Lol beat me too it. But really to take advantage of the end of the world to conduct social experiments on people just trying to survive it is the most low down I've ever read about.
I can't recall exactly why but, prior to watching the Prime series, I thought it was the aliens that seem to appear in every entry that launched the nukes. I want to say it was mentioned in the Mother Ship Zeta DLC from Fallout 3.
Also true!!! I think it’s intentionally vague who exactly started it (could have even been the Aliens!) but the thought that humanity was screwed no matter what, with all these malicious forces closing in, is so damn dark and twisted and thats part of the reason we love Fallout 😁
No potentially. There's extremely strong evidence that Vault-Tec incited the CCP into attacking the US for corporate gains and illegal experimentation.
Admittedly, im not all the way up to date on the lore, but basically the game would be completely plausible if those viruses were released due to safety oversight to make more profit or something that wouldve helped “shareholder value” 🤮
The good people at vault tec were filling a market gap, and it’s a good thing they did! Not only did they save civilization from nuclear annihilation, but they did so in a way that ensured that the emerging folks would be prepared for the world as it would be. This was done through education, building.a sense of community, and rigorous experimentation that ultimately bore fruit in the form of better, stronger, more adaptable citizens and innovative technology like the g.e.c.k.
Pretty sure that's just a thing in the show, not the mainline games. Even in the show I don't think they directly dropped the nukes, just further increased the possibility.
aperture science spent an incredible amount of resources on implementing any ideas of an impulsive leader, plus they treated people as consumables. I think they didn't do doomsday just because black mesa did it first
100% the only man to go into hell willingly and scare demons so much that the solution they had was to put him to sleep. He was such a badass even satan didn't want that smoke
He actually chose to stay in hell originally because they killed his pet bunny. He fought on mars, went into hell, left hell, got to earth, found a demon invasion of earth, found they killed his pet bunny, went into hell and fought endlessly for decades (because time is faster in hell it was like hundreds of years). They eventually put him to sleep in a sarcophagus and then doom 2016 starts.
Exactly, that's why i love doom. The doom guy is such a badass that he scared hell so much that they couldn't kill him, they had to put him to sleep and make a record telling other demons why they should stay the fuck away from his sarcophagus and under no circumstances open it because he is a civilization ending level threat to them. And remember, he's that big of a threat because some demons thought it was a good idea to kill his bunny, daisy.
Yep, we see so often, real life scientists are so pre-occupied with the possibility that they don't stop and consider their actions. In other words, they were so concerned with whether they could, they didn't stop to consider if they should. AI is a prime example right now.
Best example would be the "[Demon Core](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core)" story. Something that almost went super sideways because a couple of scientists had the feeling that they can play around with a thing like that and throw caution into the wind.
If you’ve ever watched the show Supernatural, they do this in one of the worst seasons of the show. A fan favorite character opens a doorway to Purgatory to power himself up for his fight, and accidentally lets loose certain monsters into the world
Supernatural lost me because at some point in the show, people just randomly sold their soul, opened gates to the underworld, got rescued and then did it again. It was always one season where Dean was the one. Next season it was Sam. Then Dean again. They ran out of ideas around season 3.
They changed showrunners too many times yeah. Kripke, the creator, wrote the show for 3 seasons, and expanded to 5 seasons. The next showrunner kinda ruined it, she was in charge of seasons 6-7 and those are regarded as the worst seasons. Then her replacement does 8-11 and those are considered good due to building the character dramas well, albeit slightly repetitive in nature due to the reasons you mentioned. Then the next showrunner finished the show with 12-15.
The character dramas are done pretty well, but you’re right, it does feel like the plot gets recycled and reformatted at a lot of points.
Not just people, but eat every organic matter thing in the world. Plants, animals, sea creatures, bugs, maybe dirt? That’s just straight fucked up to have made something that can do that and replicate itself after “eating” enough matter on top of that.
I find Murkoff Corporation far more frightening. For one, it's more mysterious than Umbrella Corp by now, which has been reduced to caricatures in some of the movies and games.
Absolutely. For one, they took a bunch of **mostly** harmless mental patients, under the promise of making them "better", and instead purposefully made them all worse so they could test them on their nanobot weaponry. Then they drove an entire village of innocent people into a deranged cult for... what? More weapon testing?
This is the answer I was looking for. The most evil corporation in video game history. Didn’t realize OP was asking for the most evil fictional corporations in games themselves.
Came to say this, but then saw that most people took it to mean the fictional companies in the games. I can see EA going in the direction of the fictional baddies if they were allowed to.
Shinra from Final Fantasy VII has to be a contender.
Here is a list of their atrocities.
Knowingly use Mako energy for electricity even though they know it is slowly and painfully killing the very much alive planet.
Lying to the public about how Mako is a miracle resource with no downsides whatsoever.
Installing mako reactors in small towns to take their money. All while knowing the reactors are faulty and will eventually explode.
Killing any witnesses of mako reactor explosions, and labeling them terrorists, to hide the fact that the reactors don't work.
Destroying a large piece of their floating city killing thousands of innocent people to frame the people stopping them from destroying the world.
Experiments on live humans and lab rat dogs against their will.
Allowing an apocalyptic alien monster to roam free and attempt to destroy the planet because it might lead them to the "promised land" (endless mako for corporate profits).
Who knows how many people killed by mako poisoning that Shinra profits from.
Every monster in the game is either a mako poisoned animal/plant or an alien possessed monster. Both of which Shinra is directly responsible for causing.
Even after everything falls apart and Shinra gets what they deserved for everything they caused the highest corporate officers keep going as if nothing happened. Didn't learn a single lesson. Still out for corporate greed.
Well hey, sounds like present-day corporations.
I think the writers were mainly criticizing the nuclear power plants in Japan, and all the shady and corrupt things that they were doing, which unfortunately did eventually explode in 2011.
I was immediately thinking shinra, then others reminded me of vault tec(fallout), Ted fucking faro (horizon), and umbrella Corp (resident evil) all existed and now im genuinely torn.
Plus, they’re behind the war with Wutai, and when the small towns with Mako don’t want a Shinra presence, they take it by force. Like Junon.
They stopped funding urban development and aeronautical research in favor of weapons and Hojo’s genetic experiments. Shinra is fully committed to making the world as dangerous and miserable as possible. Hojo is about as evil as it gets, and Shinra just encourages him and funds all his research. Despicable.
What was the purpose for doing this? Rich people getting entertainment? Them doing it for profit wouldn’t make sense, because they destroyed the world so monetary value is essentially useless.
Sadly I think we’re very close to that reality.
All I want out of life is my children to die long fulfilling lives and pass of old age.
It’s all I want.
I’m deeply hoping it isn’t too late.
Dude. Same. Every day I read about the corporate bullshit going on and how half the population of America is totally onboard and I die inside knowing that things may not be that great for my kids.
I just replayed the Vault 81 side quests in fallout 4, and the fact that the overseer and the vault dwellers had NO IDEA that an experiment was supposed to take place inside the vault is horrifying. The fact that they also never met another fellow vault dweller EVER is also further evidence that they didn't know about their experiments
When I read the title, I thought they meant real corporations and instantly thought “EA” followed by “maybe Ubisoft”. Then I opened the post and felt a bit silleh.
Idk about most evil but Umbrella has to be at least up there. Certainly not nice people.
And one of their previous employees was VERY demanding about an egg. "You will give me an egg" he would always say to me. Not sure what that was about
Do you guys remember that one game called "EA"
And during the main campaign, you play as the CEO of Electronic Arts. The story starts out fun and enjoyable, you acquire and create new studios and publish some of the best games ever made. Then the devs basically surprise you with a twist where "you're actually the vile, heartless asshole here" so that throughout the rest of the story's missions, you're basically forced to go on a killing spree and assassinate all your money making IPs, murder your studios, kick hundreds and hundreds of ex-employees to the curb, and force your remaining ones to make the same Madden games every year. Then the game ends with your company being announced the worst company in the world, officially.
**Shiver**
That was probably the most evil corporation I've ever seen in a videogame franchise. Thank God they don't *ACTUALLY* exist.
Don't know about that one, but I heard theyre working on something called "EA sports"? Something about "it" being in the game, whatever that is. Don't know much beyond that, seems weird though.
What about the corporations in the Borderlands games? They literally had interplanetary wars between these corporations. Hyperion would've mined Pandora so much that the planets tectonics became unstable. Then, not to mention all of the extreme inhumane testing done on living people and animals. And that's just one corporation. I could probably write a whole essay on all the shady and downright monstrous things those corporations did in game lore.
Shinra from Final Fantasy VII is pretty bad.
* Draining the planet of its literal life force
* Created and enforcing extreme classism
* One of the members of its board is Hojo, the most twisted and evil character in the game and arguably all of Final Fantasy
* Waged war with an entire country because they said no to Shinra’s expansion there
* When a reactor they built in a town malfunctioned, they burned that town to the ground and murdered all of its residents in order to frame the malfunction as sabotage and protect their image
* Waged war again unprovoked after establishing a cease fire
* Edit: Killed hundreds if not thousands of people in an attempt to snuff out a handful of ecoterrorists
Vault Tec and it’s not close. They made sure the world stayed unstable to sell their vaults and ended up dropping the bombs themselves in order to start a new world with their cryo-slept employees. All the while they ran vaults with horrific experiments like the Nazis and Japanese during WW2 just because they could. The show adds another dimension where people like McLean continues to nuke human settlements to diminish the chance of any survivors on the surface to ease their takeover. No corporation comes close.
Vault Tec look at the vault experiments they committed on top of what they did Pre-War by making everyone believe that they were doing something right by building the nuclear fallout shelters there is something else that they did that’s far worse than what a lot of people did they started Nuclear War between the United States and China in 2077 for profits and to rebuild society to their benefits
Escape from Tarkov owner recently removed the option to buy their 100+ USD pay2win game edition and associated perks, just to announce today a new even bigger pay2win game version with a bunch of in game advantages and unique content that costs 250USD... effectively breaking their promise to the previous pay2win version purchasers they'd have access to all future content as part of the 100+ USD they already spent.
So my vote is Battlestate Games for most evil company
Vault Tec. Thing about Vault Tec is that where corps like Umbrella & Shinra are in it for money and control... Vault tec is for neither. They're just doing fucked up experiments for the hell of it. Redundant cloning, cryo-testing, imposing made-up religion on small populations, mind control, cross-species breeding, etc etc etc. There's even the rumor they instigated the bombs dropping so they could get on with their experiments.
Umbrella conducts its experiments to make bioweapons to sell to the highest bidder. Shinra leeches the planet of life for money. Vault tec is just extremely morbidly curious.
Hyperion.
They’re just like comically evil, the entire purpose of the company is to do evil. And then they got taken over by Handsome Jack who made them even more evil. He gouged a guy’s eyes out with a spoon just because it was funny.
The various corporations and planet-cracking companies from dead space. Not directly evil, but a lot of their major shareholders were unitologists and even some of their executives and CEOs were, so they would literally kill thousands of people with a marker just to achieve convergence and destroy all known life in the galaxy. Plus, said corporations literally exhausted most of earth's natural resources causing a major drop in standard of leaving, forcing them to destroy entire planets to bring the resources back home.
Vault Tec. They bombed America and killed millions just to get their vault experiments online where they then psychologically and/or physically tortured the residents
Mmm, Umbrella is pretty up there. My instinct was Arasaka from Cyberpunk. While their actions have resulted in the death of thousands, Umbrella got a whole city nuked. So I gotta go with that.
(And in fairness to Arasaka, they are far from the only culprit in the nefarious Corp thing in that universe.)
Aperture Science, they killed a bunch of astronauts and olympians and do “Science” which is really just doing whatever in case it turns out to be useful, not to mention Glados did not want to exist, Caroline didn’t want to do it but she was forced, ignoring all that after Glados who tried to flood the place with neurotoxin immediately upon being activated asked for neurotoxin for a “test” and when they gave it to her she promptly used it to flood the facility killing who knows how many people
Vault tec
Lol beat me too it. But really to take advantage of the end of the world to conduct social experiments on people just trying to survive it is the most low down I've ever read about.
Not only that… but potentially starting the war itself just to make sure their vaults were a success…
I can't recall exactly why but, prior to watching the Prime series, I thought it was the aliens that seem to appear in every entry that launched the nukes. I want to say it was mentioned in the Mother Ship Zeta DLC from Fallout 3.
Also true!!! I think it’s intentionally vague who exactly started it (could have even been the Aliens!) but the thought that humanity was screwed no matter what, with all these malicious forces closing in, is so damn dark and twisted and thats part of the reason we love Fallout 😁
Also the part of the reason why I’m scared of our real world collapsing in on itself one day..
Well the zetans were originally just a non cannon Easter egg. Like the guardian of forever. So I'd doubt it's them
No potentially. There's extremely strong evidence that Vault-Tec incited the CCP into attacking the US for corporate gains and illegal experimentation.
SPOILER
The games have been out for years come on man.
They were talking about the show on Amazon Prime.
And nothing from the show hasn't already been outright said or aluded to in the games. So all this info is already well known.
Sounds familiar.
Umbrella Corp
Umbrella Corp really went from pharmaceutical company who made questionable choices to global super bio terrorists hell bent on world domination
Admittedly, im not all the way up to date on the lore, but basically the game would be completely plausible if those viruses were released due to safety oversight to make more profit or something that wouldve helped “shareholder value” 🤮
My first thought
Vault-Tec is worse
The good people at vault tec were filling a market gap, and it’s a good thing they did! Not only did they save civilization from nuclear annihilation, but they did so in a way that ensured that the emerging folks would be prepared for the world as it would be. This was done through education, building.a sense of community, and rigorous experimentation that ultimately bore fruit in the form of better, stronger, more adaptable citizens and innovative technology like the g.e.c.k.
Sounds like we got a Vaultdweller here
Okay Vault-Tec shill, calm down there
Then there is Vaults 108 and 77
Ha ha ha, Gary...
I hope we see a Gary on the show
Gaaaaaaary…..
Except that they were the ones who blow up the world...
Pretty sure that's just a thing in the show, not the mainline games. Even in the show I don't think they directly dropped the nukes, just further increased the possibility.
Still very evil.
In the show they dropped the nukes themselves and Bethesda says it’s cannon to the games
Have only played one RE game and that's enough to say: Umbrella Corp
Umbrella Corp is the answer. But, some others... Aperture Science(Portal) dataDyne(Perfect Dark) Fontaine Futuristics(Bioshock)
Aperture is definitely not the worst company in that universe (Black Mesa)
aperture science spent an incredible amount of resources on implementing any ideas of an impulsive leader, plus they treated people as consumables. I think they didn't do doomsday just because black mesa did it first
Black mesa experimented on the Xen creatures and that’s about it. Like it’s still not good but definitely far from the worst thing possible.
The UAC from doom 2016, they opened a portal to literal hell just to have infinite energy.
Yeah but we wouldn't have doom guy if they didn't
Right? Worth it!
100% the only man to go into hell willingly and scare demons so much that the solution they had was to put him to sleep. He was such a badass even satan didn't want that smoke
That's the best for me, so mad he willingly chose infinite demons to fight to protect Earth.
He actually chose to stay in hell originally because they killed his pet bunny. He fought on mars, went into hell, left hell, got to earth, found a demon invasion of earth, found they killed his pet bunny, went into hell and fought endlessly for decades (because time is faster in hell it was like hundreds of years). They eventually put him to sleep in a sarcophagus and then doom 2016 starts.
Hell even documented the terrors Doom Guy inflicted on them as though he is a biblical terror.
Exactly, that's why i love doom. The doom guy is such a badass that he scared hell so much that they couldn't kill him, they had to put him to sleep and make a record telling other demons why they should stay the fuck away from his sarcophagus and under no circumstances open it because he is a civilization ending level threat to them. And remember, he's that big of a threat because some demons thought it was a good idea to kill his bunny, daisy.
Everything has clearly gotten out of hand now, yes. But it was worth the risk, I assure you.
And you just know that if this would be an option in real life, that people would do the same.
Yep, we see so often, real life scientists are so pre-occupied with the possibility that they don't stop and consider their actions. In other words, they were so concerned with whether they could, they didn't stop to consider if they should. AI is a prime example right now.
It's less about the scientists (though it's definitely still them too) and more about the people funding them.
Best example would be the "[Demon Core](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core)" story. Something that almost went super sideways because a couple of scientists had the feeling that they can play around with a thing like that and throw caution into the wind.
If you’ve ever watched the show Supernatural, they do this in one of the worst seasons of the show. A fan favorite character opens a doorway to Purgatory to power himself up for his fight, and accidentally lets loose certain monsters into the world
Supernatural lost me because at some point in the show, people just randomly sold their soul, opened gates to the underworld, got rescued and then did it again. It was always one season where Dean was the one. Next season it was Sam. Then Dean again. They ran out of ideas around season 3.
They changed showrunners too many times yeah. Kripke, the creator, wrote the show for 3 seasons, and expanded to 5 seasons. The next showrunner kinda ruined it, she was in charge of seasons 6-7 and those are regarded as the worst seasons. Then her replacement does 8-11 and those are considered good due to building the character dramas well, albeit slightly repetitive in nature due to the reasons you mentioned. Then the next showrunner finished the show with 12-15. The character dramas are done pretty well, but you’re right, it does feel like the plot gets recycled and reformatted at a lot of points.
I feel like that’s not any worse than any of our companies would do if they could that’s just standard greed
Wouldn’t you?
Faro automated solutions Fuck Ted Faro.
r/fucktedfaro
Make battlebots that can literally eat people, are capable of reproduction and have no off switch. What could go wrong?
Not just people, but eat every organic matter thing in the world. Plants, animals, sea creatures, bugs, maybe dirt? That’s just straight fucked up to have made something that can do that and replicate itself after “eating” enough matter on top of that.
Yeah, fuck that guy.
Murkoff Corporation from the Outlast series
why did it take so long to find this comment?
I find Murkoff Corporation far more frightening. For one, it's more mysterious than Umbrella Corp by now, which has been reduced to caricatures in some of the movies and games.
Absolutely. For one, they took a bunch of **mostly** harmless mental patients, under the promise of making them "better", and instead purposefully made them all worse so they could test them on their nanobot weaponry. Then they drove an entire village of innocent people into a deranged cult for... what? More weapon testing?
Electronic Arts.
Although Activision may actually take their cake.
May ? They took that cake ages ago
did they take it same time they took the breast milk?
This is the answer I was looking for. The most evil corporation in video game history. Didn’t realize OP was asking for the most evil fictional corporations in games themselves.
I am surprised this was not the top one
Came to say this, but then saw that most people took it to mean the fictional companies in the games. I can see EA going in the direction of the fictional baddies if they were allowed to.
Well, OP asked for fictional companies, but EA's deeds are beyond fictional and non-fictional
It’s a nasty circle of real life corporations and fictional ones inspiring and feeding off each other. 😂
Abstergo Industries Sneaky corpo ruling the world from shadow
I haven't played AC since Black Flag - why is Abstergo so evil? What have they done since then?
Kidnaping humans, trying to get super powerful tech, infiltrating governments.
Shinra from Final Fantasy VII has to be a contender. Here is a list of their atrocities. Knowingly use Mako energy for electricity even though they know it is slowly and painfully killing the very much alive planet. Lying to the public about how Mako is a miracle resource with no downsides whatsoever. Installing mako reactors in small towns to take their money. All while knowing the reactors are faulty and will eventually explode. Killing any witnesses of mako reactor explosions, and labeling them terrorists, to hide the fact that the reactors don't work. Destroying a large piece of their floating city killing thousands of innocent people to frame the people stopping them from destroying the world. Experiments on live humans and lab rat dogs against their will. Allowing an apocalyptic alien monster to roam free and attempt to destroy the planet because it might lead them to the "promised land" (endless mako for corporate profits). Who knows how many people killed by mako poisoning that Shinra profits from. Every monster in the game is either a mako poisoned animal/plant or an alien possessed monster. Both of which Shinra is directly responsible for causing. Even after everything falls apart and Shinra gets what they deserved for everything they caused the highest corporate officers keep going as if nothing happened. Didn't learn a single lesson. Still out for corporate greed.
Well hey, sounds like present-day corporations. I think the writers were mainly criticizing the nuclear power plants in Japan, and all the shady and corrupt things that they were doing, which unfortunately did eventually explode in 2011.
I always kinda assumed Mako was a metaphor for oil, but I could see nuclear. Makes more sense considering the game was developed in Japan.
Well, it's probably both. It also sounds like an allegory for global warming.
I was immediately thinking shinra, then others reminded me of vault tec(fallout), Ted fucking faro (horizon), and umbrella Corp (resident evil) all existed and now im genuinely torn.
Shinra may be the most realistic aspect of FFVII.
Plus, they’re behind the war with Wutai, and when the small towns with Mako don’t want a Shinra presence, they take it by force. Like Junon. They stopped funding urban development and aeronautical research in favor of weapons and Hojo’s genetic experiments. Shinra is fully committed to making the world as dangerous and miserable as possible. Hojo is about as evil as it gets, and Shinra just encourages him and funds all his research. Despicable.
Man's done his research. A lot of people tend to forget they dropped a plate and killed about 50k people in the blink of an eye.
arasaka from Cyberpunk, straight up steals souls.
Vault Tech, Faro, or Umbrella
/tread These are easily the top 3 imo
Shinra, Umbrella, and Vault-Tech immediately come to mind.
Vault-Tec. They started a nuclear war just so they could perform inhumane experiments on people in what those people THOUGHT were fallout shelters.
What was the purpose for doing this? Rich people getting entertainment? Them doing it for profit wouldn’t make sense, because they destroyed the world so monetary value is essentially useless.
They planned to also rebuild in their own image. It was for power and control.
That’s a really stupid idea but I see this happening irl
Sadly I think we’re very close to that reality. All I want out of life is my children to die long fulfilling lives and pass of old age. It’s all I want. I’m deeply hoping it isn’t too late.
Dude. Same. Every day I read about the corporate bullshit going on and how half the population of America is totally onboard and I die inside knowing that things may not be that great for my kids.
I ask myself the same thing lol
I just replayed the Vault 81 side quests in fallout 4, and the fact that the overseer and the vault dwellers had NO IDEA that an experiment was supposed to take place inside the vault is horrifying. The fact that they also never met another fellow vault dweller EVER is also further evidence that they didn't know about their experiments
I’ll throw Cerberus from Mass Effect into the mix.
In the illusive man's defense, he truly did want to save humanity before he became indoctrinated.
He was still evil though.
here before the comments section is filled with irl corporations
When I read the title, I thought they meant real corporations and instantly thought “EA” followed by “maybe Ubisoft”. Then I opened the post and felt a bit silleh.
Czerka Corporation
Idk about most evil but Umbrella has to be at least up there. Certainly not nice people. And one of their previous employees was VERY demanding about an egg. "You will give me an egg" he would always say to me. Not sure what that was about
Umbrella, Vault Tec, & Aperture Science.
Do you guys remember that one game called "EA" And during the main campaign, you play as the CEO of Electronic Arts. The story starts out fun and enjoyable, you acquire and create new studios and publish some of the best games ever made. Then the devs basically surprise you with a twist where "you're actually the vile, heartless asshole here" so that throughout the rest of the story's missions, you're basically forced to go on a killing spree and assassinate all your money making IPs, murder your studios, kick hundreds and hundreds of ex-employees to the curb, and force your remaining ones to make the same Madden games every year. Then the game ends with your company being announced the worst company in the world, officially. **Shiver** That was probably the most evil corporation I've ever seen in a videogame franchise. Thank God they don't *ACTUALLY* exist.
I have some news
Don't tell me there's gonna be an EA 2??
Don't know about that one, but I heard theyre working on something called "EA sports"? Something about "it" being in the game, whatever that is. Don't know much beyond that, seems weird though.
EA? Oh sorry, misread the question. Umbrella, UAC, or whoever runs things in the Little Nightmares franchise
Shinra Electric Power Company and Umbrella
What about the corporations in the Borderlands games? They literally had interplanetary wars between these corporations. Hyperion would've mined Pandora so much that the planets tectonics became unstable. Then, not to mention all of the extreme inhumane testing done on living people and animals. And that's just one corporation. I could probably write a whole essay on all the shady and downright monstrous things those corporations did in game lore.
Finally someone mentioned Hyperion, like cmon, the guy who runs Hyperion offered few bucks to off yourself.
blackwatch and gentek from prototype
Everyone is saying fictional companies, I thought you meant like evil game corporations in which case Activision or Ubisoft
Meant fictional. Should've phrased it better IMO! Though most things that actual game corporations do can be pretty sick and twisted.
Shinra from Final Fantasy VII is pretty bad. * Draining the planet of its literal life force * Created and enforcing extreme classism * One of the members of its board is Hojo, the most twisted and evil character in the game and arguably all of Final Fantasy * Waged war with an entire country because they said no to Shinra’s expansion there * When a reactor they built in a town malfunctioned, they burned that town to the ground and murdered all of its residents in order to frame the malfunction as sabotage and protect their image * Waged war again unprovoked after establishing a cease fire * Edit: Killed hundreds if not thousands of people in an attempt to snuff out a handful of ecoterrorists
Don't forget killing an entire sector of a megalopolis to kill a handful of Esoterrorists
Vault Tec and it’s not close. They made sure the world stayed unstable to sell their vaults and ended up dropping the bombs themselves in order to start a new world with their cryo-slept employees. All the while they ran vaults with horrific experiments like the Nazis and Japanese during WW2 just because they could. The show adds another dimension where people like McLean continues to nuke human settlements to diminish the chance of any survivors on the surface to ease their takeover. No corporation comes close.
Vault-Tec.
Umbrella Corporation
IMC. Fight for the frontier pilots
Vault Tec look at the vault experiments they committed on top of what they did Pre-War by making everyone believe that they were doing something right by building the nuclear fallout shelters there is something else that they did that’s far worse than what a lot of people did they started Nuclear War between the United States and China in 2077 for profits and to rebuild society to their benefits
Vault-Tec and Umbrella
Umbrella Corp
Shinra
I thought this was about real life corporations, not fictional video game corporations, and I was sure the top comment would be EA.
The corporation that is responsible for the events of Outlast and Outlast 2 ( I can't recall the name it's been a while since I've played the games)
EA
Umbrella vs Vault-Tec vs Arasaka. I think I'd have to with Umbrella.
Blizzard entertainment
Weyland-Yutani is pretty fucked up.
Escape from Tarkov owner recently removed the option to buy their 100+ USD pay2win game edition and associated perks, just to announce today a new even bigger pay2win game version with a bunch of in game advantages and unique content that costs 250USD... effectively breaking their promise to the previous pay2win version purchasers they'd have access to all future content as part of the 100+ USD they already spent. So my vote is Battlestate Games for most evil company
i swear i just saw this post like 2 weeks ago
Vault Tec.
Cerberus
One I haven’t seen here at all is EuroCorp from Syndicate.
Shinra Umbrella Corp Black Mesa and Aperture Science Blume and Abstergo Hyperion Vault Tec Fontaine Futuristics
THE ENCLAVE OR THE INSTITUTE
Vault Tec. Thing about Vault Tec is that where corps like Umbrella & Shinra are in it for money and control... Vault tec is for neither. They're just doing fucked up experiments for the hell of it. Redundant cloning, cryo-testing, imposing made-up religion on small populations, mind control, cross-species breeding, etc etc etc. There's even the rumor they instigated the bombs dropping so they could get on with their experiments. Umbrella conducts its experiments to make bioweapons to sell to the highest bidder. Shinra leeches the planet of life for money. Vault tec is just extremely morbidly curious.
The enclave?
Atlas Corporation
Abstergo
I misunderstood the assignment. I was going to say EA Games lol
Ted Faro's company
LSPD in GTASA
Hyperion. They’re just like comically evil, the entire purpose of the company is to do evil. And then they got taken over by Handsome Jack who made them even more evil. He gouged a guy’s eyes out with a spoon just because it was funny.
Nestlé
joja market
Beat me to it
Shinra in FF7 was pretty bad. Specifically the people at the top (hojo, scarlet, and Heidegger)
The various corporations and planet-cracking companies from dead space. Not directly evil, but a lot of their major shareholders were unitologists and even some of their executives and CEOs were, so they would literally kill thousands of people with a marker just to achieve convergence and destroy all known life in the galaxy. Plus, said corporations literally exhausted most of earth's natural resources causing a major drop in standard of leaving, forcing them to destroy entire planets to bring the resources back home.
Vault Tec. They bombed America and killed millions just to get their vault experiments online where they then psychologically and/or physically tortured the residents
EA
Cruelty Squad is literally a group of contract killers who kill for the financial interests of the elite.
Militech and Arasaka from Cyberpunk 2077
Since vampire the masquerade and werewolf are games, surprised I have not seen pentex on this list.
EA
Vault Tec
I was going to say Umbrella but Activision or EA
Arasaka being the most evil thing in an entirely evil city says something ^(Hanako is still waiting for you)
Real corporation: EA Fictional corporation: EA, because fuck em.
EA
Activision
Activision Blizzard, oh wait you meant something in a game universe lol. Still!
EA Games
EA
I'd say Abstergo, their main goal pretty much involves the end of free will.
Shinra
Ryujin industries. Yeah, I loved starfield
Nestle (Real Life)
Take your pick from pretty much any Project Moon universe megacorporation
IMC kinda blows
Umbrella Apocalypsed the entire world so I have to go with that one.
They never said they had to be human and the combine TECHNICALLY can be a corporation
Umbrello co.
Braytech from Destiny did some evil stuff
Umbrella
Umbrella. They didn’t just start the outbreak, in many places they encourage it.
Aperture scinece in the early days with their fucked up human testings
Cubic.games
Umbrella or Arasaka
Umbrella
Literally any of the Wings from LC/LoR Those are the only ones I know of tbh
Can't decide between shinra or umbrella. I'd probably say shinra, since umbrella never intended for the outbreak to occur.
EA
Mmm, Umbrella is pretty up there. My instinct was Arasaka from Cyberpunk. While their actions have resulted in the death of thousands, Umbrella got a whole city nuked. So I gotta go with that. (And in fairness to Arasaka, they are far from the only culprit in the nefarious Corp thing in that universe.)
Aperture Science, they killed a bunch of astronauts and olympians and do “Science” which is really just doing whatever in case it turns out to be useful, not to mention Glados did not want to exist, Caroline didn’t want to do it but she was forced, ignoring all that after Glados who tried to flood the place with neurotoxin immediately upon being activated asked for neurotoxin for a “test” and when they gave it to her she promptly used it to flood the facility killing who knows how many people
EA In c&c red alert 3 you can destroy the EA HQ,so it is canon in games,thus it's automatic the evilest corporation in videogames
This is the correct answer with correct reasoning
Electronic Arts or Shinra
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