Is it worth buying Pokemon Emerald, When you already have ruby?

is it? for those of you who have both games, please discuss

This post has been edited by benjamin7x on Jul 2 2007, 12:01 AM

O_o

Umm, why not just get Diamond/Pearl?

For the GBA games, Emerald >> Ruby and Sapphire.

Well, I'm almost at the end of Ruby and I think it kinda blows, so.... up to you.

It really is going to depend on price and how much you really play the games, there are a lot of benefits for the sort of high-end player; but some would argue that these improvements also exist in Diamond and Pearl.

Emerald exclusives:
- New Pick-Up chart, probably the best one in the games: http://www.serebii.net/emerald/pickup.shtml
- The breeding fixes (Everstone adds 50% chance to pass on Mother's nature, FlameBody pokemon halve the steps needed to hatch eggs)
- Battle Frontier gives you a single player reason to play the game
- Abilities like Pressure now have bonus effects outside of battle: http://www.serebii.net/emerald/ability.shtml
- You can rematch Gym Leaders. This is the only version of Pokemon that allows this, and they get stronger up to the 5th reiteration or something

You should know though that in Diamond/Pearl, you can still benefit from the breeding and ability changes, there is an entirely new (****ty) Pick-Up chart, but yes; Emerald definitely has its merits, especially since it has a whole different set of catchable pokemon that are not convenient to get in the other GBA, GCN, or DS games.

and special move tutors

You forgot to mention that Emerald doesn't have the ****ty R/S font.

Cloning is another reason to get Emerald.

-Latias, Kyogre, Seviper, and Lunatone are all catchable in Emerald
-Battle Frontier
-Risk-free clone glitch
-Breeding is actually beneficial
-Less painful font
-ELEMENT PUNCH TUTORS

Don't sell Ruby though, you have to beat the E4 again every time you want another commercial-induced event to occur (i.e. clearout sale).

i really dont see what is so horrible about the font in r/s.

not true, i ****ed up my order of cloning and nerfed my Regis(i was duplicating them for a friend, before i had D/P)

yeah, I'll never understand why my brother sold his version of emerald

then again, he's one of those dumb****s that teaches fire blast to a machamp

Fire Blast is NOT a good thing on Machamp!?

(goes to tm bag.)

Buy it because its a great game (You might want to buy diamond or pearl because the cost the same amount) Also you can get pokemon that you couldn't find in ruby.