I agree and kinda miss the middle-term we used to have a bit ago. Mainstream are (almost) all running to the same specific point, while indie games suffer from all the problems of amateur development. I feel the gap is becoming larger and less and less people are trying to fill it.
I find this discussion rather interesting. Take a look at this Cracked article:
http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reason...-anti-rant_p2/
The author provides a few arguments favourable to modern gaming, which are quite interesting.
What do you think?
Personally, there's one thing that causes me a bit of dismay. Even though modern technology does allow for impressive story-telling and gameplay, I find that it is vastly under explored.