7 Weirdest Things You've Used as Money in Videogames

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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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@Medaumplay3 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

The Dollmaker comes close though

@shawklan27 4 года назад

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

@dominateeye 4 года назад

Sorry, how exactly are teeth associated with memory?

@Medaumplay3 4 года назад

@@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 4 года назад

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

@Terastas 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

Salt? As in instead of souls.

@davehudlow_x3441 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@bowmanc.7439 4 года назад

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

@user-yd4el3ts2e 4 года назад

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

@tmirred1945 4 года назад

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

@RappingNinja 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

@@LizzardGirl713 Yeah.

@SurprisinglyDeep 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@Chhipz 4 года назад

Alice Madness Returns is an underrated gem

@Dribbleondo 4 года назад

I need to find this game.

@alowt1418 4 года назад

10/10 would get teeth to buy

@mars12_25 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

@@mars12_25 that sucks

@1391Ghost 4 года назад

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

@VocalFox94 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

@@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 4 года назад

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

@AlmightyPolarBear 4 года назад

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

@thepianobirb4388 3 года назад

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

@boxhead6177 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@creativedesignation7880 4 года назад

@@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 4 года назад

Its the reason why coins in the US have ridges.

@KaijuAKD 3 года назад

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 3 года назад

@@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 4 года назад

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

@JikuAraiguma 4 года назад

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

@ethanmueller8218 4 года назад

Really makes you think.

@ShadowHybrid92 4 года назад

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

@ethanmueller8218 4 года назад

@@ShadowHybrid92 But why do they look so freaky?

@TupocalypseShakur 4 года назад

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

@steelfist3956 4 года назад

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

@squeaktheswan2007 4 года назад

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

@calliopeirwin712 4 года назад

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

@squeaktheswan2007 4 года назад

@@calliopeirwin712 Coins are shiny objects.

@calliopeirwin712 4 года назад

@@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 3 года назад

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

@lycheesodamusic 4 года назад

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

@venomlord6384 4 года назад

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

@lycheesodamusic 4 года назад

@@venomlord6384 check it out

@DeadmanWL 4 года назад

@@lycheesodamusic To Google!

@killertruth186 4 года назад

If the internet doesn't exist in that game.

@IrvingIV 4 года назад

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

@Jessie_Helms 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@Jessie_Helms 4 года назад

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

@jason4443 4 года назад

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

@Jessie_Helms 4 года назад

Jason 444 the material is the same tho

@jason4443 4 года назад

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

@quinnlilly2388 4 года назад

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

@ellathompson6052 4 года назад

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

@PinkiTadinki 4 года назад

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

@anarchyantz1564 4 года назад

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

@Ongomar 4 года назад

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

@anarchyantz1564 4 года назад

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

@avesrex 4 года назад

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.

@Seikyuu 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@AlmightyPolarBear 4 года назад

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

@hollylucianta6711 4 года назад

@@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 3 года назад

@@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...

@NisansaDdS 4 года назад

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 3 года назад

I nearly commented the same. Blood money it is indeed

@MasterDarkenRahl 4 года назад

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 3 года назад

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.

@CNSninja 4 года назад

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

@leefisher6366 4 года назад

Oh oh, Spaghetti O's.

@vek144 4 года назад

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

@giannigreco7401 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@melskunk 4 года назад

@@clothar23 those strippers better have your back

@thatfield977 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

Lol

@sethgilcrist8088 4 года назад

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

@Dream146 4 года назад

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

@Karak-_- 3 года назад

What?

@ericb3157 3 года назад

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 3 года назад

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

@dontmisunderstand6041 2 года назад

@@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.

@alanthepyro 4 года назад

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?"

@theenigma2861 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@TheToastMan69 4 года назад

@@vsanz4758 I still have nightmares with the squirrels 😫

@michaelandreipalon359 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@travstein1185 4 года назад

well that's fun :)

@michaeldelozier6898 4 года назад

West of loathing MEAT currency that come from MEAT MINES

@zhenweilai799 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

Yes, this one right here ^^^

@TheGirlChris 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

Is that euphemism for farms?

@casualdreamer8543 4 года назад

@@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 😃

@thevaralon 4 года назад

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.

@dustyisegg 3 года назад

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

@darkherculeskabuterimon7203 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

@@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 4 года назад

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

@ninjafahita 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

@@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.

@macattack7949 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@V_Anxietea 4 года назад

Alice give me your spare teeth i need some merch

@axelpatrickb.pingol3228 4 года назад

The Orkz from Warhammer 40k did it...

@TheDanishGuyReviews 4 года назад

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

@axelpatrickb.pingol3228 4 года назад

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

@DrBrangar 4 года назад

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.

@CandidOrphan 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

"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

@quincebielka8843 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@insaincaldo 4 года назад

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

@Exphautaz 3 года назад

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

@insaincaldo 3 года назад

@@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.

@jellysharkbat 4 года назад

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

@bowmanc.7439 4 года назад

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

@bowmanc.7439 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@LtBasil 4 года назад

@@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 4 года назад

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

@3dDoener 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

Kid Icarus does the same

@ElDiablo-dj3qz 4 года назад

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

@logicaloverdrive8197 4 года назад

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

@whitewolf3051 4 года назад

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

@kurokage4440 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@VocalFox94 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

Man I gotta play it again

@alexandraluster284 3 года назад

I’m sorry, can you repeat that?

@Roinaeh 3 года назад

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

@josephcline3652 4 года назад

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

@tychogoedhart286 4 года назад

Titanium bolts* the gold ones are the regular ones

@CheezVT 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@floofyfoxxo744 4 года назад

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

@joeschmo3844 4 года назад

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

@fleggitier 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@DFloyd84 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@Jonnym29 4 года назад

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.

@Ceece20 4 года назад

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

@Ceece20 4 года назад

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

@anarchyantz1564 4 года назад

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

@travstein1185 4 года назад

awwwww, poor Mike lol

@hiddenone98 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@user-mc2qh4nv5g 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@jaidcz9068 4 года назад

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

@moofiche46 4 года назад

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

@DianaDxD 3 года назад

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 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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)

@SpaceHopperCopter 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

Yeah werid right ?

@clothar23 4 года назад

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

@nithin143ash 4 года назад

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

@clothar23 4 года назад

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

@ninjafahita 4 года назад

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

@misty7914 4 года назад

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

@coyoteartist 4 года назад

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

@Emily.545 4 года назад

Same

@EliTheFluff 4 года назад

Same

@djkastanja657 4 года назад

Same

@MMDNetwork 4 года назад

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

@gruggerduggerhoose 4 года назад

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

@pretergeek 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

@@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.

@zackthehuman1996 4 года назад

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

@insaincaldo 4 года назад

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 3 года назад

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

@insaincaldo 3 года назад

@@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.

@preciousrogue1833 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

I've already fallen asleep.:)

@ADAJ342 4 года назад

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

@Dream146 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@cass6082 3 года назад

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.

@DanteSuper95 4 года назад

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

@iSTEFIXi 4 года назад

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

@clothar23 4 года назад

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

@bilalozkul8826 4 года назад

No it's CUM

@CorwinAlexander 4 года назад

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

@emmylittle4336 4 года назад

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

@ADAJ342 4 года назад

I mean "devil may cry" and all that

@Theilluminaughty98 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

Fallout came out over 20 years ago 😉

@Ace2014Ace 3 года назад

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

@fetungahla 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

@@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 4 года назад

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

@BJGvideos 4 года назад

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

@SevCaswell 4 года назад

I thought this one was narrated by Andy...

@TwojaStaraIFrytki 4 года назад

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

@handlebarfox2366 4 года назад

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

@reonel_9060 4 года назад

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

@tumfurbarkerfacewooferson7609 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@Thornbloom Год назад

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 4 года назад

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

@themexiflan 4 года назад

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

@minomininni 4 года назад

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

@kevanmcentee2174 4 года назад

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

@arstotzka9988 4 года назад

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

@Magothys 4 года назад

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

@ReverseDK17 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@lexsamreeth8724 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

That game needs to be played on this channel.

@nekrosis4431 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@rafaelsean8114 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@SwitchFeathers 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@SwitchFeathers 4 года назад

@@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 4 года назад

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

@insaincaldo 4 года назад

@@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 4 года назад

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

@marcusporter7565 4 года назад

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

@CalifornianCuttlefish Год назад

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

@crows2808 4 года назад

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

@NGMonocrom 4 года назад

_"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*

@eviino 4 года назад

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

@napassagemsecreta 4 года назад

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!

@Lucsld 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

Yeah!!!!!! Another fan!!

@pedroguimaraes3854 4 года назад

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

@dragon1130 4 года назад

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

@penumbra75 4 года назад

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

@christiangrantz6906 4 года назад

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

@ninjafahita 4 года назад

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

@TodellisuusFeidaa 4 года назад

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...

@jasonh4534 4 года назад

"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 4 года назад

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

@spektrekrom2981 4 года назад

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

@badgermole3467 4 года назад

Exactly

@emperorcaligula114 4 года назад

And the blood echoes of a foe.

@huntersearle5336 4 года назад

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

@Jordan-kq3qw 4 года назад

Swiggity swooty your soul is now my booty.

@luketsimmons1982 4 года назад

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! 🙌💰

@ShadowDawn 3 года назад

Here's one from a TV show (not the theme, I know, oh well). In the later seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, we see demons using kittens as money. I spent the whole video thinking of the kittens.

@bushidotestu1997 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@BJGvideos 4 года назад

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

@RazorO2Productions 4 года назад

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

@Konpekikaminari 4 года назад

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

@GeneralNickles 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@pairot01 4 года назад

So, kind of like real money

@emmylittle4336 4 года назад

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

@patrick-west 3 года назад

(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

@georgesears934 4 года назад

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).

@ts25679 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

Bayonetta has some sexy, relaxing music to be sure.

@ts25679 4 года назад

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

@johnoneil9188 4 года назад

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

@crummymonk4917 4 года назад

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.

@nikmcgarity 4 года назад

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.

@jediknight1294 3 года назад

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.

@matrixislandcow511 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

Salt

@user-yd4el3ts2e 4 года назад

And gills

@kibiho4277 4 года назад

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

@saraross8396 4 года назад

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.

@PurgingLight69 4 года назад

Over the years I've used Rocks, Seeds, Apples, Feathers, and even Badges as currency in one game or another. Weird, sure, and definitely G-Rated.

@Darkside-origin 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

@@kamikage9420 epic Tekkers!

@Darkside-origin 4 года назад

@ thats a metric ton of block damage!

@kavpuppy 4 года назад

Andy, your deadpan intro for Bloodborne absolutely made my day. Thank you!

@machspeed5025 4 года назад

A personal favourite of mine are the souls in Darksiders. Not only is it fitting to bargain with a merchant demon using the souls of dead and damned humans, but i find it funny that you can get these souls from even just destroying some of the scenery. You expect me to believe that there are souls in EVERY piece of furniture?

@averyfields2871 4 года назад

Fellow fan!!

@ebukaarinze996 3 года назад

Maybe the traders in horizon can tell when a shard is counterfitt or they trade based on the quality or size so cutting your shards in half could actually make it less valuable