Grim Fandango is a great game and I'm looking forward to it.
Most people in the adventure game scene see remakes as old news. We were doing them 10 years ago, there's only so many times you can play a classic game before you want to play something new. Most of us who did the remakes used them as a training ground too, something the big companies don't need to do. Typical of corporate's though, jump onto yesterday's bandwagon and act like it's all new and exciting!