Why 11/11/11 : V - Skyrim

» Fri Feb 12, 2010 1:47 am

its because the played Armored Core 3 recently and thought No. 1111 who was ranked 11th in the arena was cool.
that's my story and I'm stickin to it

» Fri Feb 12, 2010 8:23 am

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim goes to eleven!

» Fri Feb 12, 2010 5:57 am

Not only does it look "cool", it also avoids confusion.
Unlike the Uncharted 3 release date that made me go WOW, YEA...oh...ah...oh damn, no.
Looks like I uncovered the meaning of deception in that game's title... sure deceived me.

» Fri Feb 12, 2010 8:34 am

You have to be careful with saying stuff like 'as everyone knows', particularly when the subject in question is an obscure christian festival.

I'd put money that the majority of Catholics--at least in the States--don't even know about St. Martin's Feast Day. You know how many Feast Days there are in a year? Too many to remember.

» Fri Feb 12, 2010 5:17 am

Yeah, they'll both occur once before 2100.

Oops. I meant more than once.

» Thu Feb 11, 2010 5:32 pm

It was announced on December 11th or 11/12/10, and will be released on 11/11/11. It is exactly 11 months til' its release.

I think they wanted the announcement and release days to be easy to remember so they made it one of those dates every one goes crazy about. And in america it would be 12/11/10

» Thu Feb 11, 2010 7:39 pm

111111? Maybe someone had a sticky key on their computer.......

I'd bet that the Bethesda development team is standing there laughing about our reaction to the date, all except for the one new guy on the team who's asking everyone "So, what IS so funny about 11/11/11?"

» Thu Feb 11, 2010 4:25 pm

Why Triple 11? Because they knew my birthday was 3 days prior, and they wanted to thank me for my years of ES buying, playing, commenting, and enjoying.

» Fri Feb 12, 2010 6:12 am

I love that word now... 'Overthunk'...

Glad you liked it

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/thunk

Exactly my point.
"I tend to overthink things but I think you overthunk it"

But why did you just link to the dictionary at all?

» Fri Feb 12, 2010 1:04 am

11/11/11 is just meant to be a cool day. And Skyrim just made it all the cooler. That's all.

Yeah, and the next coolest day was January 2, 3003 date (01.02.03). We considered it, but figured that was too long to wait.

» Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:25 pm

Yeah, and the next coolest day was January 2, 3003 date (01.02.03). We considered it, but figured that was too long to wait.

Ah, you could have gotten it to us sooner with an equally cool date. January 23, 2045 (01.23.45)

» Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:40 pm

Ah, you could have gotten it to us sooner with an equally cool date. January 23, 2045 (01.23.45)

I don't get it...

Or another epic date: 23/10/77

» Fri Feb 12, 2010 4:31 am

I don't get it...

Or another epic date: 23/10/77

It's a form of millenniumism, or however it's pronounced, it looks like a date that may be of significance e.g. the last day of the 20th century, but in reality, it is completely pointless. There is no point to get other than the imaginary significance of the date.

» Thu Feb 11, 2010 9:41 pm

Well Martin in the game became a dragon, avatar of akatosh the dragon god of time. and there are dragons in the game..

Or it could just be a cool day like mentioned.

» Fri Feb 12, 2010 12:36 am

So, after much research I've finally determined why it is that they are releasing Skyrim on 11/11/11 and what secrets they're telling us by releasing it on that day.

As everyone knows, the 11th of November is the same day that the Feast of Saint Martin occurs on. (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Feast+of+Saint+Martin&lk=1&a=ClashPrefs_*Holiday.FeastOfStMartin.Christianity-) Why is this important you might ask? It's obvious really... Brother Martin has become Saint Martin. Which means 2 things for us: One, he's dead! and Two, he's loved by all, or at least some people. So clearly by stating the release date as 11/11/11 they've not only told us what happened to Brother Martin who we all cared so much about finding out more about, but they've also informed us that he will be an important part of the story, or his follower will.

But what is the plan for St. Martin? Will we get to play as a follower of St. Martin come to Skyrim to spread the word? Are we going to be able to join the Church of St. Martin and do quests for them to eventually gain the rank of Arch Bishop? Will it be St. Martin's followers that finally put an end to the evils of the dragons terrorizing the countryside? What guesses do you have as to why St. Martin will play an important part in the story and even if you don't have a guess, you can just respond about how awesome St. Martin is!

ERRRR, why trying to find Hairs on Eggs.

It just that if they FAIL to release 11/11/11, they got more than a year to issue the problems in the game and release 12/12/12. Well if they fail this time though, its gonna be complicated....

» Thu Feb 11, 2010 5:58 pm

That is 2 weeks from today.

yes plz :goodjob:

» Fri Feb 12, 2010 12:12 am

St Martin is crap. My unicorn kept knocking him out for about half hour, until eventually he killed it. I loved that unicorn, very sad day. :-(

» Fri Feb 12, 2010 12:01 am

Don't know if anyone mentioned this, but the 11th November is an official holiday in my country (and others).

It's the day that people stopped throwing mortars and poison at each other on OUR potato fields. 11/11/1918 @11AM.

» Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:10 pm

It's St Martin day; Rememberance Day... Yellow sherbert day, The day SKYRIM is released released. Does it really matter what day it is?

» Thu Feb 11, 2010 7:00 pm

It's St Martin day; Rememberance Day... Yellow sherbert day, The day SKYRIM is released released. Does it really matter what day it is?

It does when it's on a day when all the stores are closed, it's like they just do it to annoy you.

» Thu Feb 11, 2010 5:18 pm

Yea, we already know what happened to Martin, and I doubt he will be in this game. I'm pretty sure it was a cool date, that only happens every thousand years, and it managed to be very close to their intended release time.

» Fri Feb 12, 2010 8:06 am

I like 11.11.11. It shows that the devs are confident about getting it out on time. We are supposed to get excited by that unique date so I doubt they will let us down. Hope not. I booked a week off work!

» Thu Feb 11, 2010 7:07 pm

I don't get it...

Or another epic date: 23/10/77

12345
:P
January 23, 2045
lol

» Fri Feb 12, 2010 1:47 am

Funny how when I posted a thread about this people ramed objects down my throat and bludgeon me with a stick.

I'll add to the funz of this whole speculative idea for the reason why Bethesda choose 11:11:11. Really, in honesty it breaks down to 11:11. That is the actual quote on quote special number that mystics, philosophers, and mainly mentalist as well as people of the arcane like to ramble on about.
11:11 at least in theory is the journey of the soul. Obviously, Bethesda just choose it for loads of laughs but it's completely awesome that they choose it. Some people think that on 11:11:11 a new age of spiritual uplift will happen.
Allow me to post this link.
http://www.urigeller.com/articles/11.htm
Uri Geller is an Israeli mentalist, or so he claims.

As a disclaimer I think this spiritual stuff is bogus though it is fun.

» Fri Feb 12, 2010 12:27 am

Well, this doesn't make very much sense at all. If I'm not mistaken I'd say you were just being facetious.

At least someone got it!