
Jed Pressgrove: My gut reaction is that people who said the Trump administration will inspire better culture were being hopeful at best and naive at worst. So do you notice anything like this in the video-game world? Do Republican or Democratic presidents make for better video games? There was almost a vague sense that artists, usually open-minded and left-leaning themselves, get challenged into higher terrain when faced with gross reactionaries. A lot of this commentary was centered on the hope for a revival of protest music, but not all of it. Nathan Osborne: After the 2016 election, I heard some people say that one small consolation of a Republican administration is that the culture (music, movies, literature) gets better. Jed Pressgrove: Off the top of my head, my picks for RPGs of this sort would be Final Fantasy VI, Earthbound, Final Fantasy Tactics, Fallout 2, Planescape: Torment, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, Dark Souls, and Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. Questions may be edited for clarity.ĭaniel Cánovas: Out of the games you’ve played, which ones were the longest with the least amount of trivial content? RPGs preferably. If you have a question you would like to submit, please email it to or tweet it to Questions can cover anything closely or tangentially related to video games or art, including but not limited to criticism, culture, and politics. Loaded Questions is a regular feature at Game Bias.
