Just make your own unique game! Remaking is usually a bad idea. Just play those awesome games! Don't remake them. It's impossible to create more enjoyable game than the original ones...
Though it's nice to try and take plotlines, characters and items or some other thing, the actually gameplay should still be Warcraft III (TD, Defense, oRPG etc.) but I think it's better to make your own map with original ideas. It's a lot more fun that way, and you can learn a lot from it too.
I do know this - xenforo dropped the ball by not keeping the vbulletin reputation comments as a feature. The loss of the Reputation comments data when we switched to Xenforo really was the death knell for the site when it came to all the users that left. I know I missed it so much and I got way less interested in the site when that feature was gone and I run the site.
I'm on a page about incorrect corrections, and spent the better part of like two hours trying to get someone to understand that -5^2 = -25, not 25, and then that post had comments get reposted because that group is self sustaining, and that person was in turn trying to explain what I just explained to them. And I'm taking that as a victory