New Sonic Voice Actors

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Yeah, this was the "franchise changing" news that AAUK mentioned on Radio Redux this past week.

Be interesting to see who the other actors are, because the way I read it, Mike Pollock is the only 4kids actor who's staying. The rest should be all-new.
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This is considered franchise changing?
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Well...that was how he'd described it. Whether he's right or not is another matter.

Personally, I think it kinda is. These aren't just voice changes for the games, it's for anything. So..if Sonic X were to get re-dubbed, say, then these would be the VAs used.
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Well if it was said in a sarcastic tone it'd make sense. Voices for characters no one wants to hear is hardly important, even games that think of voice acting as a feature doesn't count the VA list as franchise changing. Don't think square ever made a big deal out of whoever voiced Kefka in Dissidia.

Either way it's not a franchise changer, making good games again would be.
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jessinator66 wrote:P.S. You can friend Mike Pollock on facebook one of the few that are not faked or at least he is a good faker. Follow the wonderful link: http://www.facebook.com/itsamike :biggrin:

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Personally, I''ve never really been fussed about the Sonic voice actors, but I did like Eggman's voice, so this news to me is basically "Nothing you care about has changed, carry on"
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For something that is supposedly non-news, this has already garnered a very large response, especially from the likes of TSS and the Sega Blognik.
The fact that a large number of people have marked opinions on the voice acting likely stems from the fact that there was such a big difference in the first place between the 4Kids actors and many of the voices for the pre-2005 games.

Personally, the fact that Tails' voice will be changing is enough for me to be happy about this news; I'm sure I won't find Kate Higgins' voice more irritating than her predecessor's.
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Hmmmm. Tbh I actually liked Both Ryan and Jason for sonic. Jason wasnt quite good at first but he improved other time. The only 4ids actor i didnt like was Rouge.

The change in voice cast doesnt bother me. I just play the game's for the game. Not the voice cast :P
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Retrix wrote:For something that is supposedly non-news, this has already garnered a very large response, especially from the likes of TSS and the Sega Blognik.
This really doesn't stop it from being non-news. Try again when Eurogamer or Giantbomb have a story about it.

I couldn't even tell they had changed voice actors at some point all the voiced Sonic games sounded the same to me.
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It's news to Sonic fans, I guess.

I agree with posters above though, it doesn't really affect the games, so I don't really care about it. I never understood all the fighting over voice actors.

I am a big fan of Mike Pollock as I think his voice work really does represent Dr Eggman, so I'm happy with that; but I wouldn't cry if he ever was replaced, cos that's just how things turn out sometimes.
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