If So, How did they Fail where a Fan Movie Didn’t?
We’re honestly not sure if Aaron Webber was playing around or serious when he told Kotaku’s Stephen Totilo the company sought the services of Jaleel White as a possible voice to classic Sonic in Sonic Generations, given the article’s humorous tone.
Still, here is the passage that has a lot of Sonic fans talking:
Oh, Webber told me, maybe they could have had Classic Sonic talk, if only they’d gotten actor Jaleel White on board. I didn’t know that White—better known as the nerdy Urkel in the 90′s sitcom “Family Matters”—had played classic Sonic in a bunch of cartoons. He did. HE would have been appropriate, but Sega couldn’t get him. Thus mute Classic Sonic will have to listen to Modern Sonic yammer on.
The “cartoons” Totilo is referring to are the first three domestic Sonic animated series, including the syndicated Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, the ABC Saturday morning series, and later Sonic Underground.
Even more noteworthy in Sega falling short of the get is the reminder a fan moviemaker pulled off the same feat months ago. Eddie Lebron, who is developing Sonic into a fan film, is working with White, who will voice the CGI hedgehog equivalent in-film.
That said, those lines are likely recorded, and with roles in House among other things at present, White simply may not have the time. And there are those who will insist classic Sonic should remain mute, even with the option of a classic voice. Would you have an interest in hearing Jaleel White reprise his role via Classic Sonic in Generations? Tell us below in the comments.
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If I had to choose between Ryan Drummond returning to voice Modern Sonic permenantly, and Jaleel White coming in to voice Classic Sonic for just this one game, I would pick Jaleel White all the way! Jaleel White not voicing Classic Sonic is the only thing that is not making Sonic Generations near perfect! SEGA should DEFINITELY try harder to get Jaleel White to return to Sonic in the future. If a normal guy shooting a fan film could get Jaleel on board with him, how could a multimillion dollar corporation like SEGA have possibly screwed this up?
…perhaps they can’t see him juggling the schedule of Jaleel doing work for Generations, the fan film, and his own personal obligations. You guys ever think of that?
How about they replace the recent modern sonic voice with White for the next game. I can dig it
@SOS: No. Just… just no.
PLEASE PLEASE GET WHITE IN AS CLASSIC SONIC I WOULD LOVE HEARING HIM AGAIN PLEASE PUT HIM IN IF YOU CAN! DX
@*SOS – No. Just picture Modern sonic talking like Urkel. It won’t look good. BUT, if Sega REALLY wants to please Modern fans, they would get Ryan Drummund back as sonic in the next game! (and hopefully get rid of the cheesy humor and fire the happy tree friends writters)
Aww darnit. Then we would have had a Jaleel White/Mike Pollock teamup.
@Sonic52789
There’s three things wrong with your post:
1. Ryan Drummond is NOT coming back.
2. Humor is a GOOD thing for the series. Sonic was never supposed to “dark” and “serious” from the beginning, its about a blue hedgehog that runs around beating up robots that was created by a mad egg-shaped scientist, not fucking Final Fantasy.
3. Ken Pontac and Warren Graff were geniuses for writing a better story than Sonic Team ever will. They did a fantastic job with Colors, most fans are happy they’re back for Generations and I hope they’ll stick around for future games.
All in all, your comment was ignorance at its best.
at least sonic still eats chilli dogs
It would’ve been cool to have Jaleel voice Classic since the cartoons was the reason why I love the character, but oh well mute Sonic is fine too.
Sega needs to pay more attention to satAM and similar things. They have been worrying about story even though they had one all along… If they did use it however, they might corrupt the story line and screw everything up.
It would have been cool for Mr. White voice Classic since the cartoons was one of the reason why I love the character. But oh well can’t wait to see his performance in the fan film.
@QuietGuy: THANK YOU.
I am so fucking tired of hearing people bitch because Ryan Drummond isn’t coming back. Guess what: NOT EVERYONE LIKES RYAN DRUMMOND. He was a good voice for Sonic, but not everyone thinks he’s “t3H b35teZ7 5aWn33K v0!c3 eV4rZZZ!!!!!11″. Don’t speak for the Modern fans, Sonic52789, because I’m more of a Modern fan than a Classic fan, and you sure as hell aren’t speaking for me.
Also, cut this “dark, epic storyline” bullshit. As QuietGuy, and I’m sure, ChaoticFox have said in the past, this isn’t Final Fantasy, and this isn’t Dragon Ball Z. If they can make an epic storyline that doesn’t seem forced, good for Sega, but Sonic isn’t SRS BSNS. This is a game series about multi-colored animals, it doesn’t need to take itself so seriously.
Not to sound butthurtish, but just shut up,T. Mute is better.
I would die of happiness if Jaleel White ever voiced Classic Sonic again!
Its been years since I heard him being ‘Sonic’ again. I’m so excited for the Sonic Fan Film as well. I’ve always been a big fan of Jaleel White – He is the first one to ever voiced Sonic.
If Jaleel White voices Classic Sonic, I’m muting the game. I’m sorry people, but his voice is like nails on a chalkboard. All that I can think about when I think about Jaleel White as Sonic is the gawd-awful “I’m waaaaaaaiiiitiiiiing” phrase he said all. the. freaking. TIME.
I really really REALLY hope that they a) get someone else (Martin Burke, anyone?) or b) keep him as a mute.
PLEASE tell me that this was a joke… I’m BEGGING you!
@Gorekiller
SatAM was based on the Archie Comics… there’s already a long-running extended story to it that far from adheres to game canon.
Honestly I’m sure a lot of people would rather it not be part of the game canon. Not to mention that it is extemely fan-fic-y in nature and has had crossovers from Sabrina The teenage witch (with various Archie (the comic series) characters in cameo-level appearances) to image comics, to freaking MEGAMAN, which of all the crossovers is definitely the one who’s very concept is the most fan-pandering in nature.
There’s also things like Anti-Sonic/Scourge, and his universe’s robotnik, a kindly vet named Ovi Kintabor (which I’m guessing is based on those old fleetway comics).
And then there’s the universe hopping, and Zonic the Zone Cop, and the No-Zone, which seems to have fairly neutral versions of everyone with the only morality factor being that they don’t like it when people cause multiversal crises on any scale.
So yea, let’s not make games based on that sort of thing lest we get more fans raging about the hundreds of multidimensional sonic clones and further additions to the supporting cast.
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