Everyone has to have their Top whatever lists done in January. That’s just the way it rolls in the board gaming world. If you release a list of your favorite games of 2020 in July of the following year? Forget about it, it’ll be buried and folks won’t pay nearly as much attention. We as humans like to turn over a new leaf at the beginning of the year. We like to look back and see what we did and what the best parts were. Maybe more so this year than in years past. We want to find the joyful, the happy, the best things to highlight from what was honestly, a pretty rough year, both in board gaming, and in day to day life. Most of us who play board games rely on other people to play with us, What was the one thing that we were supposed to avoid for the most part in 2020? People. That avoidance has made it very difficult for a lot of folks to play games, to have that social interaction. Yes, digital games are out there and publishers seem to be becoming more open to having their newer games on digital platforms, but I know that I for one, am not really comfortable grading games based on the digital interactions that I have with them. I need to have the social aspect of gaming as well in order to enjoy it, the feel of the cards, the sound of the dice, the laughter and the occasional outburst. Games are great, but games are nothing without the people that we play them with.
So with that I’ve come up with an idea and hopefully we see some interesting results. We are going to look back at 2020 right now, and we here at The Opinionated Gamers, or at least those of us comfortable enough to, have tried to come up with our Top 15 games of 2020. If you pay attention to the title of the article though, we are going to do it in parts. We’ll do this now in January, and then in June/July, if we have the time, we’ll look back again and see if there are changes as more folks have the opportunity to actually play games with people. Will the list change? I am not sure, but we’re going to see. I have a theory on what we’ll see, but I’ll jot that down somewhere else and save it for later, if it comes true. What? Do you think I’m going to admit when I am wrong?
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Happy 10th Birthday to the Opinionated Gamers!
Well, it’s hard to believe, but this blog has been going strong for TEN YEARS NOW! The actual anniversary was actually on Sunday, January 24, and I had meant to post our birthday celebration then – but real life got in the way… So a few days late – but it doesn’t dampen our excitement!!!
Nevertheless, we’re proud to still be going strong ten full years after we started. At ten years old, we believe we’re one of the longest running websites about boardgames (yes, we know BGG just turned 21… but most of the sites we used to read back then have sadly gone away…) Everything started slow – with our very first review on Norenberc, and we’ve been constantly growing each year. The original group of writers arose from the ashes of BoardgameNews, and we started with a simple plan of writing about games, limiting our blog to one post a day. We have actually done a pretty good job keeping to that limit, trying to give each of our topics its own day in the sun. We’re committed to continuing our written reviews, and we’ve made an effort to increase our social media presence on Twitter and Instagram. Some of us are getting long in the tooth, but we’re trying our best to keep up with the times!
Last year, we had our highest traffic ever as well as our highest number of posts (nearly 400!). We’ve had over 40 different people serve as the primary author of an article, had a number of guest writers, and plenty of other Opinionated Gamers that have given their input in support.
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