Speaking with Gearbox president and founder Randy Pitchford, you can tell he’s genuinely excited about the studio’s upcoming project, Borderlands.

He feels that the game is a take on a number of genres — first-person shooters and role-playing games, specifically — that just hasn’t been seen before. He laments that at this year’s E3, the studio was forced to put Borderlands into one genre, something they simply couldn’t do. He brags a bit about the A.I. system the studio’s designed that generates what he says will be “millions and millions” of very special, playable weapons.

But he’s also admits that he’s “scared sh*tless,” because Borderlands — from its art style to its one-of-a-kind take on already established genres — is about as ambitious as it gets.