Why aren't there more games set in a fantasy arabic setting?

isn't jihad pretty new concept for arabs? crusades started first, no?

persians =/= arabs

but close enough

not even remotely close, arabs stole a ton of stuff from earlier persia that's all

>The word jihad appears frequently in the Quran with and without military connotations,[10] often in the idiomatic expression "striving in the path of God (al-jihad fi sabil Allah)".[11][12] Islamic jurists and other ulema of the classical era understood the obligation of jihad predominantly in a military sense.

Pre-Islam Arabia was very cool indeed. I would love to see a game inspired by The Thief of Bagdad.

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Not even remotely true. That’s just butthurt persian propaganda.

Because Western devs are scared shitless of the press calling them racist.
Japan only gives a shit about European and Japanese culture.

He looks Indian. Also fantasy Arabic settings should be responsibility of Arabs. Westerners shouldn't have to make them, least they filled it up with annoying SJW crap. Japs could have a go but they've been influence by the West.
More like ancient Persia had nothing and Islamic Persia stole a lot of shit from Ancient Greece and Ancient India.

Because we see already enough of it in real life.

>More like ancient Persia had nothing
are you for real? I understand education is greek centric in the west, but come on - educate yourself.

Arabs should make their own games

Gamer demographic has overlaps with uneducated, ignorant racists who will think buying games with brown people = funding terrorism.

because browns do not make many games. Do you people expect Japs and Euroshits to do everything? Get your ass in gear and make me a great game set in a fantasy arabic setting

I really liked grim desert setting in diablo 2.

>More like ancient Persia had nothing and Islamic Persia stole a lot of shit from Ancient Greece and Ancient India.

Nice lies. A lot of shit the west enjoys is from ancient Persia. Remember April Fools? It's an ancient Achaemenid holiday called Sizdah Bedar. You'd be surprised to see just how much shit the west (Greece and even India included) got from those Persians. Arabs had nothing before Persians modernized islam. The persians were responsible for the islamic golden age.

Next souls game. I know Miyazaki can pull it off

>Arabs should make their own games
>dwarves and elves should make their own games
this childish logic again

>swordsmanship so good they accidentally split atoms
>Redguard ships have actual cannons

Redguard Master Race

>make a game for me kafir
no muhammad you need to pull your own weight

I'm not Westerner. Ancient Persia initially just copied Mesopotamians like Assyrians. In the Parthian era they had little originality. In the Sassanid era, the Persians revitalized Ancient Persian "culture" of the Achaemanenid times... which was just a copy of Mesopotamians to being with.
The Safavid era of Iran is more unique than anything before it.
>Persian nationalist delusions: The post
April Fools isn't originally Iranian. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools'_Day#Origins
>You'd be surprised to see just how much shit the west (Greece and even India included) got from those Persians.
They got nothing. Platonic philosophy influence Iran, not the reverse. Indian fables influenced Iran and were wrongly thought to be originally from Iran. Even chess which was thought to be Persian has an Indian origin.
Arabs influence Iran quite a lot. Poetry of Rumi has pre-Islamic Arabic influence. The Qasidah was part of Persian poetry, which is of Arabic origin.
>The persians were responsible for the islamic golden age.
IF by "golden Age" you mean compilation and copying, sure they were responsible for taking Algebra and Zero from the Indians.

People would get too butthurt due to modern politics, but desu it's not that interesting of a setting unless it's done with a twist, like dune for example.

>April Fools isn't originally Iranian.
Yes it is. Iran has the oldest tradition of celebrating April Fools Day as far back as 536 B C, which is celebrated as Sizdah Bedar which is alive even today.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sizdah_Be-dar

>Lie of the Thirteen (دروغ سیزده – Dorugh-e Sizdah) is the Iranian version of the prank-playing April Fools' Day which is observed on the first or second day of April in Iran, on the day of Sizdah Bedar. Pranks have reportedly been played on this holiday since 536 BC in the Achaemenid Empire.[6][7][8]

Who cares about chaturanj? Persians invented backgammon with evidence dating back as early as 3000bc. Chaturanga was most likely inspired by backgammon anyway, as it one of the oldest boardgames in history.

Indians got their setars from the persian sitar (concieved pre islam), which is the ancestor to the modern day guitar. Not to mention that the harp's ancestor is the Persian chang dating as far back as 4000 bc, predating islam.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitar
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setar
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang_(instrument)

>Arabs influence Iran quite a lot
Or rather frame it as Persians used the arabic and islamic framework to express Persian nationalism. See Ferdowsi, and the Shanameh which attempted to use as little arabic as possible. The fact that Persians still speak farsi, celebrate traditional Persian holidays like Nowruz, Chahar Shanbeh Soori is a testament to the strength and resiloence of their culture in the face of islam and arabic influence.

Ifrit and Bahamut are arabic

The sources in the wiki article of April Fool's are weak. All 3 sources are written by journalists.
>Persians invented backgammon with evidence dating back as early as 3000bc
There were no Persians in the land that is known as today's Iran in 3000BC. The Indo Aryan arrival in "Iran" was much later. The Indo-Aryan language and culture dates to 2100BC
>The Indo-Iranian language and culture emerged within the Sintashta culture (c. 2100–1800 BCE)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_migrations
So Backgammon wouldn't have been invented by Persian or Indo European speakers, but rather by other peoples, possibly Elamites who expanded East or ancient farmers.

You Persians love to steal everything and credit it to yourselves.
>Indians got their setars from the persian sitar (concieved pre islam), which is the ancestor to the modern day guitar.
Ancestor of guitar predates Persian existence in Iran.
>Not to mention that the harp's ancestor is the Persian chang dating as far back as 4000 bc
Persians didn't exist in 4000BC, you idiot.
>Or rather frame it as Persians used the arabic and islamic framework to express Persian nationalism.
I wasn't talking about Ferdowsi, but figures who are revered by Iranians like Rumi.
>The fact that Persians still speak farsi,
The fact that you're calling Persian "Farsi" shows how deep Arabic influence got. And 40% of Farsi vocabulary is Arabic, despite the Shah's effort at removing it and despite Ferdowsi.
And certain Iranians question the Persian nationalist narrative of Ferdowsi trying to resist Arabic, odds are he didn't know any Arabic to effectively discriminate:
> This assertion has been called into question by Mohammed Moinfar, who has noted that there are numerous examples of Arabic words in the Shahnameh which are effectively synonyms for Persian words previously used in the text. This calls into question the idea of Ferdowsi's deliberate eschewing of Arabic words.[15]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahnameh