It depending on your preferences, personally It is not so much that I like FF but dislike WRPGs, and more that WRPGs are a genre I just can't seem to get into yet i like Vampire the Masqurade, Anachronox and Deus EX. .

Is watching some Japanese pseudo Medieval or pseudo Science-Fiction story really THAT interesting and engaging when you're just seeing a long drawn out story that you can't change even if you wanted to?
Why would you want to change the story in order to be engaged by it ? If i am not interested in the game as whole i won't play it.