Blast from the past :
I don't care for
Star Ocean
Final Fantasy Series (Except the SNES ones)
So I've been in a similar boat as you. The game that got me into RPGs was a game called Lunar: Silver Star Story for Playstation 1. You can probably find it in a used games bin somewhere or even an emulator for it online.
Definitely worth a play through.
Another tip for ANY RPG. Is you have to play several hours into it usually. Generally RPG's aren't going to grab you within a short period of time. It's kind of pushing through it a bit to get more and more of the story. Which will start to intrigue you more and more.







