don't think I've seen one of these in a bit, but I've been feeling nostalgic for old rpgmaker games.
Do you remember playing any good ones? what were your favorites?
I recently played yume nikki again after like 15 years and it felt very nostalgic

>>11835212 (OP)
>yume nikki
Kino
I have no contributions. Ib was a pretty good yume-like. Deep millennial

>>11835212 (OP)
>yume nikki
let me predict this thread
>love this game but wish the fanbase wasn't full of trannies
>anon you are le obsessed
>bla bla no you
>no you
>(cartoon fighting sfx)

.flow is so good bros

>>11835479
I've been playing it for the first time recently - despite loving yume nikki and playing fangames for years I just never got around to it. It's really fucking good, I am shocked that it manages to be its own thing and have its own surprises instead of being derivative garbage like most YNFGs.

is black souls retro?

>>11835223
I like Ib a lot but it's too narrative and linear to compare it to Yume Nikki.

>>11835212 (OP)
the music folder is also a sick collection of classic music midis for my listening enjoyment

>>11835212 (OP)
I loved playing random RPG Maker 2k and 2k3 games when I was younger. Legion Saga 2 was really cool. I think the first RPG Maker 2k game I ever played that wasn't Don's Adventures was some game called "Reality Breakdown." It was very amateur and very silly but I played all the way through. I've been tempted to make a youtube video on it because seeing random little things that I once thought was neat disappear forever is sad.

somehow rpgmaker games shit all over everything else for me

Downloaded Zakuzaku Actors after bouncing off Hat World. I liked Hat World a lot but I'm just too smoothbrained to break the battle system.

>>11835212 (OP)
Yume Nikki? In my /vr/? I wonder if its because of the anniversary making everyone realize just how old this game is...

As per the question, i adore 2kki and some other ynfgs that came after, they are a pretty unique experience in gaming.

Final fantasy XI just got an RPG maker game that is very impressive and claims to be 100+ hours. I don’t know about that, but I have to commend the author for at least getting all of the classes in there.
I played Phantasy Star III2k by the same guy who made A Blurred Line and that game was okay I guess. I didn’t like the combat system for example, it was way too different from the original game, but that’s RPGmaker 2k for you. I’m more interested in the more recent remake of PS3 but it looks like it’s not entirely finished.
Speaking of which the best RPG maker game is Don Miguel’s built in RPG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLnsWMW7h6Q

Some tracks in the default OSTs are actually awesome

my friend made a game about 9/11 that i thought was lost forever until i recovered the files from a 20 year old hard drive

By any chance, does anyone know what kind of program was made to make Yume Nikki's music? Or even Yume 2kki's music?

I wanna try to make similar music for my own game.

>>11835212 (OP)
>rpgmaker thread
>opens up with the most overrated RM game ever
c'mon, OP...

>>11839665
Yume Nikki mogs your favorite RM game btw

>>11835212 (OP)
I tried playing this game last time there was a thread on /vr/ and it was absolutely awful. Just felt like a pretentious walking sim about an heroing. What's the appeal of this faggot shit?

>>11835675
>>>/h/

>>11839804
found the failed normie

>>11839804
At the time it was a big deal because around 2006-2009 people were playing more sophisticated computer games besides flash. You started seeing the rise of the pretentious game. Indie game was synonymous with pretentious and that leads to Yume Nikki. It was easy to download and install. It was easy to play. It was fun to just wander around and see weird stuff because it looks like someone actually put thought into it. But it’s an old game and as far as game design goes, something like this would not catch on, it would be dismissed as lazy.
I liked it a lot when I was in college, but I had a pretty shitty laptop that couldn’t play many games. To this day I really can’t tell you what the game is even about. You really didn’t miss much.

>>11839804
>What's the appeal of this faggot shit?
I second this. Quit the game after 15 minutes of dicking around. And trust me, I've played a lot of RPG Maker games, most of them proper RPGs, and while many of them were half-baked, they were still much more enjoyable than this pretentious p.o.s.
>>11839674
How does it mog? It's not even a proper RPG.

t. RPG Maker oldfag

>>11839804
>>11840131
if you have friends YNOproject is fun, it has a bunch of fangames including an exclusive pseudo-sequel to 2kki. YN is a very artsy game so its a bit pretentious but i like it for that. and its influence on the western indie rpg scene rivals that of mother

>>11839318
Post it pls

It's apparently an unfinished game, but check out this cool ABS!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnkHS6QKfjY

unironically the best CBS i've ever seen was in a porn game.
also just the demo of an unfinished game, natch.

>>11841267
>>11841280
The channel I had of custom battle systems I made when I was a kid appears to be gone and it saddens me

>>11839665
I wouldn't say it's overrated, it's actually pretty influential and for a reason. There's not many games like it and a ton of the games (usually rpgs) that came after it cite it as an inspiration, often as much if not more than the mother series.
It's unironically like calling citizen kane overrated.
Yeah everyone in film loves to suck the movie's dick 24/7 to the point where it's annoying, but it did a lot of important things for the first time that every movie after copied.
>>11839804
>>11840131
you just walk around looking at the cool visuals and relax. The creator has a nice artistic vision/style you don't really see in other games, and you can come up with your own theory about what certain scenes in the game mean. A lot of the visuals/places in the game combined with the music feel very kino to me.
The game also isn't just about an heroing, and even that part is disputed since the creator is on record saying it's supposed to be a positive experience.
imo you don't actually suicide since the stairs just appearing make no sense, I think it's supposed to be about you waking up to reality rather than living in your imagination/escapism like the creator.

Anyone here ever play Ghosts of Aliens? It's hard as fuck, have never been able to get past the first area as each regular enemy feels like a boss, and I've never even found a full playthrough of the game. But every several years or so I'm drawn back to it for some reason.

>>11841379
i don't remember all the sites i used to visit. i know one hosted one called the B.E.P. demo, which was using Bahamut Lagoon sprites.

I still have no idea if A Blurred Line was based on a book or short story that the creator read or not, but it sure did feel like it. Was a bit of a clunky game but I thought Talan was "literally me" and thus cool as an 11 year old, with the fall-from-grace protagonist angle.

I had RPG maker for PS1 and played the fuck out of it making shitty high fantasy story junk. It’s pretty fun scripting the little dudes to run around and talk. I never actually played any custom games though. What was the online game scene like? Any classics I should try?

>>11840131
>erm it isnt a number crunch game where you fight generic video game demons so it isnt a real rp-ACCCCCCCCK

>>11841740
Correct. It's not an RPG and the games similar to it as well as other non-games (horror shit, walking simulators) have done nothing but damage the image of the engine.
It's ironic because there is a small subset of "miruge" which are effectively movie games with zero actual interaction beyond clicking through text boxes, but because they actually employ the full spectrum of other features the engine has to offer and don't even pretend to be a game (therefore avoiding the curse of "good story with dogshit gameplay"), they are actually better off for it because the creator is effectively directing a small film at that point.
https://streamable.com/y9he15

>movie games with zero actual interaction beyond clicking through text boxes
Literally every kino rpgmaker game is this btw

>>11839354
Yamaha rs7000
https://youtu.be/ywTbgc043bc?si=mI6fEaepyyogUJCD

>>11841761
wtf this is sick! what version lets you do full ass automated movies? xp let you do auto walking but you had to at least click through text boxes and i don’t think you could have crazy battle effects like this

>>11841806
That's 2k3. The whole thing is basically just one long sequence of autoruns on different maps, most likely gated by switches or a specific series of calls if the same map is used multiple times.

>>11842142
ahh neat thanks

>>11841761
This game looks sick, name?

>>11841439
Ah, another fellow connoisseur, I see. Even if it's very rough around the edges, A Blurred Line is a certified rm2k classic. But the real deal for me is pic related. The story it presents is one of the greatest in the genre and I too wonder, if it's a completely original creation or based on something else.
>>11841740
Because it isn't, and you can't convince me otherwise. Pretty much any other generic jarpig craps over Yume Shitty.
>>11841761
Yet another man of culture I wholeheartedly agree with. But I'd rather go through a "good story with dogshit gameplay" than a slop with no combat at all. Then again, I understand it's difficult to integrate a story within the ramifications of a video role-playing game.

>>11839804
It's free and it's arguably the first of its kind, coming out in 2004. Needless to say it's not a fresh concept anymore. Pretentious schizoshit walking sims are everywhere now.

I really like Marsh SMT's couple of videos on obscure Japanese RPG Maker games. Are there any other people making similar videos?

Not sure why people hate Yume Nikki. It's a cute little 'game' that is pretty much a virtual museum. It's neat.

>>11843158
Yumi nikki isn't a jrpg, it's just made with rpgmaker by a jap, big difference.
and yes not every game needs combat faggy. A lot of stealth games don't rely on combat or have very bad combat.
Yumi nikki is just a chill walking sim like lcd dream simulator.

>>11835212 (OP)
ao oni anyone?

>>11845514
Is it too harsh to say that Ao Oni is a bad game, but a very memorable and not unenjoyable bad game?

>>11845326
It's fucking boring. And if it's boring, then it fails as a video game. What's not to get?

>>11841472
>What was the online game scene like?
There wasn't much of one, at least in English speaking world. Though some people did share games, it was obviously harder since it wasn't on PC. I've seen some games shared with it before, used to have a google doc of them I think, but can't find it anymore.

>>11845568
that's your personal opinion, faggot.
Just because you find shakespeare boring because of adhd doesn't mean it's not good literature.

>>11845578
Also, RPG Maker PSX came out in English in October 2, 2000, so it wasn't that long after that Don Miguel translated RPG Maker 2k. I switched from the PSX version to 2k, and I think most people interested in making games to share would too.

Shame though, I really like the default assets for PSX version.

>>11845568
if you never explored Zelda 2's overworld as a kid you wouldn't get it

>>11839804
pretentious? huh? how do you get that?

>>11835212 (OP)
>waiting for the next annual Gobou video...

>>11843158
>The Way
based anon

>>11835212 (OP)
what's the best yume nikki version to play right now? I played it years ago but I wanna replay it.

>>11845629
Retarded people tend to see any art about inner reflection as pretentious because they are not able to actually do that, so they assume only snobs can.

>>11845861
just standard yume nikki
you can play it in your browser: https://paracks342.github.io/yumenikki/
the steam version is also free: https://store.steampowered.com/app/650700/Yume_Nikki/
yume nikki with multiplayer: https://ynoproject.net/
you can also play 2kki here which is a fan sequel

>>11845632
Ultra based Gobou connoisseur.

>>11835212 (OP)
>Do you remember playing any good ones? what were your favorites?
Does it count if it was made with RPG Maker charas and chipsets? https://files.catbox.moe/i4vf6d.webm

A Blurred Line was probably the best RPG Maker game from the early 2000s scene.

>>11845326
>Not sure why people hate Yume Nikki.
I don't hate Yume Nikki, I just hate how overrated it is and is the first game that usually comes to mind when someone mentions RPG Maker. That's RPG Maker - ROLE PLAYING GAME Maker, not walking simulator maker.

There was this old rpgmaker maker game. Could've been using 2003 or XP, I can't remember. All I remember is that the game was one of the wordiest things I've ever seen. I think even npc dialogue addressed how verbose the dialogue was. It would read like a thesaurus.

"The umbral assassination's motives were polysemous after arrant conjecture from the bucolic investigators."

>>11846707
Phylomortis. The original was Rm2k and then it was remade for XP.

can anyone give a copy of The Sacred Tears TRUE?

>>11846685
So because a game engine is called RPGmaker, that means everything needs to form around the conventions of an RPG?

>>11846685
people have been using engines to make wildly different games for a while