Weirdest VG currency?

[Legion]

Bottle Caps. Ever since I've played Fallout, I started to collect bottle caps. In hope that, when the nuclear apocalypse arrives, we'll at least have some money to get by.

Thank you. I was hoping someone would say bottlecaps so I can explain the perfectly reasonable explanation behind their usage as currency.

1. They're easily recognizable.
2. There's a large, but not infinite supply of them.
3. They're very difficult to counterfeit.
4. They're convenient.

Bam.

Well you say that, but can you imagine counting out thousands of them every time you want to buy something?

rupees where do they come from and why are they found in grass

Rupee's I believe, at the currency of India. As for why they'd be in the grass I have no idea.

 

[The_State]

Okay, I don't know if this counts, but the rings from Sonic the Hedgehog. I guess they're pretty gold-like, but what do forest critters need gold for? The only person who'd be interested in your hundreds of gold rings is the giant round robot-man you're trying to destroy.

On a similar note, the halos from Bayonetta deserve some mention.

 

[Ham Blitz]

I would have to say Simoleons or scarabs. Not fake or gold scarabs, actual living scarabs. Those are from that Star Fox Dinosaur Planet

 

[Cucumber]

Those star bit thingy things from Super Mario Galaxy... Makes me soo hungry, they look like candy!

 

[Joe Deadman]

I'm going to say Gil but not just because of the reasons stated above, but also the fact that it is the standard currency for several different worlds that don't appear to be directly connected. That would be like going to a different planet and finding out they used £'s or $'s.

 

[Macgyvercas]

Most of the games I play have relatively normal currency. Rupees in LoZ make sense, and most of the rest I spend time on have either coin or paper currency. But God of War has souls as currency, so it gets my vote.

 

[Joe Matsuda]

Don't they also collect bottle caps do to govt. provisions of what do do in the event of nuclear war?

I mean, when vault-tec came up with what skills would be important to mantain, they clearly saw bottle caps as being used

i.e. the bobblehead for barter features a bottle cap

 

[Alkestes]

The currency in Anachronox, a game that takes place in a far-flung sci-fi future, is the Canadian dollar. In-game information says that this is due to "a freak of intergalactic commerce."

yesssssssssssssss, someone else played Anachronox!

Haha, exactly my thought. You know something went wrong at some point if the Canadian dollar is the only surviving currency. 8D

And I swear, this is the only place I ever see people that have actually played my favourite game. I love you guys.

 

[AWAR]

The currency in Anachronox, a game that takes place in a far-flung sci-fi future, is the Canadian dollar. In-game information says that this is due to "a freak of intergalactic commerce."

yesssssssssssssss, someone else played Anachronox!

You can count me too!

 

[Tartarga]

Tales of Symphonia. Gald, a spelling error it is not.

 

[soapyshooter]

Microsoft Points

See what i did there?

Spoiler

OT: Meat is probably the weirdest one ive encountered.

 

[e2density]

Uhhh...well...

"Bells" in Animal Crossing.
"Space Credits" in Dead Space...not too weird, just different.

 

[Ganthrinor]

Secret of Evermore used several currencies depending which area of the game you were in, from Talons to Coins to Gems to... I think Credits was the last one? The game also had a couple of Markets where you could do some bartering with items like Bags of Rice and Stone Tablets.


Final Fantasy's Gil has bothered me too, and from some of the game's "Gil Toss" or "Coin Toss" abilities, I think it's a coin-based currency. In Final Fantasy...7, I think, the Gil in Coin Toss were round coins with holes in the middle of them.

 

[arcstone]

I'd say rupies never made a whole lot of sense to me.

Gems that can be found absolutely everywhere in infinite supply.
Admits tall grass, in bushes, on riverbeds, in trees.

It's just like if we did our shopping with rocks.

 

[mannsporte]

Apart from the logic behind it, one of the the main reasona was that many of the objects and themes in Fallout are based on nostalgic Americana. Since collecting bottlecaps is a part of that, it made sense as a currency.

Both reasons are also why the switch to gold coins in F2 was so stupid.

There were many things in F2 that were really really stupid.

Ooo...kay....I'm guessing you mentioned the intentional elements otherwise I cannot recall any part of Fallout 2 that was unintentionally stupid but whatever...

The old adventure series Space Quest had a currency called Buckazoid which has to be included in the top ten of made up words that don't have any benefactory qualities for mankind...

 

[Fat Hippo]

also G... just.. g
what the hell is it!

I always assumed gold. But now that you mention it, it could be anything. Goats. Grinders. Even globules...of something.