The actor behind Shadow of the Erdtree's best NPC didn't think videogame voice acting was all that until 'mysterious' Miyazaki opened his eyes

If you've been anywhere on Elden Ring's corner of the internet recently, you'll have almost certainly been bombarded with the sound clip of a man screaming the words, «Curse you, Bayle.» 

I've seen it enough times that despite not fighting Bayle the Dread yet, I feel like I've experienced the highs and lows of that battle a thousand times. But if you haven't encountered the fight—or the NPC called Igon who utters the actual words—then all you need to know is that he's an angry drake warrior in Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree hellbent on killing the fearsome dragon Bayle the Dread. 

Spoilers for Igon's questline below. 

In an interview with IGN, the actor behind this recognisable voice, Richard Charles Lintern, discussed what he made of working in videogame voice acting for the first time, and his experience working with FromSoftware.  

«I had never engaged, or been used, or tried to be used, or even thought of myself as a possibility for use in voice work in the gaming world,» Lintern says. «And once you open that door, it's been a real revelation for me, actually. I've been astonished about how worldwide it is, how enormous it is. I had kind of imagined that the world of TV and film and theater was the largest grossing, or most important, or whatever. And my eyes have been opened, not even by the work on Elden Ring, but by the response to it, and the scope of the reach.» 

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FromSoftware is no stranger to having iconic voice actors lend their art and soul to roles small and large alike. One of my favourite characters in Elden Ring so far has to be the exceedingly Welsh Albus the Albinauric, who I stumbled upon in Liurnia of the Lakes. While I only spoke with him for a short few minutes as he