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.
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
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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 😭
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.
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.
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
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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 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.
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 😂)
Flashbacks of the zombie troopers event in Star Wars Galaxies. Forgot the lore behind it but was pretty cool. Edit Had to look it up and yeah it was a quest on Dathomir in a quarantined base. Also they werent as bloody but were missing the bottom part of their helmets so their teeth and jaws were showing which did have dark dried blood effects.
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.
the old Macintosh program might have just been StoryMaker, if we're talking REAL basic i think you could have rigged something like a "game" using Storybook Weaver.
Sentences I thought I'd never hear, part 3123: "He's like the Rudy Giuliani of Endor." Also hilarious, I misspelled Giuliani on the first try and autocorrect turned it into "Analingus:"
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.
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.
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
You know it's gonna be good when Jesse doesn't tell the Squad what they're playing beforehand
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."
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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.
QUICK! download it before the lawyers notice!!
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.
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
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? 😋
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!
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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).
10:59 Alex never fails to make me laugh my ass off.
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
Any day that has a new Scary Game Squad video is a good day. Such an underrated series.
The second i saw Ewok Zombies i'm like "NOPE!"
FINALLY! Someone else acknowledges the stormtrooper aim being a ploy
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.
fun fact: the jewelry district in downtown LA primarily uses 3d printing for prototyping, its essential in order to create new molds
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.
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.
One of the scariest legends books I've ever read.
This really was awesome, loved the sequel reveal, you can hear the excitement, haha.
THREE uploads in one day??? Oh my goodness, what a day!
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.
I never even thought about how a zombie Star Wars scenario would go, this is fucking cool
Its nice to see Davis excited about Star Wars
reminds me of the republic commando Ghost Ship.
i had NO IDEA this was a thing???? oh my god
it´s such a cool concept!
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.
My day just got better. Thanks SGS! I always feel like I am saying Star Gate when it type SGS
I love the dynamic between you guys, always entertaining
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.
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!
My Dude you are popping off today!! Thank you so much for these amazing videos!!!
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
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
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).
This is 100% the perfect game series for these 3
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!
45:46 i love how, pause the video, the water drop sprites are upside down.
20:56 the Ewok-ing Dead! I'll see myself out.
God, the bad lady almost get me bit was too funny.
I remember reading this years ago and it was one of my favorite Star Wars novels of all time.
He paid for the whole bloom, he's using the whole bloom.
I love you and SGS and everything about your dynamic and how you play games as a team. Never ever ever let TH-cam comments get you down.
Thanks for this awesome video! SGS is always the best.
I never thought of Vader getting infected. But if he did, the whole Galaxy is just completely, utterly fucked.
Read this book so long ago, always wanted a Zombie + Star Wars game. This is so damn good.
This had no business being this good, what the hell haha
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
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.
There's blood in the very first movie! lol When Obi Wan slices that guy's arm off in the cantina scene.
If a single person could marry a group of people in this case id consider it
as a heterosexual male i agree, i would marry SGS in a heartbeat
Scary Game Squad! Let's goooo!
I love the audiobook of death troopers, a good book. I highly recommend listening to it.
I'm surprised Disney lawyers are not completely destroying whoever made this game.
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 😂)
Such a good video. Posting to help the algorithm
SGS doing Starwars stuff is the bomb!
Flashbacks of the zombie troopers event in Star Wars Galaxies. Forgot the lore behind it but was pretty cool.
Edit
Had to look it up and yeah it was a quest on Dathomir in a quarantined base. Also they werent as bloody but were missing the bottom part of their helmets so their teeth and jaws were showing which did have dark dried blood effects.
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.
the old Macintosh program might have just been StoryMaker, if we're talking REAL basic i think you could have rigged something like a "game" using Storybook Weaver.
i was thinking hypercard, but never used it myself, so might be way off-base here
This is so good! I wish it was a full game that'd be awesome!
Sentences I thought I'd never hear, part 3123: "He's like the Rudy Giuliani of Endor."
Also hilarious, I misspelled Giuliani on the first try and autocorrect turned it into "Analingus:"
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.
Did they ever finish Jedi Survivor?🤔 Also, what do we think the over under is on them playing Alone in the Dark is?
Really fun to watch the gang play Deathtroopers. May I recommend The Voidness. Its a pretty neat horror game that makes use of Lidar.
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.
wow is this actually going to be the push i needed to start listening to their star wars podcast 🤪🤪
FoR tHe AlGoRiThM
We need a Star War horde shooter like Darktide where you either fight battledroids or Imperials
Always thought the concept of zombies in Star Wars was... pretty goofy.
But it is Star Wars, after all.
Listen to the Deathtroopers audio book, it will sell the idea to you. Legit
@@gorvarhadgarson5227 But that's precisely where I first heard it from, though. XD
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.
The SWOCBOC’s are eating good tonight
So much wasted potential in Disney SW. This looks really cool.
this was exceptional
Star wars republic commando had a part that was pretty spooky and reminded me of this
They made a game of this book?? So glad to watch!
The scares are strong with this one
This looks so good, wow!
Am I the only one that was strangely pissed about the rain drops falling upside-down?
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.
"these are the endor stormtroopers. they didnt do shit." meanwhile, they're supposed to be the 501st, Vader's Fist, 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
Star Wars: Infinites ...the What If? of Dark Horse Star Wars, was SO GOOD