Genesis: Too Damn Hard? Options

[chinagreenelvis]

Is it me, or does the Sega Shadowrun lack balance of almost any kind? If you even try to follow the storyline by earning just enough to advance, you get wiped out the moment you leave the Barrens. If you stick around Redmond, you spend forever trying to get anywhere by doing Gunderson's horribly low-paying and tedious courier/escort tasks, or spend forever and a half karma-whoring it up by killing ghouls (who, by the way, will still tear you to shreds even after you've gotten the best armor and cyberware upgrades you can afford the time to invest in saving up for at this point.

The only other accessible Johnson at this point pays well but his runs are impossible at this level. I've even tried dicking around in the Matrix to see if I could just pickpocket a small time account, but there's no telling what you get into and I've yet to find a single set of nodes that I can get through.

I want to finish this game, but it's really starting to piss me off.