Quote Originally Posted by Jinx View Post
FFX-2's system without screen transitions would be amazing. Personally, I still love ATB, but I will say the screen transitions are annoying (especially when you're grinding or looking for a specific blue magic).

My main concern--and if it happened, I would likely not purchase the game--is that two members of your party will be AI controlled. I hate that function, especially in a Final Fantasy game, and it would completely turn me off of it. I'd probably still enjoy watching other people play the game, but hopefully SE has has enough negative feedback from doing that in past games they won't do that for this one.
The way I see it, AI controlled team mates are typically used when the devs think the combat moves too fast for the player to input commands for three characters at once. It mostly depends on how fast paced the action is, not screen transitions. You can have slower combat with three times as many command inputs, or fast combat with 1/3rd the command input. In terms of how engaging it is for the player, I think they're pretty equal and it only comes down to personal preference, not how "modern" a game is.