I'm writing an article about Primordia for Hardcore Gaming 101.

This forum's proved invaluable. That the writer himself posts is brilliant!

But I was wondering if anyone's successfully completed all of the achievements and, if so, what happens?

Nothing special happens, they just get all marked as completed, and that's it.

Thanks.

Still, it must be nice to see a perfect field of green buttons.

The review is up, if anyone's interested:

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/primordia/primordia.htm

A very nice (and thorough) review. Thanks so much for putting it together!

```Horatio's voice is really quite grating. It's the sort of flat grunt that you might expect from a brutish FPS protagonist. Horatio, a three-dimensional character in a three-dimensional world, deserves better.```
Incredible, my friends and I always thought Horatio voice is wonderful. I agree with animations, though. It is the only place where I found the game cheap and not retro.

I too thought Logan Cunningham did an absolutely bang-up job as Horatio--and indeed that all the main voice talent did mighty fine work. All the voices had some robotic processing added, though--which is remarked upon in the game's commentary tracks--and that might have contributed to the "grating" quality.

There's no denying that Logan Cunningham did a great job in voicing Horatio. In terms of intonation and delivery, you're right, it's spot on. My complaint, though, was that the effect is far too similar to the type of thing you might hear from a shallow FPS grunt. I just felt that something less "bad-ass" and more solemn would have been better for Horatio.

I'm not quite sure what exactly I have in mind. Perhaps if he sounded more obviously like a robot and less like a grizzled human war veteran?

I'm thinking along the lines of the voice in Air's How Does It Make You Feel, though less creepy (obviously).

Any problems on that front are my fault, not Logan's: I wasn't able to give any great guidance, but I did suggest that he draw upon Clint Eastwood in Gran Turino. Given that you heard "grizzled human war veteran" and that is exactly what Eastwood was playing in the movie, I'm pretty sure I'm at fault! I can see where you're coming from in the criticism, though; he was a tricky character to voice, and I think Logan did a very good job, especially given the vague direction he got from me.

Interesting bit of background. Maybe it's just because I'm not really familiar with Eastwood's performance in Gran Turino, but I didn't get a grizzled vibe at all from Logan C.'s voice acting as Horatio, much less a "grizzled human war veteran" vibe. Any kind of rough edge there may have been in his voice sounded to me more like the rough edge of a hesychastic hermit than that of an old soldier. At least to my hearing.

Anyhow, thanks so much for the review, ninetyeightytwo--very well done!

"grizzled human war veteran"? A part of the human part think about who Horatio v1 (hint: before the name change) was... The voice is spot on!

Very good point. That simply hadn't occurred to me. Hm.

etb, when I first saw your post, I confess that I didn't quite know what you meant--but I see exactly what you mean now. Yes, given that in one of his previous incarnations he was a warship in the War of the Four Cities, Horatio is, technically speaking, a veteran of a war. Very good point.

As for "grizzled," though... to me he doesn't seem mean enough to qualify as grizzled, somehow. Maybe stoical and no-nonsense, but not quite grizzled. Anyone?

I used the term "grizzled" because it specifically reminded me of John Mullins in the Soldier Of Fortune games.