Games to Watch?

Oh god, don't "watch" ff13. Especially not from the beginning. It was one of the most boring crap I've ever seen with the dialogue being bad, character development being bad and gameplay was pretty much doing the same thing over and over. Just all around bad.

I'll hold out on judging the later gameplay because that's different tastes, but my god, watching the beginning was horrible.

I'd recommend Nier as a watching RPG mostly due to it having a great main story, but semi-repetitive side quests. If you can bare with the excruciatingly bad looking protagonist lol.

And how are you "watching" these games? A full playthrough or just skipping to the cinematic scenes?

I watched all the FFXIII cutscenes online, from the opening to the ending...and I still find it pretty okay. If you think it's boring, you haven't seen the most excruciatingly terrible stories out there.