Poll: Pakistani Arcade Game

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Cosplay Horatio

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My buddy Modern Robot sent me an email with a link to Kotaku about a Pakistani Arcade game in production. Here is the link to the teaser video;
Shera Jutt - Pakistani arcade game. Right click and open in new tab or window please.


It pretty much speaks for itself that a Pakistani Indie game developer is trying to release this and not only am I Pakistani I love the fact that it's an indie game.
 

AndyFromMonday

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I'm sorry but everything about that game looks shit. Hopefully they can improve the final product but as it stands it's not worth the bother to even pirate it.
 

Cosplay Horatio

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AndyFromMonday said:
I'm sorry but everything about that game looks shit. Hopefully they can improve the final product but as it stands it's not worth the bother to even pirate it.
That's alright, I feel the same way about it now based on the teaser.
 

Aunel

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wow, that I turned down my bass amp to watch that vid...

It looks more than 5 years old, or is that just me?
 

Therumancer

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Well, for all my feelings about The Middle East, I don't really care where games are developed if they are decent. I for example like a lot of games released by the 1C company (Russian) despite localization problems, and honestly I'm not too fond of Russia given current events (Georgia, Poland, etc...). Stay away from the politics and stuff and I usually don't have an issue.

On the other hand that game seems awful beyond all comprehension, I mean I suppose in the early 1990s it would have been passable, but even with the allowances I make for indie developers that just seems horrible... artwork, animation, and what you can see of the gameplay.

For all I know it's actually another Planet Alcatraz (which is a game I like despite the fact that I technically should loathe it, it was even one of my selections in what passed for my 'games of the year' review for 2009), but given that it's an action game rather than an RPG I'm not even willing to support it for that reason.

I wish the Pakistani game developers luck, a lot of foreign game developers have had rough starts, and honestly Europe/Russia/etc... are just now beginning to catch up with the US and Japan. It takes a long time for a nation to seriously enter into the market.

Basically, noble effort, but it's not something I'm going to buy, and I can't see it getting any kind of widespread support. It's best chance of any kind of success (based on that) would be a site like Something Awful panning it so hard that Goons/Channers/etc.. buy it just because it was a horrendous, genuine effort, so they can slice pieces of it off to mock it for years. That's not nice, but it's my thoughts.... a sort of "Plan 9 From Outer Space" of video games type thing. :p
 

TheColdHeart

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Ok was that a child or a midget being attacked with a massive axe during that trailer?

Also that games looks dreadful both narrative and graphics, I think back when the PS1 was current I'd have said it looked like ass.
 

Cosplay Horatio

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TheColdHeart said:
Ok was that a child or a midget being attacked with a massive axe during that trailer?

Also that games looks dreadful both narrative and graphics, I think back when the PS1 was current I'd have said it looked like ass.
Midget for sure.
 

Wolfram23

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Well looks really old and amateur, and without knowing anything about the developer I'm guessing it's just a small group doing this on old tech. That said, looks like they did a good job!

Unfortunately with the awesomeness of AAA titles these days, I won't give it a 2nd glance.
 

Artina89

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I don't know why, but the graphics reminded me of the first House of the dead game, but no, I wouldn't play it, even though I laughed at when that midget got owned by that axe.
 

Riobux

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To be honest, I really wouldn't. While I understand the cultural shift and it's interesting how places like Pakistan is turning more western, the game just looks shit. The graphics seem PS1/early PS2 and the gameplay just looks generally broken. I also expect, while there will be a nice story that may fit in nicely with the cultural setting, a weak story filled with plot points that had been done before and better.