once the sandbox games got better in terms of replicating the real world and felt like than a video game.

I will say that we as an audience will identify with the robots more than the characters do on the show since we spend so much time with them and see things from their point of view. To the human beings on Westworld, the robots are seen mainly as being disposable inanimate objects. If the robots start going awol on the human beings, I wonder if folks here will still view them sympathetically.