- Aug 11, 2017
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RPGM is the scourge of the Earth. It is an overrated game development tool which seriously needs custom scripts/plugins or whatever they're called in each version for some quality of life. But the real problem is that people use it even if they don't want to do a JRPG, which leads to many potentially good games being hindered by the engine being tailored to that purpose. I personally kind of hate RPGM at a deep level, it's just inflexible, it hits you in the face with the whole stubborness of forcing you to go through slow dialogue boxes and too much keystrokes to get even simple fights going.That could be but I can't really figure out why they thought that... then again, I have a feeling that switch to Ren'py was due to all of those people whining (sometimes with reason, but mostly without one) about RPGMaker.
Problem is, most of the RPGM games that people complain about should not be made in RPGM to begin with and use less than 10% of RPGM resources.
Ren'Py has the same issue with people trying to build space stations out of a visual novel engine, but at least Ren'Py is capable of more general purpose stuff due to being more open as a tool.
I think that KoD would be far worse on RPGM, imagine all the walking around to get any stuff done... the catgirl investigation and the white hind hunt would've been nightmares of lost time wandering around the woods. Not to mention that playing through the game multiple times would be hellish without Ctrl-ing your way through thousands of lines of dialogue. I think Ren'Py provides the right framework to get the kind of story KoD has running without bullshit and allows for a gamestyle beneficial to the genre, which is less about the grinding and fighting and more about choices and intrigue.
This doesn't mean all RPGM games are necessarily bad, but using it to build a game means that the game must be heavily tailored around the inconveniences and strong points of a JRPG framework, which is far less flexible than the one Ren'Py provides for visual novels.
Besides, Ren'Py is more easily opened apart and modded =^)