I have very little gaming experience and I don’t remember having any specific issues with it. I’m curious though, were you using PC or console? The consol controls were harder for me to use than the pc controls but that could well be because I’m more familiar with the pc than any consol.
Yeah, I played dao with my friend sitting w me, which helped, but if you're playing on easy and glance through some guides on leveling, I think it's worth it. I don't think the menus or egregious sepia bothered me /because/ it was the first big rpg I played and so I had no frame of reference xP
I have no idea how you feel towards puzzle-ish games, but Picross 3D Round 2 is available for the 3DS and is the best game in the world*. It's like nonograms (or regular picross puzzles) but 3D. You get to uncover little models of things by removing extraneous blocks. *Well, it is very good.
the only proper way to experience video games is from the beginning start with Tennis For Two like a real hero
I really like Terraria -- I play it on PC but it's also available on PS4, among other things. Undertale is also, as many people have said, very very good.
open sorcery is a text based game (you can run it on basically anything that can run a browser, it uses Twine so HTML and Javascript) and it's really really good
