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.
In SMT 1 after the nukes drop on Tokyo and you travel 30 years into the future, you get informed by some hobo that yen are a thing of the past and that everyone uses macca now. Then you get to watch how the game drains all your money as your characters realize that their current funds are now worthless. Funnily enough, the game is actually bugged and if you have enough money it will actually not drain all of it.