It is a video game with hours of play involved. And there's a lot more footage in this game of Hammill as Wolverine than Ross as Wolverine. I still feel he did good by the character.
To be fair, I never played that game. But I heard a few samples and teasers and while I thought Hamill did a better job than I expected, he wasn't as good to me as Dodd, Blum, or McNeil in the role.
You are forgetting that Dodd did Wolverine voice work in some of the games as well.
No, I didn't. I stated that McNeil was the only one of those actors who had not played Wolverine in a video game, implying that I was aware of Dodd doing so, as well. But you sometimes miss segments of my posts when you offer me counterpoints, which is usually why half our debates go nowhere.
You are also ignoring that Blum's work as Wolverine already goes beyond 52 episodes of a series. It started years ago in video games and it continued in Hulk VS. and now its in Wolverine and the X-men. So Blum plays Wolverine in video games, series, and animated movies. So very soon, arguably Blum will have put more time and work into Wolverine than Cal Dodd. He arguably already has.
I didn't ignore it. I know Blum has played Wolverine for at least three video games and has HULK VS. WOLVERINE under his belt. And I know that once the next 26 episodes of WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN are in, Blum will easily be the Wolverine of this generation (the post 2000 generation). But asking me which Wolverine voice actor I prefer is always a subjective question, and my personal tastes may vary from yours. Dodd to me will always be the one whose performance as Wolverine is the standard that we compare to, much as anyone who plays Batman has to measure up against Kevin Conroy. Steven Jay Blum of course has his own spin on the part even if he is raspier than McNeil was with his lines, and I've always liked his Wolverine. Aside for Gambit, virtually none of my criticisms about W&TXM have been about the actors, Blum included. He's a very good Wolverine.
I like Scott McNeil as Wolverine but . . . besides Pryde, he will always be the weakest one. Not a knock on him because he did well by the character, it just felt like it was missing something at times. I never cared for one of his first lines being, "Recyle that for me, will ya bub?" That sort of colored my impression.
Yeah, Kid's WB's BS&P was pretty bad. Wolverine couldn't drink anything beyond bottled water.
Still, I might argue that while EVOLUTION treated Wolverine as a babysitter many times, W&TXM did that one better by making him an all-purpose den mother. McNeil sat out quite a few episodes of Evolution, though, as the focus was not on Wolverine. He started popping up more per episode after Season 2, which was when X-MEN 2 was being ramped up.
McNeil was better than Hamill to me. Choosing between Dodd and Blum is the kicker for me, though. But the irony is I don't have to choose. Dodd was the Wolverine of my childhood and Blum is the Wolverine of my adulthood (with McNeil being the Wolverine of my college years).
At least Blum got to play a Wolverine who was allowed to drink in at least one DTV.
(Kyle and Yost claimed they wanted Logan to have his famous "stogie", but that wasn't allowed due to Joe Q's borderline fascist decision to not have any character of Marvel smoke, because showing any character smoking is apparently worse than showing them kill people, beat women, or any of the other nastier things Marvel characters sometimes do.)
