2024: The Year of Legacy
A Brief History of Gaming: I was in college when I first played Catan. The year was around 2008. The second time I played the game was in 2009, with a friend in Germany. The third time was 2012 in China. For years Catan was the be-all and end-all of board games for me. On Sunday nights my wife and I would play with another couple. Two years of Sundays. I owned all of the expansions and kept the pieces in plastic sandwich containers inside of a portable cooler. My Catan set would travel from China to the US and back again each Summer. I loved Catan. Now I don't. Because things change. Because the world moves on. Right before the 2020 Pandemic I started getting into Ticket to Ride. I had owned the base game for a while, but when I started playing the spin-offs and expansion maps, my interest started to peak. In the Spring, the world shut down and time stood still. At the advent of the pandemic, Ticket to Ride became an obsession, and I purchased every set using Covid relief funds. As...