For anyone that haven't give Deathtroopers the audio book a go do it! The book itself is great but what they did with sound effects etc for the audiobook just turns the scary/creepyness up to 11, it mixes in some real Deadspacey hivemind vibes with a pinch of The Thing and zombies ft some good new and classic SW characters.
@@rolandarriaga1295 I went checking again and the real audiobook used to be available but guess it has been taken down can only find a few separate chapters uploaded of it now other than that I can only find a fan reading sadly :c I'll remove the part about it being on youtube from the original comment. Just google Death Troopers Audiobook and you'll find the real one on all the usual audiobook services.
Got the audiobook during Halloween month to listen at work one time. The complete 180 on my emotions when walking back home still wracks my nerves to this day, it's an absolute must have.
I picked up the book this is based on on a whim back in high school. Thought “Oh, Star Wars with zombies, this’ll be fun.”…When the book describes prisoners placing bags over their heads to kill themselves once the outbreak happens, followed swiftly by Wookiees with their tongue so swollen they burst out of their throats, that’s when I knew it was a different beast.
davis is right: in star wars theres almost never blood spray because everyone is using lasers and lightsabers. i feel like a big budget deathtroopers could make a big deal out of that
There's a whole bunch of star wars cryptids that are really cool. Like the ghosts that live in hyper space and eat force users, nothing can properly hurt them so nothing stands a chance. It's crazy to think that there are "natural" things that could have just killed vader and there's nothing he could have done.
the comic Alex is referring to is Star Wars Tales which was an anthology comic from Dark Horse which had a bunch of different stories that varied wildly in tone. In addition to the Apocalypse Now version of Endor he mentioned, there's also one where Chewy and Han warp to Earth by accident and implies that Chewy is the inspiration for the Sasquatch and one of my personal favorites, Skippy the Jedi Droid. They are a lot of fun and definitely worth taking a look into.
I saw this earlier today, and am stoked to see there's already a SGS video for it. When he said "there was a time when everything was zombies, like 2009," I was like, yeah, that's when the Deathroopers book came out. It's straight from the middle of that era.
Casually suffocating while not being able to see shit through your helmet visor; flying through the black expanse of space. Gives me the feeling that somehow this guy got drafted and was just having a really bad first day at work.
I'd kill for a big budget Deathtrooper game. Ever since I first discovered it years ago, I wanted a game where you investigate an abandoned Star Destroyer and inevitably run into zombie Stormtroopers. It's such a cool premise.
@@clarkmichaels822 You can say that about many things, to the point that it's barely criticism. Like how for the longest time, people considered any FPS game as being derivative of DOOM.
@@blobbem They are though, just like Doom was a derivative of Pacman, and Pacman a derivative of tag, and tag was a derivative of fighting for your life which again is a derivative of cell division. But I get your point.
I love that you can tell that the creator clearly loves film and the movies in general, there's a lot of care put into these cutscenes, especially the intro to The Outpost.
So I think in DT2 the reason it felt "more lethal" from further away is that there seems to be an overlap with the chest hitbox and the lower part of the head. Closer up you would be hitting the chest hitbox more often instead of the head, but at range it was easier to hit the head hitbox. The chest hitbox seems to extend a little past the model, meaning you're hitting the edge of the chest hitbox instead of the smaller head hitbox. Headshots seem to be one-shots, but it looks like it takes several chest shots to kill.
That makes total sense. I do really like the idea mechanically that enemies are harder to kill when they get closer. Your character is scared and panicking, so they miss more.
When Jesse asked if this was the plot of the book and the response from Alex was just "I don't know we have 15 years until we get there" had me rolling!! XDDD
Deathtroopers was my favorite Star Wars book as a kid. I remember after I finished it, i immediately read it again and got through it in like 2 days. I’m glad it seems to be getting more and more traction
I didn't even see what the name of the game was -- I just saw "Scary Game Squad" and clicked as fast as humanly possible. So, the game is a surprise for me too! Oh, it's Star Wars! The EU is the best part of Star Wars
I fully forgot about the Extended Universe for a second and thought that you were saying that the European Union was your favorite thing about Star Wars.
Star Wars is the only fanbase that has people saying they like the commercially sold fanfiction that was ignored by the creator more than the actual canon 😭
Star wars helldivers and they go the imperial route. Not only did the clones have to fight robots, they fought bug and bug like species both feral and intelligent
What If Star Wars -> Star Wars Infinities. Retells each of the original three movies as if one detail changed, causing the story to spiral in a different direction. In Return of the Jedi, they end up not meeting the Ewoks on Endor, so when the Rebels and Empire are fighting on the ground at the end, the Ewoks savagely attack *both* sides. Good stuff.
@@DrAustinSauce I'm talking about an actual comic that came out in the early 2000's. I don't need to write it because it already exists! 12 total issues, 4 each for ANH, Empire, and Jedi. And they're exactly that, butterfly effect stories where stuff goes off the rails. And they're separate stories (the Empire comic follows the movie ANH, not the events of the ANH Infinities comic, likewise Jedi follows the first two movies, and not either Infinity comic story), so you can read them in any order. There are trade paperbacks that collect the 4 issues from the same film, and I think a big one that collects the whole thing, but they might be hard/expensive to find. But they're great reads. Fun spins on the films we all know and love. I've always thought it was a shame they never did more for the prequels once they finished releasing (the comics came out between Ep 1 and 2).
I heard it immediately. At the 3:35 mark the sounds of the doors opening and closing are taken from the best star wars story/game ever made. That is the sound from KotOR when opening a container. Nice touch of the developers.
Davis calling people who think stormtroopers have bad aim casuals while also forgetting that we see blood in A New Hope when Obi-wan chops off that dudes arm in the cantina. Who's the real casual, Davis?
You guys ever read Galaxy of Fear? They were like a Star Wars kids series that was horror themed, like a Star Wars Goosebumps in the 90s. I've been trying to find those for years.
This is, in fact, not the plot of the book. But it is *super* neat. I would kill for a properly made deathtroopers game. (With a bit more care and attention to canon detail to enhance the experience) The book also has an old republic prequel called Red Harvest. You should also read that
Im fucking obsessed with Death Trooper and Red Harvest. Its so fucking.... neat. I dont wanna spoil the books because i want other people to read them but they are just so... they feel so star wars
So it's going to be like a decade before you get to Deathtroopers at the rate Book Club is going, but in a year or two, you'll get to Galaxy of Terror. Which was a series of Books the Star Wars brand made to capitalize on the popularity of Goosebumps. Never read of them myself, but I heard they get weird. Like everything in Legends.
Such fun timing. I finished a sketch of a zombie stormtrooper the other day. Have always loved the concept and wish there was more to enjoy! Glad you guys checked out the games!
29:15 when they use AI TTS in a game (fair dues, who got time and money to hire acting for a free game?). But forget to type in "35, 78" with a comma to get it to say it properly as a human would. God i love seeing the fingerprints of the dev in these smol games.
Imagine your lasts moments as one of those stormtroopers and the last thing you hear are those Ewoks feasting on you while the Yub Nub song plays in the background. This was a pretty nice game. With a bit more polish and more main story beats where you play as aliens or other characters (legally distinct lightsabers *wink *wink) this can definitely end up as a great fan game.
Mannn.... Disney has really dropped the ball on so many potential great star wars games and shows... Rogue One and the Cassian Andor show really are the best things they've given us.
i didnt know about deathtroopers, this is so cool i agree! this got me thinking, you actually could do a star wars dead space for real. even for a jedi it would be a major shock to know that cutting a necromorph in half doesnt kill it immediately. plus the idea of a necromorph sith would be pretty hard to deal with
I watch these a month or so late, so im commenting to make sure more SGS videos keep coming out! (I am behind so i can see there been more sgs videos 😂)
Every time people talk about the aim of Stormtroopers I recall the time someone counted shots and hits in all the movies and found that they on average have higher accuracy than actual modern soldiers do. We simply get the impression their aim is bad due to clearly seeing every shot that misses, which we largely don't really do with contemporary guns.
So... unrelated to the video, but I got a random thought watching the craziness on screen. Have you considered playing Fear and Hunger for SGS? I think it would be beautifully chaotic.
There was a bunch of Clone Wars episodes that were kinda zombie-oriented, tho instead of the virus/plague zombies, those were Geonosian mind-control parasite zombies.
I swear to God it looks like the cutscenes for the second game are made using Lionhead's The Movies with mods. I played the shit out of that game as a kid and made so many horror movies in it, and the scenes used here are giving me massive flashbacks lmao.
That ship had to have gotten hit by like, the radiation of a solar flare or something filled w radiation to cause it to get that effed up without being shredded. Or it was an old ship on Endor and rusted with exposure to the elements? idk that was weird lol part i dont kno if it was thought through
The Ewoking Dead.
Yub yuhhhh*slobber*
Zombiewoks
Well done.
It all started cuz someone fucked an Ewok
For anyone that haven't give Deathtroopers the audio book a go do it! The book itself is great but what they did with sound effects etc for the audiobook just turns the scary/creepyness up to 11, it mixes in some real Deadspacey hivemind vibes with a pinch of The Thing and zombies ft some good new and classic SW characters.
I'd their a specific one ? If so can you link it here
@@rolandarriaga1295 I went checking again and the real audiobook used to be available but guess it has been taken down can only find a few separate chapters uploaded of it now other than that I can only find a fan reading sadly :c I'll remove the part about it being on youtube from the original comment. Just google Death Troopers Audiobook and you'll find the real one on all the usual audiobook services.
I've read the book, was a pretty good time.
Got the audiobook during Halloween month to listen at work one time.
The complete 180 on my emotions when walking back home still wracks my nerves to this day, it's an absolute must have.
Thanks for the recommendation! Is it a standalone book?
I picked up the book this is based on on a whim back in high school. Thought “Oh, Star Wars with zombies, this’ll be fun.”…When the book describes prisoners placing bags over their heads to kill themselves once the outbreak happens, followed swiftly by Wookiees with their tongue so swollen they burst out of their throats, that’s when I knew it was a different beast.
davis is right: in star wars theres almost never blood spray because everyone is using lasers and lightsabers. i feel like a big budget deathtroopers could make a big deal out of that
There's a whole bunch of star wars cryptids that are really cool. Like the ghosts that live in hyper space and eat force users, nothing can properly hurt them so nothing stands a chance. It's crazy to think that there are "natural" things that could have just killed vader and there's nothing he could have done.
the comic Alex is referring to is Star Wars Tales which was an anthology comic from Dark Horse which had a bunch of different stories that varied wildly in tone. In addition to the Apocalypse Now version of Endor he mentioned, there's also one where Chewy and Han warp to Earth by accident and implies that Chewy is the inspiration for the Sasquatch and one of my personal favorites, Skippy the Jedi Droid. They are a lot of fun and definitely worth taking a look into.
I can tell Davis has been playing Helldivers 2 when he immediately goes into a crouch when he starts shooting.
I saw this earlier today, and am stoked to see there's already a SGS video for it. When he said "there was a time when everything was zombies, like 2009," I was like, yeah, that's when the Deathroopers book came out. It's straight from the middle of that era.
No wonder the guy crashed, wearing a Stormtrooper armor in a tie fighter.. He probably couldn't breathe!
Casually suffocating while not being able to see shit through your helmet visor; flying through the black expanse of space. Gives me the feeling that somehow this guy got drafted and was just having a really bad first day at work.
I'd kill for a big budget Deathtrooper game. Ever since I first discovered it years ago, I wanted a game where you investigate an abandoned Star Destroyer and inevitably run into zombie Stormtroopers. It's such a cool premise.
Is it? Is it not contrived and derivative of any other zombie story, except with stormtroopers?
@@clarkmichaels822 shhhhh, let people enjoy things
@@clarkmichaels822 You can say that about many things, to the point that it's barely criticism. Like how for the longest time, people considered any FPS game as being derivative of DOOM.
@@blobbem They are though, just like Doom was a derivative of Pacman, and Pacman a derivative of tag, and tag was a derivative of fighting for your life which again is a derivative of cell division. But I get your point.
@@LordSenile Well yeah, I ain't denying that these things are derivative. The point is "who cares if it is derivative? If it's fun, it's fun."
I was literally listening to red harvest and death troopers. Get out of my walls 😭
never.☺
Is Red Harvest any good? I remember dropping it at the beginning and haven't gone back to it. Is it worth revisiting?
@@hippymad1 It's alright but Death Troopers is so much better
@@hippymad1 yes.
You know it's gonna be good when Jesse doesn't tell the Squad what they're playing beforehand
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The bad lady almost get me part had me rolling. I think I've heard him tell that story before, but holy crap that is so funny.
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I love that you can tell that the creator clearly loves film and the movies in general, there's a lot of care put into these cutscenes, especially the intro to The Outpost.
One thing I loved in the old Eu was the idea of Sith magic stuff, like cursed amulets and diseases and monsters, lots of weird dark side experiments
I mean, I’m pretty sure there’s a lot of that stuff in the new canon, too. It’s just in comics and stuff.
So I think in DT2 the reason it felt "more lethal" from further away is that there seems to be an overlap with the chest hitbox and the lower part of the head. Closer up you would be hitting the chest hitbox more often instead of the head, but at range it was easier to hit the head hitbox. The chest hitbox seems to extend a little past the model, meaning you're hitting the edge of the chest hitbox instead of the smaller head hitbox. Headshots seem to be one-shots, but it looks like it takes several chest shots to kill.
That makes total sense. I do really like the idea mechanically that enemies are harder to kill when they get closer. Your character is scared and panicking, so they miss more.
Spoken like a true gamer. That's some cool insight!
fun fact: the jewelry district in downtown LA primarily uses 3d printing for prototyping, its essential in order to create new molds
I don't know why Davis was so disappointed at the end, he was clearly still on first hook, just gotta wait to be rescued.
When Jesse asked if this was the plot of the book and the response from Alex was just "I don't know we have 15 years until we get there" had me rolling!! XDDD
10:59 Alex never fails to make me laugh my ass off.
Deathtroopers was my favorite Star Wars book as a kid. I remember after I finished it, i immediately read it again and got through it in like 2 days. I’m glad it seems to be getting more and more traction
This is such a love letter to the fun of starwars fan made stuff, and all the extra old canon stuff disney axed. So awesome
I didn't even see what the name of the game was -- I just saw "Scary Game Squad" and clicked as fast as humanly possible. So, the game is a surprise for me too!
Oh, it's Star Wars! The EU is the best part of Star Wars
Hell yeah a fellow EU fan!
I fully forgot about the Extended Universe for a second and thought that you were saying that the European Union was your favorite thing about Star Wars.
@@Ray-Hearts-You lol
Star Wars is the only fanbase that has people saying they like the commercially sold fanfiction that was ignored by the creator more than the actual canon 😭
@@MRDLT00 Oh, you like the European Union too? 😋
The clip is from the video game Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green, an actually decent tie-in game with the Romero film Land of the Dead.
The SGS and SWOCBC crossover we've all been waiting for.
So cool Jesse was able to dupe… I mean borrow his friends from the SWOCBC to play games with him
Any day that has a new Scary Game Squad video is a good day. Such an underrated series.
The Death Troopers book is SO good and this nailed the atmosphere! Joe Scheiber is such a good writer. I hope they make Red Harvest too
FINALLY! Someone else acknowledges the stormtrooper aim being a ploy
This really was awesome, loved the sequel reveal, you can hear the excitement, haha.
Star wars helldivers and they go the imperial route. Not only did the clones have to fight robots, they fought bug and bug like species both feral and intelligent
What If Star Wars -> Star Wars Infinities. Retells each of the original three movies as if one detail changed, causing the story to spiral in a different direction. In Return of the Jedi, they end up not meeting the Ewoks on Endor, so when the Rebels and Empire are fighting on the ground at the end, the Ewoks savagely attack *both* sides. Good stuff.
Homie, that is such a simple augment, but with a lot of butterfly effect implications. Write a short (or long) book, please 😅 I'd read it
@@DrAustinSauce I'm talking about an actual comic that came out in the early 2000's. I don't need to write it because it already exists! 12 total issues, 4 each for ANH, Empire, and Jedi. And they're exactly that, butterfly effect stories where stuff goes off the rails. And they're separate stories (the Empire comic follows the movie ANH, not the events of the ANH Infinities comic, likewise Jedi follows the first two movies, and not either Infinity comic story), so you can read them in any order. There are trade paperbacks that collect the 4 issues from the same film, and I think a big one that collects the whole thing, but they might be hard/expensive to find.
But they're great reads. Fun spins on the films we all know and love. I've always thought it was a shame they never did more for the prequels once they finished releasing (the comics came out between Ep 1 and 2).
45:46 i love how, pause the video, the water drop sprites are upside down.
Its nice to see Davis excited about Star Wars
I heard it immediately. At the 3:35 mark the sounds of the doors opening and closing are taken from the best star wars story/game ever made. That is the sound from KotOR when opening a container. Nice touch of the developers.
This is by far my favorite Star Wars book, I’m so glad they made a game, and even happier that I get to see you guys play it!
I hope Jesse gets to the book soon , on his Star Wars EU book club.
Hi Jessie! My wife and I love watching y'all when we are zonked out of our mine. You guys bring us so much joy!
Davis calling people who think stormtroopers have bad aim casuals while also forgetting that we see blood in A New Hope when Obi-wan chops off that dudes arm in the cantina. Who's the real casual, Davis?
I never even thought about how a zombie Star Wars scenario would go, this is fucking cool
You guys ever read Galaxy of Fear? They were like a Star Wars kids series that was horror themed, like a Star Wars Goosebumps in the 90s.
I've been trying to find those for years.
I love the dynamic between you guys, always entertaining
My day just got better. Thanks SGS! I always feel like I am saying Star Gate when it type SGS
i had NO IDEA this was a thing???? oh my god
it´s such a cool concept!
This is 100% the perfect game series for these 3
THREE uploads in one day??? Oh my goodness, what a day!
My Dude you are popping off today!! Thank you so much for these amazing videos!!!
20:56 the Ewok-ing Dead! I'll see myself out.
The second i saw Ewok Zombies i'm like "NOPE!"
reminds me of the republic commando Ghost Ship.
I remember reading this years ago and it was one of my favorite Star Wars novels of all time.
Really fun to watch the gang play Deathtroopers. May I recommend The Voidness. Its a pretty neat horror game that makes use of Lidar.
This is, in fact, not the plot of the book. But it is *super* neat.
I would kill for a properly made deathtroopers game. (With a bit more care and attention to canon detail to enhance the experience)
The book also has an old republic prequel called Red Harvest. You should also read that
Im fucking obsessed with Death Trooper and Red Harvest. Its so fucking.... neat. I dont wanna spoil the books because i want other people to read them but they are just so... they feel so star wars
But horror, obviously
One of the scariest legends books I've ever read.
So it's going to be like a decade before you get to Deathtroopers at the rate Book Club is going, but in a year or two, you'll get to Galaxy of Terror.
Which was a series of Books the Star Wars brand made to capitalize on the popularity of Goosebumps.
Never read of them myself, but I heard they get weird. Like everything in Legends.
He paid for the whole bloom, he's using the whole bloom.
Read this book so long ago, always wanted a Zombie + Star Wars game. This is so damn good.
I love you and SGS and everything about your dynamic and how you play games as a team. Never ever ever let UA-cam comments get you down.
I love that this SGS episode and the first Lego: Starwars game are my only exposure to this franchise (memes and parodies don't count).
There's blood in the very first movie! lol When Obi Wan slices that guy's arm off in the cantina scene.
Such fun timing. I finished a sketch of a zombie stormtrooper the other day. Have always loved the concept and wish there was more to enjoy! Glad you guys checked out the games!
SGS doing Starwars stuff is the bomb!
29:15 when they use AI TTS in a game (fair dues, who got time and money to hire acting for a free game?).
But forget to type in "35, 78" with a comma to get it to say it properly as a human would.
God i love seeing the fingerprints of the dev in these smol games.
Caught an AI, real humans say "3, 5, 7, 8" #CaptchaFail
I love the audiobook of death troopers, a good book. I highly recommend listening to it.
Thanks for this awesome video! SGS is always the best.
God, the bad lady almost get me bit was too funny.
This had no business being this good, what the hell haha
This is so good! I wish it was a full game that'd be awesome!
43:45 (Insert Sci-Fi Brand Here) Helldivers is a no-brainer.
Imagine your lasts moments as one of those stormtroopers and the last thing you hear are those Ewoks feasting on you while the Yub Nub song plays in the background.
This was a pretty nice game. With a bit more polish and more main story beats where you play as aliens or other characters (legally distinct lightsabers *wink *wink) this can definitely end up as a great fan game.
Mannn.... Disney has really dropped the ball on so many potential great star wars games and shows...
Rogue One and the Cassian Andor show really are the best things they've given us.
i didnt know about deathtroopers, this is so cool i agree! this got me thinking, you actually could do a star wars dead space for real. even for a jedi it would be a major shock to know that cutting a necromorph in half doesnt kill it immediately. plus the idea of a necromorph sith would be pretty hard to deal with
Maybe the Force itself warns others that some fuck shit are coming
How come everytime I see Endor I feel the need to say "Wookies don't live on Endor!"
"He is Chewbacca. He is a Wookie. He lives on Endor."
that song has always made me irrationally mad.
This looks so good, wow!
Such a good video. Posting to help the algorithm
They made a game of this book?? So glad to watch!
Star wars republic commando had a part that was pretty spooky and reminded me of this
This is topical! A friend just found this and had to throw it at me, and I hadn't gotten around to trying it myself yet. The book was fantastic.
wow is this actually going to be the push i needed to start listening to their star wars podcast 🤪🤪
I watch these a month or so late, so im commenting to make sure more SGS videos keep coming out! (I am behind so i can see there been more sgs videos 😂)
Every time people talk about the aim of Stormtroopers I recall the time someone counted shots and hits in all the movies and found that they on average have higher accuracy than actual modern soldiers do.
We simply get the impression their aim is bad due to clearly seeing every shot that misses, which we largely don't really do with contemporary guns.
this was exceptional
Scary Game Squad! Let's goooo!
42:02 I think those lines are from the Land of the Dead video game
So... unrelated to the video, but I got a random thought watching the craziness on screen. Have you considered playing Fear and Hunger for SGS? I think it would be beautifully chaotic.
There was a bunch of Clone Wars episodes that were kinda zombie-oriented, tho instead of the virus/plague zombies, those were Geonosian mind-control parasite zombies.
I never thought of Vader getting infected. But if he did, the whole Galaxy is just completely, utterly fucked.
The scares are strong with this one
I swear to God it looks like the cutscenes for the second game are made using Lionhead's The Movies with mods. I played the shit out of that game as a kid and made so many horror movies in it, and the scenes used here are giving me massive flashbacks lmao.
That ship had to have gotten hit by like, the radiation of a solar flare or something filled w radiation to cause it to get that effed up without being shredded. Or it was an old ship on Endor and rusted with exposure to the elements? idk that was weird lol part i dont kno if it was thought through
45:45
Are the raindrops upside down? That's scary...
29:00 are they your Ewokie Talkie man?
Star Wars: Infinites ...the What If? of Dark Horse Star Wars, was SO GOOD
NGL I was hoping there would be a Chewbacka jump scare at the end. Zombie Wookie out of no-whare rips your arm off and smacks you with the wet end.
you had me at deathtrooper (well and Scary Game Squad)
This was a spooky experience
The Star Wars Scary Game Old Canon Bookclub Squad
I like how all the Ewoks are Wicket.
Did they ever finish Jedi Survivor?🤔 Also, what do we think the over under is on them playing Alone in the Dark is?
Did anyone notice that in the first endor cut scene, the trooper's mask looked like it was designed after the Scream movie mask?