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[CyberPanda]

One of the most celebrated games of the past generation was without a doubt God of War. Released in 2018 to universal acclaim, it proved that a complete reboot of a franchise can be wildly successful.

It's fair to say that within God of War, one of the most beloved aspects was the combat which just felt "right" from top to bottom. One of the Senior Combat Designers on God of War was Dean Rymer – who announced that he is now the Lead Combat Designer for inExile Entertainment.

Rymer, whose credits also include PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale and a stint at BioWare, posted the news on Twitter last night.

Our Take

The studios under the new Xbox Game Studios suite have certainly been bringing in talent from all across the industry in the past year. While inExile is releasing Wasteland 3 later this year, that project was already well underway when they were acquired by Xbox. However, inExile is reportedly working on a new IP in the vein of a "AAA RPG" which we certainly can't wait to hear more about.

Former Lead Combat Designer on God of War Joins inXile Entertainment

One of the most celebrated games of the past generation was without a doubt God of War. Released in 2018 to universal acclaim, it proved that a complete

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[MiyazakiHatesKojima]

TRAITOR!

 

[Batiman]

Good news for Inexile. Combat was great in GOW. Good get

 

[Hobbygaming]

That's a nice pick up

 

[Pallas]

TRAITOR!

 

[Entroyp]

MS has been doing a great job at poaching talent from Sony's studios.

 

[Belmonte]

Seems InXile will switch to action RPGs after Wasteland 3.

Don't know how I feel about this but at least I'm glad we have so many traditional WRPGs being made, like Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, Baldur's Gate 3. Solasta and Realms Beyond.

 

[Panaphonics]

Damn. Sony is losing talent to Xbox left and right. Hilarious.
Nextgen is going to be so funny and different to currentgen.

 

[Panaphonics]

MS has been doing a great job at poaching talent from Sony's studios.

Well, they are not forced to leave Sony. Maybe they know something we don't. Maybe they are like rats leaving a sinking ship.

 

[Panajev2001a]

Somehow this is not a thread filled with walking and axe throwing simulator jokes for some mysterious reason .

Good hire InExile, good hire .

 

[iamvin22]

these types of moves are always funny to me, because unless your team comes with you then it doesn't mean shit.

 

[Rest]

Can we get one industry churn megathread instead of a bunch of threads like this?

 

[Kenpachii]

Dam even top devs are bailing on sony after microsoft revealed xbox series x specs.

 

[Klayzer]

Somehow this is not a thread filled with walking and axe throwing simulator jokes for some mysterious reason .

Good hire InExile, good hire .

I knew who made the thread without looking. CurryAgenda

 

[Stiflers Mom]

Dam even top devs are bailing on sony after microsoft revealed xbox series x specs.

All chasing that sweet 13 TF RDNA2.

 

[GymWolf]

Good hiring for microsoft.

 

[Barakov]

The combat in God Of War was pretty good so the combat in that InExile game should be pretty good. Kinda crazy how much talent is being poached from Sony.

 

[On Demand]

People change studios all the time after a game is completed or contract is up. Only warriors always read something into these.

Many developers from other studios have joined Sony's over the past months.

 

[Gavin Stevens]

God Of War was utterly bloody brilliant so this is a good catch

 

[Hawks Eclipse]

Former Lead Combat Designer on God of War Joins inExile Entertainment

Thread & article title vs the text in the article...

One of the Senior Combat Designers on God of War was Dean Rymer – who announced that he is now the Lead Combat Designer for inExile Entertainment.

Edit: Added "& article".

 

[KlickKlack]

9TF confirmed

 

[Sussoloc]

Whatever game they make,

Somehow this is not a thread filled with walking and axe throwing simulator jokes for some mysterious reason .

Good hire InExile, good hire .

Damn, just wanted to make an axe throwing simulator joke...Thanks for ruining it.

 

[Rolla]

I don't get how XBOX guys make such big deals about former SIE devs moving to XBOX. If the janitor from Naught Dog starts working at the coalition I'm sure they'll make a thread about it.

 

[phil_t98]

TRAITOR!

He who pays the most gets the best talent, or better hardware

 

[darkinstinct]

MS has been doing a great job at poaching talent from Sony's studios.

The Initiative is in Santa Monica for one reason alone.

 

[Sussoloc]

I don't get how XBOX guys make such big deals about former SIE devs moving to XBOX. If the janitor from Naught Dog starts working at the coalition I'm sure they'll make a thread about it.

Who makes a big deal here? The combat system in God of War wasn't that great. Personally i liked the old God of War games more than the lastofusified God of War.

 

[farmerboy]

I guess he's happy having hundreds of thousands of people play his game
INSTEAD OF MILLIONS

 

[Rolla]

Who makes a big deal here? The combat system in God of War wasn't that great. Personally i liked the old God of War games more than the lastofusified God of War.

You do realize that there is a "Team" in place to design that specific aspect right? If you told me the combat team left SSM for an XBOX studio I'd think something of it. But a single dev? To me the excitement XBOX guys have about singular PS devs moving to one of their studios proves that behind the scenes they know XBOX is in a dire position, despite all that nonsense about Gamepass being the next best thing/saviour for them next gen.

 

[Sussoloc]

You do realize that there is a "Team" in place to design that specific aspect right? If you told me the combat team left SSM for an XBOX studio I'd think something of it. But a single dev? To me the excitement XBOX guys have about singular PS devs moving to one of their studios proves that behind the scenes they know XBOX is in a dire position, despite all that nonsense about Gamepass being the next best thing/saviour for them next gen.

Wait, you are telling me more than 1 person worked on God of War? You don't say. I must have missed all that excitement you are talking about. I'm more into Xbox and i don't care about it. People always change their working places, nothing special about it. On the other hand, i really do think that Game Pass is a big deal for costumers today and for MS in the future and Sony also will be pushing PS Now massively, mark my words.