Summary

• Fallout is more popular than ever thanks to the Amazon show, and Tomb Raider could have an even greater reach.
• Tomb Raider will also have a game launching much closer to the show, if both stay on schedule.
• Lara Croft, queen of my heart, deserves to be queen of the world again.

Never in my life have I heard so many people talk about Fallout. I like the games enough, and remember the hype and enjoyment/disappointment/apoplectic rage that accompanied the releases of 3, 4, and 76 (5 to 75 are a bit of a blur). It's always seemed like a pretty popular game, but no more than that. You hear of people with tattoos for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Elder Scrolls, Zelda, Pokemon, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Assassin's Creed, and a million other games, but Fallout always seemed a level below that. Now, fresh off the success of the Amazon show, it's everyone's favourite. I hope the same thing happens to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Tomb Raider.

This may be controversial to some die hard fans (and younger readers), but Tomb Raider is bigger than Fallout. My mother knows Tomb Raider. My grandmother knows Tomb Raider. They don't know Fallout, at least not how it pertains to a video game. I realise the motherometer is not the only way to measure how big a video game is (it's how you rate Taylor Swift's outfits - one for the gays out there), but Lara Croft is a gaming legend. I don't quite agree with the BAFTAs naming her the most iconic video game char📖📖acter of all time, but I do think that's the company she keeps.

Lara Croft Used To Rule The World

Younger readers have only known Lara through the so-so Survivor series, but for a while in the '90s and '00s, Lara Croft was on top of the world. Her games were amongst the most anticipated on the planet. She was on magazine covers. She advertised energy drinks, credit cards, clothing - not the way a cheap tie-in video game mascot might, but like a supermodel would. She has a higher ceiling than Fallout, and I would love for her to reach it again.

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Tomb Raider's Game And Show Could Combine Better Than Fallout's

That would be great timing, but the truth is, I don't mind which comes first, or even how close they are together. We just need something to get Tomb Raider back where it belongs at the peak of gaming culture. A new game that shakes off the cobwebs of Survivor to stake a claim as a world-beater again, or an Amazon series with the quality and audience draw of Fallout. Either works for me, but a 1-2 punch of series-then-game to capitalise on the former’s success would be the stuff of dreams.

Despite being on the outside of the Fallout fandom, I've been glad to see so many people engage with the show, especially those not necessarily that into gaming. And likewise, it has been great to see the biggest fans finally have an outlet to talk about their love for the series and all the weird twists in the lore. One of TheGamer's Fallout superfans wrote about 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:their love for the Deathclaws, only to be contacted by their creator who 168澳洲幸运5开𓄧奖网:reveale💟d brand new information as a result. That probably wouldn't have happened without the TV show, and I hope the Tomb Raider fanbase is similarly reinvigorated by the upcoming show.

The game? Sure. Definitely want that to be good, and will enjoy that more than the TV show in all likelihood. But the game will be for fans only, and even then, many prefer the classic entries to the newer ones. The TV show has a much wider appeal, especially with the name-brand recognition of Lara Croft, one that far exceeds Fallout with the general public. It could all go horribly wrong - gaming adaptations have before, and none of Lara's three movies quite get the tone or narrative right - but Fallout gives me a lot of hope that not only will the Tomb Raider show be good, it will put Lara back at the pinnacle of culture where she belongs.