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Slight beef with PS3 High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: Poker Edition Download
konchu \| 10:12 AM on 07.26.2008	7 comments

Like many other with the Sony Summer sales I jumped on to download a couple of titles I had missed. One being High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: Poker Edition the other being Pixeljunk monsters. The download for monsters was a tiny 60 MB for what seems to be a great game. And High stakes especially being a 3d game was not a terrible download at 309 MB.

But it my opinion it was 309 MB too much or 10 MB too little. Allow me to expand on this as many people have seen titles like this on the other consoles when you launch a game it instantly needs patched, unfortionatly though on this game its 319 MB that needs patch and furthermore this is a patch you cannot background download. But even that I do not totally take issue with. But take a look at the below image and you will see what I do have an issue with.

Sorry if the quality is sub par only have a cell phone camera.

After installing the game it now takes up 319 MB of space not the 319 + the 309 of the original. So this leads me to believe this is not a patch persay but a full download of a patched version. I am pretty sure games like Super Stardust HD have done this too. But the problem here is this I just bought the game why isn't the patched version the one offered for download.

Now this isnt the end of the world but it does irk me at the inability to make decent size patch for this game and some others. I have never had downloads like this on my 360 or PC games as those patches are generally small patches(at least smaller than the original download). I can only suspect that either they did not build a path for upgrade into their architecture of the game or the encrytion they use just does not allow for it. I hope this is addressed in future games.

Sorry end of rant.

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7 comments | showing # 1 to 7

Y0j1mb0

Whatever..just download the damn patches and join us on PS3 Poker Nights @ 10pm EST where you can win a free game if you can play poker and beat me and mu Card Shark Crew..

:D

brainderailment

Interesting, whateva'

konchu

I have downloaded it its just a pain is all Im saying I may try to catch a game here in the near future I suck at Poker though.

Qraze

they had to rewrite code for camera support. and if you complain about space, get a bigger hdd, problem fixed.

Qraze

its a patch. something has to be included to fix it. if you downloaded something and it has zero mbytes then it has nothing in it. the fix has to be permanently implemented or it won't fix it. even rewriteing code needs a tool or the game would be pulled, fixed, and then re-released. and that would take more time and frustration then patching it.

hpv

This definitely is a stupid problem. I don't really care that they make you re-download the entire game whenever you "patch" it, but the fact that they don't just replace the PSN download with the most recent version is really annoying. Or it was the one time it happened to me.

I really hope that Siren has some show-stopping bug in one of the chapters just so we can find out how they go about patching a multi-gigabyte download!

bloodylip

My beef is that they have the words "strip" and "poker" right next to each other, yet there's no nudity. What's up with that?

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