That's fine. It's one persons view from a gaming website. This is the only article for either game to paint something negative around it.

What people shouldn't do though is take this one negative preview and immediately start the "yeah I figured it would be a bad game" nonsense.

To be honest I guess I don't really concern myself with the state of the industry as a whole because I don't consider myself a part of it.  I'm a video game journalist the same way someone who fixes up their house on the weekend is a contractor.  I've never worried about this general mistrust of game journalism because in the end it affects a very small part of my life.  An enjoyable part of my life, but a small one none the less.  So I guess I didn't initially respond because I just don't find the gamergate type topic (I don't mean to label you in such a crowd, but it was the only term I could come up with for this type of discussion of general media trustworthiness) interesting to talk about.  

When I make a comment on these things, it's from the point of an individual writer who puts things on the internet and would prefer that he be treated with the same benefit of the doubt I think most would give someone they meet in person.  Because I've put my true identity out there so this isn't an anonymous internet post which I can understand not trusting on face value.  I personally give the benefit of the doubt to any writer putting content online, particularly when they have knowledge I don't.  I trust social scientists that a study on the effects of first experience on gay black men is worth millions of dollars.  I trust artists that a gallery of 7 artists' interpretation of the color white is worth their time (not mine, but at least theirs).  I admit that might make me overly optimistic or naieve, but I think that most people are good, honest people, and I think that applies to game journalists just as much as it applies to any profession.  

I use to question those tin hat people when it comes to paid reviews, but not anymore. After the whole gamer gate thing exposed just how fake it all is, I'd be careful to listen to any website like it's the bible anymore.

Or maybe the game isn't as good as we expect.

Obviously I haven't played the game, but neither has anybody here.

It's possible that the game is just bad....

Lol exactly. 

As long as MS lets me know in advance what kind of game it is, so that I can avoid a purchase that would disappoint me, no bad feelings against it.
In these cases, like always, reviewers must give readers the instruments to make their choice, so they must make very clear some things: what the game is, its features, plot, gameplay, graphics, etc, whether they like the game as a whole and each of its parts, and if they don't, why, whether it's because they have different tastes, or if it's for technical flaws or maybe just design choices that make a thing unpleasnt because it was implemented in that particular way, but that they could have liked if made differently. Doing a review this way, readers can decide with their heads, and both positive and negative opinions will be equally useful. A blind rant or praise, OTOH, won't be useful at all.
In this particular case, for people that really don't like interactive movie games, what MS told should already be enough. For those that OTOH like them, a review can be useful to tell whether a feature they like was also made in a way they like.

I mean he is entitled to his opinion and although I was very much impressed by QB's gamescon demo and love Remedy as a studio I am also on the fence around QB just because of the TV integration. On the other hand his whole article on Halo is absolute terrible and he is terribly uneducated on Halo 5's game mechanics and some of his statements regarding weapons are ridiculous since it is the same weapons that have been in Halo a while.

Just to point out Halo and QB articles are written by different people. In case that got overlooked (if it's relevant, of course).

Ouch! Things don't sound too good for either game.MS needs better quality control with their games apparently.QB certainly looks bland.Halo has always been generic.