Games where money mattered the least

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Fallout 2 could probably count. A number of merchants in the game store their inventories either on their person or in the shelves next to them, so you could potentially just steal everything you want with no consequence (assuming you aren't caught).

Hell, there's a vendor in San Francisco that carries a bunch of high-end armor, weapons, ammunition, and a large amount of money. For whatever reason the money is always in his personal inventory, so you can just pickpocket it from him, buy stuff from his store, then pickpocket the money back.
 

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Fable 2.

This is the game where you can earn money by not even playing the game. Investing in even a single building is enough to make you a decent windfall, even if you charge rent like a saint. Nevermind owning all of Bowerstone by the endgame. Hell, one of the endgame choices can toss 1,000,000 gold onto your lap. Just invest it in capital and you become filthy stinking rich.

And for what?
 

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Legend of Zelda. How many times have you opened a chest expecting something awesome and it was just money? And then, you get the notice that you're carrying too much already, so you put it back.

I think money in most games is useless because you always end up swimming in it. The only games that come to mind where money made a difference to me were the Dragon Age games. You can't farm money in those games, and a few items cost several pretty gold pieces, so if you want them you had to save.

Or get The Golems of Amgarrak, get that mace, and then sell it for over a hundred gold right at the beginning of the game. Breaks the game, but it was nice to finally be able to buy some things that I had always wanted.
 

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Oblivion. You buy the house, gear it up and you're done with cash for good unless you're looking to collect a few snazzy named dealios from the merchants, none of which are very good. And as for selling you can sell everything you've got, but you'll never get max price on the most expensive items. At least it's not as bad as Morrowind. A Daedric Dagger I found was worth 10,000...highest-buying merchant was 1500. And now way am I going to repeatedly click the haggle buttons (yes, you can't even hold it down) until it scales down to 1500, I have too much other stuff I'm looking to dump, anyway.

I'll just drop it downstairs with all the other expensive junk I can't sell.
 

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Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled.

There was a shop that sold the equivalent of the various stat seeds from Dragon Quest. They were really expensive, but they also sold another item that you could actually get them to buy back at a much higher price.

A little later I had max stats on every character and maxed out money. I mean not like hours and hours of tedious crap later, maybe 15 minutes later.

It was one of the MANY things about that game that were outright messed up. Most notably the final double tech of Rogurd and Nym being 100% glitched and therefore unobtainable. I didn't even use Rogurd so I didn't mind so much.

It would be analogous to never being able to get Frog Flare in Chrono Trigger though.
 

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Legend of Zelda was certainly my first thought since in most games you max out your wallet by mid-game and have nothing left to buy with it all.

Skyrim's base game may have a lack of things to spend money on (though buying/building all the houses in the game definitely takes some finances) but with mods that totally changes the game, I guess it depends on your playstyle but generally most mod items are priced pretty high giving you something to work for, there's a few mod houses that take like 10 Mil to buy and upgrade fully. Let's just say in Skyrim I never have a full wallet very long. Also paying for trainer skill upgrades can quickly drain your funds in that game after the mid-way mark on the skill.

I used to think Baldur's Gate had some ridiculously overpriced items in the game until I started replaying about a year ago and realized that ALL and I do mean ALL the best gear is stuff you find and if you know where to find it well, you never really want for money again, by the time I actually got to the 5th chapter and entered Baldur's Gate, aside from a handful of spells there was nothing really worth buying. I had an insane amount of uber gear from questing and enough scrolls and potions to make any magic store blush.
 

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South Park: The stick of truth. A lot of items maybe be worth less than 1 dollar, but I haven't found items that I actually needed that cost more than 10 dollars. I always tried to get the best gear I could get/buy and stock up on potions and the like. But I found so many potions through looting and drops that I hardly needed to buy any. And you got plenty of gear upgrades without even touching the shop once. Maybe it had to do with me playing a mage and pretty much 2~3 shotting everything that wasn't a boss in late game. So I hardly needed potions. But still.
 

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Most Legend of Zelda games since you can find the more essential items like arrows and bombs just by cutting grass.

Also Grand Theft Auto 3 and 4. Outside of weapons and hospital bills there nothing to spend it on. You're never low on cash.
 

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Morrowind. Seriuosly, the only worth carrying items are the ones you look or you make. maybe except the cure blight potions. and once you meet few daedra you are set for life for any house/mission/items you want to buy. even enchanting is dirty cheap in comparison to how much money you get from few swords.
 

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Like the OP said, Borderlands comes to mind. I classify "money is useless" in different categories.

1. Nothing is worth buying. Borderlands and BL 2 are great examples. Vending machines are useless. You will ALWAYS find better stuff, buying is pointless, selling is pointless. Played properly ammo is plentiful and you will never have to buy it, same with health.

2. Money helps at some point, usually in mid-game. Bethesda games fit here, Skyrim and the later Fallouts. Early on it's a moot point, you don't have money. Mid game you can buy helpful things. Late game you can craft better stuff, and you can build a whole house out of all the gold and caps you have with no real use for.

3. You build up so much it's pointless. Grand Theft Auto, after 5 minutes you never even need see if you can afford anything anymore. Everything is so cheap and money is so plentiful that everything might as well be free.
 

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Xaidor said:
Definitely Skyrim,
I only ever used Gold to buy house supplies in Hearthfire, and some ingots for Smithing.
Other than that I was swimming in money, with nothing to spend it on. I'd buy an entire hump of Ebony ingots, and I would make that money back incredibly fast.

Assasins Creed 3 as well, swimming in money once you got your meaningless upgrades.
Too much sofa selling.
If you use gold to train you can make a dent in your wallet pretty damn fast. Unless, of course, you are a skilled pickpocket.
 

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Southpark Stick of Truth as previously mentioned. You trip over items, are showered with weapons and only need money to buy the Sweet Katana and effectively win the game.
 

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Kyrian007 said:
2. Money helps at some point, usually in mid-game. Bethesda games fit here, Skyrim and the later Fallouts. Early on it's a moot point, you don't have money. Mid game you can buy helpful things. Late game you can craft better stuff, and you can build a whole house out of all the gold and caps you have with no real use for.
I disagree with this regarding Fallout. Yeah, it's true on Fallout 3 but with New Vegas if you have the GRA DLC there is always something interesting to buy, especially if you use guns or explosives.
 

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AntiChri5 said:
Kyrian007 said:
2. Money helps at some point, usually in mid-game. Bethesda games fit here, Skyrim and the later Fallouts. Early on it's a moot point, you don't have money. Mid game you can buy helpful things. Late game you can craft better stuff, and you can build a whole house out of all the gold and caps you have with no real use for.
I disagree with this regarding Fallout. Yeah, it's true on Fallout 3 but with New Vegas if you have the GRA DLC there is always something interesting to buy, especially if you use guns or explosives.
True, gun runners gave you interesting things to buy that you could only afford in the late game "caps are meaningless" phase of the game. But even though some of that stuff was fun to have... it was a "luxury buy" as none of those weapons were necessary. Fun and deliciously cruel... but not really necessary. It was just added as a late game cap sponge. Like Skyrim: Hearthfire.

But I don't necessarily find "useless money" to be a bad thing (it's never been a dealbreaker for me anyway.) I like Fallout and Elder Scrolls regardless. And I enjoy cap and gold sponges added to correct the problem, as it gives me something fun and OP to do with my wealth. And I like GTA, money's more of a score of a commodity. And with Borderlands and 2... well it's the lesser of several reasons why I think Borderlands and 2 sucks.