Peer pressured badly to switch engines?
01-26-2023, 01:55 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-26-2023, 02:11 PM by Steel Beast 6Beets.)
As somebody who has been using XP for nearly a decade, I'm well aware of the program's... eccentricities, so to speak. Eventually, anyway. I actually started with RM2000 until I lost all of my projects after my old computer went kaput.
So to me, XP was an all around upgrade, some baffling omissions notwithstanding (the lack of support of facesets as mentioned by you). Fortunately, I learnt there were always scripts for getting back some old features. With that said, as time and development went by, I became more and more acquainted with the program's fickleness that caused me no small amount of grief. The proverbial growing pains as it were.
As you cons, there are scripts for (most of) them but that doesn't take away the fact the it fell on users to bring features that should be in the program by default. All in all... Yeah, I must admit that MV is indeed the superior product as expected. I'll still cling to XP tho mostly because it's how it always been. That and I learned when I tried to play your demo that my PC is just too old to run MV. I should have mentioned that first.
Lastly, you're pretty much spot regarding the XP RTP graphics. There IS some dissonance between the cartoony battlers and the more subdued, down-to-earth tilesets. Future entries do feature a more cohesive art, I'll admit that much.
Ha, thinking about it, no wonder why Nanamura's more realistic battlers are so widely used.
So to me, XP was an all around upgrade, some baffling omissions notwithstanding (the lack of support of facesets as mentioned by you). Fortunately, I learnt there were always scripts for getting back some old features. With that said, as time and development went by, I became more and more acquainted with the program's fickleness that caused me no small amount of grief. The proverbial growing pains as it were.
As you cons, there are scripts for (most of) them but that doesn't take away the fact the it fell on users to bring features that should be in the program by default. All in all... Yeah, I must admit that MV is indeed the superior product as expected. I'll still cling to XP tho mostly because it's how it always been. That and I learned when I tried to play your demo that my PC is just too old to run MV. I should have mentioned that first.
Lastly, you're pretty much spot regarding the XP RTP graphics. There IS some dissonance between the cartoony battlers and the more subdued, down-to-earth tilesets. Future entries do feature a more cohesive art, I'll admit that much.
Ha, thinking about it, no wonder why Nanamura's more realistic battlers are so widely used.