Cultural and Racial problems of this game were never observed in any of magazines and presses of gaming world, but this doesn't means that this game is correct about the topic that used for its theme.
game title is "Prince of Persia".
It means that this game is somehow connected to "persia" that is an ancient land. but this is not even "somehow" connected to the persia, neither early 90s games or ubisoft's trilogy and this new one.

1- It used Indian costumes instead of persian. i believe that their inspiretion for costume("They" means all the developers of all PoPs) was Sinbad the Sailor and Sinbad is an indian myth.

Who cares?

Well, I guess it is not historically accurate.  That is too bad for people who either care about the game or Arab or Persian history.  I have never been interested in this game so I don't care much but it is pretty stupid Ubisoft can make such a blatant mistake.

"Who cares?"

"Well, I guess it is not historically accurate.  That is too bad for people who either care about the game or Arab or Persian history.  I have never been interested in this game so I don't care much but it is pretty stupid Ubisoft can make such a blatant mistake."

Seriously? I was going to PoP for all of my historical accuracy needs.

Loosely based on history and culture? A lot of games are that way, it really doesn't bother me. The fact that Ubisoft was remaking a game from the early 90's may have something to do with it. They probably wanted to keep the game's name, too. "Prince of Arabia" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

Jesus! Next you'll tell me that Too Human isn't historically and culturally accurate either!

And Paradise City in Nevada is not an island populated entireley by cars driving on their own free will, but we didn't complain because nobody gives a fuck

If you're going to go to any video game for historical facts, I don't think PoP should be that game. At least play a historically accurate game like Rome: Total War or any of the Civ games...

"Seriously? I was going to PoP for all of my historical accuracy needs."

"Loosely based on history and culture? A lot of games are that way, it really doesn't bother me. The fact that Ubisoft was remaking a game from the early 90's may have something to do with it. They probably wanted to keep the game's name, too. "Prince of Arabia" just doesn't have the same ring to it."

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while I agree that inaccuracies can be frustrating technically it was edge that made the typo as he is the prince of perisa making him Iranian, which as you point out is well miles away from arabia but at this time those two empires/cultures would be clashing. none the less this is a pretty pointless topic.

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"And Paradise City in Nevada is not an island populated entireley by cars driving on their own free will, but we didn't complain because nobody gives a fuck"

"If you're going to go to any video game for historical facts, I don't think PoP should be that game. At least play a historically accurate game like Rome: Total War or any of the Civ games..."

All very true, but still, were you really expecting historical accuracy from a game about a man who kills thousands of sand monsters and travels through time?

I thought it was because they were invading another place.

So when they avaided the place, they wore their clothes and stuff. Makes sense to me

These games never really interested me, but I think most of the media classifies any Middle Eastern country as an "Arab Nation".

The Prince is an Antagonist right? Because he belongs to the persians and the persians are bad. Like in 300, which is historically correct to the bone

The Prince is technically the protagonist. He's the good guy... well, you play as him anyway.

Aurelito said:

brukaoru said:

"Loosely based on history and culture? A lot of games are that way, it really doesn't bother me. The fact that Ubisoft was remaking a game from the early 90's may have something to do with it. They probably wanted to keep the game's name, too. "Prince of Arabia" just doesn't have the same ring to it."

But at least they could try a little bit more about accuracy of their historical matters. what difference does it makes really?

"All very true, but still, were you really expecting historical accuracy from a game about a man who kills thousands of sand monsters and travels through time?"

"These games never really interested me, but I think  most of the media classifies any Middle Eastern countries as an "Arab Nation"."

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The Prince is an Antagonist right? Because he belongs to the persians and the persians are bad. Like in 300, which is historically correct to the bone

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"The Prince is technically the protagonist. He's the good guy... well, you play as him anyway.

Aurelito said:

brukaoru said:

"Loosely based on history and culture? A lot of games are that way, it really doesn't bother me. The fact that Ubisoft was remaking a game from the early 90's may have something to do with it. They probably wanted to keep the game's name, too. "Prince of Arabia" just doesn't have the same ring to it."

But at least they could try a little bit more about accuracy of their historical matters. what difference does it makes really?

Exactly. What difference does it make? So why make this thread if even you agree it doesn't make a difference?"

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The level design in The Two Thrones was actually very Persian influenced. Other then that your pretty much right.

I thought this was going to be  a topic about the controls. Moving on.

I have one thing to add to this thread.

Fiction.

"I have one thing to add to this thread.

Fiction."

"get2sammyb said:

"I have one thing to add to this thread.

Fiction."

Harry Potter is a Fiction too.
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"get2sammyb said:

"I have one thing to add to this thread.

Fiction."

Harry Potter is a Fiction too."

Honestly, that persian costume doesn't look very suited to acrobatics at all. And Sinbad is often misattributed to Arabian mythos(and it's sin-Bahd, not sin-Baed)

"Honestly, that persian costume doesn't look very suited to acrobatics at all. And Sinbad is often misattributed to Arabian mythos(and it's sin-Bahd, not sin-Baed)"

"atejas said:

"Honestly, that persian costume doesn't look very suited to acrobatics at all. And Sinbad is often misattributed to Arabian mythos(and it's sin-Bahd, not sin-Baed)"

Both of them are wrong pronunciations, the real name is "Sand(as in sand)-Baad".


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It's a freaking video game.




I want all of you to know that not all Italians are plumbers. And not all Hedgehogs are blue. They are actually quite brown.

"I have one thing to add to this thread.

Fiction."

People should stop thinking of this things as insults, once everyone does, there will be no more racism. Why is Niger a bad word? Or Black? Yellow? etc? They are just words, and we give them meaning.

Holy fuck, hold on.
You're telling me that a game in which a man makes fantastic leaps over gaping chasms and scales walls with naught but his pinky finger is historically inaccurate?

... Well. Okay.

I realised it wasn't trying to be historically accurate when everybody had American accents.