All Games Need 'Drunk Mode'

[vv85]

I'm having a weekend where I'm not working or doing domestics (a rarity) so I decided to get a lil tipsy and play a game (I dont game much - I love reading reviews and watching videos but everything on my compy is freshly installed, no saves, etc)

The problem was immediately clear; I didnt have many games I could just jump into and wreck up. FPS games needed me to play a while to get some decent weapons/challenge. Puzzle games required speed and coordination (which I do NOT have) (atm). All the sandbox games I owned needed me to dedicate hours to tutorials before I was allowed a pistol. Racing games stuck me with a Prius hybrid and a patronizing oval.

As a sober person I can understand this; you'd want the game to develop, as to suck a player in, then make each bite better than the last. But I'm not sober, far from it, and now I'm starved of gaming entertainment. I want to load up and have good armor, some decent spells/weapons and a clear end goal... or a fast car and some fun tracks already available... or 1/2 the games weapons and some challenging enemies to use them on...

I finally started playing Postal 3, because while its got a slow buildup its also stupid and fun. The metahumor and self parody, the mindlessness of it all... every game needs that option on the front page.
All I request is that every game has 'Drunk Mode':
- Start with all major common weapons (not the specials, so you have something to hunt for)
- No tutorials
- Starts at a mid-difficult level
- [Optional] Story becomes nonsensical. 12 Monkeys nonsensical.

Note: yes I signed up specifically to submit this
Note: I do also have Q3Arena which was also a viable option

 

[Esotera]

Minecraft is always a good shout for a game after drinking. Everything seems twice as awesome & concentration is much better so more stuff gets built. I suppose you can always just put the difficulty down & that serves as a drunk mode for most games...

 

[IBlackKiteI]

Arena based fragfests like Quake 3 maybe?

Those kinda games are the best kind of mindless awesome fun for no reason other than awesome.

And Postal 2 is probably like THE drunk game.

 

[NerfedFalcon]

And Postal 2 is probably like THE drunk game.

Excuse me. Will you sign my petition to make whiny congressmen play violent video games?

OT: Well, I suppose it could be a good idea, but everyone would whine about being 'casualised', even if it was just an option and not the whole game.

 

[Tazzman]

"Drunk mode" by god that is an incredible idea, it could be like a mini game section or a little cut out of the most fun bits

 

[Pink Gregory]

"Drunk mode" by god that is an incredible idea, it could be like a mini game section or a little cut out of the most fun bits

...then why would you play anything but the most fun bits?

 

[Tazzman]

"Drunk mode" by god that is an incredible idea, it could be like a mini game section or a little cut out of the most fun bits

...then why would you play anything but the most fun bits?

You could attach a breathalyzer to the console so the mode only unlocks after you've reached a certain blood alcohol content haa

 

[Odbarc]

Drunk mode = Easy mode.

 

[sagitel]

"Drunk mode" by god that is an incredible idea, it could be like a mini game section or a little cut out of the most fun bits

...then why would you play anything but the most fun bits?

i think it would be better so the "drunk mode" is like CoD single player but with infinite rocket launchers and jetpacks with infinite fuel. so basically its like that mindless fun. there would be no story and only mindless fun like that.


OP: that's the best idea I've heard in a long time

 

[CounterReproductive]

Character in game also has to be drunk so he staggers and wobbles aroubnd. no hand eye co-ordination, randomly vomits and pisses/shits himself. Thats a drunk mode.

 

[BlindTom]

If you're drinking alone you're doing it wrong. Multiplayer mode IS drunk mode.

 

[Zeren]

I have played through most of Dishonored on normal mode drunk. For my drunk playing isn't much different from normal playing. In fact, most of the time I seem to do better when I'm drunk. I think things are fine as they are.

 

[WouldYouKindly]

Sounds like the fucking around we all do in sandbox games.

Who hasn't seen how long they can hold out against the cops in GTA? Who hasn't mowed down hundreds of civilians and then taken the appearance of a soldier so you can out him as you and then all the other soldiers turn him into a red paste in Prototype? Wow, that game has an amazing ability to make you sound really, really, fucked up.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

I think just a mode where you can't save progress, but it gives you all weapons, max stats, doubles enemy numbers, NPC dialogue is slurred, and turns up the bloom.

 

[Pink Gregory]

"Drunk mode" by god that is an incredible idea, it could be like a mini game section or a little cut out of the most fun bits

...then why would you play anything but the most fun bits?

You could attach a breathalyzer to the console so the mode only unlocks after you've reached a certain blood alcohol content haa

...someone give this man a grant!

 

[freaper]

Devil May Cry. Push ALL the buttons!

 

[zenoaugustus]

Ahem, GTA? God of War? I've committed myself to only playing those games when drunk.

 

[triggrhappy94]

You Don't Know Jack.
You will lose your mind.
Other than that, Smash Bros. or another easily accessible fighting game.

 

[Frotality]

just get far enough in a sandbox sober to accomplish those conditions, then play it when your drunk. use cheats or the dev console as well, you can bypass A LOT of leveling malarky that way.

i personally just go to old standbys: san andreas and battlefront 2. usually if im playing video games drunk its some kind of multiplayer game like CoD, but when youre drunk with friends the game itself doesnt really matter and no one is really gonna pay attention to it anyway, its just an excuse to say "you died, take a shot loser!"