Like any good AAA RPG, Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a sizeable game, and according to developer BioWare, the game's scope--including its huge cast of characters and hundreds of thousands of lines of dialogue--is part of why it took so long to create. That massive scope includes more than 700 different characters and 140,000 lines of dialogue.

"We wanted to make sure we got this one right," creative director John Epler said in a recent interview with GamesRadar, in which he also revealed the enormous amount of dialogue.

Performance director Ashley Barlow added that--in addition to other projects BioWare was working on during the decade between Dragon Age: Inquisition and The Veilguard--part of the reason the game took so long to make was simply due to the sheer number of characters and voice lines.