{"id":162,"date":"2006-03-05T09:32:50","date_gmt":"2006-03-05T14:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=162"},"modified":"2008-05-28T15:36:07","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T20:36:07","slug":"wheres-summoner-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/pop-culture\/videogames\/2006\/03\/05\/wheres-summoner-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s Summoner 3?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just seen a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/feature?pager.offset=3&amp;cId=3148332\">list of upcoming videogames for the PlayStation 3<\/a>, and am once again disappointed that Summoner 3 is nowhere to be found. I periodically <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;q=summoner+3&amp;btnG=Search\">Google Summoner 3<\/a>, but no info is forthcoming. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/ps2\/rpg\/summoner2\/show_msgs.html?topic_id=26233250\">I&#8217;m not the only one looking<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>My favorite video games are old style, D&amp;D leveling games; i.e. RPG&#8217;s. I play other things on occasion, but these are the one that really involve me. However I&#8217;m quite picky even within the genre (which is probably a good thing, since it keeps me from wasting too much time playing and developing RSI.) Specifically I want:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No spiky-haired children. The more realistic the characters the better.<\/li>\n<li>Serious plot and characters. Not just hack and slash.<\/li>\n<li>Not excessively hard combat. I&#8217;m old enough not to have teenage reflexes. For that matter, I wasn&#8217;t all that coordinated when I was a teenager. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To date I&#8217;ve found exactly three such games on the Playstation 2:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.summoner.com\/\">Summoner 1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.summoner2.com\/\">Summoner 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebardstale.com\/\">The Bard&#8217;s Tale<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not quite what I&#8217;m asking for, but close enough was the brilliant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.square-enix-usa.com\/games\/pe\/\">Parasite Eve<\/a> on the Playstation 1. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City isn&#8217;t bad either. <\/p>\n<p>However, there really seem to be very few games that hold my interest through the entire game. For instance, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetbaldursgate.com\/bgda\/\">Baldur&#8217;s Gate: Dark Alliance<\/a> had the gameplay right, but little plot and no characterization worth speaking of. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m so hoping for Summoner 3. It&#8217;s been foreshadowed in both Summoner 1 (The Mystery of Luleva) and 2 (where an older Luleva shows up in the Arena), and it would be a real shame not to ever see it come to fruition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just seen a list of upcoming videogames for the PlayStation 3, and am once again disappointed that Summoner 3 is nowhere to be found. I periodically Google Summoner 3, but no info is forthcoming. I&#8217;m not the only one looking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videogames","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}