I gotta do story mode first and foremost. Need to get those spoilers out of the way.
Then I'll probably head into the Labs and do the challenges to help out with my fundamentals, if it's anything like the challenge tower. After that, I'll do a lot of offline goofing off and finding BnBs, then finally head online to test my might. My usual fighting game path.
I'll play online the day of release, just wanna learn a couple strings and play a ladder with a couple characters to get a feel for them before I do though.
I might do a little bit of story mode and a couple lab missions, but I'm gonna mix it up.
1. Training Mode: Try a few of the characters.
2. Story Mode: Play one or two fights a day.
3. Star Labs: 3 or 4 Missions a day.
4. Start online after one or two weeks.
I will spent about 80-90% of the time in practice mode for the first few days. And online not so fast... that comes later.
Let's see, I'll probably spend an hour or 2 in training mode when I get home from the midnight, then sleep, then online. I watched Story Mode on youtube today, so I've already gotten than out of the way.
The first thing I'll do is get some basic Raven stuff down and then probably play online on release day, or very near release when everyone's noobing around.