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.
Metroid Prime 2 or 3. Towards the end you get a super gun. It becomes your only weapon. You have it for a significant amount of time, and you use it to defeat the big bad.
Why did I get all those missiles and bombs and upgrade my gun?