Is "Realistic" Video Game Gravity Accurate? (Testing 15 Different Games)

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Published on February 1, 2020 6:30:05 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVeiAfBydmI

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Gravity (1990)

Duration: 17:12

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Gravity in "realistic" games feels about right, but is it really? The answer surprised me, so it should surprise you too unless you know more about this stuff than I do.

Part 2: https://youtu.be/Tc1aO4-kQmQ

Here is all the data I collected + a bit more: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17H_nOWtU3RMJkY2rVtpwTWZKe9E7WSc6i-PIbm_duN8
(I cannot 100% guarantee this data is perfectly accurate to the data I copied over from Excel)

Stick around till the end for a special announcement and an explanation for this being part 1 of 2 and not just a single video.

*Note*: I recorded the voice-over for this before considering margin of error, which means sometimes I say a number to a higher precision than is allowed by the error. This is a bit annoying but isn't too big of a deal. When in doubt, the number on screen is always the correct value. There were also a few times I later corrected a value, so I had to update the voice-over (using Google translate because I'm lazy).
The way I handled margin of error in post was to take a ± (plus/minus) for the time (which was two frames at 60 FPS usually) and a ± for the height of each fall. These values are combined into a single ± for the gravitational acceleration. For more info and the exact values for ± time and ± height, see the spreadsheet linked above.

Music used (in order of appearance):
Song - Artist/band/game
9-Bit Expedition - Dustforce OST
Graze The Roof - Plants vs. Zombies OST
The Prettiest Weed - Sword & Sworcery OST
Piccadilly Circus - Call of Duty: Moden Warfare OST
The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday Part 1 - CoD: Modern Warfare 2 OST
Intermission - 3Force
Venice Rooftops - Assassin's Creed 2 OST
Dust to Dust - Cod: Modern Warfare 3 OST
Solomon's Theme - Battlefield 3 OST
Wandering the Wastes - Fallout 3 OST
Power Core - Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon OST
Main Theme - Goat Simulator OST
Flying Music - Grand Theft Auto V OST
Snowy Mountains - Battlefield: Bad Company 2 OST
One Final Effort - Halo 3 OST
Menu Theme - Insurgency: Sandstorm
Of The Leper Butterflies - Ne Obliviscaris
Piano Sonata No. 11 III. Alla Turca - Mozart
Wake - Unfound
Bermuda Riviera - Atoma

Sources for videos/gameplay used (in order of appearance):
Channel - Video description - link
CuteStockFootage - Dust particles overlay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8RfKHh94bM
The Interesting World - New York City time lapse - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80vUr8utoeo
schnooleheletteletto - Lemon muffin tower falling over - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxwVB3UfOhg
dProgrammer lopez - 2D Spacetime Curviture - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWk_zNkftsg
Best0fScience - Graviton visualization - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHVC6F8SOFc&t
ZackScottGames - New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe gameplay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2YHRMYIoVM&t
Paraline Games - Unreal Engine 4 Physics Simulation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S8wq0dz1H4
MKIceAndFire - Breath of the Wild gameplay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE8PS7r3IGM
AbdallahSmash026 - Mega Man 11 gameplay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvOs60WR9fc
Gaming Dog - Celeste gameplay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVOqStBGjv0&t=32s
temujin9000 - Metroid (NES) gameplay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEgpO595Z1s&t=242s
Zebra Gamer  - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate gameplay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtUS61rXF4M
WillyB - Far Cry 5 plane gameplay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYG3coryRZ8
Father - Hollow Knight gameplay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv9ZhsDvq5o
Gamer3471 - Blood splatter - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy3DrNsIaas
4K Relaxation Channel  - Death Valley footage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnBwfkViUxI
BBC Earth - Ocean and fish footage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgpWX18dby4
Teton Gravity Research - Himalayas footage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hTVNidxg2s
TelescopeFeed - Geoid of Earth - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWJo7VR8Um0
Wanderbots - SteamWorld Dig gameplay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-CpWQwJjsY
GEM ‘N’ I - Wind Tunnel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWQ1ebp9nco
PBS Nova - Jupiter - https://www.pbs.org/video/the-planets-jupiter-dokro5/
Falkenauge - Fire from the left overlay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rA9yuqUiCc
ENOCK MANDELA - Fire from below overlay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHFSrGJWRQg
Zyrex90 - Far Cry 3 healing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66qGf66BTFs
Its Gman - Partal 2 moon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtH4SbYUAgM

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