I liked in Legend of Dragoon where you had the little arrow above your head and it's change from green to yellow to red when you were about to get attacked. That prepared me for stupid fights.

I hate slow text. But then I hate fast text too. You know when you are waiting like 5 minutes for the stupid box to fill with that NPCs dialogue when you just wanted to know where an inn was. But then the text that goes to fast like you read half the box and POOF next bit.:/