Grand Theft Auto IV had a staggering 80,000 lines of dialogue. However, 10,000 lines of dialogue is a fraction of what appears in an average full, open-world video game. That would allot 2,500 lines for each four-hour add-on, only slightly less than the 3,000 lines of dialogue that appear in an average motion picture. That may sound like a sufficient amount, at first blush.
The creation of narrative probably seems like a process that requires the freedom and openness for the author to do whatever they want with the story they're crafting - but when the writing team at Obsidian Entertainment was charged with penning the four downloadable expansions to Fallout: New Vegas, they were given a hard limit for the amount they were allowed to write.įor all four DLC packs, there could be no more than 10,000 lines of dialogue total.
