The games that give superpowers do a really good job of making you feel like a background extra. If your character doesn't have all these crazy powers like Nom, Crescent, and X then what are they really doing? Everything seems inconsequential. Winning battles is all you can do but once you win its just like. "We were just humoring you with those childish battles. Time to blast you to smithereens like I could have done in the first place."
I have the same problem with insurgence where people have teleportation and what not. It's like, why are we even fighting, this guy is on an entirely different level than me.