 since the original game in 2007. For a full-fledged remake, CD Projekt will likely want to re-record all the dialogue for a modern release. Cockle is, unsurprisingly, more than happy to reprise his role again, but he hasn't so much as received a phone call from the company. 'I'd be there in an instant,' he told Eurogamer when asked about returning for the remake. 'I don't know if they're going to bring me back in to do re-recording of the dialogue, I don't know if they're going to use dialogue from Witcher 1 as it exists. I don't know.' The possibility of CD Projekt reusing the voice acting from the first game isn't entirely out of the question, but it does feel very unlikely if it's going to be akin to something like the upcoming Dead Space or Resident Evil 4 remakes. For starters, some of the voice actors from the first game were replaced for the sequels, so using the old dialogue would be jarring for fans who jumped into the series with the later games. Plus, as Cockle points out, The Witcher was CD Projekt's first game. Cockle recorded his lines in 2005 and, since then, not only has his p){kind=link}
Doug Cockle, the voice of Geralt, doesn’t know anything more about The Witcher remake than fans do, but he definitely wants to be in it.
There are already too many questions that need answering concerning CD Projekt’s remake of The Witcher. And that doesn’t even include the primary one of ‘Why?’.
Announced only last month, all CD Projekt confirmed was that it’s being built with Unreal Engine 5 and that it’s in development at third party studio Fool’s Theory.
It’s not just fans that are eager for answers, as even Doug Cockle, the voice actor for series protagonist Geralt, doesn’t know if he’ll be asked to come back to record new dialogue for the remake.
While Cockle has multiple video game credits, his performance as Geralt is easily his most well-known, having voiced him in every appearance the character has made (including his cameos in Soulcalibur 6 and Monster Hunter: World) since the original game in 2007.