3rd Gen Ruby, Sapphire or Emerald?

emerald is the best storywise and the battle fronteir is always fun, but its a lot harder to train postgame, since the sky pillar was nerfed, where otherwise, I preferred sapphire.

Although I do agree that Emerald is a superior version in terms of aspects, I think Ruby is my favorite version out of the 3. I enjoy playing the most of Ruby, more than Sapphire and Emerald.

Emerald for me. It looked better and you can catch both Groudon and Kyogre. That was also the first game I played with two evil teams in it. And the Battle Frontier was fun too ;D

Emerald, of course. Because you can get almost everything from the two other versions.

I prefer Emerald out of all three.
I think it's just better- though I had Sapphire first. ._.

Well I think it would be emerald because of all the editions but emerald was also easy to beat with wallace as the champ.

I liked Emerald's story better, and I found my First Shiny lol

I would pick Emerald for the better plot, extra new old Pokemon to catch in the Safari Zone, and the Battle Frontier.

Well I would think most would say emerald because all the additions it has plus all three legendaries. If anyone wants to see my playthrough of sapphire though click the link it would be much appreciated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSGitHVZ36A

Emerald, as you could obtain all three mascots (Groudon, Kyogre, Rayquaza), Battle Frontier, rematch Gym Leaders, neater outfit designs for the playable characters, both Team Aqua and Team Magma involvement, and rebattling Steven in Meteor Falls.

One thing I disliked is the removal of Pokemon Contests for Battle Tents. Only one remains in Lilycove City.

It has all the stuff that R/S has and more! But I would agree with Skylands, however it does make it less of a hassle to travel all over for Contests. Basically Skylands summed up my opinion xD

I've "played" all three, but only owned Sapphire and Emerald.

I must say I've enjoyed playing all three but Emerald just had more in it.

Pokemon Ruby.

It was the first one I played, and I liked the fact that it lacked the avalanche of double battles from emerald.

Pokemon Ruby I didn't really like Emerald all that much.

ofc Emerald,
That's the third game I played.
that dates back to my past.

Even though i played Ruby more i'd have to say Emerald because of a better story and added features.

Emerald for its awesome cut scenes, Battle Frontier and the ability to catch Kyrogre, Groundon and Rayquaza all in one game.

Emerald for me as it's the only one I had haha but if I had to pick between the other two it'd probably be Sapphire as it's my birthstone haha plus I prefer Team Magma, so I'd want to take on Aqua in game lol :D

I like emerald best. It's got more content that either ruby or sapphire, what with the battle frontier and extra safari zone and such. I can't really see why people would prefer either ruby or sapphire over it.

I'm gonna go with the majority opinion here and say that my favourite of the trio was Pokemon Emerald. Emerald improved upon Ruby and Sapphire in every way and added some new features, too.