by willsargent
Just picked up Ascension, so thanks to all in this thread for arguing for and agin.Just as I'd usually rather play Elder Sign over Hamburgum, I would rather have a lighter, more thematic deck-builder with plenty of random, too, so it looks like Ascension might give me some fun with my much cleverer gaming strategist buddies.
I also adore the pencil-drawn, William Blake-like naive art in Ascension, over Dominion's dog awful photographs that have been matisse-d over in photoshop. Although I really do like Dominion as a game it honestly has some of the worst art ever, and whoever greenlighted the box art needs a bullet.
It seems the main protagonists in this thread are so concerned about which game (Dom or Asc) has slightly more depth, they're forgetting the most important aspect - pure fun. Maybe this is the market Ascension is aiming at - sacrificing a fair bit of strategy for simple smash and grab card play.