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Someone in fiction who gains such powers is a [[Drunken Master]]
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== Action Adventure Games ==
* Done in ''[[
* In ''[[Overlord]]'' Minions and Dwarves fight better when drunk.
* In the [[Wild West]] [[Wide Open Sandbox]] game ''GUN'', the player character heals by drinking out of the flask of whiskey he keeps with him. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in that it's not actually ''healing'' you, it's just dulling the pain so that you can keep fighting.
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== First-Person Shooter ==
* In ''[[System Shock 2]]'' and ''[[
** As absurd as it is that drinking and smoking ''cancel each other out,'' it's worse, because they give you more than they take away, meaning that doing both in equal amounts ''is good for you.''
** Drinking booze too fast does mess up your aim and vision, just not for very long.
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* In ''[[Condemned]] 2: Bloodshot'', if the player doesn't make Ethan regularly consume alcohol, his vision blurs and his aim becomes unsteady.
** Justified as Ethan is suffering from alcohol withdrawal. Like any drug, drinking alcohol on a regular basis causes your brain to become dependent on it.
* ''[[
** ''[[Deus Ex: Invisible War
** ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution
* In ''[[STALKER]]'', vodka cures ''radiation poisoning''.
** Which causes problems while adjusting to ''[[Fallout 3]]''; reaching for the vodka instead of the Rad-Away is rather embarrassing.
** [[Truth in Television]] as [http://resources.metapress.com/pdf-preview.axd?code=jh92886718632q1g&size=largest some studies show]{{Dead link}}.
* Drinking alcohol in [[
** On the other hand, [[No More for Me|inversely]], just shooting the bottle gives you some immediate points without having to mess your vision up, and shooting 20 also gives you an achievement/trpohy.
* Drinking beer in ''[[
== Hack and Slash ==
* In ''[[Dynasty Warriors]]'', ''[[Samurai Warriors]]'', and ''[[Warriors Orochi]]'', giant clay pots (as in, large enough for a grown man to take a bath in) of alcohol fill your [[Limit Break]] meter.
* Similarly, sake gourds in ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' fills your [[Limit Break|Basara Gauge]]. At least two characters, Maeda Keiji and Shimazu Yoshihiro, have attacks that explicitly involves imbibing alcohol.
* ''[[Final Fight]]'' subverts this; Beer and Whiskey (and for that matter, all beverages) are among the least effective [[Power-Up Food]] you can pick up.
== MMORPGs ==
* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', alcohol will blur your vision, make your character walk crooked, and make you misjudge enemies' levels if you drink enough of it, but some of it increases your stats temporarily. The chat box displays your intoxication level as feeling tipsy, drunk, etc (along with an [[Alcohol Hic]] or two). When you get to "completely smashed" you start to have hallucinations and your characters performs a drunken vomit.
** It also causes you to "slur" some words by randomly adding an 'h' after some 's'es, leading to one early patch note reassuring people that they would no longer accidentally talk about excrement while try to sit.
** Inverted in ''[[
** In one Wildhammer Dwarf daily quest in the Twilight Highlands in Cataclysm, using the kegs of beer gives you a significant and stacking bonus to your attack.
** Stat-enhancing alcohol is in the game, but most of it is only available during the Brewfest world event.
* In ''[[Guild Wars]]'', there are three [[Player Versus Environment]]-only Eye of the North skills that can benefited while you are drunk. Of course, the [[Blessed
* In ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', booze is one of the main ways of gaining more [[Anti
** Note that if you drink too much, you enter drunken stupor: a set of adventures, all producing negative (abet minor) effects. So drink in moderation, or binge and wait until tomorrow.
** There also exist several drinks which, in addition to providing adventures, also provide actual buffs. Also, absinthe, which strangely doesn't get you drunker, instead temporarily opening a new set of zones to adventure in.
** Sneaky Pete's day. Drink in moderation, it's the same as normal. Go into a stupor, still the same. Get ''completely blasted'', you get a new area.
* In ''[[Lusternia]]'', drinking can dull damage. Certain races (particularly dwarves - [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|natch]]) can handle their beer way better than others. And Brewmeisters (a trade) can handle it better still, in addition to brewing their own magical draughts. Consequently, a drunken dwarf Brewmeister is [[What Do You Mean
* In ''[[Urban Dead]]'', cans of beer and bottles of wine both increase your health by one, but because drinking either one takes a whole turn, it's usually better to just search for a medkit.
* In ''Nodiatis'', the "Alcoholic" class gets increasing protection from [[Standard Status Ailments]] by being "buzzed".
* In ''[[
** However, alcohol of all types reduces your chance to hit in close combat.
* In some [[Multi User Dungeon|MUDs]], being drunk boosts your healing rate. At least one had a ''sword'' that made you drunk when you used it.
* In ''[[
== Platform Games ==
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* ''[[Project Zomboid]]'': Alcohol can serve as a poor man's substitute for drugs, at the cost of lost coordination and energy.
* In the earlier ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' games, you could throw back drinks to gain minor, temporary buffs... but not only did you get blurry vision, if you drank enough, it could kill you on the spot from alcohol poisoning!
** In the later games (''[[The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
*** Since different drinks diminished different stats, it was possible to drink two or three, and have the penalty end up on a non-combat stat, such as Personality.
*** An extreme example is the drink Sujamma from Morrowind. It massively boosts strength while dropping intelligence. And the effects stack. Great when one needs titanic strength for a minute.
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** All the previous games' alcohol did was reduce perception by 1, for a very short time. Additionally, you could use it on other targets besides yourself. This led to the interesting development of a player walking up to the last boss in 2 with a 12-pack of beer...
** ''[[Fallout 2]]'' took this to another level. In addition to booze, there were 4-5 street drugs which would give you stat bonuses, at the cost of minuses to other stats and a chance of addiction. A [[Good Bad Bug]] allowed you to gain unimaginable agility by constantly using Jet until you were addicted, then drinking a little alcohol (which canceled the addicted status and made the agility gain permanent).
** In ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'', one of your Companions, Cass, gives you the 'Whiskey Rose' perk. This lets you drink Whiskey (Boosts your STR and CHR at the cost of INT and PER) without any adverse effects, making her the preferred partner of many Unarmed and Melee based characters.
*** You can also make your own wasteland alcohol, one type has a possible intelligence penalty of -6. If you have average intelligence (5) this can take you into [[Improbably Low IQ]] territory.
* In ''[[Odin Sphere]]'', Lord Brigan gains buffs from drinking his own alcohol, but when he pours it onto the PC's face, it makes him/her dizzy.
* ''Atelier Judie'' has enemy bears that will feed you wine, which makes your accuracy drop dramatically.
* In ''[[Baten Kaitos]]'' Japanese Rice Wine actually revives the player, and beer/red wine/sweet wine can heal. Even a certain miniboss will use "Rough 'em up drink," which increases defense.
* In ''[[Orcs
* During the [[Wild West]] chapter of ''[[Live a Live]]'', booze and smokes are your primary healing items. They all drop your stats when used, however.
* In ''[[The Witcher]]'' videogame, drinking makes the screen wobble and blur, makes Geralt stagger around and reduces fighting ability, but several talents can be taken that only activate when intoxicated. In addition, strong, quality alcohol is used as a base for most potions.
* In ''[[
* The PS2 and XBox release of ''[[The
* Used by Zegram in ''[[Rogue Galaxy]]'' -- "Drunken Burst," in which a swig of grog increases the attack power of all allies.
* ''[[Jade Empire]]'' has Drunken Master style, only usable if Henpecked Hou is in your party. Booze is used to boost your health, but slows your reflexes. This is used to hilarious effect in one of the final battles where you team Hou up with [[Ax Crazy]] Black Whirlwind, who is over the moon with delight over being able to drink and fight (his two favorite things in the world) at the same time!
* Being drunk is [[Magic
* In "[[Phantasy Star Universe]]" and related games the Photon Art "Ikk Hikk" involves drinking alcohol, beating up your opponent, breathing fire, passing out, and then flailing your arms and legs.
== Shoot Em Ups ==
* The modern ''[[NARC]]'' game does this with drugs. Crack makes you a crack shot, for instance.
== Simulation Games ==
* In ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' all
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
== Survival Horror ==
* [[Badass Normal|Edward Carnby]] from the ''[[Alone in
* In ''[[Eternal Darkness]]'', Edward carries a flask of "[[G
* ''[[Dead Rising]]'': Both Frank and the gun store owner drink wine ''by the bottle'' to replenish health.
** In [[Dead Rising 2|the sequel]], Chuck downs an entire bottle of Whiskey (the same you can make a molotov with, holy crap!) in a few seconds. Although the risk of getting sick to your stomach arises when consuming more than one alcoholic item shortly after another (which results in vomiting uncontrollably).
** Done again by Frank in ''[[
* Bottles of hard liquor such as Hot Sake or Tequila serve as healing items in ''[[Shadows of the Damned]]''. It's justified by the fact that in the Underworld alcohol heals you rather than destroys your liver.
* ''[[Dead Island]]'' has the Alcohol item. It's useless when drunk, only giving you a severe case of [[Interface Screw]], unless you're playing as [[The Alcoholic|Logan]], who, once you get the appropriate skills, can get increased strength and/or regenerating health when drunk.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Dungeons
** In the ''[[
* ''[[GURPS]]'' addresses this. The Drunk and Tipsy conditions temporarily reduce DX and IQ but make it easier to resist the Cowardice and Shyness disadvantages.
** From ''Martial Arts'' the Drunken Fighting perk plays this straight.
** The drunkenness rules were originally written for the [[Sourcebook]] of ''[[
** The Dungeon Fantasy supplement Taverns gives details on several special drinks that can give you minor benefits.
* In ''[[Exalted]]'', there is a Martial Arts school which teaches the Orgiastic Fugitive Style which increases your ability in the art in line with how debilitatingly inebriated your character is. This, by the way is a Celestial level martial art meaning that its inventor was either a God or one of the 700 Celestial Exalted.
* ''[[
* ''[[
* The boardgame ''Red November'' (where you play an all-gnome crew on a VERY disaster-prone submarine) has the Grog item, which provides a + 3 bonus to any one task, and allows you to enter burning rooms even if you don't have an extinguisher. However, every time you do that, you have an increasing risk of passing out for ten minutes. As the game takes place over less than sixty minutes, this could be very dangerous. Even moreso if the room you're in springs a leak, or catches on fire...
* ''[[
* In the card game ''Bang!'', taking a drink (by playing a Beer card) heals damage.
* Drunkenness in a typical [[
* In ''[[Hell MOO]]'' alcohol will reduce your reflexes, make you vomit, cause you to slurr your speech and pass out, but will also increase brawn and with the correct mutations heal wounds.
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== Turn-Based Strategy ==
* Used in ''Rezerwowe Psy'', a [[Refuge in Vulgarity|somewhat kid-unfriendly]] and controversial Polish squad-based tactics game.
== Non-Video Game Examples ==
* ''[[Legend Of The Drunken Master]]'' portrayed Jackie Chan being a better fighter while drunk (with the reasoning of increased pain tolerance and improved flexibility. Also, real life [[Drunken Boxing]] is pure [[Confusion Fu]]: Jackie Chan's movie and video game series regarding being a [[Drunken Master]] thus assumes it's easier to execute it when actually drunk). He quits booze at one point in the plot, but in the final fight, he recovers from a hopeless fight by drinking pure grain alcohol.
* For a possible real life example, look at Buckfast Tonic Wine. At 30 proof and containing more caffeine per volume than Red Bull, its considered by many to be the source of a great deal of Scotland's violent drinking woes, due to the obvious problems that come with drunken, violent disaffected youth hopped up on enough caffeine to kill a horse with a glass bottle literally on hand. True or not, it has earned some rather entertaining nicknames, such as "Commotion Lotion" and "Wreck the Hoose Juice."
* Many long-term alcoholics work ''better'' after a smaller glass of
* In a very strange non-drinking version of the trope, the [[Nazi Germany]] V-2 rocket used grain alcohol as it's propellant because they discovered it was more powerful than kerosene and more flammable, able to quickly ignite and reach sufficient velocity while only needing some water as a diluting agent to prevent the ignition from blowing it up on the launch pad.
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