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* In ''{{Runescape}}'' a variety of ales can be brewed via the Cooking skill. These provide temporary boosts to specific skills when drunk.

* In ''LordOfTheRingsOnline'', consuming too much beer or wine will progressively blur your vision, depending on how much, until eventually you're basically seeing quintuple.

** In the later games (''[[TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'' and ''[[TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'') cheap drinks will generally buff one attribute will draining another, or restore your stamina. It is possible, however, to negate such attribute drains by casting a recovery spell. Expensive, quality liquors like Flin or Cyrodilic Brandy didn't have any adverse effects.

* ''UnknownArmies'' has Dipsomancy as one of its magical paths. Followers must be inebriated in order to gain magical charges, and sobering up removes all of their current power.

* Drunkenness in a typical ''TabletopGame/TheWorldOfDarkness'' game confides a small bonus to all Social actions, but a corresponding penalty to Initiative, Wits, and Defense.

* Drunkenness in a typical ''TabletopGame/WorldOfDarkness'' game confides a small bonus to all Social actions, but a corresponding penalty to Initiative, Wits, and Defense.

* Drunkenness in a typical ''WorldOfDarkness'' game confides a small bonus to all Social actions, but a corresponding penalty to Initiative, Wits, and Defense.

* Done in ''{{Okami}}'' and its sequel ''{{Okamiden}}''. Even the great god Amaterasu likes to quaff some Steel Fist sake before laying the celestial smack down.
** It's also inverted in the boss fight with Orochi, who is [[ImmuneToBullets completely invulnerable]]... until you use hydrokinesis to force-feed him the best sake in the entire world, thus getting him so drunk that he becomes vulnerable to your attacks.

* In ''FinalFantasyXI'', most fruit-based drinks cause MP to regenerate (adding milk to it makes it regenerate HP). The one made from decayed grapes is the strongest. In two senses of the word.

* ''LegendOfTheDrunkenMaster'' portrayed Jackie Chan being a better fighter while drunk (with the reasoning of increased pain tolerance and improved flexibility). He quits booze at one point in the plot, but in the final fight, he recovers from a hopeless fight by drinking pure grain alcohol.

** The drunkenness rules were originally written for the SourceBook of ''[[CallahansCrosstimeSaloon Callahan's Crosstime Saloon]]''.

* ''VideoGameDeusEx'': In the unmodded game, any alcohol drink would give you two points of health, at the cost of blurred vision for roughly about a minute or so. Justified as the player character's nanites would instanly metabolize any product consumed.
* ''VideoGame/DeusExInvisibleWar'': Averted, alcohol now takes away health.
* ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'': Alcohol will blur your vision again and give you health, like in the original game, but this time, your health will be pushed beyond the normal limit, giving you ''extra health''. This health won't be recovered through the game's regenerating health though.

* In ''{{Exalted}}'', there is a Martial Arts school which teaches the Orgiastic Fugitive Style which increases your ability in the art in line with how debilitatingly inebriated your character is. This, by the way is a Celestial level martial art meaning that it's inventor was either a God or one of the 700 Celestial Exalted.

* Drinking alcohol in VideoGame/{{Bulletstorm}} [[InterfaceScrew will cause your character's aim to go awry, and his vision to blur]], but to counterbalance it, every kill you score while intoxicated will net you a score bonus.

* Gragas, a champion in ''LeagueOfLegends'', is based entirely around being a fat guy who brews and drinks magical wines and ales. Every time he uses an ability, he takes a drink to restore a portion of his maximum health, and he can guzzle down a whole cask of brew to gain back mana and temporarily increase his attack damage and decrease all damage taken.

* ''{{Bastion}}'' treats alcohol as equipment rather than consumable items, offering passive bonuses for an entire level. The higher the protagonist's level, the more kinds of alcohol he can equip at once.

* In ''{{Odin Sphere}}'', Lord Brigan gains buffs from drinking his own alcohol, but when he pours it onto the PC's face, it makes him/her dizzy.

* In ''{{Baten Kaitos}}'' Japanese Rice Wine actually revives the player, and beer/red wine/sweet wine can heal. Even a certain miniboss will use "Rough 'em up drink," which increases defense.

* Used by Zegram in ''{{Rogue Galaxy}}'' - "Drunken Burst," in which a swig of grog increases the attack power of all allies.

* In ''EternalDarkness'', Edward carries a flask of [[strike:port]] "[[GRatedDrug liquid courage]]"; drinking it restores sanity. There must be something to it, since Edward is one of the few characters who doesn't wind up dead or insane after his adventure. (Well, not ''immediately'' after, but that's beside the point.)

* Speaking of which, ''LegendOfTheDrunkenMaster'' portrayed Jackie Chan being a better fighter while drunk (with the reasoning of increased pain tolerance and improved flexibility). He quits booze at one point in the plot, but in the final fight, he recovers from a hopeless fight by drinking pure grain alcohol.
* For a possible real life example, look at Buckfast Tonic Wine. At 30 proof and containing more caffeine per volume than Red Bull, its considered by many to be the source of a great deal of Scotland's violent drinking woes, due to the obvious problems that come with drunken, violent disaffected youth hopped up on enough caffeine to kill a horse with a glass bottle literally on hand. True or not, it has earned some rather entertaining nicknames, such as "Commotion Lotion" and "Wreck the Hoose Juice".
* Many long-term alcoholics work ''better'' after a smaller glass of booze - their body has become accustomed to alcohol and the lack of it brings very unpleasant things, even before true delirium tremens appears: shaking hands, fatigue, stumbling etc.

* ''DeusEx'': In the unmodded game, any alcohol drink would give you two points of health, at the cost of blurred vision for roughly about a minute or so. Justified as the player character's nanites would instanly metabolize any product consumed.
* ''DeusExInvisibleWar'': Averted, alcohol now takes away health.

* For a possible real life example, look at Buckfast Tonic Wine. At 30 proof and containing more caffeine per volume than Red Bull, its considered by many to be the source of a great deal of Scotland's violent drinking woes, due to the obvious problems that come with drunken, violent disaffected youth hopped up on enough caffeine to kill a horse with a glass bottle literally on hand. True or not, it has earned some rather entertaining nicknames, such as "Commotion Lotion" and "Wreck the Hoose Juice".

* Drinking beer in ''DukeNukemForever'' slightly blurs your vision, but Duke takes less damage from enemy attacks.

* Drinking alcohol in {{Bulletstorm}} [[InterfaceScrew will cause your character's aim to go awry, and his vision to blur]], but to counterbalance it, every kill you score while intoxicated will net you a score bonus.

* ''DeusExHumanRevolution'': Alcohol will blur your vision again and give you health, like in the original game, but this time, your health will be pushed beyond the normal limit, giving you ''extra health''. This health won't be recovered through the game's regenerating health though.

* In the CommodoreAmiga game ''Flood'', a cocktails will fully restore your health and oxygen, and a pint of Guinness is an extra life.

** In the ''{{Baldur's Gate}}'' series, over imbibing would only cause the character to become drunk at penalties to attack and armor. A moderate consumption would give you a slight morale boost. Still mot worth it, though.

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* In the earlier ''TheElderScroll's'' games, you could throw back drinks to gain minor, temporary buffs... but not only did you get blurry vision, if you drank enough, it could kill you on the spot from alcohol poisoning!
** In the later games (''Morrowind'' and ''Oblivion'') cheap drinks will generally buff one attribute will draining another, or restore your stamina. It is possible, however, to negate such attribute drains by casting a recovery spell. Expensive, quality liquors like Flin or Cyrodilic Brandy didn't have any adverse effects.

* Alcohol in ''{{Fallout}} 3'' gives you a small boost to Strength and Charisma, at the expense of intellect and with a chance of addiction.

** ''{{Fallout}} 2'' took this to another level. In addition to booze, there were 4-5 street drugs which would give you stat bonuses, at the cost of minuses to other stats and a chance of addiction. A GoodBadBug allowed you to gain unimaginable agility by constantly using Jet until you were addicted, then drinking a little alcohol (which canceled the addicted status and made the agility gain permanent).

** In the sequel, Chuck downs an entire bottle of Whiskey (the same you can make a molotov with, holy crap!) in a few seconds. Although the risk of getting sick to your stomach arises when consuming more than one alcoholic item shortly after another (which results in vomiting uncontrollably)
* Bottles of hard liquor such as Hot Sake or Tequila serve as healing items in ''ShadowsOfTheDamned''. It's justified by the fact that in the Underworld alcohol heals you rather than destroy your liver.