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Nearly 3,000 types of vegetation and other big data stats show why Dragon Age: Inquisition is 100 hours long

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Here’s some big data that explains why Dragon Age: Inquisition took about 100 hours to play, and it probably also explains why it also received Game of the Year at the prestigious Dice Awards this year.

Publisher Electronic Arts and its BioWare label shared this data with us about the game’s breadth, and as you can see, it imposing:

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.