Do you like the older RPG systems better than the newer ones?

[Anonymouswizard]

I really want to grasp Burning Wheel, but the presentation is so bad... for the sake of "art" from what I've read.

Burning Wheel Gold is the best rulebook is probably the most sensible organisation I've seen. Basic rules->character creation->specific rules, so that you mainly have to jump backwards instead of forward.

That's where my like of the presentation ends. The rules are confusingly written, key ideas aren't explained until later, and in several instances the style is too informal. The use of the 'three imps' is also annoying, as they either tend to highlight the utterly inconsequential and draw your eye away from important things, or don't separate advice from rules clearly enough. Get past that and you have a very well made medieval Tolkeinesque gateway system, but it takes paragraphs to day what should be said in a sentence, at best