In my opinion, the 3 you list are probably my least favourites in the franchise which would also include FFXI.

Out of that list, I would probably go with FFX. Despite having a really annoying protagonist, the story was decent aswell was the ending. I don't like FFX-2 at all since it just seemed too 'Charlie's Angel's' like and the fact that it ruined FFX's great ending. FFXII for me was just boring and the protagonist (Vaan) is even worse than Tidus. Since you seem to like more recent games with graphics etc then I have a feeling that you will probably like FFXII.