Drinking is a huge part of Nord culture. I expect something really cool on drinking alcohol in Skyrim.

I don't really care much about the drunken effect, but I like the idea of having a lot of streets and shops and so on everywhere. I think Oblivion had some of it, especially in Cheydinhal (Long time since I played, can't remember how to spell it!) and Skingrad, but would be nice with more. Actually, a bit more 'sqaure' towns might be good. Would make it easier to put the streets a part somehow. Maybe even to include street names!

I love the idea of blurred vision and walking funny but not to the degree of Red Dead Redemption where you fall on the floor constantly. I've been drunk off my ass several times in the past and never lost my balance.

It would be cool if varying degrees of drunkenness gave you different speech options. Like 2 or 3 drinks makes you more of a smooth talker but 5 or 6 drinks makes you annoying and giggly and 10 drinks gives you gibberish. And getting an NPC drunk might make them give up more info than normal.

Wow is it 21 to drink alcohol at all there? How Draconian.

You raise a brilliant point though. I don't want the screen to go all fuzzy. Especially since when you're drunk that only really happens when you get rat-arsed, to use a lovely British expression

Yes! YES! and more YES!!!

Seemed kind of silly that in TES or Fallout you could down several bottles of liquor or beer and not have drunken effects.

Besides, maybe the ladies will look better.

Skooma = Jager Bomb