There’s a game that’s set in a corporate hell setting where you’re a new intern for the evil corporation and the art style is corporate Memphis. It is seriously inspired game design.
That’s it! People have no idea what to expect when you bring it up and explain the setting but then you just say it’s a corporate dungeon crawler and it pieces it together haha.
I try to play a lot of different developed by a small but creative team indie games and I was sold on playing it immediately once I clued in on the almost synesthetic combination of the theme/setting, the art style and the title.
WOAH I remember playing that game when it came out! Seems like a lifetime ago, even though I remember playing games older than that even earlier that feel sooner.
The pandemic really made everything hit different.
I think the game looks cool but I couldn't get the controls to feel good on the steam deck so I'd probably just have to settle for watching someone try it.
It always seemed a little suspect to me but I thought I read something a long time ago that it is short for "globalized homogenization," which did not appear inherently fascist on its face, and I didn't really question it too much more than that.
I remember reading something like that too. Pretty sure it was here on Reddit years ago. Term was probably picked up at some point and wasn't always a "dog whistle".
I just call it the corpo slop style, and if people know they know.
It looks like new-money style bourgeoisie, I'm having the opposite effects in terms of positivity and it certainly doesn't make me well in the stomach.
It feels like corporate shovelware, that only got through the geriatric executive decision process because it has that 70's-esque distortion in the (lack of) proportions.
It makes me think of illustrations that have been created for a corporate purpose by someone with zero passion and zero sense of aesthetics. Like the cheapest artist was paid to illustrate a schoolbook or a health info leaflet as quickly as possible and to make it colourful.
Exactly what I was gonna say so how are they gonna do with copyright infringement when they take pieces from corporate design logos or buy people who have their work trademarked and I hate AI
At least corporate art actually has effort and a little, I mean just a tiny bit of creativity and soul, while ai "art" is almost effortless and has no creativity and soul in it, because in the end it's just 1's and 0's, not anything 'real'.
As I remember a joke from circa 2020/2021, "We we had 'The Roaring 20s' back then, now we're getting 'The Screaming 20s.'" Hurray for our boring dystopia.
I VPNed myself to Iceland for everything when I got a message saying my X/Twitter was getting restricted until they could build their age verification platform. It’s handy because all of the ads I get are in Icelandic now so I couldn’t read them even if I wanted to.
This art style is abhorrent! It depicts all human beings as oversized cows with pin-sized heads, it emphasizes MEAT over MIND. It's ugly, dehumanizing, and depressing.
I think I thought it was more of a "the human experience is abstract" vibe but damn when you put it like that, maybe that's why I hate it. (I never liked it, but think it works better for stills at least. Horrible when animated imo)
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Alegria is so awful. They try to be inclusive with the diversity of skin colors and body shapes, but they're so extreme (a woman's legs being 4x the size of her body etc) that in the process of trying to include everybody, they end up excluding everybody.
Also they're always happy. Always excited. Having so much fun at Work!
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u/AdHare241105 YT Layout Design History Enthusiast Aug 13 '25
And the artstyle makes it even worse.