September 21, 2005 - Agetec, Inc. a leading publisher of software in North America, is thrilled to announce the highly anticipated arrival of RPG Maker 3™, the latest title within its Designer Series™. Developed by Enterbrain and powered by the Playstation®2 computer entertainment system, RPG Maker 3 gives players the capability of bringing their own fantasy-world video games to life.

“Game enthusiasts are tired of playing the same old games day in and day out, fighting the same old fight, in the same old environment,” said Mark Johnson, vice president of marketing for Agetec, Inc. “They want to be able to design their own games with their own 3D worlds, and with RPG MAKER 3, a player’s creativity and imagination can be realized.”

RPG Maker 3 employs a feature rich, easy-to-use toolset including, 3D mapping capabilities, real-time environment effects, beautiful fantasy-style graphics, and a whole host of characters and Magic/Skill abilities from which to choose from, giving designers total control over where and how they play the game.

RPG Maker 3 Main Features:

-Easy to Use Toolset
-Transforms 2D Instructions into Complete 3D Worlds
-Populate Towns in Real-Time
-Large Cast of Characters and Monsters with Over 3000 Fluid Animations and Art Styles
-Beautiful Fantasy-style Graphics
-Ideal for Kids
-Includes a Bonus Six-hour Game, “Dear Brave Heart”

Wait a second! Why hasn't anyone told me about this?! What happened to RPG Maker 2?! Ok, I'm stumped. Why is the third one put out before the second one?

It sounds pretty good. Any screens out yet? I own the first two. It is quite fun to make the games. The second had good 3D graphics, does this one have better graphics? I'm guessing it does but how much better? This 'populating towns in real-time' sounds interesting. Looks like I should start saving my money for another RPG Maker game.

Oh, and Vex Core, two has already been released. In fact I own it and have made a few games with it.

My friend owns the second one, and it seems like it takes forever to make a working rpg. Though the idea is very interesting, I don't think I have the patience to create a game using the RpgMaker. =p

I had the first RPGMaker game. But I stopped using it a long time ago. It wasn't that it took forever to make a good RPG, it's that the RPGMaker eats up slots on your Memory Card like crazy. And I only had one Memory Card at the time, so I couldn't afford to use up too many slots.

Still, I don't know if I'll be messing with an RPGMaker program anytime soon.

I cannot believe I did not know the second one was out. I would have already went out and bought it! This sucks big time. Maybe I haven't been up to date with games after. I cannot believe I let thiese two awesome games pass under my nose.

Now, I am going out to buy them and is going to make a game for both, then place them on the internet for others to play. I am really hating myself right now.

Does anyone know where I can download RPG Maker 2000 or 2003????? If yes tell
me please, I am a real Roleplay Games FAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But Wait you should know that making games takes a long Time!!!!, especially Rolplay games!

I suppose that could be pretty cool making your own RPG. I would just be too lazy to do it every once in a while.

Is this only going to be released in america or will they release a pal version? where can i get more information on this?

I'm interested to see what the game is like in realtime. The graphics seem mushc better than in RPGM2, and you can finally see your characters in battle (which is a pretty major change for RPGM games, as far as I know). Many of the monsters look better, the spells look better, the environments look better... Pretty much everything looks better. The music sounds a lot better as well. I'm a bit more interested in other specs, though:
How much space will a typical game take up on a memory card?
How much more/less time will it take to work out certain details?
How well will the games run after you create them?

I'll have to see if maybe I can rent it sometime, or perhaps get it for Christmas. I'm really interested to see what it's like, besides just looking at screenshots and videos.

By the way, you can find some details on the game over at RPGamer.
(I haven't seen anything regarding releases outside of the US and Japan yet. Doesn't necessarily mean anything, though.)

The New Rpg Maker have a nice graphics and cool places

Just my 2 cents...

Yeah well, i bought rpg maker 3 since i wanted to give the rpg-making thing a try, and i have to say it's good, but as any game ( err...toolset? ), it has its flaws.

First of all, i agree the graphics are better than some ps2 games i've played ( or maybe i'm playing too much old ps1 rpgs recently? ). The Castles look good, and making dungeons is easy peasy ( not to mention world maps )

Also, the battle system is kind of....er ok. You can still play it, even though it takes more time to load the battle than to fight the battle itself. Anyway, i can't compare anything to the first 2 rpg makers since i haven't played any of them.

And now the storyteller. When I first saw the storyteller, i hit circle immediately. It looked so hard to use, seeing as it has all those boxes and lines, but in reality, it's quite easy to use, and you can get nice results from it, despite the hours and hours you're going to have to spend typing something in the on-screen keyboard ( who ever said making an rpg is easy? ), although one day, I went to gamestop and saw a controller than had a "keyboard" in it, so i'm wondering if that ought to work?
--so yeah, all i said can pretty much be summarized with this.

Now for the nasty part, Character creation. Believe me, it sucks to have a 2D charcter image that looks nothing like the 3D version. It has a wide variety of 2D images ( the first 3 suck, but # 4 and #5 have the best pictures, specially 4 ), but it lacks 3D graphics. Pretty 3D graphics that is, since they all suck, why would you want to have a clown as one of your charcters?, and to make things worse, you can select from 4 colors to make your ugly character look "unique", the which they're all equally disgusting. Also, i wanted my main charcter to be 14-years-old, but i'm stuck with a character that looks like frodo baggins for a kid, compared to the scarce adult versions.

As i said before, making your own world map is very easy. You only do a little bit of this, a little bit of that, add some terrain over here and VOILA!, you're done. However your happiness doesn't last that much when you preview your map, and find that you can only walk in the center area of your easily built map, and that means, when using the layout editor, you can only build cities/castles in the same area, making all the kingdoms and dungeons look all bunched up together, making them seem like neighboring houses, instead of cities, and that was a big mistake, shame on you Agetec.

Also, the following seems to me to be rpg maker 3's biggest problem were our friends from Agetec really made sure to make many people not want to buy this, the camera, simply, is $#*#. I had never played a game with camera issues as strong as this one. It sucks so much, that you can almost only go forward, it's like they're controlling your game, instead of you. I have to say i'm really disapointed with this, it sucks so badly. Oh, and before i forget, everytime you talk with an NPC, the camera sort of shakes, and makes it look like an earthquake, why did they have to do this? what have i done to deserve this?

However, all the rest of rpg maker, which isn't that much, is very good, and easy to use. So, i have to say, that i don't recommend this game to just anyone, you must really be a guy/girl with lots and lots of free time, and talking about free time, LOTS of free memory card space ( I found the average ps2 game to be about 300 mb, and just one file for rpg maker 3 is about 2500 mb......that hurt right? ), and most importantly, lots of patience, you're going to need it, trust me.


Tenshi No Takai
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Also, i found what Vex Core said very interesting:

Can you really do this?, this is something i didn't know, i thought rpg maker 3 would have been a better game, had it allowed us to put our 200-hours-masterpieces online. . If this is true, how do you do this?

Well, I bought it last year. It's really good you know. The graphics was better than the first or second series (of course!). Congratulation, AGETEC!!! But, I think it's similar to a game but I forgot what is the game...
Well, I tried to create my own RPG but....because the Suikoden Tactics and Wild ARMs alter code-f is released, so..... yeah...is there anyone who played two games I wrote above???

Is this game coming out for the PAL system?

That whould be soo cool i whould sit there all day everyday making the best game lol. my mate downloaded the making for FFX it goes for ages it shows heaps of mad ##### like it shows this guy sketching up tidus and that heaps good.

Nope, nothing has been mentioned. I'm not suprised, they have never done an RPG maker (for a console) and released it to PAL. Sorry.