As you may have heard, it has been announced that
the Gen 3 Pokémon games will be remade for the 3DS. Yes, all those hints about Hoenn
in X/Y were truly leading up to these remakes which we had been hoping for.
This obviously calls for me to revisit my beloved Emerald games and list the
top improvements Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald brought to the Pokémon table.
Although my all time favourite Pokémon game is
actually Crystal, Gen 3 provided a lot more visual appeal, depth and random fun
stuff to do. Therefore as a result, I clocked well over 400 hours on my
original Emerald game compared to about 250 hours for Crystal. Below are some
reasons why.