Geralt of Rivia voice actor Doug Cockle is keen to return for upcoming CD Projekt Crimson initiatives like The Witcher Remake, the subsequent mainline recreation codenamed Polaris, and extra.
Talking to IGN, Cockle made clear his love for The Witcher by saying he desires to voice Geralt endlessly, even when Polaris is shifting away from the character. “I’d love to simply preserve voicing Geralt till I can now not voice anymore,” he stated.
“It is simply develop into such a component of me. I am thrilled each time CD Projekt calls me up and says, ‘Hey, Doug, are you out there for such and such?’ And my coronary heart does a bit flutter and leaps, and I am going, ‘Sure, of course I’m,’ as a result of I find it irresistible a lot.”
Cockle made clear he would not know a lot of what’s occurring at CD Projekt Crimson — or Idiot’s Idea, the developer making The Witcher Remake — however he is solely ever had a optimistic expertise engaged on The Witcher so would love to return.
“I haven’t got as shut a relationship with many different builders, and rather a lot of the opposite builders who I do know pretty properly are indie builders so they are much smaller in scale in phrases of what they’re doing and every thing else,” Cockle stated.
“I’ve rather a lot of respect for CD Projekt Crimson. I do not work for them, I work with them. So I sit a bit bit on the surface of the corporate itself. I am like a satellite tv for pc that sort of spins across the inside workings of the corporate, which I do know nothing about, and each infrequently, they name me in and I are available and do some factor, and then I am going again into my orbit. However they’re completely beautiful.”
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One other Witcher recreation continues to be years away, and as talked about the story of Polaris, which kicks off a brand new trilogy, will transfer away from Geralt as a protagonist. That is not to say he will not function someplace within the story, however nothing is confirmed (and you’ll be able to learn Cockle’s greatest theories right here). The Witcher Remake is subsequently a likelier alternative for Cockle, as this shall be, because the title suggests, a full remake of the unique Witcher which starred Cockle as Geralt.
“I am tremendous enthusiastic about [The Witcher Remake], as a result of if you concentrate on it, when Witcher 1 was made, I used to be recording the voice in 2005,” Cockle stated. “I believe the sport itself got here out in 2007. That was a very long time in the past. That was practically 20 years in the past.
“The know-how has modified a lot. I perceive that they are going to be recreating it in Unreal Engine 5. In order that’s going to be actually thrilling as a result of the stuff they’ll do with graphics in Unreal Engine 5 now in contrast to what they have been in a position to do once they first made The Witcher 1, it is night time and day. It is actually thrilling.”
Little else is thought concerning the remake. CD Projekt Crimson introduced it as a recreation codenamed Canis Majoris in October 2022 as a “fully-fledged, AAA, story-driven RPG”. The venture was introduced correct as The Witcher Remake later that month, with CD Projekt Crimson offering “full inventive supervision” regardless of it being developed at Idiot’s Idea.
Nothing has been stated since, although CD Projekt Crimson confirmed in November 2023 that development was progressing as planned.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.