Drunken gaming..

Just last night a friend of mine called me and he was totally wasted. Well, I had only drunk one beer that night, so it wasn't the easiest job out there to try and understand him.. But it reminded me of the times when I still used to play World of Warcraft, and every now and then our guild used to do so called "Drunken Raids".

So basically it was just your average friday night raid, but people were allowed to get drunk and then join there to have some random fun.. Well, for sure you won't be breaking any speed records by doing that and you die alot.. So if someone joined us and just wanted some items from the raid, they would soon find theirself being annoyed to death from all the wiping and random singing/discussions with the drunken people. But, even if it was "harder" than normal raiding, we DID have alot of fun doing it.. It's like going to bar with bunch of good people, have some great laughs, listen to some good music and not take life too seriously.

So did you ever get any progression that way?
No, can't say we did.. If you plan on doing drunken gaming with friends, you have to play something that everyone is already familiar with, since your coordination skills and working together skills suck while drunk. So it's like a new difficulty level for easier place, but you can't tell drunken people how they should play.. They just won't listen, so they have to know the tactics etc already from before.

But I personally have found that, just like in sports like darts and so on, which require lot of concentration.. Also in gaming, sometimes you can actually focus bit better after drinking 1 or 2 beer and in one of my latest guilds in WoW.. I actually became quite well known from always drinking couple beers during the raid (Finland does have quite strong drinking culture after all xD), and yeah I did it all for increasing my performance.. Suuuure..

-Del