Fallout 4 Video Depicts Massacre of 50 Synths Versus 50 Humans

This video contains minor Fallout 4 spoilers.

Does anyone else feel like there's a slightly perversive quality to watching fights to the death that don't involve player interactions? No? Just me then. Well, I've said it now so I can't take it back. I guess I'll just lean into it.

I find scenarios like the one depicted in the video below both fascinating and upsetting. On the one hand, I love a good bit of rubbernecking (probably why my Friday nights are spent watching Cops re-runs in the dark while gambling fake money on SaltyBet). But on the other hand, I'm convinced this is the kind of thing the robot overlord will remind me of as he/she/it crushes me under its cold, metallic heels.

And what if we're training them to be better killers by constantly running these scenarios? What if we're actually the architects of our own extinction, and just haven't realised it? WHAT THEN?

Anyway, if like me you live in constant fear of the inevitable real world AI uprising, maybe give this video a skip and hope that they'll take pity on you when you scream "I DIDN'T WATCH THE FALLOUT 4 GENOCIDE SIMULATION VIDEOS."

But if you firmly believe that mankind is the very apex of sentience and the robots will always be subservient to our needs, and are in the mood for watching 50 Synths and 50 Raiders mercilessly gun each other down in Fallout 4, boy, have we got a video for you:

Also shout out to the commentator of this video, who sounds like he's the awkward contestant everyone would point and laugh at if America's Got Shoutcasters was a thing.

Fallout 4 released on Tuesday, November 10 across the UK, Australia, and North America. GameSpot's Fallout 4 review was loaded with praise for the open-world title, though it said that various bugs had affected the experience. Critic Peter Brown cited "plainly framed scenes and basic animations lend a roughness to the finish product, as do its frequent glitches."

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