video game adaptations consistently get low critic scores and the Number One Reason Why is that the showrunners throw away everything relating to the source material and make their own schlock wearing the skin of the original work
Noah Hawley says his โFAR CRYโ series wonโt be adapting any of the games as he thinks audiences skip the story cutscenes in those games.
โWhen you play a video game, you only really move forward through the gameplay section, and then you have these cut scenes that you can skip, so when you go to adapt those games you have to be aware that makes the human drama kind of irrelevant to the storyline.โ
(Source: Deadline)