I am looking at all the indie games I played and I find most of the highly rated ones to be quite bad and uninteresting:

Fez

Lone Survivor

Hotline Miami

Surge Deluxe

Sine Mora

Knytt Underground

Joe Danger 2

Machinarium

The PixelJunk games

Are these games reviewed under the mobile game standard?

Honestly only a very select amount of indies are quality titles and you are getting more out of them than what you paid. That is a reason why I might not be enjoying sony as much as everyone else. 

Most of them are SNES/PSX rejects.

You should play Journey. That's a true quality title, regardless of wether it's a indie game or a 'normal' game.

What console do you own? Odd that that's my first thought ... I bet I'm not the only one who thinks this immediately.

Indie does not mean low quality. It's just that there are a lot of low quality indie games. Many indie games that receive praise are praised for their mechanics or overall originality in story or otherwise, not because they necessarily push boundaries or offer revolutionary experiences. Fez, for example, is definitely fun for its perspective switching puzzling. Hotline Miami is fun for the fact that it's kind of a retro throwback that depends on reaction time and gamer ability. The rest of those, well, honestly, I haven't played them.

Admittedly, the vast majority of indie titles feel like flash games. Honestly, I think many indie games were intended to be flash games, but the developer saw a way to make a few bucks off of it and decided to limit exposure for the sake of the $10 they may make. The good ones tend to be the ones that act as exceptions though, feeling like full experiences in their own right even if they aren't necessarily the highest quality or most original works out there. Of course, then you have the best exceptions like Bastion that are just so ridiculously good you can't even compare them to the average indie title.

In short....probably. To be fair, I've enjoyed what I've played of Fez -- great atmosphere! but I can't deny that it pales in comparison to most of the highly regarded games from the NES and SNES.

You should try bastion and mark of the ninja, if you haven't. I dunno if they count as indie, but I think they're much better than any of the games you listed.

Most Indies can be played on a $200 windows 8 tablet, lol. I don't think it really matters.

The vast majority of indies are crap, although there are a couple good ones which do become successful.

From his list, you can come to conclusion that is ps3/ps4 set of indies he is talking about. 

Trust me, it matters. I'm sure lots of posters who come to this thread during the day will fully understand why I've asked that question.