There is literally [i]no way[/i] anybody can answer this question. We have seen nothing and know nothing about the game outside of the fact that John is the protagonist. With next-gen hardware and a full compliment of employees numbering over 300, who is to say that two and a bit years is 'too short' for development time? We don't even know how long the game has been in development, Microsoft allegedly started handing out next gen dev kits to developers as early as January of 2012 and you can bet that 343 was one of the first to get their hands on it - as well as the fact that they've been sewing the seeds of the narrative for the Reclaimer Saga since 2009 and started talking about the story they were going to tell back when they were formed in 2007. So when it comes to writing the story, they have a solid idea of what they're doing and where they're going compared to Bungie who improvised the whole thing because they didn't know they were going to do a Halo 2 and then just decided to rewrite the last few hours of Halo 2's cut third act to make a whole new game. Again, until we actually [i]see[/i] the finished product there is no way I can take anybody seriously who is saying that the game is being rushed. There are too many variables here and I'm going out on a limb here by saying that nobody here knows jack shit about actually working at 343...