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Still a hard No from people incharge.
I guess this is the reason for all of them being in the same building set.
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The Middle East/Arabic architecture style is based on Moorish architecture and Abbasid architecture.
Which are more beige colored with colorful lines, those colorful lines are neatly represented by the player colors on the buildings.
Sorry for spam posting, but i guess it is necessary to give examples.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Islamic-arts/Safavid-art
There are way more good examples for the Moorish architecture style to be “western” instead of Middle Eastern. It is more originated in Morrocco, Spain, Tunis, Sicily and Egypt. Than it is for the “Middle East”.
Yes Arabic sure, just like how we have a civ called Saracens.
It is a stereotype, and the architecture style is probably used because it is very well known.
But for the Iranians and Turks the central asian architecture style is theirs. Not the Moorish architecture.
Thus we could say we have a divide between western and eastern architecture. I can’t even call it muslim or arabic architecture, because the iranian inspiration is ancient from before the Achaemenids.
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Don’t be. I’m saving all of them on my PC. Very beautiful pictures!
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Iranians yes, but Turks in the game are primarily Anatolian/Ottoman coded. If they ever get an architecture change it should probably go in the opposite direction, making them more similar to Byzantines. Or something like a “Western Steppe”/“Pontic” set for Turks, Huns, and Cumans.
Or “Baroque Turkish” haha but thats more AOE3 timeframe
I posted some ideas how Western and Eastern Steppe architecture sets could look like in another thread:
The Middle Eastern Architecture set needs to be refreshed. It is so drab and uninspiring.
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A bit more color perhaps?
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It’s the one I like the least from Pre-HD. Meso needs a lot more color as well, and less plants covering the buildings.
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Yep. Other than Guard Tower, Keep/BBT, Castle Age TC, Castle/Imperial Age Houses and Stable I find everything bland.
Fully agree with this. So drab and lacking in the ornateness of the Central Asian set which was a stunning job. The best in my view.
The Meso set is another one which looks really bad now. Needs brightening up and now we have the Aztec Pantheon and building set in AOMR to draw inspiration from.
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could be like in this castle reskin mod by Juggernaut8704 / Hodorigo,
dark brown → terracotta
arabesque ornaments
while keeping the original shapes intact for the most part
Although I like middle eastern feudal style as it currently is.
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i would also love that, to have way more stripes and colors on the buildings
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I’ve seen people say the OG European sets are also lacking in color compared to how they would look when lived in. If that’s true I’m all for coloring them as well.
Thevthing is that the Middle Eastern style is very persian infouenced, because its Abbasid-based (?)
For me it’s a bit of “generic Middle East North Africa” style, which evolved from a mix of ancient Arab, Levantine, Mesopotamian, and Egyptian styles.
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