Oh hell yeah.
That's great news for me.

YAY!

I sold my xbox 360 version awhile back, maybe i'll pick it back up when it's on sale on Steam.

I just find it funny that Rockstar was originally more supportive of the PC at first, but now it's more of an afterthought for them.

In any case, I am very happy that it's coming to the PC since I prefer to do my sleuthing this way.

HEY ROCKSTAR

PUT RDR ON THE PC TYVM

DAMMIT I GOT THE GAME ON PS3, DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT.

WOW!  I did not see this coming...
 
I really wanted to try this game.  
I don't have any of the consoles out today, I haven't tried Heavy Rain or Red Dead Redemption.
 
With this game coming out for PC I can at least try out one of the latest film-like games on the market :D.

Fap

Yes. 
*Punches the air in rejoice*

YES! YES!
 
Too bad RDR never came to PC. What a shame.

This is better news than anything that came out of E3.

@DonPixel: Amazing reply! You totally got me there! Don't assume your experiences with that game to speak for everyone else's. The vast majority of people had problems with this game, regardless of machine power (as you can see in that DF video). It's not univerally recognized as a bad port for nothing.  I do, however, hope that LA Noire will be different in that regard, so that both you and I can enjoy it for the great game it is.

So much for RDR, I guess. :\

Wow, Alex had to mention mods a nudity in the PC version... *shakes head in disgust*

Super!  Now all PC gamers can see how boring this title really is.

Thank you Rockstar!!! can't freakin wait :).

But I already bought and finished this game within a day after launch. What's the point of buying it again? I mean, until it's $5 on Steam, someday, of course. Also, I wonder how compressed it will be. If the PS3 version is 38-50gb and the 360 version is 20gb . . . those are all sizes that you just don't see on the PC (though I don't see why not).

I can sometimes understand DLC coming out later (though not much later), but I just don't get waiting months or a year to release on other platforms or to release bug patches. If I want to play the game, I'm going to buy it when it launches; not wait six months. And once I've finished the game, what does it fucking matter what fixes you make?

Whoa, that was unexpected. Awesome news!

F yeah, i was so pissed when i sow PS3/Xbox 360 when it was released.  rdr for pc would be also awesome.

Can't wait to have to log in to 7 different accounts and install all sorts of shitty DRM!

Brought GTA IV + DLC for $10 in a steam sale not too long ago and I closed the fucking game when it told me I couldn't save my game unless I registered in 3 different places.

I really can't be bothered with your shit Rockstar, it's downright inconvenient to play a game I don't have much of an interest in anyway.

Now where is Alan Wake and RDR. God damn it!

@Laketown said:

@DonPixel said:

@thornie said:

Here's hoping the game is optimized. Rockstar has a crummy track record of optimizing console ports for PC.

Thats rubrish whining.. GTA4 was optimized for multicore runs like butter with better visuals in any i5+ ... The initial whining comes for dual core owners.

no, I have a AMD quad core and it still ran pretty badly.

MMokay ?

LA Noire mods would be sweet.

yo  I'll buy this.  Even if I'm buying it FOR the cole naked lady mod.

@NekuSakuraba said:

DAMMIT I GOT THE GAME ON PS3, DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT.

Literally this. I could have saved myself ~£10 on a game I didn't even like >:(

I don't understand why rockstar always releases the pc version of a game way past the initial release date. 

Wow, looks like Big Rigs took a toll on Alex. Angry at PC gaming much?

They better have the DLC in there.

hot damn!

Looking forward to trying this - it always seemed like a PC style of game to me.
 
RE: The port of GTA IV on the PC, it is far and away the best version of the game so long as your machine can handle it.  The performance is flawless on a i5 2500k and GTX 570 video card, and along with the resolution bump the view distance and detail sliders make it a much better looking game.  It may of been spotty at release but most PC games are now it seems. Some people forget that GTA IV was also too ambitious for consoles, I played through it on PS3 first, and it seemed like frame rate must of dipped down to 10 - 15 frames at times.

Hopefully they'll be able to bump up the facial textures to their original resolution because they look like really well animated paper bags on console.

@Laketown said:

@DonPixel said:

@thornie said:

Here's hoping the game is optimized. Rockstar has a crummy track record of optimizing console ports for PC.

Thats rubrish whining.. GTA4 was optimized for multicore runs like butter with better visuals in any i5+ ... The initial whining comes for dual core owners.

no, I have a AMD quad core and it still ran pretty badly.

Fact of the matter is, there's an insane amount going on in GTA 4 that isn't apparent at first. I'm still surprised they got it running on a 360 to be honest.

The world of LA Noire is far more sparse than liberty city so that means less processing power. I doubt this port will have the same issues. Hope not at least...

@Vitor said:

@Laketown said:

@DonPixel said:

@thornie said:

Here's hoping the game is optimized. Rockstar has a crummy track record of optimizing console ports for PC.

Thats rubrish whining.. GTA4 was optimized for multicore runs like butter with better visuals in any i5+ ... The initial whining comes for dual core owners.

no, I have a AMD quad core and it still ran pretty badly.

Fact of the matter is, there's an insane amount going on in GTA 4 that isn't apparent at first. I'm still surprised they got it running on a 360 to be honest.

The world of LA Noire is far more sparse than liberty city so that means less processing power. I doubt this port will have the same issues. Hope not at least...

If so at least for L.A. Noire and with the current state of Hardware capabilities the question should be: How much can they actually improve the visuals instead of just hopping for a better frame rate/resolution ?

@DonPixel: I can only assume the PS3 version is going to get ported over. Unless a game is developed for all platforms at the same time or ported from PC DOWN to console, the PC port will be nothing more than the console version at a higher frame rate and higher resolution.

@ds8k: Agree.. still it's pretty darn good news it's coming to the PC.

I have a PS3 sealed copy I'm going to return right now.

The game is at least 20GB when installed on 360, so i hope PC gamers are prepared for a chunk of their hard-drive to go.

@KingLouis51 said:

The game is at least 20GB when installed on 360, so i hope PC gamers are prepared for a chunk of their hard-drive to go.

the one surefire way to end piracy; make the game so big that torrenting it will take forever

@DonPixel said:

@Vitor said:

@Laketown said:

@DonPixel said:

@thornie said:

Here's hoping the game is optimized. Rockstar has a crummy track record of optimizing console ports for PC.

Thats rubrish whining.. GTA4 was optimized for multicore runs like butter with better visuals in any i5+ ... The initial whining comes for dual core owners.

no, I have a AMD quad core and it still ran pretty badly.

Fact of the matter is, there's an insane amount going on in GTA 4 that isn't apparent at first. I'm still surprised they got it running on a 360 to be honest.

The world of LA Noire is far more sparse than liberty city so that means less processing power. I doubt this port will have the same issues. Hope not at least...

If so at least for L.A. Noire and with the current state of Hardware capabilities the question should be: How much can they actually improve the visuals instead of just hopping for a better frame rate/resolution ?

Check out the developer diaries for the facial capture - the images they captured were of a significantly higher res and greatly more detailed than what they had in the final game, which was already pretty impressive.

If that makes it across in the port, I'd be happy.

Cool stuff, that is good more people will be able to play the game.

Fuck yeah. Now I can have everyone use a naked dead body as their bodies.

Meh, I'm a PC gamer, but I'm still skeptical, probably just gonna be a bad port, I will hold my judgement though!

and i was about to buy it for PS3 i see there is no need i much rather play on my PC.

FINALLY

@Laketown: It would take me less than 2 and a half hours to download 20 gigs from usenet.

@DonPixel: Oh definitely. I'm actually pissed because I JUST bought a copy for PS3. I'm thinking I'll still play it on PS3 and get it for PC later.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

@nick69 said:

I don't understand why rockstar always releases the pc version of a game way past the initial release date.

The console versions are made and finished first because they as a company and business want the maximum biggest profit that they can manage to get in the time frame of: "ASAP". And at the earliest possible point out of the gate, and since the majority of gamers out in the world are console based gamers the PC version will always get second hand treatment.

That is unless the scales of gamer interests tips in the PC's direction again. Doubtful unfortunately.

PC gamers are lucky at all these days that the Xbox 360 has a similar coding setup to pc based games, as it would take much longer to get to the PC, if at all, if the Xbox 360 coding wasn't similar.

Also, To everyone in general, Yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! I sold my Xbox 360 days before this game came out and resolved to play games much less, which I'm managing to do, but that doesn't mean I have to stop playing games entirely does it? He he he!