Okay, I understand that this isn't everybody's cup of (mushroom) tea, but does anybody here find they have a particular fondness for playing a certain game or genre while under the influence of anything in particular?
Before the thread starts, I want people to understand I'm neither condoning nor condemning the use of any intoxicant, be it alcohol or acid, and beleive that if you're going to take anything there's a certain amount of responsibility envolved. And remember that if it ain't alcohol or tobacco, it's probably illegal.
Moral obligations out of the way, I'll kick start this one. I don't drink or take any chemical drugs; my father is an alcoholic and pills and suchforth are a risky business to say the least, so I find cannabis is my favourite gateway to mind-altering escapism.
Anyway, I find that when I'm a little giddy, one of the best games to play is Wind Waker. The bright colours, lush music, gentle exploration and exciting combat combine to make one hell of a beautiful experience. Also, weed, survival horror and surround sound are the perfect path to brown trousers gaming.
The XBLA games Boom Boom Rocket and Rez are perfectly suited as well, being both psychedelic and rhythm-based, and Viewtiful Joe's daftness is made easier to swallow with a few puffs too. Ignore the ridiculous plot and you find you can concentrate on the lush cel-shading and awsome movie effects.
Sorry if this post offends people, and I'd like to remind people that every intoxivant has both long-term and short-term undesirable side-effects....but hey, if anybody out there shares the same mindset, what's your favourite gaming experience when under the influence?

Risky thread. Me like.

I've kept a pretty clean life. I don't drink, never done any pot or any other type of drug, but I do smoke. Cigarettes don't do much other than interrupt a gaming session because I have to go outside to smoke.

However, although this may not count, back in my first year of university there was a time when I was living on one of the discount Redbull alternatives. I remember drinking four or five cans while playing Unreal Tournament long, long into the night. Lots of fun. I wasn't intoxicated, but I had to go online to see why one of my eyelids was spasming. Lack of sleep and excessive caffine are the main causes for eyelid spasms. Twitch gaming at its finest.

I've led a pretty clean life, no drugs, no tobacco, no alcohol (maybe half a mouthful of beer when I was 15) but I always thought it would be funny to watch people playing party-oriented games drunk. Like Burnout. Drunk driving without the tragedy. Or Rock Band. Karaoke at its most terrifying.

When I'm hyperactive (the closest I ever get to intoxication) I like to play Ratchet and Clank: UYA. I've beaten it five times on Hero Mode, with all weapons at Lv8.

Generally, I take drugs to be normal, but a little drunken FPS action can be a lot of fun, especially since I lose all ability to restrain myself from trying to "body-english" the controller. I know that I cannot physically dodge shots with my real-life body, but that doesn't stop me from trying.

Guitar Hero/Rock Band + a lot of cheep american beer = my friday nights

also i find myself playing a bunch of fighting games like mvc2 and ssbb when im inebriated with my people.

back in the day we used to dumb out on some herbs and play Frequency, and Amplitude because we believed that if time moves slower, you can see all of the notes more clear.

my brother likes to get really drunk and play sing star.... i dont drink or anything so i havent had that experience, but when my friends turn nineteen you can bet we will start playing drunk.... then i will let you know how it goes.

Well I intend to find out how drunken Guitar Hero goes this Saturday. I'll tell you how it went.

My housemate and I used to smoke a couple of joints and play Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour for the GameCube, were we cool or what! I should explain a little, we both seem to have a bizarre gaming OCD where some kind of inane challenge will consume our lives entirely for minutes/hours/days/weeks at a time and then once achieved we have no more interest. For a couple of months worth of Friday nights the 'hole in one challenge' dominated. Congo Canopy, who could get the most holes in one. If it wasn't that, it was Mario Kart Double Dash - we'd completed the whole game, unlocked all the extras including the funny loading screen and so we had the 'Baby Park Challenge', time trials to get the fastest time. Our records hit the low 1 minute 8 seconds kind of mark then found the world record is 1 minute 4 seconds. That made us sad.

Whilst drinking, I generally like to play multiplayer games, racing games, fighting games, and what have you. Mario Party is definitely awesome, haha.

When smoking pot, I like games that make you think. Starcraft is intense, as is any RTS... and Psychonauts high? Don't even get me started, haha.

I actually smoke alot of pot before playing games, normally. It's as easy to get and as abundant as water round here, and I believe in an earlier thread I stipulated how I stand behind it 100% and do not believe it is illegal(in a more realistic sense of the word).
It really helps my imagination in someway, as I find I can get involved in a game much easier.

I enjoy games like rock band and guitar hero drunk, but probably just as much as I enjoy actually listening to the real band's . My motor skill's while inebriated are nothing to write home about.

I've never tried acid, but mushrooms and videogames are a strange mix. I've never stayed in the mood, or had the willpower to actually *play* a game while tripping, but the idea has never came without a very foreboding sense to it. I do have a friend who beat halo on legendary while on an acid trip though. It's actually really annoying, he always brings it up.

Having foolishly decided to indulge on a night out and take some ecstasy, I came back to my flat wide awake, fried out of my brain and looking for something to do... Rez!

Excellent game when trashed, couldn't play it for shit but the visuals and the ability to add your own beats to the music are the perfect comedown game... Audiosurf is also excellent if you play tracks like the prodigy or My Chemical Romance (What? I like them, okay?)

Me and my friends ussually have "drunk levels" to which we pick out games

1. Stumbling drunk: DDR and any racing games
2. Slurring Drunk: Kareoke!
3. Hallucination Drunk: Katamari Damacy (not spelled right)

and of course, pass out competition. An all night drinking bought where the only winner is he who stays awake longest!

We accually don't drink alot. This happens maybe once a year around New Years

I've discovered in my experiments that the more beer I've drank, the worse I am at CoD4 but the better I am at Halo3. It could be that I try to put some strategy into CoD4 and Halo is just pure aggression, so I'll get a 12 pack and do the experiment again.

Oh, and the first time I've ever smoked out I ended up beating Super Mario Kart from start to finish at my friends house. What can I say, it was snowing outside.

Your Mom is Attractive:
Guitar Hero/Rock Band + a lot of cheep american beer = my friday nights

also i find myself playing a bunch of fighting games like mvc2 and ssbb when im inebriated with my people.

back in the day we used to dumb out on some herbs and play Frequency, and Amplitude because we believed that if time moves slower, you can see all of the notes more clear.

GET OUT OF MY LIFE!
I could nearly post that up verbatim.
Also, I love to play attempt to play DDR after a goodly bit of beer.
My fiance turns from really good to goddess like on guitar hero once she has been herbally medicated.

Oh, and any split screen FPS in vs. mode is really fun after a case of beer. I don't know how many nights of Drunken Golden Eye I played way back when. We still do sometimes.

Whobajube:
Whilst drinking, I generally like to play multiplayer games, racing games, fighting games, and what have you. Mario Party is definitely awesome, haha.

When smoking pot, I like games that make you think. Starcraft is intense, as is any RTS... and Psychonauts high? Don't even get me started, haha.

Haha. I just bought Psychonauts this week and wondered the very same thing. Sadly, in Lincoln, England, the police are both keen and quick to grab any nearby dealers and recently it's been very difficult to get hold of any herbs. Once I do, I plan to play that Milkman stage over again. It's both funny and trippy so I think it'd be wonderful.

I used to be part of a Jedi Knight Academy clan who ranked 4th in Europe (the Jedi 7). 6 out of the 7 of us smoked pot. The other member was a real-life policeman.

I found weed to be something of a performance enhancer in first person twitch gaming allowing intense concentrated immersion...at least it seemed that way at the time. I don't think games are even playable on drugs harder than weed or alcohol. Imaging trying to play Starcraft after taking some Ecstasy, trying to figure out your next move as your eyes roll back into your head and every muscle in your body is commanding you to turn up the music and dance very hard...and then zerglings start to flood your base, the resulting negative emotions would probably lead some to vomit hideously over their keyboards. So no, not planning on ever trying that myself.

And yes, playing psychonauts while high as a kite messes with your head. Hard. Particularly the level with the Bull (OMG the pretty colours!).

It's always fun trying to play Fighter Games when everyone is incapacitated from vodka. Especially if one of your friends is a mean drunk and a sore loser.

brazenhead89:

Whobajube:
Whilst drinking, I generally like to play multiplayer games, racing games, fighting games, and what have you. Mario Party is definitely awesome, haha.

When smoking pot, I like games that make you think. Starcraft is intense, as is any RTS... and Psychonauts high? Don't even get me started, haha.

Haha. I just bought Psychonauts this week and wondered the very same thing. Sadly, in Lincoln, England, the police are both keen and quick to grab any nearby dealers and recently it's been very difficult to get hold of any herbs. Once I do, I plan to play that Milkman stage over again. It's both funny and trippy so I think it'd be wonderful.

The Neighborhood is definitely the best level to play blitzed... haha. Sucks about the lack of herb man. Here in Nova Scotia, the police don't even care. It's pretty Rad, haha. Another level I'd suggest giving a rip under the influence is Lungfishopolis. Definitely trippy, haha.

DUDE easily being on ectasy and playing Super Mario 64.... that ice penguin slip slide is intence!

I'm quite guilty of picking up my GH/Rock Band axe and shredding up a drunken storm. Rock Band especially so, because I assure you there's little more entertaining than four drunken guys singing a Bang Camaro song into one mic that no one really knows to begin with.

Also, when visiting friends at their respective colleges it's almost impossible not to get pulled into an FPS of some sort. In which I'm usually the guy yelling "I'll kill you in real life!" because I've mostly played RPG's and am a pretty bad shot when put up against your average tool boxx0r college bro...and the beer doesn't help much either. Can still grenade like a fiend though.

And for some reason, Fishing in Breath of Fire III is also incredible whilst a bit tipsy. Although I'm not sure why.

Mario party drunk is hilarious.

Not because of the game, but the commentary from us.

"Goddamit dry bones, fuckin cheater"
Note: not accusing the person playing of cheating, but the actual character.

I'm not going to specify the drug, but my mates and I sometime get together, get intoxicated and play Winning Eleven (Pro Evo to some ppl). I enter a state of supreme concentration (which i call the matrix) and the game goes from being good competitive fun to insane, heart-pumpingly intense.

VikingRhetoric:
Mario party drunk is hilarious.

Not because of the game, but the commentary from us.

"Goddamit dry bones, fuckin cheater"
Note: not accusing the person playing of cheating, but the actual character.

lmao, I often accuse Waluigi of the same.

I found that drinking and playing games make trivial things hilarious.
For instance, being run down by your own team accidentally in halo 3 can be funny normally, but is down right hilarious when you're drunk, also when you get blown up by rockets, it gets quite amusing.

I don't really play any games while drunk, although I do often play while high. Nothing real specific though, usually whatever I've been playing recently is played.

On several occassions i've played FIFA while drunk....by this point i've mastered the game but while drunk I lose everytime on amateur...on one occasion 9-2 to newcastle...alcohol doesn't help gaming...

I can't remember the last time I didn't play a video game while high as a kit on pot. However, I rarely drink. The last time I did I drank a bunch of vodka and played Counter-strike.. and ended up 25-1 on my first map. It was almost as if no matter what I did, I was going to be fine. Rush at the entire opposing team as fast as possible? Yep, that was going to work out just fine.

I remember coming home after a night out and trying to play The Sands of Time. Really wasn't the time for extended walljumping. Guitar Hero drunk is awesome - I don't think I've ever played it sober. Drunken FPSing can be good, especially multiplayer, since it gives you hells of moxie.

Nope.

I used to get really mashed and play ALOT of team fortress 2. WAS hilarious to me the stuff the characters say, and it would make me concentrate more in the intense moments because i would loose myself and feel like i was there lol. Made me play better.
Tried to play games a few times after nights out on extacty. But by the time i get to the title screen im off playing with my light switch or something.
Drunk im terrible, so i cant be arsed with it anymore.
Oh and weed helps with Guitar Hero, loose myself in the song, its insane!

Anarchemitis:
Nope.

Nope what? I don't even see a "yes or no" question anywhere.

Hmmm, Well being stoned and playing games has always held a fascination for me; probably because the first time I ever got stoned was when a friend of mine was playing sonic adventure on the dreamcast (time trials where an obsession). I don't really remember it too well now, but i do remember being unable to comprehend why the game was suddenly so amazing.
From that point on i've basically played anything and everything while stoned and it nearly always enhances the experience... Though I did discover that after playing GTA 3 so often while stoned, the game had little appeal when i wasn't so inclined.

i'm not much of a drinker but I remember playing Wow drunk... my tanking was fairly sloppy but i managed to keep everyone alive. Then my friend and I went and had some "smoke". He then played Wow while i played something abit more sedate... Fire Emblem path of Radiance.
On a side note, for someone who'd never smoked in his life, then add to it the fact we very drunk.. His Wow skills were still unbelievablely good. (While I now struggled to keep up with the roaring pace of my turn based strategy game)

I've never understood the appeal of getting drunk. Our sober self seeks respect and dignity, and at the same time, it seeks to lose those values.