While watching a friend play through CONTROL again recently, I was just thinking about how it did the concept SCP is built on a lot better than the current actual SCP. the FBC has some kinda somewhat goofy/quirky employees like Dr. Darling and Ahti the janitor, but they still very clearly do their job in a professional manner. The FBC is very clearly somewhat inspired by shit like earlier SCP where the cosmic horror threat level shit they can't handle is merely observed/monitored and isn't a power scaling contest, just shit that's nor really containable in a normal sense. How the fuck do you contain a parasitic entity made of sound, spores, or the literal concept of darkness? especially ones that managed to slip through when they were going trough routine tests of a different anomalous object that just turns projector slides into portals to other realities? One that fucking was introduced via infecting your staff for months with nobody being able to notice till it was too late and your employees are basically turned into living dead puppets of this stuff? Indefinite lockdown, obviously.
Everything you run into in CONTROL shows that the HQ office of this 3 letter organization used to be a huge, highly staffed government operation that literally just had one fuckup that led to it being a barren ass endless tunnel of office space. You run into so many little notes the workers left each other, weird mail they had to get from the post office from US citizens that knew about them manually due to them not having an actual mailing address, shitty Edutainment programs made to inform the kids of staff visiting what not to do. Lots of small signifiers of "life" that aren't over the top and make the place feel "lived in". SCP's attempts at doing something like this the last few years has just been shit like the fucking pride month flag filter and character bios that put sex/gender identity over their actual fucking job or the "stories" shit which uh... yeah...