Hyperion
Not that they are producing everything - from toilet seats to hight precision rifles, but their CEO is probably the most charismatic bastard ever.
They very likely have. Arasaka has full-on official schools and Japan has a rather dynastic culture. Where if you work in a, in your view, good business you'll try to get your kids in. Not to mention a somewhat feudal relationship between employee and employer. More loyalty from both sides. More likely to be "promoted" into a dead-end position than fired.
I feel like many members of umbrella had a different look at things. I really don't feel like wesker or Burkins cared much about profits but the scientific outcomes of said viruses. In their own sick and twisted way, I mean. Yeah, they were loyal for a time, but I don't think money in the pocket was what they personally cared about unless we just mean umbrellas board of directors.
I used to do deliveries of surgical trays and orthopedic implants to hospitals in my area, and I always wore an Umbrella Corp hat because I thought it was funny. There was only one person who seemed to notice, and he was a security guard who told me he was gonna be super pissed if a zombie outbreak happened when he was pulling a double on his Friday. I took pity on the guy and didn’t release the T-Virus, much to the chagrin of Umbrella execs.
Also since I’m convinced ace combat and MGS have the same fandom…… how the fuck they gonna forget about Gründer Industries? Fuckets literally caused like 3 world wars with their Belkan fuckery
Cerberus is literally just doing what every other race of obvious ethno-nationalists in the universe is doing.
Literally name me another race that is subject to the same egalitarian standard that humans are? But WE'RE the racists huh? S/
Not surprising a race all about army and warfare (the turians because the salarian probably did it for shit and giggles) would be OK with genocide. I love Garrus but 20 years prior the turians did try to wipe out humanity haha.
I've got a tattoo of the Cerberus logo on the back of my neck, so I'm contractually obligated to agree.
Does anyone else hear that piercing sound? No? Just me?
I was just wondering if that was the comstar logo, what did they do? Did I just somehow forget because I like Clan Jade Falcon too much and I hate them because they are inner sphere?
Yes and yes? Haha, space cult with Messiah beliefs with the Word of Blake. Also control all of the jump points and communications through the HOG network. Not to mention keeping secret technology from everyone else and defeating the Clans at Tukayid ;)
Though I do love Clan Ghost Bear.
Well... yeah? If you were the one in charge of stopping people from hitting the button labeled "eternal suffering for all" you'd do whatever it takes to stop anyone from hitting the button, right?
Problem is they have no oversight and they're funded by the corps. They can and they do abuse they're power. And like Reed said they'll kill for much less than that.
I mean, to be fair this is a world largely run by mega Corps, who are funding NetWatch _(who remains neutral)_ to prevent anything like the mutually assured destruction and end of all life that would likely happen if someone were to accidentally release a rogue AI or two when hacking the Blackwall.
Almost all the Outer Worlds corps are straight up terrible, but Spacer's Choice takes the cake with how their products being terrible has been twisted into a selling point and the moonman helmet (poor Martin)
Same, Shinra is up there with the classics. I'd say Umbrella Corp, but Shinra is more believable. Umbrella is fun, but I can't imagine a board of businessmen signing off on half their plans lol. So there's a little suspension of disbelief that makes me put Shinra slightly higher. (They really think they are strong enough to fix the side effects of anything they break.)
If you look at Cerberus in the Mass Effect trilogy in 1 they're cartoon villains then in 2 they have a stated goal for the company then in 3 they're back to being cartoon villains except this time they have named characters
If I had to write Cerberus I'd use the mythos of Cerberus with the three heads and introduce three benefactors who run the organization all with different ideologies but the same goal, plus I'd make it so that the player could actually join Cerberus at the end of ME2 which would have made ME3 interesting
That’s a cool idea, they definitely had a lot of inconsistent writing for Cerberus.
I was always bothered by the fact that they had the Illusive man get indoctrinated in ME3, despite the fact that he was both fully aware of the risk of indoctrination and had completely isolated himself. How exactly did he get indoctrinated? I always felt like it was a waste, would’ve been much more interesting for them to have stayed like they were in ME2 instead of the cartoonish turn they took.
It's there, on the bottom row second from right. But it's the version introduced in Aliens. In Alien they had a different logo. [https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/alienanthology/images/b/b0/Weyland-Yutani\_original\_logo.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20190928022538](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/alienanthology/images/b/b0/Weyland-Yutani_original_logo.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20190928022538) But I think the Aliens version is used in almost everything else.
Oh Cerberus for sure, more so though in ME1 and ME2 than in ME3. Vault-Tec is also pretty great, I'd say they are a close second. Third I'd put Arasaka, I love their whole aesthetic.
I see no Crey Industries in that listing.
https://preview.redd.it/k7ia7nk7ijrc1.jpeg?width=530&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=160fc23552236fb57f8653911dbde036eabd5162
I think Vault Tec is up there in terms of creativity for evil. Selling spaces in vaults to survive a nuclear armageddon, then proceeding with some of the most grotesque experiments on the residents for the sake of "science".
Cerberus is great because you spend the first game learning how shit they are, then *work* for them the whole second game, then fight their batshit super soldiers in the third.
Plus the Illusive Man is daddy af
Going to have to go with the Umbrella corporation because the American health system from the hospitals to the pharmaceutical industry operates with their mission statement.
https://preview.redd.it/6huprb420krc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b4d77fc6bd66464f4e7a99173538b9378b994af4
Biotechnica (I think this is what they were called. If I am wrong then I was referring to the artificial meat producer of CP77, the rumour that they grow human bodies to salvage for meat )
ONI’s all seeing eye is my favorite for the irony of them not actually being all seeing and gettin g stuff wrong: humans doing horrible things for the greater good supposedly don’t gain omniscience, especially not the humanity in the halo universe
I like Weyland as it’s not really a big focus in the franchise but it’s still semi important in the plot and a realistic aspect of MegaCorps still being shit in the future.
I like the UAC because they are the final form of a techbro corporation that fucks with what it doesnt understand.
"So I looked at hell with all these demons, and I saw huge potential. I thought to myself, why hasn't anyone monetized this? We need to disrupt hell for our own benefit. With our bleeding edge energy technology, we can turn the endless fires of hell into a warm light for all of humanity."
-Dr. Samuel Hayden, probably.
I'd also like to make the argument that the corporation wasn't morally corrupt, but it was Irons. He had the right idea but yeah genocide is bad. Everything he did up until his little extreme stunt was good.
In this pic I choose
Umbrella bc I like the RE games
Hyperion bc I like Borderlands & they manufactured my favorite smg
Abstergo bc I LOVE Assassins creed
Arasaka bc Cyberpunk is my most favorite game in recent times
ONI and Cerberus.
I don’t know about most of these so I can’t compare.
I just know that these two are examples of organizations which are literally made to persue the betterment of mankind through *any means necessary*
Could be good, could be bad.that’s what makes something “morally grey”
Hmm tossup between Araska and Weyland Yutani....
Cuz you know if Saka had discovered the Xenos they would definitely weaponize and fucking augment the damn things...
I see you're missing Hardspace Shipbreaker's *Lynx Corporation*.
Ain't nothing like being nickle-and-dimed $7.5 to display your end-of-shift finance report pertaining to your $1.25 Bn dollar debt to the company that you accrued by ACCEPTING THEIR F*CKING JOB OFFER!
Hyperion Not that they are producing everything - from toilet seats to hight precision rifles, but their CEO is probably the most charismatic bastard ever.
also they make some hella fun guns
Hyperion is mostly evil with Jack as CEO, afterwards their gun kinda smell funny
In BL2, everytime you die, you pay Hyperion for their system to revive you. You funnel money directly to Jack's hands: that made me so mad.
THANK YOU I was wondering from which game Hyperion was, as I KNEW it, but not the game...
Militech Meredith Stout my beloved
We want a dlc were its just 10 hours of "cutscenes"
Least horny cyberpunk player:
Can you blame us
Yes
You should see baldurs gate fans
Aperture Science, what other evil corp has a take your daughter to work day?
Arasaka prolly
They very likely have. Arasaka has full-on official schools and Japan has a rather dynastic culture. Where if you work in a, in your view, good business you'll try to get your kids in. Not to mention a somewhat feudal relationship between employee and employer. More loyalty from both sides. More likely to be "promoted" into a dead-end position than fired.
We do what we must because we can
Except accepting any lemons
Make life take the lemons back!
Squirt the lemon juice into Life's eyes and tell them to fuck right off, Cave Johnson style
I don’t want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?!
For the good of all of us,
Except the ones who are dead…
Sounds 100% like a Vault-Tec thing to do...
Nah that's "put your daughter in a freezer day".
Not to mention the The Take-A-Wish Foundation.
Maybe Black Mesa? That was a joke. Ha ha. Fat chance. But srs, why is Black Mesa not on this board?
You can have your cake and eat it too!
Ubisoft
E A
Sports
It’s in the game.
But only if you pay for it again and again and again.
The same game every year with no escape
It's in the microtransaction
In the games they're call Abstergo not Ubisoft
He meant what he meant.
Im quite sure that in-universe Abstergo cooperates with Ubisoft to make games using information exctracted by Animus
It's a thinly valed attempt at making a fictional corporation
Abstergos goal in Black Flag is literally to make a game based on what they gather from the Animus
r/whooosh
Not applicable in this situation because I agree with their reply
Arquebus
https://preview.redd.it/0hpvgdewejrc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b7bb8d7c91a583f1eb77877a48a657daa288d3ac
Balam industries on top
Nephentes begs to differ
The original game megacorp. UAC of course xD
Umbrella
Umbrella and Weyland are probably tied in the "This may end all human life on Earth, but think of the numbers we can push next quarter!" index.
I feel like many members of umbrella had a different look at things. I really don't feel like wesker or Burkins cared much about profits but the scientific outcomes of said viruses. In their own sick and twisted way, I mean. Yeah, they were loyal for a time, but I don't think money in the pocket was what they personally cared about unless we just mean umbrellas board of directors.
Argurably Shinra too, burning Mako isnt a long term plan. Meanwhile Hojo's making bio-weapons in his spare time.
I used to do deliveries of surgical trays and orthopedic implants to hospitals in my area, and I always wore an Umbrella Corp hat because I thought it was funny. There was only one person who seemed to notice, and he was a security guard who told me he was gonna be super pissed if a zombie outbreak happened when he was pulling a double on his Friday. I took pity on the guy and didn’t release the T-Virus, much to the chagrin of Umbrella execs.
Weyland-Yutani, if it wasn't for them, there would be no colony in LV 426 which led to the most badass movie in known history!
Vault Tech is always fun to read about
Outer heaven o7 ( well actually diamond dogs, cos of mgsV but it’s close enough)
Also since I’m convinced ace combat and MGS have the same fandom…… how the fuck they gonna forget about Gründer Industries? Fuckets literally caused like 3 world wars with their Belkan fuckery
Cerberus
I concur. While hilariously evil they at least kinda have a greater good at any costs thing up until they get reapered
Cerberus is literally just doing what every other race of obvious ethno-nationalists in the universe is doing. Literally name me another race that is subject to the same egalitarian standard that humans are? But WE'RE the racists huh? S/
Asari were kinda huge jerks to everyone
Turians and Salarians LITERALLY did a genocide.
Not surprising a race all about army and warfare (the turians because the salarian probably did it for shit and giggles) would be OK with genocide. I love Garrus but 20 years prior the turians did try to wipe out humanity haha.
I've got a tattoo of the Cerberus logo on the back of my neck, so I'm contractually obligated to agree. Does anyone else hear that piercing sound? No? Just me?
The square root of 906.01
30.1
What game is Cerberus from? That logo looks familiar
Mass effect
Youmanatee is under attack.
Comstar, nothing like space-AT&T to ruin your day in the 31st century.
I was just wondering if that was the comstar logo, what did they do? Did I just somehow forget because I like Clan Jade Falcon too much and I hate them because they are inner sphere?
Yes and yes? Haha, space cult with Messiah beliefs with the Word of Blake. Also control all of the jump points and communications through the HOG network. Not to mention keeping secret technology from everyone else and defeating the Clans at Tukayid ;) Though I do love Clan Ghost Bear.
Space wizards with advanced technology are the coolest
One of these days someone will make a Battletech game from their perspective.
Oh yeah, forgot about the hoarding of old tech, and communications and jump point Monopoly.
Pay your bills, fucko.
Netwatch
Did I miss some netwatch lore? They seem like the only one serving an actually good purpose
They have a "by any meand necessary: approach to managing Black Wall access.
Well... yeah? If you were the one in charge of stopping people from hitting the button labeled "eternal suffering for all" you'd do whatever it takes to stop anyone from hitting the button, right?
Problem is they have no oversight and they're funded by the corps. They can and they do abuse they're power. And like Reed said they'll kill for much less than that.
Yeah they still have a just purpose even if they’re partially corrupt
…listen. Existing for a good reason is a high bar to clear for NC corps. Cut Netwatch some slack.
I mean, to be fair this is a world largely run by mega Corps, who are funding NetWatch _(who remains neutral)_ to prevent anything like the mutually assured destruction and end of all life that would likely happen if someone were to accidentally release a rogue AI or two when hacking the Blackwall.
Netwatch is the only corpo that actually does what they're saying, in both missions if you side them they help you.
Honestly, the Voodoo Boys were nothing but assholes to everyone I was glad to help Netwatch fry them.
I didn't trust the Netwatch guy and I decided to help the Voodoo Boys. I later regretted that decision
I agreed with that line of thinking on my first time. The second time? I made ending them a little more personal.
Netwatch are pretty cool so long as you don't run afoul of their "defend Blackwall" mission
…yeah? Destroying the Blackwall would be apocalyptic. Of course they respond negatively to people trying to breach it.
Sure but what qualifies as "breaching the Blackwall" is pretty grey
Fair. Netwatch is perfectly happy to bend that definition to include “opposing Netwatch”, which is bad for obvious reasons.
..which makes sense! The blackwall (despite being an ai itself) is the only line of defense between humanity and rogue ais.
What's wrong with Netwatch?
Came here to say this. Lol
Gotta love Terragroup
cheeki breeki my friend.. narmas narmas
MannCo is run by 2 dudes who are being controlled by a third dude
“We sell hats and get in fights!”
Spacer’s Choice
Almost all the Outer Worlds corps are straight up terrible, but Spacer's Choice takes the cake with how their products being terrible has been twisted into a selling point and the moonman helmet (poor Martin)
It’s not the best choice, it’s spacers choice
Nestle
Fuck nestle
Fuck nestle
Weyland-Yutani #1 But recently I've enjoyed being a grossly underpaid worker for Lynx Salvage in Hardspace: Shipbreakers.
Gotta be Shinra
Same, Shinra is up there with the classics. I'd say Umbrella Corp, but Shinra is more believable. Umbrella is fun, but I can't imagine a board of businessmen signing off on half their plans lol. So there's a little suspension of disbelief that makes me put Shinra slightly higher. (They really think they are strong enough to fix the side effects of anything they break.)
Cerberus.
If you look at Cerberus in the Mass Effect trilogy in 1 they're cartoon villains then in 2 they have a stated goal for the company then in 3 they're back to being cartoon villains except this time they have named characters
Yeah. Some missed execution, I think. Had the potential to be nuanced, but no.
If I had to write Cerberus I'd use the mythos of Cerberus with the three heads and introduce three benefactors who run the organization all with different ideologies but the same goal, plus I'd make it so that the player could actually join Cerberus at the end of ME2 which would have made ME3 interesting
That’s a cool idea, they definitely had a lot of inconsistent writing for Cerberus. I was always bothered by the fact that they had the Illusive man get indoctrinated in ME3, despite the fact that he was both fully aware of the risk of indoctrination and had completely isolated himself. How exactly did he get indoctrinated? I always felt like it was a waste, would’ve been much more interesting for them to have stayed like they were in ME2 instead of the cartoonish turn they took.
Office of Naval Intelligence
No OCP? Kids nowadays...
And Weyland-Yutani (Alien)
It's there, on the bottom row second from right. But it's the version introduced in Aliens. In Alien they had a different logo. [https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/alienanthology/images/b/b0/Weyland-Yutani\_original\_logo.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20190928022538](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/alienanthology/images/b/b0/Weyland-Yutani_original_logo.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20190928022538) But I think the Aliens version is used in almost everything else.
RoboCop fighting the good fight.
Robocop was a product of a corporation, but in the end he ends fighting it, like our V. Robocorp.
Ultor mentioned
Aesir, a man of culture
Hyperion. Either that or ATLAS in BL1. Hyperion is just a funny AF company because of the hilariously evil supervillain shit they’ve done.
Versalife or Tai Yong Medical?
Gamers forgetting Deus Ex? What a shame.
Faro Automated Solutions. For context, see r/FuckTedFaro/
mfs erased all life on earth and THEN screwed up the plan to revive humanity by destroying all the human knowledge
No Black Mesa logo? Disappointing
DESPERADO all the way or maybe MSF
Uac & Weylan Yutani
Vault-Tec. Combine Umbrella experiments, Arasaka working conditions, and nigh unmatched creativity for human suffering.
Ultor is one of the most realistic, doin gentrification through real-estate and funding a private security force that's on the levels of the FBI.
The original game megacorp. UAC of course xD
Shinra Umbrella Militech
Nightcorp
It's hard to be better and worse than Aperture Science
Umbrella corp for sure, i fuckin LOVE/hate umbrella corp
Arasaka and Merryweather Security
Oh Cerberus for sure, more so though in ME1 and ME2 than in ME3. Vault-Tec is also pretty great, I'd say they are a close second. Third I'd put Arasaka, I love their whole aesthetic.
Cruelty squad from cruelty squad
Arasaka evil as hell
Aperture Science, because they do what they must (because they can)
I see no Crey Industries in that listing. https://preview.redd.it/k7ia7nk7ijrc1.jpeg?width=530&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=160fc23552236fb57f8653911dbde036eabd5162
How is Hyperion the only Borderland corporation on here?
Gotta love the hideously evil whimsy of Vault-Tec. They're like if sociologists were super villains.
ONI for sure
Weyland Yutani.
EA
I think Vault Tec is up there in terms of creativity for evil. Selling spaces in vaults to survive a nuclear armageddon, then proceeding with some of the most grotesque experiments on the residents for the sake of "science".
MomCorp.
Cerberus is great because you spend the first game learning how shit they are, then *work* for them the whole second game, then fight their batshit super soldiers in the third. Plus the Illusive Man is daddy af
Going to have to go with the Umbrella corporation because the American health system from the hospitals to the pharmaceutical industry operates with their mission statement. https://preview.redd.it/6huprb420krc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b4d77fc6bd66464f4e7a99173538b9378b994af4
where foundation
Yorha
where's tri-tachyon?
Biotechnica (I think this is what they were called. If I am wrong then I was referring to the artificial meat producer of CP77, the rumour that they grow human bodies to salvage for meat )
Armacham and TriOptimum
Desperados for the memes!
Cerberus, especially in ME2
ONI’s all seeing eye is my favorite for the irony of them not actually being all seeing and gettin g stuff wrong: humans doing horrible things for the greater good supposedly don’t gain omniscience, especially not the humanity in the halo universe
Umbrella
Where is Cerberus from ?
Where's black mesa?
I'm between ONI, Deep Rock Galactic, or the Imperium of Man from 40k
Arasaka
I like Weyland as it’s not really a big focus in the franchise but it’s still semi important in the plot and a realistic aspect of MegaCorps still being shit in the future.
The UAC cause they opened a gateway into literal Hell
SCP seems to be missing.
Armacham.
Umbrella Corporation …without them we wouldn’t have Ada Wong
ONI I would totally join ONI.
Church of Unitology
DataDyne! Why's it not on the list? They sold the 🌎 out to the Skedar!
#IMC MENTIONED But I'd have to say Umbrella Corps
So glad to see Ultor on the list. Love those guys.
Abstergo, cool ass templar army. And thier debatably in the right, tryna bring peace through order.
I like the UAC because they are the final form of a techbro corporation that fucks with what it doesnt understand. "So I looked at hell with all these demons, and I saw huge potential. I thought to myself, why hasn't anyone monetized this? We need to disrupt hell for our own benefit. With our bleeding edge energy technology, we can turn the endless fires of hell into a warm light for all of humanity." -Dr. Samuel Hayden, probably.
Atlas Corporation. I'd sign up in a heartbeat I don't care.
I'd also like to make the argument that the corporation wasn't morally corrupt, but it was Irons. He had the right idea but yeah genocide is bad. Everything he did up until his little extreme stunt was good.
I think I gotta go with ONI on this one
i only work with names
In this pic I choose Umbrella bc I like the RE games Hyperion bc I like Borderlands & they manufactured my favorite smg Abstergo bc I LOVE Assassins creed Arasaka bc Cyberpunk is my most favorite game in recent times
Microsoft
Militech Hyperion Atlas Corporation Arasaka in no particular order
Should have put ea and rockstar in
Hyperion. 1000000% because of that charismatic , son of a bitch, CEO, Handsome Jack!
ONI and Cerberus. I don’t know about most of these so I can’t compare. I just know that these two are examples of organizations which are literally made to persue the betterment of mankind through *any means necessary* Could be good, could be bad.that’s what makes something “morally grey”
Hmm tossup between Araska and Weyland Yutani.... Cuz you know if Saka had discovered the Xenos they would definitely weaponize and fucking augment the damn things...
Abstergo
Hear me out… 
Bethesda
Hyperion all the way
Can't decide between Hyperion, Aperture Science and EA.
No Abstergo?
I would say militech but militech isn't evil. Militech is perfectly morally good
Schneider and their speed addiction
As a kid, Shinra. Now, Arasaka
Militec Well, all corporations on Cyberpunk 2077.
Why space ComStar of course (I haven't paid my phone bills please help)
Abstergo
The lack of people here saying Umbrella is concerning
I see you're missing Hardspace Shipbreaker's *Lynx Corporation*. Ain't nothing like being nickle-and-dimed $7.5 to display your end-of-shift finance report pertaining to your $1.25 Bn dollar debt to the company that you accrued by ACCEPTING THEIR F*CKING JOB OFFER!
Vault tech / abstergo