Happy 420 friends!
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So to celebrate this unofficial holiday, we were at top 10 gaming decided to give you
our list of the top 10 video games with the most drugs in them.
There’s surprisingly not a ton of video games that allow players to smoke weed.
Rather, many games invent their own drugs that give off similar effects to those that
exist in the real world.
Except it’s not bad cause they’re fictional, right?
Right.
10 Watch Dogs – Digital Trips In the world of Watch Dogs, it feels as if
there’s nothing you can’t do with technology.
Enter Digital Trips, an app that uses binaural beats from the Smartphone to put you in a
temporary unconscious dream state where you can play surreal and trippy games inside your
head.
There’s a few digital trips that you can choose from, including one from an alternate
future, one that takes place in a hellish version of Chicago, one where you maneuver
a giant mechanical Spider, one where you must locate undercover cyborgs and another where
you soar through the sky bouncing on flowers.
The latter feels the closest to drug usage.
Or at least, non-panicky drug usage.
9 The Witcher 2 – Visionary’s Potion In one mission called the Path to Vision that
appears if you choose Roche’s path, you get to drink the Visionary’s Potion, which
gives you a hallucinogenic experiences.
Part of the mission requires you to meditate until dawn and then take something called
the Visionary’s Potion.
The result?
A giant chicken and some rather phallic looking mushrooms appear.
Geralt then expresses out loud that “nobody needs to know about that one.”
8 Mother 3 – Magic Mushrooms When it was released back in 2006, Mother
3 received rave reviews.
It’s been called one of the best RPGS for the Gameboy Advance of all time, with critics
praising it for its “depth of quality that few titles many times its budget achieve”
with “affecting scenes” and “unexpected impact.”
While it has many noteworthy emotional and thematically gripping scenes, it also has
some hilariously smart scenes, including one in which you consume mushrooms in order to
heal your entire party after an attack.
Turns out those mushrooms are magic mushrooms.
From then on out, the world around you has been transformed into a psychedelic drug trip,
with much of the objects and events you encounter warped to better fit the mind state of someone
who is high.
7 Morrowind – Skooma In Elder Scrolls Morrowind, Skooma is an illegal
narcotic that is made from refined moon sugar.
It can be smoked or drunk from a bottle, and bottles go for 500 gold a pop.
While it’s not addictive and doesn’t cause any permanent damage to your character, taking
Skooma will enhance your speed and strength by 20 points for 60 seconds.
It will also drain your agility and intelligence by 20 points for 60 seconds.
And if you take a lot of it all at once, this will happen.
6 Skyrim – Redwater Skooma Turns out Morrowind isn’t the only Elder
Scrolls game to dabble in narcotics.
Or rather, the effects of taking Skooma, and more specifically Redwater Skooma, which is
more potent.
Skyrim is a bit more of an updated version – drinking multiple bottles of this moon
sugar potion distorts your vision and makes everything a little psychedelic.
Another bonus to this Skooma update is that, compared to prior Elder Scrolls games, taking
Skooma in Skyrim doesn’t negatively affect any of your other stats.
Pure recreational drug joy there.
4 Fallout series – Chems Chems exist all throughout the Fallout franchise.
According to the game, chems were a pre-war term used to describe narcotic drugs and substances
that caused temporary side effects, some bad, some good.
Some are addictive, some aren’t.
There’s Mentats, a pre-war party drug, Buffout, a sports enhancement one, Med-X, a painkiller,
and Psycho, a combat enhancement drug.
There’s even Jet, a newer drug synthesized out of Brahmin dung fumes.
Once you’re addicted, it’s hard to shake, although there are a few perks that reduce
addiction chance.
There’s actually mods that have been created to give chems visual side effects rather than
just effecting your stats, including one called ‘Drugs are Bad, M’Kay.
4 Hotline Miami 2 – Apocalypse Drugs are featured all throughout the Hotline
Miami series, but the final level of the second game definitely takes the cake for the most
visceral drug experience it has to offer.
After taking a bunch of pills, your world immediately changes, and you go on a drug
induced rampage in one of the most memorable visually striking levels the game has to offer.
As you progress it only gets more intense, more bloody, more psychedelic and a little
bit terrifying.
3 Far Cry 3 Far Cry 3 features a few opportunities to
get your high on.
There’s some red pills in Dr Earnhardt’s Cave that, if you pop em, will make you hallucinate
and end up at a Nightclub where you get into a fight.
It’s a flashback to a club in Bangkok Thailand that gives some exposition on how Jason and
his pals ended up on Rook Island.
In addition to that, there’s a mission that involves you burning down a weed crop with
a flamethrower.
And by crop I mean crops.
There’s drugs everywhere.
2 Narc 2005 re-launch Back in 1988, there was an arcade game called
Narc that was developed by William Electronics that was considered one of the first ultra-violent
video games created.
You play as Max Force and Hit Man, who are dispatched on Project NARC – a mission where
you need to arrest and kill drug offenders, confiscate their money and narcotics, and
defeat a villain named Mr. Big.
Flash forward to 2005, the game was remade for the PS2, Xbox and PC.
The story differs a bit – you now play as a narcotics officer and a DEA agent who are
reunited to investigate a new drug on the streets called Liquid Soul.
After you confiscate drugs, you can either take them to the evidence room or keep them
and use them yourself.
Each of the drugs has different effects, changing the way you move in the game and the way the
world visually appears.
Sound is effected too, sometimes featuring your heartbeat, or causing you to hear whispering
voices.
1 GTA V There are a lot of ways you can take drugs
in Grand Theft Auto V. From smoking weed in Franklin’s house, to sniffing gasoline as
Trevor, to taking horse tranquilizers and going on a serious drug trip, there’s many
creative ways to get high in the game.
But perhaps one of the most enticing drug trips comes in the form of the Grass Roots
side mission, which is part of the Strangers and Freaks missions that pop up on your map.
A dude name Barry, an off-his-rocks marijuana activist in a suit, gets you to smoke some
of his strain of weed.
When Michael smokes it, you need to fight off hordes of invading aliens.
When Trevor smokes it, you fight off hordes of evil clowns.
And when Franklin smokes it, nothing happens
There we have it friends!
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