It’s amusing and quirky in its own way, but this PC version is a product of its time that doesn’t age very well, and there are much better games around to play. Hearing all your adventurers chattering while they go about slaying monsters and collecting rewards is pretty funny.
It’s got a lot of personality, if nothing else. Remember those games? Those were the good old days.īut I think with some better, or at least more compatible, graphics and a little tweaking to the UI it could be a nice little sleeper game for a new generation. It’s the kind of game that I would be terrified to alt-tab out of, for fear that it would lock up the whole computer. This one is just in the “barely” playable category. It’s too much of a hassle to run a game from 2000. I’d like to see a more modernized version of Majesty though. Today, there are more modern games like, say, RimWorld, to turn to. I don’t remember how much I paid for it (I bought it in 2009-I couldn’t even locate an email receipt for it, that’s how old it is), but I’m sure it was a sale for $5 or less. I only played the first tutorial map before I ran out of gaming energy, but it was an interesting game. You can always tell when I've forgotten to take real screenshots and have to grab images from the video by the presence of the logo in the corner. Presumably as they level up they can tackle more and more monsters. You have to pay rogues and rangers to do the real dirty work of getting things done, like killing said monsters and exploring ruins and so forth. So if you want to explore a part of the map, you setup a bounty to reward people with X amount of gold for going to that part of the map.Īnd by “people” I usually mean “adventurers.” Your basic workers don’t do much except get killed a lot by wandering monsters. You have to “entice” people to do things by setting rewards for completing the activities you want done. However in Majesty, you don’t have direct control over your people. The gameplay is similar to other real-time strategy or resource-management games, in that you build buildings which produce people and goods which then allow you to build other buildings, and so on, and so on. It used DirectX 9, and complained a little bit when I first tried to set up the resolution, but it did successfully run in the end. The “Gold HD” version is apparently a 2012 release, with allegedly improved graphics and all the optional addons included, but it still very much looks like a 2D game from 2000. Installation was easy and fast, since the original game is from way back in 2000, it took about 5 seconds to download. The map where you select the "quest" to embark upon. Yesterday was this game’s (possibly second?) chance to impress me, according to the schedule. From the description it sounded like it would be in the same vein as Dwarf Fortress or RimWorld, both games I’ve enjoyed, but it was a little bit different. It’s possible that I’ve played Majesty before, according to Steam, but I don’t remember it at all. Steam Backlog Bonanza – Majesty Gold HD 1 August, 2019