History OldSoldier / VideoGames

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[[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas Fallout: New Vegas]] has the members of [[TheRemnant the Enclave]] who can rally for one last fight at Hoover Dam, should you complete Arcade Gannon's quest and convince them to fight with you.

[[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas Fallout: New Vegas]] has the members of [[TheRemnant the Enclave]] can rally for one last fight at Hoover Dam, should you complete Arcade Gannon's quest and convince them to fight with you.

** Reinhardt Wilhelm, also a founding member of the team, even at 61-years-old, still proves to be a stalwart, [[LargeHam hammy]] and even jovial ally on the battlefield. He's got a giant ''[[RuleOfCool rocket]]'' [[DropTheHammer hammer]], an even bigger barrier field and a suit of PoweredArmor, and can soak up as much damage as he dishes out.

** There's also Alec Ryder, who was born in 2129, ten years older than Anderson, also a vet of the First Contact War, holding a Pathfinder mantle for the Andromeda Initiative and an [=N7=], meaning he serves as a OneManArmy.

** Admirals [[AFatherToHisMen Anderson]] and [[FatherNeptune Hackett]] embody this trope for the Alliance, having fought in every major engagement of the last three decades. Anderson is said to have enough medals to melt into a lifesize gold statue of himself, while Hackett's [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership service record]] is apparent from the sheer amount of [[CoveredWithScars scars]] he has across his face.

** Kaidan expresses feeling like one of these at the end of the third game. He's thirty-six at most by that point, but WarIsHell. Shepard him/herself expresses similar feelings despite being even younger than Kaidan, especially by the end of the game thanks to an extreme case of HeroicFatigue, also admitting to Garrus that s/he's fairly sure his/her fighting days will be through after the war ends due to how utterly spent s/he is.

** There's also Alec Ryder, who's probably about the same age as Anderson, also a vet of the First Contact War, and an [=N7=], meaning he serves as a OneManArmy.

** To a [[JustForPun shorter]] extent, there's Torbjorn Lindholm, 57, who was Overwatch's chief engineer while the group was active. After the group was disbanded, many of his weapons and creations were stolen and stashed away around the world, and now he tries to make sure those weapons don't fall into the wrong hands.

* {{Deconstructed}} in ''VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown''. Mihaly is in his seventies, yet he’s still flying fighter craft for Erusea. However, as noted by Dr. Schroeder, flying fighter craft takes a toll on his body, as he comes back from each sortie exhausted from the fatigue. Late in the game, Mihaly was given a flight suit that wasn’t tested, and it did nothing to improve his flying abilities. After that, Schroeder had a flight suit made based on his specifications, and it allowed Mihaly to fly the way he wanted. [[spoiler:However, after Mihaly’s third and final dogfight against [[PlayerCharacter Trigger]], the ending reveals that he survived getting shot down, but his body was unable to handle the stress anymore, and it left Mihaly bedridden for the remainder of his life, which Mihaly considered a FateWorseThanDeath.]]
* The appropriately named Sensei from ''VideoGame/AdvanceWars'', his outfit is an old paratrooper uniform from [=WW2=]. It's implied that he used to be a fearsome and practically unbeatable general back in the day. His name in the original Japanese is shared with Mr. Yamamoto, a PurposelyOverpowered C.O. from ''Super Famicom Wars'', suggesting that [[CallBack they may have been one and the same.]]
-->'''[[SmugSnake Adder]]:''' You... You're an old man! For you to have defeated me... Who... Who are you?\\
'''Sonja:''' Sensei! You did it! You are victorious!\\
'''[[ScatterbrainedSenior Sensei]]:''' Hm? I am? Oh, that's nice.\\
'''Adder:''' Wait! Now I remember... It was in the reports... This country once boasted a CO who was said to be unbeatable... A man whom everyone feared... Impossible... It couldn't be!\\
'''Sensei:''' Who, me?\\
'''Adder:''' Uh... [[NeverMyFault Today was... unlucky. A bad day.]] We'll meet again, old... This is not finished!\\
'''Sensei:''' Seemed to have pulled through in one piece. Sonja? Are you all right?\\
'''Sonja:''' Sensei? You were unbeatable? Everyone... feared you?\\
'''Sensei:''' Who, me? Oh, that's so long ago, I'd almost forgotten. There might have been a rumor of that nature at some point, but... Come now, there are battles yet to be fought. Let's go.\\
'''Sonja:''' Yes... Yes, sir!
* ''Videogame/{{Battletech}}'', in addition to several existing examples from tabletop canon like Natasha Kerensky or Morgan Kell[[note]]although he's still relatively young at the point in cqanon when the game takes place[[/note]], has Sir Raju "Mastiff" Montgomery. He doesn't get much chance to shine in-game, only appearing during the tutorial mission, but he's a top-notch mechwarrior who personally trained [[LadyOfWar Lady Kamea]] and [[TheBaroness her cousin Victoria]] and has over forty years of experience.

* Sten from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' acts like this although you never get a grasp of how old he actually is (digging in character files with the official developer's toolkit lists him as merely '''30''', making him actually an aversion of this trope -- [[YoungerThanTheyLook not that you'd ever guess that from looking at him]]).
** A more straightforward example is Teryn Loghain, who on top of being an [[StrategyVersusTactics exemplary general (if a terrible politician)]] puts up a serious fight against your chosen champion in his DuelBoss TrialByCombat [[spoiler:and can even join your party as a Gray Warden in time for the final battle.]] Depending on past choices, Loghain can show up in ''Videogame/DragonAgeInquisition'' as [[spoiler:a Grey Warden]] and fighting despite the fact that he's likely in his late-50s at the very least.
* ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'': Huang Zhong. Most of his lines invoke his experience and age; the source material ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'' suggests that he was ''63'' when he first appeared in the story to fight Guan Yu. Although he is actually a year younger than Jia Xu. However, Jia Xu appears much earlier in the story and as such is depicted as being much younger looking.

* ''Videogame/EchoesOperationStranglehold'': Colonel Strickman, 65, is both a capable fighter and the leader of one of the largest guerrilla cells fighting against the Hybrid Pantheon.

* "Old" Snake by the time of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'', although he had everything but the physical age by the time of the first ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''. Old Snake is [[YoungerThanTheyLook 42]]. Aside from Old Snake, there are also Revolver Ocelot, who's 70 by the time of ''[=MGS4=]'', and [[spoiler: Big Boss, who's 79.]]

* The ''Videogame/Metro2033'' series of games features Colonel Sviatoslav Melnikov (also known as "Melnik", "Miller" in the English translation), a FourStarBadass and leader of the [[BadassArmy Spartan Order]]. Despite his age, and [[spoiler: the prosthetic replacement of his lower legs in ''VideoGame/MetroExodus'' after the Battle of D6]], he still kicks as much, if not more, ass as the player character. Highlights include bludgeoning a cannibal to death with a helmet and ripping a path through mutants with a [[ScavengedPunk homemade]] railgun.

* ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheForceUnleashed'': General Rahm Kota.

** Kaidan expresses feeling like one of these at the end of the third game. He's thirty-six at most by that point, but WarIsHell. Shepard him/herself expresses similar feelings despite being even younger than Kaidan, especially by the end of the game thanks to an extreme case of HeroicFatigue.

* ''[[VideoGame/StarCraftII StarCraft II:]]'' ''[[VideoGame/HeartOfTheSwarm Heart of the Swarm]]'' lampshades this concept with a mission titled exactly "Old Soldiers". This can be interpreted as not just referring to your target General Warfield, but the PlayerCharacter Sarah Kerrigan herself who is also an old soldier; she has been assimilated into the Zerg Swarm, deinfested and [[spoiler:potentially ''re''-infested voluntarily]] at this point of the story and has been through much hardship.

* ''[[VideoGame/StarCraftII StarCraft II:]]'' ''[[VideoGame/HeartOfTheSwarm]]'' lampshades this concept with a mission titled exactly "Old Soldiers". This can be interpreted as not just referring to your target General Warfield, but the PlayerCharacter Sarah Kerrigan herself who is also an old soldier; she has been assimilated into the Zerg Swarm, deinfested and [[spoiler:potentially ''re''-infested voluntarily]] at this point of the story and has been through much hardship.

* ''[[VideoGame/StarCraftII StarCraft II:]] [[VideoGame/HeartOfTheSwarm]]'' lampshades this concept with a mission titled exactly "Old Soldiers". This can be interpreted as not just referring to your target General Warfield, but the PlayerCharacter Sarah Kerrigan herself who is also an old soldier; she has been assimilated into the Zerg Swarm, deinfested and [[spoiler:potentially ''re''-infested voluntarily]] at this point of the story and has been through much hardship.