That's because most times they don't bring in the A Team for video game adaptations in Hollywood. It's always some noob first time screen writer, or a screen writer that wrote some mediocre ass script.
Here you have Emmy award winning screen writers, Oscar nominated cinematographers, and experienced directors.
HBO doesn't make bad TV shows. They never miss. This is the company that gave us The Wire, Euphoria, GOT.
There's way too much talent here for this to suck. There's a much higher chance of it being the greatest video game adaptation ever
Eh, very few game adaptations that go off script(in regards to the game original story) goes well. Add that the gigantic dissapointment that was TLOU 2 and these quotes from the cast, and I'll probably not even bother.