RPG Maker has gotten progressively worse since XP
You are absolutely right.
RPG Maker XP still is the peak for me and since then they get worse. Although VX Ace was better than VX, the mapping was the same mess and you are almost forced to do parallax mapping if you want good looking maps.
And now we have MV, which again is inferior to the older versions in many points. The editor is full of bugs and has a terrible performance. It doesn't make much fun to create stuff with it.
They promised to improve the mapping but even with it's theoretically "endless layers" it's still bad since you can't edit anything without rebuilding half of your map. When I tested it I wanted to change the ground of a room so I had delete all of the furniture...
I don't understand why they just don't go back to RMXP mapping or even improve it with 5 or 6 actual layers.
But I think we have to accept how RPG Maker has changed. RPG Maker MV and VX Ace are the most successfull and popular RPG Makers so far so they will keep following that path.
Beside a small group of people of the old generation of RPG Maker nobody actually cares about RMXP anymore. There is a gigantic amount of new casual users who came with VX Ace and MV who don't even know something like RMXP exists. And for that audience the new RPG Makers are made. You can literally see that based on the graphic style of the newer RTPs, More childish and simple.
I don't have much hope that we will ever see a worthy successor of RPG Maker XP...atleast not from Kadokawa.
That's why I'm still looking forward to ReGaL. An improved and modern RPG Maker XP with tons of new features and a stronger engine.
I hope it won't get abandoned.
RPG Maker XP still is the peak for me and since then they get worse. Although VX Ace was better than VX, the mapping was the same mess and you are almost forced to do parallax mapping if you want good looking maps.
And now we have MV, which again is inferior to the older versions in many points. The editor is full of bugs and has a terrible performance. It doesn't make much fun to create stuff with it.
They promised to improve the mapping but even with it's theoretically "endless layers" it's still bad since you can't edit anything without rebuilding half of your map. When I tested it I wanted to change the ground of a room so I had delete all of the furniture...
I don't understand why they just don't go back to RMXP mapping or even improve it with 5 or 6 actual layers.
But I think we have to accept how RPG Maker has changed. RPG Maker MV and VX Ace are the most successfull and popular RPG Makers so far so they will keep following that path.
Beside a small group of people of the old generation of RPG Maker nobody actually cares about RMXP anymore. There is a gigantic amount of new casual users who came with VX Ace and MV who don't even know something like RMXP exists. And for that audience the new RPG Makers are made. You can literally see that based on the graphic style of the newer RTPs, More childish and simple.
I don't have much hope that we will ever see a worthy successor of RPG Maker XP...atleast not from Kadokawa.
That's why I'm still looking forward to ReGaL. An improved and modern RPG Maker XP with tons of new features and a stronger engine.
I hope it won't get abandoned.
