I am playing Horizon Zero Dawn and haven’t gotten to the first main event, but it gives me this feeling like if I upgrade all my equipment now it might be for nothing. I know that is not the case, I looked it up, but what are some games that are the worst offenders? One I can think of is Aerith in the original FF7.
Dragon Age does that too.
If you piss off Alistair by letting Loghain take the oath right at the end of the game he fucks off with all the gear he has equipped right before the last battle sequence and end boss.