After months away, I'm back with a new series! My hiatus was...interesting, to say the least, and really wasn't much of a vacation. But, I'm happy to be back, and I'll be having another new video out later this week! Stay tuned! And, if you enjoyed this, don't forget to check out my Patreon, and maybe support the channel there to help me make bigger and better content: www.patreon.com/stuffweplay
I feel much the same way now! I love playing around with it and making little mini-adventures, but I don't think I have the time or energy to devote to making a full-on RPG anymore haha
Awesome dive with the first episode of RETROspective. I remember getting together with my older brother and best friend and creating these RPG style games on paper and then creating it on RPG maker. I always loved the character design and details of their background and loved the difficulty in making an enjoyable and playable game. Way to come back with a Bang my friend.
Thank you so much! This first episode was especially retrospective, as the game I showed off, in some ways, was almost like a time capsule taking me back over a decade!
Fun fact, I tried my hand at translating the manual for the first RPG maker for the Super Famicom back in the 90s. It was a nice project for my Japanese class I was taking in high school. Also, my brother the crazy bastard he is, somehow figured out how to import tiles from ps1 games (namely Star Ocean and Tales of Phantasia into RPG Maker 2000 for Windows 98. Fun times.
I'd stay up for hours using a fan translated version of RPGMaker2000 with the 3GB content library that slowed my Packard Bell to a crawl. Those were the days....
Pro Tip for Switch Makers: Put automated events, especially complex ones, into "instances" aka. their own small maps, even if you have to copy a region on a bigger map for it - will increase your game's performance immensely. The less automated NPCs and cinematics directly on your bigger maps the better your game will perform. And on smaller "instance" maps that are copied from the big map, you can go crazy with cinematics more easily aswell.
i appreciate you making this lol, i'm currently doing research on whether or not i should grab rpg maker mv for ps4. i've gone ahead and subcribed! i look forward to more of your video's ^^
Hey, you will be able to tackle the gyms in any order now in Scarlet and Violet, so all of Cobalt's features have been officially made it into the games! But seriously though, Cobalt was waaaay better than my little story demo I made when I was 16. Good job regardless, you should be proud of your younger self. Good and official games are not that far from jank and copy paste ideas, we tend to underestimate ourselves because we know what we did. Successful people are not that different, they just got away with it.
I genuinely love RPG Maker. There's a lot of potential with it, even with games using the RTP assets (Hell, I'm using 'em for one of my main projects). While it certainly still lingers, I'm fairly certain the "All RPG Maker games are bad" stigma has been dying down in recent years, which is good to see. :) Some people will see a game is made in RPG Maker and scroll past, but that just actively grabs my attention usually. Lol. (Also, ye, Pokémon Essentials is cool, I like it. GSC style is hard to do since you gotta change a lotta stuff to make it accurate to the style, but thankfully people have made kits for that exact purpose. :D)
Wow, what a series! I remember fiddling around with RPG Maker 95, then 2000, then 2003. I settled on RMXP for a good many years until I got this new computer. Haven't tried any of the newer ones. I also bought RPG Maker 2 AND a keyboard for the PS2 when it first came out. I also tried out RPG Maker 3, also for PS2. I've had a long history with the series! Good times, James. Good times!
@@StuffWePlay I recommend at least giving them a try, for sure. They were a bit tricky to get the hang of at first, though. I always preferred the PC versions because of being able to import custom stuff, as well as reworking scripts for custom effects and menus. I even tried out Pokemon Essentials for a short time and found it pretty handy. I never was able to fully complete a game though, just due to the huge amount of work and time that goes into it, but I always had fun with it!
I WOULD DIE FOR KIRUSU (Also laughed out loud at 20:20 😂) Fantastic video, fully enjoyed it and appreciates your willingness to show your old game designs! 💖🎮 IMO the open world idea with choosing what gym order you wanted to do things was ahead of its time
Thank you tons! Kurusu was always my fav of thr scrapped Gen 2 'mons! Maybe I'll go back and do a similar video at some point on Twine and show off that basic dungeon crawler I made!!
I started with RPG maker 2003 by borrowing it from the Internet. There wasn't a official English release but there was a English translation patch done by a Modder who later got involved with the official English release that we have on steam right now. And yes I bought that one as well just to show support cause I got me hooked to RPG maker for a while. RPG maker XP is my favorite, but I have to admit I haven't tried RPG maker MZ yet and I heard that one does take the layer system from XP. XP was great cause of their layer system, it allowed for so much more, I also digged the bigger characters. After they started with these weird little body big head ones. 2003, 2000, they had their style but XP looked better, after that it became much less detailed in the character department, and yes I know you can make your own, but we used to get the bigger ones standard. The sad thing about RPG maker is that it became popular. Before the RPG maker scene was awesome. All these games people made, it was treasure cove for sure. Then it became popular and became the main engine next to Unity for scam projects and "This is my first game ever made, I put it on sale for 20 euros on steam plx buy kay thnx" projects. Steam is flooded with these lazy made first time ever projects, even though the scene itself has some very amazing proper games made with the engine. Games that deserve to be on steam but why bother now? No one buys those games anymore and won't get much attention there, might as well keep it within the community itself for free. It also caused rpg maker developers to get a bad name. I went to apply for a game developer education. I had done prior educations, finished, in multi media so I knew stuff already, but I wasn't a coder. They wanted to see things that I made and I was working on my own RPG maker made game so I decided to show that, sadly, everyone did so when I walked in they looked at it, rolled their eyes and bluntly said "Is this another rpg maker game? Ugh". I get it, but how is rpg maker different from a Unity other then that it's specialized in 2d rpg's? Needles to say, I didn't make the cut. So I became a movie editor lol, well not anymore, lost that job due to economic reasons, but I was one for 6 years while learning Unity atm. Still thinking about maybe getting MZ with the steam sale atm cutting the price in half for the fun of it.
ever thought of revisiting your "American South" Earthbound concept? that actually sounds very interesting especially if you add in irl local flavor and bits of trivia!
I remember having the french translation of RM 2000 and 2003 (themselves translated from the version of Don Miguel) even now the official Steam version (that I bought out of nostalgia) don't have it. -_- I even buy RPG Maker MV, three years that i have a project in it, but I don't have as much free time as I did at the time of RM2k and 2K3), i even found the only two games I finished creating on RM2k and 2K3, sorting out my old hardware (they were in old IDE hard drives), still fun to use this tool from time to time.
I admire the appeal, but the complexity makes it truly feel like you need game programming skills in order to make everything you ever dreamed of into a reality
After months away, I'm back with a new series! My hiatus was...interesting, to say the least, and really wasn't much of a vacation. But, I'm happy to be back, and I'll be having another new video out later this week! Stay tuned!
And, if you enjoyed this, don't forget to check out my Patreon, and maybe support the channel there to help me make bigger and better content: www.patreon.com/stuffweplay
You know, those ideas for Pokemon Cobalt Version you had as a kid actually sounded pretty neat.
I'm glad you think so! I know I had fun thinking them up then
I work the overnight shift, when I come home and see something from this channel it makes me so happy
This comment honestly really made my morning feel just that much better! Seriously, it means a ton to hear that, and I hope your shift went well!!
It’s funny cuz now Scarlet and Violet will allow you to take on the gyms in any order. You sir were a Pokémon trainer before your time lol
I was just thinking this lol
RPG maker is so legendary I played the PS1 version. I was not really a game designer but it's always interesting to see the work others can do.
I feel much the same way now! I love playing around with it and making little mini-adventures, but I don't think I have the time or energy to devote to making a full-on RPG anymore haha
My father worked in Japan for a few years, he was a developer at Atlus. I remember trying the PS2 RPG Maker in his office, it was amazing
That sounds incredible! And also like something that itself would make for a great video!
I actually had RPG MAKER on PS1. Omg nostalgia
Awesome dive with the first episode of RETROspective. I remember getting together with my older brother and best friend and creating these RPG style games on paper and then creating it on RPG maker. I always loved the character design and details of their background and loved the difficulty in making an enjoyable and playable game.
Way to come back with a Bang my friend.
Thank you so much! This first episode was especially retrospective, as the game I showed off, in some ways, was almost like a time capsule taking me back over a decade!
Fun fact, I tried my hand at translating the manual for the first RPG maker for the Super Famicom back in the 90s. It was a nice project for my Japanese class I was taking in high school. Also, my brother the crazy bastard he is, somehow figured out how to import tiles from ps1 games (namely Star Ocean and Tales of Phantasia into RPG Maker 2000 for Windows 98. Fun times.
Dude that is WAY cool! Seriously, that's incredible!
I'd stay up for hours using a fan translated version of RPGMaker2000 with the 3GB content library that slowed my Packard Bell to a crawl. Those were the days....
That sounds way awesome! The late nights game-making, not so much the Packard Bell slowdown haha
Pro Tip for Switch Makers: Put automated events, especially complex ones, into "instances" aka. their own small maps, even if you have to copy a region on a bigger map for it - will increase your game's performance immensely. The less automated NPCs and cinematics directly on your bigger maps the better your game will perform. And on smaller "instance" maps that are copied from the big map, you can go crazy with cinematics more easily aswell.
i appreciate you making this lol, i'm currently doing research on whether or not i should grab rpg maker mv for ps4. i've gone ahead and subcribed! i look forward to more of your video's ^^
Thank you so so much!
Hey, you will be able to tackle the gyms in any order now in Scarlet and Violet, so all of Cobalt's features have been officially made it into the games!
But seriously though, Cobalt was waaaay better than my little story demo I made when I was 16. Good job regardless, you should be proud of your younger self. Good and official games are not that far from jank and copy paste ideas, we tend to underestimate ourselves because we know what we did. Successful people are not that different, they just got away with it.
It's really beautiful to see those ideas happen in Scarlet/Violet - and also Crystal Clear haha! Seriously love CC
I still remember using the PS1 version of RPG Maker, using a keyboard plugged into my PS2 to write the text.
I genuinely love RPG Maker. There's a lot of potential with it, even with games using the RTP assets (Hell, I'm using 'em for one of my main projects). While it certainly still lingers, I'm fairly certain the "All RPG Maker games are bad" stigma has been dying down in recent years, which is good to see. :)
Some people will see a game is made in RPG Maker and scroll past, but that just actively grabs my attention usually. Lol.
(Also, ye, Pokémon Essentials is cool, I like it. GSC style is hard to do since you gotta change a lotta stuff to make it accurate to the style, but thankfully people have made kits for that exact purpose. :D)
Wow, what a series! I remember fiddling around with RPG Maker 95, then 2000, then 2003. I settled on RMXP for a good many years until I got this new computer. Haven't tried any of the newer ones. I also bought RPG Maker 2 AND a keyboard for the PS2 when it first came out. I also tried out RPG Maker 3, also for PS2. I've had a long history with the series! Good times, James. Good times!
I'm glad you enjoyed it! I'd love to go back and try out the PS2 entries sometime, as I've heard a ton of good things about them!
@@StuffWePlay I recommend at least giving them a try, for sure. They were a bit tricky to get the hang of at first, though. I always preferred the PC versions because of being able to import custom stuff, as well as reworking scripts for custom effects and menus. I even tried out Pokemon Essentials for a short time and found it pretty handy. I never was able to fully complete a game though, just due to the huge amount of work and time that goes into it, but I always had fun with it!
I WOULD DIE FOR KIRUSU (Also laughed out loud at 20:20 😂) Fantastic video, fully enjoyed it and appreciates your willingness to show your old game designs! 💖🎮 IMO the open world idea with choosing what gym order you wanted to do things was ahead of its time
Thank you tons! Kurusu was always my fav of thr scrapped Gen 2 'mons! Maybe I'll go back and do a similar video at some point on Twine and show off that basic dungeon crawler I made!!
welcome back. very interesting video. never knew there was an rpg maker for ps1. unfortunately, i didn't have the ps1
Yup, I've heard great things about it from several friends! I'd love to pick it up if I ever find a copy at a decent price
The fact that you can't cross-save from Switch to the PC version makes this DOA for me.
Hearting this because this is a big thing that I forgot to mention in the vid proper
I started with RPG maker 2003 by borrowing it from the Internet. There wasn't a official English release but there was a English translation patch done by a Modder who later got involved with the official English release that we have on steam right now. And yes I bought that one as well just to show support cause I got me hooked to RPG maker for a while.
RPG maker XP is my favorite, but I have to admit I haven't tried RPG maker MZ yet and I heard that one does take the layer system from XP. XP was great cause of their layer system, it allowed for so much more, I also digged the bigger characters. After they started with these weird little body big head ones. 2003, 2000, they had their style but XP looked better, after that it became much less detailed in the character department, and yes I know you can make your own, but we used to get the bigger ones standard.
The sad thing about RPG maker is that it became popular. Before the RPG maker scene was awesome. All these games people made, it was treasure cove for sure. Then it became popular and became the main engine next to Unity for scam projects and "This is my first game ever made, I put it on sale for 20 euros on steam plx buy kay thnx" projects. Steam is flooded with these lazy made first time ever projects, even though the scene itself has some very amazing proper games made with the engine. Games that deserve to be on steam but why bother now? No one buys those games anymore and won't get much attention there, might as well keep it within the community itself for free. It also caused rpg maker developers to get a bad name. I went to apply for a game developer education. I had done prior educations, finished, in multi media so I knew stuff already, but I wasn't a coder. They wanted to see things that I made and I was working on my own RPG maker made game so I decided to show that, sadly, everyone did so when I walked in they looked at it, rolled their eyes and bluntly said "Is this another rpg maker game? Ugh". I get it, but how is rpg maker different from a Unity other then that it's specialized in 2d rpg's? Needles to say, I didn't make the cut. So I became a movie editor lol, well not anymore, lost that job due to economic reasons, but I was one for 6 years while learning Unity atm. Still thinking about maybe getting MZ with the steam sale atm cutting the price in half for the fun of it.
ever thought of revisiting your "American South" Earthbound concept? that actually sounds very interesting especially if you add in irl local flavor and bits of trivia!
I've thought about revisiting some concepts here and there. Honestly, maybe I'll try pitching one of my more original ideas someday
As a fan of Mega Man, Romancing SaGa, and Dark Souls, I appreciate the nonlinear approach to Gyms!
To the moon, and Actual Sunlight, were both made on RPG Maker also.
That's way dope!
impressive af for a kid i always wanted to do this when i was younger but never applied myself given i had little free time :/
I also made my first pokemon RPGXP maker for first time in 10 years of age from 2004 and now I am 26 years of age
Dude... solid plot for your game!
Thank you tons!
I remember having the french translation of RM 2000 and 2003 (themselves translated from the version of Don Miguel) even now the official Steam version (that I bought out of nostalgia) don't have it. -_-
I even buy RPG Maker MV, three years that i have a project in it, but I don't have as much free time as I did at the time of RM2k and 2K3), i even found the only two games I finished creating on RM2k and 2K3, sorting out my old hardware (they were in old IDE hard drives), still fun to use this tool from time to time.
1:36 best trailer ever. I got up from bed and started moshing.
It yelled out to me and I had to grab RMXP!
@@StuffWePlay we all know it's the best one.
Like if you remember Don Miguel!
What a LEGEND!
YOU WON A COMBAT!!!
There's only a $3 difference between MV and MZ because that's how different the titles are, haha. It's the same damn thing. At least right now.
That's a big mood haha
12:37 s0wld and sheld water gym ln a nut shell
I just realized that! You make a good point!
Welcome back! How was your wedding
Cancelled due to current events
@@StuffWePlay nooooo
@@StuffWePlay sorry to hear that man 🙁.
It's all good. It's been a helluva year haha
@@StuffWePlay as long as you have each other ❤️
Think we all tried to make a pokemkn inspired game. Just a shame Nintendo ceases and desists all forms of pokemon games.
True that!
Bro this is all incredible, just make sure ur likes stays below 1000, cuz ninjtendo will sniff u out, and they are not very nice.
why were all us baby gays obsessed with greek myths lol
I think it's just in our nature!
Hey bro if you still like Pokémon even though the series has gone to sh#t (sword & shield) u should try nexomon extinction for switch
I might give it a try sometime!
I'm looking for Tutorial how to make a game Pokemon 😭
I admire the appeal, but the complexity makes it truly feel like you need game programming skills in order to make everything you ever dreamed of into a reality
To be fair, I was a starry-eyed preteen haha
@@StuffWePlay yeah so was i, everyone was at one point
Now i want to make a horrible video game, dang it, stop giving me stupid ideas!!
Absolutely go for it! Because for all you know, it might actually not end up horribly at all! Plus, it'll be a good learning experience