Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead. I am your host, Len, and I am joined here today by our good friend John Bolding.

Howdy y'all? By our good friend Ian Boudreau. Hey, everybody. And our good friend, Brian Shepleu Boo Smalley.

Hey, what a do. And, uh, yeah, we're, we're here today to talk about what has been my full-time job for the last three weeks

since we got review code, I think, four days before the launch, Balders Gate 3.

We've sort of staked our claim in the part of the Venn diagram previously that these sort of tactical, sort of infinity-esque RPGs qualify as a tactics game.

We're just going gonna run with that.

It's also just probably the biggest story in gaming this year.

Does that sound myopic or do you think it's,

it's fair to say that at this point?

I think, I think that's fair.

As long as you put so far on it. So far. Yeah. Well, I mean, and then what is what else is there? There's tears of the kingdom, really. And that's not, that's a game that came out. It's not so much a story like, yeah. I don't feel like there was even, there was not even a tenth of the discourse around Tears of the Kingdom.

No, that's just a good Zelda game.

Ten times is making highlight clips.

Ten times less discourse.

Right.

Everybody just thinks it's cool that you can build a Rube Goldberg machine in Zelda now.

That was the story.

To be fair, they're right.

It is cool. Yeah. So,

let's see. John, I'm going to start with you just because I think you are the most D&D

literate out of everybody here. So why don't you tell me in your... I've been playing this game system for a decade.

Why don't you tell me in your own words, what is Baldersgate 3?

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