I just started playing a game and i'm wondering...

Do you think these are high quality?

There are plenty of movies in CGI, you'd be surprised

the final fantasy movies looked pretty good to me

They tried that in 2001.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173840/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Utter rubbish IMHO

Beowulf (2007)

You can see the 2 final fantasy movies or the ones that capcom make about resident evil:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXTSvOFLa2w

So did you not like transformers and movies like it? Or do you not count the cgi if there are also actors?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z3kABf2s1c

this can be a film easy

Look at Hitman Absolution cutscenes, it amazed me the best way it could.

Game Of Thrones actually uses some cgi work for realistic looking purposes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f0nROPGmZQ

Definitely think Blizzard could do some impressive films. Their intros and hype videos are always sick.

cough

Because a good CGI/practical mix looks more realistic than full CGI (i.e. The uncanny valley). You'd probably be surprised how much CGI is going into films and tv these days. You can look up videos showing pre- and post-cgi. Also I suspect cost could become an issue. With a practical character you pay for the actor but for CGI you pay for the actor (voice work up to full acting if you're doing performance capture) and then you have to also pay for the animation. The cost on CGI in films is non-trivial due to needing a staggering amount storage and things like render farms, animators, mo-cap and mo-cap actors, riggers, scene design, artists, and on and on. Really though it probably comes down to the uncanny valley and how jarring it can be to non-gaming audiences (Not that gamers don't notice but we've been dealing with this since the dawn of gaming). That's why most full CGI movies tend to be on the stylized, cartoon-y side.