Descent
10-08-2005, 11:30 PM
http://news.sonicstadium.org/?full=109
'SONIC X' voice actors now provide voices for games
Ryan Drummond, voice actor for Sonic the Hedgehog in the SONICTEAM games for the last five years, has revealed to the Sonic community about his replacement by Jason Griffith from the 'SONIC X' cast.
In an email he has sent to fans ahead of his monthly newsletter on RyanDrummond.com, Drummond has explained how SEGA made a decision to replace the entire Game Voiceover Cast of the Sonic games with the Voiceover Cast from the US Dub 'SONIC X' cartoon, without letting him know about it. In a shock, if perhaps inevitable direction by the 'House of Sonic', the company felt that the move would maintain a level of continuity between the games and other products, such as the cartoon series.
" I am NOT leaving Sonic's voice by choice.", Ryan explained, "Sega decided that product continuity WAS important to them starting with this new Shadow game. So, WITHOUT TELLING ME, they have *replaced* me as the voice of Sonic with the fella who does Sonic’s voice for the Sonic X show. I was only told after it happened... Now I have no ill-will towards the new voice... I DO, however, have issue with Sega for having no grace in letting me go from my position."
Fans have been torn between hatred towards SEGA, based on sympathy for Ryan's 'disrespectful' sacking, and indifference on the grounds that voice actors do not necessarily alter the gaming experience. Those sitting on the fence have been comparing the Sonic Adventure cast with the Sonic X cast on forums to form some sort of decisive opinion.
Lani Minella, the voice actor for Rouge in the games and the voice casting director for Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Heroes, recently confirmed the message that Drummond sent was in fact true.
A petition from irate fans has been setup for SEGA's attention. Those that are interested can view it here (http://www.petitiononline.com/a4kvaisg/petition.html).
The 'new' Sonic the Hedgehog voice cast will be providing their chords for the games series, beginning with Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic Riders (which may explain the rather strange voices heard at the very end of the Sonic Riders trailer found at TSS).
We congratulate the Sonic Adventure voice cast on a job well done over the last five years, and wish the new 'SONIC X' cast all the best with their new positions.
Thanks to Nicknyte from the SonicAnime.net forums and CoolFunkMan from the SSMB Forums for the news.
_______________So how much does this guy suck?
http://segakilledsonic.ytmnd.com/
This has also been confirmed on numerous other sites, including Wikipedia.
This really, really, REALLY grudges my ass. I'm two feet away from having decent voice acting in a Sonic game, and Sega hands me the pink slip!
I'm literally so fucking pissed off now you have no clue. I've been dejected. Sonic is a kids series now. Sega is officially no longer the company they were now. There will never be a new Sonic game that lives up to my expectations now. And Sega is now money based, not artistically based before the death of Dreamcast, which I will probobly be bitter over until I am a senile, old man.
I have honestly never felt so dejected or backstabbed by a company IN MY LIFE! What the fuck happened to the Genesis days? When Sonic was still cool, when Tails didn't look flamingly gay in an artists redition, when the series wasn't "cutsey kiddie" but "hardcore and rebellious."
What the fuck happened to the days when games like Sonic XTreme, the unreleased 3D Sonic game for the Sega Saturn, and quite possibly the first attempt at XTREME marketing, didn't need XTREME styled characters (9.9.99) to sell their XTREME product?
I never liked the redesigned characters. EVER.
I could go on and on. But expect a new, more bitter Descent, and a new out of all of this.
And you know what I am going to say now?
Fuck Sega in the ass. Fuck them. I'm done with these guys. Sonic Heroes was one flaming turd, but handing me 4Kids voice actors is sending the kids who grew up on Genesis a sordid, bitter, evil cold message.
"We don't give a shit about you."
Fuck the new Sega, and fuck everything they stand for. I'm still buying Shadow the Hedgehog. But I'll have a much harder time enjoying it with this memory lingering for the first few times I play it, much like Sonic Adventure 2, but that was Sony's fault.
And no, I won't be "crawling back after Shadow the Hedgehog comes out."
I've been seeing this series become more and more pussified by the minute. And that's the final straw.
Sonic is a fucking kids game now.
Men, unpack your Genesis/Megadrive, dig up those carts, and old school it from here on out.
Because this party is fucking OVER!
'SONIC X' voice actors now provide voices for games
Ryan Drummond, voice actor for Sonic the Hedgehog in the SONICTEAM games for the last five years, has revealed to the Sonic community about his replacement by Jason Griffith from the 'SONIC X' cast.
In an email he has sent to fans ahead of his monthly newsletter on RyanDrummond.com, Drummond has explained how SEGA made a decision to replace the entire Game Voiceover Cast of the Sonic games with the Voiceover Cast from the US Dub 'SONIC X' cartoon, without letting him know about it. In a shock, if perhaps inevitable direction by the 'House of Sonic', the company felt that the move would maintain a level of continuity between the games and other products, such as the cartoon series.
" I am NOT leaving Sonic's voice by choice.", Ryan explained, "Sega decided that product continuity WAS important to them starting with this new Shadow game. So, WITHOUT TELLING ME, they have *replaced* me as the voice of Sonic with the fella who does Sonic’s voice for the Sonic X show. I was only told after it happened... Now I have no ill-will towards the new voice... I DO, however, have issue with Sega for having no grace in letting me go from my position."
Fans have been torn between hatred towards SEGA, based on sympathy for Ryan's 'disrespectful' sacking, and indifference on the grounds that voice actors do not necessarily alter the gaming experience. Those sitting on the fence have been comparing the Sonic Adventure cast with the Sonic X cast on forums to form some sort of decisive opinion.
Lani Minella, the voice actor for Rouge in the games and the voice casting director for Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Heroes, recently confirmed the message that Drummond sent was in fact true.
A petition from irate fans has been setup for SEGA's attention. Those that are interested can view it here (http://www.petitiononline.com/a4kvaisg/petition.html).
The 'new' Sonic the Hedgehog voice cast will be providing their chords for the games series, beginning with Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic Riders (which may explain the rather strange voices heard at the very end of the Sonic Riders trailer found at TSS).
We congratulate the Sonic Adventure voice cast on a job well done over the last five years, and wish the new 'SONIC X' cast all the best with their new positions.
Thanks to Nicknyte from the SonicAnime.net forums and CoolFunkMan from the SSMB Forums for the news.
_______________So how much does this guy suck?
http://segakilledsonic.ytmnd.com/
This has also been confirmed on numerous other sites, including Wikipedia.
This really, really, REALLY grudges my ass. I'm two feet away from having decent voice acting in a Sonic game, and Sega hands me the pink slip!
I'm literally so fucking pissed off now you have no clue. I've been dejected. Sonic is a kids series now. Sega is officially no longer the company they were now. There will never be a new Sonic game that lives up to my expectations now. And Sega is now money based, not artistically based before the death of Dreamcast, which I will probobly be bitter over until I am a senile, old man.
I have honestly never felt so dejected or backstabbed by a company IN MY LIFE! What the fuck happened to the Genesis days? When Sonic was still cool, when Tails didn't look flamingly gay in an artists redition, when the series wasn't "cutsey kiddie" but "hardcore and rebellious."
What the fuck happened to the days when games like Sonic XTreme, the unreleased 3D Sonic game for the Sega Saturn, and quite possibly the first attempt at XTREME marketing, didn't need XTREME styled characters (9.9.99) to sell their XTREME product?
I never liked the redesigned characters. EVER.
I could go on and on. But expect a new, more bitter Descent, and a new out of all of this.
And you know what I am going to say now?
Fuck Sega in the ass. Fuck them. I'm done with these guys. Sonic Heroes was one flaming turd, but handing me 4Kids voice actors is sending the kids who grew up on Genesis a sordid, bitter, evil cold message.
"We don't give a shit about you."
Fuck the new Sega, and fuck everything they stand for. I'm still buying Shadow the Hedgehog. But I'll have a much harder time enjoying it with this memory lingering for the first few times I play it, much like Sonic Adventure 2, but that was Sony's fault.
And no, I won't be "crawling back after Shadow the Hedgehog comes out."
I've been seeing this series become more and more pussified by the minute. And that's the final straw.
Sonic is a fucking kids game now.
Men, unpack your Genesis/Megadrive, dig up those carts, and old school it from here on out.
Because this party is fucking OVER!