If you think about it

Indies are awesome! I'll admit, I tend to favor AAA titles, but every now and then I become hooked on an Indie game. Right now it's Dead Pixels :P

There's sometimes more variety in indies. Also, more emphasis can be placed on story and originality without the focus on graphics etc

They don't have business heads telling them what to do in order to make money, regardless of how "fun" the game will end up to be.

I think it's fact that they can be more unique and expectations are lower...

It is quite obvious if you think about it, most AAA games built on the same architecture and pretty much the the same features to appeal the mainstream, and so they don't even need to try too hard to make something special in order for it to sell, so they simply stick with the old platform. Indie on the other hand, unless they make something unique and special they wouldn't be able to sell well, so they pour they're sweat and blood making something really attractive without the mainstream features. And because indie are not forced to stick with the old platform, then you can encounter some really unique games which makes it even better.

Even though I tend to hate on indies because I don't find them impressive (usually) I always end up liking them anyway after I try them

You are getting older, and now you starting to find the beauty even in the darkest places. :)

I just lost the game.

It's not for being a indie, or a AAA game that makes the game good. If a game is developed and produced to a rich, and immerse experience, people WILL like it, whatever the type of game. See this Interview, and focus on "forge trust with gamers and deliver a solid, reliable product". They did it, and some other developers also did it with their games.

Familiarity causes an ability to discern 'quality'. When you were a new gamer, you played games and you could tell the REALLY bad games from the good ones, but didn't have much of an ability to discriminate much beyond that. As you play more games, you get a better sense of what a 'good' game is, and you start to appreciate games on more levels. In time, you realize the games you played originally, while not 'bad' per se, were not the amazing experience you believed they were at the time, and that smaller more creative and innovative games can be better. I like to compare it to wine tasters. The first time you taste wine it tastes like grape flavored vinegar. After a while you begin to appreciate the taste. After an even longer while, you begin to be able to discern multiple flavors in a glass of wine, and can tell when one bottle is better than another, and why. All because you've become increasingly familiar with wine.

Simple. It's a quick way of having fun. Everyone likes easy access to fun ;)

Indies are awesome because there's a lot of them , 5 indie games are as good as a normal 5gb Video game .