So here's a fun question to kill some time tonight, looking back on the past Smash Bros games specifically new comers. In each version of Smash Bros including the upcoming Smash 4, what new comers were you most excited to play that you ended up not liking, and which newcomers did you not care at all about and ended up really enjoying?
Personally for me
Smash 64: Excited for Link and Samus didn't like playing as them, no interest in Jigglypuff and Falcon loved playing as them
Melee: Excited for Bowser didn't like playing as him, no interest in Ice Climbers and ended up loving to play as them
Brawl: Excited for Meta Knight and Pit didn't like playing as them, no interest in Rob and ended up loving to play as him
Currently for Smash 4: Excited for Greninja and Mega Man, no interest in WFT
Smash 64: Before release I was mainly excited for Pikachu because I was in full Pokemon-crazy mode, didn't really give a shit about the other characters. I ended up liking Ness and Captain Falcon a lot though. I went back to 64 after a while and found I also like Kirby a lot in that game.
Melee: I was mostly excited for Ice Climbers and Bowser, I thought their playstyles looked interested from what I had seen in magazines (I didn't have an easy way to access the internet pre-release). Ice Climbers being in was always the most wtf to me, I remember reading about them in a magazine and thinking they were from like, Bomberman or something. I went through most of the Melee cast before settling with the Fire Emblem characters mostly, with Fox, Falco, and Link as my back-up characters.
Brawl: This is kind of weird, the initial trailer was hype as hell but the only characters I was really interested in were Snake and Meta Knight. I wasn't really thinking about what characters I wanted in or what characters I wanted to play, I spent a lot of the time pre-release lurking and reading what other people said about the game because I was mostly indifferent despite being a huge Smash fan. I was a huge fan of Ike when he got revealed and he did end up being my main. After a few years of playing on-and-off between other games I sort of got bored with him and went to just random for a while and found I really liked Game and Watch, Marth, and Toon Link.
Currently excited for: Little Mac, Villager, and Rosalina. I also think it's awesome that WFT is in the game.