Curious what players think about Wintermute?

[Mcnasty]

Long time survival player here. Do people actually like Wintermute? I find the whole experience is made tedious by all the cut-scenes. I'm wondering what the Survival/
Wintermute ratio is?

[IFIYGD]

There are a bunch of threads about this already, but I'll give my usual answer to the same question again:
I enjoyed Wintermute Episodes 1-4, played each of them on all 3 modes Wintermute has. I also enjoyed the original Episodes (Predux Episodes 1 and 2) before they were pulled and redone. I have enjoyed all of the Challenge Modes (except ATDS- which I have yet to complete- Interloper/Misery settings aren't my jam.). The majority of my time in the game is in Survival Mode, which I really enjoy, but also because Wintermute Story Mode has limited replayability- once you've done it all, not much changes by replaying on the next difficulty other than... difficulty. You can try to do things differently to see if things work better or worse, or try to beat your old start > finish time. Same with the Challenges- I replay them from time to time to see if I can beat my last time, but not much changes in them if I replay them. Survival Mode lets me write my own story instead of following one that has been written for me, and I think that is why a lot of people prefer and enjoy Survival Mode more, and there are those who only play Wintermute Story Mode to unlock all of the achievements for the game (which I get- not a hardcore Achievement Hunter/Completionist, but I do like to unlock all achievements in games I enjoy- working on that on XBox for this game right now),