I mean...  unless you are making a fan game or something like that , which is what I am doing.
But even if you are making a fan game , the rips should be customly edited to improve onto the design .

And why do people use  overused music or midis?

I heard a zelda song on a dragonballz game  ​

IDK dude, its just easier to take someone else's stuff I guess.  With RPG maker, there are tons of resources out there for sprites and things, chipsets, charsets and the like.

It's kind of a game killer though.

What if mario was made , using bits and pieces of other games.

It's like a Nintendo employee goes up to Shigeru and says , "Sir , we couldn't find a good enough koopa sprite , so we just stuck in a person with a green backpack"

it's not a game killer to me at all. as long as the game is fun i don't care too much about what the graphics look like.

Seeing that question coming, Yeaster's games were a montage of almost everything, proving that some games can stand with less Annie May-ish faces, that taken over by real persons' faces.

Oh, in my case... since I don't have the right tools to come up with music, so I use someone elses, but not the dominant ones like from Final Fantasy, Persona and other overused OSTs.

I got to admit that using other resources is fine , as long as pikachu isn't in a chrono trigger rm2k(3) remake.

Persona? Overused? What may you be talking about good sir?

Also, I don't care either. I mean, haven't we all seen the same blue lunar animation like a hundred times already?

I felt like using RTP because, at the time, RTP graphics were poorly-used last resorts, and I felt like proving that they could be used to make good games... That, and I have always used RTP, so I've got the most experience with that. Instead of using Rm2k3's RTP for music, I've decided to use XP and VX music for overall better music.

(The point I'm going to be arguing here is that using rip edits and someone elses' sprites are okay.  I still don't like RTP, and don't especially like straight charset rips.)

a)  Most RPG Makers are RPG Makers, not artists.  Even though spriting is related to RPG Making, drawing in 16-bit is really not the reason that we do what we do.
b)  If you draw worse than the web resources you can download, then using custom creations just makes the game look worse than using somebody elses' creations.
c)  Anything that isn't ugly or RTP should be perfectly satisfactory.  I agree that it would look bad in professional games (despite the fact that there are a plethora of professional games that use characters from other games, like Super Smash Bros etc.), the fact is that with professional games, people with artistic talent are paid to draw original graphics.  I might learn to draw in 16-bit if I could pay rent doing it.

But really, I don't think it has a bearing on how good a game is.  Especially if we're talking charsets and music, because you can have a good looking game using just web resources for those.  As far as chipsets go, I generally do have to edit web resources, mix-and-match, or draw my own; because chipsets are often lacking a lot of the details that you want to be in your map.

this isn't the same thing as using rips at all

Velfarre you are obviously not a pro gamer like myself since clearly the character NESS is from the smash hit game "Earthbound" (I only use that name so as to not confuse the plebes on this forum since it's true name is Mother 2) also makes an appearance in "Super Smash Brothers Brawl". This proves that "Super Smash Brothers Brawl" uses ripped characters from other series. And like Alex Ross #7 has pointed out, it is an absolute game killer. The other ripped characters such as Mario and Dr. Doom only serve to prove why "Super Smash Brothers Brawl" is an awful game. Plus, it has awful gameplay since the single player is only about an hour long. What a waste of money.

Not everyone who's a good storyteller is a good artist, so people often use edits or rips, resources made by other people, or the Charas project. Another option, of course, is to team up on a game, but few amateur maker seem to do this. I wish people occasionally did this more often, but pulling a team of artists, coders, and composers together is , I am sure, not easy, and not everyone's up for it.

I think Lackeos has most of the points:

1. Not everyone is an artist.
2. Those resources might look better than what most of us can do.
3. Making RM doesn't pay (if it does we might put more EFFORT into it).

Add:

4. I can't make music/midis.
5. Making full custom takes enormous amount of time (chipseettt), which most of us don't have (honestly, working on same game for 3 years can get boring - exaggerated example).

However I also agree that full generic (RTP) is boring. Try to give a small edit to make it look different I guess (be it color, new items, placement, designs etc). Use your Imagination^Tm. You know,try to mix and match the stuff around. It ain't that hard to copy paste pictures. (I am talking mostly about chipset ok).

Also, game music doesn't really bug me. I encourage to use music from less known game though or use less known music from a game.