Geralt Voice Actor: The Witcher 4 'Won't Focus on Geralt' - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 12 August 2024 / 1,772 Views

Doug Cockle, the voice actor for Geralt in The Witcher video games, in a new interview posted on the YouTube channel Fall Damage revealed The Witcher 4 won't focus on Geralt and it will have a new protagonist.

"The Witcher 4 has been announced," said Cockle. "I can't say anything about it. What we know is that Geralt will be part of the game, we just don't know how much, and the game won't focus on Geralt. So it's not about him this time.

"We don't know who it's about. I'm excited to find out. I want to know! I have not seen any script yet. I mean, I couldn’t tell you if I did. This is the thing, so I could be lying through my teeth. But I’m not. Or am I?"

The last mainline game in The Witcher series, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, released for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC in May 2015, for the Nintendo Switch in October 2019, and for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S in December 2022.

A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.

6 Comments

shikamaru317 (on 12 August 2024)

Most likely either Ciri or create-a-Witcher.

Random_Matt shikamaru317 (on 12 August 2024)

Ciri does not make sense to me, way too powerful. What are they going to do, strip her abilities and make her weaker for the player? Unless I am misremembering the character?

haxxiy Random_Matt (on 12 August 2024)

Sure, why not? It always works for Samus Aran.

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shikamaru317 Random_Matt (on 12 August 2024)

My understanding is that in the books, Ciri underwent partial Witcher training at a young age, during that training the Witchers fed her some of the special herbs and mushrooms that they use to make recruits stronger, however Triss stopped them from putting her through the full Trial of the Grasses because she didn't want Ciri to lose her womanly assets, and instead took Ciri to Yennefer for Sorceress training.

So because Ciri never underwent the full Witcher mutations, she lacks the improved sight in the dark and cateyes of full Witchers, and because Triss stopped them feeding her the strength and reflex enhancing herbs and mushrooms midway through her Witcher training to protect the growth of her womanly assets during puberty, her strength and reflexes aren't up to par with a full Witcher, though still well above any normal woman and probably above any normal man. She can't use Witcher signs, but can use full on sorceress magic from her time training under Yennefer. She can also survive drinking Witcher potions as revealed in Witcher 3's Blood and Wine Ciri ending (in which she says she slew a Gerkin by letting it bite her after she drunk a Black Blood potion). Witcher potions would normally kill unmutated humans, the ability to survive drinking Witcher potions comes from her Elder Blood I believe.

So she is living as a Witcher if you choose that ending for her (which CDP could make her canon ending), she can use traps and bombs and even drink Witcher potions. She can't use Witcher signs, but can use full-on Sorceress magic (which would offer a greater variety of spells in a skill tree for her than just the 5 basic witcher signs and their upgrades), and she has her ability to teleport a short distance to dodge attacks. The developers could start her off fairly weak in all of these areas, with skill tree upgrades to improve her spells, potions, traps, bombs, and basic teleport dodging abilities.

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shikamaru317 shikamaru317 (on 12 August 2024)

However the fact that the teaser for Witcher 4 features a Lynx school medallion in the snow makes me think we will be getting an all-new setting in the North (possibly Kovir and Poviss), and an all-new Witcher who is among the first generation of newly trained Witchers at this brand new school of the Lynx that has formed after Witcher 3. It seems like more of a set-up for create-a-Witcher than for a set main character. Ciri's Witcher medallion is a Cat, not a Lynx, as she carries the Cat school medallion that she got after killing Leo Bonhart, who had previously killed the owner of the Cat School medallion. People originally thought that CDP was teasing Ciri with the teaser image of the medallion in the snow, but then CDP confirmed that the medallion is a Lynx, not a Cat. So unless Ciri founded this new Lynx school herself, maybe a decade or so after Wither 3, it seems more likely that we will get a new main character.