English Voice Acting Crew *long read*

[Nayrman]

This is something I'm surprisingly overlooked while thinking about Brawl, and I'm surprised others have overlooked it as well.  We can all hear the Japanese voice acting since we have plenty of clips to hear about them. I'm more talking about the English voice actors for the american version. I'll probably just do a quick rundown of some of the voices on characters who actually talk a decent amount (meaning no Mario, etc...the people with one liners and the like).

Snake: As we can tell the great David Heyter is going to do Sanke's voice...which is of course a good thing, since Snake has probably one of the best voices in videogaming. It's a shame we don't get to hear more of his work outside of the conversations with Otacon and the Foxhound group (also voiced very well), but it's probably the last voice to worry about.

Sonic: This is probably the more nerve racking voice. Now, if anyone's been paying attention since the Dreamcast games, Ryan Drummond was the origional game voice for Sonic (up until they signed the 4kids voices...gr). From then until now, a guy named Jason Griffith has been playing the role of SOnic in his games (and doing a terrible job IMO). Now the issue is that I blieve Sega's contract with 4kids is up, not to mention Nintendo overall gets the final call on voices for games. So I can't tell who does the Sonic voice, but from the few clips it seems like Jason Griffith...which means Sonic's voice is gonna suck.

Marth/Ike: No doubt Ike will just use his Path of Radiance voice, which is fine by me. Not the greatest VA ever, but still plenty better than crud in other games. Marth is the more primary issue. Marth has never had an english voice, but I don't see why they wouldn't give him an english voice with dialouge (for victory poses, etc.). That wouldn't surprise me, since the Marth's games are coming to America through the DS, so a Marth english VA is inevitable anyway.

Star Fox voices: Just like Metal Gear, Nintendo will just use the normal american voices. Please no more japanese VA's trying to say "mission complete" this time. Although Slippy's japanese VA wouldn't be so bad at this point  ::)

Samus: Now, some may not know, but Samus actually gets a voice in this game. If you ever see Zamus taunting, there are a few words of dialogue in the game. I actually like the voice myself, and since it's in english, we'll probably get the same clips. I just wonder how they got an american/english voice for hte japanese production.

Thoughts? I'm still worried about Sonic's VA...and Marth's a bit too. This is probably our first peek at his english voice...hope it isn't too girly.

[Apollo]

i think nintendo will try and avoid as much dialogue as possible
for actors they already have like Snake's, they will use his
other than that dont expect much

[Nayrman]

i think nintendo will try and avoid as much dialogue as possible
for actors they already have like Snake's, they will use his
other than that dont expect much

Obviously, since no one seems to talk in SSE, but I'm talking about minor one liners and the normal "yipees, AAAHS,etc." and such.

[zeldaguy6]

i think nintendo will try and avoid as much dialogue as possible
for actors they already have like Snake's, they will use his
other than that dont expect much

yea, ur probably right. I agree.

[Apollo]

i think nintendo will try and avoid as much dialogue as possible
for actors they already have like Snake's, they will use his
other than that dont expect much

Obviously, since no one seems to talk in SSE, but I'm talking about minor one liners and the normal "yipees, AAAHS,etc." and such.

well snake and the metal gear guys talk

[Nayrman]

i think nintendo will try and avoid as much dialogue as possible
for actors they already have like Snake's, they will use his
other than that dont expect much

Obviously, since no one seems to talk in SSE, but I'm talking about minor one liners and the normal "yipees, AAAHS,etc." and such.

well snake and the metal gear guys talk

I know, and they do a great job. I said they were the least of the VA worries. I'm talking about wether they either keep the japanese ones (like they did in Melee) or actaully try to give them english VA's a chance. Also, the Ryan vs. Jason debate for Sonic...(hates Jason)

[Tupin]

I just hate how Jason Griffith's voice pattern is so stretched out and fake.

Why would SEGA hire a 4Kids voice actor?

[Michael227]

I just hate how Jason Griffith's voice pattern is so stretched out and fake.

Why would SEGA hire a 4Kids voice actor?

*remembers sonic's taunt* UR TOO SLOW!!!11 OH GOD THAT SUCKED

[Nayrman]

I just hate how Jason Griffith's voice pattern is so stretched out and fake.

Why would SEGA hire a 4Kids voice actor?

*remembers sonic's taunt* UR TOO SLOW!!!11 OH GOD THAT SUCKED

That's what I'm basing my assumptino that it's Jason on. It was horrendous. The origional vid of Sonic tho sounded like Ryan Drummond tho...
using clips from both of them maybe?

[Michael227]

I just hate how Jason Griffith's voice pattern is so stretched out and fake.

Why would SEGA hire a 4Kids voice actor?

*remembers sonic's taunt* UR TOO SLOW!!!11 OH GOD THAT SUCKED

That's what I'm basing my assumptino that it's Jason on. It was horrendous. The origional vid of Sonic tho sounded like Ryan Drummond tho...
using clips from both of them maybe?

well if that's that voice then I'm NEVER gonna use that taunt it's just too annoying for both people

[blue_slime]

So it turns out the voice actor thing for Krystal was just for the conversations, not for an actual playable character after all.

[Triforceman22]

How come i made a thread about Jason's horrible sonic voice, nobody cared? :(

meh.
I hope Marth, and Sonic get a good/better voice...

RYAN 4 BRAWL!

lol, mine name's ryan too...:D

[Tupin]

How come i made a thread about Jason's horrible sonic voice, nobody cared? :(

meh.
I hope Marth, and Sonic get a good/better voice...

RYAN 4 BRAWL!

lol, mine name's ryan too...:D

His Japanese voice sucks too...

Ryan Drummond IS Sonic.

[DededeCloneChris]

Is something wrong with the actual voice of Sonic?

[Tupin]

Is something wrong with the actual voice of Sonic?

He doesn't sound energetic at all.