In the spirit of Halloween, I've taken out and assembled The Governor's Room set.
These building sets are heavily detailed. The Governor's Room features the fish tanks full of undead heads, a bucket of flesh and blood, The Governor himself and the Governor's undead daughter, Penny... all arranged in a diorama format.
I just finished watching The Blindspot after watching Gravity Falls and Supergirl. I started up my PS3, but wasn't sure if I wanted to play a game. So I went through my Facebook feed. Several minutes of that and I went to read my news feed and go to sites for entertainment and reading. There was a link to a YouTube video on historical European martial arts documentary. They mentioned Asian martial arts and somehow it reminded me of a very distant memory of a Filipino movie, Ang Lihim Ng Golden Buddha (The Secret of the Golden Buddha). It's a semi-autobiographical movie based Yamashita's Gold rumored stolen during World War II and hidden in various caves and other locations throughout Southeast Asia. These treasures were stored and encased in Golden Buddha statues. So I looked up the movie online and remembered the actor playing the lead role. I don't remember much of his other movies, but I mistook him for another actor who played the son of the devil in another Filipino movie. I also looked up that movie online. This movie came out in 1989 and I thought it was one of the scariest movies I've seen. Then again, I was 5 and I haven't seen It.
Much of what I remember from the Philippines were bits and pieces before I was 1 years old, to my childhood and graduating primary school in the 6th grade. It's weird how random things just open a can of worms in my head. I also remembered the lead actor and the lead actress in the movie, but I didn't want to continue going down this rabbit hole if I wanted to get some sleep tonight.
This will probably the last of my Assassin's Creed Rogue videos. I recorded several locations that looked nice in the game. You can see the day and night cycle of the game in action. I've had fun making these videos.
The North Atlantic is the biggest location in the game. It's mostly water and several islands, inlets, and forts. There are ice sheets and icebergs in the northern part. Circling the whole place took around 22 minutes, 10 minutes more than sailing around the River Valley portion of the game.
Back on the Hudson Valley again during the Seven Years war. This time, swam from the top right point to the bottom left point of the map at Mount Vernon. When I started swimming, I lost my bearings and kept swimming forward, following the open waters and trying to reach the cursor according to the mini map. I ended up taking a longer route.
The swimming speed was the fastest in water outside of ships. I could have waded through the river the whole time, but that would have been twice as long. There's a link on the video if you want to watch the full length version instead of the time lapse video, if you want a challenge. I don't really recommended it, but it let's you gauge actual speed in the game.
One of the locations in Assassin's Creed Rogue is 1758 New York City. This is colonial times New York City during the Seven Years War. It's much smaller in scale than the real life counterpart, but it gives you a glimpse of what the architecture and the people were back in the day. I was able to run from the southernmost fort towards the wall in the north in 4 minutes and 15 seconds. My walking speed is roughly 3 times slower at 11 minutes 33 seconds.
A previous game in the series, Assassin's Creed 3, was set several years before the Thirteen Colonies won their independence from the British. It also featured New York City, including the ruins of the Great Fire of New York in 1776, which occurred in the west side at the southern end of Manhattan. This version of New York City in the game was much larger. I'll have to make a video and compare the running and walking distance.
I play many open world games with beautiful scenery, backgrounds, environments, architectures, and all the flora and fauna relevant to the setting. I will be making a bunch of these time lapse videos in the game.
This first one is of the Hudson River Valley section of New York set in 1758 in Assassin's Creed Rogue. It's not an accurate representation of the Hudson Valley and its river during colonial times, but the game shows pockets of British and French settlers all over the valley, as well has Native American tribes.
I circled around the valley on a ship in the game from the mouth of the river to the Atlantic and back, clockwise.
Kinkaku-ji is a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan. Kinkaku-ji, which translates to "Temple of the Golden Pavilion," was constructed in 1398 CE. True to its name, the top two stories of the pavilion are covered with pure gold leaf.
It's one of three Nanoblock sets I got for $15 from an online deal earlier this year.
