FFXIII took a while for me to begin liking it, and I'm on Chapter 11 too. I really had no clue what was going on at first, either. A couple of hours in the game I just opened up that data log and tried to make sense of the story, which actually helped, but I feel it's rather obnoxious that I had to do that. Aside from XIII, I'd have to say 6 and 9 are my favorites (except the last bit of 9's story sucked). I hope FF15 goes back more to it's roots and has the standard chess-style combat.