Remakes tend to be a safe bet. What games usually get remakes? Games that had critical and/or commercial acclaim. And that makes your perception absolutely biased. For every good, "creative" game that gets remade there are hundreds, or even thousands, of games that will never get a remake.
Honestly, this topic is like saying that the 1960s had the best music because they had the Beatles, the Stones and The Who, while completely ignoring absolutely everything else that was made during that decade and has not passed the test of time.
Honestly, this topic is like saying that the 1960s had the best music because they had the Beatles, the Stones and The Who, while completely ignoring absolutely everything else that was made during that decade and has not passed the test of time.