EWWWW LARA NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !

...that is actually not slamming the PS3 and is actually INTERESTING!! There IS a god.

Something else about older characters that were developed as respectfully as Kojima did with Snake: They knew a LOT about what they did and are not afraid to pass it on to a new generation (they did something like that in the new Indy Jones movie...good movie, btw). So I could see Lara Croft would want to teach all she knows to her daughter or a granddaughter or something like that, or for an older Cloud to teach some noob idiot a thing or two about using a buster sword.

And, am I mistaken, or would an old Pikachu would basically be Raichu (since at that point he would've evolved)?

Lots of creepy stuff there.

i think only snake and kojima can pull it off by putting their game charter old, i just dont see it working for other like mario or sonic of master cheif or kratos ..e.t.c

glad lara croft isnt old, i mean its been what 10-11 years since the first TR? im sure that girl stay in great shape and wears make up...lol, i thank she's the most sexiest-hardcore gaming female ever...and if you disagree then something is really wrong with you

Something people often forget is that just because the games take years between release that doesn't mean that time gap is in the universe of the game. Now I have played all the Tomb Raider games but I'm not gonna pretend to really follow all the stuff behind it but who's to say that all things Lara has done haven't been but a few years apart? Most games have a few games that only take place in a small time frame so the characters don't get old for that reason. Kojima-san was able to come up with a way for it to make sense for Snake to get Older in MGS4 and that's great but that doesn't mean every game should do that.

This is stupid. I was hoping for a serious comparison but what the hell? Not funny.

>:D Pikachu deserves whatever he gets.

Who ever did those did a great job.