History Main / BoozeBasedBuff

We run into a problem when we try to depict this in {{videogames}}, however. Namely, a realistic depiction of intoxication would have the player character [[InterfaceScrew stumbling around with reduced motor skills]] for a while, and possibly waking up the next day with a splitting headache. Or in other words, not fun.

->''"You need more {{mana}}! Drink more booze!"''

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Homer gains a [[ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} Popeye-esque]] power-up via beer in the season 13 episode ''Jaws Wired Shut''.

* ''VideoGame/HeroesOfNewerth'' has Drunken Master, whose skills are more effective if he is sufficiently drunk enough. The effect itself went through multiple major reworks. Originally, he had to channel to drink to enhance his abilities, then it was changed to gaining charges passively (and from enemy hero deaths, for some reason) and letting him chug down his stored drinks to restore health, then it was changed to not enhancing his abilities at all and was just used to heal up. After that, it was reworked to a passive skill which granted a basic evasion and crit bonus, then a single-target skill negation on a cooldown, and then a defense and speed buff whenever he dealt damage. After that, the skill went back to how it was, but mashing together a bunch effects from the previous versions: He now drinks to reduce the cooldown of his abilities and gain drunk charges, which grant evasion and debuff resistance and can be used to enhance his abilities, and it heals a bit of health whenever a charge is used.

* Brewmaster, a VideoGame/DefenseOfTheAncients hero, uses his drunkenness to dodge attacks and gain random critical hits from being too inebriated to walk or strike correctly. He can also apply a booze-based ''debuff'' at enemy heroes, which is strong enough slow them and make most of their attacks miss.

* ''VideoGame/HeroesOfNewerth'' has Drunken Master, whose skills are more effective if he is sufficiently drunk enough. Effects include adding an extra slow, increasing his movespeed and damage, and making him attack faster while numbing down any pain directed at him. Previously, he had to stop once in a while to drink up. Now he gets drunk passively and can chug his drink for a rapid heal. Also, he gets drunker when an enemy hero dies nearby him, for some reason. He eventually received a rework that greatly downplayed this trope, as his drinking no longer affected his other abilities. Instead, he simply drank until someone attacks him, regenerating HP in the process and dodging the ability.

** And now we have Brewmaster monks, which invokes this as a whole class type.

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* In the UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}} game ''VideoGame/{{Flood}}'', a cocktails will fully restore your health and oxygen, and a pint of Guinness is an extra life.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'', you can drink ale (made from a tap) or saké (bought from the Travelling Merchant), which lowers your defense, but increases your speed, power, and CriticalHit chance with mêlée weapons.
* In ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'', drinking beer gives Conker the power to push around heavy objects with powerful streams of urine. It's that kind of game.
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* Gragas, a champion in ''VideoGame/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, temporarily increase his attack damage, decrease all damage taken temporarily, ''and'' as part of his passive, casting that ability will cause him to heal a small percentage of his total health pool over a few seconds.
** Inverted with Gangplank, whose Grog-Soaked Blade slows and damages enemies he hits over time. Gets you too drunk to walk properly and kills you.

* In ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'', Chen Stormstout, with his ''Fortifying Brew'' Trait, can drink from his keg for a temporary shield for as long as he is drinking and a few seconds after he's done, while refilling his brew meter for his abilities.

* ''{{VideoGame/Smite}}'' contains Bacchus. Pretty similar to pre-rework Drunken Master above, abilities get better when smashed, can drink from a jug of wine manually, although it increases his defences instead of healing him, as well taking a shot as celebration for killing an enemy god (but not assists, and the sip doesn't give any bonuses). Very fitting for the Roman God of Wine. To a lesser extent, having Baron Samedi on a team gives them access to Baron's Brew, which provides slight HP and MP regeneration when drunk.

* ''Film/LegendOfTheDrunkenMaster'' portrayed Creator/JackieChan being a better fighter while drunk (with the reasoning of increased pain tolerance and improved flexibility. Also, real life DrunkenBoxing is pure ConfusionFu: Jackie Chan's movie and video game series regarding being a DrunkenMaster thus assumes it's easier to execute it when actually drunk). 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Homer gains a [[ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} Popeye-esque]] power-up via beer in the season 13 episode ''Jaws Wired Shut''.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Onigiri}}'', there are items called "Sakes", they have variants. A sake can increase the player's parameter for a temporarily, but remember not too much drinking that otherwise the accurancy will decrease because the player will be drunk...

* In ''VideoGame/Onigiri'', there are items called "Sakes", they have variants. A sake can increase the player's parameter for a temporarily, but remember not too much drinking that otherwise the accurancy will decrease because the player will be drunk...

* In ''VideoGame/OnigiriOnline'', there are items called "Sakes", they have variants. A sake can increase the player's parameter for a temporarily, but remember not too much drinking that otherwise the accurancy will decrease because the player will be drunk...

* ''Dofus'' and its concurrent sequel, ''Wakfu'', have the Pandawa class. They summon a barrel of fermented bamboo milk and use it to manipulate the cycle of being drunk, hungover, and sober, each status granting specific buffs and debuffs. They also put "dizzy" stacks on enemies snd allies alike, implied to be the inebriating effect of their alcohol-based magical attacks.[[/folder]]

* Alcohol in ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' gives you a small boost to Strength and Charisma, at the expense of intellect and with a chance of addiction.
** All the previous games' alcohol did was reduce perception by 1, for a very short time. Additionally, you could use it on other targets besides yourself. This led to the interesting development of a player walking up to the last boss in 2 with a 12-pack of beer...
** ''VideoGame/{{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).

* ''VideoGame/KingdomComeDeliverance'': Many alchemy potions in the game use spirits as their base liquid, so they will cause drunkenness if quaffed to excess.

* For a possible real life example, look at Buckfast Tonic Wine. At 30 proof[[note]]15% ABV (alcohol by volume) in the UK, with the Irish version very slightly weaker at 14.8% ABV[[/note]] 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 the glass bottle it comes in. True or not, it has earned some rather entertaining nicknames, such as "Commotion Lotion" and "Wreck the Hoose Juice."

%%* Which causes problems while adjusting to ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}''; reaching for the vodka instead of the Rad-Away is rather embarrassing. (This should be its own example, jot a ThreadMode play-off of STALKER)

* In ''Videogame/Payday2'', the Stoic perk replaces your throwable with a flask and causes you to take gradual damage from all damage source. Using the flask halts the damage from ticking and with enough upgrades lets you regain a percentage of health lost.

* ''VideoGame/HeroesOfNewerth'' has Drunken Master, whose skills are more effective if he is sufficiently drunk enough. Effects include adding an extra slow, increasing his movespeed and damage, and making him attack faster while numbing down any pain directed at him. Previously, he had to stop once in a while to drink up. Now he gets drunk passively and can chug his drink for a rapid heal. Also, he gets drunker when an enemy hero dies nearby him, for some reason.

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* In ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'', the more Vincent drinks at the bar, the faster he moves in the Nightmare stages.

* In ''VideoGame/SystemShock2'' and ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}'', you can drink any booze you find lying around to restore your Health. This comes at a penalty to your [[{{Mana}} PSI/EVE]], however. You get the opposite effect from tobacco.

** And then in Bioshock then you can equip the Booze Hound tonic that turns alcohol into a pure power-up, aside from the minor vision and aiming penalties.
* Possibly first used in ''VideoGame/RedneckRampage'', where booze restored health but also blurred vision and seriously slowed and eventually caused an Interface Screw with aiming and walking controls.

* ''VideoGame/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 instantly metabolize any product consumed.
** ''VideoGame/DeusExInvisibleWar'': Averted, alcohol now takes away health.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{STALKER}}'' series, vodka cures ''radiation poisoning''.
** Which causes problems while adjusting to ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}''; reaching for the vodka instead of the Rad-Away is rather embarrassing.

** ''Call of Pripyat'', however, subverts this by making vodka bizarrely deplete your nourishment level, and [[DeathByGluttony drinking at least six bottles of vodka starves you to death]] and gives you a NonStandardGameOver. Yet this is also amusingly double subverted if you have at least a loaf of bread or other piece of food in your backpack as you can munch it up and keep on drinking. Then rinse, wash, repeat.

* In ''Videogame/AncientdomainsOfMystery'', drinking potions of booze confuses the player for a few turns. On the other hand, they also have two beneficial uses - dipping a wand in a potion of booze recharges it, and Yggaz the Fool in Terinyo will give the player a random potion (including the rarest ones, like the potion of gain attributes) when given a potion of booze

* ''TabletopGame/{{Munckin}}'' card "Dwarf Beer" gives positive bonuses if you're a dwarf. Everyone else just gets drunk.

* In ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'', you can drink 40 oz's to gain a slight resistance to damage at the expense of a slightly blurred vision. You can drink several at once, and your blurriness and damage resistance will increase proportionally.

* [[BadassNormal Edward Carnby]] from the ''Franchise/AloneInTheDark'' series drinks from various hip flasks scattered about to gain health.