Once before a night out I left my console on due to being between save-points and having no more time. Waking up the next morning with some suspicious gaps in my memory I found the power off, leading to an 'oh shit' moment when I assumed I had turned it off when I staggered to bed.

To my surprise on booting it up, I had apparently finished the level and done rather well...all with completely no memory of doing it.

Any similar stories?

I know for a fact a previous thread with the exact same premise if not same title exists.
And I wouldn't know, I've never been drunk. :D

I remember coming home at 2am and thinking it would be one hell of an idea to play on the Wii... Can't remember the game but I do remember waking and finding the Wiimote in some soup.

On the other hand It was a good night out!

Alcohol affects your reflexes and awareness. As such I can do sod all on CoD4 when drunk. Though Halo just gets funnier, especially the idiots shouting nonsense at you.

Its make Halo 3 fun :D

Erm, but in all seriousness, it actually imrpoves more perfomance, for example, a I completed the Master and the Molotov on GTA4 whilst drunk, when I couldnt complete it sober after 8-9 attempts...

When drinking, my (normally abysmal) skill in FPS'es goes up exponentially, while my skill in all other game genres declines very rapidly with every beer. I'm a freak of nature.

There was actually some guy who tried driving while drunk (in-game) in GTA4 and driving while drunk (out-of-game). Ready for the results? And the worse driver is:
Drunk out of game.
But think about it. In WoW, when you're drunk, your movement gets skewed and a blurry filter is put on your screen. If I was drunk was playing WoW, I would suck much much worse than being drunk in-game. I'd hit the wrong keys, I'd type stupid things into chat, and I might endanger the safety of my whole party (assuming I'm in an instance). Drunkenness (it's not easy to spell, what do you want from me!?) affects your physical ability to choose as well as your mental ability to do so.

I can't play RPG's. It's hard to read when you've got double-vision.

"So... that says Attack, right? Okay... no, wait, don't HEAL, STOP HEALING!"

But FPS and open-world games get a LOT more fun. I always enjoy a good, drunken round of Mercenaries.

I'm in the same boat as one of the above posters. In FPS (see CoD4) I turn into some sort of head-shot-demon with just a couple beers. Though I can't say it negatively affects me in other genres.

Once saw a friend get drunk, then complete the 'Home in the Hills' mission of GTA:San Andreas using just his pistol. It was such a sight to watch, but when he was sober he couldn't get past the first corridor.

My ex-roomie once transcended space and time while drunk and played 20 hours of FFX without stopping.

I'm a teetotaller(whatever its spelled) so I haven't clue.

Both my brothers "Assassins Creed" and "Mass Effect" discs were rendered unusable by his drunken antics.

Where to start...
Guitar Hero III, my favorite game ever to play while drunk. My friend critisized me for sucking it up hardcore on medium my first time, so I chugged back a few brewskies and beat the majority of hard within the night. Though I only ever play it at her house.

In contrast, I tried playing Guitar Hero II while drunk and sucked a big one through a straw.

One night I came home plastered from a kegger, and decided to see who was on the CS:S server I play on and one of my RL buddies was on, along with his whole clan. So I logged on their server and pulled out a knife, went something like 6-23 but I couldn't have done that if I were sober.

I've played WoW absolutely ripped out of my mind and still topped the damage meters by over 2 million damage in a karazhan raid.

A former college chum used to come over to our dorm and play Starcraft with us. He was a handful when sober, and every match was a nail-biter when he was involved.

But whenever he got drunk or stoned (often both), he somehow turned into Ares. I remember getting eliminated and turning to look at his screen to figure how the hell he had so handily defeated me. I knew from the frustrated mewling emanating from my roommates that he was in the process of wiping the floor with their collective entrails, but all I could see him doing was randomly clicking pylons while whole cadres of units were scattered about the map collecting dust on their armor.

It makes me have alot more fun but terrible at actually playing.

i can run over people just fine drunk or undrank.

I wouldn't know.

/lie
;)

People who say it makes them better at games either lie, or get suckered by the fact that they (obviously) THINK they're better when they're drunk, because.. well, they're drunk! Though I do get better at FPS'es when I've been up for a very long time. Maybe you get past that thinking point and just act on instinct (which is always good in Counterstrike). I guess that could happen when drunk too, but then your motor-skills would still suck.

I often drink while playing Halo. My rank in Team Slayer typically holds steady for a while, but eventually drops by about 5 or 6 rankings before I'm too drunk to do anything but viciously curse at the children on xbox live.

And like the guy above me said, I don't FEEL like I'm playing worse as the evening goes on... but, uh... the numbers do not lie.

I've noticed my thinking skills drop substantially when I'm drunk off my arse. BUT, I do feel some of my games I do better at.

Besides, its always fun to get drunk and high jack a car in GTAIV and when the police chase you you just go crazy lol.

i hate being in match's with drunk people. not because they are loud, although thats part of it, but because they get overly aggressive. so if you arnt as good as they think you should be, they start calling you on it, and tk'ing you.

I tend to trash talk more. Even if I'm doing poorly. Of course the last memorable time I did this was with a group of friends and SO playing Burnout (crash mode).

Of course being drunk I've no idea how the jokes (and other talk) was received by people other than those I was addressing.

I couldn't tell you, since I've never understood the point of getting smashed.

To be honest i have had some of my greatest gaming moments whilst under the influence. Things like killing the whole opposition team, 3 times in a row, with the chainsaw in Gears. Or owning completely in GRAW 2.

But i've also had numerious lows. The countless times i fell asleep, drooling all over the headset, slumped in a computer chair. The trash talk, the absolute vile-ness of some of my comments. And the lowest of the low, being violently sick into a bucket with my whole GoW clan listening down the headset. I did not feel good about myself. Oh and i also bought £150 of microsoft points and spent them all in one night...on crap.

I'm writing this while drunk (burp)and I've to say maybe it's the acting on instinct maybe it's cause you suddenly think your good at it but I just kicked trilby's arse and god knows I usually suck at this game too much. Next stop Il-2

EDIT: I've no Iidea how a thread like this pops out right on the night i decide to get my arse drunk

I've no idea about gaming but drink certainly does NOT improve your performance cycling...

My typing is completely illegible when im drunk, my wow guild thought i was asleep on the keyboard or something and people on msn thought i was talking jiberish.

No. Alcohol puts me to sleep; I can't get drunk.

I'd say one of the chief motivations I had for getting a Wii was that I can play it while drunk. Just no good at dual-analog after I've had a few brews. Love me some Wii-bowling or No More Heroes after a night out though.

I'm better at throwing darts drunk I don't know about anything else.

Ace Combat 4... ...Raped... ...Private Pilot's License...

Tired of typing the same Stories... Look them up in any of the other THREE threads if you want to hear about how invincible I am when drunk...

Zombie_King:
There was actually some guy who tried driving while drunk (in-game) in GTA4 and driving while drunk (out-of-game).

It is my theory that if you played while drunk in real life and also drunk in the game, it evens out and you drive normal. I have yet to test this, however, since I do not own GTA IV.

In my experience a massive intake of rum does nothing to stop you owning RE4 on pro mode, but every other game sent me to sleep.