Summoner now available!

[THQ Nordic]

Dear RPG fans,

we are happy to announce that one of our great jewels of the past, Summoner, is now available on Steam.

Enjoy
Cheers
Your Nordic Games Team

[Mika]

I would love to see the sequel get a steam release. ;3

[JERICHO DREAD™]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Mika:

I would love to see the sequel get a steam release. ;3

Sure would be nice. I remember beating the game back in the day on PS2 and am about to try and get a hold of it for gamecube and go for another run on it. Would be great to see it for PC.

[The Doctor]

Any chance you'll give it an update for PS2 controls? using just a mouse to play is fine, but i miss playing it like i did back when it first came out. I know its been 7 years but still wishful thinking.

[AARosson]

I like PC controls better. Also if you git stuck or want to skip some stuff you can use the warp hot keys. I miss playing this in multiplayer... It was fun. I would love to see this remastered or done. Its story is so epic.

[Toficque]

Guess that Summoner 2 PSN release never came to be?

[Tacosupreme]

it's 2021 and no port to psn for summoner 2 "sighs" I would think that the source codes could be gotten . I really truely love the game . I went through a lot to get my ps2 bios though so I could play summoner on my pc..lol But if it was ported then sound would work better than using a simulator.

[Tacosupreme]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Toficque:

Guess that Summoner 2 PSN release never came to be?

yea I was really hopeful. summoner 1 is ok but Just imagion if they brought themselves to remaster the games. I can't beleive THQ can't get the source codes though. I mean Their label is smacked all over the games. I think Volition did the games and THQ was publisher? perhaps I am wrong but you would think the devs would say hey THQ sure you could liven the games again.

[Tacosupreme]

Or perhaps THQ deved summoner 1 and volition did the second. It's confusing these days any more lol. Still I really loved the games they sort of brought me through hard time in my life. I was really in the dumps and the games kept me from moping about in my problems if you get what I mean.

[Method4DMad]

Honestly I feel like if the attention could be garnered it's not completely impossible we could see a resurface of Summoner 2.

The problem will be gathering enough people to garner that attention...BUT if it could be done, I'd be willing to bet there's a chance of it happening.

Edit: Also this might be the only thread ever in my life that I actually get excited when it gets necro'd because it's just always nice to talk Summoner xD

[AARosson]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Explosive Diarrhea:

Or perhaps THQ deved summoner 1 and volition did the second. It's confusing these days any more lol. Still I really loved the games they sort of brought me through hard time in my life. I was really in the dumps and the games kept me from moping about in my problems if you get what I mean.

Volition, was the Game Developer, THQ the publisher.
Volition is the same developers that gave the world Decent. Summoner was a new Type of game for them. They mostly worked on Action shooters like Decent1/2,FreeSpace/2, Red faction, and then comes a really cool RPG with awesome new methods of Texture mapping and voice acting but it was rushed out the door due to publisher politics. I remember reading about it in a gaming magazine back in 1999.

Using the same engine as never released game Decent 4 and still in development Red Faction they create Summoner and was set to be a lunch title for the PS2. They end their publishing deal with Interplay and was purchased by THQ. They were not able to make Decent 4 due to it being owned by Interplay so they focused on Red Faction and reused all of the code.

Volition, Now Deep Silver Volition. The publishing writes for Summoner is now owned by Nordic Games after THQ's bankruptcy. The IP sold for a very small amount of money... but Nordic spent 6.5 million on their bulk of their game library.

Summoner has a great story. If they remade it and actually finished it. I Imagine it would be a good seller...

Volition is Still creating games, they are still out there. I Always loved their early games before the saints games. I hope they go back to their roots.

That being said, if you want to mod Summoner, Just use the red faction mod tools. Also if you want to Play Summoner 2 on the PC you can always use dolphin. The gamecube version was the definitive version.

[Zidders 'Rockin' Bard' Roofurry]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Explosive Diarrhea:

it's 2021 and no port to psn for summoner 2 "sighs" I would think that the source codes could be gotten . I really truely love the game . I went through a lot to get my ps2 bios though so I could play summoner on my pc..lol But if it was ported then sound would work better than using a simulator.

THQ experienced financial issues due to mismanagement. Because of this Volition was sold in a fire sale to Deep Silver who now own the rights to their games. While I'm not sure if the source code exists or not it's really a matter of whether or not the files were backed up or not and if they were whether or not Summoner 2 sold enough copies to warrant porting it.

If I remember right Summoner 2 didn't sell that well so I wouldn't hold your breath.

[AARosson]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Zandakar:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Mhmmm:

Nordic Games, why didn't you release Summoner 2 and Saints Row 1 for PC? We both know you would still make some money, even if you would release them on Steam in 2015. Especially from Saints Row 1.

They already said in one of the first replies that they don't have the source code which would make a PC port for summoner 2 more difficult.

Anyways what are the chances we will see a Summoner 3 Nordic guys?

Well, if you have an original Gamecube disk it makes it rather easy to rip the game files....

https://www.factionfiles.com/ff.php?action=files&file_category=8

Ripping and modding summoner 1 is very easy.
I am not sure if Summoner 2 is using the Descent 4 engine or not but if it is, reverse engineering it would be annoying but not impossible.

[AARosson]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von AARosson:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Zandakar:

They already said in one of the first replies that they don't have the source code which would make a PC port for summoner 2 more difficult.

Anyways what are the chances we will see a Summoner 3 Nordic guys?

Well, if you have an original Gamecube disk it makes it rather easy to rip the game files....

https://www.factionfiles.com/ff.php?action=files&file_category=8

Ripping and modding summoner 1 is very easy.
I am not sure if Summoner 2 is using the Descent 4 engine or not but if it is, reverse engineering it would be annoying but not impossible.

I took a deeper look it uses Volution table files so if you wanted to see it run on pc you could just mod summoner 1 and sub out all of the files for the summoner 2 files.... better yet you probably could run the levels by adding a button on the launch screen as a test....

https://ibb.co/nskQQW6

This is not a can't do it, probably just not a want to do waist the money on it.

[Mephisticles]

My question is this,, who do we need to blow up on twitter or wherever to let them know to remaster/remake summoner 1 and 2???? I'm not sure who to tag in my tweet or who to send an email to, and those posts recently are very confusing.

[Method4DMad]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Mephisticles:

My question is this,, who do we need to blow up on twitter or wherever to let them know to remaster/remake summoner 1 and 2???? I'm not sure who to tag in my tweet or who to send an email to, and those posts recently are very confusing.

I have no idea but if we can find it I do think there's a chance of igniting that spark