Majesty Gold

by Atari

Product Details

• ASIN: B001MIQ46S
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,496 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Is it really good to be King? Majesty is a unique Sim putting you in the crushed velvet hot seat of your own kingdom. With an epic quest before you, you make the decisions of where to build your settlement's guilds and temples. From these you recruit a varied cast of larger-than-life heroes. Each one has a mind of his/her own and must be enticed to meet your goals, via rewards you offer and spells you cast. Meanwhile you must make sure that your treasury stays flush with cash to support these and other outlays necessary to maintain a thriving medieval town. The fact that you are being barraged by attacks from mythical beasts and fantastic creatures doesn't make your job any easier.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Strategy Game - freezes on XP, August 18, 2009

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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Majesty Gold (CD-ROM)

My husband gave me the original "Majesty" years ago, I bought the Gold Edition when it came out. I love this game, but, unfortunately, it freezes a lot on my XP PC.

This is why this game is perfect for me: It is a strategy game but divided up into discrete packages. Each quest is separate and you are measured not just in whether or not you can accomplish the quest, but in beating your prior time, as well as anyone else playing the game (it saves for multiple names/questors). Each quest is different and needs a totally different game plan to win. Plus, in each quest, there is always some luck involved, too, and things you have no control over. Unlike a big war sims game, Majesty is a very fine combination of puzzle and war. For example, your quest can be to find and rescue slaves held in three slave pits. The luck is that you have no idea just where in the Majesty world to look first, and the locations change every time you play. The strategy comes in because there are many types of heros to recruit, there are many types of incentives to use, there are many types of enemies you'll face, and finding the right combination of heros for the enemies who show up is important. (And for me, sometimes takes many many tries!) You have limited gold, so should you build an armorer first, and to what level should you take the armorer? Or should you build marketplaces or fairgrounds or a library or add to the castle or guardposts or magician towers. What skill set will help you most? Berserkers, magic, stalwartness, sneakiness, thievery, healing powers, ability to raise the dead, high defense, low morals, poison, etc etc. It is an absolutley wonderful game for a middleaged woman without the reflexes for straight shoot-em-ups but a love of figuring out what's the best strategy.

I eagerly await Magesty II, coming out next month. I hope they kept the best about the original, because it's a fantastic game for what I would call the thinking and older gamer. It is, for example, a game where I can still beat my 15 year old.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Addictive Game Play, September 2, 2009

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Thomas Marushia Jr. (Union, WV) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Majesty Gold (CD-ROM)

Majesty is a real-time strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world with you as King or Queen. Your goal is to establish your kingdom and try to expand it. Majesty's interface is easy to understand. You click on a building, character, or item to get information about it and act upon it. Acting upon a building means repairing and upgrading it. In several cases, such as with a guardhouse, marketplace, or blacksmith's shop, you conduct research into areas specific to that building, such as weapon and armor level upgrades for the blacksmith and additional types of goods for the marketplace.

There are 18 scenarios included in the game. Four of them are secret and require you to complete one or more of the other 14 before you can start them. The others are independent, and there's no cohesive story or campaign linking them together. Some of the scenarios are designed for beginners as a means of introducing the various elements of the game system, while some are rated as advanced, and a few are designed for expert players.

This game has great replay value, and even after all these years since I purchased this game, I find myself installing it back onto my computer and doing it all over again. It gives you a sense of power, as to what and where you are gonna build and whether or not you will attack the neighboring kingdom.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the funnest games I've played in a LONG time!, April 5, 2010

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Arthur Gardner "Aardcore" (Tucson, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Majesty Gold (CD-ROM)

I'm not surprised I haven't heard of this game earlier, and with that, I feel like I've been stolen of a gaming experience late to admire. But better late than never, right? Majesty is a one of a kind type of game, most likely, the ONLY type of game in its kind as I've read it to be a genre-creating game as I've yet to see a game come close to the kind of sophistication and charm this game offers. This game plays alot like a casual gamer's type of mode; there's nothing extreme to it here as most RTS's/typical strategy games would demand. In fact, there's not a whole lot of resource managing or unit micromanagement at all! You don't even touch a single unit yet the game functions exactly as it should feel! AMAZING! I must admit, the interface felt a little odd, not to mention the player's detachment from unit control was something a little surreal but once I got into the groove of the game's mechanics-- it's simply outstanding. A real addictive experience worth every minute of your time!

It's hard to place a comparison to what this game is like. It plays like an RTS yet functions like a simulation (such as SimCity or The Sims) yet it plays like a puzzle game as it demands a degree of attention that keeps your interests motivated and your mind geared to what you should be doing to protect your kingdom. The game is so remarkably streamlined, almost too simple that I can yet still believe this game can actually be played as many times as it could and yet never feels dull! Given a few moments away from the game and moments later I'm drawn back in because of this game's quirky, whimsical, however aspiring charm.

I only wish more games were created under the scope of this kind of gameplay because it really has something for everyone when it's not demanding to do something extreme, serious or hardcore like with so many other games out there. While a few hodgepodge titles outside of Majesty exist to kick back, relax and take a moment with one's own devices-- Majesty is a game exactly for that principle and should be an addition to anyone's "Leave me alone I'm gaming because I want to get away from people" type of way.

There is one drawback to this game however and that's without cause, and it's graphics. The game is severely outdated but the gameplay remains as its strongest suit-- as mentioned at first I was taken aback by this game and the graphics at first did little to interest me but once I got past that, I found some love in its outdated look and embraced the game completely. Which got me to thinking, as treating this as a casual game; do you play Tetris for its graphics? Or Bejeweled? The same kind of mentality fits into Majesty but even more so as the game's graphics suit the title comfortably. However, seeing current generation graphics of this game would be a nice gesture. I'm aware of Majesty's sequel, Majesty 2, but I've heard and read reports of the game's failing aspiration to be as successful as its predecessor (solely because Cyberlore had nothing to do with Majesty 2 at all except by association of its prececessor as it sold its rights to Paradox...) which leaves me at a bit of a loss as I was hoping to get into Majesty 2 if I liked Majesty-prior at all... and now here I am obsessing over the game's fundamentally obtruse gaming mechanics! I can only imagine what a more sophisticated, graphically detailed, SUCCESSFUL reemergence of this title would be like... as they say, third time's a charm so IF we see a Majesty 3? I'd like to see it done right. In the mean time, Majesty on its own stands as a game that, while probably remaining underrated and overlooked entirely, will be a diamond in the rough for most people who have yet to discover this game.

And for the price tag you'll find this at nowadays? It's literally a steal... do yourself a favor, don't think, act, and check this game out. It is hands down AWESOME.