This reminded me of this particular quote from Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw of Zero Punctuation fame. The quote is as follows:
It's a solid advice in general, I believe. People who have a really close connection to something that's nostalgic to them will pick every single nit in your game if you decide to remake their most favourite game ever, even if the "original creators are hesitant" is non-existent (or even if original creators are the ones developing the remake). The smallest detail not being the very same as the original's will make them declare your game bad. Gamedevs should follow their actual vision and game design documents of the game, not bend the knee to people who have nostalgic goggles on. Even if they do bend, the fans will likely find things to dislike in the game. It's usually better to actually make the game the way you envision it, rather than have a mishmash of things just to try to pander to fans. If your game is good, it will sell. If it's decent, but unremarkable, then the people not familiar with the original will enjoy it, maybe even become interested in the prior installments, while the fans will have their old stuff. If it's abhorrent even to non-fans, it will fail miserably. We've seen terrible remakes of games fail because they could neither attract a new audience, nor appeal to people familiar with the franchise.
My point is, basically, the fans will rarely immediately accept something new, because they have a close connection to the old originals. You shouldn't let that discourage you entirely from doing something different in an already established universe (at least not "dismantle everything and start over" different like, say, Star Wars nowadays, unless it's some sort of parallel universe, in my personal opinion, this is much more acceptable).
