I am hoping one day smash 4 gets a viable project m/legacy xp type mod
I could see there being stuff like Smash 4 Minus, but sadly, I really, really can't see there being anything like Project M ever again.
PM was basically a once in a lifetime kind of thing, made by dedicated people with tons and tons of knowledge and passion for Melee's meta game and it took years for it for it to become what it was...only for it to end up going in flames. Which um, yeah, sends a pretty bad precedent for anyone attempting to recreate it for Smash 4.
PM also was kinda lucky in that it happened around the perfect time, when Smash 4 wasn't out, Melee becoming bigger than ever due to the documentary, and Brawl being a terribly flawed game that was slowly starting to die out. For all of its faults, Smash 4 isn't a terribly flawed game...at least on the level of Brawl anyway, and has become massively popular and has what is generally considered to be a healthy metagame, unlike Brawl. Between that and what happened to Project M, I don't think there
that big of a demand for PM Smash 4. Then there's also the issue of Nintendo itself, who has lately been hunting down various fan projects and also have been sponsoring many big Smash tournaments, making it effectively impossible for a PM style mod for Smash 4 to get any major support from the community.
Don't get me wrong, I'd
love a mod for Smash 4 that had the same amount of care and passion into it as PM, but I just don't see it happening now. Like I said, there will probably be stuff like Brawl Minus and most likely some individual smaller mods that make certain characters and the game engine more like Melee (they already exist on Gamebanana), but nothing as big or cohesive as Project M was.
If we're only getting two new characters then I can't see it being anyone but Inkling and Ice Climbers -- but even then, that's sort of a let down. I'm sure Sakurai knows about all of the Wolf complaints, and it would be weird to get a new Smash release without a guest character. This rumor just doesn't sound right to me.
Better accept thy fate whilst you can.