Quote Originally Posted by Awesomeman
Fantasy games are the only good ones, and the only ones worth making. What else is supposed to make? A football game? A fighting game? I say go with fantasy, and something where you can have sequels and not use the same characters, like Final Fantasy.
There are awesome non-fantasy ones. Sci-Fi make good RPG settings too (heart Xenogears). But honestly I'm not sure if RPG-maker would support that out of the box. Probably gotta find some decent chip-sets or whatever they're called.