4Kids VAs in Sonic Game- All that bad?

[Blue Blood]

As you know, 4Kids voice actors now do the voices for Sonic games. Having heard them in game, I honestly do not think that they are all that bad. I mean, I've only played Rush but the voices are so easy to listen and get used to. My only gripe would be one of Sonics lines. On Exception he say 'I got it!' That is the only time I think he sounds lame. It's like he's drunk of something.

Anyways, for those of you that have played Shadow, your opinions on the voices there?

 

[blaze boy]

Well in shadow the hedgehog sonic's voice is crap he sound like a little kid not a 15 years old and shadow's voice sound like that he got a cold.

Sega will suffer for their mistake.

 

[Chris]

One thing I'll never understand about the complaints. The Sega English voices weren't that great to begin with either. I couldn't stand either Sega's or 4Kids' choices. Knuckles STILL sounds awful. Give me Japanese voices any day.

 

[The Requiem]

Well in shadow the hedgehog sonic's voice is crap he sound like a little kid not a 15 years old and shadow's voice sound like that he got a cold.

Sega will suffer for their mistake

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Anywho. I definitely preferred the former cast. The reason they were replaced is b/c the original VA for eggman passed on. But they couldve just brought up the 4kids Eggman and everything wouldve been fine. But no...They bust in with the sorry *** 4kids crap without letting ANY of the former actors know their positions were taken.

Hmm....

Someone can choke on a lug nut for that crap.

Plus there was no option for Japanese voices with engrish subtitles. Shame on you all.

Game was still good though, except for that ridiculous battle as Super Shadow and the rather anti-climactic ending(s).

 

[Chris]

Anywho. I definitely preferred the former cast. The reason they were replaced is b/c the original VA for eggman passed on. But they couldve just brought up the 4kids Eggman and everything wouldve been fine. But no...They bust in with the sorry *** 4kids crap without letting ANY of the former actors know their positions were taken.

Didn't stop them from continuing the use of Sega voices after E-102's/President's voice actor passed away after Sonic Adventure 2.

Plus there was no option for Japanese voices with engrish subtitles. Shame on you all.

Last I heard, that was just the Cube version.

 

[blaze boy]

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Then you are really stupid.

Anyway I understand that the old Eggman VA pass away so he had to be changed but the other didn't well maybe Tails but the others didn't.

P.S how did the old Eggman VA die?

 

[Wes]

Heart attack. Meh. Their better then when they are on the show so that's good enough improvement for me. Besides Tails new VA is much better then his Heroes. Same for Charmy and Amy. Then again Charmy is supposed to be annoying so he'll always be annoying. The only real VA I had problems with was Vector. His voice just makes me think of Kermit the frog every time I hear it.

 

[PDL]

Didn't stop them from continuing the use of Sega voices after E-102's/President's voice actor passed away after Sonic Adventure 2.

thing is that E-102 was destroyed at the end of it's storyline... and what are the chances that the President was going to return as a Sonic character?

the big difference is that Dr. Eggman is pretty much the main antagonist in every sonic game... Sonic Team would never write such an important character out of the fandom entirely... even if his voice actor died.

but I do agree that 4kids' voices SUCKED compared to the original ones

except for Charmy Bee's... that was the only one that was an improvement from the original voice.

 

[Chris]

Just because Eggman's VA passed away, doesn't mean they changed the whole cast for that reason. Big's Japanese VA passed away, and they didn't change the cast.

Not to mention, we all saw the changes coming so long ago when Ryan Drummond announced he wouldn't be Sonic in Sonic X and none of the Sega cast would be voicing their roles.

I'm probably the only one here who's bothered to mention that both sets sucked. >_>

 

[PDL]

I'm probably the only one here who's bothered to mention that both sets sucked. >_>

that's because everything not japanese sucks to you

 

[Yamato-san]

that's because everything not japanese sucks to you

Ed's hardly a Japanophile. He finds the Cowboy Bebop dub better than the original, and I've seen him compliment the English voice of Alphonse Elric several times, just to name a couple examples.

Anyway, I prefer the Japanese voices too, and the 4kids voices can't be too bad if they have a different voice director. However, I am one to complain about Sega's actions because it's just plain ridiculous that they so suddenly decided to have "product consistency" now.

 

[blaze boy]

so the voice director is the problem then.

 

[Wes]

I suppose....but it was the voice director that also pushed for the 4KIDS actors to sound better in the games when they do on the show...well one thing is for sure...for now....we got the 4KIDS voices for future Sonic games unless if they do nother change which I doubt...meh who knows?

 

[Chris]

that's because everything not japanese sucks to you

Yeah, because we all know I absolutely hate English dubs and never watch anything English dubbed and will go on a bashing tangent.

Right.

Learn before you speak. The original English voice cast for Sonic Adventure was HORRIBLE. They had no prior experience and barely gave any kind emotion to their characters. Actually compare the casts in Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2.

 

[CM]

Personally, I loved the Sonic Adventure 2 cast. (Sonic Adventure was ok, but most of the V/As the kept didn't hit the characters until SA2)
The 4kids v/as really aren't *bad* I just prefer the SA2 cast to most of them. (Tails is kind of in the middle, but oh well, Tails just shouldn't talk)

Having the same voice actor play Sonic AND Shadow is kind of crazy if you ask me. (I can hardly tell the voices apart)

Jason Griffith just doesn't have the same "oomph" that Ryan put in for Sonic.
He also doesn't have the angst and em- Erm dark voice for Shadow as David Humphry did.

Rouge's voice just went to hell and woke up with a man's voice. >_>

I'm perfectly fine with Eggman, he makes a good V/A for him.

I gues it pisses me off that they didn't even notify Ryan, or any of the other v/as until Ryan called them. ;\

 

[PDL]

Learn before you speak. The original English voice cast for Sonic Adventure was HORRIBLE. They had no prior experience and barely gave any kind emotion to their characters. Actually compare the casts in Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2.

honestly though, does it really matter if any language cast does a good job on this sort of game?

I don't play Sonic games solely for the diolouge and voice acting anyway, even the storyline isn't a huge thing. I simply play them because they're fun

and you don't need amazing diolouge to be successful... look at the star wars movies... their scripts have always sucked, but that didn't stop them from being incredibly successful...

 

[Chris]

When a game features cutscenes and features voicework, most should expect that the characters actually pull off being believable and not sound like they're reading off of a script.

look at the star wars movies... their scripts have always sucked, but that didn't stop them from being incredibly successful...

Replace Star Wars movies with "current Sonic games" and it's about the same thing. Only reason Star Wars eps. 1, 2, and 3 were even successful in theaters was because of people who're either amazed by flashy effects or just plain hardcore fans. With the Sonic games, it's both and the majority of newcomers who decided Sonic was cool when he wasn't on a system they wouldn't touch because it was against their preciously loved company.

 

[asia_catdog_blue]

I guess people don't use mute buttons.

And I like Rouge's voice on Sonic X.

 

[Vortex]

I have to say Charmy was a real aprovement, why couldn't his voice be like this before? =P

As for the others, meh. I do listean to the American VA's but thats me. At least they turned out better sounding in the games then they did in Sonic X. But they aren't as good. They aren't AS bad as they are in Sonic X but surely not as good. Its sad what they did to Vector. ._.

Replace Star Wars movies with "current Sonic games" and it's about the same thing. Only reason Star Wars eps. 1, 2, and 3 were even successful in theaters was because of people who're either amazed by flashy effects or just plain hardcore fans. With the Sonic games, it's both and the majority of newcomers who decided Sonic was cool when he wasn't on a system they wouldn't touch because it was against their preciously loved company.

To agree with you there, I find it sad how the fandom of Sonic increased when he came to the 'Cube. And this isn't even me talking smack on the newer games, but its obvious and quite sad how this new fandom of Sonic took over when he was ported over to Gamecube and then new games came out for Gamecube, PS2, and X-Box. >> I miss the Dreamcast days, I loved the system. =P

 

[Wes]

True true. What about the new chracters like Blaze? They also have new VA's from 4KIDS and Blaze sounds pretty good.

http://media.putfile.com/blazerushvoice I thank Zonic for these great voice clips of Blaze.