This Is the Run Ideas

I'm sure there's one floating around here, but I couldn't find it. Throw down your ideas for This Is the Run.

I propose Zombies Ate My Neighbors, a 90's classic. It's difficult, huge enemy variety, great weapon variety, marvelous opportunities for Vinny and Dan to mess each other up, and great maps. It's a longer game, but the passwords to get to different levels would allow them to save progress.

Shock Troopers for the Neo Geo. It's on every modern platform via Arcade Archives and it owns super hard. It's an arcade game, so no continues (or a predefined continue limit, like 3?), obviously.

Alternatively, I dunno, Metal Slug or something.

Streets of Rage 2 on Mania difficulty! It's a good challenge, and you only have limited continues.

My memory fails me

How tough is Golden Axe?

Doom 1

King of Fighter's '98 arcade mode.

Battletoads (Nes)

Contra Shattered Soldier

Double Dragon II (Nes) Hard Mode (Best ending and true boss)

Ninja Gaiden Arcade

Shattered Soldier or Neo Contra on PS2, assuming that those things have a permanent game over.

Blazing Chrome, once it comes out, could be a fun Contra-like throwback too.

Just... after Altered Beast how about a game that is actually still good. Don't recommend Battletoads now you cruel monsters.

You're an evil person.

Metal Slug?

I love Zombies Ate My Neighbors but it's so hard.

Comix Zone would be nuts but no co-op. Streets of Rage 2 on Mania.

I'd like for them to have a second team, maybe from GBWest, and then make it competitive. The team that completes the game in the fewest runs wins.

Any actually good game will do. Altered Beast is f'n awful, it was funny for a few episodes but now it's just painful.

EDIT: Ok just watched the latest episode and it was hilarious, because they hate it and it's terrible. But still, it would be good to see a good game after this.

It would probably never happen because it would take too long, but I'd love to see them do a cross coast This Is The Run taking on a horde mode of some kind on a hard difficulty. Maybe one of the Gears of Wars, or since it's popular again, Frontier Defence on Titanfall 2.

I think the arcadey retro co-op thing fits the series really well, but anytime they've done horde mode streams for GoW has been pretty interesting too. It could easily be a Breaking Brad or it's own thing as well. Maybe some kind of hybrid This Breaking Brad is the Run.

Really I just want more GB co-op content.

Didn't Brad once mention that he has never finished "The Legend of Zelda"?

I would love to see them do a standard Olmec run in Spelunky, but that shit is real hard.

I think I went Wild Guns Reloaded last time we did this. That's a hard game that's also beautiful and high quality, the exact kinda game I'd wanna see them butt their heads against.

There are so many good games, so I'll just second Efesell too. Do good games, the bad ones we all gotta endure but the good games are riveting to watch just to see what's next.

Yeah, they need something they'll enjoy if they're going to bang their heads against it.

I would like to watch Jeff Bakalar guest in Dan's chair and watch him and Vinny try to one-run Turtles in Time while Jeff continues to try to explain why the Ninja Turtles are a cooler, more enduring property than Transformers.

@hermes said:

I literally beat that in one sitting when I first got it as a kid. My mom was not happy after spending a lot of money on it. So too easy for This is the Run

Battletoads was never good.

@rigas: I... know?

@redhotchilimist: I like Wild Guns Reloaded as well - and because it does 4 player co-op, if Dan & Vinnie want to do a full Beast run (with some combination of Alex, or Jeff, or Abby in the other two spots) that would be pretty cool.

This is a too late to the party thing, but I thought that Murder Island should have been a This Is The Run. Murder Island more or less ended when they did finally get the chicken dinner, but it would have been a fun idea if they just combined the two together.

You could have that idea with other battle royales, like Apex Legends, although I personally find them less interesting to watch. Maybe seeing so much Battlegrounds just made me tired of the whole thing.

@rigas: I know it is not hard, but I still think the Capcom/Disney Afternoon games of the NES era are some of the best suited for that feature... with one caveat though, only Chip and Dale have co-op. :(

Gunstar Heroes would be a great choice I think.

What if they alternate the original Prince of Persia?

Sunset Motherfucking Riders.

Bury me with my money!

tmnt turtles in time and/or hyperstone heist

Ninja Five-0

@captain_insano: The Mega Drive/Genesis version? From recollection, not that tough if you're used to the flow of side scroller beat em ups.

Metal Slug or Sunset Riders

@lenient_lasagna: That is a good one.

too bad Alex Kidd in Miracle world isn't two-player, i'd love to see them get clobbered on those boss fights

Forgotten Worlds for the Genesis?

A clean lap at the Isle of Man course. It could be over in one episode.... or a hundred.

With Dans love of Nintendo it would be fun to see Mario 3D Land on the Wii U

@redhotchilimist:

Yeah, Wild Guns Reloaded is still my dream game for them to do for this feature. I think it is just the right amount of difficulty, plus a hell of a fun game. Reloaded has infinite continues, so they could limit themselves to a 1CC run or something.

I just picked up that NeoGeo mini a couple days ago, and Shock Troopers (and a sequel, apparently, which I haven't tried yet) is on there. I had never heard of it before, and gave it a shot, are you are right, that game is awesome! Kinda reminds me of Jackal, but way better looking/sounding and with more interesting perspectives and such - probably not a coincidence that one of the playable characters is named Jackal, haha.

It might be a little easy for a This Is A Run, though? I managed to beat the game by myself on my third try (although maybe I picked an easy route? I went through Valley and then switched to Mountain halfway through)

Robocop versus Terminator. I can't recall if it's two-player (I don't think it is), but come on, it's right up Dan's alley.

Ikaruga is great and impossible.

Obviously.

Gradius? I remember thinking that game was nearly impossible. But i was playing single player. And I was 6.

Lego Marvel Superheroes...I think ist at their lvl, and the gameplay would be interesting enough to watch.

I played some version, maybe even a later or sequel version of Golden Axe on PC.

I remember it kicking our arses.

I was also like 10 and really dumb

NES Double Dragon 2 would be perfect. It takes about the right amount of time to play through, the mechanics are simple but take practice to master, the environments are varied, it has some of the best music on the NES, and the platforming sections will add a lot of nice drama.

@captain_insano: Yeah, the reason I said what I said is because my brother and I always struggled with Golden Axe when we first got it. Fast forward a couple of years and a lot of Streets of Rage/Streets of Rage 2 runs and experience, we decided to play it again and breezed through it.

@shinofkod: seconding gunstar heroes, that would be great content

Edit: Oh, what about Toe Jam and Earl?