Maybe it's because I've become older, but I feel that games of the 1990s and early 2000s were easier to pick up. There was no need to invest in world building o

Maybe it's because I've become older, but I feel that games of the 1990s and early 2000s were easier to pick up. There was no need to invest in world building or complex mechanics. You just picked up the game and started playing. Like I tried the latest Need for Speed. It's got this whole artifice about you being a racer and you drive around a city to join races. Back when I played Need for Speed a lot (especially NFS 2, 3 and 4), the games had no such pretention. You just started the game, picked up a mode and started racing. The games never felt compelled to tell you how to feel or think.