This post has been a long time coming. Every once in a while, life just gets really busy, and in this case the "free" time my wife and I had together suffered, which meant that less board games got played. A couple of weeks ago we found some time to play again, and some thoughts on that are below. However, ironically enough, this post then got delayed because we got busy again!
We have a couple of groups of friends that we play board games with, but the majority we play are with just my wife and I. When the opportunity arises, playing a game is usually my preference, where as my wife will prefer to watch a show together. Now that things have settled down a bit I am sure we will play more often, but with a couple of new seasons of some of our favourite shows on Netflix, I am sure the TV option will happen more often too.
What really struck me when we went to play again was our choice of games. It probably doesn't take a genius to figure out that they are among our favourite games, but I really noticed that it was a combination of each of our preferences, plus which games are decent 2-Player games. What also struck me is which game we didn't chose; Dominion. I would still rank it as one of my top games, and is also likely still our most played game (the only possible competitor would be 7 Wonders). My wife has commented a few times that it is no longer high on her list, primarily because she finds the large library of cards (we have a bunch of expansions) adds confusion and adds to the setup time. Despite a few of our friends having copies of this, it rarely gets played in a group setting, so it has been a while since I last played it.
