A couple of days ago, we informed you about a rumor, suggesting that a number of Konami games would re-release on PC. And it appears that this rumor was legit. Konami and GOG have just announced that Metal Gear Solid 1 & 2, as well as the classic Castlevania and Contra games are available on GOG.
Going into more details, the first Metal Gear game is priced at 5.99 euros. On the other hand, Metal Gear Solid 1 and Metal Gear Solid 2 cost 9.99 euros each. Lastly, Konami’s Castlevania & Contra Collection can be yours for 5.99 euros.
As always, these games are DRM-free on GOG. Furthermore, they work, out of the box, on most modern-day Windows operating systems. In other words, these games are compatible with Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10.
Do note that these are just re-releases. They are not remakes or remasters. Thus, you should not be expecting higher resolution textures, newer graphical effects, or higher quality 3D models.
Have fun!
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That’s great news. But I’ll wait for the Steam version.
It’s GOG and not Epic unless you missed something…
Probably a Steam only idiot.
If only it was the MGS1 remake
Not from the current Konami
Twin Snakes? Most fans don’t like that version, and it was never released on PC.
Most fans are dumb.
That version was trash to begin with anyway, so I vehemently disagree with you on this subject.
That’s just some purist stuff, everything is better in TTS, from graphics/framerate to AI and controls, the cutscenes never bothered me, i never took the MGS storyline and lore seriously because it’s riddled with plot holes and ridiculous nonsense, people who think that MGS writing is some literature masterpiece should go read more books
I personally have a problem with people who overrates and/or underrates his writing. Delivery is important and it just work in most of his games.
No his games are borefests full of mindless ramblings.
Quite ironic using the word “delivery” considering his last game lol, true, but i have more problems with people overrating it, Kojima is a genius game designer, but barely above average writer, and people who think he’s a genius on both are wrong, i have more respect for people underrating his writing
There are games with better writing, but the delivery is a poorly done cutscene or just a bunch of text, Kojima movie aspiration bought a good dose of cinematic content with clever, albeit flawed, writing, while cinematic content in the west amounts to too much style over substance. Personally, i think only the Yakuza/Binary Domain devs are on the same level.
It’s common for hardcore gamers to dismiss Kojima cinematic contributions to games, but it’s the same as blaming sucessful games for cashgrab clones.
With every game Kojima is getting further away from what made his games entertaining and cinematic to begin with. MGS5 with its no cut, blurry shaky cam was pure and utter trash. We had no codec conversations, instead – oh my lord – we had audio files to listen to.
System Shock did that. Either he’s regressing or his games – like most japanese games – can not catch up with western games. Western devs produce much better cutscenes and much better writing nowadays than anything Kojima does today or did back then.
I mean he’s still using japanese mocap actors for western characters. Their body language is equal to Power Rangers. MGS4 was full of that and that made it extremely cartoony for a game about the dangers of the industrial military complex.
Keep in mind that one of the reasons why his previous games were better written is because the translation team took many liberties. Those people had no respect for his sloppy and unfocused writing and they made it work. But his ego couldn’t accept that, so they had to go. It’s one of the reasons why the dialogs and delivery is getting worse and worse. People don’t question him anymore.
The last game I enjoyed from him was MGS2. MGS3 was good, great even, but everything after that was rubbish. Don’t even get me started on Peace Walker. It’s like he documented his fever dream or something. The only MGS titles on handhelds that were actually good were the ones he wasn’t involved with.
Very true but you’ll have the Kojima cultists after you now.
Lol, if they can explain to me very carefully how I’m wrong I’d like to listen, but that doesn’t change some facts, all the MGS titles have very good game design ideas but the only way for me to appreciate the story is to take it as a big joke
Those “Kojima cultists” are evidently libtards too…
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…albeit the SJWs went mental at him in relation to Quiet, lol!
F you, trump voting b&^ch.
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Dump Trump
Ah. We will see who is crying in two months…. bit@h.
Not sure if troll or deranged partisan r**ard.
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F*k you, trump voting b*tch.
And f*ck you all that downvoted me. Racist swine.
I’m still ashame of my words and deeds after watching SFM stuff of Quiet…his justification was so dumb, the whole MGS V from a storytelling point is so dumb…that’s why a dude like Yoko Taro coming with “i just like nice looking girls in my videogames” justification for 2B’s butt wins me over the hack Kojima.
You’re opinion is noted and discarded
Yes i am opinion
Considering other lores we have in the gaming world, you can say MGS is something special. Not so many games have good plots, in fact, less and less games have that today.
And don’t compare games to books, that’s just dumb.
There are games that are comparable to books in terms of writing, that’s not dumb at all
Must be rare af, I can’t remember one that can be as good as a book.
Care to point some? I’ll love to try them.
Divinity Original Sin 1 & 2, Fallout 1 & 2, Portal 2, GTA IV, RDR 1 & 2, Psychonauts, Deus EX, Grim Fandango had among the best writing i encountered, sur they dont compare to the best literature out there but all of these are far better compared to the best writing MGS series can offer (MGS3)
Didn’t want to include TW series because they’re already book adaptations
EDIT : Forgot Max Payne, Mafia and The Darkness, also the early Assassin’s Creed games
Thank you very much.
Sadly I know all of these games… Was expecting something new to play, but there’s one I’ll definitely play again… Grim Fandango! This game is awesome and reminds of my childhood.
Thanks again mate.
And i disagree with you disagreeing with me.
I played it on Dolphin and I absolutely loved it. Was my first Metal Gear experience. I never played the original PS1 version though.
Most fans hate it because of the FP view that makes the game easy, you can just ignore it and play the classic way, then comes the over the top cutscenes, and here people who dislike them are dumb enough to take the MGS series too seriously, like poop jokes and cheesy dialogues are all normal.
Aside from the dumbed down torture sequence, the lack of the original score and VR missions, it’s a far better way to experience the game nowadays
Twin Snakes? Most fans don’t like that version, and it was never released on PC.
no mgs 3 port
these are just rereleases of old pc versions that came out about twenty years ago. they would actually have to spend money making a proper pc port for mgs 3 considering it never came to pc before.
Metal Gear is overrated weeb trash. Re-release Silent Hill instead, Konami.
Silent Hill is a weeb masterpiece series.
They’re both great weeb games, but i can agree that SH aged better
Konami just remembered they can sell some of their abandonware for PC, progress… Now do SH2, SH3 and SH4 i guess…
crazy how nvidia shield gets the HD collection of MGS2 and MGS3 with pc controls.
while pc gets nothing. At the very least Konami should have worked with Nvidia to bring these versions over to pc already.
links
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.konami.mgs2hd.shield
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.konami.mgs3hd.shield&hl=en
Yea IDK why we have been waiting 8 years and still there’s no HD Collection on PC. Other than Konami’s complete disinterest in selling or making video games.
Meh These are the same ports from the past 🙁
Except they actually seem to run and work with hardware acceleration. They also fixed a few things I’m seeing already.
Owners are already recommending to use the MGS original release fan-made mod on this re-release so to get it to display properly on 16:9 monitors and to force upscaled 1080p.
The fan-made mod doesn’t come with the widescreen patch from Nemesis2000, it has to be added separately
I downloaded the game including a packaged mod several days ago. Whatever it is I downloaded renders the game full-screen 16:9 plus has the features of oxide-NL’s mod!
Do you know if the mod fixed the real life videos not being rendered ? It has been fixed in the GOG version.
As for the 16:9 in the mod it must be cropped, use the Nemesis2000 for corrected FoV, unless the fan-made patch had an update that include the widescreen mod
I stand corrected on the earlier point. It’s the “Final” version of oxide-NL’s mod that I downloaded along with the game.
To your comment, the image doesn’t appear to be cropped to my non-MGS-obsessive eye. I note that the mod’s changelog states,
“GPU HW/Software emulation fixes related to scale/aspect ratio”
Good
Any chance you could share the link/name of the mod you used on MGS1? I’m currently using a prepackaged one I found on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/metalgearsolid/comments/4qlv1c/final_full_release_metal_gear_solid_1_integral_pc/
That’s what I’m using.
Good to know! Thank you! didn’t realise you could install it over official installations, too 😀 Have you tested the GOG release vs the mod? (personally, I’m sticking with the mod for now)
You’re welcome. No, I’ve not tested the mod using the GOG version of the game but others have and have reported favourable results. Ditto MGS 2.
I actually saw oxide-nl, the patchmaker, recommending the GOG executables to be pasted into his patch – apparently the GOG exes support higher resolutions, and may have fixed a disk-swap bug. https://www.reddit.com/r/metalgearsolid/comments/izj08e/metal_gear_metal_gear_solid_metal_gear_solid_2/g6n9weq/?context=3
Very nice! Thanks for the heads-up.
I hope this release of MGS2 fixes the original.
If you could track down a copy, MGS2 on PC has broken reflections and it doesn’t have dynamic shadows like on the PS2 version.
Did you try mgs2-v-s-fix?
I played the game some 2-4 years ago and I don’t believe I used any fixes.
It’s a fantastic fix and super easy to install. Highly recommended.
They work. 🙂
Not even remaster so bad omg
“these are just re-releases”
That answers my comment from 2 days ago re: how lazy Konami would be!
After seeing this, yeah, it’s hardly bare bones at this point. Disappointed in Konami and GoG for being lazy working on this. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/75db57a1acc641b535a7e5da96df74fc5c784b28bbb2272756abea4dfe527cbb.png
Interesting. The other option would of course be to play the PS1 version via emulation whereby some of the graphics settings (internal rendering resolution, texture filtering, fixed affine texture warping, etc) are increased.
Still better than nothing, have the original mgs1 pc release on cd but i’ve no dvd/cd player on my current build so having an option to dl the games from GoG anytime is always nice
There’s a mod/s available for the original release which removes the need to have the disc inserted, fixes many bugs, displays the game properly on a 16:9 monitor, forces upscaled 1080p and is sharpened up by ReShade.
This lazy re-release doesn’t do all of those things.
yea but to install those mods and no cd crack you need to have the game installed first, that’s something i can’t do without a cd/dvd player unless i pirate it and that’s only happening if there’s people seeding it. Don’t really have use for dvd/cds as i just download or stream everything i want nowdays so yeah… but now there’s an option to get those from GoG without the hassle which is nice. But ofc. we all want a remake or remaster
“unless i pirate it and that’s only happening if there’s people seeding it”
The full installer package for the original release (game featuring no-CD crack and mods) is available as a direct download as opposed to a torrent.
And they are pretty bad ports even with the tweaks added by GOG to make them work on modern systems.
This wasn’t’ rumors it was advanced marketing by marketing sites that sell ads to hardware manufacturers and software makers. Played MGS2 Substance years ago on PC had a blast, I think it’s still installed even, nothing new here. I may try MGS1 but if it’s too archaic controls and camera angles might pass after the demo phase.
I’m super surprised by this. Those are ‘abandonware’ at some point.
Maybe if Konami noticed the good sales… they’ll release Silent Hill games on Steam (not counting Homecoming, obv)
I see this as great news as MGS1 seems to be equivalent the Integral version of PSX and MGS2 the Substance version. They also got available the original Metal Gear from MSX. Also, Konami seems already developing a Metal Gear Solid Remake and the sequences will only receive Remasters.
If you want more Metal Gear games on PC then buy these on GOG so Konami notices a demand. Could be one step to helping get an official MGS3 and 4 port on PC without having to use emulators. I bet 50 $ if a couple hundred thousand bought these games they’d do it. They’d probably even try to port other series like Silent Hill if they see $ come in.
agreed, they are probably testing the waters
K but if you could kindly release them on Steam as well as MGS HD collection – if not MGS Legacy collection. And Gradius. And Silent Hill 1 -4 re-release on Steam.
There’s no valid reason whatsoever that an effort hasn’t been made to release MGS4 on PC. None.
Y u do dis?
I love GOG!