Playing drunk vs. sober

Peppermint · #1 06-01-2010, 10:09 AM

Anyone else experience they play alot better the more drunk you get?
Especially as a chanter coming home at 4am after clubbing drunk as a skunk i seem to be the pwnage ~_~ I guess this game gonna make me an alcoholic (not that i wasnt one before but... you know...)

Anyway this post is pointless. Im just fucking bored at work, got the shakes for my EQ fix (and a beer)... 1 hour to go >_<

Bumamgar · #2 06-01-2010, 10:20 AM

I used to notice something similar when I'd play billiards. Sober I'd over-analyze every shot, and be too stiff. After a few beers I'd loosen up, play more relaxed and go with my gut instincts more. Improved my game considerably. However, past a certain point, it'd get to be a detriment as balance, co-ordination and depth perception got affected, and then I'd be worse than I was sober [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

EQ is probably the same way in certain respects. Depending on the class you play and the dynamic of what you are doing, the relaxation effect of a 'good buzz' could definitely improve someone's game. Players that are relaxed and not all freaked out by imperfection (extra mobs in the pull, non-ideal class makeup, etc) do much better than ones that freak out and run for the zoneline every time things get a little crazy.

Weekapaug · #3 06-01-2010, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Bumamgar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I used to notice something similar when I'd play billiards. Sober I'd over-analyze every shot, and be too stiff. After a few beers I'd loosen up, play more relaxed and go with my gut instincts more. Improved my game considerably. However, past a certain point, it'd get to be a detriment as balance, co-ordination and depth perception got affected, and then I'd be worse than I was sober [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm a "golden moment" pool player too. Before the 3rd beer, I suck. After the 4th beer, it all heads south. But I've been known to run tables off the break right around that 3rd beer. Kind of scary, really.

EQ is best played sober by me, of alcohol, at least. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I don't play as well and tend to get really chatty. I'm okay playing the xbox hammered, but smoked libations tend to work a bit better for me with PC games. And I prefer to do that only for something really boring that you have to kind of focus on, like tradeskills or a long camp or something. Honestly, I could count the number of times I've really played EQ drunk on one hand probably, mostly because they stick out in my mind. Like the christmas scotch incident right after Velious came out that I still hear about from some of my friends. Or the night I got lost in RSS trying to find my group....For like an hour. Thank you, rum + pineapple. LOL

Overall I feel like I get more done and play better if I play EQ sober, though. And I know my friend does, even though he insists he plays EQ better on fridays when he's drinking beer. He doesn't. LOL

Dork · #4 06-01-2010, 01:42 PM

I tried playing EQ after coming home from celebrating my 21st bday. I woke up the next day, logged on..and I was naked. It was not fun trying to find my corpse. Then I quit drinking when it happened IRL too much.[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Tristin · #5 06-01-2010, 01:51 PM

I have actually never been on a raid totally sober...

Weekapaug · #6 06-01-2010, 01:49 PM

Thread brings to mind an anecdote I was sharing in global /ooc a couple weeks ago...

Back in original classic (although I think Kunark may have been out at this point) I had a guildie who was a bit of a nut and was known for being all kinds of fucked up when he played the game. While a little nutty, he was a fun guy and an awesome necro, and never caused any problems with it, so it was never a big deal...

One weekend he decides that this is the weekend he is finally going to get his SMR. He managed to get in the group rather early on friday afternoon and planned to stay in that group until he finally won the roll for an SMR.

Sometime around Saturday evening, it becomes known that our dear necro has been fueling this sleepless camp by eating tabs of acid every 6-8 hours or so. Sometime around mid-day sunday an SMR drops, which he wins the roll for. He arranges for a replacement and heads out, apparently still tripping and half batshit crazy.

As he is running north through South Ro, he admires his new SMR. By the time he has made it to the dock in Oasis he announces in guild chat, "this robe looks totally gay," hands it to a newbie on the dock and logs.

Logs in the next day like nothing happened. LOL

True story.

Shannacore · #7 06-01-2010, 10:50 AM

Mm, this is good/bad.

Playing drunk is fun when you're in voice chat with a lot of people. Lots of hilarious memories from doing this.
It's not fun when you drunkenly decide to bind yourself in the middle of a solb camp. That was very, very not fun.

EQvet · #8 06-01-2010, 10:56 AM

There's pretty much nothing better than an ice-cold IPA (or 6), Conan the Destroyer / Barbarian soundtrack(s) + EQ. Epic.

Alleusion · #9 06-01-2010, 11:09 AM

Yeah, i've done it before and I'm much better when I'm sober.

Hiragawa · #10 06-01-2010, 11:19 AM

I don't drink... but years back I used to group with another warrior, who every time she got up to get another beer, would ding. o.o