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It's bizarre to me. Hollywood has generally figured out that if a book sells really well that you shouldn't fuck with the movie version any more than you have to. If you gotta jiggle a few things around for pacing, fine.
But they'll still absolutely torch a video game story to "make it better"with no comprehension of the source material and it's literally never ever worked.
TV figured it out w/ The Last of Us and Fallout.
But games are about the player getting to engage with and explore the world and story at their own pace and shows let it aorta slow down too.
Really the answer seems to be take the world and make your movie in it as needed to make the story engaging.
The recent mortal kombat movie, Mario movie, detective pikachu and sonic movies show that it works. Also don't mess with the characters to much if you include them.