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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
@@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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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! 😁😁😁
@@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.
@@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.
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
@@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?
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.
The souls of humans after our extinction in darksiders was always a favorite of mine. Also I don’t know if it counts because it’s just to buy skill upgrades but supplements in the last of us where interesting as well.
Rupees from Zelda are, if you think about them, really weird currency. They're gems that look exactly identical other than color, which determines their worth. They can be found in grass, rocks, monsters, underwater, lying around on the ground, buried underground, etc. And if you happen to find a black one, you somehow magically loose rupees. Not only that, but these same gems are used as currency over several hundred years across multiple different timelines.
The Lums in Rayman Legends were always an odd form if currency in my opinion. These things are ALIVE, aren't they? Is slavery prominent in the Rayman universe? So many questions...
In the first infamous you use blast shards to upgrade your powers this is not that weird when you think about it as it is probably the remnants of the ray sphere blast which is how you originally get your powers.
world of warcraft has had its fair share of weird currencies, like mementos that make literally anybody but you go absolutely crazy or chunks of an old god's flesh or hundreds upon hundreds of demon eyes taken from them while you're corrupted by a specific orb
In The Evil Within, you purchase upgrades with green goo that you scoop up with a mason jar from out of nowhere. Like what is that stuff? Brain gel, puss, nightmare monster blood, or some other unspecified bodly fluid!?
For Horizon Zero Dawn, I’m pretty sure that the “metal shares” are valued by weight rather than number of individual pieces, but I agree that of all fictional economies, this is the one that would be the most broken.
Kingdom of Loathing uses meat as money. It was also a source of power for a car. I'm not sure if the game is still around, since it's been many years since I've played it.
In the Digimon World series you trade in Bits, and I may not know computing good, but I'm pretty sure that's the real world equivalent of trading in atoms. The implications make my brain fuzzy
Bottle caps were only backed by water in Fallout 1. Every other game has basically no explanation. Hell, in Fallout 3 and 4 your character starts collecting bottlecaps and using them as currency with no way of knowing that they are used as such
You completely forgot about Bolts from the Ratchet and Clank series. Seriously, in a universe where in at least 2 galaxies, spare machine parts are the main currency, to the point where extra-valuable ones are made from solid gold, platinum, or titanium, how does *ANYTHING* ever get built in the first place?
Let's not forget Bioshock's Adam. Sure Rapture has dollars and coins, but the genetic material that sea-slug-possessed little girls drain from dead bodies can be traded for all your electric and "oh no, the bees" needs.
Wait, no mention of Bolts from the Ratchet & Clank universe? Think about it: If these galaxies are full of robots, mutants, and aliens, how/why do ALL different types of enemies drop bunches of nuts and bolts like an exploding Home Depot?
What about Kid Icarus: Uprising. In this cute game you use hearts taken from defeated monsters as currency, they are also appreciated by the goddess as offerings.
All the ratchet & clank game's bolts. There are robots EVERYWHERE that you can kill and easily get rich, so I'm surprised that if there's any havoc going on in town that they automatically assume its Dr. Nefarious.
No mention of the golden skulltulas in Ocarina of Time? Idk what’s worse, that you use them as currency or those hideous spider chimeras should take them. Also Monster Parts in Breath of the Wild.
If there's one suggestion I have for this list, other than to play Metro with Russian voice acting, is to add screws to the list, from later Mega Man games. Because... you're basically buying stuff using robot bones.
Crystallized demon blood gets a bad rep, but it's the best means upgrading Devil Arms and Firearms Edit: Actually Element 115 is good way of upgrading firearms as well if you're a CoD BO fan.
*Sees first entry* *Happy noises* Ah Alice, my favorite fairy tell, and Madness Returns is such a twisted justice to it. I even bought the one dlc the game has...and it's literally costumes (granted one costume is kinda broken, the Mad Hatter one, where if you take damage instead of losing health you lose teeth) I have played that game around 3 times now? The original game only once, cause the final boss was annoying. (I love how you can literally play the first game to if you have madness returns cause its literally at the bottom of the main menu) Seriously I can talk about this game for hours it's so good
Lesse: Ratchet and Clank use Bolts. Jak and Daxter used Precursor orbs and metal head gems. Beyond good and evil uses Materia crystals and Pearls. That's all I can think of right now. Y'all youngsters got the rest.
Persona 5 Royal makes us trade flowers you find in the weird world of the society's heart to a mysterious little boy with an egg for hair, who gives you weapons for them. Is this really legal, Atlus ?
What about "zenny" its in so many games across so many franchises (from megaman to dragon ball z) and ive never seen a zenny denomination. What are they and what do they look like
Bayonetta actually had a right-ish idea for angels. You should look up Biblically accurate angel illustrations to see how they're actually described as. There's a reason every angel introduces itself with "be not afraid".
I'm surprised you didn't mention bells from the Animal Crossing series. What use does anyone have for millions of bags of bells? What are you up to Tom Nook???
I would've loved if y'all had done a joke at the end, where when Luke said "... Then at least I don't have to see those birdbath skeletons again." You did a cut away showing how they're also the Player Note holders, and have Luke been like "Ahh, no. I don't like this!"
Gold in skyrim. Using gold as currency might sound reasonable, but judging by the amount of gold, gems, jewelry, ingots, etc. in my chest, Skyrim is broke.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
@@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
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.
@@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.
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.
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! *
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 .
@@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 😃
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.
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' ........... >_>
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!
@@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.
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!!!*
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.
"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
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?
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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...
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.
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🤣🤣🤣🤣
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'.
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.
@@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.*
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
@@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.
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.
@@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...
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!
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)
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?"
5:13 Plot twist: Rodin needs the halo rings to decorate the hell, where a blue hedgehog keeps stealing them.
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.
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.
The Spongebob games always have weird currencies. Golden Spatulas I understand, but Manliness? Used socks? Shiny objects? Only in Bikini Bottom.
They're fish. Of course they'll go after shiny objects.
excuse me but if you don't accept shiny objects as a form of currency then you're wrong.
@@calliopeirwin712 Coins are shiny objects.
@@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.
Why not sand dollars? Or would that be too obvious?
Cut my metal shards in half, and have twice as many metal shards... that is kind of how Australia started its economy in 1813.
I think they might be buying by weight. And the “number” of metal shards is really just unit weight of metal shards
@@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.
Its the reason why coins in the US have ridges.
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.
@@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.
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...
....I may or may not have wasted all my military grade ammo on lap dances...
@@clothar23 those strippers better have your back
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.
Lol
@@melskunk no she had my front and was
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Greasing my pole
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.
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.
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
Thing is, in F4, water wasn't rare at all. You could stick a pump literally anywhere and be good to go.
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.
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
Out of curiosity I checked what is the meaning of teeth in psychology - damn, a lot of it...
Did you read (or watch) The Hogfather by Terry Pratchett? Teeth play a large part in that plot.
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
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! 😁😁😁
Something I love is that in actual Aztec Times Cocoa Beans (aka chocolate before it is chocolate) were used as currency.
Gotta say, Luke, I really appreciate the Hieronymus Bosch reference. I live in the man's birth city, Den Bosch, in The Netherlands
Awesome. I work at an art museum and his stuff is always popular.
I thought this one was narrated by Andy...
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.
We've been using souls as currency since we were told we have them.
@@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.
@@SwitchFeathers I think souls as currency is just really common in video games, hence why it wasn't brought up.
@@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.
I always took that as the remaining life force of the enemies you kill, and people call it 'souls' to be edgy.
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
"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-"
@@LadyBern And that's only one of the descriptions of one kind of angel...
@@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?
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.
The souls of humans after our extinction in darksiders was always a favorite of mine.
Also I don’t know if it counts because it’s just to buy skill upgrades but supplements in the last of us where interesting as well.
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.
Tinny little colourful balls that come in various sizes can but you a new weapon!
So, kind of like real money
@@pairot01 your money comes as colourful balls in different sizes? Oooo I want some
Rupees from Zelda are, if you think about them, really weird currency. They're gems that look exactly identical other than color, which determines their worth. They can be found in grass, rocks, monsters, underwater, lying around on the ground, buried underground, etc. And if you happen to find a black one, you somehow magically loose rupees. Not only that, but these same gems are used as currency over several hundred years across multiple different timelines.
The Lums in Rayman Legends were always an odd form if currency in my opinion. These things are ALIVE, aren't they? Is slavery prominent in the Rayman universe? So many questions...
They're primordial energy fragments that constitute the heart of the world.
In the first infamous you use blast shards to upgrade your powers this is not that weird when you think about it as it is probably the remnants of the ray sphere blast which is how you originally get your powers.
world of warcraft has had its fair share of weird currencies, like mementos that make literally anybody but you go absolutely crazy or chunks of an old god's flesh or hundreds upon hundreds of demon eyes taken from them while you're corrupted by a specific orb
In The Evil Within, you purchase upgrades with green goo that you scoop up with a mason jar from out of nowhere. Like what is that stuff? Brain gel, puss, nightmare monster blood, or some other unspecified bodly fluid!?
Brutal Legend's "Fire Tributes" come to mind as another fun one.
For Horizon Zero Dawn, I’m pretty sure that the “metal shares” are valued by weight rather than number of individual pieces, but I agree that of all fictional economies, this is the one that would be the most broken.
Kingdom of Loathing uses meat as money. It was also a source of power for a car. I'm not sure if the game is still around, since it's been many years since I've played it.
_Shards,_ I suspect, are merely robot scrap, which is easier to smelt into a pure-grade bullion than ore. They count it by weight, not units.
In the Digimon World series you trade in Bits, and I may not know computing good, but I'm pretty sure that's the real world equivalent of trading in atoms. The implications make my brain fuzzy
Bottle caps were only backed by water in Fallout 1. Every other game has basically no explanation. Hell, in Fallout 3 and 4 your character starts collecting bottlecaps and using them as currency with no way of knowing that they are used as such
You completely forgot about Bolts from the Ratchet and Clank series. Seriously, in a universe where in at least 2 galaxies, spare machine parts are the main currency, to the point where extra-valuable ones are made from solid gold, platinum, or titanium, how does *ANYTHING* ever get built in the first place?
Teeth as money? I always said that saving up was like pulling teeth.
Let's not forget Bioshock's Adam. Sure Rapture has dollars and coins, but the genetic material that sea-slug-possessed little girls drain from dead bodies can be traded for all your electric and "oh no, the bees" needs.
Wait, no mention of Bolts from the Ratchet & Clank universe?
Think about it: If these galaxies are full of robots, mutants, and aliens, how/why do ALL different types of enemies drop bunches of nuts and bolts like an exploding Home Depot?
What about Kid Icarus: Uprising. In this cute game you use hearts taken from defeated monsters as currency, they are also appreciated by the goddess as offerings.
All the ratchet & clank game's bolts. There are robots EVERYWHERE that you can kill and easily get rich, so I'm surprised that if there's any havoc going on in town that they automatically assume its Dr. Nefarious.
Animal Crossing uses bells, KOTOR uses credits which who even knows what those are, and Scott Pilgrim Vs The World uses coins made from people!
I wonder if you’re gonna mention souls from the Dark Souls series.
EDIT: okay, the blood echos fro Bloodborne work as well.
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Lewis Carrol as a tumblr goth on meth instead of acid
The currency in Nier Automata is parts of the enemies you kill, what makes it horrifying is the fact that they are sentient
I'm surprised you didn't put nuts & bolts from the Ratchet & Clank series.
Great video, but what was with the 8 seconds of blank silence before the 2nd clip?
No mention of the golden skulltulas in Ocarina of Time? Idk what’s worse, that you use them as currency or those hideous spider chimeras should take them. Also Monster Parts in Breath of the Wild.
Andy's idea for HZD is so metal!
Geos from "Hollow Knight" are missing. And salt from "Salt and Sanctuary" (who could have guessed?)
If there's one suggestion I have for this list, other than to play Metro with Russian voice acting, is to add screws to the list, from later Mega Man games. Because... you're basically buying stuff using robot bones.
"Exploding Teapot Launcher"....New band name; check!
Crystallized demon blood gets a bad rep, but it's the best means upgrading Devil Arms and Firearms
Edit: Actually Element 115 is good way of upgrading firearms as well if you're a CoD BO fan.
*Sees first entry*
*Happy noises*
Ah Alice, my favorite fairy tell, and Madness Returns is such a twisted justice to it. I even bought the one dlc the game has...and it's literally costumes (granted one costume is kinda broken, the Mad Hatter one, where if you take damage instead of losing health you lose teeth) I have played that game around 3 times now? The original game only once, cause the final boss was annoying. (I love how you can literally play the first game to if you have madness returns cause its literally at the bottom of the main menu)
Seriously I can talk about this game for hours it's so good
to be fair blood echos are way easier to deal in than pre-Decimalisation pounds
5:13 I look forward to Andy's Sonic fan fiction titled "The Hell-bound Hedgehog."
Destiny has a bunch of "weird" currency. Programmable matter, plants, data cores, shells of dead sentient beings, powered stones, batteries, etc etc.
The Antagonizer is the best name in the history of everything
What about in Destroy All Humans where you pop the brains out of people and extract DNA and use that to buy upgrades for stuff?
Lesse: Ratchet and Clank use Bolts.
Jak and Daxter used Precursor orbs and metal head gems.
Beyond good and evil uses Materia crystals and Pearls. That's all I can think of right now. Y'all youngsters got the rest.
Persona 5 Royal makes us trade flowers you find in the weird world of the society's heart to a mysterious little boy with an egg for hair, who gives you weapons for them. Is this really legal, Atlus ?
I wonder if the teeth in Alice is symbolism to when you dream about losing teeth?
Imagine buying Blood Vials with your precious Echoes like a scrub
The souls used as currency in Dark Souls are no less strange than the blood echoes from Bloodborne.
Bolts from Ratchet and Clank trilogy! Shouldn't they be used in all of the sci fi technology in the game?
Sonic collecting halos? I always just assumed there was a lot of people (or hedgehogs) getting divorced
What about "zenny" its in so many games across so many franchises (from megaman to dragon ball z) and ive never seen a zenny denomination. What are they and what do they look like
Bayonetta actually had a right-ish idea for angels. You should look up Biblically accurate angel illustrations to see how they're actually described as.
There's a reason every angel introduces itself with "be not afraid".
I meant if I saw some random ass glowing person who's probably naked I'd be more scared.
You forgot in breath of the wild if you want to buy from kilton you have to exchange monster parts for his currency that he made up
Anyone else notice the weird and awkward Americanism creeping in oxbox scripts ? Andy saying “going down to Target” is just kinda sad.
ivy stover nope
I'm surprised you didn't mention bells from the Animal Crossing series. What use does anyone have for millions of bags of bells? What are you up to Tom Nook???
I would've loved if y'all had done a joke at the end, where when Luke said "... Then at least I don't have to see those birdbath skeletons again." You did a cut away showing how they're also the Player Note holders, and have Luke been like "Ahh, no. I don't like this!"
In Starbound you use Pixels as money. The game use pixel graphics, so it's making perfect sense. Pixels literally dropping from anything you destroy!
The things in Devil May Cry... Don't they look like Beherits from Berserk?
Gold in skyrim.
Using gold as currency might sound reasonable, but judging by the amount of gold, gems, jewelry, ingots, etc. in my chest, Skyrim is broke.
Alice: In dream terms teeth represent the truth. As in 'to tell the truth'. if I recall right. Which goes with the theme of the game.
Sitting ducks actually duck feathers
Im pretty sure the metal shards are measured in weight and not in quantity in Horizon
Sunset overdrive the soda cans was a odd from of miney
No mutant soda? Sunset Overdrive? *:)
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?
Salt? As in instead of souls.
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.
Can you name a game that doesn't belong to the souls series?
Михаий Матвеев not that strange. The word salary came from sal which is Latin for salt, and subsequently “salarium”, meaning salt money.
@@bowmanc.7439 those wierd goo things from evil within.
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.
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.
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
@@LizzardGirl713 Yeah.
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
@@LizzardGirl713 yeah in the RPG games you actually use sickles as currency
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.
@@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
oh yeah that's true, they should feature that in a third edition of this list :)
You also get DNA from Challenges. Where is Pox getting these rewards?
and in west of loathing and in kingdom of loathing, currency is underground meat, I do NOT even wanna ask
No mention of LEGO games?
I can buy a state of the art, battle-ready space ship for a few shiny blue LEGO studs.
I mean it fits. You ever try to buy LEGO? Shit be expensive.
StrictSnow wanna think about something else?
Are the characters made out of money, or is the money made out of people?
@@Jessie_Helms
Technically, the people and the money are made of entirely differently shaped pieces, so neither.
Jason 444 the material is the same tho
@@Jessie_Helms
I know. But if so, are we pigs then? I heard pork is the closest to human meat.
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.
The Dollmaker comes close though
@@lazerbeams2536 nah it's definitely those kids in the doll level
Sorry, how exactly are teeth associated with memory?
@@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.
Damn that Dollmaker and his corrupted domain... and the implications of both... damn him...
"Sonic is going to Hell" is an incredibly hot take.
Well all his games are blasphemous according to the sonic unraveled video, so it makes sense
Maybe the continuous collection of rings is Sonic's hell. xD
Given some of the fan fiction out there...quite possibly.
I think Sonic is already experiencing hell on earth if you look at the fandom out there
@@Ongomar Just watch "Old Man Sonic...lets get you some preg greg.
fun fact: the angels in bayonetta are biblically accurate. angels as described in the bible are mostly holy horror monsters
-Eyes
-wings
-fire
-wheel
I’d say that the bayonetta angel designs actually are less of horror monsters than the actual deals.
Really makes you think.
@@ethanmueller8218 its why their opening line is "do not be afraid I am an angel of the lord"
@@ShadowHybrid92 But why do they look so freaky?
They're far from accurate. The ones in the bible are even more horrifying
Alice Madness Returns is an underrated gem
I need to find this game.
10/10 would get teeth to buy
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.
@@mars12_25 that sucks
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
Lisa The Painful. The currency there is literally pornographic magazines.
You’re joking right. That can’t be serious.
@@venomlord6384 check it out
@@lycheesodamusic To Google!
If the internet doesn't exist in that game.
@@venomlord6384
I beat the game, it's true.
Though the menu just calls it "Mags"
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! *
I nearly commented the same. Blood money it is indeed
West of loathing MEAT currency that come from MEAT MINES
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 .
Yes, this one right here ^^^
It makes sense at first - you kill rabbit or whatever its not going to have gold in its pockets. But it will have meat.
Is that euphemism for farms?
@@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 😃
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.
actually i'm pretty sure geo is made from fossilised shells
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' ........... >_>
Tell your ... friend ... that unless we're told otherwise, then yes 😜
Alice give me your spare teeth i need some merch
The Orkz from Warhammer 40k did it...
@@axelpatrickb.pingol3228 Yeah, but the Orkz also think that when it comes to vehicles, Red Wunz go faster.
@@TheDanishGuyReviews At least they enjoy what they are doing, not like the others...
there's always overlord where you buy upgrades by having your minions throw themselves bodily into a sacrificial forge for you
What?
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!
in homm3 the evil factions also can sacrifice their army at an altar.
@@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.
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!!!*
To be honest, everything is psychic in Psychonauts, even little psychopath and liars squirrels
@@vsanz4758 I still have nightmares with the squirrels 😫
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.
Pretty sure the rocks just stimulate dormant psychic abilities and do not themselves possess any.
well that's fun :)
"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
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?
Fibbles its the segment where Andy asks if we can all see this too
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
1 1 Unless you’ve stained the carpet and possibly the couch too.
its a joke lol because he says “this isnt just a blank screen for everyone else?”
you heard someone? all there was is just some black screen for a few seconds with music playing
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.
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.
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.
@@shotgunshells2 Newbucks* (or however they are spelled)
@@shotgunshells2 If someone is willing to exchange it directly for goods and services, it's a currency.
@@insaincaldo no? Have you never heard of bartering?
@@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.
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.
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.
When I played that game, I fought lots of machines along the way. In the end, I had 10,000+ shards hahaha
I didn't need much for buying and always had arrows. So the currency concept works in the game.
@@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.
@@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...
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.
5:13 Sonic doesn't collect angel halos. Those have always been, and will always be, Spaghetti-O's.
Oh oh, Spaghetti O's.
Bayonetta whips an angel enemy, Spaghetti-os spills out of pocket.
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🤣🤣🤣🤣
In my head cannon, Andy is filming this in order to convince Jane that Mike’s stuff does have some value.
Ichijo Festival no, cannon. I put heads into a cannon. Yours will fit......
Of course Mike's things have value. Look at all his teeth!
awwwww, poor Mike lol
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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'.
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.
@@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.*
@@darkherculeskabuterimon7203 man, that a-LOT to unpack...
I'm sorry
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
@@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.
Kid Icarus deals in hearts. Brutal.
Also monster parts for Breath of the Wild's resident weirdo: Kilton.
Not to mention the golden shit that they call “seeds”.
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.
GameNinjaD
I’m talking about the blood moon or was it the red moon thing.
@@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...
Castlevania 2 Simon’s Quest also deals with hearts as currency.
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!
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)
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.
Yeah werid right ?
Wait you guys saw a blank screen..I saw a hellscape where everyday items were deadly weapons.
@@clothar23 wierd... I just saw ellen pointing a bow at my face and mouthing "supplies"
@@nithin143ash It's days like this were I wish I still had my security blanket..or a bottle of vodka.
@@nithin143ash I feel Gamer score should be added to this list
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?"