Lost!

As most of you are aware, lost is in the home stretch now with only like 6 or 7 episodes left, so I'd like questions answered. In order to help out with that I've been perusing Lostpedia to look up little things after episodes. But here is what really bothers me. To understand anything about the lost story evidently you need to play the lost video game (which i'm never playing). Its like they wont just let you half way be a nerd. You have to go all out to fully enjoy lost. WTF. I'm not doing it.