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.
Lol, that doesn’t happen at all. I mean you do go off on your own, but you don’t lose your gear. You’re still in the tutorial area.
I wouldn’t spend too much time upgrading green/common gear and do recommend trying to get the purple/rare over the blue/uncommon. Even then, with different weapons, it mattered more about which types of bows I preferred and worked best on which machines (I.e. don’t use fire against fire machines). Slight spoiler: there are times you might not have access to everything due to a quest or cutscene, but you get all your stuff super quick.