Thread 712460331

>Appears for 1.5 hours
>Instantly becomes the most memorable character in the game
>Politics so incredibly based and reflective of American spirit that he's quoted to this day
How did the devs do it if they were purely Japanese?

STANDING HERE

I REALISE

YOU WERE JUST LIKE ME

TRYING TO CHANGE HISTORY

what's it called when the villain tricks even the fanbase into gullibly believing him

BUT WHO'S TO JUDGE

TICKLE ME PICKLE

The game itself aint longer than 5-7hrs, so him being it for 1.5hours is like 1/4 of the game

>>712460331 (OP)
>Nepo baby
>All power comes from expensive nanomachines he injected into himself
>Worldview is "dollar store Big Boss"
>"Based" politics would have turned America into Uganda within a single generation

>>712460331 (OP)
shit meme character

>>712462551
He wasn't fundamentally wrong, he just took things too far. He passed his meme onto Jack who now fights only for his own causes as Armstrong would have wanted. He's not dollar store big boss. Big Boss wanted a world for soldiers. Armstrong wanted an end to soldiery. He wanted everyone to be a warrior for his own sake.

>>712460331 (OP)
COLLEGE

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>>712462551
>>712462826
Pretty much. His attitude is what people like, not his politics. He and Raiden both want the same thing more or less, to end war as a business, but their solutions are very different because they come from extremely different backgrounds the biggest philosophical difference being Armstrong has no problem stepping on whoever he needs to achieve his ends.
Still absolutely love Armstrong as a character. GOATed af villain for sure.

>>712462294
Charisma

>>712460331 (OP)
Monsoon > Armstrong

>>712460331 (OP)
BE THE AMERICAN JAPANESE THINK YOU ARE
*fires assault rifles into the air*

>>712460331 (OP)
>still makes leftists and redditors seethe

For me its sundowner.
Just an unapologetic evil guy who enioys it.
Him being an insane war-obsessed lunatic who yearns for a big conflict just because he thinks its fun is great and i wish he had a bit more screentime and action in the plot outside of Africa prologue and Desperado raid.

>>712460331 (OP)
>>712462294
media illiterate tourists just viewing his final boss cutscene on youtube will claim that he is a heckin based populist for destroying the elite.

players will see that he's a right-wing hypocrite who lies to obtain and abuse power. this anon is correct: >>712462551

He's just Trump and Elon

TRY UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS

>>712460331 (OP)
No other nation has been as purely molded by American exceptionalism than Japan. But the point is also that American are too fumb to understand parody

>>712464476
Trump and Elon are based tho

>>712462551
>All power comes from expensive nanomachines he injected into himself
No way man. He played college ball. Could have gone pro.

>>712464767
only if you're israeli or a divorced father

>>712464450
If he was remade today they would sneak in a
>I love war and killing kids...
>BUT AT LEAST IM NOT A TRANSPOBE

>>712460331 (OP)
Many times i thought "Man this guys sounds great" but then i remember he is comically evil harvesting childrens brains and his whole deal just falls apart for me.

>>712464476
The low IQ leftist is seething

>>712465584
Hello Saar

THE HOT WIND BLOWING

>>712462551
But at the end he recognizes Raiden is right because he's the stronger one, so at least his ideology is coherent.

>>712464476
>He's just Trump and Elon
Plus he's literally Voldemort and Emperor Palpatine!

>>712462551
>Nepo baby
He worked hard for his wealth and status.
>All power comes from expensive nanomachines he injected into himself
He uses these nanomachines to even the odds against cybernetically enhanced super soldiers. In fact, he starts off fighting Raiden in a mech before using them, he was holding back.
>Worldview is "dollar store Big Boss"
No. He believes in Might makes Right to an absolute extreme; his ideal world is the one where the strong turn the tables on the weak ruling society and attain true freedom. In his case, the "weak" individuals are those of lacking moral fiber, while the strong have the conviction to stand up for what they believe. He doesn't contradict this line of thought.
>"Based" politics would have turned America into Uganda within a single generation
Maybe.

This guy's flaw is his insanity. He literally harvests children's brains to get his way abd and then goes "can't fret over every egg!". Yet, his beliefs are consistent, he DOES care and attempts to fulfill his promises through means he deems necessary. He's not Trump or Elon, because these guys will never get shit done, while he was close to victory and has to be stopped by a man with stronger convictions.

>>712465116
wow sick joke bro rofl
I HATE TRAINS

>>712465629
Are you admitting immigration is bad?

>>712465141
So? He harvested their brains to train them with super cyborg ninja assassin skills and was going to give them dope ass cyber ninja bodies like Raiden's, with guaranteed employment in their future. It's an objectively better existence than living as a street rat in mexico.

Raiden cuts a kid in half to save him and gets a pass because "we gave him a new body! A better body! He loves it!", but Armstrong can't get the same pass?

>>712462551
>>All power comes from expensive nanomachines he injected into himself
ok? he still has nanomachines as part of him

>>712465970
It's not that I hate Trans, it's that Trans cultists write the most evil psychopathic killers saying "BUT AT LEAST I DONT HATE TRANS PEOPLE" as if it makes any sense.

Ynbaw

>>712465819
Usually those lacking moral fiber are the ones amassing the most might, so I dunno what he was on about. Hell, nanomachines basically confirm that. Do you think your average bergwitzstein wouldn't inject himself with them if it means he has billions now AND can throw tanks like toys?
Creation of Armstrong's "ideal world" would require complete catastrophic upending of current one, and what will follow is current world but shittier in ABSOLUTE BEST CASE. Armstrong is an unhinged lunatic, and worst of all - an idealistic one.

>>712465819
>No. He believes in Might makes Right to an absolute extreme; his ideal world is the one where the strong turn the tables on the weak ruling society and attain true freedom. In his case, the "weak" individuals are those of lacking moral fiber, while the strong have the conviction to stand up for what they believe. He doesn't contradict this line of thought.

ngl I never really got the finer details of that point 'til now, I just assumed he meant stamping out general weakness as a whole. Opinion of him has been modified.

>>712468061
The metal gear universe is schizo conspiracy political kino

>>712460331 (OP)
kojimbo is a westaboo

>>712462294
It's called people being retarded.

>>712468061
I mean, to have a free preview of how that could have worked, see Haiti.

>>712464476
>random excuse to cry about trump
annnnnnn outed.

>>712468287
haiti is full of 90IQ and lower retards who burned all their trees for money then swapped over to child sex trafficking for the clinton foundation to make money.

>>712464767
elon is a nazi

ASHES TO ASHES MOTHERFUCKER

>>712468424
Do I have to point it out, or did you already realize that it could be applied to America mid-post?

>>712468424
Yes, and something similar to that, at absolute best, is what Armstrong wants. At absolute worst, America turns into an African warlord state run by the biggest and strongest tyrants with nothing to keep them in check.

>>712468680
ah yes, america the nation that famously preserved more of its forests than damn near any other country... can be compared to haiti who burned all their trees.
you must be haitian.

>>712467092
>So? He harvested their brains to train them with super cyborg ninja assassin skills and was going to give them dope ass cyber ninja bodies like Raiden's, with guaranteed employment in their future. It's an objectively better existence than living as a street rat in mexico.
No the fuck it isn't. They are brains ripped out of their skulls and trapped in a meatgrinder simulator 24/7 and moved into bodies that their employer literally owns when that's done. They don't have "guaranteed employment," nigger, they're slaves with bomb collars.

>>712469148
>ah yes, america the nation that famously preserved more of its forests than damn near any other country
??????????????
literally not true

>>712468682
If anything, I appreciate Armstrong's honesty. He just wants everyone at their niggest, regardless of race or creed.
>>712469148
Yes, because we've gotten really good at outsourcing environmental destruction. But it's not even forests, it's about tanking the nation's IQ, a process that's currently happening at full speed.

>>712467924
That is why Armstrong desired to reset everything and give everyone the tools to pursue their dreams. It would not a perfect plan one bit, but it made sense. >>712468682
This is why Armstrong works as sort of a parody of the "Ultimate American". His faith in his ideals are so unshakable that he's willing to march to the grave for them, yet he's so utterly mad that he's blind to any form of pragmatism. He paid too heavy of a price to get there as well, making you wonder if all the dead people and children would be worth an "ideal" society.

>>712464909
At some cushy Ivy league school!

>>712469672
yeah, because we ruined our parental/education systems and culture.
not because we are a bunch of subhuman niggers in need of GENERATIONS of proper schooling.

>>712470204
>not because we are a bunch of subhuman niggers in need of GENERATIONS of proper schooling.
Oh, don't worry, we're getting there.

>>712470204
No amount of schooling will fix their genes.

>>712470817
generations of it will, anon.
it will provide a massive boost that will trickle down into affecting their infant stage first.
then their social structure will alter to value schooling and select a bit more for intelligence.
after that it just needs to be maintained.

>>712460331 (OP)
Japan loves America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkXi5b-Jwzg

>>712460331 (OP)
>japanese writers make an american character so hyperbolic that it actually comes off as realistic instead of cartoonish
They get it

Is this the greatest voice acting performance in a video game? I'm struggling to think of much that even matches it.