Does anyone else not buy games made with RPG Maker?

[therob]

As someone who used to use RPG Maker back in the day, I've never bought an RPG Maker made game (sans those found in bundles that I was buying for other games in said bundles) because I felt like why would I buy a game I could probably just make on my own? You know?

[darkcape]

I was just browsing for games made with RPG Maker before heading on over to discussions! I've got this nostalgic itch to scratch and I would definitely give a game with a good story a go. I'd take the chance too because everyone has their own imagination to pour into such games; the risk is minimized further when the game is on sale for less than fifty cents!

[Crimson Hog]

引用自 therob：

because I felt like why would I buy a game I could probably just make on my own? You know? :louie:

Because you did not make it.

[Cherrycat]

引用自 therob：

As someone who used to use RPG Maker back in the day, I've never bought an RPG Maker made game (sans those found in bundles that I was buying for other games in said bundles) because I felt like why would I buy a game I could probably just make on my own? You know? :louie:

Same applies to unreal engine? if you're competent with it.

Point is, most aren't or don't want to put that kind of effort in. You're paying for the effort others put in, what it was made with doesn't matter if it's well made.

[Tacred]

I dont buy them since RPG maker games live and die by their story. And most of those stories are bland and amateurish. Thrilling gameplay mechanics and RPG maker are 2 things you dont often hear in the same sentence.

[B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t]

I buy them here and there because I love RPGs and sure they are all mostly the same but they are not the much usually so I don't mind spending some on them if they have cards/achievements.

[Tito Shivan]

引用自 therob：

because I felt like why would I buy a game I could probably just make on my own? You know? :louie:

Interesting take. But kind of wrong.

A camera just takes pictures. But not every cameraman is a photographer. Sounds like you're preemptively dismissing someone's job because of the tool they use.

[Kargor]

Does anyone else not buy games made with RPG Maker?

Yeah, it's one of those quick shortcuts to evaluate a game. I don't care whether it's made with RPG maker or not -- if it has this look then that's it, case closed.

[PocketYoda]

No because its 2019 if i wanted pixel crap i'd play my intellivision..

引用自 Raelic：

I don't. I've been tempted before, but I don't. Maybe if I had faith in them using some interesting plug ins I may. If I could make a game with mechanics similar to Suikoden 1 or 2 I'd totally do that, but apparently there aren't plug ins for that yet and I'm not good enough.

Maybe after I get through my nearly 100 game backlog I'll consider.

^This if i could make games on the scale of Suikoden and Front mission 2 i'd be all over Maker but its so basic and frankly limited i don't, also the fact it requires coding and a lot can't do that..

[chaoticenigma]

I tend to be a bit picky with it, but I don't just outright not buy because of RPGMaker/Gamemaker whatever other gamemaking software.

I do have a few lower effort RPGMaker games that were really cheap, but generally I'd stick to the more popular ones.

If I didn't buy stuff just because it was RPGMaker, I would have never played stuff like



https://store.steampowered.com/app/206440/To_the_Moon/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/337340/Finding_Paradise/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/559210/Rakuen/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/520910/Kokurase__Episode_1/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/420530/OneShot/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/335670/LISA/


I'll stop there.

Note: I haven't actually played OneShot yet(should sometime) or finished LISA.


You'd also be disqualifying stuff that is wrongly tagged with RPGMaker. Alicemare and LiEat are Wolf RPG Editor but are tagged as RPGMaker. Cthulu Saves the World and Breath of Death VII are done in XNA(they are ports of XBLIG games which used XNA) but are also wrongly tagged as RPGMaker.

[Rens Agatha ⁧【レンス】]

引用自 therob：

As someone who used to use RPG Maker back in the day, I've never bought an RPG Maker made game (sans those found in bundles that I was buying for other games in said bundles) because I felt like why would I buy a game I could probably just make on my own? You know? :louie:

Theres are some best game made by rpg maker like the list above. Surely theres also lots of bad game or money grab game created by rpg maker and normally they're owned by china and russian people. with broken english and some "Hentai" anime girl and some weird people buying it just because of that....

[PocketYoda]

引用自 Rens Agatha：

引用自 therob：

As someone who used to use RPG Maker back in the day, I've never bought an RPG Maker made game (sans those found in bundles that I was buying for other games in said bundles) because I felt like why would I buy a game I could probably just make on my own? You know? :louie:

Theres are some best game made by rpg maker like the list above. Surely theres also lots of bad game or money grab game created by rpg maker and normally they're owned by china and russian people. with broken english and some "Hentai" anime girl and some weird people buying it just because of that....

Why are you considered weird if you like porn?

[Kargor]

引用自 chaoticenigma：

If I didn't buy stuff just because it was RPGMaker, I would have never played stuff like

The problem isn't RPGMaker; it's Steam.

With Steam not curating anything, the platform is flooded with trash. As a secondary effect, we keep seeing trash bundles as well, and sales with thousands of trash on sale.

This where shortcuts come in, at least for me: if it looks "retro" I just ditch it. With this, you can quickly go through a list of games and be done with it in mere seconds. Although, for sales with "thousands of trash", I completely ignore them and leave it to the waitlist. OK, I might look at a frontpage, if the sale has one.

If there's anything good among these, it's basically their own fault to make it look like the other trash. However, even though there isn't much in terms of games media (which is why loosing TB was a real blow, even though he's just one guy), they'll just have to wait until word reaches me some other way, to tell me about a game that looks like trash but isn't.

[Nightlight]

I buy games that I find myself interested in, if a game I'm interested in happens to be made with RPG Maker then so be it, that by itself won't stop me from buying it.

引用自 capedark：

I was just browsing for games made with RPG Maker before heading on over to discussions! I've got this nostalgic itch to scratch and I would definitely give a game with a good story a go. I'd take the chance too because everyone has their own imagination to pour into such games; the risk is minimized further when the game is on sale for less than fifty cents!

If you don't mind me recommending a couple:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/440540?snr=2_9_100006__apphubheader

Keep in mind, Ara Fell is going to be updated to an "Enhanced Edition" here soon, so if you do end up buying it you may want to hold off on actually playing it until that update comes out.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/354740?snr=2_9_100000__apphubheader

[American Dove Mitten]

I buy RPG maker games all the time

Like with any software, the quality, aesthetic and story of the game depends on the effort that developer puts in the game, not the program.

[Carrenal]

I do buy them but I always compare them with the rpgmaker games that I played years before they got really popular. Back in the day there was a very active german community and the very first game that I played, for free, was Vampires Dawn (RPGmaker 200 or xp). So whenever I play one of the newer rpgmaker (or similar) games I always compare those to Vampires Dawn and frankly, there are many low effort examples. As I myself dabbled a bit in my spare time I tend to get dissatisfied quite easily. It's a bit similar to my problem with rpgs in general nowadays. Nothing get's close to Baldurs Gate or Fallout if you get my drift