Anyone tried RPG Maker VX here?
I gave the demo a shot and I gata say the graphics and themes are nicer, the editor has more features and I like new interface. I liked the new icons, and the dungeon generator was really neat. I liked the ship options and my favorite feature would be auto events where you can quickly set up doors or inns without copying all your event code from other events. I also liked the faces better then the ones you can get for XP. They are all facing right and they look great when used with text. It makes talking characters more lifelike.
Saying that, I was disappointed in a few small problems making it unplayable to me. For one they took out the battlers and battlebacks. The game just shows text as your character in battle and a warped version of the game map behind the monsters. It felt very empty and plain to me, I prefer the XP battle system much better.
The map editor was simpler but because of that, very limited. The game seems to create more square like maps then of XP making cave creating and landscaping very unrealistic, like back in the gameboy pokemon days <_< I greatly prefer XP's mapper over VX.
Another thing was full screen mode, its not true full screen but only covers about 80% of the screen with massive black borders around it.
The problem is I do like VX better, its smoother and feels better then XP but those few small problems is what keeps me away from it. I think its better to just stick with RPG Maker XP and you can probably download scripts to get all those new VX features in XP.
I give it my lowest score ever, 3 thumbs up...
I gata say, with all the ps2 rpg makers, when the heck do we get a 3d one for the pc... I could so get into that, I been getting into basic 3d modeling over the last year.