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Vicky 95 wrote: Mystic Monkey wrote: I think Ryan Drummond should ditch his actors guild and voice for Sonic again. I was expecting a Drummond supporter on this topic. :D Always welcome to have people with different opinions. It only makes a forum more interesting. Get this, Sonic Generations could of had a third Sonic to represent the Dreamcast era and Sega offered Ryan Drummond to voice him... but he declined because he said his Actors Union would not have him if he did.

Drummonds reputation could of spiked and could of had new acting calls if he just did the one thing for Sega for an awesome Sonic game.

Granted since Dreamcast Sonic and Modern Sonic appear identical, it's the only good thing I prefered from Drummond turning down the role. But still from his successors I still prefer Drummond to voice Modern Sonic and believed he should of had the right to stick with it. Roger Craig Smith tries to make Sonic sound too "hip" which got stale fast in Sonic Colours and he only found a fairly decent character of voice for Sonic in the later games but I still think he is trying to make Sonic sound too young than he needs to be for the audience. Jason Griffith was more trying to emulate Drummond but also made Sonic sound rather immature to a degree, I believe it's because Jason Griffith was initially a 4kids voice actors who was hired just to dub over whatever anime 4kids could afford to americanize.

If we're talking Classic Sonic however, while Jaleel White only voiced Sonic for AoSTH, SatAM and Sonic Underground, well thats all the more reason why I would choose him for Classic Sonic. And I think Aaron Webber who was developing Sonic Generations at the time did consider Jaleel White to voice Classic Sonic before it was decided he'd be mute. Sonic Generations is my favourate modern Sonic game but it can't be perfect.

愛 日音 wrote: Mystic Monkey wrote: I think Ryan Drummond should ditch his actors guild and voice for Sonic again. I've actually never understood why people liked Ryan Drummond so much. I mean, he's not "BAD" per say, but... he kinda sounds like something out of a child's cartoon show. I mean he does have good energy, but other than that, there just isn't anything very interesting to his performance. I kinda feel that way about the entire original cast. Maybe it's because I didn't play those games, but they just don't rub with me. For those who do like the original cast, can you tell me why? I'm kinda curious. I actually feel it is Jason Griffiths who "kinda sounds like something out of a child's cartoon show" because that was pretty much the kind of actor he was. 4Kids brought rights to japanese anime which they "americanize" and have their own group of voice actors to dub over the anime.

I like Ryan Drummond because he established Sonics character quite well. His mannerism made him rather cartoony to fit Sonic's body but the tone of voice had Sonic not too "hip" or trying to be something the voice actor was not.