Problems with Fable:
-Four years in the making, less than fourteen hours to complete.
-Totally linear, with no reason to keep playing after the credits roll and you restart in the city with all your stuff.
-Horrible graphic fluctuations in certain parts, unacceptable for a four year long creation.
-You get old but you never die. You get fat but nothing happens. You can be gay, straight, or bi and it doesn't matter. You can marry a girl in every town or kill a girl in every town, and the most you'll get is either a halo or a set of horns.
-Character looks stupid.
-Not worth the fifty bucks I spent.
Now, onto FF7:
-For a game where everyone raged about its graphics, it should be much better. FFIII, while on an inferior system, looked much better and had a better storyline, gameplay. Earlier FFs were even better in regards to gameplay, where each character was unique. FFII featured stats that increase as you use them.
-Main characters that don't speak... suck. (*cough* Chrono Trigger *cough*)
-FF7 was the first of the games to go the way of japop (Meaning the characters all look like rejects from a Japanese dance music video). Later FFs do this so badly I won't even consider playing them. The latest ones must be made for girls, by girls.
-At this point in my life, fighting half a million repetitive battles with crap based on "How much I build up" and algorithms is really, really wasting my time. I'd rather play a game where every battle is different based on my actual skill. Mind you, my friend at the time was playing FF7 and couldn't pass a boss. I, who had never played the game, picked up the controller and beat the guy easily. It was sooo simple and soo much like all the other FFs in regard to battle strategy that I destroyed the boss wholesale. Simply disgusting.
Since FFIII, the only worthwhile FF was Tactics, which was still screwed up in some respects. (Esp. translation.)
But in short, I really hate FF7 because everyone raves about it and it's just another FF game, minus likeable graphics (And by likeable I mean something other than depressing lego characters and confusing backdrops coupled with so-so CGI), decent looking characters, likeable characters, and any reason for completion.
Call me a man of action in my old age, but Japanese RPGs are out.