This comes off like someone who hasn't actually paid attention to which of those movies did well and which bombed, or the behind-the-scenes developments of those movies.
Hint: There's a reason it took Nintendo 30 years to try a Super Mario Bros. movie again.
There's a reason Sonic had a delay-causing character redesign for his movie.
There's a reason recent Mortal Kombat movies are in a continuity reboot rather than sequels to the 1990's trilogy.
There's a reason a reason that outside a few outliers, most of what we'd consider "videogame to movie adaptations there were hits" started happening in only the past 5-10 years, in spite of attempts dating back to the early 1990's.
And last but not least, there's a reason no videogame-based movie has ever won an Oscar, in an era where nerd properties like western comics and anime have by now long made their mark.
And it's certainly not because any of these were too close to the source material, because quite frankly, there's been no Hollywood movie that's treated a video game's source material with that high an amount of reverence yet.
Why would a movie that's a videogame adaptation ever win an oscar? (like that would be a huge compliment in 2022 anyway)
Don't you get that if you actually want the movies to be close to the source material (so based directly on the games) that's never happening?
That's literally the point of my previous post...
Resident Evil movies suck...but they had to stay away from the source material to at least work. They did 6 of them and all were huge hits.
Look at Angelina Jolie's Tomb Raider. It wasn't much different. Those movies worked (specially the first one) because they stayed away from the source material. That movie was only recently surpassed at the BO domestically (and not even counting with inflation).
They are having much more trouble in doing a sequel for the new timeline...and guess what they are doing? an almost direct adaptation from the games. The movie barely broke even and it was boring as hell. That's what you get when you try so hard to do a watchable videogame.
Sonic had the character design altered...that's all. But that's because it didn't look like Sonic. It would be like making Lara Croft a blonde for no reason. The movie itself didn't change due to criticism. It was a character design change only.
Games and movies are different mediums for a reason and if you try to have too much of one into the other, it'll turn out to be crap.
I actually have a feeling TLOU TV show COULD break that "no awards" curse you talk about since the game itself was all about people and how they interact with each other in a post apocalyptic world. If they handle that right, with the team working on it, they could have an award winning show. But even them are altering stuff in there for it to work...