again sorry for the long rant but in my mind no pokemon game has lived up to silver except for soul silver still love to play them though and cannot wait for X and Y I'm sorry I just do not see ruby being better than silver but I also wouldn't have ruby at number 4 or silver at 5, they are definitely not the worst of a top 5 pokemon games definitely better than diamond or pearl, if you list diamond or pearl higher than silver and ruby or even red then I know this review is based solely on graphics and little new things added here or there to develop something new to the pokemon games. :confused Really!? Ruby, sapphire, and emerald is better than silver, gold, and crystal wow I'm just gonna say I strongly disagree, while ruby and the rest of those were not the worst they definitely were not better than silver especially storyline wise, how could they be better than a game that just has so much more the continuation from red and blue over to silver and gold is great, the fact that you can travel over to kanto and battle the gym leaders there, there was just so much story. Ruby/Sapphire seemed like a step back from Gold/Silver. Hell the graphics and sound aren't even much of an upgrade. The most notable new feature of Ruby/Sapphire is the double battles but those show up so infrequently that it comes across as superficial, like Nintendo half-heartedly shoved it in to create the illusion of newness. I'm sure that was just a technical limitation and the obvious benefit of Nintendo selling you another game was just coincidental. No, instead you have to buy a remake of Red/Blue to get the old Pokémon. Gold/Silver has the realtime day/night cycle, the expanded Pokegear, the ability to trade with older games, Pokémon breeding, two new Pokémon types, and then they let you replay the entire world from the first game.ĭespite being its sequel Ruby/Sapphire is ironically less featured than Ruby/Sapphire as it lacks the realtime day/night, doesn't offer any old world from the earlier games, introduces no new Pokémon types (which would become the norm but at the time that seemed very lazy to me) and doesn't let you trade with the old games (despite the GBA being fully capable of playing GB/GBC games). Gold/Silver however is a fantastic example of what I want out of a Nintendo sequel: it takes the first game and greatly expands the scope, adding all sorts of new ideas to the concept.
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I found Ruby/Sapphire to be an incredibly underwhelming sequel to the point that X/Y will be my entry point back into the series (so I'm not qualified to do a top five but I can compare Ruby/Sapphire to Gold/Silver). Man, my tastes and that of the NWR staff are just not in sync.