Spoilers up until the first trial of Shadowbringers
I absolutely love the lore around our character. There is such a beautiful weight to our journey. Compared to WoW, a game I poured a lot of time into, I feel as if my character is always respected. Like "Oh shit, bringer of light is here, well this just got interesting."
Like with Zenos, he beat our ass a couple of times but he is was like "oh yeah I like you, let's do this more." and even the general dude recently being like "you are a very different breed" type vibe, I love it. The skulls leader, Fordola I think? The Butcher, seeing our past and basically going "oh what the FUCK how do you keep living?" made me tear up. There is such a beautiful weight to the deeds we've done in this game. For those that we have lost, for those we may yet save. The game doesn't forget the people who have died. The things we have had to do. There is a lot of sadness in WoW because we're the 'chosen one' sometimes and I think that speaks for the botch job of the story. Here we are the chosen one but it is given proper respect. When we have to do stupid tasks the characters are like "yeah... sorry about this, honestly this is stupid please forgive us for making you do it." There is acknowledgment and it feels good.
So yeah FFXIV's story may... be my favorite final fantasy story? I know shadowbringers is going to ruin me but even to this point it just feels so good. I love all of the scions and the way they talk about your character just feels nice. Like "Yeah, the world is going to shit but we've got ____, we like our chances." Oof, so good.