@Printdevil @Taskerland @zozo Well earlier games were more oriented toward "simulation" because they came from wargames. But I, too, came at them from the "drama flake" side of things and found the wargamey stuff boring, favouring the character and story stuff (often to the frustration of the players who were optimizers).
It took nearly two decades before games started coming out that explicitly parted ways with the wargames roots and that's when I came into my own!