Are you using the normal Fighter? or the Two-Handed Fighter Archetype?
Since you are a fighting with a Two-Handed weapon I would not go with Pentrating Strike or GPS, since your focus is going to be high damage in only a few hits, or a single hit. If you went Two Weapon fighting then you need that PS/GPS advantage cause each hit dose less damage and all of them get reduced (not to mention they have to enhance 2 weapons)
And if its DR your worried about, then a weapon with;
+1 enhancement overcomes DR magic
+2 enhancement overcomes DR magic
+3 enhancement overcomes DR magic/cold iron/silver
+4 enhancement overcomes DR magic/cold iron/silver/adamantine*
+5 enhancement overcomes DR magic/cold iron/silver/adamantine*/alignment-based
^ found in CRB pg. 562
Also if you are going to rely on Vital Strike feat chain you may want to think about Devastating Strike feats as well.
Devastating Strike: gives +2 damage for each vital strike feat you have(+2 VS, +4 IVS or +6 GVS) This bonus damage is multiplied on a critical hit.
Improved Devastating Strike: Whenever you use Vital Strike, Improved Vital Strike, or Greater Vital Strike, you gain a bonus on attack rolls to confirm a critical hit equal to the bonus on damage rolls you gain from Devastating Strike.
Since Cleave and Vital Strike are both standard actions to use, and Cleave chain is really useful when fighting multiple enemys with high mobility, where as Vital Strike chain is for high power single attacks with mobility, I would suggest one or the other, and not both.
Honestly let the caster deal with the waves of mooks and you focus on the big baddy. but that’s just my suggestion.
Lastly I would get rid of Dazzling Display/Shatter Defense/Deadly Stroke, and go for Furious Focus/Dreadful Carnage, you aren't generally going to gain much for going against an enemy’s FF AC (if you were a rouge or something I could understand) Furious Focus you ignore the PA penalty to attack rolls on the first attack you make in a round (works wonders with Vital Strike) and Dreadful Carnage is so fun, when you down an enemy to 0hp or fewer (and you certainly will) you can make an Intimidate check to demoralize all enemies within 30 feet as a free action.(now they are all a bit less likely to hit you.)
But that’s just my 2 cents.
I still have a dollar if you want :)
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For archetypes, I'd suggest either 2H Fighter or Lore Warden (which is just good for any fighter build).
I would drop the entire Dazzling Display line, including Shatter Defenses -- flatfooted does little for you.
I would drop cleave at level 4 when fighter lets you swap a feat. Never take it again nor get the later feats in the tree.
Vital Strike is a trap. I guess it's ok if you have nothing better to choose, but it would be very low on my totem pole. Get rid of Deadly Stroke.
I'm not a fan of the Critical feats; at least hold off on committing to them until BAB +14 or even +17, when you can get the real winners -- Stunning Critical and Tiring Critical.
I would take Lunge right at level 6 or close to it -- It's very useful.
Other feats to consider (and min. level you can get it):
Step Up (1): This messes up archers and reach weapon users pretty hardcore. It mildly inconveniences spellcasters.
Cornugon Smash (6): You should always be power attacking, so this gives you a free demoralize debuff if they survive.
Dreadful Carnage (11): THIS is what area demoralize should look like! Consider swapping Cornugon Smash out at 12 for this. Sadly, requires Furious Focus, which is a mediocre feat.
Pin Down (11): Awesome fighter-only feat to deny the safety of 5 ft steps.
Dazing Assault (12): Words cannot describe how awesome this one is. GET IT. Works best on an AoO build, but still good in general.
Stunning Assault (16): Honestly, I think this is redundant w/ Dazing Assault, but if you have the space for it...why not? I'd keep Dazing over this if picking one; daze is less severe than stunned but unlike stunned, practically nothing is immune to dazing, plus there's no such thing as "Dazing Critical."
Teleport Tactician (10): This feat itself is awesome. You get to disrupt teleporting in/out of your threatened area! But it requires two EXTREMELY terrible feats to acquire and the benefit, while great, is situational. Probably not worth it, but I felt I should mention it.
Whirlwind Attack (supposedly 4; good luck w/ that): This feat has a giant list of absolutely horrid pre-reqs and generally isn't worth it. However, at higher levels when combined with Lunge and Dazing Assault, this can be a pretty nice area debuff. Works better with a reach weapon, though.
EDIT: Wait, why does being half-ogre make you not want to take WWA?
I'm not sure on why he didn't want to take WWA either when he mentions being a half-ogre.... was hoping he would reply soon so I could find out.
Also Stream, I agree FF isn't that great of a feat, but it has amazing synergy with the Vital Strike/Devastating Strike and then Dreadful Carnage for a high crit chance weapon when you only get to make one attack in a round cause you actually had to move since the enemy is to afraid to come near you, and if they aren’t afraid of you... then something is wrong.
At high levels with a high crit range weapon I like Stunning Critical. Even if they save they are staggered for 1d4 rounds. Combine it with bless weapon to auto confirm crit threats and you can really reduce the combat effectiveness of your evil enemies.