Funny how much crap flies over your head if you don't know the first thing about the subject at hand. Not being capable of telling a shotgun from a long British bow, I zone out at any phrase with the world "caliber" in it.
Or how the police cars are the completely wrong color being how an American police car NYPD or LAPD car would be. From what I could gather, Police cars in London were baby blue and white in the 1950s.
3 years of development. Bro I swear I can imagine the work atmosphere in the office, music busting out loud, everyone drinks tea, chit chat, watching sth on the phone and everyone is happy to get paid while doing nothing 😂
The lockpicking isn't the only thing they stole from Bethesda, the wild dog outside the detective's apartment was just deadass a wolf who came all the way from Skyrim to hang out outside a Tehrani apartment, the detective didn't have anything to fear, he could've just walked outside and punched the dog once, free wolf meat too.
as an iranian, here is some insight on what happens in the gaming industry here: to put it simply, if an entertainment media has no propaganda in it, then it gets no funding by the government, so most companies or teams either work on small projects on mobile or get their funding from people who want to support these projects. The gaming scene was big in iran during late 2000s, with many games being dubbed in Persian by professional voice actors, it got so big that companies who do these dubs and distribute the games decided to make games themselves, and almost all of the games that are created are absolutely horrendous, it's always the bare minimum with little to no creativity, as if the devs don't know what makes games "Fun" to begin with, just mindless point and click shooting or walking for the most part, some however did well compared to rest of the well...junk, that was put out, but in the end once the age of digital downloading came it all went downhill for these companies, to the point that games were no longer being dubbed. For more context, since copyright laws don't apply in iran, people can just download any foreign game they want for FREE without any consequences, if anything piracy is actually encouraged here, because CD releases were no longer making profit all companies that were in the gaming scene slowly vanished, right now the biggest "Localization" comes in form of Persian subs for games, basically adding a persian option for all the texts in games, and i'm saying this because since games don't have an official persian localization team small companies or teams inside iran make these localizations instead. As of now most companies that are in the gaming scene only make mobile games, some of which are actually pretty good, even if they are just clones of other popular mobile games. (i hope i didn't make too many mistakes while writing this as i'm tired as hell, if you need more info or have questions about the entertainment or gaming industry in iran then i'm more than happy to answer.)
@@seP4 precisely, i forgot to mention those two points so thank you, and also thank you for responding chief 👍 By the way i suggest checking out "Hostage" and "Incident (Or accident?) in tehran", both of these are games that i played during my childhood which i still remember the gameplay of, all i can say is that the former is an absolute laughing material while the latter at least has some effort put into it.
This game released alongside: -Bloodborne -Batman: Arkham Knight -MGSV -The Witcher 3 -Dying Light -Mortal Kombat X -SOMA And so many other games that make this release look like it came out next to Alone in the Dark
Perhaps this is the same approach Saudi Arabia took after lighting a decades-long ban on cinemas, with one of the first movies permitted in the country being the Emoji Movie. Try to convince your citizenry that movies/games simply are that appalling, and hope they'll stop nagging you for proper movies/games...
@ToumaFR. In December [2018], Saudi Arabia lifted a 35-year ban on commercial theaters, and this past weekend the first movie screenings were opened to the public. One of the screenings was a double-feature of The Emoji Movie and Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie in the city of Jeddah, Reuters reports.
@@Tummamu They still have TV. In fact the WWE is huge there. When I deployed there in 2017 to train with the Saudi Army their dudes kept referencing the WWE, even giving us wrestlers nicknames.
5:36 - This sign says, "Støysone, bruk hørselvern". That's a Norwegian sign. In London. In 1953. The sign wasn't made until at the earliest 2000, but I'd say that's a 2010-or-later design.
Hahah, hilarious! For anyone wondering, it says "Noise zone - Use hearing protection", and the below it says "Helmet zone - Use protective helmet". At least the spelling is accurate 😄
This definitelly should've been a point-and-click game as you've said. Heck, even a visual novel would've been much better, especially since the drawn cutscenes are actually decent.
I love learning about video games outside the common American, Japanese and European circles, whether they're good or bad. Like Vietnam made a COD clone named 7554 based on the Franco-Vietnamese War, and there's a Saudi Arabian-developed Uncharted clone that made some rounds some years ago like Unearthed. They're not particularly good but I love how they can be unintentionally hilarious, and kind of endearing in how they try to punch above their weight. Knowing a bit of history of this game, being funded by the government and in context of the blatant asset flips and direct copying makes it even funnier than just your typical Steam shovelware.
Vietnam (or the company Emobi Games) even trying to made a sequel of 7554 called "300475" depicting the liberation of South Vietnam and ending the war in 1975, but later canceled due to production trouble and funding.
@@Darkest_matter It's rough but undeniably endearing, especially in hindsight on how much more worse games we get nowadays on Steam, and I genuinely wish they were able to fund and make the planned sequels/follow-up episodes for it.
@@huytungnguyen119 Thanks for the info! That's a shame they never got to finish development on it, would had been an interesting premise especially as it was going to be another game done in the POV of someone you don't typically get to experience with games.
7:44 I'd place a small bet that the room is the least optimised because _each one of those books is a separate brush_ and they all get rendered at all times.
what do you mean by "brush"? They all have to get rendered every frame anyways. The problem is not rendering every frame, the main issue is how often draw()-calls are made. My guess is that they literally draw every model separately instead of utilizing e.g. hardware instancing resulting in many draw()-calls per model thus increasing latency due to bus. And God alone knows best.
I know point and click games tend to have a few bizarre puzzles that really make no sense, but you'd think a studio so familiar with creating puzzles would at least be competent at it. None of the puzzles in this game made a lick of sense. Not a single one.
As a fan of adventure games, there's a certain mindset you adopt that means weird puzzles make sense in an adventure game context. But these are so bad that they don't even make sense to me.
@@eyeball226I thought the Gabriel Knight 3 cat hair puzzle wasn't entirely terrible. But some people call it responsible for the death of the genre. Well it wasn't good either.
Watching the detective stand over the doctor swaying back and forth was so funny considering the content of that conversation and hovering over a dead body lol, I love these videos. How these got green lit is beyond me
I'm an Iranian citizen. Sadly, the only game developers who get permission to publish their games are the ones that make games supporting the government's bullshit propaganda. And these government supporters aren't that smart. So... the result would be this mess of a game that as an Iranian, I didn't even know existed. We are under so much pressure from the rest of the world that we can't even legally purchase any game from steam, or any other platform for that matter. I know this pressure and all the sanctions regarding Iran are justified since the government is basically filled with corrupt people and terrorists, but it's not the citizens' fault since the majority of us are against the regime. A lot of Iranians love gaming, but we have no choice but to pirate the games that we love to play. I don't even know what the point of me saying all these things is, but I just wanted to vent, so don't mind me :)
Can't say I blame you or the people, but it's still funny to see the government shills who have not even looked at the game immediately call the video a "Western propaganda" or "Ukrainian psyops" when even people in poor countries can tell it's a PIECE OF TURD. Guess all that criticized the government-funded "game" are Ukrainian-American spies sent to "spy and destabilize Iran" or something.
Yeah you should pirate everything and enjoy what you can because there is literally no legal way to do so and the government certainly isn't going to do anything about it. Take care brother
As a student of history, I find it very ironic how the modern Iranian government exploits the memory of the 1953 coup (as in this game) in its propaganda. Mossadegh was a secularist who would’ve hated the current regime. In fact, much of the Iranian clerics supported the 1953 coup.
I found it particularly funny that they copied the lockpicking bit from Bethesda games, looks like they really just wanted to include as many minigames as possible. Also I really appreciate how you integrated captions into your video, so many people don't bother with captions at all but you did a great job including them in a way that enhances the content.
I can’t deny that the drawing cutscenes are actually decently made. Even if the writing in the speech bubbles are ruined with the 2nd most annoying font after Comic Sans.
Dont. I just realized that his Hunt Down The Freeman episode was badly informed and made. Like using Half-Life: Source for footage of Half-Life for example. You wanna know how bad that episode was? The lead dev of HDTF (M3SA that is) , a fan of rerez, was so disappointed with the episode that he never watched any further episode again. Thats how bad it is.
@@linkfreeman1998Don't care. Now i want a JBG episode focusing on shitty Iranian games. I want to see what Adam and Shane have to say about Driving in Tehran and Sia's oversized plum of a face working next to a cheap realistic model of a TV star.
The problem with these foreign games is that they always tried to imitate bigger games like gta they probably would’ve made a decent indie game if they had a simple but effective idea rather than having multiple ideas that don’t work on a small budget
Those types of videos really remind me of the Homeschooling times during the covid lockdowns where me and my friends used to gift each other terribly looking games from the xbox store all the time lmao, good times
1.5 calibur? As in 1.5mm? 1.5 inches? 1.5 grains? That's either ridiculously tiny or comically huge XD The dude was either shot with the firearms equivalent of a grain of rice, or some kind of anti-aircraft shell.
@@emberfist8347 So 1.5 inches in diameter? Three times the size of a .50 BMG shell? There wouldn't be a body left to examine with a shell that massive XD
I heard the game is called “Revenge” and the studio making the game (Kosar3D) has their own UA-cam channel and…yea the game is vehemently anti-Western. Link (Not to promote their product, but to show this curiosity of the Iranian video game industry): youtube.com/@kosar_3d?si=DnWja58gCbNjg2Wl
So, this looks like Mafia, crossed over with the Peaky Blinders TV show, crossed over with GTA San Andreas, crossed over with Broken Sword, crossed over again with some weird facsimile of 1950s London. Okay. The UK also never had police cars like that at any point in history, our police cars also only have blue lights. And to be fair, I've tried developing small games before. Third-person camera is a pain in the ass that will make you flip your desk, so my games were either top-down or first person. I never ever got third person working properly no matter what tutorials I followed and it wasn't worth the grief.
2:04 you slide the newspaper under the door, and then you push the spoon in the keyhole, and the key on the other side of the door will fall on the newspaper, and you can pull it out. I think I saw that on Hercule Poirot or smth. EDIT: okay let me take that back, literally nothing makes sense in this game.
Perhaps it's 1.5 cm, which would be a strange way to measure caliber. However, there do seem to be 15mm pistols designed to fire flares intended to frighten animals. They are called Scare Guns. Not disagreeing with you, and not suggesting the character was murdered with a firecracker, but it is funny.
@@JohnWilliamNowak i mean there are also 40mm hand held grenade launchers and flare launchers as well, so... it could work if someone shot a solid slug out of one of those, but depending on the propellant load, it would either on the lower end just really freaking hurt but not seriously injure you, or on the higher end be unlikely to puncture your skin but be powerful enough to cause internal bleeding and broken bones. (by higher end, i mean higher end that is still fireable by hand, if you get into emplaced or mounted grenade launchers there are 40mm ones that would shoot right through a person and explode on the other side) Pretty damn sure whoever put that dialog into the game had no idea what 1.5 caliber is though, and probably thought that was a reasonable sounding size for a pistol projectile
@@JohnWilliamNowak To be fair, during WW2 some countries measured their canon caliber in CM. Soo there is at least a 0.1% chance our subject got murdered by a firecracker.
There’s a tiny part of me that wants this to be adapted into a film that is doggedly faithful to the original script, just to see the detective unlock a drawer by bouncing a metal ball off of the top of the desk.
Dude... I'm solo developing a game. I often feel ashamed and disappointed with my progress and results. After seeing this, I couldn't intentionally make a game this bad IF I TRIED! This video really made me feel much better
1:12 I mean who hasn’t done this we used to break into my friends house all the time with clean his house and then clean all the resin out of his bong smoke all the resin and then he come home and be mad that we smoked the resin, but he be surprised that his house is clean
Your on-screen text is not only funny and adds personality, but it also makes it possible to understand you for people who can't decipher your accent. Great idea!
As an Iranian I will apologize to any poor soul who played this game it’s just propaganda made by the government to get support for their regime within the country
Bro, IDK how you managed to get through this. Because I first discovered this after watching Vinny play this, and it was legit impossible at times to progress. You one lucky dude man...
One one the developer guys is here. Actually, they kept us in a basement, no food, no water.. I'm an ex navy seal. We had to do it.. I heard the voiceover guys had a better treatment, something like a proper toilet and food..
I’m sorry saying those graphics are ten years behind is an insult to games ten years older than it. You ain’t telling me this is on par with Forza Motorsport, NFS Most Wanted, CoD 2, Ace Combat 6, Gran Turismo 4, Project Gotham Racing 3, and F.E.A.R.
Just to put this into perspective. This game was released the same year as Undertale, which was made by 2 people and a budget of roughly $51,000 through kickstarter and started development in 2013
the one nice thing i can say about this is the comic book-style cutscenes look pretty dope. tbh as one who likes playing terrible games out of curiosity i might have to give this one a shot at some point lmao.
14:00 For those of you wondering the name of the AAA game he was talking about is, it is called "Safire Eshgh" (translates to "Ambassador of Love" in English). This is a third-person action adventure game very similar to Assassin's Creed, and the story takes place in the year 61 AH, and involves the "Mehran" of Ray, a Iranian man suffering from severe trauma. The game is very hard to purcahse as it is only available digitally on either GameUP or Hayoola, both of which are Persion / Iranian digital stores. The only way you can purcahse the game is to buy the game with Tomans, which is Iran's digital currency. And if you are unable to do that, then the only way you can experience the game is to watch videos of the game on UA-cam.
That shit is so old lol cyberpunk *IS* a fully developed game, over 40gb of free added content. People still saying that are either children or unfunny tools, it's gotten worse than no mans sky memes.
@@myoak108 Cyberpunk is still garbage, the writing, voice acting, and open world are bad. Choices mean jack shit too. Thank god we got Baldur's Gate 3, now THAT is an RPG.
But the important part is someone got their kickback for the game after providing their best buddy government funds for the development. Thanks for playing this wreck and taking it for the team!
1.5 caliber, eh? So... a pistol who's bore is 3 times the width of a .50 Desert Eagle. A bore that fat in a "handgun" is called a grenade launcher, since we're very close to 40mm at that caliber.
If that's what a Government funding game look like, I wonder what happens when I rely on grant money from the Government to work on an animation project... Let alone meeting some "Animators" who promised to complete their project(s) but instead ran off with the grant money... Not gonna name anyone. Not gonna say who...😑
This has the 2000s video game aesthetics that I really like. Shame that with bit more budget this game would have been decent. Maybe someone can do a redux on this game.
I remember that in 2009 maybe, Polish distribution house IQ Publishing released Iranian game "Garsharp: The Monster Slayer". Not bad, not good also, something like 5/10, but compared to Dark Year(s) is like masterpiece
Dude... this hurts to watch! WTF It's amazing how this was a pass for a videogame. It's just all SLAPPED ON content and after something so minor caught my eye there is another stolen asset from San Andreas too other than CJ's house. At 10:20 I just had realized something that looked so familiar to me. You can see that the cars all use the Blista Compact wheel texture with just a darkened color lmao
You tried harder on the video than the creators of the big-budget game (probably) by adding as many as two types of subtitles, so I watched the video without any problems...Thank you
I can't ignore the fact that the detective's wife and the dead journalists wife have the same character model, only recolored (no cosmetic changes, just recolored). Is she cheating with a dead man?
I can’t get over how bad the models look even compared to everything else in the game. The other characters like passable for 2005. The wifes look Like they need to go back to the M64
All things considered, the idea of the game's setting and plot sound fascinating. A murder mystery involving the corrupt era of the Shah of Iran and the British involvement sounds like it'd be an excellent thriller plot. Twists, turns, discerning who to trust, who to mislead, it all sounds like it'd be excellent in the right hands.
you can legally download the persian release of this game from internet archive: archive.org/download/dark-years-modern
Why would I ever do such a thing to myself and my harddisk?
please remove the legally part from that sentence, piracy causes no harm to profits so stop hating on it
based @@nyxxic4550
@nyxxic4550 nobodys gonna buy that shit lmfao
they would rather download the game than paying for it
@@nyxxic4550 You seem to have no understanding what the word "legal" means.
4:20 1.5 calibre would be 3.8cm, thus meaning the detective found an autocannon shell.
there's only one handheld gun i can think of chambered in 1.5 cal meaning that he got killed by a direct hit of a tear gas grenade launcher lmao
Funny how much crap flies over your head if you don't know the first thing about the subject at hand. Not being capable of telling a shotgun from a long British bow, I zone out at any phrase with the world "caliber" in it.
@@AdrianOkay LMFAO
Now that's badass🤣🤣🤣
whoever fired the gun chambered with it probably broke their arm as well (lol)
9:44 Love the fact this game is set in London in 1953, yet the London Eye (the big wheel) is there which wasn't opened until the year 2000 🤣
I blame Peter Molyneux
Holy cow Larry?!?!?!
I didn’t expect you to be here!
And the wife wearing a hat indoors because female hair are verboten in Iran.
Hahahaaa😂😂😅
Or how the police cars are the completely wrong color being how an American police car NYPD or LAPD car would be. From what I could gather, Police cars in London were baby blue and white in the 1950s.
3 years of development.
Bro I swear I can imagine the work atmosphere in the office, music busting out loud, everyone drinks tea, chit chat, watching sth on the phone and everyone is happy to get paid while doing nothing 😂
Add hookah in the break room and I'm in
@@bolieve603 based
@@bolieve603 true I forgot that since I don't smoke that cancer no more 😂
Government contracting in a nutshell.
you must be talking about me.
The lockpicking isn't the only thing they stole from Bethesda, the wild dog outside the detective's apartment was just deadass a wolf who came all the way from Skyrim to hang out outside a Tehrani apartment, the detective didn't have anything to fear, he could've just walked outside and punched the dog once, free wolf meat too.
i think the "journalist"'s father is the osama model from Postal 2 (8:06)
as an iranian, here is some insight on what happens in the gaming industry here:
to put it simply, if an entertainment media has no propaganda in it, then it gets no funding by the government, so most companies or teams either work on small projects on mobile or get their funding from people who want to support these projects.
The gaming scene was big in iran during late 2000s, with many games being dubbed in Persian by professional voice actors, it got so big that companies who do these dubs and distribute the games decided to make games themselves, and almost all of the games that are created are absolutely horrendous, it's always the bare minimum with little to no creativity, as if the devs don't know what makes games "Fun" to begin with, just mindless point and click shooting or walking for the most part, some however did well compared to rest of the well...junk, that was put out, but in the end once the age of digital downloading came it all went downhill for these companies, to the point that games were no longer being dubbed.
For more context, since copyright laws don't apply in iran, people can just download any foreign game they want for FREE without any consequences, if anything piracy is actually encouraged here, because CD releases were no longer making profit all companies that were in the gaming scene slowly vanished, right now the biggest "Localization" comes in form of Persian subs for games, basically adding a persian option for all the texts in games, and i'm saying this because since games don't have an official persian localization team small companies or teams inside iran make these localizations instead.
As of now most companies that are in the gaming scene only make mobile games, some of which are actually pretty good, even if they are just clones of other popular mobile games.
(i hope i didn't make too many mistakes while writing this as i'm tired as hell, if you need more info or have questions about the entertainment or gaming industry in iran then i'm more than happy to answer.)
accurate 👍
declining economy, drm, and games becoming harder to modify also contributed to the death of those dubbing teams
@@seP4 precisely, i forgot to mention those two points so thank you, and also thank you for responding chief 👍
By the way i suggest checking out "Hostage" and "Incident (Or accident?) in tehran", both of these are games that i played during my childhood which i still remember the gameplay of, all i can say is that the former is an absolute laughing material while the latter at least has some effort put into it.
As Someone Who Lives There And is a Gamer and Repair Technician For Electronic Devices
It Actually is Pretty Accurate!!
@@kawabatayuri Nope It's Not
Nazis Actually Have quite a lot of Fans here
@@kawabatayuri Dolfy is a meme here bro, unless you want more context then that's basically the reason lol
This game released alongside:
-Bloodborne
-Batman: Arkham Knight
-MGSV
-The Witcher 3
-Dying Light
-Mortal Kombat X
-SOMA
And so many other games that make this release look like it came out next to Alone in the Dark
Bruh don't disrespect Alone in the Dark like that
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Bro gta 5 was out at that time GTA FUCKING 5
@@zyie_playzGTA V came out on 2013, the one you mentioned is the PC port of the game
@@bxdroidI know it came out on 2013 that’s why I’m saying gta v was out
This comment made me mad because I now get reminded that Bloodborne is still not on PC yet.
Perhaps this is the same approach Saudi Arabia took after lighting a decades-long ban on cinemas, with one of the first movies permitted in the country being the Emoji Movie. Try to convince your citizenry that movies/games simply are that appalling, and hope they'll stop nagging you for proper movies/games...
@ToumaFR. In December [2018], Saudi Arabia lifted a 35-year ban on commercial theaters, and this past weekend the first movie screenings were opened to the public. One of the screenings was a double-feature of The Emoji Movie and Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie in the city of Jeddah, Reuters reports.
Bro the ban was on cinema, but there's still movies on TV and even a lot of anime with Arabic dub.
@@Darkest_matter I know, said the same in the original post. Iran also has games from other sources, joke still stands.
Now I'm imagining an office full of guys wearing keffiyehs reviewing the Emoji Movie frame by frame to certify it is not haram
@@Tummamu They still have TV. In fact the WWE is huge there. When I deployed there in 2017 to train with the Saudi Army their dudes kept referencing the WWE, even giving us wrestlers nicknames.
5:36 - This sign says, "Støysone, bruk hørselvern". That's a Norwegian sign. In London. In 1953. The sign wasn't made until at the earliest 2000, but I'd say that's a 2010-or-later design.
Im norwegian! I saw it too hahah
Everything that could be brought from the future within the context of what was being used as assets on the game, pretty much was! 😂😂
Hahah, hilarious!
For anyone wondering, it says "Noise zone - Use hearing protection", and the below it says "Helmet zone - Use protective helmet". At least the spelling is accurate 😄
this makes Pyongyang Racer be the best goverment game ever
Actually it's America's Army
Pyongyang racer isnt even north korea it was made by a chinese airline company promoting travel to north korea
@@EBCgangLeader only a chinese company would make a game promoting the concept of travelling to a bootleg of their own country
wasn't pyongyang racer a flash game or something?
EDIT: Yes it is a Flash game
not gonna talk shit to Armerica whatsoever. but what he meant is about "Racing game" not games in general@@arhamkhan923
This definitelly should've been a point-and-click game as you've said. Heck, even a visual novel would've been much better, especially since the drawn cutscenes are actually decent.
>the detective thinking hes distracting the doctor and being sneaky
>the doctor appreciating the detective helping while also doing his own job
I love learning about video games outside the common American, Japanese and European circles, whether they're good or bad. Like Vietnam made a COD clone named 7554 based on the Franco-Vietnamese War, and there's a Saudi Arabian-developed Uncharted clone that made some rounds some years ago like Unearthed. They're not particularly good but I love how they can be unintentionally hilarious, and kind of endearing in how they try to punch above their weight. Knowing a bit of history of this game, being funded by the government and in context of the blatant asset flips and direct copying makes it even funnier than just your typical Steam shovelware.
That in battuta game was pretty good
Vietnam (or the company Emobi Games) even trying to made a sequel of 7554 called "300475" depicting the liberation of South Vietnam and ending the war in 1975, but later canceled due to production trouble and funding.
Word
@@Darkest_matter It's rough but undeniably endearing, especially in hindsight on how much more worse games we get nowadays on Steam, and I genuinely wish they were able to fund and make the planned sequels/follow-up episodes for it.
@@huytungnguyen119 Thanks for the info! That's a shame they never got to finish development on it, would had been an interesting premise especially as it was going to be another game done in the POV of someone you don't typically get to experience with games.
7:44 I'd place a small bet that the room is the least optimised because _each one of those books is a separate brush_ and they all get rendered at all times.
what do you mean by "brush"? They all have to get rendered every frame anyways. The problem is not rendering every frame, the main issue is how often draw()-calls are made. My guess is that they literally draw every model separately instead of utilizing e.g. hardware instancing resulting in many draw()-calls per model thus increasing latency due to bus.
And God alone knows best.
@@stati5tik just primitive shapes. Static models, if you will. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brush_(video_game)
@@stati5tikSounds like my typical algorithm at work... 🫣
@@stati5tikin quake maps, a brush is basically a 'part' like in Roblox
I know point and click games tend to have a few bizarre puzzles that really make no sense, but you'd think a studio so familiar with creating puzzles would at least be competent at it. None of the puzzles in this game made a lick of sense. Not a single one.
As a fan of adventure games, there's a certain mindset you adopt that means weird puzzles make sense in an adventure game context.
But these are so bad that they don't even make sense to me.
holy hell Smegma is here
@@eyeball226I thought the Gabriel Knight 3 cat hair puzzle wasn't entirely terrible. But some people call it responsible for the death of the genre. Well it wasn't good either.
yes swegta
Why is Sweggie here 😭
Watching the detective stand over the doctor swaying back and forth was so funny considering the content of that conversation and hovering over a dead body lol, I love these videos. How these got green lit is beyond me
I know it's awful, but the vibes are immaculate. Lynch is quaking in his boots.
LYNCH? WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?!
Nah Kane and lynch is a better game than this
@@mrjigejigLynch
The fucking movie director
@@abbas-aliibnmohammadal-nam929 oh… my bad
David Lynch could never make media as surreal as this shit
I'm an Iranian citizen. Sadly, the only game developers who get permission to publish their games are the ones that make games supporting the government's bullshit propaganda. And these government supporters aren't that smart. So... the result would be this mess of a game that as an Iranian, I didn't even know existed. We are under so much pressure from the rest of the world that we can't even legally purchase any game from steam, or any other platform for that matter. I know this pressure and all the sanctions regarding Iran are justified since the government is basically filled with corrupt people and terrorists, but it's not the citizens' fault since the majority of us are against the regime. A lot of Iranians love gaming, but we have no choice but to pirate the games that we love to play. I don't even know what the point of me saying all these things is, but I just wanted to vent, so don't mind me :)
Can't say I blame you or the people, but it's still funny to see the government shills who have not even looked at the game immediately call the video a "Western propaganda" or "Ukrainian psyops" when even people in poor countries can tell it's a PIECE OF TURD. Guess all that criticized the government-funded "game" are Ukrainian-American spies sent to "spy and destabilize Iran" or something.
Yeah you should pirate everything and enjoy what you can because there is literally no legal way to do so and the government certainly isn't going to do anything about it. Take care brother
Pirate all of that shit, if the US and thier allies wanted to make money they wouldn't use sanctions that only hurt the common people
As a student of history, I find it very ironic how the modern Iranian government exploits the memory of the 1953 coup (as in this game) in its propaganda. Mossadegh was a secularist who would’ve hated the current regime. In fact, much of the Iranian clerics supported the 1953 coup.
Get out of there, mate.
I found it particularly funny that they copied the lockpicking bit from Bethesda games, looks like they really just wanted to include as many minigames as possible. Also I really appreciate how you integrated captions into your video, so many people don't bother with captions at all but you did a great job including them in a way that enhances the content.
Nice pfp! :D
I can’t deny that the drawing cutscenes are actually decently made. Even if the writing in the speech bubbles are ruined with the 2nd most annoying font after Comic Sans.
0:18 this voice acting sounds more like "step brother im stuck... oh step brother what are u doing?? :O "
nah, ive seen hentai with better VA work than this.
Don't you dare to disrespect porn voice acting like that. This game isn't even close.
@@Anty_PrazaI have heard porn actors bust out lines so hard they could seriously give Eminem a run for his money.
Any kind of porn should always be clearly consentual content and some of it is just showing evil content
My favorite explanation is that the people who made this game actually wanted to sabotage the gouverment and just burn money.
not only is a 1986 car obviously out of place, but Caprices weren't even sold in the UK, nor does it look like a british police car
Yeah they have the black and white color of LAPD car.
I like to imagine the devs just scammed the Iranian governament
Holy shit, this game needs to be in a Just Bad Games episode!
Because It's Just Bad.
Fr fr
Dont. I just realized that his Hunt Down The Freeman episode was badly informed and made. Like using Half-Life: Source for footage of Half-Life for example.
You wanna know how bad that episode was? The lead dev of HDTF (M3SA that is) , a fan of rerez, was so disappointed with the episode that he never watched any further episode again. Thats how bad it is.
@@linkfreeman1998Don't care. Now i want a JBG episode focusing on shitty Iranian games. I want to see what Adam and Shane have to say about Driving in Tehran and Sia's oversized plum of a face working next to a cheap realistic model of a TV star.
@@linkfreeman1998M3SA ia only the lead dev of the M3SA edition, a gameplay-fix
Someone needs to remade this but with a ACTUAL budget. It has alot of potential
nigga learn how to talk properly what does "remade this" even mean
Every idea has a "lot of potential" its the execution that matters.
@@_Hamler not true at all 💀 shitty game ideas exist
@@Assfucker0001I have a question, I'm making a game called "toilet fighting simulator" on roblox. Does that have potential.
@@Assfucker0001 eh
The crazy puzzles must have been designed by Umbrella Corp 's Persian division...
Isn’t that basically the IRGC?
The problem with these foreign games is that they always tried to imitate bigger games like gta they probably would’ve made a decent indie game if they had a simple but effective idea rather than having multiple ideas that don’t work on a small budget
6:55 Bro is an awful detective, he missed a clear case of insurance fraud
Those types of videos really remind me of the Homeschooling times during the covid lockdowns where me and my friends used to gift each other terribly looking games from the xbox store all the time lmao, good times
I remember throwing rocks at my friend for no reason
1.5 calibur? As in 1.5mm? 1.5 inches? 1.5 grains? That's either ridiculously tiny or comically huge XD The dude was either shot with the firearms equivalent of a grain of rice, or some kind of anti-aircraft shell.
to be fair a grain of rice moving at 1200 fps would still hurt idk about killing though
Caliber means inches.
@@emberfist8347 So 1.5 inches in diameter? Three times the size of a .50 BMG shell? There wouldn't be a body left to examine with a shell that massive XD
@@philbateman1989 I think the video makes clear the devs know crap all.
Finally a weapon to surpass "but can it run crysis" 😂
lol
Nah
We have cities skyline 2 and alan wake 2
and ksp2@@kangsate3459
Fun fact, Iran is now making an "Iranian Call of Duty" So they will be continuing the tradition of awful Iranian made video games xD
I heard the game is called “Revenge” and the studio making the game (Kosar3D) has their own UA-cam channel and…yea the game is vehemently anti-Western.
Link (Not to promote their product, but to show this curiosity of the Iranian video game industry):
youtube.com/@kosar_3d?si=DnWja58gCbNjg2Wl
Meanwhile the people have been pirating real CODs for years
I hope there is more content like this coming, its really interesting hearing about niche games from countries outside NA or Europe or Japan
1:23 “oh my god “ lol I want to see a postal game with the postal dude & this guy.
So, this looks like Mafia, crossed over with the Peaky Blinders TV show, crossed over with GTA San Andreas, crossed over with Broken Sword, crossed over again with some weird facsimile of 1950s London. Okay. The UK also never had police cars like that at any point in history, our police cars also only have blue lights.
And to be fair, I've tried developing small games before. Third-person camera is a pain in the ass that will make you flip your desk, so my games were either top-down or first person. I never ever got third person working properly no matter what tutorials I followed and it wasn't worth the grief.
The color is wrong for the cars too.
3:14 the crash message indicates this game is made using Unity 3D
Cities Skylines, My Summer Car has same error message
9:29 are those the footstep sounds from Half-Life?
It is lmfao
2:04 you slide the newspaper under the door, and then you push the spoon in the keyhole, and the key on the other side of the door will fall on the newspaper, and you can pull it out. I think I saw that on Hercule Poirot or smth.
EDIT: okay let me take that back, literally nothing makes sense in this game.
How in the hell do you even find these gems. Also, a probably weird compliment I guess, I find your voice to be very soothing.
was a big deal in iran
@@seP4are you from Iran? Because that's actually so surprising lol especially with the content you provide.
P.S. I live west of you
ofcourse
When you told me you were from Iran I thought you were trolling me lol
@@seP4vaghan?
4:14 1.5 caliber would be equal to around 38.1mm, if my math doesn't fail me. That's a canon.
Perhaps it's 1.5 cm, which would be a strange way to measure caliber. However, there do seem to be 15mm pistols designed to fire flares intended to frighten animals. They are called Scare Guns.
Not disagreeing with you, and not suggesting the character was murdered with a firecracker, but it is funny.
@@JohnWilliamNowak i mean there are also 40mm hand held grenade launchers and flare launchers as well, so... it could work if someone shot a solid slug out of one of those, but depending on the propellant load, it would either on the lower end just really freaking hurt but not seriously injure you, or on the higher end be unlikely to puncture your skin but be powerful enough to cause internal bleeding and broken bones. (by higher end, i mean higher end that is still fireable by hand, if you get into emplaced or mounted grenade launchers there are 40mm ones that would shoot right through a person and explode on the other side)
Pretty damn sure whoever put that dialog into the game had no idea what 1.5 caliber is though, and probably thought that was a reasonable sounding size for a pistol projectile
@@JohnWilliamNowak To be fair, during WW2 some countries measured their canon caliber in CM. Soo there is at least a 0.1% chance our subject got murdered by a firecracker.
There is no way this game came out the same year as Batman Arkham Knight..
"Mum, can we get The Saboteur."
"We have the Saboteur at home."
9:15 You picked the wrong house fool !!!!
HEY,HEY,HEY,HEY,HEY ITS ME CARL, CHILL, CHILL CHILL!!
OOHH MY DAWG WHASSUP?!
@@akuaduck hey men!, whats up men?
To give them credit where credit is due, they put a lot of effort into it even though it's bad
The pause menu has more effort than the actual game 🥶🥶🥶
the artstyle was impressive, it caught me off guard
it's just the assets that are uh...poorly chosen
@@djungelskog2654I feel like they probably hired people who had just started college to make the game
Lol no
3:42 this scene killed me lmfao
There’s a tiny part of me that wants this to be adapted into a film that is doggedly faithful to the original script, just to see the detective unlock a drawer by bouncing a metal ball off of the top of the desk.
2:26 The game gives you two options and they both result in the same outcome… why does that sound familiar.
What are you referring to ?
@@Mr.Malliquin666 Most choice-based games (especially Telltale games).
I lost it at "that caliber doesn't exist," lol. Very nice video!
Going through a rough patch right now and I haven't laughed like this in a while. Thank you
Dude... I'm solo developing a game. I often feel ashamed and disappointed with my progress and results.
After seeing this, I couldn't intentionally make a game this bad IF I TRIED!
This video really made me feel much better
1:12 I mean who hasn’t done this we used to break into my friends house all the time with clean his house and then clean all the resin out of his bong smoke all the resin and then he come home and be mad that we smoked the resin, but he be surprised that his house is clean
3:44 "You know, today man is an evening daily" truly one of the greatest bits of dialogue ever.
2:42 Is that an internet Text to Speech voice modulated in post on the word "phone" to make it sound human?
All of the voices seem to be TTS
Interesting direction the channel is going but i am all for it
Your on-screen text is not only funny and adds personality, but it also makes it possible to understand you for people who can't decipher your accent.
Great idea!
As an Iranian I will apologize to any poor soul who played this game it’s just propaganda made by the government to get support for their regime within the country
Bro, IDK how you managed to get through this. Because I first discovered this after watching Vinny play this, and it was legit impossible at times to progress. You one lucky dude man...
1:46 + US cars in london 😊
😆
6:32 love how the dead guy is just an A-posing model lying flat on the table, lmao
Lol
Very appropriate that the forger lives in a forgery of Carl's house
4:57 - I like how the detective won't even take off his hat and trench coat in the bedroom...
The hat stays on during naptime (and Hospital recovery).
yakuza series also have a tiny map, but you will never notice because the story and interactions are so rich
One one the developer guys is here. Actually, they kept us in a basement, no food, no water.. I'm an ex navy seal. We had to do it..
I heard the voiceover guys had a better treatment, something like a proper toilet and food..
I'm an Iranian and I didn't even know this game existed! God! what a mess!!!
And to make matters even worse, this was funded by the Iranian government.
I’m sorry saying those graphics are ten years behind is an insult to games ten years older than it. You ain’t telling me this is on par with Forza Motorsport, NFS Most Wanted, CoD 2, Ace Combat 6, Gran Turismo 4, Project Gotham Racing 3, and F.E.A.R.
Ya left out DOOM 3 and Half Life 2, literally the other two pioneers in the graphical department from their time.
@@brawler5760 I was trying to be as specific to 2005 as possible, and those both came out in 04, but yeah, HL2 and Doom 3 trash this game
Hell, years before it, we had CRYSIS.
WAIT HOLD UP
the game JUST ENDS with you being burned alive and that's it??? 😂
it also shows some real footage from the coup and then the credits roll
@@seP4 incredibly touching end
@@TheLiquidlaneHis line about a happy ending also kinda fits. Because Iran was a military dictatorship hence the coup.
11:52 their right pupil is leaving their eye. it is escaping
Just to put this into perspective. This game was released the same year as Undertale, which was made by 2 people and a budget of roughly $51,000 through kickstarter and started development in 2013
Can’t believe there isn’t a feature to backhand your wife. So much for being historically accurate.
Calling this game 10 years behind graphicswise is an insult to crysis 1
the one nice thing i can say about this is the comic book-style cutscenes look pretty dope.
tbh as one who likes playing terrible games out of curiosity i might have to give this one a shot at some point lmao.
14:00 For those of you wondering the name of the AAA game he was talking about is, it is called "Safire Eshgh" (translates to "Ambassador of Love" in English). This is a third-person action adventure game very similar to Assassin's Creed, and the story takes place in the year 61 AH, and involves the "Mehran" of Ray, a Iranian man suffering from severe trauma. The game is very hard to purcahse as it is only available digitally on either GameUP or Hayoola, both of which are Persion / Iranian digital stores. The only way you can purcahse the game is to buy the game with Tomans, which is Iran's digital currency. And if you are unable to do that, then the only way you can experience the game is to watch videos of the game on UA-cam.
This makes cyberpunk 2077 look like a fully developed original game
That shit is so old lol cyberpunk *IS* a fully developed game, over 40gb of free added content. People still saying that are either children or unfunny tools, it's gotten worse than no mans sky memes.
@@myoak108 Cyberpunk is still garbage, the writing, voice acting, and open world are bad. Choices mean jack shit too. Thank god we got Baldur's Gate 3, now THAT is an RPG.
Baldur's Gate 3 had bear sex, gtfo creep. Its nowhere near a good game.@@BenDaGoat
@@BenDaGoat You don't have a clue what you're talking about
But the important part is someone got their kickback for the game after providing their best buddy government funds for the development. Thanks for playing this wreck and taking it for the team!
8:04 - Ahhh nice and warm
I sure do love steam melting my face!
When the government mixes up in making and providing a product or service for the people, it always fails.
"1.5 caliber" bro got hit with a whole ass cannon
I love this series of yours about Iranian games! Keep going!
Did they... Just use the face model of Assassins Creed 3 William Miles for the detective?? I swear to god they looks exactly the same.
How is this game better than driving in tehran
It functions sometimes
12:32 "But suddenly, a Postal guy appeared out of nowhere"
9:35 this is set in the 1950ies? cause that cam looks like it's from the 1850ies.
This reminds me of the assignment that requires more than 3 weeks to complete and the fact that I just done it within an hour...
That is the most AI npc voice acting in the world 💀✋
Sounds like text to speech
@@kittymyths1208They probably didn't even get real voice actors. If these are real voice actors, they have to be actual damn robots
Purely out of curiosity, knowing his local knowledge, is Sepi himself from Iran? Really enjoying these videos into the depths of unknown video games!
>makes videos about iranian products
>visits real life locations in iran
>has sh!tty iranian accent
"nah bro hes from italy"
1.5 caliber, eh? So... a pistol who's bore is 3 times the width of a .50 Desert Eagle. A bore that fat in a "handgun" is called a grenade launcher, since we're very close to 40mm at that caliber.
Cracked up at 9:22 🤣
If that's what a Government funding game look like, I wonder what happens when I rely on grant money from the Government to work on an animation project... Let alone meeting some "Animators" who promised to complete their project(s) but instead ran off with the grant money... Not gonna name anyone. Not gonna say who...😑
After five minutes: seems like a point and click game concept that some big brained manager forced into a shitty GTA clone.
10:28 called it.
This has the 2000s video game aesthetics that I really like. Shame that with bit more budget this game would have been decent. Maybe someone can do a redux on this game.
True, actually game seems packed with stuff it's just maybe not 100% finish
Keep making video about you explaining worst games Cause your content is hilarious. Thx for making my day😂
دمت گرم داداش کارت خیلی درسته، قربون حوصله ای که داری برای این بازیها.
I remember that in 2009 maybe, Polish distribution house IQ Publishing released Iranian game "Garsharp: The Monster Slayer". Not bad, not good also, something like 5/10, but compared to Dark Year(s) is like masterpiece
Dude... this hurts to watch! WTF It's amazing how this was a pass for a videogame. It's just all SLAPPED ON content and after something so minor caught my eye there is another stolen asset from San Andreas too other than CJ's house. At 10:20 I just had realized something that looked so familiar to me. You can see that the cars all use the Blista Compact wheel texture with just a darkened color lmao
You tried harder on the video than the creators of the big-budget game (probably) by adding as many as two types of subtitles, so I watched the video without any problems...Thank you
I can't ignore the fact that the detective's wife and the dead journalists wife have the same character model, only recolored (no cosmetic changes, just recolored). Is she cheating with a dead man?
I can’t get over how bad the models look even compared to everything else in the game. The other characters like passable for 2005. The wifes look
Like they need to go back to the M64
Some people dig the 2000s graphics aesthetic, the problem is voice acting, gltiches, writing, and controls
All things considered, the idea of the game's setting and plot sound fascinating.
A murder mystery involving the corrupt era of the Shah of Iran and the British involvement sounds like it'd be an excellent thriller plot. Twists, turns, discerning who to trust, who to mislead, it all sounds like it'd be excellent in the right hands.
Not gonna lie, the comic style cutscenes looks cool. But yeah the rest of the gameplay is terrible.