I thought this game was fantastic.. albeit on the short side. I have owned FFVII through FFX... (minus FFVIII), and although they were graphically appealing, and slightly amusing, I never finished any of them. Maybe that is a testament to my attention span, learning curve and or, more importantly, the amount of time I am willing to devote to one game.
To me, Fable is graphically appealing, it sounded good and the interaction with the environment, i.e. people, traders, buying and selling of goods and property, getting drunk and vomiting...lets not forget our ability to fart on command!...is equally as appealing. The other thing I really enjoy in contrast to the FF games is the real time real action and not turn based combat. I would say that the length of the game is by far its biggest down side.
It is definitely a fantastic rental, not tons of replay value... not $50 dollars worth of it at least.
my 2 cents.