There is a problem with the indies (I have played a lot of the games on your list and more) - they rarely make the big money to graduate to big AAA houses and t

There is a problem with the indies (I have played a lot of the games on your list and more) - they rarely make the big money to graduate to big AAA houses and trendsetters so their production values remain low (and we have the travesty of retro pixelation on purpose, which is beyond me). The only company that so far repeated the Bioware/Id story is CD Project RED - although I do have high hopes for Croteam, Klei and Flying Wild Hog making it big too. An ecosystem in which we have only rough diamonds and polished turds is not healthy. I hope that we will get more polished gems soon.