>Get a close soundalike to your previous main actor (albeit they should have never screwed over Ryan Drummond in the first place)>Have a cast consisting of various actors consisting of people who became famous for Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh and even the actress for English Lina Inverse from fucking Slayers>Replace them with some of the most questionable miscasts and typecasts who have become some of the most common types of voices in English VO and dubbing scene all because of some basedboys who got pissmad and shat on any game using the 4kids cast>Sonic voiced by Chris Redfield from Resident Evil 5 and now has to be written like a cringe millennial>Amy voiced by someone who sounds more and more like an old hag and now has to be written as the most generic girlboss ever>Rouge now sounds even more horny than her 4kids actress did and now has orgasms for no reason in Crossworlds>This voice cast has been going on since 2010. 16 years, longer than any prior English Sonic VAs and it’s only continued to get worse.>pic related
>Spares your ears from hearing Fat Deku
Just listen to Japanese Sonic
>>741317318Aigis as Rouge is the best since Maya Amano as Rouge.Actually surprised they didn’t cancel Aigis’s VA considering she was a vaccine skeptic blumpft voter
All translations are fanfiction
>>741317318>>Rouge now sounds even more horny than her 4kids actress did and now has orgasms for no reason in Crossworldshttps://youtu.be/J_-Otu9Fpbg
>>741318152https://x.com/meteormorning/status/1970523957569954149https://x.com/emzberry/status/1970313195769495800It's fucking DREADFUL
>>741317318Could just play in Japanese. The entire cast sounds fantastic. Sonic has sounded exactly the same since Sonic Adventure 1, Shadow actually has a cool voice that doesn't sound like a young kid doing his best villain impression, and Amy doesn't sound like she wants to fucking die. Knuckles also has an awesome hot-blooded voice.I think a lot of the characters sound good in English (Eggman as the obvious standout), but it's been fucking years and I STILL can't get used to Sonic's voice or whoever the fuck they've been getting to voice Shadow.
>>741317823Remember when they used to cast soundalikes to him for the English VAs? That's why Ryan Drummond even got hired in the first place, funnily enough: not even joking.
>>741318735Iizuka said it himselfhttps://browniehideout.wordpress.com/2021/10/08/kanemaru-iizuka-30th-anniversary-discussion/#sonic-kanemaru-junichi
i hate they changed the entire cast like 3 times. SA2 was the peak of sonic VA casting. That being said the modern cast is fine.
>>741317318I just hate that the ONE time SEGA finally decided to stop swapping around voice casts and stick with just one, they stick to the worst one.The 4Kids cast was great casting but suffered from bad acting while the Studiopolis has better acting but full of terrible miscasts.
>>741317318With the exception of Cream and Charmy, they all sounded great in that Chaotix Casefiles audio drama. Just need that energy and tone in the games
>>741318859You can tell he pretty much dropped that philosophy around the 2010s because yes Iizuka, I definitely think of Junichi whenever I hear the hooba dooba regular show character guy talk out of Sonic’s mouth.And to be fair, Jason also sounded different from Junichi but he atleast still had a Sonic-y vibe to his voice.
>>741320439>Sonic-y vibe to his voiceYou can't even articulate what this means. And even if you could, (I don't care if it's some horsehit about DA WIND or MUH SHONEN whatever, it doesn't matter) it's not an issue with voice acting, but writing and voice direction. The actors just read the script the way they're told to. Smith is a fine voice actor and sounds fine as Sonic, at absolute worst. He doesn't sound like Junichi much either, but at least he's closer to him than fucking Griffith was. Good lord.Look, if the worst thing you can say about a Sonic voice actor is that he sounds like he's from Regular Show, and not "tALkInG LiKe tHiS" constantly, then I think we're doing okay. I swear, people have the biggest nostalgia goggles for Griffith, it's unreal. People HATED that dude's voice acting (along with the rest of 4Kids VAs) during the 2000s. It was near universal, too, which is crazy for Sonic fans. When Smith came on board people hated him too because the voice was too deep, but by Generations he found his footing, and most fans seemed to like him well enough. I strongly suspect the only reason this changed is because the kids that grew up with Griffith started having nostalgia for him, in addition to more recent Sonic games having dogshit writing and voice direction.
>>741321557Holy schizo
>>741317318however much you don't like Smith, you have to admit he sounds way better than Urkel and whatever bumblefuck they got to voice Sonic in the OVA
>>741321994He's right, Griffith's performances as Sonic were terrible. He can barely emote and that wobbly cadence is why every other basic Sonic impression constantly goes WOaoaOah to sell you on it because that's what Griffith sounded like.
I like the Chris Redfield guy's voice. I like how he sounds more chilled out, and less "YeAh, ThIs is HapPeNinG!".Sonic fans seriously just latch onto the first game they ever played, and think it's the "right" way to do Sonic.Technically Jaleel White was his first English voice actor.
>>741321557>>741322960>>741324106People only hated the 4kids cast because they replaced the Dreamcast originals. People overexaggerate how bad Griffith’s acting was. I’ll take a weaker soundalike as long as it sounds decently enough like what came before, this is why I’m able to tolerate Kevin Afghani as Mario despite him replacing Charles Martinet: Because they still casted a soundalike.Roger sounds so far removed from what a Sonic voice sounds like, it’s like if they got Chris Pratt to voice Mario in the games or if they went for a voice akin to Pratt’s voice in those Illumination movies after letting go of Charles.
>>741326152I don't think Drummond and Griffith sound even remotely similar. Drummond was obviously way more nasal and his voice had more of an edge to it because of that. I maintain Griffith is the worst Sonic voice actor because he had too much of a friendly, approachable tone to his performance. You could even call it a little dorky. Sonic has an attitude and engages in regular trash talk. RCS. sounds different, but more appropriate for such a character than Griffith did
>>741326152>People overexaggerate how bad Griffith’s acting wasCompared to Drummond his early voice work was kind of average plus he was voicing both Sonic and Shadow(and Jet) in relatively quick succession so his voice was kind of all over the place. Right at the end of his time as Sonic he really set himself up nicely. Black Knight and Unleashed Sonic are top tier voice performances. Black Knight's especially. He improved over time and hit his stride on his last roles.
>>741317318You already made this thread multiple times, schizo. Just play in Japanese.
>>741322960>and that wobbly cadence is why every other basic Sonic impression constantly goes WOaoaOah to sell you on it because that's what Griffith sounded like.That's what makes his Sonic the best, you retard. Ever wonder why nobody tries to emulate Drummond or Craig? You said it yourself.
>>741326152Because sounding like the other two would take effort. People generally don't like Smith's Sonic as well, so it's not surprising that people don't go for that. It's really that simple.
>>741326824>Sonic has an attitude and engages in regular trash talk. RCS. sounds different, but more appropriate for such a character than Griffith didLiterally the number one most popular trash talk quote that Sonic has is, "You're too slow!" Simple, punchy, earnest, and delivered perfectly. Meanwhile, the most notable trash talk that Craig's Sonic ever delivered was some smarmy, ironic, and long-winded nonsense about copyright law, or that juvenile "baldy mc-nose hair" rubbish. I don't even think Craig's Sonic would break top 20 for most iconic and/or coolest Sonic quotes.
>>741329703Meant for >>741329368
>>741329704not really his fault, more of a problem of the scripts he's been handed
>>741329703No, it's because his Sonic voice left the biggest impression
>>741330332I think it may be more like Sonic(and his other Sonic series roles) was Griffith's only known or at least popular role so you hear him speak and your first thought is SONIC. With Smith he's voiced a fuck ton of random anime and game characters so his voice isn't instantly recognized as Sonic as he could be many other characters. For Griffith it's either Sonic or Shadow.
>>741321557The thing is that the 4kids crew came into their own eventually with their Unleashed and onwards work being much better.
>>741330332Roger's Sonic voice has no cutural relevance, ask anyone on the street to do a Sonic impression and they'll imitate Ryan or Jason. Jason literally started out as a imitation of Ryan in particular as well.
We get it, you miss your childhood
Roger is a pretty talented voice actor. Why is his Sonic so unremarkable compared to those who came before him?
>>741331952Because he doesn't have the range, he's a miscast; plain and simple. I hate how Sonicfags on Twitter keep trying to insist he isn't one just because he's lasted the longest out of any Sonic VA even though he's only gotten worse with time. He's such a bad fit for the role it's not even funny anymore.
>>741331952Because his Sonic sounds like a middle aged man trying to pull a "how do you do, fellow kids" voice.
>>741322503>you have to admit he sounds way better than UrkelJaleel White is actually good at voice acting, especially for that specific iteration of Sonic, what are you on about?
>>741331952The scripts. Pretty much the entirety of Sonic's dialogue since he became VA has been corny dad jokes
>>741332572Lol no. Even the OVA guy was better than fucking urkel
>>741332719He wasn't. It's going to take more than shitposting to prove your case.
>>741322503Nope, he's even worst than Urkel sonic.
>>741318369>>741317823You still have to deal with the shitty localization and the sonic games are still the most 4kids tier translation in the industry.
>>741332623His sonic voice is the problem, not the shitty dialogue. You can give the man a 10/10 script and it'll still sound awful
>>741333243>Anonymous 06/17/26(Wed)20:04:42 No.741333243▶They've gotten worse than 4kids tier, at least when 4kids was still localizing and dubbing the games it was still fairly faithful despite some messy translations. Now it's full on back to localization discrepancies as the 90's Genesis games were with Americanization. We basically are back to having two separate canons now.
>>741331952This>>741333280 He sounds like a douchebag.
>>741331952Roger was hired to basically play "Sonic for Hire" Sonic in canon, now the series is moving back towards sincerity he doesn't know how to adjust. He's even admitted as much about his time recording his Frontiers lines.
They should just recast everyone with the Sonic Prime VAs, they were all fantastic.
>make essentially the same thread a few weeks ago>mods delete it because I used a picture of amyLiteral reddit tier website
>>741333884>Post a picture of AmyYou're not slick.Like this website is a shithole of mentally ill samefags trying to sell shit to themselves and anyone not observant enough to realize what's going on, and this includes the jannies.But by the same metric nobody's going to believe you sincerely wanted to have a thread actually talking about the issues with the VA cast for the Sonic franchise.
>>741333884>mods delete it because I used a picture of amyyou clearly had nothing to discuss if you decided to start the thread with the most nothingburger character in the series.
>>741333884Cindy Robinson as Amy is just as terrible as Roger is as Sonic. Generational miscasts.
>>741318257ooh! ahh! dance in smartypants!
Do people over the age of 18 actually unironically care what this stupid fucking character sounds like? He never should have been given a voice to begin with. He was never "cool" for anyone over the age of 8.
>>741334523Why do people that acting like an 8 year old being scared of being called a little kid is a motivator for abandoning someone's standards and opinions?Should literally all media ever forgo any sort of standards because >giving a shit is for babies and not kool big kids like me
>>741334523tell that to Mario fans.
>>741336610>b-but mario!?
>>741336610mario's voice works because he sounds stupid and everyone naturally thinks Italians are funny, to be fair.
>>741334523>appeal to triviality fallacy
>>741334523Sonicfags are afraid of their favorite cartoon characters sounding like proper cartoons or cheesy anime. Shameful.
