It was the only full price game ever that I stopped playing right in the middle and that I never came back to. Even if I end up disliking a game I usually force myself to get my money's worth out of it. My cognitive dissonance demands me too...and you know how expensive video games are over here.
A couple of days ago I finished a Youtube game movie version of XIII-2. It was 7 1/2 hours long but I had watched it over several days. In the end I actually liked that there is actually a story that is told in the game in comparison to FFXV. Yeah, it is overly complicated and convoluted and not very engrossing but at least it told that story in a myriad of cutscenes, character monologues and musings. So, as strange as it sounds, but I do prefer that story and story telling over FFXV.
Did you start playing FFXV by the way?