Favorite Maker

[Wouter]

Yeah, but you can change the battle system in XP to whatever you want...
that's the neat thing with XP, you can change the whole game if you want.

[RPGPersonell]

2k: never used it
2k3: love it cuz it's easy and not complicated
xp: too complicated

[The Moogle]

okay wouter let's see a script for a side scrolling battle system for XP.

[Tsunokiette]

go to rmxp or dubealex (4got which) and search for ccaos side view battle or cybersam's side view battle

[The Moogle]

those both stink.  However i found one that is the rm2k3 battle system redone for XP.  The graphics are even the same to make.

[Blackdragon]

which one is it and dont say the stink scripting is hard.

[The Moogle]

i wasn't saying that the scripting wasn't good.  Oh no.  I was saying I didn't like the system it's self.  Most of them had extrymly hard to do graphics.  Others just werent exactly side-scrolling.  They were awesome battle systems just not what i wanted.  Anywho I'm not sure where i found it.  I think it was in a post on that rmxp.net (or whatever it was) about deleted scripts.  I try to find a link.

[Tsunokiette]

those both stink.  However i found one that is the rm2k3 battle system redone for XP.  The graphics are even the same to make.

err they "stink"? they're the only two besides kcg... and they are the 2k3 battle system for xp... correct me if I'm wrong please.

[The Moogle]

I found one that is based off of rm2k3 for people like me who love the 2003 battle system but see XP's great potentshol.....(<i spelled that wrong but you get the idea)

[RPG_Cat]

2k : Fun & Easy
2K3: Meh..It was alright...I hate bugs tho ~_~
XP: Iam not really a fan of this one but it is one of my favorites ;-)

[TheRotS]

I never used 2k. I think that between 2k3 and xp, xp is better cuz it's much easier to learn..

[RotG]

2K3, undoubtedly. Expands upon everything built in 2K (and thus a lot of the resources like facesets and such transfer VERY easily) and I love the feel a side-view battle gives to the game. IMO it's much more exciting to control and view a fight from the sidelines and see the actions and movements of EVERY participant, rather than seeing through the eyes of one side and never being able to see your heroes' animations, or what have you. In first person mode, you lose some excitement, I think.

Also, I find XP's database to be very confining when compared to 2K3's database. Particularly in the skill and status effect areas, and items. In 2K3 I could really tweak skills and status effects to create some really oddball combinations and give a bright, vivid variety to the abilities in the game, rather than just cookie cutter nukes and junk. There's a lot of user-unfriendly features that require you to script a lot more than enterbrain likes to advertise in XP, and frankly, if I wanted to dig into code, I would open up MS Visual C++, because quite frankly if you're going to code for the sake of customization, you may as well do it from scratch and be able to further customize things like character stat types, encounter types (maybe you want to make a game like Seiken Densetsu 3), and what have you. When I open up an RPG Maker program, it's because I want to ESCAPE code, not do what I already do most of the time anyway (also I do it for the graphics and sound resources, but you get the picture).

[Thesephiroth]

I prefer xp because of all the cool things you can do on it and the graphics

[Lord Dante]

2k : Fun & Easy
2K3: Meh..It was alright...I hate bugs tho ~_~
XP: Iam not really a fan of this one but it is one of my favorites ;-)

wtf that didnt make ANY sense. you're not afan but it was a favorite? what?

[dwarra]

I never used 2k. I think that between 2k3 and xp, xp is better cuz it's much easier to learn..

You say that, I learned on Rpg 2003, and yet i still struggled to learn with XP lol, but I personnaly think XP is the best game =]

[TheRotS]

Yeah, maybe it takes time to learn but it's easy when you know the minimum.

[Snake_Storm]

XP hands down. my favorite makers are the ones you can just pick up and let the story just flow out of you. XP's the first one in a long time. it's got that natural feel that guarantees i'll be a fan.

[King Anesis]

And that you can just simply copy/paste everything to make everything custom...Does everyone miss that fact?

[TheRotS]

Nope it's a good thing for xp!

[King Anesis]

If making you look lazy is a good thing, then fine with me.

[TheRotS]

lo(p)l i'm not lazy. May I change my mind? Ok. I think that rpg maker 95 is da best maker!

[Woody]

xp.  there aren't a lot of resources for it, but you are able to do far more with it than the other versions

[TheRotS]

You can make your own resources to xp. That's easy.

[TheRotS]

Yeah it's kinda hard to find. When you find, it's not always good.. :whoa:

[dragonman153]

I like the graphics of RpgXP the best (cause they are the best   ). I really like the simplicity of Rpg2000 cause the chipsets fit together nicely. Rpg2003, uh isn't it exactly like 2000 except for a bit different chips and battle animation.

Rpg 2000, you can make almost anything (you have many different ground and water chips, etc.), Rpg XP is sort of limited to doing stuff with cliffs (1 water chip per set  :| ).

For Rpg XP you make cool looking, maybe even professional looking games, but the downside is, the stacking chips gets to be a pain, esp if they have that white around the edges.

BTW, I started Rpg Maker this year, my grade 8 Computer class teaches Rpg 2k and Rpg XP. lol