Summary
One of the most competitive races at The Game Awards (TGA) this year was in the Best Adaptation category. Ultimately,Fallout’sfirst season beat its major rivals for the win.
As video game adaptations improve, the Best Adaptation category atThe Game Awardsalso gets more heated. Geoff Keighley hosts the awards ceremony which honors the best achievements in the gaming industry every year. The Best Adaptation category is a relatively new one for The Game Awards, with it only being introduced in 2022. The past winners of the category include Netflix’sArcaneSeason 1 and HBO’sThe Last of Us.
The Game Awards 2024 Best Adaptation Winner
At this year’s TGAs, the category was filled with solid adaptations, but in the end, the race was between two major titles:ArcaneSeason 2 andFallout. Both were backed with positives that could have led to a win.Arcaneis largely considered one of the best-animated series of all time and received a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes for its second season. The series also had a past win in the category and, as Season 2 is the final one ofArcane, this was the last chance for it to be recognized at The Game Awards.Fallout,on the other hand, adapted Bethesda’s massively popular post-apocalyptic open-world franchise, which ended up making huge milestones on Prime Video and scoring well with fans and critics. One thing the two series did share waslead cast member, Ella Purnell,who was in attendance at the ceremony.
Best Adaptation 2024
The award was announced toward the end ofThe Game Awards 2024 show, withThe Last of Us: Part 2cast member Shannon Woodward andThe Last of UsSeason 2 star Isabela Merced presenting the category. In the end,Falloutcame out victoriousand Purnell, along with producers Todd Howard and Jonathan Nolan accepted the award.“I’ve spent most of the evening coming up with ways to heckle Ella for when she won for Arcane,”Nolan joked when accepting the award. The producer proceeded to thank the writers, cast, crew, and studio behind the show, before adding,“I want to thank the fans of Fallout: New Vegas for not burning my house down. You’ll be very glad you didn’t.”
The win was divisive among fans.Many were pleased withFallout’swin, citing it as an excellent adaptation of the Bethesda franchise. However, many were equally disappointed atArcane’sloss. Part of the reason forFalloutwinning overArcanecould be to do with the fact that the Netflix series’ second season was still airing in the middle of The Game of Awards voting period.Arcanereleased its final act on November 23, which brought things to a satisfactory end for many, although there were some complaints about the pacing of the second season overall. It’s possible that this recency bias had an impact onArcane’schances at winning at The Game Awards, but it still made it a very competitive category this year.
Falloutis available to stream on Prime Video.
Fallout
Created by Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Amazon Prime Video’s Fallout is based on the post-apocalyptic RPG gaming franchise that started in the 1990s. Set hundreds of years after the Great War, Lucy leaves her Vault bunker to travel the Wasteland in search of her kidnapped father.
