Does being drunk affect your gaming performance?
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When I play games drunk I get a headache and fall asleep.
The one exception is if there are friends round, in which case I get a headache, fall asleep then someone throws a shoe at my head.
The one exception is if there are friends round, in which case I get a headache, fall asleep then someone throws a shoe at my head.
Singstar is hilarious when drunk. In fact I bet there are few people who have even approached this game unless they are a) drunk or b) trying to impress their girlfriend.Imperator_2 said:
It's so funny when I show my drunk buddy the next day when he's sober how he played thanks to Halo 3's saved films.
I have only been drunk a few times, but from the experience I can say that I would probably have no concept of how to make the character work due to my ailing memory between the controller button and the screen. I can say this with certainty as, to test myself at one time, I attempted to build an 800 piece lego pirate ship while drunk. I held the piece, looked at the directions, looked at the ship... Looked at the directions, looked at the piece again. It was near impossible to hold on to the memory of how to solve the even inanest of puzzles. On another occasion I was so drunk that I could not figure out how to get the key in the door, and ended up falling asleep holding onto the key, which was successfully in the door nob, but the door remained locked.
So yeah, if I were drunk and somehow managed to get my hands on a controller or a Wiimote, I probably would not get far into turning the thing on before laughing like an idiot and dropping into a deep sleep.
So yeah, if I were drunk and somehow managed to get my hands on a controller or a Wiimote, I probably would not get far into turning the thing on before laughing like an idiot and dropping into a deep sleep.
Playing game drunk is fun, but i doesn't make me better. However, 1 or 2 beers makes me more relaxed, which really helps if I'm really pissed off with a level. If I get stuck on one part of a game for too long I just go away, have beer, come back with another and pause every now and then to take a drink. I find my aims more steady, and I don't get fustrated as easially. Its a good tactic if your having a mad gaming weekend.
Also, playing the wii with mates drunk is just hilarious. Though I did break most of my mates stuff and his toe when playing wii at his birthday party.
And then I slept round another mates and woke his mom up because I kept pointing and laughing at a bowl of grapes...I don't know for the life of me why.
Also, playing the wii with mates drunk is just hilarious. Though I did break most of my mates stuff and his toe when playing wii at his birthday party.
And then I slept round another mates and woke his mom up because I kept pointing and laughing at a bowl of grapes...I don't know for the life of me why.
No you're not, drinking a couple beers loosens my muscles, makes me less uptight so I can play smoothly instead for jerking my gun around the screen like a paranoid little girl. It also gives me more confidence in doing some things I wouldn't normally do when gaming sober, and then they usually succeed as well. All other types of games like RPGs and RTS are already lower paced so you're not as uptight or they just require too much thinking, so either we're both freaks of nature or it's just natural (wow, the logic..)Spacelord said:
My friend Bryan was decent at Halo, but for some reason would kick all of our asses when he was drunk. And we had a professional playing with us. Tyler actually got paid for kicking asses in Halo, and Bryan's drunken escapades would even slaughter him. And this wasn't just once, it was every single time he was drunk. The thing is that Bryan's so hyperactive when he's sober and drinking calms him down significantly and gives him a lot more focus.
Logical or not, it pissed the lot of us off to no end.
Logical or not, it pissed the lot of us off to no end.
Drunkard Gaming is absolutely hilarious at times, and surprisingly yielding with some games.
I don't remember any of it, but my friend said I beat Nineball in AC Ninebreaker, AND that I did it with relative ease... Can't remember a damn second of it though.
I don't remember any of it, but my friend said I beat Nineball in AC Ninebreaker, AND that I did it with relative ease... Can't remember a damn second of it though.
We see a common thread: performance in nearly all games is increased with a low level of inebriation.
The question is... why?
Perhaps, and I'm truly guessing here...
I've noticed that my performance in a game (in easy-to measure situations, mostly: arcade style games) often increases substantially if I abandon it for a week and come back. Perhaps this break allows counterproductive inhibitions (flinches, if you wish to make a firearms analogy) to deteriorate. This makes sense from a neurological standpoint: the inhibitions would be coded by weaker connections than the main skills of the game, so decreasing all connections would eliminate the bad practices, leaving only the good ones.
I posit that ethanol, by inhibiting the function of the brain, mimics this effect. I don't know enough neuro-chemistry to state this with any certainty, but I believe that alchohol actually acts on neurons in a manner similar to the natural dendrite atrophy patterns. (Right? The affect on the calcium action potential causes the degradation, and prevents the construction of, synapses... right?)
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This doesn't mean that it's a good idea to drive while intoxicated. Driving is a low-risk-if-you-don't-do-something-stupid skill, whereas games are a certain-loss-if-you-don't-take-dangerous-risks skill. In other words, the last thing you want to do when driving is to treat it as a game.
The question is... why?
Perhaps, and I'm truly guessing here...
I've noticed that my performance in a game (in easy-to measure situations, mostly: arcade style games) often increases substantially if I abandon it for a week and come back. Perhaps this break allows counterproductive inhibitions (flinches, if you wish to make a firearms analogy) to deteriorate. This makes sense from a neurological standpoint: the inhibitions would be coded by weaker connections than the main skills of the game, so decreasing all connections would eliminate the bad practices, leaving only the good ones.
I posit that ethanol, by inhibiting the function of the brain, mimics this effect. I don't know enough neuro-chemistry to state this with any certainty, but I believe that alchohol actually acts on neurons in a manner similar to the natural dendrite atrophy patterns. (Right? The affect on the calcium action potential causes the degradation, and prevents the construction of, synapses... right?)
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This doesn't mean that it's a good idea to drive while intoxicated. Driving is a low-risk-if-you-don't-do-something-stupid skill, whereas games are a certain-loss-if-you-don't-take-dangerous-risks skill. In other words, the last thing you want to do when driving is to treat it as a game.
I managed to drag my PS2 out of my room, set it up and then proceed to play the heck out of all my other friends who were only half as drunk as I was. Then I got shown up by some daywalker who barely even played before, and still kicked my ass on every level we played.......
Also I did pretty well on SSBB while under the influence of two drugs. OF course I usually play as Zelda, so read into that what you will.
Also I did pretty well on SSBB while under the influence of two drugs. OF course I usually play as Zelda, so read into that what you will.
