You missed the autonomous, organic matter-driven war machines that caused the extinction of all life on earth in the "Horizon" series. I mean, a machine set to devour organic matter at unimaginable quantities set loose? Anyone could have seen that apocalypse coming a lightyear off.
Except Ted Farro I guess. And to think he was a key part in pulling humanity from an apocalypse and setting it stable again, only to ultimately be the reason for it's extinction.
Which is the drop in the bucket when the theme park is based off of a certainly fatal soda. That soda is also nationwide and presumably worldwide as well.
Also, as we learn from the promotion jingle for the park: "A park with every minimum acceptable safety standard met". Just the bare minimum! There's a terminal file titled "Nuka-World Paramedic Report" that has the following information: "This report is dated July 14th, 2077. I'd like to officially go on record to express my dismay at the current safety conditions of some of Nuka-World's rides. I have just completed treating a patient who suffered multiple cuts and bruises after riding Mad Mulligan's Mine Cart Ride. In the last year alone, I've treated: 7 broken bones, 9 major lacerations, 78 muscle injuries and 166 minor lacerations all due to ride malfunctions. This does not include the two fatalities that have occurred... both of which have been in the last six months."
not to mention that in the Deus Ex franchise the augmentations come with a lifetime addiction to drugs meant to assist the body with the handling of the painful process of rejection of the augmentated parts -- so if you are lucky enough to get augmented (and not someone like JC or Adam -- whose bodies were the keystones to unlocking human augmentation as they never rejected the augmentations) then not only would you have to be rich to maintain the augmentations on a regular basis ... but if you suddenly found yourself poor and on the streets you were doubly fucked by the system
Interesting thing is that "Gray death" from first Deus Ex, that consumes the world, is, in fact, nanobots, that JC uses for augmentation. And Gray death symptoms are what happens, when body is incompatible with nanoaugmentation, as it requires specific immune proteins to be missing to be compatible with it's host. Nanoaugmentations don't need as much care, as mechanical ones Adam Jensen has, but turned out to be incompatible with most humans, to the point, where even organisation as powerful, as Majestic 12, found exactly 1 compatible individual and cloned him.
Aw you missed Prey (Arkane's) - inserting extradimensional Typhon material into human brains - and subsequently ripping them out when your contract is over, as an employee of the company... Leading to the mess when the Apex arrives.
The overlooked danger of augmentation in Deus Ex is from Deus Ex 2: Invisible War. The Omar are a hive mind of nano-augmented humans who have had their frontal lobes removed and replaced by a wireless transmitter. In their ending they trigger a nuclear war that kills everything except themselves, thanks to the augmentations. After which they turn their sights to space abandoning the planet they had a hand in destroying. Throughout the game you see one of the characters, Leo Jankowski, transform from human into a Omar.
@@jensonkiin3678 They do indeed. Hopefully your character, Alex, was smart and got outfitted enough to survive pass the end. I believe there's no indication of you living during the credits scene.
In the intro to System Shock you are given this lovely story that obviously goes awry, but that is before the game starts. If you want to limit it to third act twists, the reveal on who s helping the player in System Shock 2 is a great "They are going to try to kill me."
For a commenters edition, I'd suggest the Faro Plague from Horizon of the Geth from Mass Effect. Nothing like machines built for warfare that turn on their creators.
@@RyanEX2000 And they "rebelled" when the Quarians essentially devolved into a civil war over them becoming sentient. They saw that Creators killed other Creators and intervened, and it spiraled out of control from there.
I disagree on the Geth, they never had any specific emnity towards Quarians or Organics in general, they just wanted to continue living and organics kept trying to kill them. Now the Reapers on the other hand, after observing millenia upon millenia of sentient races building AI's that destroy them, perhaps building an AI with the task of solving the problem wasn't the biggest brain move possible. That it would immediately decide it's builders were the problem shouldn't be a surprise.
I've always wanted to do a TTRPG set during the events of the first bioshock. Like none of the players are involved in the story, they're just portaled there due to the insanity that is Bioshock Infinite, and now they have to find a way to escape a flooding city. I don't know if I want to do it with a d20 system or d10, but it would be really fun to do a plasmid/corruption counter type thing. I like the idea of taking the bare bones of Mage the Awakening and changing some things around, where arcane experience is now Adam and stuff like that. As the campaign goes along the regular events of bioshock are happening and they'll have to deal with the fallout.
Talks about a game where a scientist called Freeman works in a project to open portals to other dimensions and everything goes boom. And makes ZERO mentions to Half Life.
I think it was a brilliant plan to put feets on a saw. Like come on now... Fine the feet might been overkill but imagine, you no longer need to get the tools! They come to you! In a very fast and aggresive manner.
The scientists knew Gladys wanted to kill them, their literal job was to make her less murderous. They succeeded, but that still doesn’t excuse them giving her access to the neurotoxins. Ps, ‘Chell’ is pronounced ‘Shell.’
Can we all just agree that Jules ending monologue on the videos he narrates are amazing. Sometimes we all need a little bit of positivity and Jules supplies it. I’m thankful for ya mate. You are the big ledge here.
The Reapers from Mass Effect. How the hell did the Leviathans think they were a good idea? Leviathans: “We’ve noticed organic species keep inventing ultra intelligent AI’s that inevitably kill them. Let’s create an ultra intelligent AI to solve the probl-oh look, the AI decided to kill and “preserve” every organic species.”
The Working Joe's actually were suspenseful and scary. When I first started actively encountering the Xenomorph it was so accurate and overpowered I just found it frustrating and kind of boring. Maybe there was an initial hump to get over with it but I didn't wait around. I was there to be terrified, not bored.
Meanwhile my favorite is from a gamecube game called Geist. Where the guys open a portal to another dimension[or hell, hard to tell with the aliens and demons and ghosts], and use the machine that does toto rip people's souls out, then gaslight the newly "spawned" souls into becoming super soldiers who can possess anyone and were gonna be sent to kill every world leader.
What?! No Five nights at Freddy's animatronics? They were designed to hunt children at first and eventually everyone else with a criminal database access.
atomic heart´s plot gave me terminator genysis vibes for seemingly in both we are sent to shut down a program/AI created for betterment of mankind,but it is already in control to some degree and is sending what it can at us to stop us.
Cyberpychosis is rarely actually caused by cybernetics, and is generally just...regular psychosis from stress and the hostile environment in someone who happens to have enough chrome to do some damage when it happens.
Hey Egg daddy! What about... "Useless characters in team strategy games?" Paduk from gears of War judgement comes to mind. If you ever played the survival mode. Paduk is absolute sh*t
Way late, but I had to pause on the Dead Rising part to comment. While Jules did note modifying animals/insects is a no-no, and I can't dispute this, for the sake of minimising any extrapolations given the climate over the perceived danger of GMOs, it's really important to remember that we've been genetically modifying plants for tens of thousands of years before we even knew what genes were, and this extends to a lesser degree to livestock; human civilisation in its present state exists solely as a result of that progress and it's extraordinarily unlikely any of us using the Internet have ever in our lives had any fruits/veggies that weren't meticulously genetically engineered unless your name is Vandal Savage.
Correct me if wrong, but isn't there implication that the scientist from Doom is familiar with Hell being used as a fuel source successfully by the heaven stand in, successfully for a very long time? Can't remember if I head cannoned things, or there was evidence that Samuel Hayden wasn't so surprised with things going bad, true motives were for the Doom Slayer.
I keep forgetting about Atomic Heart. Every time I see footage for it I think, "so we've married Nier: Automata, pre-war Fallout, and Bioshock into one game? Awesome!"
@@V0idFace No, this is what we call "Overperception." Your biases and inner skeptic can't imagine how something you hate so much can be praising a different game, therefore you come to the conclusion that it was paid. You're not the sharp one, you're a blind, dull blade who's convinced he is the brightest because he has nothing to compare to.
Xenoblade Chronicles (the series, not just the first game), the Trinity Processor and the Artifice. As explained in XBC2, the Trinity Processor was basically a highly advanced supercomputer made to control the Conduit. The existence of the Conduit led to wars over it, and during one such war, a scientist used it all to create a new universe he would be the god of. This goes horribly wrong and pretty much wipes out all of humanity, except for Klaus, the scientist that tried making a new universe, and Galea. Half of Klaus went into the new universe with Galea, as well as Ontos, one of the Trinity Processors, effectively becoming gods there, the souls of Bionis and Mechonis, or Zanza and Meyneth respectively, with Ontos becoming Alvis. This is the universe from the first game. The other half of Klaus stayed in the original universe and used technology to restart life, with the new world becoming Alrest, the world from the second game. The Conduit was discovered and led to a lot of wars, but the Trinity Processor allowed control of it, allowing Klaus to use it for his experiment, which wiped out all life. On top of that, all three pieces gained life. Ontos becomes Alvis, whom helps Zanza, whom is the main villain of the series, and helps cause the deaths of many. And Logos and Pneuma become Malos and Mythra. Malos tried to wipe out all life on Alrest, and while Mythra was fighting to stop him, she was incredibly destructive in her first war with him, with him directly and intentionally killing many and her unintentionally killing many in her attempts to stop him, both through use of their Artifice, which in comparison are more minor but are giant mechs that were used in the war over the Conduit prior to Klaus' experiment, and then used by Malos to wipe out entire nations and by Mythra to stop him, which led to wiping out many others as well. So to summarize, the Trinity Processors together: Created weapons of mass destruction to defend the Conduit. Used the power of the Conduit to create a new universe, wiping out pretty well all life. Ontos gained life in one universe and helped a god that wanted to wipe out all life. Malos gained life in the other universe and tried to wipe out all life. Mythra gained life in the same universe and killed thousands as a consequence of her attempts to stop Malos wiping out all life. The existence of two universes, caused by the experiment, then almost wiped out all life in both universes, again, when they began to merge back into one universe (I don't know the XBC3 story as well as the other two). That makes for... Technically 2 times wiping out all life, 2 further attempts to wipe out all life after life returned, and 4 sets of massive amounts of killing related to these universal extinction events. Unless you want to argue that it was the Conduit that wiped out all life creating the second universe, despite Klaus only being able to control it thanks to the Trinity Processor, and don't want to count the universe merger as the fault of the Trinity Processor, even though it wouldn't have happened if Klaus hadn't been able to make a second universe, then I think it's safe to say that the invention of the Trinity Processor probably caused more deaths than all of the things on this list combined. And even if you want to argue it doesn't all count because Alvis, Malos, and Mythra are living things and no longer "inventions" (which is a weak argument since they literally are the Trinity Processor still and, as shown when Mythra becomes Pneuma, still have all of the capabilities they had as AI), there's still the fact they were a supercomputer when they were used to create the second universe. And there's the backup of the Artifice, which the Trinity Processor created as a defense mechanism and which Malos used to try wiping out all life, and which Mythra used to stop him, leading to all of the casualties of her counter attack.
I knew working Joes would be in here somewhere. The uncanny valley problem aside, autonomous robots are ALWAYS a bad idea. Just wait till they are a reality, and we get some sort of group hacking them for nefarious reasons. I'll just leave that here for your nightmares.....
I like watching these type of videos in bed before falling asleep and the glitch on gladus' alerted me as i thought my phone broke 😭 (my old phone used to do that before it completely broke)
reminds me of a Halo novel that said the Flood were essentially a Bio-Weapon created by a race called "the precursors" who were wiped out by "the forerunners". the "gravemind" in Halo 2 and 3 looks sort of like them.
While GLADoS is better known these days i still would've picked SHODAN instead. Not only did her VA a fantastic job, SHODAN just freaks me out every time. And she is known to be cunning and ruthless at multiple occasions. Most prominent in System Shock where, for a good portion of the game, she ... 😁
Makes it sound like a message against looking for alternate energy sources. Them always going wrong in sci-fi I mean. That Deus Ex entry could have been "all of the cyberpunk subgenre".
That’s the thing I love science fiction but it’s a little sad how much doubt it sows in people regarding scientific advances. I can not tell you how many times I’ve heard someone reference a literal FICTIONAL movie as why A.I. is dangerous or any number of other advances
Not true about the Argent Towers. They did think that they could be used to harm as well as help... after the C/B analysis however with extinction on one side and survival on the other, the calculus always comes out on survival being better.
@@incredibleflameboy correct 2001 space odesyy. relative the ending were the last guy make it to open the central database of Hal9000 and remove parts of the system.( he need the computer still running inclusive some higher parameter becaus otherweise he would not abil to fly and controll the ship.)
Stellaris lets you create AI that can rebel, or FTL drives that tear holes in reality and let eldritch abominations invade. You can also blow up the galaxy with one megastructure, but it’s meant to do that anyway.
*sighs* I just wanna get cybernetic eyes already. I've worn glasses all my life, and while contacts are an improvement I just don't wanna hassle with it anymore. But unfortunately yeah, Bezos would just take advantage of them to learn how to better serve me ads for organic small batch cat food. :/
The one take away we have here is to stop looking for alternative forms of energy and stick with big oil. I mean, nothing bad has come about from big oil, has it?
#6 reminds me of a crazy novel where cybernetic "enhancements" for soldiers were common, but also had mind-control potential... BUT invading aliens HACKED that system and turned ALL the "enhanced" soldiers AGAINST EARTH! to quote a minor character, "how bogus is that?" PS: that book was loosely based on the "Decent" videogames.
The guardians in Breath of the Wild/ Age of Calamity. Their killing ability, as well as being hackable, is foreshadowed when one tries to shoot Zelda, and you save her with a pot lid.
I feel like I should point out that the guardians didn't really kill their inventors. They won the war against Ganon they were originally designed for, it was the second war long after the first where they were hijacked.
It's not so much that new energy sources are inherently bad. Energy is just seen as something that we can reasonable understand that the future might be desperate for, it's desperation that makes most of these things turn out bad. Desperation causes stupid actions, cutting corners, not implementing safeguards, acting rashly, or generally doing things that just aren't wise. The same thing with that game where they were trying to increase the food supply. Plot wise it just makes more sense than some of these games where they antagonists did something just because, either they were insane, evil, or just stupid. By having it be something that would fill an essential need it explains why they did it and in some instances why they didn't stop when it started turning bad. It's why most of these games have the bad thing started because of filling some essential need. Otherwise the player is left questioning, why did they do this in the first place?
i mean augmentation already exist on a light level...born blind people have glasses made that are linked to the sclera and inside the eyes to make them able to see light patern for movement, it is nothing amazing for us but for people that were fully blnind..it must be a game changer and give hope for the future....
