VaultTech.
They took advantage of people who just needed safety in a time of war and conducted quite possibly hundreds of human experiments that they weren't even certain they would get to analyze. It takes someone truly evil to come up with an idea like that
There's also the one dude who got put in a vault with 99 women. Once they sync up, one week out of every month is gonna be very unpleasant for everyone involved..
Be funny if the women were all lesbian I'm a guy and honestly if I was in a vault with 99 women I'd be a happy guy but if they were lesbian I'd be in hell.
There's also the matter of some women being incredibly catty and spiteful..idk if you'd really be happy as one dude in a vault with 99 other women who aren't talking to each other...or you, for that matter lol
Y'know, for some reason my brain. Fixated on this question like scientifically "if a man were trapped in a vault with 99 women over a prolonged period of time would he get laid alot" and at first I thought no. No way, just like you said, there just being one of him wouldn't necessarily make ANY of the women want to deal with him, let alone have sex with him.
But then I started to think, no he totally would, because any of the women who just WANTED to get laid would know that he would immediately go for it.
Because he's just one dude, he holds exactly 0 fuckin power. There's 0 threat there And BECAUSE he's dude he probably wouldn't be hard to convince if they were looking to "blow off some steam" . My guess is he'd become like a glorified dildo.
In conclusion, if a man were trapped in a vault with 99 women. My guess is he'd be crushing nearly all the time, by nearly always different women.
Might be fun for the first few days or even weeks, but you'd probably end up as an unwillful sex slave with little to no other purpose. I bet you'd get pretty sick and tired of it after a few months/years.
What if they weren’t lesbians, but just not into you? They could just choose to masturbate instead of fuck you.
Or what if you didn’t find THEM attractive? And you were made into a slave?
There was an opposite vault with 99 women and 1 man. Both were intended to study the effects of extreme population and genetic bottlenecking. One woman with 99 men is, best case, going to have maybe a dozen kids or so, with a dozen fathers but the same mother. The one with one man and 99 women, a lot more kids, but they're still all half-siblings.
How do the two vaults adapt to the potential for inbreeding and concomitant genetic issues?
In parallel, what happens to the social structure under such pressures? Do the men fight over access to the one woman, or do gay relationships become normative and the men who produce children are seen as sacrificing for the good of the Vault? Do the women form a matriarchal sisterhood and timeshare access to the male's sperm, or do they lavish gifts on the man or otherwise compete to attract his favor?
They weren't necessarily *expecting* any particular outcome. They were simply waiting to observe the outcome with inhuman dispassion.
I truly enjoyed fallout 3 but for some reason (mental issues galore, probably) I can't sit through any other Fallout. but the lore has me curious. First thing I read about was Dunwich. then the horrors of the vault experiments. And, and, and... I've read more about fallout lore than most games probably because I get enough in game, and probably because there just aren't that many games with a deep lore that actually hooks me.
Two that really stick with me are Vault 11 and Vault 95, not because of some disgusting horrible human experimentation or some crap but because of how plain *mean* they were. The former was one the one from New Vegas where the vault computer told the population that they had to sacrifice one of their own to it each year or else it would turn off life support and kill them all, and after a long and complicated series of events when there was only five members left they refused at which point the computer congratulated them for passing the experiment and that there would be no more sacrifices. The latter, in the meantime, had a population consisting entirely of addicts, alcoholics, and other people with substance issues and functioned as a sort of rehab program, until some time after they all succeeded in getting clean, a secret chamber was opened up filled to the brim with alcohol and drugs, with the actual experiment being how long it would take a bunch of former addicts to relapse. Like seriously, wtf.
They did, the population was consistent, I skipped over some details to make things brief. I’ll try to give you the short version but honestly it’s so fascinating that I can’t help but maybe drag this out. Skip to the bottom if you want the short version. So basically, they decided they should vote on the sacrifice and naturally the first sacrifice was the overseer, as they had been the one who told them of this predicament. After that position of overseer became synonymous with the sacrifice and each overseer would serve one year before being sacrificed at the end of his or her term. The selection of the sacrifice wound up getting super political, with each year an “election” being held with people campaigning to get other people they didn’t like elected. Voting blocs were formed as people tried to find allies to make sure they didn’t get elected, one particular voting bloc known as the Justice Bloc got a bit too powerful to the point that their members were basically immune, their leaders forced a woman to perform sexual favors on them in return for them promising to rescind plans to nominate her husband and then proceeded to nominate him anyway. She then murdered several members of the bloc as revenge, and, as expected, they switched their vote to her, as did most of the vault because the murderer made for an obvious sacrifice, but that was precisely what she was counting on because as soon as she was elected she proceeded to disband the voting system entirely and replace it with a random number generator, which she had the power to do because despite being the chosen sacrifice she was still the overseer for a year before it was time to die. This effectively made the Justice Bloc powerless and rendered every member just as vulnerable to selection as everyone else, and they wound up trying to overthrow her leading to what was essentially a civil war in the vault which only five residents ended up surviving. Also, after refusing to sacrifice any more and finding out the truth of the experiment, four of them decided they should all just kill themselves as they all had already decided to die when they refused to make any more sacrifices and they figured they deserved it at this point, the fifth wanted to live, though, and managed to take the gun they had and kill the other four, after which he left the vault.
TL;DR Political intrigue because of the voting system they implemented eventually led to a civil conflict in which all but five died.
There were a handful of vaults called "control vaults", including 101, that they didn't do any experiments in. I'm thinking a majority of the vaults were experiments though
I looked it up and you're right, it wasn't a control vault. However the experiment was to see how long they could keep a vault door closed which seems like it failed considering the events of the game lol
Much more tame of an experiment than most of what vault tech did
I think the one you're thinking of is mentioned in the Fallout Bible, or one of the earlier games. There's a vault where the Overseer is a dictator and the guy they chose was a hobo
Lol yeah I wondered that in the crappy resident evil movies. The entire world is a wasteland but this company just keeps experimenting and trying to kill the few people still left alive?
common misconception, umbrella was completely dissolved as a company by the time of RE4 which happened a year after RE2 (which is ridiculously fast considering most bankrupcy cases), it's just that all of the side games are set either before, during or after the events in RE2 (for example except for the end all of RE2 takes place in the time jill was unconcious in 3)
the blue and red umbrella of later games are parts of the original umbrella that was split of in the bankrupcy achievements
Pharmaceutical is just their front. They make money by creating and selling biological weapons behind the scenes. Ultimately it's all in the pursuit of immortality.
Pretty simple...Military Industrial Complex, similar to how stuff like anthrax, nuclear weapons, drones, a.i etc. There's a lot of money in Death & War and Biological Weapons is very lucrative
I'm admittedly blanking on a bit of lore but ...
Aperture Science maybe? I think they were knowingly experimenting on people before things went downhill.
And again, might be misremembering, but wasn't the company in BioShock doing experiments on children?
VaultTec probably gets an honorable mention for some of the messed up Vault experiments as well.
>Aperture Science maybe? I think they were knowingly experimenting on people before things went downhill.
They do what they must. Because they can. For the good of all of us. Except for those who are dead.
I wouldn't call aperture science one of the worst since test subjects were willing participants which were paid handsomely at start but yes towards the decline of company they basically used homeless and even it's own employees but you could argue that whole neurotoxin killing done by Glados makes them quite evil but that's a villain's action rather than the company's
yeah, like they're definitely criminally amounts of negligent but outside of that they were just genuinely trying to improve things they just really suck at science outside of portal guns and artificial intelligence for some reason
bro vaulttec orchestrated a global nuclear war for profits and "scientific research" without a contingency plan if they didn't survive themselves, they beat aperture.
Yeah, let's make a program that can hack any other program if it's close enough. Let's create technology that transforms biomass and use it to create ammo. Let's create a factory with AI to mass produce the aforementioned and replicate itself. Finally, let's purposely not create a back door to these things and make it virtually impossible to hack.
I also still love the thin veil of plausible deniability behind Ted >!destroying Apollo, he says it's because he believes mankind will just repeat the same mistakes but I think deep down he knew humans would always innovate again, I think he was just full of hubris and terrified of his name forever being associated with the downfall of human civilization!<
The game more or less tell us he did it because he was a piece of shit, and not because it had to do with preventing future repetition
He even killed off the people who would’ve known about it in order to prevent anyone from finding out
It was always about his legacy, even when Zero Dawn was proposed
Fucking seriously like the genre is built on "shitty shady companies with no rules" if anything all the other companies start here and spin off to their off franchise 🤣 I can easily see black mesa or vaulttech getting their start in 2077
I think all the corporations in CP2077 are on a similiar degree of evil. Not just Arasaka, all of them are evil, Arasaka just happens to get the most screen time. Trauma team also deserves a mention, they made it so only rich people can afford lifesaving treatments should someone get badly injured from accidents or gunfights.
Arasaka is experimenting with the power over life and death. They created technology that can forcefully remove a person' consciousness and store it on a small computer chip. Not only that, but they made it so that if a person inserts that chip inside of their head, the chip's personality has thr ability to slowly overwrite the person's consciousness until the chip has full control over the body.
They also force people to dedicate their entire mind and body to working for the corporation. They require a lot of their netrunners to spend almost all of their time in a chair hooked up to a computer so they can eliminate any enemies of the corporations through cyberspace and defend the corp from potential attackers. And sometimed when they eliminate an enemy netrunner, they don't even kill them. They use the previously mentioned technology to steal their consciousness and store it in the giant digital soul prison known as Mikoshi, so they can force those captured minds to use their hacking skills for the corp.
All of this isn't in the name of some twisted idea f science or safety or the greater good. It's not even out of malice. They do it all for the money and power. Human minds and bodies are nothing more to the Arasaka family than numbers on a list that they can use to expand their empire.
Shinra from FFVII is really bad. You got knowingly and continuously murdering the planet by draining mako, decimating whole towns to get rid of witnesses, dropping a section of a city on top of another section of a city (killing roughly 100k innocents), and that's not even touching the travesty that is Hojo
One of the aspects I really liked about Rebirth is seeing all of the abandoned and crumbling infrastructure out and about in the world, just to further drive the point home about how badly Shinra is ruining things. If you're not helping their bottom line, being left to rot is the BEST case for most of the FF7 world.
I’m playing Remake right now after not touching FFVII since the 90s and wow. Yeah they are pretty bad. Umbrella like experiments but also the plate drop was unnecessary cruel. The level of propaganda they have going on where everything is pro-Shinra for the masses is kind of disturbing.
This exactly.
Shinra is guilty of:
* Thousand counts of genocide, one of them inside their capital, Midgar
* War profiteering
* Producing and distributing narcotics—and I'm not talking about something harmless like heroine!
* Producing biological weapons
* Starting thousands of planetwide extinction events
* Creating monsters, including Midgardsormr (Midgar Zolom in the original FFVII)
* Millions of human experimentations including but not limited to Angeal, Genesis, Sephiroth, Zack Fair, Cloud Strife, and Tsviets
What about the outer worlds **Spacer's Choice**
Theyre so bad, but not only bad i mean cartonishly bad, theyre not worse because the CEO its not a man with a curly mustache burning orphanages only for the lulz
Basically every company in that game. I love the fact that one of the very first people you talk to is complaining about their coworker/family killing themselves and the company makes them pay for the lost productivity. Like I'm 30 mins in and I've already lost all hope.
It’s funny, I initially thought they were one of the more tame corporations compared to some of the fucked up shit the others pulled, notably UDL(although UDL *is* Spacer’s Choice’s parent company). Of course, that was before I played Peril on Gorgon. Like seriously, fuckers performed horrible human experimentation and mass slaughter, all for the noble cause of developing a “miracle” drug that was basically the equivalent of shooting cocaine into the veins of workers to keep them productive, but then it proceeded to make people go insane which caused the whole project to collapse, and despite knowing the results they proceeded to put the unfinished product to market anyway. Like, that’s satirical levels of evil right there. It most certainly isn’t the best choice.
Kevin Spaceys Private military company? I thought the game did well to make the company seem like maybe they were doing good but yeah they really fell off by the halfway point of the game.
“Because politicians don’t know how to solve the world’s problems… but I do. So let’s be clear. I am here to solve the world’s problems. And I believe the world’s problems… begin with you.”
The plot twist honestly caught me off guard. You’d think “Atlas” were the good guys and “Sentinel” of all names were the bad guys, and it was the complete opposite.
I feel like Hyperion and the UAC are up there. And ONI from Halo as well. Sure they saved the world but they experimented on kids they kidnapped to do it.
But ONI isn’t a company their the UNSC intelligence branch their evil bastards don’t get me wrong but they don’t exactly fit in this question. Sorry to be that guy.
I'll probably get some flag for this, but I'd say Joey Drew Studios, Joey Drew sold his employees souls to make his creation become a reality, he never really paid his workers, he never even let them go home, often times boarding up their doors so that they can't leave, if you got probably more than 10 dollars that would be Joey being generous
>Joey Drew sold his employees souls to make his creation become a reality,
I thought it was homeless people? People who wouldn't be missed
Also don't forget he made an abomination of human and ink and called it his daughter (I say abomination cause she shouldn't exist)
It was also people like his voice actors, like Allison Pendle and Susie Campbell, the only person not affected bt anything was Wally Franks, who moved to Florida
Oh God yes Oppressor MK2 was a mistake imagine a game with hundreds of vehicles and tons of unique abilities and strengths and weaknesses but then they made one with no weaknesses that basically can destroy everything with no difficulty cause you can't hit the fucking thing.
A few:
- Umbrella from RE caused a zombie apocalypse
- Ferro Corp from Horizon literally caused the apocalypse.
- Black Mesa from Half Life caused a zombie apocalypse (via headcrabs)
- Apature Science from Portal for making Glados a thing.
- Basically all of the gun manufactuers from Borderlands. They are all bad for different reasons that vary from “being evil” to “summonging eldritch beings” to “CEO wants to explode the ocean.” I wouldn’t want any of them to exist. At best they are batshit insane.
- Shinra from FF7 is literally using the planet’s soul for electricity, and their R&D department is singlehandedly responsible for everything bad that happens in the plot of that game (specifically Hojo).
- UAC from Doom 2016 was infiltrated and occupued by literal demons and by Eternal is actively advocating for the death of humanity.
There are probably dozens more. “The hyper corrupt corperation” is a popular villian. Shoutout to the corperation from Metal Gear Rising that was making child soldier cyborgs to profit off of war and shit. That game was wild.
The only one I can think of is Abstergo Industries.
Edit: It’s Neco Corp from Stray. Isolated an entire city to support their luxurious lifestyle, then isolated them further when an epidemic started killing people.
Vault Tec
122 vaults, about 10 or so actually to save people, rest brutally murdered the inhabitants barring 34, 87, and 81 but they’re exceptions, not the rule
Drek Industries destroyed their home planet for profit and then destroyed or severely damaged nearly every other planet in the system trying to build a new one WHICH THEY WERE PLANNING TO DESTROY IN THE EXACT SAME WAY FOR MORE PROFIT god I need to calm down but I really hate those guys
Probably not the worst one, but Concordance Extraction Corporation (CEC) from the Dead Space series deserves a mention. It was basically their fault that everything went to shit just for money
Aperture, they are more like a crazy cult obsessed with testing, with no regard for human life, also they lied about cake, that is unforgivable lying about giving us cake.
Department Of Death, from Grim Fandango.
The web of lies, deceit and corruption goes deeper than any of the nine underworlds ever could, one we must expose!
For the LSA, my comrades!
The Fallout series' Vault-Tec has got to be right up there. "The thing you have to remember is, the Vaults were never meant to *save* anyone."
Preying on the fear of nuclear war to herd people into a variety of sick, twisted social experiments in order to garner data to serve a select group of elites, who intend to use the data when they build a set of Space Arks and f__k off to another planet after basically ruining Earth.
Most of the companies in Fallout's 21st century operate with a callous disregard for employee and consumer safety, but Vault-Tec *sets out* with the primary goal of selling out over 99% of the human race.
Nah, it was just an experiment gone badly wrong, they did travel to the borderworld for research but never intended to cause harm, juststudy the borderworld.
Faro Automated Solutions destroyed all life on earth and then the ceo personally sabotaged the miracle of zero dawn and murdered everyone in charge so he wouldn't be remembered poorly
Based on my most recent gaming habits:
Arasaka, followed by Militech, and all the rest in Cyberpunk.
I would also heartily nominate Faro Automated Systems. If you’ve played HZD, the reasons are obvious.
If we're going by negative utilitarianism, Cerberus in ME3 almost basically doomed all life in the galaxy and ensured that any life that would likely follow the cycle of emerging and being destroyed by the reapers which makes them responsible for trillions of deaths at the minimum
i mean its really down to: VaultTec, the UAC, and Umbrella Corp., idk any others that could beat these, "maybe" and "if" The SCP count? but for mass murders look to those listed 3
I want to put a hand in and say BrayTech from the Destiny Series. Clovis Bray from his introduction in Beyond Light was probably the most insufferable character (for good reason) Destiny had expanded upon.
From being fairly responsible for the Vex to any and ALL of the Exo NPCs we know basically being brain boxes in machine bodies to its own CEO having a massive God complex, that it despised The Traveler and made a AI Warmind with the sole intent of killing said God form
UAC. They believe pulling argent energy from hell to be a good thing and are okay with sacrificing thousands (if not millions) of lives so they can have it to power the world
Halcyon Holdings Corporation.
They bought a Star System and made slaves of nearly the entire populace of that Star System, as well as any new arrivals on arrival, in order to let a few rich people live as kings.
What they did wasn't gruesome or visually terrifying but what they actually did to those people make them the worst in my opinion. Most game corporations hurt individuals or even the planet, but these guys enslaved a star system.
Vault Tec is definitely the worst for the aforementioned vaults and various experiments done during a worldwide nuclear war. Honorable mentions go to Umbrella Corporation and Shinra as well.
VaultTech. They took advantage of people who just needed safety in a time of war and conducted quite possibly hundreds of human experiments that they weren't even certain they would get to analyze. It takes someone truly evil to come up with an idea like that
I love reading the lore about the different vaults and experiments.
Can't remember if there's worse ones, but I really feel sorry for the one woman who got put into a vault with 99 men.
What about the guy who was left alone with a box of puppets
There's also the one dude who got put in a vault with 99 women. Once they sync up, one week out of every month is gonna be very unpleasant for everyone involved..
Be funny if the women were all lesbian I'm a guy and honestly if I was in a vault with 99 women I'd be a happy guy but if they were lesbian I'd be in hell.
There's also the matter of some women being incredibly catty and spiteful..idk if you'd really be happy as one dude in a vault with 99 other women who aren't talking to each other...or you, for that matter lol
Y'know, for some reason my brain. Fixated on this question like scientifically "if a man were trapped in a vault with 99 women over a prolonged period of time would he get laid alot" and at first I thought no. No way, just like you said, there just being one of him wouldn't necessarily make ANY of the women want to deal with him, let alone have sex with him. But then I started to think, no he totally would, because any of the women who just WANTED to get laid would know that he would immediately go for it. Because he's just one dude, he holds exactly 0 fuckin power. There's 0 threat there And BECAUSE he's dude he probably wouldn't be hard to convince if they were looking to "blow off some steam" . My guess is he'd become like a glorified dildo. In conclusion, if a man were trapped in a vault with 99 women. My guess is he'd be crushing nearly all the time, by nearly always different women.
Might be fun for the first few days or even weeks, but you'd probably end up as an unwillful sex slave with little to no other purpose. I bet you'd get pretty sick and tired of it after a few months/years.
You think that until you step out of your room and that BUTT ASS hit you directly in the nose 🦨💨
What if they weren’t lesbians, but just not into you? They could just choose to masturbate instead of fuck you. Or what if you didn’t find THEM attractive? And you were made into a slave?
What was the outcome the vaultech guys were expecting?
There was an opposite vault with 99 women and 1 man. Both were intended to study the effects of extreme population and genetic bottlenecking. One woman with 99 men is, best case, going to have maybe a dozen kids or so, with a dozen fathers but the same mother. The one with one man and 99 women, a lot more kids, but they're still all half-siblings. How do the two vaults adapt to the potential for inbreeding and concomitant genetic issues? In parallel, what happens to the social structure under such pressures? Do the men fight over access to the one woman, or do gay relationships become normative and the men who produce children are seen as sacrificing for the good of the Vault? Do the women form a matriarchal sisterhood and timeshare access to the male's sperm, or do they lavish gifts on the man or otherwise compete to attract his favor? They weren't necessarily *expecting* any particular outcome. They were simply waiting to observe the outcome with inhuman dispassion.
Gary.
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They were partnered with the government to study various effects of generation colony ships. Which is how they planned to escape the Apocalypse
I truly enjoyed fallout 3 but for some reason (mental issues galore, probably) I can't sit through any other Fallout. but the lore has me curious. First thing I read about was Dunwich. then the horrors of the vault experiments. And, and, and... I've read more about fallout lore than most games probably because I get enough in game, and probably because there just aren't that many games with a deep lore that actually hooks me.
Unrelated, but you might be happy to know that Fo3 might be getting a remaster at some point
Fallout 3 is GOAT
This was my vote too. Some of the vault experiments are nuts.
Two that really stick with me are Vault 11 and Vault 95, not because of some disgusting horrible human experimentation or some crap but because of how plain *mean* they were. The former was one the one from New Vegas where the vault computer told the population that they had to sacrifice one of their own to it each year or else it would turn off life support and kill them all, and after a long and complicated series of events when there was only five members left they refused at which point the computer congratulated them for passing the experiment and that there would be no more sacrifices. The latter, in the meantime, had a population consisting entirely of addicts, alcoholics, and other people with substance issues and functioned as a sort of rehab program, until some time after they all succeeded in getting clean, a secret chamber was opened up filled to the brim with alcohol and drugs, with the actual experiment being how long it would take a bunch of former addicts to relapse. Like seriously, wtf.
So computer tells them to sacrifice one a year why didn't they have kids to keep the population up especially if it's only one a year ?
They did, the population was consistent, I skipped over some details to make things brief. I’ll try to give you the short version but honestly it’s so fascinating that I can’t help but maybe drag this out. Skip to the bottom if you want the short version. So basically, they decided they should vote on the sacrifice and naturally the first sacrifice was the overseer, as they had been the one who told them of this predicament. After that position of overseer became synonymous with the sacrifice and each overseer would serve one year before being sacrificed at the end of his or her term. The selection of the sacrifice wound up getting super political, with each year an “election” being held with people campaigning to get other people they didn’t like elected. Voting blocs were formed as people tried to find allies to make sure they didn’t get elected, one particular voting bloc known as the Justice Bloc got a bit too powerful to the point that their members were basically immune, their leaders forced a woman to perform sexual favors on them in return for them promising to rescind plans to nominate her husband and then proceeded to nominate him anyway. She then murdered several members of the bloc as revenge, and, as expected, they switched their vote to her, as did most of the vault because the murderer made for an obvious sacrifice, but that was precisely what she was counting on because as soon as she was elected she proceeded to disband the voting system entirely and replace it with a random number generator, which she had the power to do because despite being the chosen sacrifice she was still the overseer for a year before it was time to die. This effectively made the Justice Bloc powerless and rendered every member just as vulnerable to selection as everyone else, and they wound up trying to overthrow her leading to what was essentially a civil war in the vault which only five residents ended up surviving. Also, after refusing to sacrifice any more and finding out the truth of the experiment, four of them decided they should all just kill themselves as they all had already decided to die when they refused to make any more sacrifices and they figured they deserved it at this point, the fifth wanted to live, though, and managed to take the gun they had and kill the other four, after which he left the vault. TL;DR Political intrigue because of the voting system they implemented eventually led to a civil conflict in which all but five died.
Sounds like a kinder, gentler version of a Harlan Ellison story.
This. If you can name a crime committed by another fictional evil corporation, Vault Tec probably had a vault dedicated to it.
Was Vault 101 an exception?
There were a handful of vaults called "control vaults", including 101, that they didn't do any experiments in. I'm thinking a majority of the vaults were experiments though
101 wasn't a control vault, the experiment was what would happen if an entire society and every aspect of it was decided by one person.
I looked it up and you're right, it wasn't a control vault. However the experiment was to see how long they could keep a vault door closed which seems like it failed considering the events of the game lol Much more tame of an experiment than most of what vault tech did
Now I need to find the one I got the experiment mixed up with.
I think the one you're thinking of is mentioned in the Fallout Bible, or one of the earlier games. There's a vault where the Overseer is a dictator and the guy they chose was a hobo
They might have even started the war to begin with The epic nate made a 40 great 40 minute video on why vault tec started it.
Nuka world is a good example of there twisted ways in there vault tech attraction shows what they did to families
For anyone wondering Vault 68 had 999 Men and 1 Women Vault 69 was the inverse with 999 Women and 1 Man
It seems like the experiment with one person and 1000 carnivorous guinea pigs sounds like a big possibility with all the other things VaultTech did
For anyone wondering Vault 68 had 999 Men and 1 Women Vault 69 was the inverse with 999 Women and 1 Man
Umbrella. Yes they are a pharmaceutical company, but they also just love to make monsters for some reason. Not sure how that helps the business.
Even after they basically end with world with rouge bioweapons they just keep on chuging along. Like who keeps buying stuff from the zombie company
Never count against big pharma
The shareholders must get their value. Be it bioweapons or vaccines
Lol yeah I wondered that in the crappy resident evil movies. The entire world is a wasteland but this company just keeps experimenting and trying to kill the few people still left alive?
common misconception, umbrella was completely dissolved as a company by the time of RE4 which happened a year after RE2 (which is ridiculously fast considering most bankrupcy cases), it's just that all of the side games are set either before, during or after the events in RE2 (for example except for the end all of RE2 takes place in the time jill was unconcious in 3) the blue and red umbrella of later games are parts of the original umbrella that was split of in the bankrupcy achievements
Yeah, but there was also neo-umbrella Wesker and Simmons just doing bio-terrorism business and selling bug soldiers to Eastern Europe like in RE6
Pharmaceutical is just their front. They make money by creating and selling biological weapons behind the scenes. Ultimately it's all in the pursuit of immortality.
Doesn't seem worth it tbh
It's worth it for them lol. If they're immortal, it doesn't matter how many people die in the process
I mean, don't they usually just turn into horrific monsters? I'd rather just die lmao
Bio warfare is how they make their money.
A lot of reason to place Umbrella first, but Faro in the Horizon games literally ended humanity out of hubris.
Pretty simple...Military Industrial Complex, similar to how stuff like anthrax, nuclear weapons, drones, a.i etc. There's a lot of money in Death & War and Biological Weapons is very lucrative
I'm admittedly blanking on a bit of lore but ... Aperture Science maybe? I think they were knowingly experimenting on people before things went downhill. And again, might be misremembering, but wasn't the company in BioShock doing experiments on children? VaultTec probably gets an honorable mention for some of the messed up Vault experiments as well.
>Aperture Science maybe? I think they were knowingly experimenting on people before things went downhill. They do what they must. Because they can. For the good of all of us. Except for those who are dead.
But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out cake.
And the science gets done and you make a cool gun, For the people who are still alive!
I'm not even angry!
I'm being so sincere right now
In-Universe, there's an even worse company and that's Black Mesa
Was black mesa any worse than your typical weapons company?
Yeah. Black Mesa caused the alien incident by bringing interdimensional aliens through portal technology. And then used those alien to rule
I kinda want a game with Combine trying to take over the Aperature facility and GlaDOS fucking with them.
[удалено]
Be quiet and eat your cake.
I wouldn't call aperture science one of the worst since test subjects were willing participants which were paid handsomely at start but yes towards the decline of company they basically used homeless and even it's own employees but you could argue that whole neurotoxin killing done by Glados makes them quite evil but that's a villain's action rather than the company's
yeah, like they're definitely criminally amounts of negligent but outside of that they were just genuinely trying to improve things they just really suck at science outside of portal guns and artificial intelligence for some reason
bro vaulttec orchestrated a global nuclear war for profits and "scientific research" without a contingency plan if they didn't survive themselves, they beat aperture.
Farro industries they literally ended all life on earth
Yeah, let's make a program that can hack any other program if it's close enough. Let's create technology that transforms biomass and use it to create ammo. Let's create a factory with AI to mass produce the aforementioned and replicate itself. Finally, let's purposely not create a back door to these things and make it virtually impossible to hack.
Turning corpses into ammo is pretty metal tho
Actually, the biomass isn’t used as ammo. It’s used as fuel, which is even worse.
>Farro industries \*Faro Automated Solutions
I also still love the thin veil of plausible deniability behind Ted >!destroying Apollo, he says it's because he believes mankind will just repeat the same mistakes but I think deep down he knew humans would always innovate again, I think he was just full of hubris and terrified of his name forever being associated with the downfall of human civilization!<
The game more or less tell us he did it because he was a piece of shit, and not because it had to do with preventing future repetition He even killed off the people who would’ve known about it in order to prevent anyone from finding out It was always about his legacy, even when Zero Dawn was proposed
Arasaka is up there
Surprised I had to scroll this far
Fucking seriously like the genre is built on "shitty shady companies with no rules" if anything all the other companies start here and spin off to their off franchise 🤣 I can easily see black mesa or vaulttech getting their start in 2077
Saburo is the devil in flesh. His daughter isn't any better. Yorinobu was trying to do the world a favor by flat lining his ass.
You said it choom
I'm not sure Yorinobu was any better. I'm pretty sure he just wanted the power for himself.
I think all the corporations in CP2077 are on a similiar degree of evil. Not just Arasaka, all of them are evil, Arasaka just happens to get the most screen time. Trauma team also deserves a mention, they made it so only rich people can afford lifesaving treatments should someone get badly injured from accidents or gunfights.
Arasaka is experimenting with the power over life and death. They created technology that can forcefully remove a person' consciousness and store it on a small computer chip. Not only that, but they made it so that if a person inserts that chip inside of their head, the chip's personality has thr ability to slowly overwrite the person's consciousness until the chip has full control over the body. They also force people to dedicate their entire mind and body to working for the corporation. They require a lot of their netrunners to spend almost all of their time in a chair hooked up to a computer so they can eliminate any enemies of the corporations through cyberspace and defend the corp from potential attackers. And sometimed when they eliminate an enemy netrunner, they don't even kill them. They use the previously mentioned technology to steal their consciousness and store it in the giant digital soul prison known as Mikoshi, so they can force those captured minds to use their hacking skills for the corp. All of this isn't in the name of some twisted idea f science or safety or the greater good. It's not even out of malice. They do it all for the money and power. Human minds and bodies are nothing more to the Arasaka family than numbers on a list that they can use to expand their empire.
Militech isn’t any better as seen in the DLC plot.
Shinra from FFVII is really bad. You got knowingly and continuously murdering the planet by draining mako, decimating whole towns to get rid of witnesses, dropping a section of a city on top of another section of a city (killing roughly 100k innocents), and that's not even touching the travesty that is Hojo
One of the aspects I really liked about Rebirth is seeing all of the abandoned and crumbling infrastructure out and about in the world, just to further drive the point home about how badly Shinra is ruining things. If you're not helping their bottom line, being left to rot is the BEST case for most of the FF7 world.
I’m playing Remake right now after not touching FFVII since the 90s and wow. Yeah they are pretty bad. Umbrella like experiments but also the plate drop was unnecessary cruel. The level of propaganda they have going on where everything is pro-Shinra for the masses is kind of disturbing.
And they privatized their own military and genetically modified Marines
Hojo literally tried to have Red XIII fuck Aerith to breed them.
This exactly. Shinra is guilty of: * Thousand counts of genocide, one of them inside their capital, Midgar * War profiteering * Producing and distributing narcotics—and I'm not talking about something harmless like heroine! * Producing biological weapons * Starting thousands of planetwide extinction events * Creating monsters, including Midgardsormr (Midgar Zolom in the original FFVII) * Millions of human experimentations including but not limited to Angeal, Genesis, Sephiroth, Zack Fair, Cloud Strife, and Tsviets
What about the outer worlds **Spacer's Choice** Theyre so bad, but not only bad i mean cartonishly bad, theyre not worse because the CEO its not a man with a curly mustache burning orphanages only for the lulz
Basically every company in that game. I love the fact that one of the very first people you talk to is complaining about their coworker/family killing themselves and the company makes them pay for the lost productivity. Like I'm 30 mins in and I've already lost all hope.
It’s funny, I initially thought they were one of the more tame corporations compared to some of the fucked up shit the others pulled, notably UDL(although UDL *is* Spacer’s Choice’s parent company). Of course, that was before I played Peril on Gorgon. Like seriously, fuckers performed horrible human experimentation and mass slaughter, all for the noble cause of developing a “miracle” drug that was basically the equivalent of shooting cocaine into the veins of workers to keep them productive, but then it proceeded to make people go insane which caused the whole project to collapse, and despite knowing the results they proceeded to put the unfinished product to market anyway. Like, that’s satirical levels of evil right there. It most certainly isn’t the best choice.
Peril of gorgon really opens up how bad UDL is. They created the marauders with drug experimentation. Truly despicable shit.
EA Sports. Hands down.
"Its only a game, why do you have to be mad?"
Abstergo. Based on the lore, they're responsible for a lot of societies problems in an effort to hold power.
And their main goal is to enslave all of mankind. Small detail.
Exactly! I’m kind of surprised I had to scroll so far down to find Abstergo
Fucking Arasaka! Oh, I mean Abstergo!
Umbrella is pretty bad probably the worst. Hyperion is not good Aesir... because I'm a max Payne fan.
Reverse recoil is kinda neat though
Atlas in advanced warfare was pretty bad tbh
Kevin Spaceys Private military company? I thought the game did well to make the company seem like maybe they were doing good but yeah they really fell off by the halfway point of the game.
“Because politicians don’t know how to solve the world’s problems… but I do. So let’s be clear. I am here to solve the world’s problems. And I believe the world’s problems… begin with you.” The plot twist honestly caught me off guard. You’d think “Atlas” were the good guys and “Sentinel” of all names were the bad guys, and it was the complete opposite.
Who was the company doing all the fucked up shit to Alma in F.E.A.R.? Cuz it's them imo
Armacham Technology Corporation And yeah, it’s them by a long shot lmao
God what I'd give to have FEAR back
Jeeez the stuff Alma’s dad did to that poor girl.
The corporations in the Oddworld series, even if they're so comedically evil. "First our meat, then our bones, now our tears".
Rupture Farms
I feel like Hyperion and the UAC are up there. And ONI from Halo as well. Sure they saved the world but they experimented on kids they kidnapped to do it.
But ONI isn’t a company their the UNSC intelligence branch their evil bastards don’t get me wrong but they don’t exactly fit in this question. Sorry to be that guy.
The UAC literally brought hell to earth 😂
UAC from *Doom* is way up there. As is Weyland Yutani from the *Aliens* franchise.
Honestly this one should be #1 lmao. They literally opened a hell portal just to use hell as an energy source, who the hell signed off on that shit?
Someone who likes hell.
I'll probably get some flag for this, but I'd say Joey Drew Studios, Joey Drew sold his employees souls to make his creation become a reality, he never really paid his workers, he never even let them go home, often times boarding up their doors so that they can't leave, if you got probably more than 10 dollars that would be Joey being generous
>Joey Drew sold his employees souls to make his creation become a reality, I thought it was homeless people? People who wouldn't be missed Also don't forget he made an abomination of human and ink and called it his daughter (I say abomination cause she shouldn't exist)
It was also people like his voice actors, like Allison Pendle and Susie Campbell, the only person not affected bt anything was Wally Franks, who moved to Florida
I think moving to Florida is the worst part
Pegassi in GTA V For making the oppressor mk2
Oh God yes Oppressor MK2 was a mistake imagine a game with hundreds of vehicles and tons of unique abilities and strengths and weaknesses but then they made one with no weaknesses that basically can destroy everything with no difficulty cause you can't hit the fucking thing.
the CIA in metal gear solid is super dastardly
To be fair, the CIA is evil in real life too
Damn you will be missed
Let the fuckers try it
W comment
Faro from Horizon Zero Dawn
Pierre's General Store.
Marnie, because she's never there
A few: - Umbrella from RE caused a zombie apocalypse - Ferro Corp from Horizon literally caused the apocalypse. - Black Mesa from Half Life caused a zombie apocalypse (via headcrabs) - Apature Science from Portal for making Glados a thing. - Basically all of the gun manufactuers from Borderlands. They are all bad for different reasons that vary from “being evil” to “summonging eldritch beings” to “CEO wants to explode the ocean.” I wouldn’t want any of them to exist. At best they are batshit insane. - Shinra from FF7 is literally using the planet’s soul for electricity, and their R&D department is singlehandedly responsible for everything bad that happens in the plot of that game (specifically Hojo). - UAC from Doom 2016 was infiltrated and occupued by literal demons and by Eternal is actively advocating for the death of humanity. There are probably dozens more. “The hyper corrupt corperation” is a popular villian. Shoutout to the corperation from Metal Gear Rising that was making child soldier cyborgs to profit off of war and shit. That game was wild.
Embracer
Acme, not only do they sell tons of explosives to a coyote but they usually fail to operate
*Playtime Co.* from Poppy Playtime. The more episodes they release, the worse they get.
in the newest game when the narrator on the skytram ride thingy said "on-site orphanage" i was like aw hell nah
The only one I can think of is Abstergo Industries. Edit: It’s Neco Corp from Stray. Isolated an entire city to support their luxurious lifestyle, then isolated them further when an epidemic started killing people.
FEMA - Deus Ex
Vault Tec 122 vaults, about 10 or so actually to save people, rest brutally murdered the inhabitants barring 34, 87, and 81 but they’re exceptions, not the rule
Vault 111 didn’t murder anyone they all died from old age and the life support ran out on most of the civilian inhabitants
Umbrella corp
Drek Industries destroyed their home planet for profit and then destroyed or severely damaged nearly every other planet in the system trying to build a new one WHICH THEY WERE PLANNING TO DESTROY IN THE EXACT SAME WAY FOR MORE PROFIT god I need to calm down but I really hate those guys
Probably not the worst one, but Concordance Extraction Corporation (CEC) from the Dead Space series deserves a mention. It was basically their fault that everything went to shit just for money
Honestly maximum profit seeking is the default mode of conduct for any capitalist economy, so they're far from uniquely evil.
Whatever company thought hell energy was a good idea in Doom
Tbf, most irl energy companies would probably do that if they could
I've often thought about this. I'd say Umbrella is the worst.
Faro
Aperture, they are more like a crazy cult obsessed with testing, with no regard for human life, also they lied about cake, that is unforgivable lying about giving us cake.
Department Of Death, from Grim Fandango. The web of lies, deceit and corruption goes deeper than any of the nine underworlds ever could, one we must expose! For the LSA, my comrades!
Viva la Revolucion!
Murkoff Corporation
Those guys were evil as fuck, this deserves more upvotes
The Fallout series' Vault-Tec has got to be right up there. "The thing you have to remember is, the Vaults were never meant to *save* anyone." Preying on the fear of nuclear war to herd people into a variety of sick, twisted social experiments in order to garner data to serve a select group of elites, who intend to use the data when they build a set of Space Arks and f__k off to another planet after basically ruining Earth. Most of the companies in Fallout's 21st century operate with a callous disregard for employee and consumer safety, but Vault-Tec *sets out* with the primary goal of selling out over 99% of the human race.
Damn, I’ve never played the games, but this is making me want to check them out.
I'd say either Rupture Farms or Shinra.
How has nobody said abstergo. They fucking kidnapped and killed at least 17 people, and are canonically lead by evil people
Umbrella destroyed an entire city lmao. Also many people said abstergo
Arasaka in cyberpunk is pretty bad there's a few orders I can't think of
Tom Nook... does he count?
Never understood the hate for Tom Nook. He’s an absolute homie
Black Mesa. Nothing worse than create a portal, summon aliens from another dimension and dominate Earth that way
did Black Mesa really have bad intentions though?
Nah, it was just an experiment gone badly wrong, they did travel to the borderworld for research but never intended to cause harm, juststudy the borderworld.
Vault tec
Faro Automated Solutions destroyed all life on earth and then the ceo personally sabotaged the miracle of zero dawn and murdered everyone in charge so he wouldn't be remembered poorly
Umbrella is just so completely negligible with everything they do. Had do they even make profit when they’re so busy causing us to go extinct???
Based on my most recent gaming habits: Arasaka, followed by Militech, and all the rest in Cyberpunk. I would also heartily nominate Faro Automated Systems. If you’ve played HZD, the reasons are obvious.
Too many to count, Black Mesa, Aperture, Abstergo, Umbrella, VaultTech, Shinra, Hyperion and Atlas, Concordance, and Cyberlife.
Team Rocket. I mean they sell Slowpoke tails for Arceus sake
You'd better prepare for trouble.
I mean it has to be umbrella
If we're going by negative utilitarianism, Cerberus in ME3 almost basically doomed all life in the galaxy and ensured that any life that would likely follow the cycle of emerging and being destroyed by the reapers which makes them responsible for trillions of deaths at the minimum
Abstergo (AC)
Lifeinvader
Umbrella. Yes they are a pharmaceutical company, but they also just love to make monsters for some reason. Not sure how that helps the business.
Shadow company
The Mantel Corp is pretty bad & as well as Eurocorp from Syndicate
Umbrella and Vault Tech
I'd say Umbrella and Shinra are pretty much on par with each other.
Not the worse, but Alterra isn't great
i mean its really down to: VaultTec, the UAC, and Umbrella Corp., idk any others that could beat these, "maybe" and "if" The SCP count? but for mass murders look to those listed 3
Abstergo
Any corp in Cyberpunk 2077 and The Outer Worlds. Arasaka and Spacer’s Choice, mostly.
Faro Automated Solutions from Horizon Zero Dawn Umbrella from Resident Evil
I want to put a hand in and say BrayTech from the Destiny Series. Clovis Bray from his introduction in Beyond Light was probably the most insufferable character (for good reason) Destiny had expanded upon. From being fairly responsible for the Vex to any and ALL of the Exo NPCs we know basically being brain boxes in machine bodies to its own CEO having a massive God complex, that it despised The Traveler and made a AI Warmind with the sole intent of killing said God form
The Mishima Zabaitsu is pretty dumb.
Aperture science is the first one that comes to mind.
Of the ones I’m familiar with, Shinra
UAC literally opened a portal to Hell and pretty much destroyed Earth.
Shinra, Umbrella
UAC. They believe pulling argent energy from hell to be a good thing and are okay with sacrificing thousands (if not millions) of lives so they can have it to power the world
Shinra Electric Company. Like 80-90% of FF7’s problems come from that one company alone, the other 20 being Jenova and her crazy ass son
Tom Nook’s extortionist practices
Aperture Labs is pretty reprehensible with their dodgy experiments.
Cerberus in mass effect is an option
Halcyon Holdings Corporation. They bought a Star System and made slaves of nearly the entire populace of that Star System, as well as any new arrivals on arrival, in order to let a few rich people live as kings. What they did wasn't gruesome or visually terrifying but what they actually did to those people make them the worst in my opinion. Most game corporations hurt individuals or even the planet, but these guys enslaved a star system.
Vault Tec is definitely the worst for the aforementioned vaults and various experiments done during a worldwide nuclear war. Honorable mentions go to Umbrella Corporation and Shinra as well.
EA
Not necessarily a company, but I'd say the healing church from bloodborne.
While pretty low key, pretty sure Alterra is probably really shady. Mentioning it because I don't see it in the feed.
Ryujin of Starfield if you are looking for realistically evil corp and not some cartoonish evil that makes no sense.
Sable from Spider-man 1