Other games may have (possibly) caught up to the pure fidelity, but nothing else has been able to portray pain, hatred, fear, emotion quite like this game has. Even still. Castillo looks great but Issac lacks believable looking emotion. Look at the eyes in these shots. Unbelievable. You can practically feel the dread. Look at Jesse, dead as hell - and he looks DEAD. Its hard to explain what I mean but its just an accurate portrayal of
lifelessness that other games simply haven't nailed.
Look at Aloy. Fantastic looking model, but to me her eyes are still lifeless, and I get no emotion from her. As good as her model looks. Same goes for RE4, CyberPunk, Spider-Man, Plagues Tale, FF16, or whatever game you can throw at it.
Then theres the opposite end of the spectrum. With Ninja Theory and Hellblade 2.
Way too over animated to the point where it looks over the top and unrealistic, borderline stupid imo. Like they are trying too hard, "look how well we can animate!"mi
TLOU 2 is the perfect middle ground, extremely hard to achieve