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Critical Error
Jake Steinberg and Peter Hunt Szpytek talk about the things that they cannot possibly ignore.
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Critical ErrorFriday Night Lights Is Even Better Now
Clear eyes. Full hearts. Critical Error. Jake Steinberg, Cristian Macias, and Peter Hunt Szpytek kick off Critical Error's Friday Night Lights watch with the…
Critical ErrorThe 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…
Critical ErrorTHE WORST VIDEO GAME TITLES OF ALL TIME
This week on Critical Error, we put gaming's greatest (and stupidest) names on trial. -- 00:00 Don't Judge a Game by Its Title 00:31 William Shakespeare Is a…
Critical ErrorYou 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…
Critical ErrorDid 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…
Critical ErrorWhy Is Every Game an 8/10?
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 --…
Critical ErrorYou’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. PATREON Bonus episodes every week…
Critical ErrorThe Be Nice Brigade™
Is "negativity" really the problem? -- Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/c/criticalerror/membership Spotify ▸…
Critical ErrorGenres Are Destroying Your Brain
Do you ever get the sense people are just following a script? -- 0:00 Cold Open 0:40 Intro Sequence 0:59 Podcast 47:50 THANK YOU PATREON 51:06 Jake's…
Critical ErrorNintendo Good? Nintendo Good.
ONE NINTENDO SHILL MEETS ONE NINTENDO FANBOY AND THEY FALL IN LOVE -- Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/c/criticalerror/membership Spotify ▸…
Critical ErrorMom, I Want a Nintendo
ONE NINTENDO SHILL MEETS ONE NINTENDO FANBOY AND THEY FALL IN LOVE -- Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/c/criticalerror/membership Spotify ▸…
Critical Error1 Multiplayer Fan vs. 1 Single Player Fan
SINGLE PLAYER GAMES OR MULTIPLAYER GAMES - WHICH IS SUPERIOR?! -- Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/c/criticalerror/membership Spotify ▸…
Critical ErrorI’m Not Wrong, YOU Are
An outlier review is a FAST way to get clicks and attention, right?! Don't worry, we'll generate the discourse FOR YOU. #gta6 #gaming #marvel -- Patreon ▸…
Critical ErrorOne of These Games Will FLOP
Which of these 10 games will be the BEST REVIEWED game of the year? Which will be the worst? Are we wrong about Marvel's Wolverine? Are we right about Fire…
Critical ErrorShould We KILL PlayStation?
From the ALL-DIGITAL FUTURE to Xbox Layoffs we're hitting every discourse, baby! -- Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/c/criticalerror/membership Spotify ▸…
Critical ErrorConsoles Are Too Expensive (But We’re Buying Anyway)
We're Afraid of the PS6 and Steam Machine Because We Love Video Games Too Much -- Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/c/criticalerror/membership Spotify ▸…
Critical ErrorThe Real Game Awards
DESCRIPTION -- Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/c/criticalerror/membership Spotify ▸ https://open.spotify.com/show/2vBGKwB2eZu6yXEEDUYvbM?si=8c082eae408f41f4…
Critical ErrorAre We Wrong About Video Games?
Is it us..? -- Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/c/criticalerror/membership Spotify ▸ https://open.spotify.com/show/2vBGKwB2eZu6yXEEDUYvbM?si=8c082eae408f41f4…
Critical ErrorWe’re STILL Fighting About Breath of the Wild
If these weapons don't degrade I am gonna be so mad! -- Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/c/criticalerror/membership Spotify ▸…
Critical ErrorWe’re STILL Fighting About Breath of the Wild
If these weapons don't degrade I am gonna be so mad! -- Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/c/criticalerror/membership Spotify ▸…
Critical ErrorThe Ocarina of Time Remake Is a Trap
Hey, listen! -- Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/c/criticalerror/membership Spotify ▸ https://open.spotify.com/show/2vBGKwB2eZu6yXEEDUYvbM?si=8c082eae408f41f4…
Critical ErrorNintendo Derangement Syndrome
When is the next Nintendo Direct? Please, won't you tell me? -- Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/c/criticalerror/membership Spotify ▸…
Critical ErrorYou Must Play Every Video Game
If you don't, you will explode. -- Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/c/criticalerror/membership Spotify ▸…
Critical ErrorThe PlayStation Problem
Is it ever going to end? -- Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/c/criticalerror/membership Spotify ▸…
Critical ErrorThey Need To Pay More Attention
What's going on with these trailers? -- Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/c/criticalerror/membership Spotify ▸…
Critical ErrorYou Are Not Independent
What is the line between games journalist and gaming influencer? -- Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/c/criticalerror/membership Spotify ▸…
Critical ErrorThis Is Getting Bad
Video games are too expensive! And that sucks!! But not for the reason you think. -- Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/c/criticalerror/membership Spotify ▸…
Critical ErrorDEFEND The Mario Galaxy Movie AT ALL COSTS
Listen, I get cinema, it's the reviewers that don't get Mario, right? ...right? -- Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/c/criticalerror/membership Spotify ▸…
Critical ErrorYou Can Trust Me, I’m a YouTuber
Gotta fight back on all those crooked games journalists, they've had it good for too long, you know, working for dirt wages and having to deal with weirdos…
Critical ErrorTOO MUCH VIDEO GAME
"This is a video game-ass video game." -- Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/c/criticalerror/membership Spotify ▸…
Critical ErrorNintendo Adults
Why do we treat Nintnedo like That™? -- Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/c/criticalerror/membership Spotify ▸…
Critical ErrorRemakes Are Good, Actually
All aboard the video game remake train. -- Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/c/criticalerror/membership Spotify ▸…
Critical ErrorXbox Is My Friend, Pikachu Is My Enemy
For real though, is Xbox my friend? Is Pokemon real money? Does MTG exist? -- 0:00:00 START 0:00:32 Xbox Regime Change 0:21:37 Pokemon Price Panic 0:36:21 Game…
Critical ErrorWhat Is Content?
What part of a game are you supposed to review? What is content? Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/c/criticalerror/membership Spotify ▸…
Critical ErrorYou Don’t Want Criticism
Is there a difference between a review and...a review? Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/c/criticalerror/membership Spotify ▸…
Critical ErrorYou Don’t Like The Game, You Like Your Friends
Is doing a podcast considered "friendslop"? Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/c/criticalerror/membership Spotify ▸…
Critical ErrorThe Toxic Positivity Problem
Is "let people enjoy things" the least helpful phrase of all time? Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/c/criticalerror/membership Spotify ▸…
Critical ErrorWho Decided These Games Suck?
What's up with the way everyone is talking about Highguard? Do the fans know better than the developers of Life Is Strange? Patreon ▸…
Critical ErrorBooks Are Better Than Video Games*
*at being books. Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/CriticalError Spotify ▸ https://open.spotify.com/show/2vBGKwB2eZu6yXEEDUYvbM?si=8c082eae408f41f4 Apple…
Critical ErrorWe Already Know How This Goes
We know exactly what's going to happen in 2026. Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/CriticalError Spotify ▸…
Critical ErrorCritical Error’s 2025 GOTY (feat. All of Our Favorites)
Thanks for listening this year, we'll see you in 2026. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Start 4:00 Barrett Courtney's GOTY 40:46 Patron GOTYs 46:32 Autumn Wright's GOTY…
Critical ErrorGAMERS NEED DISCOURSE
Are the most important games of the year the ones that make everyone argue with each other? Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/CriticalError Spotify ▸…
Critical Error2025 Was a Bad Year For Games
How do we even define what a "good year" is? Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/CriticalError Spotify ▸…
Critical ErrorGOTYs That Aged Like Milk
Does GOTY mean anything? Or are we just going through the motions? Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/CriticalError Spotify ▸…
Critical ErrorMetroid Prime 4: Beyond Review
It's worth restating: these are not real Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/CriticalError Spotify ▸…
Critical ErrorAbout The Game Awards...
One more thing. Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/CriticalError Spotify ▸ https://open.spotify.com/show/2vBGKwB2eZu6yXEEDUYvbM?si=8c082eae408f41f4 Apple…
Critical ErrorAbout That ARC Raiders Review...
Why are you booing him, he's right? Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/CriticalError Spotify ▸…
Critical ErrorThe Worst Kind of Video Game Review
You don't need to like a series to review the latest entry, but you should, at the very least, write a good review. Patreon ▸…
Critical ErrorAn Inoffensive Episode of Critical Error
What are the ten games to get to know you?? Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/CriticalError Spotify ▸…
Critical ErrorYou Don’t Need To Talk About Xbox
Thanks for hearing us out. Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/CriticalError Spotify ▸ https://open.spotify.com/show/2vBGKwB2eZu6yXEEDUYvbM?si=8c082eae408f41f4…
Critical ErrorGame Critics Are Doing Too Much
We put over 60 hours into this podcast before embargo. Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/CriticalError Spotify ▸…
Critical ErrorCritical Error Is Not For Me
Does a review need to address the majority opinion? What does saying "it's not for me" add? Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/CriticalError Spotify ▸…
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PlayStation’s FLOP Era
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Critical ErrorEvery Video Game Review in 2025 Has This Problem
Something is wrong with video game reviews and what we expect from them in 2025. Am I going crazy? Are all these things the same? Patreon ▸…
Critical ErrorThey Announced DLC, Everyone Got Mad
Pokemon Legends: Z-A is getting more expensive every day, but isn't that how all games are? Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/CriticalError Spotify ▸…
Critical Error”Hollow Knight Silksong Was Made By Three People”
The games industry is very interested in myth-making, but ALSO on pushing back against myth-making. Who is the author of a video game? Does it matter how many…
Critical ErrorAll The Best Games Are Dead
What dead games would you revive? Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/CriticalError Spotify ▸…
Critical ErrorThe Hollow Knight Silksong Reviews
There won't be any Hollow Knight Silksong reviews, but is that a bad thing? What do reviews even mean anymore? Patreon ▸ https://www.patreon.com/CriticalError…
Critical ErrorNintendo’s Sakurai Problem
The Kirby Air Riders direct showcased a problem with the way fans treat legendary creators. Kirby Air Riders looks like fun! But why are we acting this way??…
Critical ErrorThe Battlefield 6 Discourse™
The Battlefield 6 reveal event makes us feel like crazy people. Who's an influencer? Who's PR? Who's a journalist? Who even cares anymore? It all feels bad…