Question Which game has the largest codebase?

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I'm guessing GTA V - just because it's a land/sea/air simulation, has many, unique NPCs as well as vehicle AI and multiplayer over the 'net. I once was folding my laundry while standing in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Vinewood (that's not the name for it in game) and I never heard an NPC comment that wasn't unique for more than a half hour. It's amazing that NPCs will react (i.e. by saying something usually humorous) not only to successful jumps but crashes and unsuccessful jumps. It's interesting how NPCs and vehicles are randomized differently WRT different areas of the map (e.g. you won't see a Beverly Hills/Rodeo Dr. type person/vehicle spawning in the mojave desert. Strangely enough, this is true in real life as well. I once switched to Trevor from someone else and he was laying on top of a bridge railing in just his underwear (at which point you can see his tattoo memorializing his "brother" Michael's death).

OT, when I was working as an 80251 assembly programmer, a new hire tried to print out the entire codebase for a particular project so he could study it at home, when the stack of paper approached the size of a telephone book he finally gave up.