Board Game Arena

With the number of titles on this site, I'm starting to wonder if it's going to be overwhelming for new players, especially those signing up on their own (so don't have an in built group to play with and learn games from), and those coming from outside the hardcore hobby game audience. It's OK for me since I regularly listen to podcasts etc, but if you don't have that background how would you try to narrow down things that are appealling? Box covers? Can you use the mechanics thing if you're not familiar with the mechanics?

I'm not sure what form this would be best handled in - would it need some sort of optional survey to gauge someone's level of experience when signing up? However it's done, I feel like it could be a useful thing in making the site a bit more open to more of the mainstream audience, especially if some attempts were made to form game pathways so if someone played connect 4 and then wanted something similar but more advanced they could see a suggestion for Gomoku, and then maybe Gomoku leads towards something like Tash Kalar eventually?

This possibly sounds like a bit of a non-issue to some, but I thought I'd float the concept to see if other people felt the site has reached a point where 'Overchoice' is going to be a problem for some