That's one putrid link to the 3d era dead.
General Sonic the Hedgehog Thread (Now With Movie 3 & Knuckles)
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Speaking of voice actors, this may or may not be old news but a lot of the Sonic the Hedgehog cast are getting new voice actors, INCLUDING SONIC!
http://kotaku.com/5588142/what-do-sonic-chris-redfield-and-assassins-creeds-ezio-have-in-common
-Sonic will now be voiced by Roger Craig Smith, voice of the current Chris Redfield and Ezio from Assassin's Creed 2.
-Tails has been confirmed to be voiced by Kate Higgins, English voice of Sakura (Naruto Sakura unfortunately).
-Robotnik/Eggman will still be voiced by Mike Pollock, who's voiced him since before Sonic 2006.
-I'm not 100% sure on this last note, but people are claiming that Knuckles, Amy, and Shadow will also all get new voice actors.
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Yeah, that's what snowmint was talking about, hence my remark of their putrid nature.
Thank god that sonic voice actor is gone.
Would have preferred he was replaced by nobody though, but anything is a step up from what was there.
I would prefer that shadow no longer exist.
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Yeah, that's what snowmint was talking about, hence my remark of their putrid nature.
Thank god that sonic voice actor is gone.
Would have preferred he was replaced by nobody though, but anything is a step up from what was there.
The '4kids' cast was the entire crew who did the voices on the Sonic the Hedgehog English anime, right?
Yeah, that was dreadful.
I would prefer that shadow no longer exist.
You and me both.
Hopefully, he'll be a Racer X type and just randomly appear to help Sonic out without saying too much.
EDIT: I know they picked up Sonic's and Eggman's voice actor from the anime, but were any of the other cast continuously used?
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Yes, the terrible anime & the terrible games used the same cast. United in uselessness.
Sonic games need more metallix.
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I didn't see much wrong with the Sonic voice actors. I mean Jason Griffith was much better than Ryan Drummond, if you actually listen to Ryan's performance in Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, it's pretty bad. Jason Griffith was better but he got off to a bad start. Sonic and Shadow in "Shadow The Hedgehog" sounded awful. in Sonic 06, Sonic sounded a ton better as did Shadow, and from there on it was pretty good acting. Sonic Unleashed being Jason Griffith's best. I have no complaints about the rest of the cast, it's just a voice and Jason seems to be the main target of hate for the voice acting.
All in all you're playing a Sonic game for the game not the voice acting. I've heard much worse voice acting, Kid Icarus' voice for that new 3DS game is awful, but that won't detract my enjoyment when playing the game.
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It's just another needless thing that is terrible.
By itself it's not incredibly bad.
But pile all the needlessly terrible things in the world together, and it's called " a 3d sonic game".
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New voice actors?! YESSSSSS I thought we were stuck with 4kids ones for good.
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Get Jaleel White on board.
Sonic needs more Urkel in his voice.
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They should use the cast that dubbed that movie from the 90s.
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@robbybedfart:
Get Jaleel White on board.
Sonic needs more Urkel in his voice.
I did like chili dog sonic.
They should use the cast that dubbed that movie from the 90s.
As long as knuckles doesn't have the hat
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So, apparently, the whole cast of regulars is getting shuffled around. Here's hoping patrick Seitz as Knuckles…
What.
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Redfield as Sonic? Sakura as Tails? Well this will be sort of weird.
Looking at Smith's and Higgin's demo reels though, I am at least partially confident that we will have voice actors that will be able to act, and I'm pretty confident that Tails' voice will fit for the first time since before Sonic fucking Adventure. I'm glad they're keeping Pollock on though. He's probably one of the only voice actors at 4Kids that are excellent. -
I would've thought Higgins would play Amy. . .
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It would be nice if Knuckles was returned to his Genesis self.
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So, apparently, the whole cast of regulars is getting shuffled around. Here's hoping patrick Seitz as Knuckles…
What.
Patrick Seitz is awesome. I'd love for him to be Knuckles.
@Mr.:
Redfield as Sonic? Sakura as Tails? Well this will be sort of weird.
Looking at Smith's and Higgin's demo reels though, I am at least partially confident that we will have voice actors that will be able to act, and I'm pretty confident that Tails' voice will fit for the first time since before Sonic fucking Adventure. I'm glad they're keeping Pollock on though. He's probably one of the only voice actors at 4Kids that are excellent.I wouldn't have any issue with Pollock if:
-His acting was a bit better. That could be the fault of the director, but I sometimes don't feel Eggman isn't menacing enough at times.
-I miss Deem Bristow. Again, not Mike's fault, especially since Deem actually died.I would've thought Higgins would play Amy. . .
Thank God, that's not happening. I'm fine with Sakura's voice, as long as it isn't trying to suck Sonic's non-existant dick.
And don't point out Tails and say he's gay for Sonic.
It would be nice if Knuckles was returned to his Genesis self.
As in what? Cooler than Shadow without even trying?
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As in he laughed at Sonic just before he would unleash whatever trap he had in store for Sonic.
Then in Sonic Adventure he was turned into the resident super serious rival, and was later turned into Sonic's super teamwork buddy.
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As in he laughed at Sonic just before he would unleash whatever trap he had in store for Sonic.
Then in Sonic Adventure he was turned into the resident super serious rival, and was later turned into Sonic's super teamwork buddy.
Well Sonic 3 DID end with the two of them being allies. I'd be pretty hard to make Knuckles a dick again…unless we went with the "DURRR...I'm an idiot...I'm gonna listen to Eggman tell me that Sonic's up to no good and has my chaos emerald....MAKES PERFECT SENSE! I'M CONFUSED! WAAAAAH" card which the anime and sometimes the game has the habit of pulling out.
Otherwise, Knuckles could either think Sonic is a complete idiot and is incapable of doing anything right, and thus Knuckles tries to take matters into his own hand and prevent Sonic from screwing things up at the same time.
Or Knuckles may want to handle the chaos emeralds and Eggman himself due to feeling that it is his own responsibility and no one else's.
But that might be adding too much plot that they can just screw up.
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If we can all agree Sonic sucks giant piles of regurgitated fecal matter, how come we (or in this case, you guys) talk so much about him?
Oh yeah Sonic's getting a new voice actor… I doubt that'll magically make all of his future games even remotely good.
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Speaking of voice actors, this may or may not be old news but a lot of the Sonic the Hedgehog cast are getting new voice actors, INCLUDING SONIC!
http://kotaku.com/5588142/what-do-sonic-chris-redfield-and-assassins-creeds-ezio-have-in-common
-Sonic will now be voiced by Roger Craig Smith, voice of the current Chris Redfield and Ezio from Assassin's Creed 2.
-Tails has been confirmed to be voiced by Kate Higgins, English voice of Sakura (Naruto Sakura unfortunately).
-Robotnik/Eggman will still be voiced by Mike Pollock, who's voiced him since before Sonic 2006.
-I'm not 100% sure on this last note, but people are claiming that Knuckles, Amy, and Shadow will also all get new voice actors.
wow…so tails is gonna have the same voice actor as sakura? XD what the hell?
and the choices for eggman and sonic a pretty good ones.
but come on some of the sonic x actors werent that bad. amy knuckles tails eggman shadow and sonic were ok.. not good but not bad either.
the voices that pissed me off were rouge's and cream's vector's. ESPECIALLY cream! her voice hurt my damn ears everytime i heard it, vector sounds like a dumbass, and rouge sounds like a 50 year old smoker. -
@ZeArmyOfHalen:
If we can all agree Sonic sucks giant piles of regurgitated fecal matter, how come we (or in this case, you guys) talk so much about him?
Oh yeah Sonic's getting a new voice actor… I doubt that'll magically make all of his future games even remotely good.
We're not saying Sonic in general sucks.
Majority of present Sonic the Hedgehog sucks.
Past Sonic was amazing.
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We're not saying Sonic in general sucks.
Majority of present Sonic the Hedgehog sucks.
Past Sonic was amazing.
You can replace "Sonic" with "Naruto" and have a sadly identical situation.
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@robbybedfart:
You can replace "Sonic" with "Naruto" and have a sadly identical situation.
The main difference is that Sonic COULD have the chance to be good again if someone GOOD took over.
Naruto will forever be with Kishimoto. Naruto….is already dead.
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I'm glad they kept Mike Pollock as Eggman's voice; he did the best job out of the previous cast (admittedly, given who the previous cast was, that's not overly tough, but he still did a great job).
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I miss Long John.
Eggman's voice will probaby be the only good thing in Colors, like it always has been.
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I have a sneaky suspicion Kyle Hebert is involved with this title somehow… Knuckles?
Or maybe I'm just reading into things too much. . .
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Speaking of voice actors, this may or may not be old news but a lot of the Sonic the Hedgehog cast are getting new voice actors, INCLUDING SONIC!
http://kotaku.com/5588142/what-do-sonic-chris-redfield-and-assassins-creeds-ezio-have-in-common
-Sonic will now be voiced by Roger Craig Smith, voice of the current Chris Redfield and Ezio from Assassin's Creed 2.
-Tails has been confirmed to be voiced by Kate Higgins, English voice of Sakura (Naruto Sakura unfortunately).
-Robotnik/Eggman will still be voiced by Mike Pollock, who's voiced him since before Sonic 2006.
-I'm not 100% sure on this last note, but people are claiming that Knuckles, Amy, and Shadow will also all get new voice actors.
oh-ho this is news to me. it's about time the sonic cast got a bit of fresh air.
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Kyle Hebert as Knuckles? Ill take it! He would be a much better fit to me than Dan Green. Although i do love Jason Griffith. Oh well.
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Let's keep on hoping that Sonic 4 will be the blue furry's answer to NSMBWII.
Because that's really the best case scenario.
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Has anyone tried Sonic Classic Collection for the Nintendo DS?
Is it as choppy as the GBA release of Sonic 1? How is it?
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Haven't played it myself.
Reviews say rubbish though. Slowdown and the like.
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Has anyone tried Sonic Classic Collection for the Nintendo DS?
Is it as choppy as the GBA release of Sonic 1? How is it?
There is some slowdown, I never found it too bad though. It's certainly no way near the badness of Sonic Genesis. Apparently playing on a DSi will improve some of the slowdown. The game does have some bad sound glitches though, and the Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles special stages have really bad flicker. Some minor issues due to the resolution, like stuff being off screen during cut scenes or text being squashed. It's an OK port, but you'd be better off with some other collections like Sonic Mega Collection unless you really want portable versions.
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If the saturn was more popular this would less of an issue.
Sonic Jam is amazingly good, the definitive collection of 1/2/3/&K
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I do have console collections. But yeah, my main reason for interest is that it is a portable collection. I've heard about the slowdown, but if it's not as bad as Sonic GBA, I'll think about it. Especially if the prices drops down.
I have a large family, and about half of them love the Sonic 1-3K series. It'd be pretty kick ass to play it from anywhere.
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So uh…
http://www.sonicstadium.org/news/alton-towers-sonic-voice-actor-is-roger-craig-smith
Apparently, the new Sonic guy actor can be heard here.
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The Alton Towers voice could be heard as early back as March, but this commercial (or at least the upload) is much more recent than that. I'm expecting him to sound like this in Sonic Colors.
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Haven't played it myself.
Reviews say rubbish though. Slowdown and the like.
How the hell is it games made 15 years ago on 16 bit systems can't be emulated properly on current hardware? HOW?
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So uh…
http://www.sonicstadium.org/news/alton-towers-sonic-voice-actor-is-roger-craig-smith
Apparently, the new Sonic guy actor can be heard here.
Is this gonna be the actor for all the games?
Because, God, Griffith can't act for shit.
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@robbybedfart:
How the hell is it games made 15 years ago on 16 bit systems can't be emulated properly on current hardware? HOW?
Because Sega is just that much fail.
EDIT: Well, at least they got Mega Collection and Gems Collection right.
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Since I don't plan on buying very many games for the next several years and money has to be gained to be used, I'm trying to avoid spending currency on things that are not very good.
So I'm sure I won't buy any future Sonic games for the time being.
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@Badass:
Is this gonna be the actor for all the games?
Because, God, Griffith can't act for shit.
Yeah, but Roger Craig Smith doesn't do his Sonic like this at all anymore. the link I posted is more recent so I believe his take on the character in Sonic Colors will sound closer to that.
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@robbybedfart:
How the hell is it games made 15 years ago on 16 bit systems can't be emulated properly on current hardware? HOW?
no source code + sega incompetance
Why I still have to wheel out my saturn if I want to play sonic & my multi for sonic cd. Sega haven't taken the best care of their legacy.
Same reason there won't be a Panzer Dragoon Saga port.
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Roger Craig Smith sounds like hes trying to impersonate Griffith but he comes off a bit forced and deeper sounding. How long has Sega planned this change?
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A few months at least. Roger Craig Smith's Sonic voice could even be heard inside the Alton Towers Sonic-themed room as early back as March. He sounded much worse back then though, so I'm glad he's making improvement.
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Why would they take Griffith out if he was already perfecting the role? Roger Criag Smith is probably gonna suck in Colors whereas Griffith would have been sub-par again.
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no source code + sega incompetance
And whats even sadder is that Capcom has pretty much done the exact same thing as Classic Collection with their Zero games, but all them play flawlessly.
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Honestly, Sonic was never anything better than a furry 90s cool version of Mario.
So it may very well have been a matter of time before he went downhill. To say nothing of his smaller level of accomplishment.
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Honestly, Sonic was never anything better than a furry 90s cool version of Mario.
So it may very well have been a matter of time before he went downhill. To say nothing of his smaller level of accomplishment.
Its more that the Mario games innovate and make every game interesting and different, and are given the development time they need to be the best product that generation of system can offer.
While the Sonic games are churned out more than annually, using the same broken and problem filled system they've now had for ten years without adressing a single one of the ongoing problems, and in fact, magnifying them and getting them worse and worse. Because they have to get a crappy game out every year for their bottom line.
Its kind of like Pixar and Disney from 1999-2009. One believes quality is the best business plan… the other believes sequals cashing in sheerly on an establish trusted name are enough no matter how cappy the product.
The fact the Sonic games still crank out like clockwork shows that the brand has staying power... despite its long term mediocrity. Though I think a lot of that comes from people going "Well, it can't be as mediocre or bad as the previous game, right?" I know I took a hesitant chance on the werehog game, hoping the daylight levels at least would be fun... but it was the official last straw for me, until that hoped for day a new game comes out with GOOD reviews all around.
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I'm planning to waste my money on Sonic Colors. My last Sonic game was "Sonic and the Secret Rings" and I hated it. This game looks like it'll be a lot better than that one (Because the Secret Rings was pretty bad) so I'm gonna try it. If it's good or if it sucks, you guys will be the first people I tell.
Why would they take Griffith out if he was already perfecting the role? Roger Criag Smith is probably gonna suck in Colors whereas Griffith would have been sub-par again.
Are you serious? You call what's probably some of the worst acting I've ever heard "perfecting the role"?