I think I was 14 when it came out. It was another game. There were others I liked more, and others I liked less. But like many games that came out 15-20 years ago, it's now immortalized in memory and looked at through rose tinted glasses. What the game actually is and the game you remember are very different things. No matter how good FE becomes, it will be compared to this mythical game. And I mean myth, as in more fairy tale than fact.
There are games from that era that I think were great still, sure. But I also recognize that they are terribly flawed and if the exact game was remade with the same graphics, I would probably be disappointed. Some people argue that the game should be exactly like MoM, or do things because MoM did them. I say, "Fuck MoM" and let Brad and Kael make their own great game.