How long does it take to beat the game? Story? Replay-ability value? Thank you

[GnomeSlayer]

Thanks

[dogshocker]

I guess you could run through it as fast as you can..main mission only; no side missions. You'll still be playing for a long time. Replay ability.... loads of it; difficulty setting, mods, different missions and choices, etc. This game is really big. Get stuck in and enjoy yourself.

[Mordegar]

If you do sidemissions and go for stashes, it'll take over 100 hours to finish the game. Took me 117 hours in my first run.

[Dailao]

Originally posted by dogshocker:

I guess you could run through it as fast as you can..main mission only; no side missions. You'll still be playing for a long time. Replay ability.... loads of it; difficulty setting, mods, different missions and choices, etc. This game is really big. Get stuck in and enjoy yourself.

To each their own I guess. I will never replay this game because of the swamp level and the invisible mutants. It's just annoying and frustrating to no end.

[Kalter|Tod]

I am almost 100 hrs in and have not completed my first playthrough I am just getting into pripyat

[n0mad23]

I'm 81 hours in and just hit Act II (I'm guessing, as avoiding guides). For me, I can already tell I'll be playing this game again, but I'm one of the intended audience, no doubt.

If it's a game you find you really enjoy, I think it's definitely replayable - but that really comes down to the player.

It does the OG Stalker thing, and makes you figure out most things. However, if one bothers to put the cursor over items and read them, most information is available. Some game mechanics you just have to figure out as you go.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire is the approach.

[Outlookcuv]

I ended up with ~55 hours for my first run but that was also with only a handful of the side missions and largely just following the main plot

[KiarLV]

For me it took ~60 hours, give or take a few to deal with FPS issues, thats including all the side quests I could find( the ones that didn't bug out and auto complete or just softlock me ) and running for stashes plus artifacts.

Replayability is iffy, if you want to go full vanilla on 2nd playthrough then not so much, because there are not that many choices that affect the ending, and if you didn't have a save before the first choice then you will have to replay everything up to that moment if you start modding then it might get refreshed enough to go for 2nd run.

[Josh]

I'm nearing the end and I'm over 100hrs. But I'm taking my time, doing everything I can. Little interest in playing AGAIN anytime soon, because except for a faction allegiance, does the game change at all? Maybe after a year and the modders tear into it fully, and really add some major features, it might be worth diving back in. I have plenty of other games in my queue to get to...until Monster Hunter=)

[GnomeSlayer]

I appreciate everyone's reply here, thank you. Glad to hear the game can be played in different ways and there is good amount of content.

[impactos_enredos0i]

63 hours my first playthrough, no side missions.
Replayability is very high, you can choose different paths during the gameplay according to your choices/actions, plus hundreds of mods already out that you can add, and a countless number yet to be released after GSC delivers the SDK.

[LittleMissMurder]

I'm 130 hours in and still not done with the main mission. I actually started pushing the main storyline because I was kinda tired of loot squirelling and have good weapons and armor and a metric farktonne of money. I'm currently on the outskirts of Pripyat and have no idea how much storyline is left. I've seen screenshots of locations I've never been to even though I love exploring, so I can only assume it's a result of the mstory choices I made. Tonnes of replayability imo although I probably won't touch it again for a long time after finishing my first playthrough.