discussion why do so many have something against RPGM?

[conzibald]

ease of use and access combined with having played too many where the engine wasnt utilised such as playing say a renpy vn but you gotta manually walk around town to each person to just read then rinse and repeat with no game at all. or ones were it is just thrown in there to be a game but no thought or design behind it. combinde that with me having little money and there are places where people can upload their games and such for others to play for free meant i played alot of them years ago.

 

[Naxos]

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.

I never used to really mind rpgm engine, but the more games I played the more I game to dislike it it.

The TLDR - can't save when I want, is slow and crashes too much for me.

The did read:

The number one reason for me, is not being able to save when I want to. Add to that. most rpgm games have the map mode you can save on then, will jump into a 3dg scene which takes a few minutes and often present a choice in the middle of that scene. If you want to pick a different option, you have to replay from the last save, sit through several minutes of dialogue and slow scenes you can't skip or speed up to get to that choice again.

The other reason is I often have rpgm games just freeze for no apparent reason in the middle of scenes. They become totally unresponsive and I have to ctrl+alt+del and end task or if I'm lucky they will respond to f5. Load up the last save and they're fine again for hours. Just a total random lockup but it happens a lot.

Last for me is I get crashes when a sound file is missing or an image file is missing or misnamed. In renpy you get and error and can ignore it and carry on, but rpgm gets stuck in error message death loop or ctd's.

 

[email1000]

My issue with RPGM is two fold. 1st the controls and UI are terrible and second, unpacking the images is a hassle.

 

[penny0x]

Some Rpgm games have old ass gameplay that can turn u away. I prefer rpgm game with simple exploration (with speed mod) & finding new NPCs to interact with them, easy to progress story & multiple paths.

 

[stangnomez]

Because despite what we like to say we don't actually want gameplay in our visual erotica. By its design, RPGM pushes extra work on us to get to the story. Sometimes the ludonarrative of this can enhance the experience, but much more often it breaks the flow.

 

[Franek60]

yeah i feel like people want to get porn element in game, running around pressing buttons is not something you want to waste time on

 

[4all]

if we are talking about porn games, it is simply because renpy is more convenient for such content. RPGM is not convenient to play with one hand)))

 

[bulliedhealer]

Most RPGM adult games I have played were horrible. I'll stick with renpy games.

 

[anyplay]

A lot of garbage is made with it so you have to filter between the good and bad

 

[zouxin]

Because it's hard to play with one hand, I even need the joystick

 

[hiuyt]

usually rpgm games have a long grind, i guess that what makes people hate it rpgm game, so much to do just to see some h scene

 

[capt21]

There isn't enough good ones but the games from Nlt Media are great !

 

[ツSisterSexualシ]

LonaRPG, Ruins Seeker, The Shimmering Horizon and Cursed Blacksmith are great, it depends on the dev's skill to optimize and utilize the performance and quality of the game engine

 

[Gumshoe]

Too tideious when you just want to choke the chicken

 

[catman290]

bad UI, learn the map, traversing is a bother, requires following a guide most of the times,

 

[nishaven]

Most of the time I find it unnecessary, just used to increase the gameplay time. Downright impossible to solve the puzzles without walkthrough or a lot of trial and error.

 

[menalaos]

I just wanna play VNs, I'm not really super interested in having gameplay in my porn.

 

[Rogaldorn777]

RPGMs are good for rpg/jrpg games. Not so much for AVNs in my opinion.

 

[Paiopony]

For me, too much roaming

 

[Aka123]

For me they're too time consuming to get to the good stuff.