As someone who is new to the series, I enjoy many aspects of Space Rangers HD. Music is good, graphics are ok, character and ship variety is decent, and it has a massive trove of stuff to do. It's fun being part of a galaxy with acting AI for every aspect from ship captains to planet governors, all competing to improve their standings using the same rules as the player. Land based battles are cheesy due to some weapons significantly outperforming others and AI's having massive resource advantages, but they're still fun. However, it's difficult to enjoy the game when it crashes every 40 minutes. The stability is poor and it's hard to have a good game with such frequent issues. Another big issue is that you have to either sacrifice yourself to the auto-battle gods or manually assign each weapon to a ship within range, but only when it is your turn. Enemies can change who they target with weapons on the fly, but you are trapped to wait a turn before you can change your targets. You can't even return fire if someone attacks you in the middle of your turn, so you're stuck taking shots without being able to do a thing about it. Early game this is devastating because you can lose a third of your ship's health before you even get a chance to shoot back at a pirate, and by then the battle is already lost. Space Rangers HD is fun and worth the $4 sale price, but its issues will probably not be resolved anytime soon by the developers.
The AI in Majesty 1 is dumb as rocks, likes to wander around in the wilderness alone unless it's one of the few combinations of heroes which party together, fights futilely to the death when ambushed, and its ability to form functional parties is questionable at best. I was fairly frustrated when I found 11 of my 12 healers following a single warrior wandering around on the opposite side of the kingdom from all the action. This is a very common occurrence where the ability to defend your kingdom relies a great deal on the random whimsies of the AI. This doesn't mean the game isn't fun to play, it just requires an upbeat attitude which finds the silliness funny rather than infuriating. And thanks to the randomly generated campaign maps, there is plenty of room for repetition until success is achieved. The game brings kingdom building in spades, and deciding how to spend precious starting money is usually pretty fun. There isn't really a lot to say here. Three races to assist (or hamper) you in various ways and two choices of sets of religions. Sadly the randomly generated maps are always large, flat fields, so base layout doesn't get a lot of variety. Overall it's pretty fun and worth a 4/5.
