Your Least Favorite Sonic Character Voice Actor

[mdesaleah]

List why you think a specific voice for a character is bad in your opinion. Try to also list what game their from. (if this was a best list everyone would choose Eggman Mike Pollock from SHADOW onward).

[Ezodagrom]

Sonic's voice from Shadow the Hedgehog until Unleashed, I especially disliked the "woooo" in Sonic Unleashed when he boosts, I find it very annoying.

[Ezodagrom]

Originally posted by mdesaleah:

Originally posted by Ezodagrom:

Sonic's voice from Shadow the Hedgehog until Unleashed, I especially disliked the "woooo" in Sonic Unleashed when he boosts, I find it very annoying.

I got used to it since my first game was Heroes, but I see where you’re coming from. (It doesn’t have to just be a sonic voice it can be any character).

I know you meant about any character, I just don't like Sonic's voice during that time period. ^^;
I did skip most Sonic games during that time, the next Sonic game I played after Shadow's game was Colours (I didn't have neither PS3 or 360), but I watched full playthroughs of 06 and Unleashed.

[SpongebobTheHedgehog (Soul)]

Just to correct you a bit, Mike Pollock didn't voice Eggy until Shadow The Hedgehog, Deem Bristow (who I actually prefer over Pollock, don't get me wrong, I still like Pollock and what's he's doing, but Bristow was so threatening back then) voiced Eggy from SA1 to Heroes and died back in 2005 I believe which is when Shadow The Hedgehog came out.

Anyway, my least favorite Sonic Voice Actor would have to be Roger Craig Smith. Every other Sonic Voice Actor we've had seem to have fit the characters in some way or another, but I don't find Roger to be very fitting. The only way Roger is fitting is if he's voicing Boom Sonic, the design of Boom Sonic makes Rogers Voice more fitting imo.

[Samson Fairfox]

William Corkery as Tails was a trainwreck, damn that voice acting was bad in Sonic Heroes.

[SpongebobTheHedgehog (Soul)]

Originally posted by mdesaleah:

Originally posted by Samson Williams:

William Corkery as Tails was a trainwreck, damn that voice acking was bad in Sonic Heroes.

Worst Tails voice in the whole series, but at least it was for only one game.

I think the only reason why Corkery got the part was for the fact that his father and sister (I think they were his father and sister) were voicing Espio and Charmy.

[Allard]

Jason Griffith was really grating as Sonic... until Unleashed where he DRASTICALLY improved. Seriously, compare his Sonic in ShTH to his Unleashed voice. The difference is night and day.

Out of the rest... I think I'll go with both previous Rouge actresses. Lani Minella was just... no, and Kathleen Delaney sounded way, WAY too damn old. Karen Strassman all the way, no contest, no shoes, no service.

[SpongebobTheHedgehog (Soul)]

Originally posted by RT:

Jason Griffith was really grating as Sonic... until Unleashed where he DRASTICALLY improved. Seriously, compare his Sonic in ShTH to his Unleashed voice. The difference is night and day.

Out of the rest... I think I'll go with both previous Rouge actresses. Lani Minella was just... no, and Kathleen Delaney sounded way, WAY too damn old. Karen Strassman all the way, no contest, no shoes, no service.

I like that reference to the Unleashed Commercial you gave XD

But Lani wasn't that bad back then imo. I got more used to the Sonic X actor a little bit (she's still the worst no doubt, but I grew up with that VA so I got used to it). I really don't know how to feel about Karen Strassman... she doesn't sound bad, but I sometimes forget that that's supposed to be Rouge.

[Dark Redshift]

Ryan Drummond as second worst as he could sometimes be alright and Roger Craig Smith as absolute worst.

[SpongebobTheHedgehog (Soul)]

Originally posted by Dark Redshift:

Ryan Drummond as second worst as he could sometimes be alright and Roger Craig Smith as absolute worst.

-cries myself to sleep while listening to Senpai Drummond's voice clips-

"You're gonna pay for this!"

[SpongebobTheHedgehog (Soul)]

Originally posted by mdesaleah:

Originally posted by Dark Redshift:

Ryan Drummond as second worst as he could sometimes be alright and Roger Craig Smith as absolute worst.

Who was Ryan again?

Sonic in SA1 - Heroes, Knuckles in Sonic Shuffle, and Metal Sonic in Sonic Heroes.

[SpongebobTheHedgehog (Soul)]

Originally posted by mdesaleah:

Ryan was only really iffy in Adventure 1. I think he was the best or second best for all other games. Roger I can’t stand but I know people who like him

I agree, tbh though, I wonder if that was just how still the characters were in SA1.

Like literally, imagine the line Sonic says as Tails is crashing with the SA1 Animations:

"Look out, you're gonna crash, AHHHHHH!"

Now imagine that exact scene with the SA2 Animations. Doesn't it sound/look a bit better?

Plus, throughout the games, Drummond gets a little better with the delivery of lines such as "Talk about low budget flights, no food or movies? I'm out of here!" or "You're gonna pay for this!"

Tbh, I think the absolute BEST VA cast was Heroes. With the exception of Tails, all the characters sounded about right to who they were voicing and with the fact that they've practiced in SA1 and SA2, they were alot better than they were in the previous games.

[SpongebobTheHedgehog (Soul)]

Originally posted by mdesaleah:

I think in SA2 he actors were better prepared so they were able to give a better performance.

I think the story also helps. SA1 didn't have a bad story, but SA2 is more memorable. Plus, Ryan Drummond and David Humphrey (That's Shadow's VA in SA2 and Heroes) were friends in High School I believe so they had chemistry beforehand.

[Dark Redshift]

Originally posted by mdesaleah:

Originally posted by Dark Redshift:

Ryan Drummond as second worst as he could sometimes be alright and Roger Craig Smith as absolute worst.

Who was Ryan again?

He voiced Sonic in the english track before Shadow the Hedgehog when Jason Griffeth took over, the latter of whom voiced him in the bad version of Sonic X, though he was better in the games because dialog wise, it was only the Sonic X dub's script that was bad; the actors were just following orders.

Of course Ryan wasn't entirely to blame as the english voice direction was garbage, and Ryan at least tried to give Sonic a good impression on par with both his successor and Junichi's at times.

Roger Smith doesn't have the same excuse as Ryan does because Roger makes Sonic sound like a 12 year old COD fan without the swearing and "your mum" jokes.

[litbolt]

Worst acting in a Sonic game? Tails from either Adventure 2 or Sonic Heroes. I can't decide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLZXYtcMxL8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV8sWUmzNXM

[litbolt]

Originally posted by mdesaleah:

I think Heroes has a much worse Tails actor. At least in Adventure 2 you can understand him. He’s not my favorite actor but I don’t think he’s bad either.

I mostly agree... SA2 does have "What have you done to Sonic? I will never forgive you for this." though, heh