Tiny Diggers – An iPad Construction Truck Game for Kids Age 2-5

As much as my wife and I loved played Super Smash Bros Melee and Soul Calibur II for hours on end, it did nothing to alleviate my surprise when she told me last night that she really wanted to play a new fighting game. Well, that’s not exactly what she said. Really it was something along the lines of, you know, the other day I really wanted to kick your ass in a new fighting game and I was pretty bummed that we don’t have one.

Of course, my surprise slipped away pretty quick and my brain went into overdrive as I started asking questions about what kind of fighting game she wanted to play. It was an interesting conversation.

Here’s what we have.

Capcom vs SNK 2 EO, Gamecube.
Soul Calibur II, Gamecube.
Super Smash Bros Melee, Gamecube.

She’s not into 2D fighters anymore. Her view is that the fighting genre begs for the polygons only a more current system can put out, so the Capcom/SNK thing is just not her cup of tea. What we figured out is she wants something that’s either very realistic, or very ridiculous. What she really wants is Super Smash Bros Brawl to come out, and I agree with her there.

I explained how the two “realistic” fighters are Tekken and Virtua Fighter, and how our very own James is a big Tekken fan. I told her how you get one button per limb and it makes for a very precise fighting experience, but that’s not a first-hand assessment, because while I’ve owned a PS1 and a PS2, I’ve never played a Tekken or Virtua Fighter game. I did buy a Tekken game at one point, called James to let him know, and he told me I bought “the bad one” and to return it. This is the kind of fan he is: he didn’t want my first experience with Tekken to be sub-par.

Moving on from systems I don’t own to systems I do, I covered the fighting games with her that are already out for the Wii, which got responses like “I hate Dragon Ball Z” and the like. I wonder if the upcoming Mortal Kombat: Armageddon is ridiculous enough for her taste. She did mention that realistic boxing would be nice, and I told her we’d have to wait a bit yet for Fight Night to hit the Wii.

Can anyone recommend a solid “other” Gamecube fighter from first hand experience?