The First PC RPG Game in the Middle East: Orient

[kaveh7681]

Dear Friends,
"Orient: A Hero's Heritage" is the first Role Playing Game produced in the middle east.
Please visit the website and give your opinion:
www.orient-thegame.com

 

[JPL]

Well, I like the notion of doing a fantasy game grounded in Persian culture.

"Orient" is an odd choice of name, though, as nowadays in the West that term is seldom used to refer to the Middle East.

 

[Stormborn]

Well, I like the notion of doing a fantasy game grounded in Persian culture.

"Orient" is an odd choice of name, though, as nowadays in the West that term is seldom used to refer to the Middle East.

Actually, all my British relatives refer to people from the Middle East as "Orientals" - which confused me a bit at first.

And of course this is for a PC game and so technically seems to fall in the catagory of Spam at worst and wrong forum at least.

 

[Plane Sailing]

I've moved this to the press releases forum, although it is looking a little like spam at the moment.

kaveh7681, would you like to tell us more about why you like this/think it is important/registered in order to post this information?

Thanks

 

[Yair]

Dear Friends,
"Orient: A Hero's Heritage" is the first Role Playing Game produced in the middle east.
Please visit the website and give your opinion:
www.orient-thegame.com

First of all, the site looks very professional and I'm impressed. Kudos.

However.

This isn't the first RPG produced in the middle east. This isn't even the first CRPG producted in the middle east. For example, here is an already active Israeli MMORPG.

 

[HalWhitewyrm]

Wasn't there Prince of Persia? But that was set in the Orient, not made there...

It looks nice, comparable to all the other PC graphics-heavy 1st-person quest (I refuse to call them RPGs) games. What I find interesting and funny (and in a way a little sad) is that the game is set in the Orient, made in the Orient, yet the main character looks, you know, white (tanned, at most).

 

[kaveh7681]

Dear all.
First of all thanks for your good comments.

I read the rules and was nothing about banning this kind of topic but I excuse if I dismissed.

And the other point is I don't think it as some kind of ad. because I want to know other people opinions about that game that has been made in my country not to make them believe on sth. There are other games in my country but this is the only one I think worth discussing.

I didn't consider Israil in the middle east but it's not political. I just didn't think that Israil is one of the countries that have game industry so it was interesting and new for me.

About Prince of Persia, against its name, many concepts and graphic in that game are not from Persia and I know that because I know the ancient and current Persia very well and I think they just used the name of Persia for marketing reasons.

Orient originally is told to the Middle east not East Asia and many Iranian people are the same shape in the Orient game screenshuts.

And finally I thought of this forum as a ood and active one and so off course this is not the only topic I want to discuss about and there will be many topics.

 

[Stormborn]

kaveh7681 - I think the confusion lies in the fact that this is a message board for Pen and Paper RPGs, not Computer based ones. We tend to get lots of automated messages from companies that post about Warcraft or related subjects. However, if you are not one of the developers of this project then it is not an ad, that simply wasn't clear in your first post.

It does look interesting, although I doubt it will ever be available in the US.

 

[kaveh7681]

kaveh7681 - I think the confusion lies in the fact that this is a message board for Pen and Paper RPGs, not Computer based ones. We tend to get lots of automated messages from companies that post about Warcraft or related subjects. However, if you are not one of the developers of this project then it is not an ad, that simply wasn't clear in your first post.

It does look interesting, although I doubt it will ever be available in the US.

The only Pen and Paper RPG that I know a little bit is Call of Kootooloo(I am not sure about spelling). But I am interested to know more. According my information many of PC RPGs has been initiated from Pen and Paper ones. I think Pen and Paper gives you more opportunity for creativity and dream making and this is the main attractiveness.

 

[Yair]

The only Pen and Paper RPG that I know a little bit is Call of Kootooloo(I am not sure about spelling). But I am interested to know more. According my information many of PC RPGs has been initiated from Pen and Paper ones. I think Pen and Paper gives you more opportunity for creativity and dream making and this is the main attractiveness.

These forums (especially the General forum, of course) focus primarily on the Dungeons and Dragons pen-and-paper roleplaying game. It is the most common and popular (pen and paper) RPG. Using the General forum should help you learn more about it or other such games if you want to, by posting there. As you say, the opportunity for creativity is a great attraction - although for me the social aspect of the game is as importent; it's fun to hun out with friends.

You may want to ask about this game in the software forum on this site, it might garner more interest there.

Call of Cthulhu is the name of the game you know, by the way. It is available in a "d20" version; if you know of it in that version, then you'll discover the mechanics are very similar to D&D and many other games (although the setting of the game is darker and more modern than usual, and the player's characters weaker than in most RPGs).

Last, Israel doesn't have much of a gaming industry. There are a few Israeli games, but not many. D&D has been translated to Hebrew, as have other games. There is one commercially active company producing adventures and other material for D&D in Hebrew. There only a single shop for roleplaying stuff in Israel (that I know of), although D&D can be bought in book-stores and there are any number of CRPG-focused stores. Israel is far, far smaller than Iran, with only about 1/10 its population and 1/4 of its GDP, so I can understand why you would think we don't have a gaming industry. It just so happens that we do have a small gaming industry - I suspect that it's rather small compared to Iran's.

Have fun now,
Yair