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Which games are the worst offenders for letting you upgrade a character/inventory only to lose it all part way through the game. (alien.top)

submitted 9 months ago by TapTapTapTapTapTaps@alien.top to c/gaming@level-up.zone

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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.

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[–] AurelianoTampa@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (10 children)

LISA The Painful has a large cast of characters, some of which are much stronger than others, and like most RPGs, you gain experience and level up by fighting.

However, several times in the game you are forced to make extremely hard choices, up to and including sacrificing the characters in your party (they permanently die). At another point you play Russian roulette by picking a party member to put the gun to their head and pull the trigger. Bad RNG? They're dead and gone forever.

If you don't know these events are coming up, you can very easily lose your favorite party/characters forever, and it's almost assured the ones you use are your strongest, since they're the ones you're using in your party.

They don't call it "The Painful" for no reason.

[–] GentleHotFire@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

LISA does so much to make you hate that game. But its so good no one does

[–] Lady_Calista@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah it's so good in its... bad writing, bad gameplay, bad execution, and otherwise failure to execute on the basics of game design. Truly unhatable.

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