Comments on: My Kingdom For A Gift Horse: Majesty 2 Demo

By: Cruxis

Cruxis — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:59:54 +0000

the original works perfectly fine on my windows7. I run 64 bit.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:37:54 +0000

One more thing: Extortion is very useful. The 30% (I think) commission is steep, but not getting any money ’cause your tax collector got et by ratmen is worse.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:27:27 +0000

Grouping is essential if a bounty is far away from your castle, since it prevents the heroes from arriving piecemeal (as it would otherwise happen). The tougher lairs need a ‘critical mass’ of heroes to take down quickly.

By: Scott Constantine

Scott Constantine — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:15:01 +0000

Did you guys take a look at the preview build? The translation was bloody awful on it, in an amusing way.

The mechanics of M2 make it really interesting to play and its a delight to see your little soldiers go an arm themselves with new weapons after completing quests. Its kinda like being the GM of a MMO in a weird kinda way.

By: Blackberries

Blackberries — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:14:47 +0000

Never played the original, but lord I sucked at that demo. Also, what’s all this other people are saying about grouping?

Still, I enjoyed it.. Feels like my sort of thing.

By: Droniac

Droniac — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:37:10 +0000

I had my reservations when it was announced, but still placed a pre-order on Impulse (because Majesty Gold was just that good). And this demo blew me away.

It really is just Majesty with a new engine and some minor tweaks. Even a few of the voices are identical! Exactly what I needed, can’t wait for Friday’s release!

By: Carra

Carra — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:47:03 +0000

Finished the demo on first try.

Feels very much like the original game. Without the cool voices. Also strange that my heroes rather attack a building then help someone under attack two feet away from then. I do feel screwed by their “get the original game for free” as I already got it, just give me a discount :)

I finished the demo without using the group option. Only just figured out that you can now use that. It’s all about getting some higher level heroes. Once they reach level ten or so they’re very hard to kill. Until then your mages or rogues can get one shotted.

By: Greg Wild

Greg Wild — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:54:59 +0000

It’s also important to note that when heroes buy stuff it builds up taxes you to collect from the relevant buildings.

By: Gothnak

Gothnak — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:22:52 +0000

Towers in the Southwest are the most important element of the level. I’ve upgrade my rangers to the max and they are dropping most enemies at range. Just built a temple of Krypta, i hope it’s worth all that cash.. Stupid lunch break over.. Have Friday off, Huzzah!

By: Kyr

Kyr — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:02:15 +0000

I recommend you use rogues – they’re fast, cheap and greedy. They work best a party leaders, so party goes where rogue leads them. Also do not hesitate to buy upgrades for your heroes, it helps a lot. And build a marketplace with health potions!

By: Greg Wild

Greg Wild — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:35:29 +0000

Indeed Diji, it’s much, much easier to do if you actively destroy enemy lairs rather than turtling.

By: Diji

Diji — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:46:20 +0000

@Arathain
I found it easier once I stopped playing like a turtle. At first I was rubbish and using clerics and warriors to slowly kill the lairs around the base, wasn’t working very well. Decided to change it up and get rangers first to explore the trade posts + lairs and build all the posts early to get an early gold advantage, it worked pretty well. I was fairly rubbish at Majesty 1 but once I got the hang of the demo mission it wasn’t hard at all.
FWIW, I didn’t spend gold on upgrades until I had all the basic guilds (and had an extra cleric + warrior guild).