Booze-Based Buff: Difference between revisions

* Done in ''[[Okami (Video Game)Ōkami|Okami]]'' and its sequel ''[[Okamiden (Video Game)Ōkamiden|Okamiden]]''. Even the great god Amaterasu likes to quaff some Steel Fist sake before laying the celestial smack down. It's also inverted in the boss fight with Orochi, who is [[Immune to Bullets|completely invulnerable]]... until you use hydrokinesis to force-feed him the best sake in the entire world, thus getting him so drunk that he becomes vulnerable to your attacks.

* In ''[[System Shock 2]]'' and ''[[BioBioShock Shock(series)]]'', you can drink any booze you find lying around to restore your Health. This comes at a penalty to your [[Mana|PSI/EVE]], however. You get the opposite effect from tobacco.

* ''[[Deus Ex (Video Game)|Deus Ex]]'': In the unmodded game, any alcohol drink would give you two points of health, at the cost of blurred vision for roughly about a minute or so. Justified as the player character's nanites would instanly metabolize any product consumed.

** ''[[Deus Ex: Invisible War (Video Game)|Deus Ex Invisible War]]'': Averted, alcohol now takes away health.

** ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Video Game)|Deus Ex Human Revolution]]'': Alcohol will blur your vision again and give you health, like in the original game, but this time, your health will be pushed beyond the normal limit, giving you ''extra health''. This health won't be recovered through the game's regenerating health though.

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* Drinking alcohol in [[Bulletstorm (Video Game)|Bulletstorm]] [[Interface Screw|will cause your character's aim to go awry, and his vision to blur]], but to counterbalance it, every kill you score while intoxicated will net you a score bonus. Drinking 20 bottles (that must be found throughout the game) [[Cosmetic Award|gives you an achievement/trophy]].

* Drinking beer in ''[[Duke Nukem Forever (Video Game)|Duke Nukem Forever]]'' slightly blurs your vision, but Duke takes less damage from enemy attacks.

** Inverted in ''[[War CraftWarcraft]] 3'' (and [[Defense of the Ancients]]), where the Pandaren Brewmaster can cause a negative buff on enemies by using the Drunken Haze ability. It also helps if he should decide to set the enemy on fire.

* 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 Withwith Suck|sucky part]] of this is that your [[Interface Screw|screen is blurry]] while you are drunk, but that can be turned off with your interface options.

* In ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', booze is one of the main ways of gaining more [[Anti Poop Socking-Poopsocking|adventures]] per day.

** 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.

* In ''[[Runescape (Video Game)|RunescapeRuneScape]]'' a variety of ales can be brewed via the Cooking skill. These provide temporary boosts to specific skills when drunk.

* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings Online (Video Game)|The Lord of the Rings Online]]'', consuming too much beer or wine will progressively blur your vision, depending on how much, until eventually you're basically seeing quintuple.

** In the later games (''[[The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (Video Game)|Morrowind]]'' and ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Video Game)|Oblivion]]'') cheap drinks will generally buff one attribute will draining another, or restore your stamina. It is possible, however, to negate such attribute drains by casting a recovery spell. Expensive, quality liquors like Flin or Cyrodilic Brandy didn't have any adverse effects.

** 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 ''[[Orcs And& Elves]]'' for cell phones and the DS, you can drink ale to increase your stats but decrease accuracy. Additionally, the screen slowly sways back and forth the more drunk you are.

* In ''[[Final Fantasy XI (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XI]]'', most fruit-based drinks cause MP to regenerate (adding milk to it makes it regenerate HP). The one made from decayed grapes is the strongest. In two senses of the word.

* The PS2 and XBox release of ''[[The BardsBard's Tale]]'' give the player the option of temporarily increasing (or, in some cases, decreasing) some of the eponymous Bard's stats by buying a drink from any of the several taverns he comes across in his quest. The barkeeps even go to the trouble of describing the taste and quality of the selected brew when you take a look at them.

* ''[[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!

* 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.

* The modern ''[[NARC]]'' game does this with drugs. Crack makes you a crack shot, for instance.

* In ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' all dwarves -- evendwarves—even ''babies'' -- are—are alcoholics, and going a significant amount of time without alcohol will cause efficiency and happiness to plummet.

* In ''[[The Sims Medieval (Video Game)|The Sims Medieval]]'', Sims get a positive buff from drinking, and an extra one if the drink actually ''tastes'' good. Those with the "Drunkard" Flaw get a negative buff from ''not'' drinking, but don't get any more positive effects from drinking than those without the flaw.

* In ''[[FrontierThe VillePioneer Trail]]'', you can get drinks from the Saloon such as Loyal Pioneer, which lets you do 10 actions at a neighbour's homestead instead of 5 and Quick Draw Quaff which lets you do 5 actions using only 1 energy.

* [[Badass Normal|Edward Carnby]] from the ''[[Alone in Thethe Dark]]'' series drinks from various hip flasks scattered about to gain health.

* ''[[Dead Rising]]'': Both Frank and the gun store owner drink wine ''by the bottle'' to replenish health.

** Done again by Frank in ''[[Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]''. He can take a swig of alcohol, allowing him to take more pictures and grow levels quicker. However, after a while he'll hunch over and groan in pain allowing the other player to attack.

* ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]''' [[Drunken Master]] [[Prestige Class]] can drink alcohol to provide bonuses to Strength or Constitution at a penalty to Wisdom and Intelligence. At higher levels Drunken Masters can heal themselves by hitting the booze, or set the alcohol inside them on fire and spray it as a [[Breath Weapon]].

** In the ''[[BaldursBaldur's Gate]]'' series, over imbibing would only cause the character to become drunk at penalties to attack and armor. A moderate consumption would give you a slight morale boost. Still mot worth it, though.

** The drunkenness rules were originally written for the [[Sourcebook]] of ''[[Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (Literature)|Callahan's Crosstime Saloon]]''.

* ''[[Feng Shui (Tabletop Game)|Feng Shui]]'' has the fu path of the Empty Bottle, which caters to Drunken Master types such as those played by Jackie Chan.

* ''[[Unknown Armies (Tabletop Game)|Unknown Armies]]'' has Dipsomancy as one of its magical paths. Followers must be inebriated in order to gain magical charges, and sobering up removes all of their current power.

* ''[[Hong Kong Action Theatre (Tabletop Game)|Hong Kong Action Theatre]]'' has Joi Kuen (Drunken Boxing) as a "substyle" of kung fu which can be added to any style, which adds Dodge and Nerve Strike as additional maneuvers to any existing style. In addition, there's the "Drunk" Signature Move from the ''To Live and Die in HK'' supplement which allows a character with the signature to ignore all damage penalties for three combat turns if he or she can take a good swig during a fight, as well as adding a + 1 bonus to Dodges and Nerve Strikes due to their Joi Kuen.

* Drunkenness in a typical [[New World of Darkness (Tabletop Game)|New World of Darkness]] game confides a small bonus to all Social actions, but a corresponding penalty to Initiative, Wits, and Defense.

* Used in ''Rezerwowe Psy'', a [[Refuge in Vulgarity|somewhat kid-unfriendly]] and controversial Polish squad-based tactics game.

* Many long-term alcoholics work ''better'' after a smaller glass of booze -- theirbooze—their body has become accustomed to alcohol and the lack of it brings very unpleasant things, even before true delirium tremens appears: shaking hands, fatigue, stumbling etc.