Mark Gatha is a legend in these parts. While many know him best as the English voice of G Gundam's Domon Kasshu, we remember him for his portrayal as X. From 2004 to 2006, Gatha brought X to life for English-speaking audiences like never before, delivering a performance that balanced compassion with commanding presence—one that remains beloved even after all these years.
In celebration of G Gundam's 30th anniversary, Mark Gatha sat down for a video interview with Jessica Kalei-Sheffield to discuss his role as Domon and his transition from stage and voice acting to becoming an orthopedic surgeon (Gatha's segment begins at 51:22). Toward the end of the conversation, Gatha briefly reflected on his time as X and shared a story about signing a PSP for one of his patients. It's a short but sweet exchange that’s sure to leave a smile on your face.
Although it's unlikely that Dr. Mark Gatha will return to voice X, it's good to hear from him and know he's doing well.
Just the fact that he's out there doing good is enough for me. Happy to hear from him at all.
ReplyDeleteFor sure! That’s awesome. With that, it also makes me appreciate the efforts and extra work and energy that Lucas Gilbertson put into the fandom. From fan projects to parodies, to interacting with the fandom itself, it makes me appreciate the extra mile he went for everyone. Gatha is amazing, no bones about it. But man, he voiced X9, and we didn’t get to play it! (😂 all in good fun, no malice there.)
DeleteMan even deep nerds talking about the nuances of G-Gundam and people who play the voices of Mega Man and characters in it for multiple games, barely know anything about it...
ReplyDeleteIt is a sad state, I tell you.
Loved him as X and Domon, and loved the parallels between them. (who else said "BURNING FINGER!" when using X Fire's command trigger??)
ReplyDeleteSaaaaaaame, nice to hear he's still happy with the work he did even though he's usually too busy to talk about it.
Deletehe said he voised x in x9 mabey one day...
ReplyDeleteDude stop, there is no X9.
Delete@8:45 PM No need to be an ass. There's such a thing as sharing opinions politely. Is it really that hard to act civilized?
Delete@8:45 thats why he said mabey one day
DeleteHe thought the games he voiced for were on the Nintendo 64. He said he literally never played the games before or owns any of them. He thinks those same Nintendo 64 games were ported to the PSP....
DeleteTo be fair, he got paid to do a job. He wasn’t paid to or told he had to love it, be a fan, be super dedicated, or interact graciously with us. Give this character a voice, put some personality in it, and go. Which is what he did, of course! It’s funny? The whole X9/64/sure. I got a kick out of it myself. And who knows? He (May) have just been trolling. Doing it, but never know!
DeleteAll in all, he’s doing good. Which is good. lol we can make all the memes and references to those mistakes all in good fun. That’s part of life.
It's been 20 years since the last X game, it's over. If you want to keep hoping for X9 for another 20 years that is your choice.
Delete@2:35 PM X DiVE Offline came out last year. If you want to be picky, X DiVE originally came out around 2019/2020 IIRC, which is only about 5 years tops. On top of that, reviving old franchises is a huge trend going on in the industry right now. We got Crash 4 and Streets of Rage 4 out of it.
DeleteReviving old stories and ruining them is also a trend. Not exactly something I am rooting for...
DeleteX Dive doesn’t count, that’s a mobile game.
Delete@1:54 AM X DiVE absolutely does count. Mobile game or not, it is a game. You run, you shoot, you dash, you dodge incoming attacks, you navigate stages, you defeat bosses, you progress through the story, you get to the final boss, you win, you go through the credits, and so much more. The level design is a bit iffy early on, but it picks up as you progress. I'd even go so far as to say the level design is better than X8 and is on par with X4-6. The fact that it was released on mobile devices means absolutely nothing, and with the more predatory aspects removed in the Offline version that's even more true. In its current state it could have easily been released on the PS2 or PSP back in the day and would have been praised as a rather solid entry in the X series even if only as a non-canon spinoff.
DeleteThere's even things you can do to make it play more like the classic titles, and I'd recommend doing so. Disabling auto aim in particular is a must, as this allows you to aim your shots the classic way by sliding down walls or jumping, which generally seems to be what the levels and boss fights were designed with in mind and makes them much more fun.
@11:36 Saying that the level design is better than X8 when dive is filled with levels that last less than 2 minutes is absolutely idiotic.
Delete@11:58 AM many of the main story levels are split apart into sections, sure, but they are full levels. It's more akin to them having checkpoints that allow you to go upgrade your gear, characters, etc. rather than truly being 2 minutes. You can play through the full length versions of many of these as event stages, in addition to a number of other event stages that are not only full length but dwarf the number of stages you'd get in other games in the series. The only idiocy here is your disingenuous bias.
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DeleteMore akin to them having checkpoints? What a cope, whatever helps you sleep at night.
@12:28 AM I don't need to cope, I've been enjoying it since launch last year. It's you bozo's who need to make up reasons to hate the game that are ingesting copium to justify your blind hatred. Quite literally Capcom gives you a new game and you won't even accept it as a new game. Get real. We've all been saying it for a while now as well; Capcom could literally release X9 tomorrow and you clowns would find every reason under the sun to dismiss it because it doesn't meet your subjective arbitrary standards. Have fun with your spite filled cope while the rest of us are actually touching grass and enjoying the new games coming out.
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DeleteAre these "all" in the room with you?
"Touching grass"
Yeah, sure, lmao.
@1:28 PM Touching grass is probably something you should learn how to do. Mocking and hand waving is not the same thing as having an argument. You don't have an actual argument against X DiVE Offline, so instead you're just trolling and bullying. Just think of how much better your time would be spent getting some fresh air instead of mocking people who happen to like games that you don't. Not that I expect anyone in the jaded crowd around here to actually have a spec of reason within them anymore. It's always the same with you jerks. Next announcement we'll be here again, and then again with the next, and again without fail, because none of you can tolerate anyone else enjoying things you don't and compulsively need to try to drag everyone else down to your level.
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DeleteYou still made a comparison between two structurally different games, that's still idiotic, there's no turning back from that one. Thank you for providing a perfect example of a disingenuous comment by going "s-story levels are split apart into sections". False, they are not sections, they are all played as story levels and event stages are their own thing so they are irrelevant, they aren't the story levels. Just because they are numbered 1-1 it doesn't make them sections, Mario levels aren't called sections because they are numbered as such. In X4 you don't go back to the level select screen when you finish a section. If anything, you're the clown that's making up things to convince others to like the game with, case in point, that comparison. The rest of your coping rant is unrelated and even dumber with your hypotheticals because anything could've happened.
I didn't know he was a doctor.
ReplyDeletewas just wondering about the GOAT a couple days ago, cool :)
ReplyDeleteAbsolute class act. Glad to see he seems to be doing alright.
ReplyDeleteSo great to hear the GOAT Dr. Mark Gatha is doing great! 😊
ReplyDeleteSo who here is going to make a appointment to go see Dr Mega man X?
ReplyDeleteI've not seen G Gundam yet (its on my list) but he was a good X.
ReplyDeleteIt’s a pretty good series, very different from the rest of the Gundam anime.
DeleteIt was the first Gundam I watch as a kid. An enjoyable anime and Black sheep of the Gundam franchise.
DeleteI've seen quite a few Gundams.... But G Gundam just never caught my urgent interest. First Gundam I watched was 0083, which out of all the U.C., is still my favorite.
DeleteI wouldn't call G Gundam the "Black Sheep"... That would be G Savior.
@John, it’s so weird to me that G Gundam is considered the black sheep of the franchise. Personally it’s one of my favorites.
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