discussion why do so many have something against RPGM?

[User_31927]

RPGM games feel like super nintendo games.
no thanks, i played that when i was a kid.

 

[Deleted member 98043]

Most RPGM games force keyboard controls which are annoying to deal with

 

[Cement]

They don't have a fast-foreward button .

 

[Republican Bear]

Easy the grind ruins them for adult games. You spends hours just to get badly drawn art.

Now having said that there are some good RPGMaker games.

 

[ec2neat]

quite a few game i enjoy came from RPGM, the Sequel games, a lot of kagura games, MGQ paradox. to name a few i am curious to see why they get a lot of hate compared to other engines.

Honestly I agree I also am curious

 

[Shawnchapp]

As stated above, RPGM is outdated in more facets than one. Even if we ignore the graphics, a few simple examples I can remember off the top of my head are:

• Keyboard controls are honestly awful in a lot of RPGM games. They not intuitive and clunky
• As someone who likes to mod their games, skip unnecessary grind mechanics, add new features, etc. It is very hard to mod RPGM games compared to RenPy. With RenPy you can essentially get the original source code back and do anything you want with it.
• RenPy is also very extensible. You can, if you want, implement new game mechanics that haven't been thought of by the engine developers. Even if most games don't bother to do so. Think of mini-games or interesting UI interfaces (like in Photo Hunt or Zeno's Anthology).

A game like Summer's Gone that sets up a unique atmosphere through its sound design and UI would have never been possible on RPGM for instance.

Honestly pretty much this

 

[GoblinsLayer]

games from NLT Media like treasure of nadia does their stuff well, that cant be said for a decent chunk of other rpgm

grind, fetch quest, battle, no skip, cant remember or know where to process are all factors that make it less enjoyable
honestly the same reasons why i dislike certain type of sandbox games as well

 

[MattShizzle]

It's also apparently easy to use, so a lot of devs with no skill whatsoever can make games on it. Even non-adult games it's bad for, but for adult games it's terrible.

 

[Navri]

While some RPGM games are not that bad, for me personally it is the tediousness. Lets take Sword princess Sistina for example. You have to birth a child in this one. You want a specific father for it. You go bang him, then go to the port, cutscene of the ship, land, walk all the way to the clinic, give birth, realize the child is not the right one, go back to the port, ship cutscene, go to the guy and bang him once more. This loop can repeat endlessly. And quite a lot of RPGM games are like this. Its even worse if you have to grind battles in order to get levels in order to get past one annoying boss in order to progress to new zones. At that point I simply use saveeditor.

 

[Onion1sgood]

My favorite RPGM game "The Last Sovereign" made so I like to give RPGM games a chance. Now "The Last Sovereign" does have a porn game premise, and does have sex scenes, but it is more like a story that just happens to have sex.

 

[ukalias]

Usually RPGM games have a lot of griding, walking back and forth, and not the greatest art, I just seem to prefer Renpy. There are some RPGM games I love for example NLT games Lust epidemic and especially treasure of nadia.

 

[User_102802]

it gets boring and repetitive asf super fast unless it's a super well made rpgm with amazing art and voiced

 

[Bloodheart]

rpgm or ren'py both are pretty good in my opinion as long as the people behind it actually try do get them working.

 

[MattShizzle]

RPGmaker is total shit no matter what. Just the map system alone, and its graphics from 35+ years ago makes it garbage. Let alone decent devs wouldn't touch it with a 45 foot pole.

 

[User_3317]

'A Struggle With Sin' is my favorite game, it's RPGM and I love every bit of it. If a dev knows the ins and outs and can work a less popular engine while still making it work i'm all for it.

 

[affeimzoo]

I think the controls are just horrible in RPGM compared to renpy

 

[DonnyTheDonDon]

Honestly the mechanics are boring, they are often grindy and repetitive and take too long

 

[User_76996]

Rpg maker can be good but after awhile its gits repetitive after playing many different games with the same engine weather it be XP, VX/VXAce, or MV/MZ. Not all but some RPG Maker games would be better ether in Renpy or Unity engine, in my honest opinion.

 

[User_62717]

I don't know what type I dislike more, RPGM or sandbox games. Both are usually too much grinding that makes the story/actions convoluted, for no reason. The only game I didn't mind was Special Request, but even that developer realized renpy was better and remade it.

 

[holmes1]

well..... I don't want to play with both hands