I love the PS4 and am gaining healthy respect for the Xbox One...but something about this generation is off...I cant quite put my finger on it.

Lack of Mystery perhaps?  I remember back when the X360 and PS3 were new, there was this air of mystery about everything...not just because of the massive power boost from PS2/Xbox - PS3/X360 either... There was this very fun creative atmosphere from the developers that was just awe inspiring for some reason.

Not all titles were GOOD per say but they were all -  oddly, extremely exciting...Remember when MGS4, Halo 3 and Gears of War 1 released?  How about that feeling around the Heavenly Sword (awesome) and Lair (fail) releases?  Those were epic feels! 

Those were followed up by Uncharted and Little Big Planet and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare...wow now that I think back about it..that...that was an amazing time for gaming.

EVERYTHING was fresh and new!  Even sequels...its a feeling im missing so far.  Strangely enough, I think the closest its been was Ryse: Son of Rome...and I haaaaate that game...But it feels a lot like Heavenly Sword did.

Maybe im looking back with rose-colored glasses but...those were really fun times.

There are still amazing games out there, try out games like the evil within and alien isolation or PT. Survival horror is revived in 8 gen, of course if youre looking for shooters that genre is burned out.

When 360 and PS4 were new?

This gen is missing an identity of its own because the 7th gen is still alive sharing many of the great titles still bring released

More new IPs and JRPGs. However, I am liking this gen.

Creativity.

It's obvious what is missing.

Fighting games!

2015 is a year where a lot of fighting games will come out

so there should definitely be an improvement soon.

Innovation. It's always the same games and characters and gameplay. Sequels over sequels. And Sony and MS aren't much better either.

Really, though, I hear this every generation.  People find what they want to find.

I think we reached a threshold in the 7th-gen...

If you think about it, every new console generation offered up new possibilities in terms of what kinds of games were possible. There were a ton of new games that weren't possible before, and that's what made every new generation great.

This time, however, the PS4 and Xbox One can't really do much special that the PS3 and Xbox 360 couldn't do (Other than prettier graphics). That's why we're seeing so many cross-gen titles as well.

I believe it's the same problem as the last generation: The first and partially second year of a new gen usually do not see really great games. Now we had seen so many highly anticipated games that did not deliver e.g. recently Evolve and most famously Destiny.
But look, the great games are coming! This year! If I only think about Bloodborne, The Witcher 3, Batman, Uncharted 4, Halo to name just a few AAA games, and also indie games such as Everybody's gone to the Rapture, The Forest, Witness etc. - this games alone make this year a better one than 2014.

Now let's see if The Order: 1886 can be one of the first in 2015 to make the list of great games. So cool that it arrived so early