Replayability value?

[Gus Sergei Al-Calamity]

In my eyes, XCOM is just campaign/story mode focused, so if you've done all the campaigns, that's it, it ends right there, but my question is, is it my opinion true? let me know! especially the replay value :D

[Narrowmind]

You opinion is not true. There are endless mods to keep the game fresh and essentially endless. Nevertheless, if you're only looking for a story or campaign, there's no way to change the ending or add movies.

[Gus Sergei Al-Calamity]

Originally posted by Ratlegion:

You opinion is not true. There are endless mods to keep the game fresh and essentially endless. Nevertheless, if you're only looking for a story or campaign, there's no way to change the ending or add movies.

interesting, so there's no multiple ending or smth like that?

[Narrowmind]

There is one ending. There are some missions so important you can't fail them, that force you to retry on fail. The expansion adds a little bit of flesh, but the ending is essentially the same, yes.

[Narrowmind]

I know what you're saying and I feel the same way about many games, but not for this one. This one is about the journey, and there are enough puzzle pieces to get many hundreds of hours out of this one. Buy with confidence.

[Sindorei]

You don't need to do the story missions, then you can play endlessly.

[Amanoob105]

While the overall campaign is largely the same this game has a lot of smaller random elements within it that will not be the same from campaign to campaign. Far, far more so with WotC.

These elements include, but are not limited to.
Continent bonuses.
The order you meet the Chosen in.
Faction orders.
A whole bunch of advanced options when setting up a new game.
And the mods, oh god the mods. 5000+ to pick from (at least on steam).

This is a game about the journey, not the destination. Though that's easily true of most single player games .

[megansweden]

Considering most of the people frequenting this forum have played hundreds if not thousands of hours, I don't know that you'll ever convince us it doesn't have much replay value. I probably spent a solid 25 hours just on character customization (not all at once, of course).

For me, the fun is in the journey. The destination is the same every time, but how you get there can change up. There are various options you can enable to change things up and prevent yourself from just making the same choices every time, even without mods. Other things will happen differently just because you get different results or different options for missions and rewards.

I always finish my campaigns, but by the time I get into late game half my mind is contemplating what I'm going to do differently next time. Early game is my favorite part.

And the sky's the limit once you start applying mods.

[Hammer_Squirrel]

I've logged over 2000 hours in the game... it's a long story

[Gus Sergei Al-Calamity]

Well, y'all guys succeed to convince me, thank you!

[Komissar Gebet]

The default replayability is rather high if you like the challenge - there are ways (second wave options and ironman mode) to make the replay more difficult and interesting.
With mods employed - the replayability skyrockets.

[Gus Sergei Al-Calamity]

Originally posted by Komissar Gebet:

The default replayability is rather high if you like the challenge - there are ways (second wave options and ironman mode) to make the replay more difficult and interesting.
With mods employed - the replayability skyrockets.

ah sad :"( i got this game on epic, but maybe i can get it from ModDb

[Hammer_Squirrel]

Originally posted by Sergei Suzuka:

Originally posted by Komissar Gebet:

The default replayability is rather high if you like the challenge - there are ways (second wave options and ironman mode) to make the replay more difficult and interesting.
With mods employed - the replayability skyrockets.

ah sad :"( i got this game on epic, but maybe i can get it from ModDb

You can install mods manually, though most of my time was playing vanilla. Even now I’m usually just using bug fixes and some UI and quality of life mods.

Play the Epic version and if the game clicks with you then you can always buy it on Steam during a sale. Trying to get the Exquisite Timing achievement is enough to keep someone busy for a couple of hours

[HazardHawk]

Considering I am a few thousand hours into playing I would say replay value...

[Will]

No, it's literally one of the most repayable games ever made. Long war of the chosen basically now makes this a game I will play for the rest of my life.

[Mez Koo]

There will always be one campaign and one ending but there are so many variables in the game including all the various stuff already in the base game but then you can throw war of the chosen and then other stuff in there like alien rulers and spark units in for different play-throughs each time not to mention mods.

Whether or not you want to replay it is subjective, if you are bored of the game then just move on but if you've only played the base game then I would suggest getting the dlc as playing through the war of the chosen, alien hunter, and shen's last gift content is well worth its own playthrough and you could essentially play a whole play through with those and not even touch the "main story." And there is the tactical legacy pack that adds a lot of story missions outside of the main game.