He didn't watch the gameplay nor the 2018 in-engine trailers, yet he was like ''meh'' hahaha.
He comes out spitting straight truth.
He says the problem is he's trying his best to find stuff that looks good but his brain just says it looks bad.
No FUD. No excuses. No theories as to why it looks bad but that it just does.
This is someone with actual professional expertise compared to Alex from DF.
I miss the days when we had proper experts like Durante.
He said ''This looks like a current gen game, and that is being generous.''
Then he said: ''he don't know what went wrong, is it the engine, or the studio, or even seriesX.''
Any logical person would conclude from these 2 statements that every aspect of the halo demo is too average or bad, so the issue can't be in just the environment design aspect of the game or the lighitning aspect..etc. It is a an overall failure and that's why he questioned the studio/engine/seriesX.
So why would he bother point at every bit of that disaster ? It's not his job, he was looking for next gen aspects to explain them in that trailer and he couldn't. You want him to explain a last gen game and why it looks bad. Your expectations of him is not realistic.