Weirdest VG currency?

[WolfThomas]

bottlecaps are probably the weirdest.. since it's post apocalypse, I'd figured they'd use something more tangible... like food or water or something like that..
but bottlecaps are good too I guess

In the Original they were also called "Hubbucks" (the hub being the largest city) I believe the idea was they were also stamped with the city's symbol.

Edit: from the fallout wiki "Bottle caps are backed by The Hub merchants in the Core Region. The reasoning for their support is that the technology to manufacture bottle caps and paint the surface has been lost in the Great War, which would greatly limit any counterfeiting efforts. Secondly, there is a limited number of bottle caps, which would serve to preserve their value to some degree."

 

[tkioz]

Bottle Caps, I have to say, always strange to me.

 

[Dommyboy]

Rubles from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. I mean, come on; what kind of backwards country would call their money rubles?

Russia?

Thanks for destroying the obvious joke.

 

[Paperplanes79]

Not really used for money but does anyone remember in GUN you could scalp people and I thought it was going to be used for money but nope you just bought a scalping knife and walked around with scalps in your pocket.

 

[tetron]

Potch from suikoden. and really any currency that monsters drop for no reason, seriously where do they hide it and would I want it if I knew where it has been ?

 

[GeekFury]

Meseta from Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast, that always seemed weird ot me, it was like a little golden octahedron, always thought the money mught have been inside it or something, maybe like Gold Pressed Latinum in Star Trek.

 

[-Drifter-]

Rubles from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. I mean, come on; what kind of backwards country would call their money rubles?

Russia?

Thanks for destroying the obvious joke.

You're welcome.

It's the internet, my friend. You never know whether someone's being sarcastic or just stupid. Next time, though, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

 

[Kaymish]

Tiberium i mean i know it leaches useful materials from the ground but its explosive as a liquid and similarly lethal as a solid plus its some sort of plant thingie if i had to think of a currency i wouldn't pick something that killed you before you managed to spend it if you didn't store it correctly

 

[Wrann]

Rubies from the legend of zelda games. I mean there just everywhere and seem to grow in grass.

 

[Insert Comedy Here]

Technically a game, the Orks from 40k use teeth teef as currency.

Also, trading sticks. Heh, get enough and you can build the floor of a dog kennel.

 

[Ultress]

Gotta go with Meat, unless I think of something weirder.

 

[Lotet]

kill angels and steal thier Halos

Bayonetta

 

[RavingLibDem]

I was playing Skies or Arcadia once, and ran into a very odd glitch, rather than having gold as I did at every other part of the game, when I opened up the shop menu all of my gold was suddenly mysteriously reclassified as 'rich'... I mean, what is rich? How the hell does a game accidentally temporarily change its currency in a couple of menu's til you leave a room!?

 

[whycantibelinus]

I'd say Adam from Bioshock. It's a secondary currency, but currency none the less, and it's fucking a biological slightly magical fluid..........that's fucking weird as fuck and you fucking put it in vending machines!!! That's just unsanitary.

 

[Abedeus]

Rubles from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. I mean, come on; what kind of backwards country would call their money rubles?

Russia?

I don't know which is funnier - the guy who doesn't know what rubles are or your response along with "backward country". His failure or your (intentional or not) zzzinging Mother Russia.

 

[TimeLord]

Souls in Devil May Cry
I never understood the exact mechanics of earning them apart from you get them for killing enemies and your rank at the end of the level but the numbers seemed to be completely arbitrary to me

 

[oppp7]

Probably heads from Jet Force Gemini. Can't remember if those were currency though...
If not, then I guess Adam from Bioshock.

 

[MetaMop]

When it came to games that dealt in gold coins I always thought that it must be a really diffucult system of trade. Most of these game worlds have one kind of coin worth the sum of 'one currency.' So when the hero of some rpg is paying 20,000 gold for a new weapon, the hero must have to actually count out 20,000 individual coins one-by-one.

 

[RIOgreatescapist]

When games like Lineage or Ragnarok make up retarded names for currency.. like fkn ZENY WHAT THE HELL IS THAT