Probably a mix of the two.

I saw it was on iPhone, but I kind of hate the touch screen controls on most games. Plus how do you do the multiplayer on an iPhone?

I know the first one came out on PC, I think you can get the Fable III on Steam too.

The only complaint I had about the first one is how your character ages as you level up. So by the time you reach the end of the game you're an old man even though no one around you ages. It was a very weird design decision IMO. I usually just equipped gear that covered my face so I couldn't tell I was old looking. :P
I should also note that I have the Lost Chapters version of the first Fable, which has a lot of extra content and really helped flesh out the game.

Yep! They added two new classes: Onion knight and Dark Knight. Onion knight is kinda lame and boring. While the job is level 1-7 it's incredibly weak and it's stats suck. Once it's level 8 though it has the highest stats in the game and can equip all equipment, including some special Onion Knight only gear that's crazy overpowered. Unfortunately, you can't use ANY abilities while in the class, which makes it incredibly boring. :\

Dark Knight though... is awesome and also overpowered, lol. It's like a toned down Orlandu that any character can become. The requirements to unlock it are insane though. You have to have level 8 in all the advanced melee jobs, master Knight and Black Mage, and kill (when they turn into crysals/boxes) 20 enemies. Still, it's worth it to make your generic characters that you may have grown attached to just as (if not more) powerful than the special characters. :)

Speaking of Special characters, there are also two new characters to recruit from other FF games. You can recruit Luso from FF Tactics Advance 2 and Balthier from FFXII. Luso is just a clone of the Main character with an added innate Secret Hunt passive. Balthier is a mix of a thief and mechanic, having all the abilities of both plus much better gear options (guns and knight swords!) and a special ability Barrage, which basically attacks 4 times at half strength.

There are two multiplayer modes that they added. One is a basic vs. mode where you fight another player. The other is a series of co-op missions that are actually very, very challenging and a lot of fun. You really need to bring your crazy overpowered builds into the later missions if you hope to beat them. When this game came out my and my room mate at the time both got PSP's and this game, so we played it quite a bit. :)

I have FF Tactics advance, but I wasn't a huge fan of it. There were two main reasons I gave up on it. First up was that, while having abilities tied to your equipment wasn't that bad (see FFIX for a game with a similiar mechanic) the fact that nearly ALL the abilities were tied to weapons sucked. It took so long to learn each new ability that it was a serious drag on the pace of the game.

The other thing I wasn't a huge fan of was the Judges/rules system. It was an interesting idea but I think it was poorly executed. Throwing random rules into a match was nice to kind of spice things up at first but by the time you progressed into the game where they were throwing out 3 rules every match it became annoying. Plus some of the rules were pure bullshit, lol. Like when you get the rule "cannot attack monsters" and the enemy team has monsters on their side but the winning condition requires you kill the entire team. It also did not help that around that same time I got Tactics Ogre (also on Gameboy) and it was all around a MUCH better tactics game. Because I never really liked the first one, I never tried FF Tactics 2, but I did hear that it was much better than the first one.

Correction: I never tried FF tactics advance 2. If they made a sequel to the PSone/PSP FF Tactics I would be all over that.

Specifically, it was Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis for GBA. Great game if you can find it! Amazon has one new for the low, low price of $99.95 if you're interested. :P That game also had a neat multiplayer aspect that my (at the time) room mate and I absolutely abused to the point of being dirty cheaters, lol. Unlocking advanced jobs at level 1? No problem.

I also played the N64 Ogre game, Ogre Battle 64. It is a very different kind of game, it's kind of more of an RTS than a tactics game, but still really fun.

It's worth noting that Yatsumi Matsuno, one of the main people behind FF Tactics and Tactics Ogre is working on a new game. I posted about it not that long ago: http://cheerfulghost.com/WhiteboySlim/posts/1834

I didn't remember the attacking thing! Wow, yeah that is terrible. Did they fix that in the squeals at all? I haven't tried any of them besides the first game.

That is so weird they didn't fix that. I can't imagine anyone felt that was a good design decision. It's annoying enough that I'm kinda glad I passed on the sequels. There's too many other good games out there I can spend time on :D

Depending on when you played it last, the "game" portion has filled quite a bit. I still play it primarily as a creative outlet though. :) Although I play on a survival server (part of the fun for me is building a "secure" base. Also: Monster traps!) I actually run my own server if you're interested. I use to have a pretty active, although small, player base but then our server took an arrow to the knee (damn you Skyrim!) and now it's usually empty.

Also, if you want something that's a little more "gamey" but still has a creative element to it, you should look into Terraria. You can still build stuff but it focuses more on the adventure/platforming aspect of the game.

As I mentioned above (two years ago!) I use to run a server. I kept it mostly vanilla but one of the few mod's i did run was called "CreeperHeal." Basically, creepers still exploded and damaged surrounding blocks but that damage would automatically repair itself over the course of a few minutes. I liked it because it made Creepers a LOT less annoying but still kept them dangerous.