machine34:12 Space Wizards: Unfortunate Situation38:12 Pocket Monsters: Big Sky Objects41:57 Pokémon: Alphabet Backwards44:50 Blood-Related Adjectives47:15 Dang It Grandpa: Gun Fun49:28 Azure Aristocrat52:50 Disney's 179 Days Per Person58:46 Critical Error Nation and Patreon01:02:11 Microfiction01:04:17 Closing Discussion--Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/c/criticalerror/membershipSpotify ▸ https://open.spotify.com/show/2vBGKwB2eZu6yXEEDUYvbM?si=8c082eae408f41f4Apple Podcasts ▸ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critical-error/id1831034969--Follow Jake on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/jakenoseitSubscribe to Peter on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UCoitk5TUppjIS1huKsraU_Q --Write To Us ▸ [email protected] | Use Subject "Hey Jake and Peter"--Hosted and created by Jake Steinberg and Peter Hunt Szpytek

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.--0:00 Cold Open2:11 How do gamers relate to time? 1:00:12 PATREON THANK YOU1:04:05 Jake's Written Piece--Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/c/criticalerror/membershipSpotify ▸ https://open.spotify.com/show/2vBGKwB2eZu6yXEEDUYvbM?si=8c082eae408f41f4Apple Podcasts ▸ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critical-error/id1831034969--Follow Jake on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/jakenoseitSubscribe to Peter on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UCoitk5TUppjIS1huKsraU_Q --Write To Us ▸ [email protected] | Use Subject "Hey Jake and Peter"--Hosted and created by Jake Steinberg and Peter Hunt Szpytek

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.--0:00 Cold Open0:30 Did Reviews Make Us Dumb?57:33 PATREON THANK YOU1:00:05 Jake's Written Piece--Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/c/criticalerror/membershipSpotify ▸ https://open.spotify.com/show/2vBGKwB2eZu6yXEEDUYvbM?si=8c082eae408f41f4Apple Podcasts ▸ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critical-error/id1831034969--Follow Jake on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/jakenoseitSubscribe to Peter on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UCoitk5TUppjIS1huKsraU_Q --Write To Us ▸ [email protected] | Use Subject "Hey Jake and Peter"--Hosted and created by Jake Steinberg and Peter Hunt Szpytek

Have you ever seen so many 8 out of 10 scores in your life? -- 0:00 Cold Open 1:20 Why so many 8s?! 52:39 PATREON THANK YOU 55:58 Peter's Written Piece -- Write To Us ▸ [email protected] | Use Subject "Hey Jake and Peter" -- Hosted and created by Jake Steinberg and Peter Hunt Szpytek