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[241]

Do you prefer Japanese or English audio in post-1998 Sonic games? For me, I liked the Japanese audio better than the English audio because the Japanese voice actors are most suitable for their characters (especially Sonic), and they're so cheesy.

You may also prefer these audio languages other than English or Japanese: French, Spanish, German and Italian. Remember, this topic is for post-1998 Sonic games ONLY.

[Solly]

what. i speak AMERICAN

No seriously though, I prefer English language settings for just about any game, Sonic or otherwise. The only time I'll ever pick the Japanese option is if the English voice acting is so brutally terrible that I need to shelter myself from it using a language barrier. This luckily hasn't happened with Sonic, yet.

I find the English voices to be more or less equally fitting as the Japanese voices.

Edited by Solly, 24 May 2012 - 01:39 AM.

[Tobbii]

English by far, I played the Adventure era with Japanese for a while, but in the end I just think the English voices fit better, and seeing as I'm from Sweden I consider my choosing pretty uninfluenced by my standards.

Of course there are exceptions though, ANYTHING is better than 4Kids's Rouge for example.

[Johnny Boy]

English. Mainly because that language gave us all of Eggmans famous lines.

[SonikkuForever]

I usually play through in English and switch to Japanese when I get bored. Tails' Japanese in this scene cracks me up every time.

[Blue Blood]

I like to listen when people are talking, not read.

English, Sonic games or otherwise.

[Tobbii]

I usually play through in English and switch to Japanese when I get bored. Tails' Japanese in this scene cracks me up every time.

The subtitles are lying, "IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII" does not become "Look out below!". DAMN YOU SEGA!!

[Diogenes]

The one I can actually understand.

[Noel]

The horrible english acting in SA1 is actually better than the atrocious Japanese dub... what in the hell? I think Tails busted my eardrum.

Edited by Silencer Tsundere, 24 May 2012 - 01:48 AM.

[Nepenthe]

I find the actual tone and acting quality to be significantly better in the Japanese cast than the English one for most of the games anyway, which not only makes the cutscenes more enjoyable but the actual gameplay too considering Sega still has a fetish for having Sonic hoop and holler during the stages and bosses. It was only until the last VA switch that I ever considered keeping the games in English.

I also don't mind reading.

Edited by Nepenthe, 24 May 2012 - 01:51 AM.

[sonfan1984]

I've always played the games in English.

[Steve]

Japanese. I can't stand the English VA's.

At the same time I can't understand Sonic so it's almost like having him be mute =V

[Special Operative Blaire]

English. Regardless of whether it's Sonic or not.

[Autosaver]

One time I turned on Japanese voices on for Sonic Unleashed 360.
My brother came in and called me a fag.

And after that day I never bothered using Japanese voices again, the new cast is pretty good anyways.

[Jack Sparrow]

One time I turned on Japanese voices on for Sonic Unleashed 360.
My brother came in and called me a fag.

And after that day I never bothered using Japanese voices again, the new cast is pretty good anyways.

Your bro kinda sounds like a dick by the way he talked to you. If my bro did that, I'd keep it on and tell him that people can like different things.

Anyway, I like both, but lean more on the English side. Mainly cause i don't want to read all the time.

Edited by Sora, 24 May 2012 - 02:43 AM.

[NGw00d]

English for anything really. I'd rather listen than read.

[Darth InVaders]

I normally play through the first time with English. After that I switch to Japanese - the JPN Sonic VAs have generally been better at conveying emotion, humor, and, since they haven't really changed the JPN cast much, consistency (compared with the English cast which is on its 3rd Sonic since SA - I also hated Jason Griffith's Sonic horribly and disliked how he played any character that seemed similar to Sonic: namely Shadow and Jet - as if Shadow didn't have enough criticism about being a "recolored Sonic").

Your bro kinda sounds like a dick by the way he talked to you. If my bro did that, I'd keep it on and tell him that people can like different things.

If I had a bro and he did that, I'd keep it on, put him in a headlock and make him "enjoy" the Japanese version.

Edited by Darth InVaders, 24 May 2012 - 02:50 AM.

[Sonikku_Kiah]

The last thing I want to do while playing a video game is read, unless reading is imperative to playing the game. That being said, I prefer to play and hear the games in English. I don't want to sit there and read the script of cutscenes in order to figure out what is going on when I can just listen and understand in English instead.

While I understand others' reasoning for wanting to switch it to Japanese voices, I have yet to be so irritated with the English voices that I need to either switch the language to Japanese or press the mute button. I have never gotten to that point and I hope I never will.

[Polar Vec]

I like to listen when people are talking, not read.

English, Sonic games or otherwise.

Basically this, I don't like to read because I can't understand the language they speak(Unless it's an anime that has no official dub...but that's not the case here)

[MugiMikey]

English, definitely. Even though the voice acting started off kinda bad with SA1, the Japanese cast wasn't so great either. They both got better but I enjoy English a lot more.