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  1. In Topic: So Ryan Drummond was supposed to return

    29 August 2014 - 11:36 PM

    View PostParleyMint, on 29 August 2014 - 11:07 PM, said:

    View Postcorneliab, on 29 August 2014 - 09:14 PM, said:

    ALL of the fully-voiced Sonic games have had issues with not just voice talent, but writing and direction. None of them have done it right and performances have ended up ranging from awkward at best to schlock at worst.


    To be honest, I feel Black Knight was the game that came close to striking a good balance between performances and writing. Hell, the last part of the game was legitimately good in terms of dialogue and delivery.


    Man, I totally forgot that this game existed. Like, I haven't even thought about it in at least two years.

    Maybe I should look at some videos.

  2. In Topic: So Ryan Drummond was supposed to return

    29 August 2014 - 09:14 PM

    View PostSodaholic, on 29 August 2014 - 07:48 PM, said:

    I'm somewhat surprised that more people don't seem to favor (or even notice) the laid-back Boston/Brooklyn sounding voice that Oshima seemed to want him to have. I think the way he sounds in Sonic CD and OVA (both Japanese and English) is pretty much perfect for the character.

    Jaleel White always sounded annoying and squeaky (more due to the stylized performance and shit lines, but not how I think Sonic should sound at all), Drummond and Griffith sounded awfully generic and more late 90s/early 00s "douchebag American skater". The voice in Boom is kind of strange, very old sounding, but slightly less douchey than the prior two guys. I think Jaleel would be a pretty good voice if stylized entirely differently than the direction he was given for SatAM and AoStH.

    Why is Martin Burke so underappreciated here?


    The OVA definitely had the best English Sonic voice performance. Nothing in any of the games comes close.

    ALL of the fully-voiced Sonic games have had issues with not just voice talent, but writing and direction. None of them have done it right and performances have ended up ranging from awkward at best to schlock at worst.

    I actually can't stand the games from Colors to Lost World either when it comes to voice acting. Roger Craig Smith seems to be a pretty decent voice actor (liked him as Chris Redfield and Batman), but his Sonic performances seem unbearable. Sonic ends up being a horribly lame parody of himself and the games come off as very juvenile during the cutscenes. If anyone else did end up in Smith's place things would have probably sucked just as badly, since the decisions made on the writing and voice direction would have done their damage already.

    I'm not advocating for grimdark Sonic here, but I wish modern Sega wasn't so dead-set on molding Sonic into something that doesn't so blatantly pander to children. "Pander" is the key word here since this isn't an issue of merely appealing to kids. I'd rather not see Sonic games present themselves like the kind of inane, constantly self-depreciating, one-off cartoons that one might see on nickelodeon or whatever.

    There's room for more competent, well-implemented sincerity and urgency with something like Sonic. More cleverness, too. It doesn't have to be so... dumb.

  3. In Topic: Sonic 2 HD General

    23 June 2014 - 11:47 PM

    haha what the hell

    I was totally convinced that the project was dead for good and thought this was a joke at first. I'm wondering how different things are going to be development-wise, since I remember creating/finalizing art being a slooooooow and contentious process.

    Not really holding my breath on this, but I guess we'll see.

  4. In Topic: Happy 23rd Sonic!

    22 June 2014 - 03:06 AM

    merry shitday sonic hope a good game comes your way in the next five years at least

    Maybe I'll commemorate this by playing some Labyrinth. It's not a bad game, dammit!

  5. In Topic: What do you want Sonic to be

    17 June 2014 - 05:43 PM

    I'd like for Sonic not to be a lame, unlikable dork. Apparently It's an unreasonably tall order.

    As for the games, I'd like them to be good.

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