Does being drunk affect your gaming performance?

[LuxAeternus]

Once before a night out I left my console on due to being between save-points and having no more time. Waking up the next morning with some suspicious gaps in my memory I found the power off, leading to an 'oh shit' moment when I assumed I had turned it off when I staggered to bed.

To my surprise on booting it up, I had apparently finished the level and done rather well...all with completely no memory of doing it.

Any similar stories?

 

[Anarchemitis]

I know for a fact a previous thread with the exact same premise if not same title exists.
And I wouldn't know, I've never been drunk.

 

[RAWKSTAR]

I remember coming home at 2am and thinking it would be one hell of an idea to play on the Wii... Can't remember the game but I do remember waking and finding the Wiimote in some soup.

On the other hand It was a good night out!

 

[Apone]

Alcohol affects your reflexes and awareness. As such I can do sod all on CoD4 when drunk. Though Halo just gets funnier, especially the idiots shouting nonsense at you.

 

[Moon-Goose]

Its make Halo 3 fun

Erm, but in all seriousness, it actually imrpoves more perfomance, for example, a I completed the Master and the Molotov on GTA4 whilst drunk, when I couldnt complete it sober after 8-9 attempts...

 

[Spacelord]

When drinking, my (normally abysmal) skill in FPS'es goes up exponentially, while my skill in all other game genres declines very rapidly with every beer. I'm a freak of nature.

 

[Zombie_King]

There was actually some guy who tried driving while drunk (in-game) in GTA4 and driving while drunk (out-of-game). Ready for the results? And the worse driver is:
Drunk out of game.
But think about it. In WoW, when you're drunk, your movement gets skewed and a blurry filter is put on your screen. If I was drunk was playing WoW, I would suck much much worse than being drunk in-game. I'd hit the wrong keys, I'd type stupid things into chat, and I might endanger the safety of my whole party (assuming I'm in an instance). Drunkenness (it's not easy to spell, what do you want from me!?) affects your physical ability to choose as well as your mental ability to do so.

 

[Alexandrous]

I can't play RPG's. It's hard to read when you've got double-vision.

"So... that says Attack, right? Okay... no, wait, don't HEAL, STOP HEALING!"

But FPS and open-world games get a LOT more fun. I always enjoy a good, drunken round of Mercenaries.

 

[Onima]

I'm in the same boat as one of the above posters. In FPS (see CoD4) I turn into some sort of head-shot-demon with just a couple beers. Though I can't say it negatively affects me in other genres.

 

[Johnn Johnston]

Once saw a friend get drunk, then complete the 'Home in the Hills' mission of GTA:San Andreas using just his pistol. It was such a sight to watch, but when he was sober he couldn't get past the first corridor.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

My ex-roomie once transcended space and time while drunk and played 20 hours of FFX without stopping.

 

[EmperorDude]

I'm a teetotaller(whatever its spelled) so I haven't clue.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

Both my brothers "Assassins Creed" and "Mass Effect" discs were rendered unusable by his drunken antics.

 

[snuffler]

Where to start...
Guitar Hero III, my favorite game ever to play while drunk. My friend critisized me for sucking it up hardcore on medium my first time, so I chugged back a few brewskies and beat the majority of hard within the night. Though I only ever play it at her house.

In contrast, I tried playing Guitar Hero II while drunk and sucked a big one through a straw.

One night I came home plastered from a kegger, and decided to see who was on the CS:S server I play on and one of my RL buddies was on, along with his whole clan. So I logged on their server and pulled out a knife, went something like 6-23 but I couldn't have done that if I were sober.

I've played WoW absolutely ripped out of my mind and still topped the damage meters by over 2 million damage in a karazhan raid.

 

[captainfuzzy]

A former college chum used to come over to our dorm and play Starcraft with us. He was a handful when sober, and every match was a nail-biter when he was involved.

But whenever he got drunk or stoned (often both), he somehow turned into Ares. I remember getting eliminated and turning to look at his screen to figure how the hell he had so handily defeated me. I knew from the frustrated mewling emanating from my roommates that he was in the process of wiping the floor with their collective entrails, but all I could see him doing was randomly clicking pylons while whole cadres of units were scattered about the map collecting dust on their armor.

 

[Archaeology Hat]

It makes me have alot more fun but terrible at actually playing.

 

[Leorex]

i can run over people just fine drunk or undrank.

 

[roo18]

I wouldn't know.

/lie

 

[Nimic]

People who say it makes them better at games either lie, or get suckered by the fact that they (obviously) THINK they're better when they're drunk, because.. well, they're drunk! Though I do get better at FPS'es when I've been up for a very long time. Maybe you get past that thinking point and just act on instinct (which is always good in Counterstrike). I guess that could happen when drunk too, but then your motor-skills would still suck.