That made me think "WTF?" the first time I saw them. I mean, they are sterile and the process to make more require a rare human-developed virus (although thanks to Bethesda it seems to have become quite common). They should care a bit more about blowing themselves up. But then you keep playing, see the hordes of them all over the Commonwealth and all you can do is say "Fuck logic".I can't understand why I have super mutants running at me while being strapped with C4, don't they have some sort of self-preservation instinct or are they all running around with an IQ of 20?
The Super Mutants sound like cartoonish parodies of the original ones, and their dialogue is cringingly uncool. (I wonder if they used the Cookie Monster as an inspiration for their voices.)
They didn’t need to be in another sequel; I honestly would have been fine if they were absent from a Fallout game. Like the Brotherhood, their inclusion just further demonstrates Bethesda’s intellectual laziness, and their inappropriate willingness to repeatedly assure you that you are playing a ‘Fallout’ game.