I play a game on the X-Box called Fallout 4. You are basically dropped in an open world (Boston) post nuclear apocalyptic world in just the clothes that you are in surrounded by murderous lunatics and radioactive monsters. Soon you become armed with a pistol and a few caps (money). The aim is to survive the world whilst looking for your kidnapped son. Along the way it is essential to find/buy better weapons and more caps in order to progress against harder and harder foe. The satisfaction generated by trying to improve your characters perks (strength/speed/gunmanship etc) whilst desperately looking for better weapons and armor is, well, satisfying. Hours and hours are spent doing this until, at random, you may stumble across a legendary explosive weapon (often a shotgun). This basically turns all enemies into a bloody mess. You start walking around like The Terminator. This is at first enormous fun, blasting Deathclaws and Supermutants to pieces from point blank range whilst standing out in the open instead of the usual hit and run tactics and hiding with a standard weapon. In the meantime I have soon become the Elon Musk of post apocalyptic Boston, having generated thousands of caps, making the satisfaction of scrimping and saving, buying and selling pointless. It then becomes apparent that the whole enjoyment generated from the game has virtually vanished. The weapon is totally overpowered to the point that its almost cheating. Being the grim reaper is boring. I start thinking about how much more fun it was cheating death with only my 'peashooter' and vault suit in tow. So I start the game again and get just as much enjoyment going through the hours and hours of trials and torments. I have done this 4 times. Once I get an overpowered gun I just cant help using it.....start again. I still havnt completed it and seen how the story ends.
In general Man City supporters have the Exploding Shotgun whilst I'm currently armed with my SAFC 'peashooter'
FTM