I don't understand, why you guys hate rpgm so much, what is interesting for example in renpy? It's just clicking and image checking... It's another image viewer -"windows photo viewer" is even better.
Of course if creator is using RPGm as walking simulator it can be boring but most of creators knows how to use that engine- they are making internaction, fights etc.
Are you trolling or what?
I can only tell you why i am sceptical about the rpgm engine.
1: Time wasters.
Games are ment to be played.
However alot of games has meaningless combat and pointless walking(grind).
In my experiance alot of rpgm games are either walking simulators or have combat that does nothing else but drag out the game.
Renpy skips the entire 5-10 min wasted walking and fighting added to the story.
Rpgm isnt the only one guilty of this.
But i have come to see the term rpgm as:
Adding alot of stuff that exist purly to drag the game out.
A good game makes every action mean something.
A bad game has you repeat the same action over and over again.
There are also bad renpy games.
2: Looking like a game build in 1995.
Now i know grapics arent everything but steam has left a bad taste in my mouth when it comes to so many amauter cash grabs who make games that has been done before and have been done beter.
While it is free on f95zone, plenty of games dare ask money while being worse then a game made 20 years ago.
It makes me look at rpgm as a warning sign.
A sign of the developer not knowing what there doing and probley going to end up wasting my time.
3: Finding the trigger.
Finding the trigger the leads to the next story is an other waste of time.
It is useally something that only makes sense in the mind of the developer.
Worse is when you can only move on with the story if you behave exactly in a way that the developer intented.
It is the same reason i hate visual novals who pretend to give you choices(branching paths dont count as choice)
It isnt that rpgm is bad.
It is that we see very few that accauly manage to find the right balance between gameplay and story progression.
This is true for all games.
Renply has a reputation of several good games.
Rpgm has a repuation of wasting players time.
And that is why i dont trust rpgm.
I want the time i spend playing a game to be spend playing.
Not wasting.
It is a hard balance to find.