These 10 games impressed me the most, intrigued me the most, they're the ones I want in my hands ASAP. A fairly conventional list, it's hard to find the diamonds in the rough sitting at home clicking through webpages and video feeds. Also mostly games that were in playable form at the show, I get more hyped for titles expected to be hitting shelves in the near future.

Mass Effect

LittleBigPlanet

Bioshock

Rock Band

Super Mario Galaxy

Assassin's Creed

Echochrome

Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass

Call of Duty 4

Crysis

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Honorable Mentions:

Burnout Paradise, Starcraft 2, Halo 3, Folklore, Fable 2, Fallout 3, Lost Odyssey, Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations, Metal Gear Solid 4.

Dissapointments:

No Tim Schafer game, hardly any Super Smash Bros, Brawl, no Harvey Birdman, no Alan Wake/2008 360 blowout, no big MMO's on display, not many surprise announcements, not many interesting 3rd party DS/Wii titles shown, PSP Slim "redesign".

Overall:

Well it wasn't the usual celebration of gaming culture by any means this year. Press conferences were safe and predictable with nobody really capturing my imagination, Nintendo was the weakest with their self love montages and trickle of quality software. Made me glad to own a 360 this year and interested in picking up a PS3 whenever they can sell one for under $300.

PSP Slim wasn't what I was hoping for, Wii Fit will sell huge, Rock Band should beat out Guitar Hero III after word of mouth gets out. Hopefully the ESA can recapture some of the holiday atmosphere if the show moves to Vegas in '08, but at least we got loads of information on a fortune's worth of promising titles and some great coverage from all the major media outlets.