I went to PAX East last weekend, and I spent almost no time in the AAA game section. Mostly because I don't want to wait in the lines, but also because not much interested me. I find myself more interested in indie games because they have more wiggle room to try something new and different. I did see the game 'cup head' there and that actually looked pretty awesome.

I think the next thing to really wow anybody will be once they get stable VR games perfected. Otherwise we will just be getting mostly the same shit over and over with new gimmicks and better graphics. I do enjoy a lot of games this generation, but the last time I was actually wow'ed by a game was probably Oblivion on the 360.