Those old threads are pretty much dead, so I'll post mine here.
Top 10 Xbox360 Games
1 Oblivion
2 Crackdown*
3 Gears of War
4 Rainbow Six Vegas
5 Lost Planet
6 Dead Rising
7 Command and Conquer 3
8 Call of Duty
9 Dead or Alive 4
10 Marvel Ultimate Alliance
Top 10 Xbox Arcade Games
1 Catan*
2 Pac-Man CE
3 Bomberman Live
4 Alien Hominid HD
5 Prince of Persia
6 Assault Heroes
7 Carcassonne
8 Marble Blast Ultra
9 Mutant Storm Reloaded
10 Cloning Clyde (Worms would be here if it was the complete game)
There are tons of other good XBLA games that are worth the relatively low price, including Geometry Wars, Poker, Outpost Kaloki X, Castlevania, Heavy Weapon, Aegis Wing, Uno, etc.
10 most anticipated new games
1 Mass Effect
2 Grand Theft Auto IV
3 Fallout 3
4 BioShock
5 Half Life Orange Box
6 Assassin's Creed
7 Halo 3
8 Too Human
9 Call of Duty 4
10 Fable 2
(also Prototype / Alan Wake / Resident Evil 5 / Unreal 3 / Civilization / Halo Wars)
Anticipated XBLA Games: Undertow, Switchball, Mutant Storm Empire, Castle Crashers
Favorite 360 Demos
Ace Combat 6
Other games that have already been released that you are eager to play, rent, or buy
Earth Defense Force 2017
Overlord
Viva Pinata
Also, in that other thread (most wanted games), JRPGs are ranked 2, 4 and 8. I don't get it, I find them to be a complete bore.
*Crackdown and Catan are probably my two favorite games right now.
We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai
It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps
We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick
