[POLL] RPG MAKER USERS: WHICH ENGINE DO YOU USE THE MOST THESE DAYS?

In the 20 years since RPGMaker 2000 I'm surprised no one just decided to recreate the engine as is (avoiding any kind of copyright/IP issues) and then just open source it. I get that there's always been people attempting to make their own competitor and have failed due to the logistics of how hard it is to make an engine, however most of them try to innovate or do their own thing and I think that leads to ambition beyond what RM2000/3 ended up reliably being. After all RPGMaker has basically been remaking itself up to this point, just without some assumptions rm2k/3 has.

I guess I say this due to all the video game HD remakes coming out lately where it seems to be that using the original software as a blueprint to follow to a T tends to get projects done and are reliably a safe bet. Remastered ports require a lot of reverse engineering and are typically finnicky and weird and even emulation stuff has its pitfalls too.

The amount of effort put into dynRPG and easyRPG feels like a time consuming workaround although easyRPG is probably a way for preservation to be ideal. They both feel things made to be ontop of rm2k3 more than anything. Idk it's weird that there hasn't been an answer despite continued use of rm2k3 to this day.

author=Darken
In the 20 years since RPGMaker 2000 I'm surprised no one just decided to recreate the engine as is (avoiding any kind of copyright/IP issues) and then just open source it. I get that there's always been people attempting to make their own competitor and have failed due to the logistics of how hard it is to make an engine, however most of them try to innovate or do their own thing and I think that leads to ambition beyond what RM2000/3 ended up reliably being. After all RPGMaker has basically been remaking itself up to this point, just without some assumptions rm2k/3 has.

I guess I say this due to all the video game HD remakes coming out lately where it seems to be that using the original software as a blueprint to follow to a T tends to get projects done and are reliably a safe bet. Remastered ports require a lot of reverse engineering and are typically finnicky and weird and even emulation stuff has its pitfalls too.

The amount of effort put into dynRPG and easyRPG feels like a time consuming workaround although easyRPG is probably a way for preservation to be ideal. They both feel things made to be ontop of rm2k3 more than anything. Idk it's weird that there hasn't been an answer despite continued use of rm2k3 to this day.

+1, I think part of it has to do with the fact that JRPGs just really aren't all that popular in western speaking communities. But we have had peeps like SmokingWolf create rpgmaker2000 games only to then go onto create the Wolf RPG editor. These efforts are out there, but in some cases, we just don't know about them yet, cause they're just not in English yet.

author=kentona
RMN Maker 2020

Final Fantasy Dog 2 will be a system exclusive.

author=Yellow Magic
Those of you using VX Ace, have you tried MV or MZ? If so, any particular reason(s) you prefer VX Ace?

Doesn't lag, more assets, and have used longer.
Why move to another engine that does the same things when I can use Ace?
What I wanted from an engine was to go in a different direction with the battle system. Until that happens, there's no reason to get a newer engine to make a turn based RPG.

That's one reason I bought Pixel Game Maker MV. It at least does something very different.

2K3 GANG LETS FUCKIN GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Marrend
I liked MZ well enough during the Trials of MZ event. My comment here outlines some of my thoughts.

I don't necessarily prefer Ace over using MZ. It's just that I basically can't afford to buy MZ at $80. If 2020 was any other year, I probably would have picked it up after the Trials of MZ event. Or, if I knew I'd be interested it before that event, I would probably have picked it up during it's initial offering, when it was, like, 50% off.

So it goes, I suppose.

I really liked MZ, too, and I don't see myself being able to afford it for a long time.

I'm permanently going to stick with RPGMV.

PS: Where do I find plugins for RPGMV? I would like the following : battle system, and fogs.

I used to work exclusively in VX Ace, which is honestly a fantastic engine and I can't tell you how happy I was to discover I had control over damage formulas and status effects. Seriously, it was such a step up from RMXP.

Now, I've migrated over to MV completely (aside from my one remaining long-term project in VXAce). MV is pretty much just "Ace, but more" at this point, and the whole 3D Plugin is just beautiful and I love it.

Not to mention, FINALLY, a character creator tool that's ACTUALLY good. Praise Mod, you have no idea how fantastic it is to have that.

I don't see myself moving to MZ for quite some time. I'm more than happy with MV, and I hope I can actually get more stuff out in it.

As for the other engines, I've poked around them enough to get a feel for them, and...

2K and 2K3 are just too oldschool and limiting for me (ESPECIALLY 2K. Just the one short game I made in it was already really tricky to design), and RMXP, while pretty, feel VERY gimped in the combat engine department compared to VXAce and newer.

I use Rm2k with Destiny Patch since 2013, but today I'm also interested to use DynRPG on Rm2k3.