Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6747658-20130401084750/@comment-8245466-20130422143324

If he would be close to 100 during the time of Ground Zeroes, then he would be around 150 at the time of his death in 2008. Assuming that he lived an unnaturally long life similar to the End, the only way he could have been kept alive after Ground Zeroes would be for something like nanomachines. Nanomachines however shouldn't be invented for close to another 20 years, and even then the Patriots are exclusively responsible for their use. Old Boy would have had to have been pretty important for the Patriots to have kept him alive so long, but there's no mention of him made in any of the other games.

On another note, I haven't seen the resemblance between the weapon the XOF commander is armed with and a knife. If there's a good screenshot of that I'd like to see it, because I just can't make it out. In the Fox engine demo, there was an arsenal of weapons and one of the guns shown was a short barrell, sawed-off shotgun. The barrell of the gun, in my opinion, resembled what could be seen of the XOF commander's weapon. This could indicate that he is a new character, as I can't recall anyone being notable for their use of a shotgun.