When will we see the next update? : V - Skyrim

» Tue May 17, 2011 8:50 am

Agree, thats not british, and i would say 90% of the world use the day/month/year system. Anyway, it would be better if we were "making an attack" to GI or Bethesda until they release the soundtrack instead of arguing this xD.

» Tue May 17, 2011 2:05 am

Or as you would pronounce it here in Britain "27th of January 2011" and write it down as "27th January 2011". Same thing applies to time measurement, We would pronounce 5:15 as "quarter past five" or 5:45 as "Quarter to Six" but as I have a Yorkshire accent I would say "Quarter t'Six" and have a broad style of speech.

» Tue May 17, 2011 4:54 pm

Guys!

Only 131 days left until E3 2011!
:teehee:

131 days??? Damn, that's over 3100 hours...

Almost as many hours as I have logged into Oblivion...

» Tue May 17, 2011 6:57 am

saying either system is stupid is stupid. in america we dont say the 27th of January 2010. we say january 27th 2010. so naturally we tailor the way we write it the way we speak it and britan and the rest of the world represents it the way they say it.

» Tue May 17, 2011 12:53 am

Guys!

Only 131 days left until E3 2011!
:teehee:

What does this have to do with the next update?

» Tue May 17, 2011 2:20 am

Actually, the metric system of measurement is inherently flawed. The reason for this is that mathematically speaking, a base of 10 makes no sense. We think it's easy numerically, but that's because our number system also has a base of 10, which is should not. A base of 12 (or some other multiple of 2, like 16) is better for the simple reason that 10 cannot be split 3 ways. You end up with 3 numbers with infinite decimal places (3.333333 etc) that don't quite add up to 10.

Forgive me this completely off-topic post, but I'm a computer science major, and I just couldn't resist.

In a thread full of risible posts on different ways of naming dates, this has got to be the most crankish yet.

Anyway, as for updates: most likely we won't have to wait until E3 to see gameplay footage. We know that we'll see gameplay footage in a month whose name contains the letter "r". E3 does not occur in such a month; the first such month after E3 is September. For such a big name title, for Bethesda to not show gameplay at E3, and then to wait until September... well, it would be an odd marketing strategy, to say the least. PAX is in March - I think that's a reasonably good bet. But sometime between now and the end of April, we'll see gameplay - I think we can be almost certain of that.

» Tue May 17, 2011 6:37 am

I check in on the update thread and it's full of people talking about the metric systems and dates.. geez

» Tue May 17, 2011 12:42 am

Any chance of footage at GDC in February?

» Tue May 17, 2011 1:15 pm

More shots of the main menu and maybe a reveal of a new skill when they do.

» Tue May 17, 2011 2:34 pm

Any chance of footage at GDC in February?

PAX east seems more likely, it goes from march 11-13th

» Tue May 17, 2011 4:38 pm

There is a world outside America, you know?

Lies!!!!

Haha, just kidding.

» Tue May 17, 2011 6:25 am

Any chance of footage at GDC in February?

GDC starts february 28 which is the last day of the month. PAX East is in mid march I think that's more likely.

» Tue May 17, 2011 12:35 pm

I realy wish they would give us more skill info so we could have a good solid babble fest over whatever they have changed... the mystisicm change didnt realy gen enough babble to feed my endless need to prattle on and on and the map size issue is running out of steam...

» Tue May 17, 2011 5:26 am

I realy wish they would give us more skill info so we could have a good solid babble fest over whatever they have changed... the mystisicm change didnt realy gen enough babble to feed my endless need to prattle on and on and the map size issue is running out of steam...

There's always the "I'm worried we will have fallout style armor slots" to fall back on. Even though pete said they are making an elder scrolls and not a fallout game so expect more than two armor slots! Sorry I'm ranting here...