This is being discussed in the spoiler thread, but I'd rather take it in here because that thread's a bloody mess. Both in the literal sense and the Queen's English sense.
Anyway...
What are you all looking most forward to doing in Brawl after you get it? Just based on things we know from the Dojo or commercials, none of the spoiler stuff. For me:
-Selecting Kirby as my first character and Classic as my first mode, as is tradition, for the third time.
-Unlocking Jigglypuff (believe) and falling in love all over again.
-Getting Captain Falcon (believe, again) and trying out Brawl's rendition of The Knee. And it had better well be in there!
-Using Meta Knight, Ivysaur, King Dedede, and Charizard for the first time.
-Seeing what changes they've made to Kirby, Zelda, Ice Climbers, Sheik, Luigi, Pikachu, Jigglypuff, and Captain Falcon.
-Adjusting My Music for hours. HOURS. I assure you, I'll be attempting to objectively and precisely quantify the relative percentage of love I have for each theme so that I can set their play frequency in accordance with whatever units of enjoyment I end up denominating.
OCD FTW?
-Tinkering with sticker arrangements for an even longer period of time!
-Finding out that there's a special brawl allowing sticker powerups to be used in multiplayer.
-Creating my own twisted stages.
-Spending ridiculous numbers of minutes deciding which music I want played on those stages, because I'll love practically all of it.
-Turning off items before I ever touch a vs. match.
-Playing as Zelda, pausing, and zooming in on her... ...shoes. No, I'm serious.
It seems pretty clear to me that they're flat boots, which makes her automatically better than Melee Peach, Brawl Peach, Zero Suit Samus, and Melee Zelda combined. (Still wish she had a Marin alternate costume, though.) I just hope she doesn't suck again at fighting. D:
-Drooling over the statistics page inevitably so full of glory and win. :O
-Practically never touching Link, Fox, Donkey Kong, Yoshi, or Wario except when the game forces me to for an Event or in Subspace Emissary.
-Conquering Subspace Emissary on Normal, then Hard, then Very Hard, then Intense, and appreciating the changes of each difficulty.
-And then beating it on Easy just for a laugh.
-Discovering what kind of crazy post-match bonus point awards they've come up with this time.
-Checking whether they at least buffed up Mario to compensate for Doc going assist trophy. (Actually, I don't remember where I read that, but if it's true... Well, RIP, old buddy. ;_
-Determining which moves I'll call out for being cheap every time without fail, even though I'll never actually believe that.
-Busting out all the taunts for my favorite characters and deciding which ones I'll use most. (Again: Jigglypuff, Kirby, Meta Knight, Ivysaur, Captain Falcon, King Dedede, Charizard, Zelda, Ice Climbers, Sheik, Luigi, and Pikachu.)
-Experimenting with all four controller styles and then going straight back to the classic Gamecube.
-Plowing through the inevitable boss rush mode armed only with a Trophy Stand and a wad of courage.
-Opening the box, opening the instruction booklet, smelling that new papery smell, putting it back in, and never seeing it again in my life.
-Entering SSBB into my IGN collection, registering it for my MyNintendo collection, and typing it into my Excel game purchase spreadsheet, as if to confirm three times over that, yes, I had been waiting very nearly three years--ever since it was "announced" at E3 2005--but that Brawl was finally, finally in my possession.
-Spotting a Coin Launcher trophy I hadn't seen after seventy hours of gameplay, and then missing it.
-Figuring out whether I like Mushroomy Kingdom, PictoChat, Battleship Halberd, Delfino Plaza, or Lylat Cruise the most.
-Doing less than 30 Coin matches over the next seven years.
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Witnessing the triumphant return of Board the Platforms along with a new Board the Platforms Creator. And an Event Match Creator too.
-Being surprised time and again by the creativity of the Event Match scenarios.
-Hearing all the (supremely underrated!) Kirby music and Pokemon music during matches.
-Spamming Waddle Dees with King Dedede.
-Seeing Iwata arrange for some Nintendo developers to make an SSBB+ with improved online functionality in four years or so after Sakurai turns down the idea of making another Smash Bros. for Wii 2.
-Continuing to play SSBB into 2017
, just in time for Sakurai's SSB4.
-Kicking Sandbag around while online matches load.
-Experiencing elation upon seeing that they've made it possible to adjust the health amount in Stamina matches.
-Saving screenshots and replays.
-Flooding friends with said screenshots.
-Crying foul about some of the stages that didn't make a return.
-And then recreating them in Stage Builder anyway.
-Faithfully downloading a stage every day for a couple months, then beginning to slack off, then finding out that I'd missed something incredible--then hitting up brawlstages.com or some other site made specifically to keep a permanent archive of all stages of the day. [Edit during preview:
Actually, it turns out that brawlstages.com is already a real site. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. :lol Edit after posting: It's practically 100% flooded with spambots, though. ...I guess I shouldn't be surprised at that either, huh?]
-Watching the sure-to-be-excellent intro video, and then watching the sure-to-be-excellent tutorial videos.
-Running co-op games in Event Matches and Subspace Emissary.
-Shuffling through the color changes to find the ones most likely to annoy my opponents. (Go go Yellow Kirby!)
-Realizing that some character I'd just about written off is an awesome fighter and fully worth playing very, very often.
...That's a lot of things I'm looking forward to. And a lot of verbs to start off each bullet point. I'm gonna love this game.