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Posted on: February 17, 2015

MischiefMaker

Games: 819 Reviews: 66

Dungeon Keeper meet Rollercoaster Tycoon

RPG games always focus on the experience of being a player character. This game is about the experience of being the dungeon master. You play an unseen king ruling a fantasy kingdom besieged by monsters. Your city and castle guards can't protect you from much more than sewer rats, so you must summon mighty heroes to protect your lands! Unfortunately, much like a table full of drunken PCs who want nothing more than to ruin your carefully planned adventure, the heroes in Majesty have their own ideas of the best course of action for the kingdom right now. From cheap thieves who will do anything for a buck but will drain your kingdom of gold and magic items in the long run, to paladins who will face any threat head-on, sometimes to their detriment, and so on... You interact with the world of Majesty first by setting building sites, which are assembled by your miserable peasants, then by researching weapons and potions for your heroes to buy with gold they earned out adevnturing, and when times get desperate you can just bribe your greedy heroes by offering a bounty to slay a particular beast or explore a particular spot. A wise king soon learns that proper building placement is the key to victory. A warrior's guild next to a temple of agrela means that healing priestesses are more likely to follow your warriors around and boost their survivability. The waddling, vulnerable tax collectors are the lynchpin of your kingdom, guardhouses are less about protective fire against hostiles and more about minimizing the distance a tax collector with a sack full of gold has to run to get the gold to your treasury before a hungry troll devours him. And a wizard guild placed just close enough to a rat-spawning sewer grate can help a scaredy-cat beginner get a kickstart in levels to start himself on the path to becoming a fireball-spewing engine of death! Superior to the sequel in everything but production values, I highly recommend it.

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Posted on: October 27, 2018

Mark-Mark

Games: Reviews: 12

Not the best version of the game

This version has display issues with windows 10 resolved by the more up to date version sold on steam. Sadly the GOG version is the old abandoned version without improved direct x support. Ultimately the game is fine if you are running windows 7 but windows 10 and you may well encounter display issues. The real kick in the head is GOG dont tell you the current version of the software that is live or show you the changelog until after you have purchased it. It has turned buying from GOG into a lottery rather than informed purchase. All I wanted was the version from steam I played but DRM free, save your money here & get the steam version it is better & supports mods!

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Posted on: February 18, 2015

Valendale

Verified owner

Games: 47 Reviews: 67

Get This, Avoid Majesty 2

Do Yourself a favor and don't buy the collection, if you like the Majesty HD Edition you'll probably hate Majesty 2, it removed most of the stuff that makes Majesty such a fun unique and charming experience.

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Posted on: March 2, 2015

Pug.

Verified owner

Games: 27 Reviews: 4

Brought To You By Sean Connery

The part about Sean Connery may have been a fib, but the royal adviser sounds just like him! I half expected to be sent on a quest for a Vodka martini, shaken, not stirred. Majesty was created by Cyberlore Studios, the developer which also brought us Heroes of Might and Magic 2: The Price of Loyalty. If you enjoyed that title, do yourself a favor a pick up this game. Graphics: Pre-rendered isometric environments which really stand the test of time well. Buildings are varied and distinctive, with charming animations that spring to life whenever they are occupied. While the heroes, monsters, and structures are firmly within the realm of fantasy, the designers aimed for a more realistic aesthetic than the WoW-clones which we are used in this debased age. Gameplay: The AI is surprisingly competent. What something dead? Put an attack flag on the structure or creature, wait about five seconds, and your champions will carry out your wishes. Exploration is carried out in a similar vein, by setting bounties to entice Rangers into scouting the land. Buildings can be broken down into guilds (Wizard, Warrior, Rogue, Ranger, and an assortment of temples), defensive structures (e.g. guard towers), and sites for commerce (marketplaces, trading posts). There are also a myriad of purely aesthetic things to construct, like gardens, which serve to improve morale and loyalty among your fighting men and women. Most buildings can be upgrade at least once or twice, giving you access to new spells, potions, weapons and armor, and these upgrades are reflected in the buildings' appearance. You would think this style of gameplay might become monotonous, but Cyberlore does as good job of creating challenges for the player to overcome: overcoming successive waves of enemies, going on quests to retrieve legendary items, opening trade routes, freeing slaves ... you get the idea. Soundtrack: Not much to say on this front. Short but endearing.

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Posted on: February 17, 2015

Eksandor

Verified owner

Games: 2106 Reviews: 1

Sim & Economy

One of the most unique RTS. This game is a mix of economic and sim game. You don't have direct control of your units/heroes. You can only build buildings, improvement of these buildings. From some buildings you can recruit heroes for a fee. Additionally, you can cast spells after the construction temples, and set the appropriate flag awards. Heroes will perform activities specific to their classes. The only way to influence the heroes is to set awards for goals: exploration, attack or defend specific locations on the map. Heroes will gain experience to level up and gain gold to buy new items and weapons, and you will help them with curses and improve buildings: market, blacksmith or guild of wizards. Majesty 1 has superior AI of heroes and better pacing than Majesty 2.

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