Gough's voice pitched to sound normal. He is voiced by the same actor who voiced Biorr and the blacksmiths from Demon's Souls. Unused Dialogue: • Gough's Unused Dialogu...
@@swivelshivel6576 Good question, in his helmet's description it says jealous knights packed the eye holes with tree resin in order to trick Gough into thinking he was blind. All his gear was awarded by Gwyn so Gough never takes it off. Despite this he is still OP and the best of the 4 knights in my book.
It was meant to be, since the rest of the world is hostile and merciless. The NPCs are supposed to be a reprieve. They did a good job balancing out the tone of that franchise.
Krison Veloc the Black Knights and Silver Knights in Gywn’s Army didn’t like that he was one of Gwyn’s Four Knights, so they covered the eye-holes of his helmet with resin. If you look at Gough’s helm, you can see that there is resin covering the eye-holes.
_"Live thy life as thou seeist fit"_ This is why Gough is the greatest character in Dark souls, he's the only one that doesn't tell the player what to do or how to live their life.
@@NiCoNiCoNiCola I think he meant in DS1, but in the broad Dark Souls series you don't have many characters (aside from vendors) that aren't trying to "gently guide" your path. Also, Aldia absolutely wants to tell you to forgo the linking of the flame, he even potentially convinced (directly or indirectly) Lothric to do the same
@@Vlugazoide wait who's Ludleth? Also, Aldia does want you to take an obviously better path, but he doesn't force you. Hell, he even acts as a final obstacle before you can become the Dark Lord
Demon's Souls was amazing. The creepy music, darker atmosphere and overall despair in the world. Even down to the tinier details like how phantoms glowed when invading, all those things made it unique from Dark Souls. Not that I think it didn't have its flaws, overall I love Dark Souls as a series more, but given a bit of polish in a real remake and remaster, it would be great to see that game come back.
Apparently he's not actually blind, he just thinks he's blind because of the Resin on the eye holes of his mask. Or so the theory goes. But it's true that there's resin on the eye holes.
The theory also goes that the resin seeped through the visor into his eyes and the molten liquid ACTUALLY blinded him. Gough is not a simpleton, nor is he an idiot, so I sincerely doubt he's never taken the opportunity to try and remove his helmet or remove the resin from it if he could actually see, nor would he be so easily convinced he had turned blind overnight.
Considering resin in Dark Souls is on fire, emits electricity, or is deadly poisonous I believe it could blind someone if it mixed with sweat or melted and seeped into your eyes.
I like that basically the only thing that survives of him ages upon ages later is those carvings, and I think Gough himself would be the first to say that it would please him to no end to know that those carvings are what he's remembered by.
God damn, the music, the gentle soothing voice, the sound of carving in wood, the medieval-ish vocabulary, the truths he speaks, the sense of nostalgia and melancholy in his voice! I have not played the game, but I love just watching this, and it makes me want to give it a try.
It's sad Michael Carter (Goughs VA) is currently 74 and probably close to retiring from acting. I would have loved to hear more voicework from him. Bit of Trivia though, He played Bib Fortuna in Return of the Jedi.
He's worked in Souls games before. He played Blacksmiths Ed and Boldwin and Biorr of the Twin Fangs in Demon's Souls. He was able to reprise his roles, except Ed, in the remake.
Changing the tone really changes a lot, even the accent. You can hardly hear his accent when the tone is deepened, however since he's a giant the deep tone fits. I can't help but love this higher tone though
Not just the deep tone that a naturally bigger frame would impart, but the muffled and slightly echoed tone of someone speaking through the grille of a greathelm.
Lars0n yeah but by voice pitching they allowed the actor to be this expressive instead of straining his voice to be deep and low the whole time to fit the giant aesthetic.
Wait. So the carvings say the lines in Gough's voice? And he is the one who made them? That's pretty cool. I didn't really pay attention to those items.
@@nikitas1841 Yeah, in Dark Souls the description specifically denotes this. In Dark Souls 3 when they return, it claims an unknown origin, but anyone who had played the DLC of DS1 knows who made them. Well, obviously not as you and those who didn't read the description, of course, didn't know, but most people anyway.
Gough might be my favourite Dark Souls character, which says a lot given how many great characters there are in this game. I just love taking a break from the heat of battle and listening to a wise old warrior reminisce about his glory days.
Gough's voice & dialogue - pitched down or not - gives off lovely "Sit-Down Story Time with Grandpa" vibes, and I adore that. Chatting with him is a really nice break from all the chaos in the world. I only wish he could tell us even more tales of his adventures. 💖
It's hard for me to sympathize with videogame characters at a deeper level, let alone cry for some plot. The moment Gough was looking for his bow, my eyes began to get wet. Totally my favourite Dark Souls character, such a genuine, wise and profound personality in a few lines. And the cherry on the cake, gifting the chosen undead his bow... Goodness, it's so great, yet simple and humble!
one of my favourite details of the cutscene on "how Gough fights dragons" is the dust that falls off the bow and continues to fall off Gough whenever he makes a move. It subtly suggests he's been sitting there, whittling away, chilling for years, decades, maybe even centuries. Then he just plants one through a flying Kalameet's wing like he hasn't skipped a heartbeat since he last shot his bow. Amazing environmental storytelling.
This voice is incredibly good because the elogyness of its tune. Hands down, this is one of the best voice actors of all across the franchise. The reminiscence of the glorious past, in his humble but generous and honorable speech with that tragic touch for the remembrance of the one's lost in the past an the experience as a truly master. This voice makes the character a lot deeper than a bunch of pixels can do
I particularly love his tone on the line "That beast will never take to the skies again"... that mixture of regret, solemnity, and a little bit of awe. As if he's realizing as he speaks that Kalameet's death means the end of an era, that he now truly is a dragonslayer with no dragons to slay, and that the world may never see these great creatures again and know what they meant. That one sentence is so loaded with meaning, and it's all thanks to Carter's fantastic acting.
Honestly, it’s a shame the developers pitched down Gough’s voice. He already sounds so powerful & dignified that altering it is tantamount to dipping an expensive, artfully crafted cello into a vat of pine tar.
man Gough is so gentle he even ask you to preserve and kill Kalameet if he is going to help you, otherwise that shot would only cause unnecessary pain to that creature
I think these "formerly mighty and legendary warrior who has killed countless foes who is now a calm, soft-spoken hermit" archetypes are my favourite characters in the series.
For all the memes about Soulsborne characters punctuating every other sentence with a creepy/nervous laugh... there's something just so *nice* about hearing a genuine warm laugh out of one of them. The fact that Gough already has such a surprisingly beautiful speaking voice already helps.
Which is kinda the point, he is perfectly articulate in his tone from his perspective, but the Anor Londians and humans perceive it as "dumb" hence the stereotype of the "brutish giant."
Gough has to be the most threatening looking knight of Gwyn but is clearly the most gentle and soft-spoken of all of them. He clearly cares deeply for all of his fellow knights, as he states that he has much to owe you after slaying Artorias, despite the idea that they never truly spoke often. If not for Artorias being in a Abyss ridden state, or not knowing of the (presumable) death of Ornstein, he’d probably try and attack you for disrespecting his fellow knights. I kinda wish his voice was like this.
Such a noble giant. He is blind, hindered by his "disability" (he just has gunk in his eyes), but continues by hunting dragons for the rest of his existence.
He's so badass and yet he's so soft spoken and gentle. Like really, he's retired, can't see out of his own helmet, hasn't held a bow in a long time, and he still fucking nailed Kalameet with one shot.
after seeing how gough gives his bow and the player character is capable of using it, it convinces me that in the world of dark souls, size is figurative, mechanically it is to see the enemy movement easier and react accordingly, but as a narrative factor it is sublime, i like to imagine that dark souls is how a child would imagine a story that he reads from a book, thats pure fantasy, not what it would be if you were there but what you would think it could be, filling all the holes with nothing but magic, gough might be a giant in the book but he is not actually huge if we were to met him, he is just bigger than everyone else, smough and other giants are like that. Artorias, ornstein, the silver knights, everything is the size of a human, but in the game they are bigger because that gives them a feeling of greatness, im not going to say dragons arent huge, but maybe they are smaller than how dark souls depicts them.
We know how 3/4 Knight of Gwyn sound, they all seem so soft-spoken and kind. Really tells you how nobody really knew what Gwyn was actually up to and his following was made up of generally good people abiding to their lord's wishes, unaware that what he was doing was... well bullshit to say the least.
Never would have known this was the guy who played Molasar from the film The Keep without this video. But its so clear now. Its an incredible vocal mixture of soothing and powerful at the same time. Wonderful voice really.
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