"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
I'd be willing to bet they're stoked. They've been more or less chained to halo for 7 games now? I'm sure they'd never tell us how sick they got of trying to make the same combat seem fresh and new. I'm excited to see them do something else with their talents, creating new works, and I'd put money on the devs being in a similar boat.