Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-65.31.134.55-20130220155810/@comment-74.39.204.81-20130221173848

Actually, the problem with Armstrong's fight is that he was the ONLY boss that required the dodge command. It worked against almost every one of his attacks and helped chip away health while you dodged.

Other than that, I was hoping and holding out for him to be more like Volgin or Ocelot and lead into a larger plot (which kinda justified their insane strenght and powers), but he ended up being the top of the chain. I mean it helped that I basically saw the whole confrontation between Raiden and him as two basic extremes of Big Boss, where Armstrong was only concerned with the strong and Raiden only concerned with using the strong solely for the sake of the weak, which was the whole paradox Big Boss got caught up in with his mercenary business. Hell, there seems to be that sentiment in a lot of the Metal Gear series, where a very dangerous group of people want to break away from the rule and do their own thing, in both FOXHOUND and Philanthropy flavors.