Let's Play Assassin's Creed Syndicate - Late to the Party

[@annamari007]

To Johnny: Fun fact; in the Victorian era the minimum cost of a funeral was £4, so I think we can say these thugs came to work prepared.

[@misskatmay]

I think this every time you two do a video together - you have such a bloody lovely dynamic. You make me so HAPPY.

[@j.tgrooms]

You guys make every game you play fun! Keep these vids comin'!

[@boomxhakalaca3660]

Aoife, I think you're likely to enjoy the game even more after the tutorial with the added dynamic of higher level areas, proper open world, better weapons, guest characters & side quests etc. The strict narrative of the tutorial makes the controls feel clunkier than they are. In the larger world the issues, though present, are less noticeable

[@wwaxwork]

Need to do a late to the Party for Black Flag. Sailing the ship & singing shanties is amazing fun.

[@granthor8873]

My mate who's just started playing it took some real persuading to stick with it. Getting to "drive" your own boat and having free reign over where you go doesn't happen until surprisingly far into the game - given LTTP videos always seem to involve the first hour or so, I worry they might not see the best bit of it if they stick with the standard format?

[@dominateeye]

Assassin's Creed Syndicate, aka Stop! Stop! He's Already Dead: The Videogame

[@hansofkrieg8022]

Love late to the party and im currently watching all youre Previous late to the party video's

[@Gemstone876]

Same, it's like a walk through the ages.

[@vindicare9915]

Loved Syndicate, but I came to it late as well due to Assassin’s Creed fatigue. Evie is one of my favourite Assassins, she’s like a Victorian Lara Croft (plus she looks super cute in the goth outfit)

[@TheEvilAspirin]

I must be one of the few who actually likes the present day stuff. It's the thread that ties the series together. The whole reason why they're looking at the past lives in the Animus is to find Pieces of Eden for the war between the Assassins and the Templar Order in the present day. It's also really frustrating that the Juno storyline got completely removed and shoved in a comic. Not a fan of how the series has changed recently. Don't get me started on Odyssey and the multiple endings. How does a historical event have multiple endings?!?

[@Seraphiel123]

Wait, they resolved the Juno story arc in a comic?! Fuck sake, I had been wondering what happened with that and why it hadn't ever been referenced again in the later games!

[@darkjackel8608]

"Magnificent Chest Ahead." You should see her in her fight club outfit... 😁 Thanks for all your hard work! 😄

[@samdilks9516]

"with breasts the size..." "...of a tangerine" killed me, i'm dead and aoife and johnny are the culprits. im writing this from hell. the wifi''s pretty good here actually

[@christophermcarthur6943]

Did anyone else do a double take when Ubisoft said at E3 that in AC: Odyssey you can play as a female for the first time in an AC game? I mean, have they forgotten Evie?

[@Hedvigu]

What, they said that? Oh my God lol.

[@christophermcarthur6943]

Hedvig Yup! kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4TaZ32bfcyYZ7s Go to 40 seconds in

[@triforcegaming2678]

Have they forgotten Liberation?

[@Woodthorn]

Perhaps they meant that you have the option of playing a woman throughout a whole main series game? Unlike Syndicate where Evie shares the role of main character, and Liberation which isn't part of the main series. Could also be that they hecked up.

[@christophermcarthur6943]

Woodthorn It’s possible, and (truthfully) likely that’s what they meant, but the wording isn’t entirely clear. And honestly, I wouldn’t put it past them to make that mistake. It’s Ubisoft, after all.

[@errorDemonGod]

This is my personal favourite Assassin's Creed. I wish they had made more set in the Victorian period before they changed genres. I'm not a fan of the new direction that Origin's has taken the franchise. It plays like a game that has added a few Assassin's Creed elements, rather than an Assassin's Creed game with added elements. I literally went back to playing Syndicate (which I've spent over 100 hours in and still not finished.) after pottering around on the lake and visiting the Pyramids for a bit. It's a great game, but not something that I want to play when I think of playing Assassin's Creed. You should definitely play Black Flag as a Late to the Party, if only for Johnny's singing of the shanties and nautical titbits.

[@deonalecsteichen5941]

Aoife at 16:30: "Go down. No, not that!" was my exact experience playing this game for the first time 😂

[@JoeDP25]

The Unity-Syndicate phase of AC in many ways I think came the closest to realising the potential and vision of Assassin's Creed. The cities were dense and well designed, the parkour was the best it's been, they had a dedicated stealth mode, the combat was a good balance of challenging and slick (especially Unity) and the assassination missions were open and challenging to pull off smoothly. Not without their problems certainly, and Unity on release was unacceptable, but underappreciated nonetheless.

[@mashaelalanzi9607]

I’ve always thought that! Glad someone agrees. I’m kinda sad to see AC stray off and feel different. Wish they’d put it on hold until they figure it out.

[@kadartcostumes9842]

Syndicate was truly a great game …. very underappreciated imo.

[@noleo23]

the story really suck though

[@marielyne3115]

KADArt Cosplay Agreed!

[@laterkater4213]

Agreed!

[@metalcore_love]

Very true! It's one of my favorites tbh. 4, syndicate, and 3 are my tops

[@FistOfFiori]

Yeah, despite some repetitive activities, I really liked it!

[@jellybingus416]

This is quite possibly my favorite video from Eurogamer to date. Hilarious commentary by the duo and one of my favorite games ever!

[@hoolus9004]

I loved syndicate

[@HDeppix101]

I really want to play Syndicate

[@calumbeattie5337]

Johnny is totally the expert on how gravity works- how could he not be with all of his first hand experience?

[@emmabenton6414]

*endless screaming* I loved this game so much! It really didn't get the attention it deserved after the buggy mess that was Unity XP I could understand why people were iffy about it after that though. Jacob is my favorite but Evie is brutal AF.

[@julsmelrose]

The British was strong in this episode and it was awesome!

[@The-Underbaker]

I like the Assassin's Creed series, I just wish it didn't have all the present-day Animus bollocks!

[@AzureRath97]

I just wish the franchise wasn't annualised.

[@gavdothie669]

Wait, wait, wait... you said that templar fella looked like Dick Kickens, a reference to an episode that hasn't been released yet... Have you made Dick Kickens your character in Bloodbourne!?

[@jellybingus416]

Gav Dothie that's my thinking as well.

[@eurogamer]

WHO CAN POSSIBLY SAY

[@rizkyanandita8227]

Apparently they did.

[@nightcatarts]

I've never been able to tuck a hood away inside a coat with anything resembling style or panache. I'm going to assume there's some form of elasticated truss involved here..

[@LodenVor]

Given their limited access to processed sugars compared with members of the upper class, poor individuals at the time would've actually had better teeth, if not necessarily well aligned, than their wealthier counterparts.

[@d0natr0n47]

And here in today's "History via Animus" lesson,​ we learn the origins of the insult 'ya melt' used colloquially in East London to this day.

[@SbVl15lv]

At 0:30, I think you meant Oranges, Aoife

[@DevilboyScooby]

You two could play a game about watching paint dry and still make it unmissable entertainment.

[@laterkater4213]

Syndicate was my first AC game and I flipping loved it. Never understood the dismissiveness most people seemed to treat it with.

[@sensoeirensen]

It was also my first AC game and I absolutely loved it!

[@marielyne3115]

First minute in and I can almost feel the pain of Johnny after learning Aoife never played Black Flag, trying to keep himself from suggesting they play that one instead. :)

[@eurogamer]

It was not easy

[@markrook4173]

AC Syndicate was my second favourite from the franchise. Black Flag being my favourite. It’s a pirate game with AC mechanics.

[@Hedvigu]

Oh, same here! 🙋

[@markrook4173]

🙋

[@tadhgryan9398]

30:31 Loved the Firefly reference!

[@Gemstone876]

YES, we're in for so many cockney accents. Feels like this game was made for you two to play.EDIT: Victorian London child is my favourite.

[@rickardprime]

I’m so glad Johnny mentioned how sped up the combat is, it really annoyed me when I played Syndicate and no one else seemed to talk about it.

[@adamcarroll123]

I love how they are going on about how it takes multiple hits to take someone out and I understand why cause of the old games where it was counter kill repeat but it does take multiple hits to actually knock someone out no matter how strong you are or how hard you hit them or how well trained you are it's gonna take a few hits

[@Hedvigu]

I totally enjoyed Syndicate. Some tideous and repetetive missions and the story could have been more fleshed out but, I liked it. Also, loved the Queen.

[@RonnieBarzel]

Syndicate had probably my favorite "No, this can't be happening!" moment of the series. (Without spoilers: the thing near the Thames.)

[@Tsentralnaya]

I woulda watched this Late to the Party so much sooner had I known Aoife and Johnny were gonna do all these wonderful accents. Magnificent b'ys.

[@edog2504]

AC: Syndicate is in my top 2 AC Games. I played 99% of the game as Jacob with a Kukri. Also if you leave multiple enemies in a ‘near death’ state you can do special kill moves, 2 to 4 of them need to be highlighted in a yellow outline.

[@boomxhakalaca3660]

I'm shocked that when Evie walked over to the lift Aoife didnt say something along the lines of "look at her wee sassy walk", click her fingers and tell COME THROUUUUUGH!

[@dab198]

Definitely one of my favourites of the franchise.

[@kimnicaro3496]

I played all of Syndicate, from start to finish, and I never noticed there is an animation for putting the hood on and off. How did I not notice that??

[@abi_rose]

you just reminded me that i still need to finish this game lmao

[@alphamike87]

The meltyhead bit sounds like it would be a weird doll adults would get, like those dead looking bear dolls you can get. lol

[@MozilloGames]

Oh my! Johnny and I went to the same university! Except, doing Biochemistry, I was mainly on Guy's Campus and the Waterloo campus. The Strand was mostly used for drinking.

[@eurogamer]

That's funny, we mostly drank in Guy's bar! It was nearer to home though, to be fair...

[@MozilloGames]

For us, few people in the Fencing Soc liked the idea of drinking underground in a basement. Which is actually really cool and they were all wrong.

[@thecastawaydc]

Love the little Firefly reference from Miss Wilson! :)

[@hansofkrieg8022]

My Saturday morning game was the dead island games for a while but now its skyrim

[@gideonhenstra1049]

I have finished this game like two or three times. the atmosphere was lovely

[@garbuckle3000]

This is the first and only AC game I've ever played. I'm a sucker for period London, and Evie being easy to look at was a bonus as well ;) None of the other AC games before or since have interested me.

[@heydukewhatup]

OMG your puns and jokes are so funny! Diseasevey @1:12:29 cracked me up!

[@takeovergaming35]

Yeah

[@IndecisiveStoner]

I love that "My name's Aoife...' is all Johnny has to say lmao

[@thierryfux7318]

I love the way Aoife keeps on complaining about how bad a mechanic is until she gets it and figures out that they are not that bad at all :)

[@DevilboyScooby]

35:19 Cape Beckinsale?

[@Scimarad]

I was watching this thinking "Are they going to kill every single enemy?" I just sneak past most of them...

[@sensoeirensen]

I hope WD3 will be set in london too! I absolutely LOVE london! Greetz from Switzerland

[@Fredurix]

Nice Grimlock in the background!

[@montaigneb5187]

1:04:10 - "New, from Eurogamer and Apple: The I-Goo. We don't know what it does, but it probably hits people in the d**k."

[@robin_5099]

Didn’t realise you were a KCL man Johny. I graduated from LSE couple days ago. 🙂

[@atgosh]

32:30 This what the Punchline song is about, yeah?

[@RCGamingGuides]

Nice let´s play this, as per usual. Always good banter and humor going on as well. 🙂 About the game? Well I have been wanting to get back into this series for a long time. Good thing about the xbox live thing is that at this point a large sum of these games have been given out and can be enjoyed via the BC-system. Might be a good time to start working through the series.

[@AngelBeatYunara]

You're making me want to reinstall Syndicate now!

[@j.doveyakamarvelousjacketm9823]

£2,000 in 1868 is work more than £22,000 now. They're walking around with enough for a deposit on a small house

[@leekalba]

I'd watch a let's play of this.

[@toastybread0413]

Did nobody take notice of that one civilian that merged with the wall in 16:36?

[@natashaparsadayan806]

Love her!!!! Fellow Gamer chick!!! 👏🏻🙌🏻🤗

[@boomxhakalaca3660]

41:20 Smoke Bob-ombs and Knives? What is this, Scott Pilgrim!? (I know it's Sex Bobomb)

[@BEEateMAN]

After all the comments about the over done kill animations, I’m sad you didn’t get to see the ones where she takes up 2, 3, or 4 enemies at the same time haha

[@newera_1303]

Everyone in the US IS Irish! so i can assure you that they werent suprised to see one!

[@DirkCjelli42]

Bloodborne Let's Play Monday confirmed!?

[@granthor8873]

Screw Bloodbourne, play through this!

[@stephenthomas00]

Seriously, where does johnny get his fancy boots from?

[@fightlancefight8025]

48:45 Jeezus.

[@ChevaliersEmeraude]

Syndicate is my favorite Assassin's Creed game! Although I think Odyssey's gonna beat that! ^_^

[@kaizoaudio1798]

Syndicate has my favorite setting, but some of the controls and mechanics get a bit janky.

[@UnsafeTuna]

Get mad all you like, this one was my favourite assassin’s creed

[@KyleS.1987]

The Great Stabtini

[@Professorofmagicalcreatures]

Syndicate was a fun game but I didn't upgrade my the characters and I still finish the final boss very easy game

[@shivamib]

'ello mate! watch this!

[@earthlybump4843]

Duurgaron spotted at 1:00:17

[@astraldragon01]

LOL that was one of the stupid hang over that Origoin got rid of, you need a hood to hide as an assassin

[@VenomousClaw]

I'm unsure how a 'bob' is 12 pence, but in Yorkshire '10 bob' is 50p. Maybe we Yorkshire people just don't understand maths haha

[@nightcatarts]

I suppose 12 bob being 1 nicker equates to 20 bob being a quid when you convert to metric.. It's closer to 10p than 5, but then you've got to adjust for inflation.

[@d2factotum]

I'm sure Syndicate is a good game (never played it myself), but you should totally have done Black Flag since Aoife hasn't played that one either...

[@Hedvigu]

More to look forward to!

[@HollowMux]

I hope they go back to og ac formula rather than the new Witcher one

[@ElectroTherapyFTSoul]

Am I seriously a minority in that I like Assassin's Creed to be... Assassin's Creed? i.e. I love the modern-ish day stuff? It's not Assassin's Creed without it!

[@jongarrad5647]

This... is a torrent of filth. The children were bad enough, but thigh rubs for two noses? IMPROPER. One might even say LEWD.

[@Dunbarius]

E L L O M A T E

[@MrZombie999]

Back when I was a wee nipper a Bob was 50p

[@colinrafferty4697]

Actually a bob was a shilling 12d old money (5p Decimal) 10 bob was 120d (50p Decimal) 20 Shillings to the £

[@sergeantbigmac]

Wow I really dont remember the controls being this janky! Good lord the "magnet into objects" is infuriating just to watch happening to someone else let alone when playing.

[@deadpeasant13]

Black flag late to the party please!

[@vaninda1751]

kinda looks like aoife has never played an assassins creed game =\

[@lukethespook4361]

While I did enjoy Syndicate, I was really bothered by the fact that you could switch between Evie's and Jacobs memory, because this requires the existance of a descendant with both Evie's AND Jacobs DNA, which would imply that Evie and Jacob had children together (eww). :(

[@TheEvilAspirin]

Mr.Chad Not necessarily. The descendant could be someone born say 4 generations later, who had Evie as a great great grandmother on their mum's side of the family and Jacob as a great great grandfather on their dad's side of the family. That'll allow the family line to converge back again to have them as common ancestors.

[@crazymelodies2266]

It doesn't necessarily imply that Evie and Jacob had children together, it could have been some distant related cousins who had children together, it happens. My parents didn't even realise that they were distant cousins until the wedding when they realised that there were some family members that they both knew.

[@darkjackel8608]

Well, or maybe they pulled a Jurassic Park, and used frog genetic materials to splice in Jacob's memories. 😝

[@kimnicaro3496]

From what I remember, you're not actually using a single individual's DNA in Syndicate, you're using a database of multiple people's genomes. So all that means is that both Jacob and Evie had descendants, not that those descendants are the same.

[@pearse1072]

This is really creepy for me coz I just bought the exit collection today

[@levelupbonus9824]

How About Jason station

[@Rithysak101]

Don't see Chris lately!

[@mrteeeeeeee]

UnWantedNightMARES ...joking?

[@Rithysak101]

Mr. T. No I haven't been up to date. What's happening?

[@mrteeeeeeee]

UnWantedNightMARES Well he quit a few weeks ago and started his own channel based on his here is a thing series. Forgot the name...people make games, I think. It's quite nice!

[@nescirian]

guybrush threequid

[@triforcegaming2678]

Syndicate was better than Origins.

[@josha5933]

Please play unity at some point , they fixed most of the bugs and even though most people seem to hate it a large portion of the fanbase agrees it's one of the best

[@pedroburgos3330]

Josh A im curious... What makes unity as good as you say it is. Ive never played it but am willing to give it a chance if its as good as you say it is.

[@pedroburgos3330]

Btw ive played ac 2 - ac bf. I stopped because i was just tired of the same thing over and over

[@kimnicaro3496]

I really enjoyed the gameplay of Unity (I played it quite early after release, but I was lucky and hardly ran into any bugs), but I never really found Arno particularly engaging as a player character, and I felt that most of the story was rather boring. If a cutscene half way through the game dramatically zooms in on the bad guy you've been chasing for three missions and your primary reaction is "wait, who was that again?", the game failed at telling its story. That said, the gameplay is great, and Paris is just amazing.

[@al3j4ndro11]

It’s nothing to write home about. The combat is way worse and slow, the story is just a mess and everyone has English accents for some reason. The streets are littered with people and the buildings are tall af it’s a chore to get around anywhere. The game is just flawed to the core even with the bugs fixed it’s just mediocre at best.

[@josha5933]

al3j4ndro11 counter argument: combat feels methodical and is beautifully animated, crowded streets encourage parkour which is the best system in the series

[@TheEgregious1]

I'm not certain either of you have ever been in an actual, "someone is trying to seriously end your life and you need to stop them or you might very well die" type situation, but I would assume not based on your criticisms of how much it was taking to bring enemies down. Generally, it takes quite a bit to bring someone with even a small amount of experience down in a regular scrap where it's more roughhousing than anything, it takes CONSIDERABLY more when you're actively trying to hurt someone enough that they are physically are unable to retaliate, and I would assume it takes even more to actually beat someone to death. You're skeptical that 6 punches and a couple knees are really necessary? Maybe in some cases it is, but as a rule, that won't stop someone who's committed to hurting you. I mean, if you could kill someone in 7-8 punches we'd have a LOT more crimes of passion across the world. Also, while some of Jacob and Evie's finishers are SUPER excessive, there were some that Johnny was ragging on that were as simple as a hit to the head and then a throat cut. What's excessive about that? Again, these are people trying to kill you. You can't leave them subdued to get up later and bring friends or hamstring you when you're engaging someone else, and hitting someone with what is essentially a big stick 6 times or so isn't going to finish the job permanently most of the time. The majority of Jacob and Evie's finishers are a couple hits on a disoriented enemy and then a coup de grace to actually finish the job, which is exactly what you would do in the situation.

[@nightcatarts]

There's a frickin' sword cane! If you start with a stab or slash with one of those, all the extra punches probably shouldn't be necessary except to remind them to fall down.

[@TheEgregious1]

Yeah, and that's why from stealth it only takes 1-2 slashes to kill. But when someone sees that you have a weapon they typically prioritize defending against it above pretty much all else. You think one slash or stab in the middle of the fight is gonna bring someone down, just like that? Likely not, people regularly survive stabbings long enough to get help or fight back, which was a key part of comment. You can't stab someone once or twice in a fight and then decide, "Yeah, he's PROBABLY not a threat anymore". The finishers do exactly what they sound like: finish the job. Otherwise you're in a fight, you get a good stab to the abdomen and the guy goes down and eventually dies. Does he die immediately? Very good chance that he doesn't. He'll die eventually, sure, but if you decide he's not worth your trouble and leave him he's got time to alert his friends, or potentially attack you when your back is turned.