7 Weirdest Things You've Used as Money in Videogames

Conventional money is fine we guess but where’s the fun? The novelty? The crystallised demon blood? We’ll tell you where: videogames, where folks use all manner of weird, gross or downright nasty stuff to pay for their shopping. Consider our seven favourites and subscribe for more videos like this from Outside Xbox!
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[@Terastas]

Anyone else lost track of how many games used SOULS as currency? Is that why they weren't on the list? Because it's so common, it's become normalized?

[@user-yd4el3ts2e]

Salt? As in instead of souls.

[@davehudlow_x3441]

Terastas, I would start with Dark souls and continue but as you said there is too many meanings I'd be here all day. But definitely agree on how normal it become.

[@jasperzanovich2504]

Can you name a game that doesn't belong to the souls series?

[@bowmanc.7439]

Михаий Матвеев not that strange. The word salary came from sal which is Latin for salt, and subsequently “salarium”, meaning salt money.

[@user-yd4el3ts2e]

@@bowmanc.7439 those wierd goo things from evil within.

[@Chhipz]

Alice Madness Returns is an underrated gem

[@Dribbleondo]

I need to find this game.

[@alowt1418]

10/10 would get teeth to buy

[@mars12_25]

My sis had one but one day my cousin Larissa had simply robbed (she asked and never give back the game) and she did it twice with my Assassin's Creed Revelation and with Alice Madness Return.

[@BrotherMag]

@@mars12_25 that sucks

[@1391Ghost]

also, it's the only way to get the original Alice game as you can get it for free off the Playstation store as an add on for the game

[@tmirred1945]

5:13 Plot twist: Rodin needs the halo rings to decorate the hell, where a blue hedgehog keeps stealing them.

[@RappingNinja]

Despite Harry Potter’s universe having an established currency, in early games such as Chamber of Secrets, shops and vendors exclusively accept JELLYBEANS as the currency. Bertie Bott’s Every-Flavor Beans, to be specific. Don’t worry; Fred and George verbally specify the exact amount and type of beans needed for every single item they offer in their shop! “That costs thirty Bertie Bott’s Every-Flavor Beans.” “That costs fifteen Bertie Bott’s Every-Flavor Beans.” And so on.

[@kamikage9420]

It's probably because the actual worth of the different sizes of wizard money related to eachother is wack and the whole thing is a lot more overly complicated than just using the jellybeans that everyone remembers.

[@LizzardGirl713]

also because the "vendors" in early games are other children, who have much more use for candy than for knuts, sickles, or galleons while they're stuck at wizard boarding school

[@kamikage9420]

@@LizzardGirl713 Yeah.

[@SurprisinglyDeep]

Its gotta be like what lizard 713 said. Its like how in real life American prisons, the prisoners exchange things like packs of cigarettes or cans of mackerel (which is apparently useful in helping clean up a cell before inspection) even though the prison commissary accepts regular money

[@Chernobog2]

@@LizzardGirl713 yeah in the RPG games you actually use sickles as currency

[@Medaumplay3]

Alice is one of my favorite games ever, and I'd just like to point two things: 1- Memory and remembrance is a big theme of the game, and teeth are usually associated with such things, hence why it makes sense. 2- A bunch of human teeth on the ground is not even close to the most disturbing thing on that game.

[@lazerbeams2536]

The Dollmaker comes close though

[@shawklan27]

@@lazerbeams2536 nah it's definitely those kids in the doll level

[@dominateeye]

Sorry, how exactly are teeth associated with memory?

[@Medaumplay3]

@@dominateeye Sensory impulses created by the movement of our jaw and teeth are fed to the area of the brain that forms and retrieves memories, say scientists. (Source: google) Also it's a fairly common association in fantasy as well, Mainly in the tooth fairy's stories.

[@axelpatrickb.pingol3228]

Damn that Dollmaker and his corrupted domain... and the implications of both... damn him...

[@VocalFox94]

You want macabre, I'll give you macabre. In Destroy All Humans, you exchange brains for all your upgrades. _Human_ brains. From humans you've destroyed. Hence the title.

[@VocalFox94]

@@r0bw00d I personally do not, nor do I recall the cheat codes from the original. I do know that the PC version of the remake has console commands, but no idea on other platforms

[@travstein1185]

oh yeah that's true, they should feature that in a third edition of this list :)

[@AlmightyPolarBear]

You also get DNA from Challenges. Where is Pox getting these rewards?

[@thepianobirb4388]

and in west of loathing and in kingdom of loathing, currency is underground meat, I do NOT even wanna ask

[@boxhead6177]

Cut my metal shards in half, and have twice as many metal shards... that is kind of how Australia started its economy in 1813.

[@bowmanc.7439]

I think they might be buying by weight. And the “number” of metal shards is really just unit weight of metal shards

[@creativedesignation7880]

@@bowmanc.7439 No matter how they do it, I always felt like I was probably wrecking the economy, by ripping thousands of metal shards out of the seemingly endless supply of robots roaming around the place. Allthough thinking about it now, given the fact that you also gain resources from smashing robots to bits and that the amount of resources and metal shards are both tied to the size of the robot and therefore to each other, this might actually be a suprisingly effective way of creating a stable economy.

[@squeaktheswan2007]

Its the reason why coins in the US have ridges.

[@KaijuAKD]

They have no use for small pieces of metal since they don't smelt it, only the Oseram forge metal. Makes sense they only trade big chunks of metal and just assign them a valor per volume. Big pieces can be cut down and shaped to be used as armor or weapon parts. When you fight big machines like Thunderjaws and you knock it's armor, those huge chunks of metal are worth just a couple of shards.

[@Wandergirl108]

@@KaijuAKD But what about the fact that metal shards aren't just currency, but also the fundamental resource needed to craft ammo for most weapons? Shards are objectively useful, you can't make arrows without them, so it's not just the Oseram that use metal - they FORGE metal, but metal shards are used by everyone.

[@theradams97]

fun fact: the angels in bayonetta are biblically accurate. angels as described in the bible are mostly holy horror monsters

[@JikuAraiguma]

-Eyes -wings -fire -wheel I’d say that the bayonetta angel designs actually are less of horror monsters than the actual deals.

[@ethanmueller8218]

Really makes you think.

[@ShadowHybrid92]

@@ethanmueller8218 its why their opening line is "do not be afraid I am an angel of the lord"

[@ethanmueller8218]

@@ShadowHybrid92 But why do they look so freaky?

[@Nzosaba_Matenge]

They're far from accurate. The ones in the bible are even more horrifying

[@steelfist3956]

The Spongebob games always have weird currencies. Golden Spatulas I understand, but Manliness? Used socks? Shiny objects? Only in Bikini Bottom.

[@squeaktheswan2007]

They're fish. Of course they'll go after shiny objects.

[@calliopeirwin712]

excuse me but if you don't accept shiny objects as a form of currency then you're wrong.

[@squeaktheswan2007]

@@calliopeirwin712 Coins are shiny objects.

[@calliopeirwin712]

@@squeaktheswan2007 absolutely but they're also a specific type of shiny object. they are kind of a subcategory of shiny object when all should be accepted.

[@alexandraluster284]

Why not sand dollars? Or would that be too obvious?

[@lycheesodamusic]

Lisa The Painful. The currency there is literally pornographic magazines.

[@venomlord6384]

You’re joking right. That can’t be serious.

[@lycheesodamusic]

@@venomlord6384 check it out

[@DeadmanWL]

@@lycheesodamusic To Google!

[@killertruth186]

If the internet doesn't exist in that game.

[@IrvingIV]

@@venomlord6384 I beat the game, it's true. Though the menu just calls it "Mags"

[@quinnlilly2388]

"Sonic is going to Hell" is an incredibly hot take.

[@ellathompson6052]

Well all his games are blasphemous according to the sonic unraveled video, so it makes sense

[@PinkiTadinki]

Maybe the continuous collection of rings is Sonic's hell. xD

[@anarchyantz1564]

Given some of the fan fiction out there...quite possibly.

[@Ongomar]

I think Sonic is already experiencing hell on earth if you look at the fandom out there

[@anarchyantz1564]

@@Ongomar Just watch "Old Man Sonic...lets get you some preg greg.

[@Jessie_Helms]

No mention of LEGO games? I can buy a state of the art, battle-ready space ship for a few shiny blue LEGO studs.

[@StrictSnow]

I mean it fits. You ever try to buy LEGO? Shit be expensive.

[@Jessie_Helms]

StrictSnow wanna think about something else? Are the characters made out of money, or is the money made out of people?

[@jason4443]

@@Jessie_Helms Technically, the people and the money are made of entirely differently shaped pieces, so neither.

[@Jessie_Helms]

Jason 444 the material is the same tho

[@jason4443]

@@Jessie_Helms I know. But if so, are we pigs then? I heard pork is the closest to human meat.

[@Seikyuu]

In Horizon: ZD, the metal shards are also used as arrow heads when crafting, implying that each needs to big enough and can't just be broken down for more.

[@Santisima_Trinidad]

I was thinking the exact same thing. It's also worth noting that metal is a resource which is used fecking everywhere (for bows, arrows, armor, buildings, spears, everything) and once used, generally can't all be reused, drastically reducing the potential for Inflation.

[@user-rl4tg2mr9n]

When I played that game, I fought lots of machines along the way. In the end, I had 10,000+ shards hahaha

[@AlmightyPolarBear]

I didn't need much for buying and always had arrows. So the currency concept works in the game.

[@hollylucianta6711]

@@Genesis23OPB Yeah the video didn't point that out--for most weapons and armor, shards aren't enough, you need to trade monster loot like the hearts and lenses of robots.

[@Stungunwol]

@@Santisima_Trinidad can't be reused? Had people forgotten basic metallurgy or the ability to make bellows and the like? Melting metal down for reuse is theoretically simple as long as you can get it hot enough. Which was done all throughout medieval times...

[@giannigreco7401]

Ahh Metro, saving all your gold ammo for that one boss fight in the future that, when it arrives, you forget to switch out and just use regular ammo...

[@clothar23]

....I may or may not have wasted all my military grade ammo on lap dances...

[@melskunk]

@@clothar23 those strippers better have your back

[@thatfield977]

I love the concept of having a resource that serves two completely different purposes. I'm also a huge Metro nerd and have been working on a board game.

[@l0sts0ul89]

Lol

[@sethgilcrist8088]

@@melskunk no she had my front and was ...... Greasing my pole

[@Dream146]

there's always overlord where you buy upgrades by having your minions throw themselves bodily into a sacrificial forge for you

[@Karak-_-]

What?

[@ericb3157]

oh, i recently acquired a game called "dungeons 3", a take-off of Dungeon Keeper, where you need to capture buildings and defeat enemies to acquire "evilness" to unlock upgrades!

[@nagash303]

in homm3 the evil factions also can sacrifice their army at an altar.

[@dontmisunderstand6041]

@@Karak-_- The premise of Overlord is that you're the latest reincarnation of the Dark Lord, controlling a horde of minions who will obey your every command unquestioningly. These minions are formed from the life essence of your fallen foes (or any innocent creatures you happened to decide to murder). In effect, their very lives are a physical manifestation of your power, and you can upgrade your gear by forging their bodies into weaponry. Basically, it's like the concept of downsizing in the corporate world IRL.... consolidate resources into a smaller pool of more effective employees.

[@quincebielka8843]

Slime plorts from slime rancher. I know there is an in-game reason and they get converted into a standard type. But I'm still carrying around poop in that game.

[@shotgunshells2]

Plorts aren't currency though. You can trade them with other ranchers for different plorts and chickens, but generally you just sell them for cold hard spacebucks.

[@JoshuaEisenbart]

@@shotgunshells2 Newbucks* (or however they are spelled)

[@insaincaldo]

@@shotgunshells2 If someone is willing to exchange it directly for goods and services, it's a currency.

[@Exphautaz]

@@insaincaldo no? Have you never heard of bartering?

[@insaincaldo]

@@Exphautaz I'm assuming you are asking if I know of trading before any form of money really existed, where people traded goods and services directly and there were no final prices in place since everything was valued against whatever was offered as a trade. Which meant you better hope you had something any given farmer or craftsmen wanted, or find someone who would trade you something worth it for the merchant you actually needed something from.

[@avesrex]

it may not be so immediately uncomfortable, but considering that in lego games everything is made of plastic, and that they explode out of things upon death, the use of studs as currency becomes... ethically questionable.

[@michaeldelozier6898]

West of loathing MEAT currency that come from MEAT MINES

[@zhenweilai799]

Oh dear , you should check the browser game prequel ''Kingdom of Lothing'' , it also use Meat as money , crafting material and wrapons . It's a decent game if your bored .

[@casualdreamer8543]

Yes, this one right here ^^^

[@rosadraconum]

It makes sense at first - you kill rabbit or whatever its not going to have gold in its pockets. But it will have meat.

[@audoldends6799]

Is that euphemism for farms?

[@casualdreamer8543]

@@audoldends6799 no, you're literally digging meat out of the ground kind of mining. West of loathing is a slapstick comedy game, so everything is super ridiculous 😃

[@NisansaDdS]

10:37 But Andy, I have a feeling that Victorian British pound sterling was indeed the same thing as blood echos. * Obscure British Empire joke. Oh yes! *

[@ljs8824]

I nearly commented the same. Blood money it is indeed

[@jellysharkbat]

Kid Icarus deals in hearts. Brutal. Also monster parts for Breath of the Wild's resident weirdo: Kilton.

[@bowmanc.7439]

Not to mention the golden shit that they call “seeds”.

[@bowmanc.7439]

GameNinjaD They are goblins born from moon in a puff of smoke that turn into smoke when killed. I think their anatomy is probably pretty far off from human or any known animal in our world.

[@bowmanc.7439]

GameNinjaD I’m talking about the blood moon or was it the red moon thing.

[@LtBasil]

@@gamecavalier3230 The bokoblin guts look like hearts, the moblin guts look like livers, the hinox guts look like kidneys, heck we've got everything except actual guts don't we...

[@whitewolf3051]

Castlevania 2 Simon’s Quest also deals with hearts as currency.

[@macattack7949]

Question: Does this mean that it is now okay to buy merch and make donations to Outside Xbox using one's questionably large collection of human teeth? I'm...... asking for a 'friend' ........... >_>

[@TJR-hs2dj]

Tell your ... friend ... that unless we're told otherwise, then yes 😜

[@V_Anxietea]

Alice give me your spare teeth i need some merch

[@axelpatrickb.pingol3228]

The Orkz from Warhammer 40k did it...

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

@@axelpatrickb.pingol3228 Yeah, but the Orkz also think that when it comes to vehicles, Red Wunz go faster.

[@axelpatrickb.pingol3228]

@@TheDanishGuyReviews At least they enjoy what they are doing, not like the others...

[@theenigma2861]

In Psychonauts, as a standin for money you use Native American arrowheads (which you find underground) which are made of a type of Psychic rock (Psitanium)... I'll say that again... *PSYCHIC ROCKS!!!*

[@vsanz4758]

To be honest, everything is psychic in Psychonauts, even little psychopath and liars squirrels

[@TheToastMan69]

@@vsanz4758 I still have nightmares with the squirrels 😫

[@michaelandreipalon359]

This is literally what I was expecting in this movie. Let's hope Psychonauts 2 is another great video game sequel though. Just because we have Rhombus of Ruin and Half-Life: Alyx doesn't mean we're on the clear yet.

[@nathanlevesque7812]

Pretty sure the rocks just stimulate dormant psychic abilities and do not themselves possess any.

[@travstein1185]

well that's fun :)

[@thevaralon]

Doesn't Hollow Knight just use shiny rocks? I mean, they call it "Geo", but we all know you don't get printed coins from hitting boulders with a sword.

[@dustyisegg9725]

actually i'm pretty sure geo is made from fossilised shells

[@darkherculeskabuterimon7203]

3:55 The funny thing is, angels are canonically described as being quite horrific creatures. Which makes sense since they were created before the concept of 'form'.

[@lexsamreeth8724]

Yeah, you ever wonder why whenever an angel shows up in the Bible, the first thing out of their mouth is "be not afraid"? It's because otherwise people would think the angel was there to kill them.

[@darkherculeskabuterimon7203]

@@lexsamreeth8724 Although there were those three angels who visited what's-his-name. Save him, pretty much every guy in that city wanted to r*pe the angels. At least, that's what I remember. The actual text is probably different. It was the city that got glassed, the wife turned back and turned into a statue of salt(?), and later the two daughters bedded their father(?) if I recall correctly. Man, the bible is *dark.*

[@ninjafahita]

@@darkherculeskabuterimon7203 man, that a-LOT to unpack... I'm sorry

[@ninjafahita]

Different angels took on different forms (including some with 100 eyes and mouths). Some angels appears as regular humans, I think at least one was described as 'a man in a white robe' I'm probably paraphrasing but the image stuck in my head

[@darkherculeskabuterimon7203]

@@ninjafahita Sorry about that. Just recalling what I remember reading. Plus, let's face it, religion is *not* for the faint of heart. It is dark and weird and full of crimes that would get people locked away froever in this day and age. But yeah, angels as they are described are not too much different from the Eldritch creatures described in the works of those like H.P. Lovecraft.

[@DrBrangar]

Bloodborne at least mentions that only hunters and such use echoes. The "shining coin" item mentions that you could spend them after the hunt is over, but as every normal shop is closed, they are useless at the moment.

[@NickC_222]

5:13 Sonic doesn't collect angel halos. Those have always been, and will always be, Spaghetti-O's.

[@leefisher6366]

Oh oh, Spaghetti O's.

[@vek144]

Bayonetta whips an angel enemy, Spaghetti-os spills out of pocket.

[@MasterDarkenRahl]

Sunless Sea/Sky: the central currency is "echoes". Given the price for specialty items/vendors is measured in stories/nightmares/secrets/dreams, that definitely doesn't mean paper money. You pay for stuff with knowledge, thoughts, and emotions.

[@willp2906]

Along with the browser game Sea and Sky take their lore from, Fallen London. However the currency being Echoes isn't the weirdest thing in a game where you can earn those Echoes through, among other things, trading damned souls on their way to hell, and use said strange currency to buy, among other things, a demon goat.

[@alanthepyro]

I've always loved that the Ratchet and Clank universe uses nuts and bolts as their currency. killing a robot to get them makes sense and they even show that a lot of alien lifeforms eat the bolts, so getting them from their bodies makes sense too. The one that gets me is "how come this plant I just broke with my wrench, dropped bolts too?"

[@josephcline3652]

Ratchet and Clank - bolts are the primary currency, with gold bolts being used for purchases of super-rare items.

[@tychogoedhart286]

Titanium bolts* the gold ones are the regular ones

[@CheezVT]

As weird as that is on its own, it's not exactly the only game that uses bolts as currency. Nier Automata also uses small parts like that (known only as G) that specifically come from defeated machine lifeforms since there are so many of them. Sure there are separate items that are referred to as different kinds of nuts and bolts (crushed nut, pristine bolt, etc) but looking at G in the overworld shows they're pretty much nuts and bolts

[@roryk101]

@@tychogoedhart286 in the first game it is gold bolts as the currency for super-rare items

[@floofyfoxxo744]

@@roryk101 Yeah, I think Titanium Bolts were first used in Tools of Destruction.

[@joeschmo3844]

You also use bolts in Mega Man 7 way back in the day. Buying cool upgrades made out of bolts bolted to other bolts.

[@kurokage4440]

Fire tributes from Brütal Legend, you pay Ozzy Osborne with literal fire and he'll give you weapons, upgrades and paint jobs for your car, special moves, new looks for your guitar and axe and even statue heads

[@michaelandreipalon359]

This game is severely underrated. I know it's inferior to other Tim Schafer games like Grim Fandango and Psychonauts, but still.

[@VocalFox94]

It gets better. You're not just paying Ozzy in fire, you're paying Ozzy in fire from the lighters of the Gods of Metal

[@Morgan02]

Man I gotta play it again

[@alexandraluster284]

I’m sorry, can you repeat that?

[@Roinaeh]

Thanks to you, I remember my good times with Brütal Legend. Will play it again.

[@CandidOrphan]

I'm surprised that The Evil Within's green gel didn't make the list. Definitely one of the strangest currencies I have seen in a game, especially since you use it by injecting yourself with the stuff.

[@verminking6475]

"horrible writhing skeleton things" Those are my pride and joy my good sir. my little babys. Those messagers do nothing but help the hunters and you insult them >:0

[@Ceece20]

In my head cannon, Andy is filming this in order to convince Jane that Mike’s stuff does have some value.

[@Ceece20]

Ichijo Festival no, cannon. I put heads into a cannon. Yours will fit......

[@anarchyantz1564]

Of course Mike's things have value. Look at all his teeth!

[@travstein1185]

awwwww, poor Mike lol

[@hiddenone98]

2:00 - 2:13 Can anyone tell me what Andy is talking about? I can only hear his voiceover over a black screen? Was there supposed to be something there?

[@quincebielka8843]

Fibbles its the segment where Andy asks if we can all see this too

[@user-mc2qh4nv5g]

There is nothing wrong with the image of the cute girl slowly opening up her mouth filled with blood and loose teeth. Yes, perfectly normal

[@thatman666]

1 1 Unless you’ve stained the carpet and possibly the couch too.

[@jaidcz9068]

its a joke lol because he says “this isnt just a blank screen for everyone else?”

[@moofiche46]

you heard someone? all there was is just some black screen for a few seconds with music playing

[@3dDoener]

I'd like to add Heat Signature to the list: literal acid is used as currency, and there is a very rare and powerful gun that lets you shoot all that precious acid, which is very goof at stripping away both armor and, well, skin.

[@ElDiablo-dj3qz]

Personally I think it's weird that Castlevania: Simon's Quest used hearts. Like, "Hey can I get this thing here?" "Can you pay for that?" "Yeah here's the heart's" "Ummm... You're one off.", *Rips out his heart, " There we go."

[@MiloKuroshiro]

Kid Icarus does the same

[@ElDiablo-dj3qz]

@@MiloKuroshiro Shit, it's a little worse if it's a kid.

[@logicaloverdrive8197]

@@ElDiablo-dj3qz it comes from demons, plant creatures, and aliens, so it's good.

[@whitewolf3051]

I was expecting Castlevania 2 Simon’s Quest, didn’t know about Kid Icarus.

[@SpaceHopperCopter]

Great video! Although I'm not sure what was going on with that blank section near the beginning where Andy was talking about teeth for some reason.

[@danielstocks9088]

Yeah werid right ?

[@clothar23]

Wait you guys saw a blank screen..I saw a hellscape where everyday items were deadly weapons.

[@nithin143ash]

@@clothar23 wierd... I just saw ellen pointing a bow at my face and mouthing "supplies"

[@clothar23]

@@nithin143ash It's days like this were I wish I still had my security blanket..or a bottle of vodka.

[@ninjafahita]

@@nithin143ash I feel Gamer score should be added to this list

[@fleggitier]

Actually, there IS hyperinflation in Fallout, as a bottlecap was implemented as the promise to get one bottled water for it, but in F4 a bottle of water (without charisma discounts) costs around 40 bottlecaps. So the money is 40 times worth less, than it is supposed to be. If that's not inflation, then I don't know.

[@JoshuaEisenbart]

Or, it could simply be that water has become more scarce, because people have been buying it. The bottle cap has retained its value, but the price of water has sky rocketed. We need to look at other standards: has the price of ammunition increased? Do quests give you more cash on average? Is food also more expensive? If you answered yes to all of these questions, then I can say that there definitely has been massive inflation in the Fallout Universe. But since I never played the games, I don't know.

[@arthurtaylor2593]

Remind me, how much does irradiated water go for? Because I could see the "clean" water being worth a lot more, even with the bottle cap premise. But, if irradiated water is still 2 caps or more, then yeah... inflation. LOL

[@RayPoreon]

Thing is, in F4, water wasn't rare at all. You could stick a pump literally anywhere and be good to go.

[@DFloyd84]

The cost of your purchases in the Fallout games is directly tied to your Barter skill or Charisma stat, so the cost to you changes in your favour as you improve your skill.

[@travstein1185]

also in Fallout: New Vegas someone actually did make a bottlecap counterfitting machine, as you're asked to shut it down by the Crimson Caravan, if memory serves

[@DianaDxD]

Fun fact: When Fallout 4 came out someone was able to calculate how much a bottle was worth in US currency so they collected enough of them to buy the game with bottle caps. Bethesda actually granted that wish and gave them a copy of the game for the bottle caps🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@swapsxy8667]

I’d like to think Glimmer from Destiny has some sort of merit being a “Weird” currency. Fuel, Currency, and programmable matter? Seems pretty good to me!

[@aisforannihilation1662]

Glimmy, yay! Sorry. I have a habit of purposely butchering words or terms & destiny is 1 thing I enjoy doing that with . Maybe that's why "auto loading hamster" is my favorite perk. (For non players, it's holster. Hamster is just so much more fun to say & imagine)

[@Jonnym29]

Metro 2033's use of military grade bullets as currency is one of the very few post apocalypse currencies that has ever made sense to me. In a time where most are forced to make their own bullets a cache of pre-apocalypse, machine made bullets would be highly valued due to their clear superiority and constantly increasing rarity.

[@misty7914]

I clicked on this specifically because of the Alice: Madness Returns thumbnail.

[@coyoteartist]

I didn't see the thumbnail before clicking so seeing my beloved Alice was a pleasant surprise.

[@Emily.545]

Same

[@EliTheFluff]

Same

[@djkastanja657]

Same

[@gruggerduggerhoose]

As a scottish man who has had to argue to spend my dough south of the border, i fully understand the struggle of dealing in “weird currencies.” Lol

[@preciousrogue1833]

Oh no, Andy brought up my research field (the development of monetary systems) and now I'm having to resist the urge to lecture the internet on a topic 99.8% of people find extremely dull 🤐

[@phoenixcierebiej9763]

I've already fallen asleep.:)

[@ADAJ342]

As the remaining 0.2% you're free to lecture me on this subject. Im curious.

[@pretergeek]

The weirdest thing about the economy in the Fallout universe is that you can find pre-war money in almost every cash-register and its value to weight ratio makes it more valuable than caps to any vault dweller engaging in Bethesda's inventory management "minigame".

[@Vladimir_Kv]

Because Pre-War Money are a "curiosity" item. The same with the gold - it costs measly 10,547 caps per bullion (35 units of weight). 450 caps per "bar" in F4 (0.5 units of weight).

[@pretergeek]

@@Vladimir_Kv Yes, but gold is not common enough in-game that it could be used as currency. The pre-war money is. Point is, why use caps if there are still money around and it is worth something.

[@iSTEFIXi]

demon fluids so its tears yeah lets say its demon tears and NOTHING else

[@clothar23]

Ah my poor sweet , innocent summer child..you really don't want to know the truth.

[@bilalozkul8826]

No it's CUM

[@CorwinAlexander]

considering the colour, my head canon is that it's boogers

[@emmylittle4336]

I thought bogey when I saw the icons face. That huge nose!!

[@ADAJ342]

I mean "devil may cry" and all that

[@MMDNetwork]

goes to the grocery, grabs stuff clerk: that's 5 teeth please. Me: Oh shoot, I only brought 4. *smashes head in the counter, repeatedly* Me: here's the fifth, sorry for the blood

[@Dream146]

I'm sure it's been mentioned already but angels as described in the bible are weird nightmare monsters. the "modern" idea of angels came largely from renaissance painters so really bayonetta is one of the more "accurate" modern sources of angels.

[@BetaJackMaxis]

And those were 'putti,' which I'm reasonably sure were supposed to represent the souls of babies.

[@cass6082]

Except for the fact that they appeared as humans multiple times throughout the Bible to the point that sometimes people didn’t even know that they were talking to angels because they looked like normal men. Take Lot for example.

[@zackthehuman1996]

Although it is only for a part of the game, would "Soul Husks" from Elder Scrolls V Skyrim count?

[@insaincaldo]

Yes, though the weirdest thing about the currency in that game, is the fact that you find septims at ancient grave sites and in dwemer ruins.

[@user-pq5ux6ip4i]

@@insaincaldo Probably from earlier visitors who were not as... skilled as Dovah'kiin.

[@insaincaldo]

@@user-pq5ux6ip4i The ones you find as offerings, or on the dead one way, but you also find these "modern" coins behind doors that haven't been opened since thy were originally sealed.

[@DanteSuper95]

Whoever made that Alice game may have been a fan of the Orkz

[@Theilluminaughty98]

What about the scarabs from Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy?! Literally the only game I have played where my currency actively tried to run away from my empty pockets 😂

[@Starfals]

Bottle caps is actually a pretty cool idea. Me and my friends did use them as a currency. Trading them or buying and selling things with them. It was fallout before fallout came out :D (like 20 years ago)

[@BrawnyFanta]

Fallout came out over 20 years ago 😉

[@Ace2014Ace]

@@BrawnyFanta 1997 for the first, but most people started 2 (1998) or 3 (2004)

[@fetungahla]

One game missing from the list is the Ratchet and Clank series, where all of the weapons, gadgets and infobots are paid for in Nuts and Bolts.

[@fetungahla]

@@ichijofestival2576 True, but considering that half the beings you interact with are robotic, they may find it a bit weirded out to be paid in items that are also used to hold them together. The human equivalent would be getting a payment of copper or silver covered connecting ligaments and tissues

[@tychogoedhart286]

Gotta say, Luke, I really appreciate the Hieronymus Bosch reference. I live in the man's birth city, Den Bosch, in The Netherlands

[@BJGvideos]

Awesome. I work at an art museum and his stuff is always popular.

[@SevCaswell]

I thought this one was narrated by Andy...

[@tumfurbarkerfacewooferson7609]

Are we just gonna forget Bells? C'mon, Animal Crossing gave us one heck of an ODDLY SPECIFIC currency type! AND THEY'RE NOT EVEN SHAPED LIKE ACTUAL BELLS!

[@Pandora880]

And I'm surprised that anyone in that universe would name there kid IS-A-BELL

[@Thornbloom]

They take the form of coins though. Bells is just what they're called. THE REAL MYSTERY IS HOW THEY'RE WORTH ANYTHING WHEN YOU CAN LITERALLY GROW THEM ON TREES.

[@haouleo]

"Bloodborne is a historically accurate representation of life in victorian london right down to the werewolves" So you're saying the aliens are legit?

[@TwojaStaraIFrytki]

Out of curiosity I checked what is the meaning of teeth in psychology - damn, a lot of it...

[@handlebarfox2366]

Did you read (or watch) The Hogfather by Terry Pratchett? Teeth play a large part in that plot.

[@reonel_9060]

Heard someone said when you dreamed of losing teeth = losing control of something...alice strive to gain control of her sanity perhaps that whatvthey meant ...and i think those butterflies = the symbol of soul like

[@rafaelsean8114]

Wait... could that mean that sonic's world used to be brimming with angel and some sort of catastrophe wiped them all, leaving only their halos scattered as "rings", waiting to be collected by some random anthromorphic animals? Interesting.....

[@Fanimati0n]

Well, Bayonetta takes place in the modern day, & Sonic has always had a futuristic aesthetic, so maybe the rings in Sonic are Halos that Bayonetta never bothered to collect.

[@kamikage9420]

@@Fanimati0n Except Earth and Mobius are different planets, possibly in different realities.

[@minomininni]

Not only "Metro", also in "The Sinking City" you use bullets as currency.

[@kevanmcentee2174]

Yes, Andy. It was definitely an accident when I fired mini nukes at fallout vendors. Every single time, a simple accident.

[@arstotzka9988]

What about Days Gone where you use zombie ears as currency?

[@Magothys]

I can't believe this wasn't in the video.

[@ReverseDK17]

Throughout the video I kept thinking: "The next on the list will be the zombie ears from Days Gone", but no... "So you want me to fit a bigger gas tank on your bike? How about you give me a large bag of rotten ears..."

[@Chaos0f7ife]

As mundane as it sounds, I find that dollar bills with your face plastered on them would be a really weird currency. Just ask Pagan Min from Far Cry 4.

[@CaptainCathode]

The currency in 'Thems Fighting Herds' is 'Salt'

[@lexsamreeth8724]

That one actually makes sense. I mean, have you ever heard the expression "worth your salt"? It's even the origin for the word "salary"!

[@AlmightyPolarBear]

That game needs to be played on this channel.

[@nekrosis4431]

Salt has been used as currency. It had quite a high value to weight/size ratio, making it a useful currency. Before maschines, salt was difficult to get in alot of places.

[@petersimpson4648]

10:25 - Ha-woooo, Werewolves of London!!

[@themexiflan]

Ayyy we got a cameo from the Burger King himself, Ray Sunshine!

[@crows2808]

I once traded fingers and eyes for power to Ignus in the Smoldering Corpse Bar. Not currency, per se, but certainly a cost.

[@marcusporter7565]

American McGee's Alice and Alice: Madness Returns seriously needs to be either remastered or remade.

[@dragon1130]

2:07 yeah I don't see anything. Just my nightmares for the next few weeks.

[@SwitchFeathers]

Can't believe you included Blood Echoes but not their spiritual progenetor: _The literal souls of the dead_ from Demon's Souls and Dark Souls.

[@Stroggoii]

We've been using souls as currency since we were told we have them.

[@SwitchFeathers]

@@Stroggoii Using your own soul as currency I can understand. But collecting thousands upon thousands of the things from other people like pocket change is a pretty new idea.

[@LazzyVamples]

@@SwitchFeathers I think souls as currency is just really common in video games, hence why it wasn't brought up.

[@insaincaldo]

@@SwitchFeathers Not really, ever since the idea that you could sell your own soul, there have been a concept of value with some souls over others. Like being told to collect 100 souls in exchange for keeping your own or ascribing more value to the sacrifice of a virgin soul.

[@BetaJackMaxis]

I always took that as the remaining life force of the enemies you kill, and people call it 'souls' to be edgy.

[@NGMonocrom]

_"Oh my God! I think I'm going to be sick."_ Oh come on, Andy. You've seen much worse.... Not like that clip was from Fallout 76. *:P*

[@napassagemsecreta]

Good to see Alice! It deserves more love. To those interested in the series (American Mcgee's Alice and Alice: Madness Returns), they are working on a new game, Alice: Asylum, and you can support the devs (American Mcgee) on Patreon!

[@penumbra75]

There is nothing I love more than Andy's sense of humor and delivery.

[@Lucsld]

Okay I admit that Blood Echoes are weird, but what about Dark Souls!?, they use souls as currency, SOULS! Darksiders also does that, but the being we make business with, Vulgrim, EATS the souls, which is pretty mess up.

[@averyfields2871]

Yeah!!!!!! Another fan!!

[@eviino]

I think andy forgot to play the trailer for alice return to madness.

[@nikmcgarity]

First thought when I saw this in my subs was "Caps" which you obviously covered, but my second thought was "Bolts" from the ratchet and clank games.

[@saraross8396]

Breath of the Wild has interesting currency. Almost anything can be sold for rupees, or you can trade monster parts for Mon if you're dealing with Kilton. There is a third sort that is only used for inventory upgrades, and those are Korok droppings, which are called "seeds" in the game. There is a "prize" for finding all 900, and if you talk to a certain kid at the Tabantha Bridge Stable at a certain time of day the game hints at what you've really been collecting.

[@ninjafahita]

Another great list of 6 video game quirks but why was there a black screen for the first few minutes?

[@pedroguimaraes3854]

Hm... That's weird Why was the first entry just an empty screen?

[@georgesears934]

7:02 I'm not sure what you've heard about firearms over there in England, but I can assure you that in most places, bullets do cost money and that most bullets cost equal to or more than $1 a piece unless they are a really small and common caliber (or calibre).

[@CalifornianCuttlefish]

Something I love is that in actual Aztec Times Cocoa Beans (aka chocolate before it is chocolate) were used as currency.

[@luketsimmons1982]

I was half expecting Bison Dollars to appear, while not in a video game it's enough of a reference for Andy to do a Raul Julia impression, surely? Also great to see Alice Madness Returns in a list again! 🙌💰

[@spektrekrom2981]

Nobody: Dark souls: Swiggity Swogitty your soul is now my currency.

[@badgermole3467]

Exactly

[@emperorcaligula114]

And the blood echoes of a foe.

[@huntersearle5336]

I think stealing people's souls to buy things is actually how capitalism works in the real world

[@Jordan-kq3qw]

Swiggity swooty your soul is now my booty.

[@jasonh4534]

"Pulling the trigger is like setting a dollar bill on fire..." That is pretty accurate to real life ammo. It varies, based on things like caliber and the current market situation, but common small caliber ammo starts around 25 cents per shot/round, higher quality ammo for some common calibers are around $1 per, and high end long range rifle ammo or uncommon calibers can exceed that easily, with $5+ per round not unheard of... Ammo isn't cheap.

[@daoysterboy3784]

The Heavy: "It costs 400,000 dollars to fire this weapon... for 12 seconds."

[@bushidotestu1997]

How about Okami, that game has 3 forms of currency of actual money for consumables, demon fangs for permanent upgrade items, and prayers for character upgrades

[@ewanrice-kotarba1679]

Bayonetta angels are closer to how the bible actually describes them.

[@BJGvideos]

Yeah. People forget the more human looking ones are just one variety.

[@RazorO2Productions]

@@BJGvideos I'm Catholic, can confirm....

[@Konpekikaminari]

@@RazorO2Productions am Jewish, can second it seriously, the things described in Ezekiel alone are quite something

[@christiangrantz6906]

Finance pro tip: precious metals' intrinsic value is way lower than their value as simply being "precious metals"

[@usbiv223]

4:58 “Candy and Shoe Guns” is the name of my new band!

[@arieltkotz4877]

This view of angels is also at odd with the Bibble: "Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man. And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings. And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass. And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings. Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward. As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle. Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies." Ezekiel 1:5-11

[@LadyBern]

"Crap I need to make up a monster for this! Um...they look like people, but with four faces, yeah and lots of hands, and and-"

[@arieltkotz4877]

@@LadyBern And that's only one of the descriptions of one kind of angel...

[@LadyBern]

@@arieltkotz4877 oh I've seen the old angels. But not I'm trying to recall recounts of Lucifer biblical and fictional stories are mixing up, but it was supposed to be the most beautiful. Beautiful in terms of the angels or even by human standards?

[@GeneralNickles]

My favorite video game money is "Munny" from kingdom hearts. They never explain what it is, or why it's valuable. It's just munny.

[@emmylittle4336]

Tinny little colourful balls that come in various sizes can but you a new weapon!

[@pairot01]

So, kind of like real money

[@emmylittle4336]

@@pairot01 your money comes as colourful balls in different sizes? Oooo I want some

[@ts25679]

Am I the only one who listens to "The Gates of Hell" to get to sleep? That and the L.A. Noir theme music looping into each other make a smooth and saxy way to nod off.

[@Fanimati0n]

Bayonetta has some sexy, relaxing music to be sure.

[@ts25679]

@@Fanimati0n True, though I did mean SAXY =P

[@johnoneil9188]

It IS a super chill tune. If I ever run a bar that is so going in the juke box.

[@patrick-west]

(10:10) Tbf in the UK we had to use the lingering presence of dead people to back out currency for a while there because we shipped all our rare metals to China in exchange for tea. We eventually settled on turning India into a huge Opiates farm and getting all the Chinese farmers hooked on it, but ya before that it was "human souls" all the way for a while

[@socaldayve6684]

3:25 Anyone remember that FO4 mod with the quest that has a group of baddies counterfeiting caps with the intention of creating hyperinflation and crashing the Commonwealth's economy? It's much more fun than it sounds, honest! 😁😁😁

[@crummymonk4917]

I think any EA paid DLC should be here. Oh wait, this "weirdest" not "worst." Carry on! (Edit:) I think using real world money to purchase garbage loot boxes and features/items that should come with your $60 purchase is pretty weird.

[@matrixislandcow511]

Hoo boy... Souls from Dark Souls Cells from Dead Cells Enter the Gungeon has... casings I think Team Fortress 2's trading economy is largely based on keys and metal Psychonauts has arrowhead fossils made of psychic energy I could probably go on if I thought long enough. Weird currency is oddly common in video games.

[@user-yd4el3ts2e]

Salt

[@user-yd4el3ts2e]

And gills

[@digishade7583]

4:10 well considering that the first time angels have been mentioned they hadn't been given a proper description and were just called angels and that a few variations have them as either horrifying rings with eyes, a multi winged creature with eyes on the wings and other variations that would get them the title of eldritch horror bayonette's version of them is more accurate than most

[@TodellisuusFeidaa]

Fallout 2 skipped the caps and used good ol' dollars. Which leads to one of the most memorable bits when meeting a treasure hunter called Micky in the town of Broken Hills...

[@Darkside-origin]

Just won a fortnite battle royale aiming for zero kills, by hiding up in the sky in a helicopter, It made me think what is the cheeseist ways to win like a big fat coward in online game modes?

[@kamikage9420]

I nominate the fighting game cheese of landing just enough damage to have more health than the opponent, and then playing hard defense for the next minute so you win by time out.

[@Darkside-origin]

@@kamikage9420 epic Tekkers!

[@Darkside-origin]

@ericb31 thats a metric ton of block damage!

[@kibiho4277]

I'm a simple gamer: I see Alice Madness Returns, I click.

[@jediknight1294]

Honestly the fallout system bottlecap actually makes sense, its a standard that can't be faked, there are no more being produced and the equipment to make fakes doesn't exist in large enough numbers to be relevant. Similarly Metro where ammunition has become currency. Hard to make, valuable and something everyone needs.

[@randomchineseguy]

In Ratchet & Clank everything is paid with “Bolts,” the term hyperinflation is a severe understatement.

[@floofyfoxxo744]

"Oh, you want this new gun? That'll be ONE MILLION BOLTS!"

[@l0sts0ul89]

To be fair, bolts are metal. Depending on the metal bolts could be really good for money.