ELI5- why can movies make CGI human faces and movements that look 100% real and normal but video games always look fake even with large budgets?
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Video games are rendered in real time, movies aren’t. An example is PS1 games that look better in their cutscenes. Games like Final Fantasy VII and the Resident Evil games used Full Motion Video, which were basically pre rendered CGI cutscenes. Still 90s CGI, but it wasn’t limited by the power of the system itself, just by the computer that made and rendered it. They basically just interjected the files into the game and said when to play it.
Now that games render their own cutscenes, they still won’t look as good as movies MOST of the time. The frame rate is definitely part of it; movies and TV are 24fps consistently. Games are 30 or 60fps. Games often don’t aim completely for photo realism, there is an element of stylization.
But, there are recent examples of games that not only look amazing, but look real. Forspoken was supposed to be one of these, but that… didn’t happen. The Dead Space remake and The Callisto Protocol were pretty impressive too. But the 9th gen Call of Duty games have been the most impressive. I’m not a COD player, but I’ve seen some cutscenes from the remake (I think it’s a remake) of Modern Warfare 2, which is 2022’s annual COD game, and I gotta say, it doesn’t have that “game-y” look that you’re describing nearly as much as other games. You really have to see it for yourself.
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