The voice actor for Sonic the Hedgehog seems to be moving on from his role as the blue blur. Roger Craig Smith posted on Twitter saying that 10 years had been "an amazing run" and that he would be going on to new zones. He began his tenure as Sonic's voice actor starting with Sonic Colors, taking over for previous actor Jason Griffith, and would reprise the role in each of the following games including the most recent mainline title, Sonic Forces. Beyond the Twitter post, there hasn't been any other information as to who will be taking over the position.

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[Arras]

I doubt it’ll be much of a precedent; Mario basically has to talk for movies and TV shows, and the only games where he says more then his basic set of vernacular afaik are Hotel Mario and the educational games which weren’t really trying to be mainline Mario games.

Mario himself maybe not, but the 3DS Warioware game had a fully voice acted Wario by Charles Martinet.

 

[UltraSUPRA]

Bro, it’s been 10 years, move on

>Scott Pilgrim

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

>Scott Pilgrim

Being a fan of an older series =/= wanting back a voice actor that quit a fucking decade ago

 

[Searinox]

Bring in John St Jon!

Damn, those robot bastards are gonna pay for scaring off my Froggy!

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

Wanna know the kicker?

Sonic just got put into Puyo Puyo Tetris 2. How your last work is gonna be for a game you don't even star in? I'M LOSING IT!

 

[MikaDubbz]

I wouldn't oppose Ben Schwartz getting the voice in games as well. It might be a little jarring at first, but I think I'd get used to it and like it real quick.

 

[Jonna]

No offense but i wouldn't miss him,he did a mediocre job outside the boom universe

"No offense, but here's an offensive statement."

Also only one instance of some one in this topic mentioning Drummond, every one else mentioning Griffith. Man am I an old geezer what am I doing here on this fancy new dangle website I need to go clean my dentures or something

 

[eyeliner]

I wouldn't oppose Ben Schwartz getting the voice in games as well. It might be a little jarring at first, but I think I'd get used to it and like it real

fsat.
Kek.

 

[UltraSUPRA]

Also only one instance of some one in this topic mentioning Drummond, every one else mentioning Griffith. Man am I an old geezer what am I doing here on this fancy new dangle website I need to go clean my dentures or something

The difference between Drummond and Griffith isn't nearly as jarring as Griffith and Smith.

 

[HarveyHouston]

Could use the voice of the guy from the Sonic the Hedgehog movie. Ben Schwartz.

Just a thought. Anyhow, hope Smith knows what he's doing.

 

[depaul]

Nothing unusual... he's not he first one. I loved more voice actors from Sonic Adventure 2 era, especially Shadow's voice actor.

 

[DerpDingus]

I'm willing to wager they'll choose Ben Schwartz as the next voice actor. He really nailed it in the Sonic movie.

EHHHH He was kind of annoying

 

[Deleted member 397813]

Bro, it’s been 10 years, move on

don't ruin our hopes

 

[SailorLuigi]

i still haven't seen the Sonic Movie (for personal reasons/life complications but i rlly want to!) so i didn't know there was a different VA in that, i assume they'd be the next one then.

and on the topic of Mario talking, there's alot of non-game content (NYC store events, promo material, cons, etc) where Charles is speaking as both bros in full sentences (and sometimes for like ~10 minutes when i've been) which not alot of ppl seen to know about, so i think a full-speaking Mario movie would be fine

and if they don't cast him we riot

 

[wolf-snake]

he found out about Chris Chan and Sonichu and couldn't handle it.

 

[PatrickD85]

Sad, but just imagine if Charles Martinet would do the same!

Dude no ... don't even go there

But seriously after such a long time I do hope they find a sold replacement.
Sonic has always had a certain tone around him, which we all have grown to love.

 

[RichardTheKing]

Charles seems really happy to be the voice of Mario. I get the suspicion he would never want to leave the role.

I imagine Nintendo would have enough voice clips of practically the entire male cast to last decades, even if he were to...stop.
Could they legally do that, though...?

 

[KingVamp]

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I usually just get use to Sonic's voice, that said, I hope they don't do movie Sonic just for the sake of keeping the games and movie separated.

Not to mention, the Sonic in the games are pretty experienced and matured at this point. I mean, he could adjust to that for the games, but still.