You mean, do I know who you happen to think is cool, which pretty much by definition has to be a cultural and personal opinion? Good for you. Lots of people think working on big flashy modern AAA games is cool and glamourous. I don't. You don't. Presumably that's why we won't work for glamour in the games industry. Lots of people are prepared to work for glamour in the games industry; they think it's cool.
Yeah I think it’s cool that extremely powerful game engines are available for free to developers. There are many a reason why EA and others are taking a big hit, but the swell of really good games being produced by those 2-3 person teams has to be a big part of it. I haven’t played anything that could be considered AAA in quite some time (anything from FROM software being a very strong exception - I love their work)
Exactly. I thought I wanted to make games professionally for a long time, then realized that I'd just be a cog in the machine if I worked for a large company.
You know who is cool? the 2-3 people who designed and built Pac-Mac, or Legend of Zelda, or Braid, or Papers Please. Not the people making guns for Call of War 7 that's a clone of a dozen other AAA games.