During "The Walking Dead" a trailer for Mass Effect 3 was shown in a commercial break. I've never played any of the Mass Effect games, mostly due to having a PS3 (I know 2 is on that console now), but the visuals and cinematics were phenomenal. So much so that I will probably get 2 and 3.
Today in gaming most cinematics are great. For example look at the Final Fantasy series (pretty much the CGI cinema pioneers). I remember playing TEKKEN just to see the movie sequences 15 years ago..or so. These types of cut scenes are now common place in just about every game made for consoles and computers. Environments, facial expressions, colors, textures, all amazingly real and tangible. They bring a "reality" to the fantastical that goes beyond, 2D page art, or run of the mill "cartoon animation".
In 2001 Square spent an estimated $137M on Final Fantasy: Spirits Within. The movie grossed just over $85M worldwide. This was not due to poor or less than stellar CGI animation (especially for 2001), instead the script was too far removed from any recognizable FF franchise game.
Here is the Trailer for FF: Spirits Within - a bit dated but still hold up.
NOW it's 2012 - Just imagine what $137M can do now. To Paraphrase George Lucas, the technology has caught up to the medium and has become cheaper to work with. How much better would the FF movie look with that budget if made today? What about other Comic, Game, or Anime properties that just can't be made into live action films for whatever reason?
For example: Dragon Ball Z - DB: Evolution was pretty bad even for a fan, but what if they took all that was great in manga/anime and rendered it in a CGI cinematic film? Or Justice League (DCUO - a little crude but good), Bleach, Transformers, Another FF film?
Here is DCUO trailer
To be clear, I'm certainly not talking about a Disney Pixar type film, Frankly "capcom" quality CGI (IMO they are the worst) I mean fully rendered cinematic movies that allow a creative team the ability to make a movie that does justice to and honors the source material. Scenes, action, characters, powers, etc...can be shown as they are meant to be, and be fully believable.
Here is Mass Effect 3
I would love to see anime Goku come to life in in 3D CGI in a quality that is Mass Effect 3 or other similar games. I think it's time. Lets stop make crap like Ghost Rider and DB:E, and put these guys where they belong in a way that fits the story and character.
We have the technology, we can rebuild it, make it stronger, faster, better.