It goes without saying that we are quite the gaming couple. Whether tabletop RPGs, board games or console games - we're totally into gaming for sure. But board games are a tricky enough variant on the gaming genre that thankfully still thrives despite the advances in video games and even mobile games. There's something about the shared experience of playing a board game together that is hard to replicate in the online gaming environment.
And I have to admit, we've come a very long way from basic old Sorry and Monopoly. And here I thought that Scene It! had been a pretty innovative game when I first played it some years back - Tobie helped expose me to the wider range of board games out there that totally blow one away. And while there are still those games that push the envelope a bit too much and end up with a game that could have worked better with the benefit of a computer's processing power, others are just brilliant in a completely different way.
I think the game that first opened my eyes to how much board games had changed was Carcassonne. What at first seemed like a silly little tile-laying game turned out to be so much more. In fact, it's a rather cutthroat strategic battleground that typically has me going crazy trying to figure out how to score more points than the other players.
Since then, Tobie and I have enjoyed a wide number of different games with friends - a lot of them being games that we actually own sets of our own. It's quite the storage nightmare - but then the Sietch is all about our passions. Who needs faux-minimalism when we have a home that screams happy geekery, right?
In the long run though, we really need to find a bigger house - one that comes with dedicated storage for all our board games, transformers an all that fun stuff. Yay for geekery!
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