The Golden Age of Game Making?

[Avai]

Golden Age huh?
I would have to say RPG Maker 2 (PS2) era's was a (unnoticed?) one. It was the first RPG Maker to include 3D graphics, and all in all it looked like a 3D version of VX. It included scripts, and seeing that most of the stuff needed people to program stuff into the scripts, it encouraged LEARNING!! A lot of creative stuff could be recreated with RPG Maker 2 (I think some one on youtube mimicked Final Fantasy Tatics with it). But seeing that there was no real way of sharing your game with the internet (well not supported by Enterbrain anyway) this sadly went unnoticed (except for a crapload of videos on YouTube).

[Holkeye]

Phh, console rpg makers are stupid.

[Avai]

Phh, console rpg makers are stupid.

Though some PC makers could learn a thing or too from them.
(Like encoruaging the use of scripts like RPG Maker 2 did)

[Revo]

Golden Age huh?
I would have to say RPG Maker 2 (PS2) era's was a (unnoticed?) one. It was the first RPG Maker to include 3D graphics, and all in all it looked like a 3D version of VX. It included scripts, and seeing that most of the stuff needed people to program stuff into the scripts, it encouraged LEARNING!! A lot of creative stuff could be recreated with RPG Maker 2 (I think some one on youtube mimicked Final Fantasy Tatics with it). But seeing that there was no real way of sharing your game with the internet (well not supported by Enterbrain anyway) this sadly went unnoticed (except for a crapload of videos on YouTube).

Unnoticed? Yes. Golden Age? No.

Being 3D does not make a game creation program a good game creation program.

[Kathryn]

how did i miss this .-.

Yes, i do consider the 2k3 age to be the golden age for the simple reason of that being the time when i hung out around gaming world and played 2k3 games. I remember some 2k games, actually, and they were even more retarded then the previously mentioned XP retarded games. Well, you actually always have RPG maker retards, they're a plauge.

*cough*

anyways you all know my preferences. I still think when Gaming world was up and running, so was the 2k3 community although it was probably more concentrated on other sites -_o

[spoiler]Oh yeah, GW closed a little bit after XP was announced and PK was dominant.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]Come to think of it, XP might have been more of a golden age for the simple reason that it separated the folks who really are pirates at heart and the folks who think, "well now that there's an official translation i might as well get that." I wasn't there because i lost touch with RPG maker on the internet after GW died, but think of the changes that must have taken place D8"[/spoiler]

[Nessiah]

Oh yeah, GW closed a little bit after XP was announced and PK was dominant.

wrong!
GamingW is still alive and kicking even when XP was alive, they even had script boards, that's where RPG (Cowlol) and co were dumping scripts, they closed down the main site for GW6's coming, which is now live and up running!

[Kathryn]

I thought they only had a blog -_o

also, they closed soon after XP was running around, they hadn't uploaded any actual XP games by then (Mostly due to the fact that half of the moderators had quit, or something like that, thus blocking any incoming projects from happening in GW -_o)

So it was never really a RPGXP site.

Also, i never really hung around the forums, which was really my bad. I was young(er). please don't shoot me 

Well, let's revise that other point. it was never an RPGXP site, it was an RPGXP forum.

[Nessiah]

Uh what, for the past 4 years, GW was never focused on rpgmaker only, it's separated, it has GM and etc. Mostly rm2k/3 a few moving to XP, but it doesn't mean it died since the XP forum was active at that time with Shadowtext and RPG, it was never an XP site, nor did it ever shut down and you maybe believe it or not, but more people are using Rm2k3 than XP

It was active more as a forum, just last year they created a blog to compensate for the mainsite, this year they released gw6. What are you saying? There are lots of games in GW, it never died.

[Kathryn]

It was active more as a forum, just last year they created a blog to compensate for the mainsite, this year they released gw6. What are you saying? There are lots of games in GW, it never died.

it did for me 

also i shall have to check out GW6, I gave up hope like, three years ago .-.

Uh what, for the past 4 years, GW was never focused on rpgmaker only, it's separated, it has GM and etc. Mostly rm2k/3 a few moving to XP, but it doesn't mean it died since the XP forum was active at that time with Shadowtext and RPG, it was never an XP site, nor did it ever shut down and you maybe believe it or not, but more people are using Rm2k3 than XP

point taken, i know game maker was dominant, forgive me for focusing on RPG maker whilst we are on an RPG maker forum 

[spoiler]yes nessy i am mad now   

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[Kathryn]

Alright, i've looked at GW6, they've done a good job

i especially like the look of those lite-C tutorials, i may actually jump upon that bandwagon 

thank you for informing me of GW6 

[spoiler]I'm still mad, forgive me, i probably should have put this in the previous post but me looking at GW6 seemed to deserve a double-post  [/spoiler]

[Nessiah]

Kitkatan what are you saying O_o
Rpgmaker games are IN the forum not on the mainsite, the lite-c tutorials are for those who doesn't like to do rpgmaker games

GW6 now is focused on game design articles and tutorials, go look at the forum not at the mainsite when you haven't visited it for like 3 years now

Also GM was never dominant, what are you saying

[Kathryn]

I never said i made sense ._.

All i'm saying is that my experience in the rm2k3 golden age revolved around me being like, ten and going on the Gaming World mainsite as a 2k3 user right up to the point it crashed into non-updating oblivion. I never cared much for gamemaker, i tried it out and never really got used to it, and i ignored most of the other gamemakers unless a cool game for another gamemaker came out. After GW stopped updating their mainsite i didn't bother with the forums, so i never got any of those RMXP scripts you were on about before. I got mad at you because you kept on going on about little things in my post when all i was trying to do was explain my view on the real game making golden age.

seemingly little things. I can't even remember why i got pissed off at you before -_o

Also, the GM maker thing was because GW claimed that game maker was their domanant maker, and i thought that's what you had mentioned before.

[Nessiah]

I just corrected your GW is dead and you got angry?

[Kathryn]

I'm a very unreasonable person ._.


i don't think that's the exact reason, i think i was just getting exasperated -_o