Hey everyone!
Happy St Patrick’s Day!
The holiday that’s all about being Irish.
And all about being intoxicated!
Although, technically, that’s not really part of the holiday’s origins.
Meh.
Today we’re getting into the spirit by taking a look at games that glorify exactly that
– getting wasted.
With our list of the top 10 video games you can get drunk in!
Let the shenanigans begin!
10 Space Quest 1 Starting off this list is a game from 1986
called Space Quest 1, The Sarien Encounter.
You play as space janitor Roger Wilco from the ship Arcada, trying to stop evil aliens
– the Sariens - from getting away with a powerful experimental star generator on board
of the ship.
As stated by its creators, it’s a fun silly game, and it starts with Roger waking up from
a nap to discover that everyone on board the ship is dead, and that the Sarien’s have
taken control of it.
You end up escaping from the ship to a nearby planet named Kerona.
Turns out if you have a lot to drink in the game at the bar on Kerona, your direction
keys will randomize, so you end up walking in the wrong directions.
While this is hilarious, it only happens inside of the bar – as soon as you exit, it goes
back to normal.
9 Redneck Rampage Redneck Rampage is a first person shooter
that lets you heal yourself by collecting alcohol.
There’s actually a ‘drunk meter’; the more the character drinks, the less coordinated
they become, although it does have the added benefit of being somewhat less affected by
enemy fire.
The game took the same concept as Space Quest but to the next level – your character becomes
more difficult to use and doesn’t respond to the directional keys you press.
The game also becomes a bit more blurry.
When the drunk meter is full, your character falls down, and starts to throw up, completely
taking away the player’s control, and making you defenseless to attacks.
After a few moments though, the character sobers up and you regain control.
8 Jade Empire Jade Empire is an action RPG by BioWare that
sets you in a world based on Chinese mythology in which you, the last surviving Spirit Monk,
goes on a quest to save your tutor and defeat the evil forces of a corrupt emperor.
One of the side kicks you can recruit to aid you in your quest is a former fighter known
as Hen-Pecked Hou, who specializes in a fighting style known as Drunken Master.
During combat, he’ll toss bottles of wine at you to drink, which teaches you the Drunken
Master combat style, and causes a lot of damage.
Trick is to keep drinking though.
7 Fallout New Vegas Drinking is something that’s pretty commonplace
in the Fallout New Vegas wasteland.
There are even whole quests revolving around it, especially when Whiskey Rose, the Rose
of Sharon Cassidy aka Cass is around.
Cass is the owner of Cassidy Caravans, and she’s a bit of a hard drinker.
You can acquire her as a companion through the Heartache by the Number quest, which gives
you the Whiskey Rose perk.
Whiskey Rose gets rid of all the negative side effects of drinking but temporarily amps
up your damage threshold.
It’s important to note that you should stick to whiskey and tequila, because otherwise
the perk won’t work.
6 Deus Ex: Mankind Divided In this installment of Deus Ex, you play as
Adam Jensen, an augmented former private security officer working with a special Interpol unit
to capture a terrorist group of augmented humans.
He’s a man of many talents, but also a man with a low tolerance.
It’s fairly simple to find alcohol in the game, and players have noted that as the story
in the game progresses, so does the amount of booze Adam has in his apartment increases.
When Adam drinks, the world gets significantly blurry, and your vision doubles and sways.
In order for this to have a longer, lingering effect, you have to drink multiple drinks
– typically one drink’s buzz lasts around
5 The Witcher 2 In one side mission called Hung Over, Geralt
gets his drink on in celebration with The Blue Stripes.
As the drinking proceeds, there’s a knife throwing contest and arm wrestling, and he
wakes up on a riverbank half dressed with a tattoo on his neck.
The mission becomes about trying to figure out what you did the night before, and trying
to get Triss’ help in removing the tattoo on your neck.
4 Skyrim Speaking of fantasy games and drinking challenges,
Elder Scroll’s Skyrim also fills those quotas, featuring a quest that occurs if you hang
around enough taverns.
One bar-goer named Sam Guevenne will challenge you to a drinking content.
If you say yes and get your glug on, you’ll eventually black out, and wake up in the Temple
of Dibella in Markarth, the temple devoted to the goddess of beauty, where a priestess
will give you hell for the chaos you and Sam caused the night before.
What’s so great about this quest is that it sends you half way across the map and back,
cleaning up a series of messes that you were responsible for, like stealing a goat, all
while you were intoxicated.
3 Spate Spate is a beautifully brooding game created
by former Disney and Jim Henson artist, Eric Provan.
It follows the struggle of one man’s descent into madness due to his addiction.
Combined with haunting memories and absinthe hallucinations, you play as a character who
is trying to come to terms with the death of his daughter, and his alcoholism.
The amount you drink affects the way you navigate the world.
The more you drink, the more skilled you become, but the world becomes harder to traverse.
2 The Lord of the Rings Online MMO If the Lord of the Rings taught me one thing,
it’s that Hobbits surprisingly hold their liquor well.
Or, at least they know how to have a good time over a couple of drinks.
The latter fact carries over into the Lord of the Rings Online MMO.
When you have a regular alcoholic beverage in the game, you get your typical screen shakes,
but nothing compares to the results of drinking the Spring Festival brandy kegs.
Not only does the world change colour, but you slide around quite a bit, and you bust
out into song – if you’re playing as a hobbit, that is.
The cherry on top?
You wake up in a random location, with a status effect called “Huh?
Where’s my Pants?”
1 GTA V Perhaps the most obvious entry on this list,
and the most well-known, is GTA V. There’s a whole lot of vices that you can give into
in the game – from narcotics and hallucinogens to strippers and prostitutes – but one of
the simpler acts of substance abuse comes in the form of the liquor you can consume
at bars – like the strip club – or at home in one of the three playable characters
safe houses.
When the game first came out, getting intoxicated in third person was a hoot, but the first
person POV feature that was released with the PS4 edition made it even more enjoyable,
and realistic.
There we have it friends!
Which of these games are you gonna play and get trashed in in honour of St Patty’s Day?
Let us know in those comments below.
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