FUNKY_GUN'S PROFILE

author=LockeZ
So dfw necroposted in a 15 month dead topic just to ask f-g an unrelated question. For the love of god, dont follow up by ignoring him and talking about the original topic.

This is like the RMN alternative to SW. lol.

So say you where looking through newly submitted games and all of a sudden you see a game that look decent but the only way to find out of course is to download it.

but then you see the game is over 1GB in size.

Would you still download the game to check it out or would the large file size make you do a 360 and moonwalk away?

No one of the heroes had like an afro and the whole world was like 5 color mixed with the rtp and they fought off oval looking creatures or something.

Someone made a comment that he forgot to put something in the game to get off the first map or something it was hilarious.

A few months ago i believe.

author=Darken

author=LockeZ
I won't ever apologize for taking game design or anything else "too seriously." If you don't have any passion in life, you will lead a boring and miserable and... well, passionless existance.

I'm... pretty sure sitting at a desk 24/7 on some FF4 clone maker would be a boring life style lol.

I just see RPG Maker as some art project that you do every now and then. Back when I was 12 it was my dream come true, but now RPG Maker is losing its importance, not just in my attention but like... in general. There are so many better game dev programs out there and it's getting easier and easier to make games. No one cares about RPG Maker anymore except for a few vets/12yrolds that persist. That's reality.

It's just a fucking program made by some japanese guys who wanted to make money off of FF7 fanboys. Please don't die over it.

interesting now let me tell you why I almost quit just for bonding the connections... yeah.

Everything was fine and dandy, 200 was alright but when 2003 came out there was so much you could do! The animated 3rd-person battle system, the animations, the commends, the variety, the rtp was not a piece of crap, it was mazing.

Then XP came out and Idiotbrain decided "Hmm, our fans liked 2003 and that one before it that was not directly involved by us."

"Oh really?"

"I have an idea, why not take out everything that made 2003 popular, throw it away, change everything, and charge a wealth load of money and have almost no script support except when it's made by themselves!"

"Why we are at it, let's remove the 3rd-party battle system entirely, not make it and option, and use a first-person limited perspective!"

"Brilliant! Also but we only have 5 good tilesets"

"Ah, we can throw the other 40 together in a few seconds they won't notice."

"Haha! genious that you are! And let's make it so they can only use 1 AT ONE TIME FORCING THEM TO USE OUR SHITY SHIT SHIT!"

"Wonderful idea! and let's add that to the price!!!"

"MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY, oh and MONEY!!!"

"HAHAHAHAHAHA!

So after eventually sorting out those problems VX came out.

"Hey people are actually using our program for good!"

"What!? This is no good on many crappy poportions!'

"I have an idea, they like having customization right?"

"Yeah?"

"Well why not change all the character sets to be closer together and make them all cutesey lolsy and make the facesets have the most crap expressions ever!"

"But, they can edit those sprite!"

Ah, but if we have a bright cutsey tileset with it then any other sprite will clash with it unless they decide to make a cutsey looking characters in their games!'

"HA! But to further your plan, why not make them only use ONE TILE AT A TIME LIKE BEFORE?!"

"One tileset? Ha, why not have EVERYTHING IN ONE SET then all the INTERIOR in another so there is no variety like before!"

"Genious! But we make it so that they can add only ONE MORE!"

"ONlY ONE? The evil genius is genius!"

"We can also make the encryption program itself be a big file size for inconvenience!"

"Ahh but we make it so that if there are 50 events in a mpa over 100x100 extreme lag!"

"Amazing, I am glad we are such smart people!"

"Ah let's limit the database to. In fact let's take out a whole crap load of it including adding title screen. You must now name a file title for it to work. Only one!"

"The amazing amazingness is amazing!"

"Ahh but let's screw the default learning curves as well."

Oh and let's not add 3rd person battling as an option AGAIN!"

"Oh yes, the fans will love this. This is simply our best work.

"Let's also only slightly improve our script system so people can barely get what they want like isometric, certain battle systems, and 3d."

"Ha! That's so helpful let's add it to the BILL!"

"Oh we may need to improve security after that keygen incident."

"Yes! Increase the file size of the encrypter, the installer, and all the stuff in the installer!"

"This will definitely make them not want to hack our software!"

Then IG maker came out

"Ahh, no body wants our awesome VX sauce!"

"I have an idea. Let's make a program that can do 2 different genre's!

"What!?"

"Plat forming and action rpg!"

"But can't XP and VX already do the second one?"

"uhhh shhh, they don't know that!"

"Genious!"

"Ok, so now what about the other genre?"

"Let's take the trial version of the first game factory that came out years ago. Wait, how about Game maker 3!"

"Genious, and if we combine it with VX advanced graphic, downgrade them, and make everything automatic so you can barely edit how the game will play..."

"We will have the best platformer creator in centuries!"

"HAHAHAHA!"

But since we are limiting everything with no variety and little to no customization, it's not much."

"Yes, take that Gamemaker 4 shooter example, replace it with our wonderful VX sprites of a space ship and allow very little customization!"

"Wonderful.. It's...*sniff* bautiful!"

"3 genre's in one engine!? Obviously we must charge this higher then VX!"

"What!? Only 2 x higher? That's a deal right there!"

Yes, but I believe we need something for the VX users as well so they keep using VX."

"An expansion pack?!"

"Genious! We will claim it make VX totally different and they will pay over $20 to buy it like the smart people they are!"

"Uh, wait back to IG maker. What about teh security?!"

"Teh security you say?! Well obviously we need to make the installer 3 x bigger so people are discouraged to get it for 3. because if we but crap in, but make the file large, they will think the program has eerything they need!"

"Ah yess MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY, and uh, MONEY!"


Yeah, that was very close to the line all those things above.

author=KingArthur

VX was disliked at first because it was lower resolution, had tileset limitations, and the database was extremely lacking compared to XP. Look at where VX is now.

To pick this apart:

Resolution: In-game resolution is dictated by the scripts and is easily changed. Consequently, this is a moot point. I will say that adding fugly black borders to instantly make a game 640x480 is nothing but epic fail, though.

Tileset/Chipset Limitations: Still one of the core issues many people have with RMVX, even with all those chipset swappers now available. Nothing avoids the fact that RMVX's map editor is a needlessly limiting piece of utter shit and nothing states this better than the sentiment presented in this topic.

Database: I thought this was actually an advancement from RMXP because Noteboxes, but I'm not a full-time scripter so I won't go further.

So before people say that Ace will just be junk wrapped in beautiful wrapping paper

Only problem is that it actually is, assuming sprite makers and minor DBS modifications are the primary additions to VX Ace. They address absolutely nothing that the users have a beef with. I'm sure we all want to be proven wrong, but then there's RMVX's Shitty Map Editor(tm) and IGM. RGSS3 is potentially interesting, but we've yet to see it so I personally will defer judging that until later.

Which sadly is exactly why the following will happen:

-The fans will be pissed that they made no actual upgrades.
-Dumbassbrain will overcharge at click team prices for the product.
-They will lie about features not even there.
-They will try to make it hard to crack.
-Then once again a person will find out or the 4th time they have just copy and pasted a crappy editor and realize the rpg maker xp keygen works on this to. For the forth time.
-All of the people who pay for it (probably me and you) will be dissapointed.
-Everyone elses will get it free.
-Idiotbrain will lose money.
-Idiotbrain will cry about how they are losing money with an "upgraded program"
-they will do the same thing again.


Honestly, VX has way too many problems to list.

Also didn;t they just releases that $20 dollar japanese tileset pack that came with 10 monsters, 5 new tiles (wow) and like 5 characters? lol really?

Also, IG maker has absolutely no support. Too bad visually IG maker just looks like VX ut used in other genres. Which basically is hat it is.