PC Gaming, General & Off Topic Chat

I looked into the PC port of Metal Gear Solid a while back.
It wasn't handled by Konami but outsourced to a company called Digital Dialect.
The port features most of the content from Metal Gear Solid Integral (or Metal Gear: Special Missions on as it was known in PAL regions)

There is quite a few differences between it and the PSX version.

Supports of resolutions of up to 1024x768 as opposed to 320x240 of the PSX version.
The developers of the PC port where able to come up with a fix to the texture warping issue that affects the PSX version (and PSX games in general), hence the PC version looks alot more stable in motion.
People are divided whether the higher resolution makes the game look worse or better though.
The soliton rader is a lot clear looking on PC.
2D text like that appearing in the credits is of a lower quality on PC.
The developers had intended to introduce higher quality textures into the port but this was blocked by Kojima himself, who felt it would make the game look worse. the port developers came to agree with his assessment.
PC version has faster load times.
No rumble on PC version.
The 300 VR missions and photoshoto from Intergral are available without having to unlock them.
FPS mode can be toggled off and on at any time as opposed to it being an entirely separate game mode as it was on PSX.
Game can be saved at any time with having to communicate with Mei Ling.
Like the PSX version its capped at 30FPS (the PAL PSX version of course ran at 25FPS)
The PC version lacks several effects of the PSX version like motion blur, likely graphics cards at the time where not capable of running them.
The PC version has a more normalized colour scheme than PSX, and has lost the the purplish tint of the PSX game.
The developers never got access to the internal mixer or the games soundtrack and had to rip the soundtrack from fansites. Hence the music and audio is of lower quality and speech is off pitch. The alert theme plays for 30 seconds instead of 60, the duel music for boss battles is missing replaced by the alert theme, and the Evasion theme is also missing. Not the fault of the port developers, all Konami's fault.
The audio was not redone for the PC version so when characters talk about controls they will talk about PSX controls and buttons, the subtitled text was updated to reflect PC commands though.
The Pyscho Mantis boss battle removed the controller vibrating and memory card reading sequence. If played on a control pad, the player will have to switch to keyboard and mouse instead of controller to defeat him. If already using a keyboard and mouse you don't need to switch.
The Hideo message during the Psycho Mantis boss battle is gone.
The codec with audio commentary added in Integral is missing.
Meryls sneaking suit from MGS Integeral is also not in PC port.
The 3 bonus trailers from MGS Integeral are also not in the PC port.

The GOG version allows much higher resolutions than the original version but there is no widescreen support.
The GOG version fixes an issue with FMV that features real life footage not playing. This was to do with the video format becoming antiquated after Windows 98 which the original port was designed for.
Still has the known issue of a black bar appearing at the bottom of the screen.

The biggest issue with the PC port was the missing graphics features like depth of field and motion blur and the poor state of the audio, but I don't think the originally port developers where at fault for those issues.
At least now that there is a version that's easy to run though, might find some modders will be able to fix the audio in time.

A few questions Retro.

Did the trooper at the top of the Liberty Statue come across an unfortunate case of friendly fire?
Did you visit the Ladies Toilets.
Did you kill Lebedev, allow him to die or save him?
Did you flee out the window at the ton Hotel or did you stay and fight?
Did you investigate police at Maggie Chow's request or discover the apartment across the street?

The shooting in Deus Ex is abit more RPG than FPS.

When aiming you have to keep the aiming recticle on the enemy for recticle to narrow so you can get an accurate shot. You can level up you weapon category skills for this aiming recticle narrowing to happen faster. Alternatively, you can install a laser site mod to give 100% accuracy to any weapons.
Leveling up weapon skills also increases the base damage of the weapons.
Enemies have hitpoints and have hitboxes for heads, torso and limbs. Hitting the torso of the enemy will do 2x damage, the head 1x and limbs 0.7x. You would think it odd that the torso gives a bigger damage bonus than the head but most weapons have a damage bonus modifier on headshots so they do considerably more damage.
Melee weapons such as the baton and stun rod get no bonus damage to headshots but they got massive damage bonus when used from behind and at very close range on any part of the body.
The pepper spray also gives a damage bonus modifier of 4x as well as preventing enemies from fighting back.

Later enemies life the MJ 12 Commandos and MIB's have much more health than regularly troops and they are programmed never to retreat, though you can panic them. The Commando's armour gives them protection from tear gas and reduces flame and dart attack damage by x0.5.

Anyways I wouldn't call the combat that amazing, but its functional, and the A.I isn't that bad it becomes immersion breaking.